Tourism and reconciliation between Mainland China and Taiwan

Guo, Yingzhi; Kim, Seongseop; Timothy, Dallen J.; Wang, Kuo Ching

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2005.08.001

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“…Cross-border tourism is well documented in existing studies as an effective tool to ease the tensions between countries/regions, such as that between South Korea and North Korea, North Cyprus and South Cyprus, and Mainland China and Taiwan (Alipour & Kilic, 60 JOURNAL OF TRAVEL & TOURISM MARKETING 2005;Guo et al, 2006;Kim & Prideaux, 2003). Many of these studies feature descriptive analysis (Kim & Prideaux, 2006) and deal with this issue from the government policy-making and governance perspective on the macro level (Alipour & Kilic, 2005;Guo et al, 2006;Kim & Prideaux, 2003). The present study proposes the view of tourists as a new perspective to be considered on the micro level when tackling tourism issues between areas of political conflict.…”

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“…To summarize, the political relationships across the Taiwan Strait have undergone four phases. Guo and her co-authors (Guo, Kim, Timothy, & Wang, 2006) interpreted the first three phases until 2008 as follows: (1) military confrontation from 1949 to 1977, when the two parties were involved in battles and were almost completely disconnected; (2) peace negotiations from 1978 to 1995, when the two entities began communications and Taiwan allowed its civilians to visit relatives in Mainland China; and (3) the transitional period from 1995 to 2008, during which conversations between top administrators of parties across the Taiwan Strait (e.g. Kuoming Party and Qingming Party) started, while the Taiwan Government raised the "Two Chinas" argument (Guo et al, 2006) and challenged the relationship.…”

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An Examination of Taiwan Destination Brand Associations: From the Perspective of Mainland Chinese Tourists

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2015

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Grounded on the concept of brand associations by Keller and Associative NetworkTheory, this study examined Taiwan destination brand associations as perceived by Mainland Chinese tourists. The qualitative data were obtained through a survey using open-ended questions among package-group tourists from Mainland China to Taiwan in 2010. Data were coded and analyzed using qualitative and quantitative approaches. As a result, the three types and three dimensions of Taiwan destination brand associations were identified. The brand associative network based on the data analysis was then constructed. The findings of this study indicate that overall, Taiwan destination brand associations perceived by Mainland Chinese tourists are highly favorable. The results of this study highlight the role of relations between Taiwan and Mainland China in Chinese tourists' associations to the destination brand of Taiwan. In addition, the associative network of Taiwan destination brand associations indicates four clusters of brand associations as perceived by Chinese tourists, with emphases on the special aspects of Taiwan, the relations between Taiwan and Mainland China, the favorable attributes of Taiwan, and the negative perceptions of Taiwan.

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An Examination of Taiwan Destination Brand Associations: From the Perspective of Mainland Chinese Tourists

Huang¹,

2015

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“…For example, Guo, Kim, Timothy, and Wang (2006) analyzed the features of tourism flow as well as politics, economics, and trade between mainland China and Taiwan. Jang and Chen (2008) applied a financial portfolio theory to estimate optimal market mixes to minimize the instability of inbound tourist market demand in Taiwan.…”

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“…JOURNAL OF TRAVEL & TOURISM MARKETING Guo et al (2006) illustrated the features of tourism flow as well as politics, economics, and trade between mainland China and Taiwan. They noted that the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan was rather one-sided.…”

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Drivers of Taiwan’s Tourism Market Cycle

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2015

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This paper examines the business cycle of tourism market (BCTM) in Taiwan. It begins by studying the BCTM based on a Markov regime-switching (MRS) model. The MRS model reveals strong evidence of a regime-switching BCTM with two distinct regimes: a high-growth regime (HGR) and a low-growth regime (LGR), over the period from 1st quarter of 1969 to 1st quarter of 2011. The second step is to examine the driving forces of the BCTM. Specifically, the study identifies the factors that cause the tourism market to stay in the high-growth regime (HGR). Test results show that the growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP), growth rate of exports, and inflation rate are significant drivers of the BCTM in Taiwan.

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“…This policy is a significant milestone in the history of tourism between Taiwan and Mainland China (two politically divided states due to domestic war) because it is a breakthrough in their cross-Strait relations, and it began to change the long-term imbalance state in cross-Strait tourism (Chiang, 2012). Before 2008, tourism across the Taiwan Strait was mainly accounted for by travelers from Taiwan to Mainland China because the movement of people from the mainland to Taiwan was highly controlled (Guo, Kim, Timothy, & Wang, 2006;Su, Lin, & Liu, 2012). However, the openness policy in July 2008 of the Taiwanese government resulted in a remarkable increase in the number of mainland tourists within only two years.…”

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