The Outbound Chinese Tourism to Italy: The New Graduates' Generation

Corigliano, Magda Antonioli

doi:10.1080/19388160.2011.627015

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“…In particular, understanding the perceived image of Europe among potential Chinese travellers is necessary for effective destination marketing. Limited studies have been devoted to understanding the image of Western Europe and/or individual countries within this region [63]. In fact, Cai et al [64] meta review of the Chinese outbound travel market confirms that Europe is an under-researched context.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To capture Chinese travellers' perceptions, 21 image attributes measured the tourism product generally offered to Chinese travellers such as attractive scenery and natural attractions and cultural/historical attractions, and the more general images of Western Europe such as cities with modern technology, quality accommodation, and quality tourist services [60,63,65,66,73]. The items were measured on a bipolar 7-point Likert scale anchored on [1] Offers very little and [7] Offers very much.…”

Section: Survey Instrumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bagged fuzzy clustering for fuzzy data: An application to a tourism market

D’Urso

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Massari

et al. 2015

Knowledge-Based Systems

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Segmentation has several strategic and tactical implications in marketing products and services. Despite hard clustering methods having several weaknesses, they remain widely applied in marketing studies. Alternative segmentation methods such as fuzzy methods are rarely used to understand consumer behaviour. In this study, we propose a strategy of analysis, by combining the Bagged Clustering (BC) method and the fuzzy C-means clustering method for fuzzy data (FCM-FD), i.e., the Bagged fuzzy C-means clustering method for fuzzy data (BFCM-FD). The method inherits the advantages of stability and reproducibility from BC and the flexibility from FCM-FD. The method is applied on a sample of 328 Chinese consumers revealing the existence of four segments (Admirers, Enthusiasts, Moderates, and Apathetics) of the perceived images of Western Europe as a tourist destination. The results highlight the heterogeneity in Chinese consumers' place preferences and implications for place marketing are offered.

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Section: Chinese Travellers Images Of Western Europementioning

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Section: Survey Instrumentmentioning

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Bagged fuzzy clustering for fuzzy data: An application to a tourism market

D’Urso

Disegna

Massari

et al. 2015

Knowledge-Based Systems

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“…Although China has a rapidly growing middle class with ever more disposable income, more leisure time and better accessibility to information on faraway destinations (Corigliano 2011;Mok and DeFranco, 1999;Sparks and Pan, 2009;Wang, Vela & Tyler 2008), its outbound long-haul tourism is still limited to a relatively small sector of its population (Yun and Joppe, 2011). Only the top 5% has the resources for outbound travel, whereas the mobility of the mass of the population remains limited to domestic travel.…”

Section: Constellations Of Long-haul International Tourism From the Ementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yang, Reeh and Kreisel, 2011;Corigliano, 2011;Wang, Vela and Tyler, 2008). As China became one of the fastest growing source markets for countries such as the US, Canada and the UK (Cripps, 2013, Li et al, 2011, studies of outbound long-haul Chinese tourists have proliferated (e.g.…”

Section: Constellations Of Long-haul International Tourism From the Ementioning

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A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions

Cohen

2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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Increasing numbers of people from the emerging world regions, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East engage in tourism practices at domestic, intra-regional and long-haul international scales. In this article we deploy an innovative application of the mobilities approach, which we argue moves beyond the Eurocentrism implicit in modernist tourism studies, in a comparative analysis of tourism in and from these regions and those in the 'West'. Our analysis opens up the systematic study of tourism in emerging world regions in terms of the mobilities paradigm, and concludes: one, travel had a multiplicity of origins in societies in the emerging regions, but most did not possess an equivalent emic term to 'tourism.' Two, tourism at domestic and intraregional levels tends to be entangled with other discretionary mobilities, whereas the long-haul level is more differentiated. Three, the development of domestic discretionary travel in emerging regions can be represented by four overlapping 'mobility constellations'. Four, there are significant historical differences between the regions in their long-haul mobility constellations, although their kinetic hierarchies are all still steep. Five, forms of movement and associated practices of discretionary travellers from the emerging regions and Western countries became increasingly similar under the impact of socio-technological, economic and cultural globalisation. Six, differences between the emerging regions, particularly Asia, and the West are most salient on the emic level of representations of international travel: the specific cultural motive forces for tourism do not centre on authenticity-seeking, but are instead bound up with prestige and markers of modernity.

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“…This continent actually receives 25% of the total Chinese outbound tourism, as opposed to 17% of Japanese and Indian outbound tourism. Germany and France will probably continue to be the most attractive European countries for Chinese tourists thanks to the strong commercial relationships and the improved flight connections (Antonioli Corigliano, 2011).…”

Section: Main European Destinationsmentioning

confidence: 99%