Decision timing: a comparison of Korean and Japanese travelers

General theory of cultures' consequences on international tourism behavior

“…Hoppe's findings also support the stability of value systems. Furthermore, Hofstede's four cultural dimensions are accepted widely and have been used by many marketing researchers to locate and compare countries (e.g., see Dawar & Parker, 1994;Iverson, 1997;Lynn et al, 1993;Money & Crotts, 2003;Nakata & Sivakumar, 1996;Pizam & Sussmann, 1995;Roth, 1995;Steenkamp et al, 1999).…”

Urban destination loyalty drivers and cross-national moderator effects: The case of Barcelona

“…With respect to the tourism industry, numerous studies take as reference the country dimension to explain different aspects of tourist consumer behaviour: information search behaviour Gursoy & Umbreit, 2004), hospitality (McCleary, Choi, & Weber, 1998;Mok & Armstrong, 1998;Yuksel et al, 2006), destinations (Iverson, 1997;Kozak, 2002;Lee & Lee, 2009;Sakakida, Cole, & Card, 2004;You, O'Leary, Morrison, & Hong, 2000) and airline passengers (Kim & Prideaux, 2003). But although the presence of cultural differences and their impact has been dealt with in many aspects of human behaviour, very few studies analyse tourists' perceptions and their attitude and behaviour towards an urban destination in terms of their country of residence.…”

Marketing implications arising from a comparative study of international pleasure tourist motivations and other travel-related characteristics of visitors to Korea

“…Previous research (Armstrong, Mok, Go, & Chan, 1997;Huang, Huang, & Wu, 1996;Iverson, 1997;Reisinger & Turner, 1998, 2000aKim, Prideaux, & Kim, 2002;Master & Prideaux, 2000;Kim & Lee, 2000;March, 1997;Kozak, 2001Kozak, , 2002Sussmann & Rashcovsky, 1997; Thompson & Cutler, 1997) has identified that there are significant differences between tourists based on nationality and which are a consequence of motivation and travel-related variables. These studies and others confirm a need for segmentation of tourists by nationality and the importance of establishing specific marketing strategies for each national market.…”