International convention tourism: A choice modelling experiment of host city competition

Crouch, Geoffrey I.; Chiappa, Giacomo Del; Perdue, Richard R.

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2018.10.002

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“…These studies have corroborated that tourism growth led to growth in output and input from tourism-related industries [3]. Currently, many cities in the world attach importance to their tourism strategy [5]. For instance, China has successively promulgated a series of laws and policies to promote the accelerated development of tourism in recent years.…”

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Tourism Development, Environment and Policies: Differences between Domestic and International Tourists

2019

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Using panel data from the 17 underdeveloped provinces of China for 2005–2015, the author explored the differential impact of air (environment) quality and government policies on domestic and international visitors. Through econometric model analysis, the authors corroborated that domestic and international visitors react differently to air (environment) quality. In addition, domestic and international tourists have different responses to urbanization and transportation. Marketization is conducive to the development of tourism. Moreover, foreign trade has a positive impact on international tourists. These findings aid local governments to provide additional appropriate tourism development policies.

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Tourism Development, Environment and Policies: Differences between Domestic and International Tourists

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“…Mair and Thompson (2009), as well as Zhang et al (2007), wrote about the dual nature of a destination factor: attractiveness and accessibility. Crouch et al (2019) found that accessibility of a destination in terms of flight schedule convenience is a major consideration when choosing a host conference destination. In this study, destination accessibility and costs related to transport, accommodation, and conference fee emerged as an independent factor.…”

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“…The association market is very large (Crouch, Del Chiappa, & Perdue, 2019) and covers a wide range of meeting types and categories: medical meetings, which represent the largest segment, followed by scientific and other academic fields, trade organizations, professional bodies, and social groupings. In terms of size, budget, duration, and complexity, there are massive variations between and within categories.…”

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“…The common goal of the conference organizer and host destinations is to maximize the number of attendees. International conference participants are precious resources for the tourism industry since their attendance brings benefits to both the conference organizer and the host destination (Crouch et al, 2019). They bring numerous economic benefits to the host location (Jung & Tanford, 2017) through their expenditure on accommodation, food and beverages, local transportation, balancing off-season tourism and spreading positive word of mouth (Davidson & Rogers, 2006;Han & Hwang, 2017;Malekmohammadi et al, 2011;Oppermann & Chon, 1997).…”

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Factors affecting conference participation decision-making

Pavluković¹,

Cimbaljević²

2020

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Business travel, as the sector with the fastest growth in the tourism industry globally, has received increased attention from both countries and cities, particularly from emerging destinations. In developing economies, business travel, including attending meetings, conferences, incentives and other business events, often plays a leading role in the growth of the wider travel and tourism sector. Therefore, tourism authorities and convention bureaus at the national and city levels have been struggling to attract international conferences and a larger number of participants to conferences. Understanding factors, which appear to be important in the conference participation decision-making process, can help conference organizers and destinations to attract more participants and thus gain more benefit from this growing sector of the tourism industry. Therefore, this study aims to examine factors affecting the conference participation decision-making from the academics' perspective. Furthermore, it investigates how different socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents influence the extracted factors of the conference participation decision-making process. The data was collected from the academics employed at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. The findings reveal six dimensions of conference participation decision-making: destination stimuli, costs and destination accessibility, educational and professional opportunities, intervening opportunities, location factors, and conference factors. The results also show that there are statistically significant differences in some extracted factors between respondents of different gender, age, education level, and academic position, while the frequency of participation in international conferences does not influence the factors. The results could be of interest to all stakeholders in the business travel and tourism industry.

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“…Thus, international conferences are expected to enrich local economies and generate revenue for related tourism facilities. According to Crouch, Del Chiappa, and Perdue [57], imperative attributes that influence site competition as a conference destination are flight schedules, risk of disruption, inbound travel barriers, accommodation, cost of the convention facility, whether or not the association held its convention at the site previously, and more. According to the 2015 report by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, travel expenditures for international visitors are found to be highest in the groups that visit for meetings or conventions and second in incentive tours.…”

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The Threats of North Korea’s Missile and Visitors’ International Conference Choice Behavior

2019

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The popularity of hosting international conferences has increased, as their positive economic and social effects are now widely recognized. The Korean government selected the international conference industry as one of the new industry engines in propelling the economy. This study examines the factors of participation in international conferences from the value perspective. To this end, a value-based adoption model (VAM) is employed to test our research model using empirical data. A total of 192 questionnaires which were acquired from International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2017 in Seoul were coded for analysis. The research findings reveal that technical support, program usefulness, and perceived threats are predictors of perceived value with significant positive influence and, moreover, the perceived threats are affected by media exposure of North Korea missile threats. Perceived value is found to exert significant effects on revisit intention. The major contribution of the paper is to discuss both the practical and theoretical implications, providing information to destination marketers, and employing VAM in international conferences research.

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International convention tourism: A choice modelling experiment of host city competition

Cited by 61 publications

References 42 publications

Tourism Development, Environment and Policies: Differences between Domestic and International Tourists

Tourism Development, Environment and Policies: Differences between Domestic and International Tourists

Factors affecting conference participation decision-making

The Threats of North Korea’s Missile and Visitors’ International Conference Choice Behavior

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