Travel Behavior Analysis of the Females in Beijing

Zhang, Meng; Sun, Qiang; Chen, Jinchuan; Guo, Jingkun

doi:10.1016/s1570-6672(08)60015-x

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“…Traveling also serves as a stress reliever and an opportunity to escape work while experiencing new scenery and local culture (Landers 2018). With such different demands, tourism operators should offer unique physiological functions and psychological features to this growing market (Zhang et al, 2008). Recent studies note that aesthetic design (Kumar and Singh 2014) and luxury (Chiang and Jogaratnam 2006) are also responsible for increasing hotel attractiveness among female travelers.…”

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Hotel Selection Criteria of Solo Traveling Females

Herjanto¹,

Chilicki²,

Anantamongkolkul³

et al. 2020

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Consumers use online e-reviews as a popular tool for information and obtaining guidance. E-reviews have therefore become an important barometer in conducting product evaluations, and more importantly, to make purchasing decisions. This includes decisions about hotel selection. For hospitality industry marketers, the information in e-reviews is particularly important in translating and understanding consumer-specific needs. The current study brings valuable awareness to the limited academic research into hotel selection criteria among solo-traveling females. TripAdvisor’s top 25 list of cost-efficient hotels worldwide received 345 total consumer reviews. Noteworthy findings of the current study show unique selection criteria considered important to the solo traveling female including a hotel-provided cell phone programmed with emergency local contact information, and a nearby or on-premise automated teller machine. Study results also indicate that stewardship service, such as intimate and personalized hotel staff who “go the extra mile” is an important selection criterion. Also discussed are research limitations and implications.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hotel Selection Criteria of Solo Traveling Females

Herjanto¹,

Chilicki²,

Anantamongkolkul³

et al. 2020

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“…In the study, 54.03% are males and 45.96% female ones, indicating that females too have higher rate of movement as tourists. Female travel behavior (Aitchison & Reeves, 1998;Zhang et al, 2008) is disproportionately constrained by fearful mind set for their personal safety while travelling (Wilson & Little, 2008). As against the average duration of the stay in Nepal by tourist (i.e., 13 days) in 2017, our study revealed such stay is 30.62 days, which throws the light that tourists are increasingly preferring Nepal with their likelihood of longer stay.…”

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confidence: 62%

Conveying Impetus for Fostering Tourism and Hospitality Entrepreneurship in Touristic Destination: Lessons Learnt from Pokhara, Nepal

Devkota

Paudel

Bhandari

2021

The Gaze: J Tourism & Hosp.

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This research explores the inter connectedness in entrepreneurs’ and tourists’ perception about western influence in business culture of touristic city – Pokhara, Nepal and provides suggestions for fostering sustainable tourism development of the destination. Primary data results are drawn in which researchers have collected 249 data from tourists’ viewpoint, 395 from determining provincial government roles and 395 from hospitality entrepreneurship along with key informants interview with experts’ viewpoints for generating practical solutions of the existing problems in order to enhance hospitality and tourism business for progress and sustainability. Based on this triangular data results and secondary resources’ analysis, this research concludes that, for the sustainable tourism business in Pokhara, the entrepreneurs in the area should recognize, preserve, promote and sustain local socio-cultural practices; tourists’ viewpoints should be addressed and Gandaki provincial government roles must be constructive.

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“…As stated by Nobis et al (2005), substantial differences in the use of ICTs exist, resulting from many social factors, including age, gender, culture, and socioeconomic distribution. Zhang et al (2008) found that in the same age groups there was a significant difference in travel behavior between males and females in Beijing. Haustein et al (2009) observed that travel of young Germans was influenced by peer pressure, level of socializing and communication with parents.…”

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confidence: 88%