Perceived cultural distance and international destination choice: The role of destination familiarity, geographic distance, and cultural motivation

Exploring the Impact Factors of Tourists’ Intention to Choose Iran as a Traveling Destination

“…Several studies have examined the role of cultural distance, what represents the extent of cultural discrepancy between tourists' home and destination countries (Ng, Lee, & Soutar, 2007), and its association with tourist destination choice (Jackson, 2000(Jackson, , 2001Ng et al, 2007;Ng, Lee, & Soutar, 2009;Vietze, 2012;Yang, Liu, & Li, 2016;Yang & Wong, 2012). Some have concluded that cultural distance negatively impacts destination choice, such that tourists are more likely to visit destinations that are culturally similar to their home countries (Jackson, 2000;Ng et al, 2007Ng et al, , 2009Vietze, 2012;Yang & Wong, 2012) while some have found mixed results pertaining to the relationship between cultural distance and destination choice (Jackson, 2001;Yang et al, 2016) (Liu, Robert, Cá rdenas, & Yang, 2018). It seems that as the cultural distance can be one of the motivators for absorbing outbound tourists, it can also be concerned as perceived barriers, challenges, and conflicts for some outbound tourists in choosing a traveling destination.…”

“…It seems that as the cultural distance can be one of the motivators for absorbing outbound tourists, it can also be concerned as perceived barriers, challenges, and conflicts for some outbound tourists in choosing a traveling destination. For example, in 2010, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that a British man and woman in Dubai were fined for drinking alcohol and sentenced to jail for kissing in public (BBC, 2010) (Liu et al, 2018).…”

Turismo, un objeto de estudio para la antropología social

“…Tal sepa-ración, mostrada a conveniencia, se descubre condicionada por la limitación temporal (transitoriedad) de la relación, el anonimato y desconocimiento del otro (que en algunas formas se oculta tras el rol interpretado por los anfitriones), la disparidad ocio-trabajo (incluyendo en la categoría 'ocio' el voluntariado) y la capacidad de elección (ejercicio manifiesto del poder económico). El análisis de esta caracterización, on-site y online (etnografías virtuales y análisis de redes sociales virtuales) seguirá aportando conocimiento para entender los mecanismos con los que la distancia cultural (Andrade 2011; Froese y Peltokorpi 2011; López y Vidal 2011;Popli et al 2016;Liu et al 2018) y la expectativa del otro condiciona las relaciones entre grupos de personas, entre turistas y poblaciones residentes en el destino. De importancia para la disciplina, también lo es su transferencia al sistema turístico, en tanto que, por una parte, aportará valor al desarrollo de productos y servicios, y, por otra, podrá redundar en una minoración de efectos no deseados sobre las poblaciones residentes.…”

Determinants of tourism flows in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

“…Moreover, Song and Li (2008) stress that there has been insufficient use of panel data analyses in the empirical literature on international tourism demand. Although this has certainly changed over recent years (see particularly Wu et al, 2017, Li et al, 2016, Liu et al, 2018, Pratt & Liu, 2015, no study so far (to our knowledge) has focused explicitly on investigating factors of tourism flows into SIDS as a group of countries. Therefore, to analyse this, we have decided to employ the dynamic panel data regression based on the gravity approach to explain the determinants of tourism flows into SIDS over the period 1995-2014.…”