Cultural connectedness and visitor segmentation in diaspora Chinese tourism

Weaver, David; Kwek, Anna; Ying, Wang

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2017.06.028

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“…Study findings thus highlight the need for destination‐wide policies restricting/encouraging certain socio‐cultural behaviours (alongside environmentally oriented ones) as significant predictors of residents' overall views. For example, tourism managers and policy‐makers could enhance destination sustainability by providing Chinese tourists with information on Thai culture either “in situ or selectively prior to visitation” (Weaver, Kwek, & Wang, , p. 311)—encouraging supply‐side stakeholders to pay more attention to seemingly innocuous socio‐cultural differences between residents and the visitors in their midst.…”

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Responsible tourism in Bangkok, Thailand: Resident perceptions of Chinese tourist behaviour

Gong

Detchkhajornjaroensri

Knight

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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This study uses mixed methods to assess resident views of Chinese tourist behaviour in the world's, and China's, most travelled to destination: Bangkok, Thailand. Analysis of 10 semistructured interviews informed the creation of a responsible tourism framework and subsequent survey administered to residents at three scenic spots in the city. Multiple linear regression tested three responsible tourism indices in predicting whether residents considered Chinese tourist behaviour to be responsible overall. Findings highlight environmentally ethical behaviour as a key component of responsible tourist action, providing theoretical insights into what comprises responsible tourism and presenting implications for behaviour-based analyses of destination sustainability.

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Responsible tourism in Bangkok, Thailand: Resident perceptions of Chinese tourist behaviour

Gong

Detchkhajornjaroensri

Knight

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…Diasporic travellers may also manifest various degrees of cultural connectedness to the homeland, as presented in a typology developed by Weaver, Kwek & Wang [36]. Diaspora members who demonstrated a higher level of engagement and deeper cultural connectedness with the country of origin were labelled the Intrinsics (high interest in culture and in-depth knowledge, moderate engagement with cultural products) and the Hybrids (high interest in culture and high engagement in cultural products).…”

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Diasporic medical tourism: a scoping review of quantitative and qualitative evidence

Mathijsen

2020

Global Health

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Background: There is a growing recognition of the significance of the diasporic dimension of medical travel. Explanations of medical tourism are increasingly presented in a wider context of transnationalism, diaspora and migration. Yet diaspora and cross-border travellers rarely get through the broader narrative of medical travel. Objective: Our aim in this scoping review was to extend the current knowledge on the emerging subject of diasporic travels for medical purposes. Specifically, we reviewed the existing literature on what is known about the determinants and motivational factors of diasporic medical tourism; its geographic scope and its quantitative estimation. Methods: Using a scoping review methodology, we conducted the search in seven electronic databases. It resulted in 210 records retrieved. Ultimately, 28 research papers and 6 non-research papers (published between 2002 and 2019) met the following criteria: 1) focus on healthcare and health-related practices, 2) transnational perspective, 3) healthcare consumption in the country of origin (homeland) while being a resident of another country, 4) published in English. Results: The findings from our review highlighted the importance of diasporic medical patients who had been researched and analysed on four continents. Even though quantitative evidence has been scarce, the data analysed in the scoping review pointed to the existence of non-negligible level of diasporic medical tourism in Northern America, and in Europe. Various motivational factors were enumerated with their frequency of occurrence: medical culture (12), time availability ("by the way of being home") (9), communication (6), dissatisfaction with the current system (6), healthcare insurance status (5), quality of healthcare (5), second opinion (3), and value for money (3).

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“…The TTCI is a comprehensive index to calculate each nation's travel and tourism competitiveness. Because the TTCI is a composite index, it is difficult to identify the performance of any specific factor of a sub-index or certain category of the index for a specific nation (Hanafiah & Hemdi, 2016;Joshi, Poudyal, & Larson, 2017;Weaver, Kwek, & Wang, 2017). Thus, if a certain factor is prominent or important, it must be calculated individually.…”

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The effect of China's open-door tourism policy on Taiwan: Promoting or suppressing tourism from other countries to Taiwan?

Liou

Hsu

2020

Tourism Management

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A B S T R A C TThis study employs an extended gravity model to analyse the complementarity or competitiveness relationship of the number of inbound tourists and corresponding tourism revenue between China and 19 other nations under the implementation of China's Open-door Tourism Policy to Taiwan in 2008. A simulation for 2018-2021 demonstrates the sustained impact of this policy. The results show that the number of tourists to Taiwan from China reached its peak in 2015 at 41% and will decrease to 9% by 2021. The corresponding tourism revenue will decrease from 49% to 11% over the same period. The results also show that if the number of tourists from China remains above 836,772, the number of tourists from Japan, Hong Kong, Australasia, North America, and Europe will still increase. However, the number of tourists from South Korea and South and Southeast Asia will increase continuously regardless of tourists from China, even far below 836,772.

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Cultural connectedness and visitor segmentation in diaspora Chinese tourism

Cited by 58 publications

References 49 publications

Responsible tourism in Bangkok, Thailand: Resident perceptions of Chinese tourist behaviour

Responsible tourism in Bangkok, Thailand: Resident perceptions of Chinese tourist behaviour

Diasporic medical tourism: a scoping review of quantitative and qualitative evidence

The effect of China's open-door tourism policy on Taiwan: Promoting or suppressing tourism from other countries to Taiwan?

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