Measuring the motivation to ride bicycles for tourism through a comparison of tourist attractions

Watthanaklang, Duangdao; Ratanavaraha, Vatanavongs; Chatpattananan, Vuttichai; Jomnonkwao, Sajjakaj

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2016.08.004

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“…Numerous general and destination-based studies prove that cycling can be classified among the most favored leisure activities, thus cycling tourism is one of the most popular active tourism products [42][43][44][45]. In the English language, this tourism product is often referred to as cycling tourism, bicycle touring or bicycle tourism.…”

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confidence: 99%

Customer Involvement in Sustainable Tourism Planning at Lake Balaton, Hungary—Analysis of the Consumer Preferences of the Active Cycling Tourists

2020

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This study uses an innovative tourism product development approach, based on co-creation or customer involvement, related to Lake Balaton, a mass tourism-based destination in Hungary, from the point of view of the market segment of active cycling tourists. The investigation of opportunities for the development of cycling tourism first of all relies on the new approach of attraction and product development around the destination, in which it is important to take into consideration the consumer preferences of the most important related group of tourists—active cycling tourists. The sustainable approach of tourism product development also provides an opportunity to decrease the spatial and temporal concentration of tourism, which is largely concentrated on the summertime season. The aim of this study is to explore aspects of the customers’ demand for tourism development in terms of cycling tourism with the help of primary data collection, in order to provide adequate directions for sustainable tourism development in the destination. Revealing the demand side of active cycling tourism related to Lake Balaton, the authors used both qualitative (focus group discussions and structured interviews) and quantitative questionnaire survey (computer-assisted data collection) research methods. The latter online surveys were carried out in November and December, 2019, and resulted with an appraisable sample of 809 questionnaires. As for the method, descriptive statistics and relationship analyses were applied. More than five thousand (5050) possible relationships were examined between the closed answers of the questionnaire by Kendall’s rank correlation coefficient (τ) and Cramer’s V, depending on whether they could be measured on a nominal or ordinal scale. The results show that the content analysis of the primary research provides well determined directions for the sustainable tourism development of cycling tourism at Lake Balaton, so customer involvement seems to be a win-win situation both for the customers (tourists) and the decision makers.

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Customer Involvement in Sustainable Tourism Planning at Lake Balaton, Hungary—Analysis of the Consumer Preferences of the Active Cycling Tourists

2020

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“…It can further be divided into five types: physical, cultural, interpersonal, prestige, and selfactualization [29]. In addition, scholars have divided the tourist motivation according to the tourism destinations [30,31], specific groups [32][33][34], and specific tourism activities [35][36][37]. Although there is great diversity in these approaches, a consensus seems to be emerging that some motives are internal ("push") and others are external, including the "pull" of destinations.…”

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Experiences, Motivations, Perceptions, and Attitudes Regarding Ethnic Minority Village Tourism

Xie

Morrison

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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Ethnic minority villages are a vital part of tourism in certain destinations, often attracting many domestic and international visitors to experience unique local cultures and authentic lifestyles. However, much of the relevant literature has not examined tourist motivations, perceptions, and attitudes regarding ethnic minority village tourism. This exploratory qualitative research analyzed user-generated blogs uploaded by people sharing their ethnic minority village experiences in Guizhou Province, China. ROST Content Mining6 software was employed to identify motivations, perceptions, and attitudes toward minority village tourism. The findings indicated that tourist experience included natural aesthetic, cultural aesthetic, service and interaction, and entertainment. The main motivation was to experience unique cultural activities. The strongest perceptions were of the local villagers, Miao and Dong family life, and tourism services and environments. Tourist attitudes were mostly positive. Suggestions for better satisfying tourist needs and improving experiences were derived from the data.

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“…The third group of studies investigates the relationships amongst motivation and other constructs such as customer satisfaction and behavioural intention. Watthanaklang D. et.al. (2016) mentions that motivation is the force that drives individuals to serve their need to achieve a goal.…”

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Tourist Satisfaction: An Analysis of Push and Pull Factors - A Case of Qatar Tourism

Prasad¹,

Nair²,

Purohit³

2019

JOM

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In the light of rising competition in providing tourism experience amongst Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and countries, how efficient Qatar has been in creating tourist satisfaction and tourist motivation in order to create tourist loyalty and promote tourism to global standards. Measuring tourist satisfaction plays an important role in marketing tourism products and services. The purpose of this study is to examine the push and pull factors of tourists visit; their motivation and the activities carry out at the destination. This study explore to understand what comprises tourists are satisfied to transmit their positive experience to third persons as well as repeating their visit to Qatar. The result was drawn from questionnaire survey of 494 international visitors who visited Qatar in 2018. The data were analyzed using matrices which shown the mean scores of expectations, the mean score of experience and the mean of difference between experience and expectation scores. The mean scores of expectation were then plotted against experience in a two dimensional map for positive and negative attributes. The t-test was performed to identify the significant result of each attributes at 1:1000 levels. The findings provide Qatar Tourism Authorities with insights about the level of satisfactions among international tourists and call for better improvements strategies for future tourism development in Qatar.

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Measuring the motivation to ride bicycles for tourism through a comparison of tourist attractions

Cited by 22 publications

References 21 publications

Customer Involvement in Sustainable Tourism Planning at Lake Balaton, Hungary—Analysis of the Consumer Preferences of the Active Cycling Tourists

Customer Involvement in Sustainable Tourism Planning at Lake Balaton, Hungary—Analysis of the Consumer Preferences of the Active Cycling Tourists

Experiences, Motivations, Perceptions, and Attitudes Regarding Ethnic Minority Village Tourism

Tourist Satisfaction: An Analysis of Push and Pull Factors - A Case of Qatar Tourism

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