Exploring Perceived Tensions Arising from Tourist Behaviors in a Chinese Context

Loi, Kim Ieng; Pearce, Philip L.

doi:10.1080/10548408.2014.986013

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“…The surge in Chinese tourist influx may cause a congestion problem on one hand. On the other hand, due to the lower level of economic development and cultural factor, some Chinese tourists perform “noncivilized” behaviors at tourist sites and in tourism activities that have branded them with a negative image to local residents and tourists from other countries (e.g., Loi & Pearce, , ). Combining both congestion with “noncivilized” problems, it casts debatable arguments on the tourism quality in famous scene spots influenced by the influx of Chinese tourists.…”

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How the influx of Chinese tourists affects national tourism behaviors: Evidence from Taiwan

Yang

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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Taiwan implemented its tourism open policy for Chinese tourists in 2008, thereby inducing a skyrocketing-growth of tourist arrivals from China in subsequent years. This paper examines the influence of Chinese tourist arrivals on national tourism in Taiwan. Based on individual-level data in 2006-2013, empirical estimations find no crowdingout effect on national tourism, whereas Taiwan's residents exhibit an increasing frequency of domestic trips. Crucially, residents lower their willingness to visit most of famous tourism sites that Chinese tourists prefer to visit, suggesting the increasing domestic tourists are crowded out from famous tourist attractions and, instead, visiting some local scenic sites.

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How the influx of Chinese tourists affects national tourism behaviors: Evidence from Taiwan

Yang

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…There is also a growing body of knowledge in the tourism area covering behaviours and policies benefiting certain stakeholders to the detriment of others. These tourism typologies include irresponsible tourists, unethical businesses, and myopic tourism destinations (Breitsohl & Garrod, 2016;Loi & Pearce, 2015). There is even emerging literature into tourism where others benefit to the detriment of tourists, tourism businesses, or destinations.…”

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“…The media regularly reports stupid things that tourists do (Bartlett, 2014) and say (Fraser, 2014). Increasingly, academic literature has explored tourists doing the right thing, that is, the ethics of tourism (Loi & Pearce, 2015;Tolkach et al, 2017), and tourists doing things right, that is, responsible tourist behaviour (Kang & Moscardo, 2006;Weeden, 2013). However, studies of tourists behaving in a way that does not reflect sound judgment and is irrational or irresponsible are lacking.…”

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Stupidity in tourism

Pratt

Tolkach

2020

Tourism Recreation Research

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Various disciplines have called upon further exploration of stupidity. The issue is pertinent to tourism as well. Stupidity in tourism may occur due to the lack of sound judgment by those involved in tourism, and it can negatively impact tourists themselves, other people, animals, organisations, or destinations. We conceptualise various manifestations of stupidity in tourism by adapting Sternberg's Balanced Theory of Wisdom (2003) and Greenspan's Explanatory Model of Human Foolishness to an Imbalanced Theory of Stupidity (2019). We then view stupid behaviour through a framework developed by Cipolla in the book The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity. The framework places all people on two axes: losses/benefits to themselves and losses/benefits to others, thus resulting in four quadrants. This paper provides a basis for further investigation of the irrational behaviour of tourists and the impacts of circumstances on stupid behaviour.

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“…The sense of interpersonal dissimilarity was observed by individuals from Hong Kong in problematic behaviours of mainland Chinese tourist to Macau. Notably highlighted was bumping into each other in the crowd [17]. Nationality had a significant moderating effect on crowding perception for tourist visitors to urban Taiwanese historical sites.…”

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Structural equation modelling assessment of personal and social factors on hajj crowding among african pilgrims in Mina

Alsolami¹,

Embi²,

Enegbuma³

2018

IJET

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African pilgrimage to the Mecca date back to the early years of Islam through the Sahara desert. The perception of this group of pilgrims as they embark on the sacred Mina prayer rituals directly translates to how they perceived crowding in Mina. Hajj rituals are carried out at Mina for a minimum of three days. The optimum provision and continuous improvements of the facilities for pilgrims determines how this group reacts to the crowded environment which invariably affects their psychology. This paper assesses the impacts of personal factors (control, expectation, mood and sociability) and social factors (interpersonal similarity, provision of information and activities) on crowding levels perception among pilgrim groups from African origins. A self-administered survey instrument was used in the collection of data from the African origin Hajj group totaling 156 in number. Data analysis was carried out utilizing SPSS on the descriptive data and AMOS for multivariate Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The survey instruments internal consistency, sample adequacy KaiserMeyer-Olkin measure and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) found that the validity was within acceptable thresholds. The pilgrim groups from African origins measurement model revealed that sociability and interpersonal similarity had the highest correlation while level of perceived crowing and activities had the lowest correlation. Furthermore, for personal factors, sociability had the highest inverse impact and for social factors, interpersonal similarity. The authorities formulating policies to managing crowd levels and perception will invariably be affected by adapting these research findings to improve the Hajj experience. Subsequently, assessing several other factors, which effect Hajj pilgrims such as physical factors, provides an avenue for future research.

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Exploring Perceived Tensions Arising from Tourist Behaviors in a Chinese Context

Cited by 49 publications

References 42 publications

How the influx of Chinese tourists affects national tourism behaviors: Evidence from Taiwan

How the influx of Chinese tourists affects national tourism behaviors: Evidence from Taiwan

Stupidity in tourism

Structural equation modelling assessment of personal and social factors on hajj crowding among african pilgrims in Mina

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