Push and pull motivation factors: a panacea for tourism development challenges in Oluminrin waterfalls, Nigeria

Arowosafe, F.C.; Akinwotu, Oyebola; Tunde-Ajayi, Olalekan A.; Omosehin, Olanrewaju; Osabuohien, Evans

doi:10.1080/19407963.2021.2017729

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“…This is similar to conclusions of the related literature [29,34,77]. Health and wellness tourism industries should focus more on the quality of products or services to meet the intrinsic needs of travelers, such as escaping their daily routine [78,79]. Health and wellness tourism companies are encouraged to invest more in the construction of tourism products or services rather than in promotion and publicity [9,13,80].…”

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Health and Wellness Tourists’ Motivation and Behavior Intention: The Role of Perceived Value

Gan

Zheng

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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In recent years, with the rapid change of people’s health concept, health and wellness tourism has shown a vigorous development trend. However, existing literature has been lacking on travelers’ behavioral intentions, influenced by their motivation in health and wellness tourism. To fill in this gap, we designed scales of tourists’ behavioral intention and motivation in health and wellness tourism and investigated the aforementioned effects, with a sample of 493 visitors who have traveled in health and wellness tourism. Factor analysis and structural equation models were applied to explore the relations among motivation, perceived value, and behavioral intention in health and wellness tourism. The results indicate that health and wellness tourists’ motivation significantly positively predicts their behavior intentions. Travelers’ perceived value of health and wellness tourism significantly partially mediates the associations between their behavioral intention and escape motivation, attractive motivation, environmental motivation, as well as interpersonal motivation. No empirical evidence supports the mediating role of perceived value in the correlation between consumption motivation and behavioral intention. Health and wellness tourism industries are encouraged to meet the intrinsic motivation of travelers and make them perceive the value of this kind of tourism, which in turn promotes tourists’ choice, evaluation, and satisfaction of health and wellness tourism.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 81%

Health and Wellness Tourists’ Motivation and Behavior Intention: The Role of Perceived Value

Gan

Zheng

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“…As such, either push or pull factors or both simultaneously may play a role, depending on the nature of the experience desired. Pull features seem to be more influential in nature based tourism, as Arowosafe et al (2022) found in the appeal of waterfalls and rock climbing in Nigeria and Valencia et al (2022) noted in farm stay travel. Likewise the pull features associated with last chance tourism (Salim et al, 2023), new and emerging destinations (Tojib et al, 2022), must visit destination (Alrawadieh et al, 2023) or unusual places such as North Korea (Shi et al, 2023) are powerful draw cards.…”

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Does the Destination Matter in Domestic Tourism?

McKercher

2024

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Do destinations really matter in domestic tourism when markets as a whole are considered? This study applies push-pull theory to assess destination choice among domestic Australian tourists. Two types of analyses are undertaken. The first compares push factors and pull features across a range of destination classes, while the second conducts a paired-destination analysis investigating differences between like destinations. The study determined that few real differences exist in push factors by either destination class or paired destination set, while virtually no differences were observed in the pull features of individual destinations. The study concludes that many domestic destinations are highly substitutable, creating a challenge for destination marketing organisations.

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“…Based on subsequent research, most scholars believe that push factors refer to the driving agents that encourage tourists to identify and meet their needs, such as relaxation, prestige, and knowledge (Mshai et al, 2022), and pull factors are destination attractiveness and destination-related motives held by tourists, such as inspiring destination and enjoyable activities (Prabawa & Pertiwi, 2020). Both push and pull factors are positive and encourage tourists to make travel choices (Arowosafe et al, 2022; Su et al, 2020).…”

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Configuring the Pattern of Sustainable Tourism Development as Affected by the Construction of a High-Speed Railway System

Terason

2023

SAGE Open

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This study highlights the role of a high-speed railway system in driving the tourism industry, as the tourism market prepares to achieve sustainable development after the COVID-19 pandemic. Considering the example of southwestern China, this study summarizes the configuration patterns of sustainable tourism development based on the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis method, and subsequently uses the gravity model to express its core factor based on the ArcGIS platform. The study found that the tourism development pattern in this area was not homogenous, but rather a combination of six equivalent patterns (namely configured pattern). Tourism Economic Connection was the core variable to promote tourism development. Therefore, based on the configurational theory, each city should determine its own pattern and accordingly develop strengths as well as complement weaknesses. Furthermore, determined by the complexity theory, cities should capitalize on the strength of the high-speed railway system and learn from the accomplishments realized in other cities.

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Push and pull motivation factors: a panacea for tourism development challenges in Oluminrin waterfalls, Nigeria

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Health and Wellness Tourists’ Motivation and Behavior Intention: The Role of Perceived Value

Health and Wellness Tourists’ Motivation and Behavior Intention: The Role of Perceived Value

Does the Destination Matter in Domestic Tourism?

Configuring the Pattern of Sustainable Tourism Development as Affected by the Construction of a High-Speed Railway System

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