Itinerary Planning and Structured Travel—Preferences by Outbound Chinese Holidaymakers

Yang, Olivia Ly Wei; Gu, Hanming; Ryan, Chris

doi:10.1080/13032917.2009.10518899

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“…The 2000s started with China’s joining the WTO; outbound tours started to develop significantly in this decade. A great number of overseas destinations were included in the “Approved Destination Status” list (Yang et al, 2009). Widespread use of social media has greatly facilitated communication.…”

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Chinese tourists’ changing behavior in package tours: The suppliers’ account

Ren¹

2022

Tourist Studies

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This study adopted an interpretive approach in understanding the development of the package tour industry in China and the Chinese tourists’ behavioral changes in consuming package tours, via two data sources—in-depth interviews with senior tour guides and tour operators, and content analysis of OP task sheets collected over a span of 30 years’ time. The findings revealed that substantive changes had taken place in all aspects including group structure, destination selection, itinerary, core tourist activities, supporting arrangement, personnel, and peripheral items of the package tours. The result has also shed light on the future trends and the challenges ahead, especially in the post-COVID era. Implications to tour operators and tourism marketers are discussed.

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Chinese tourists’ changing behavior in package tours: The suppliers’ account

Ren¹

2022

Tourist Studies

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Tourists' perception of time: Directions for design

Pearce

2020

Annals of Tourism Research

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Experimental study on tourist satisfaction using participatory simulation in a virtual environment

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Before traveling, tourists need to ensure that they will have a well-organized trip, which mainly involves a smooth flow of visits to different tourist attractions by themselves or following a pre-designed plan made by tourism service providers. The present study examined how the sequence of visiting tourist attractions influences tourist satisfaction at the expectation and experience levels. Participatory simulation with a virtual environment platform was employed in the experiments to assess their experience. The research reveals that the contrast bias has significant influence on the assessment.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-2-552) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Itinerary Planning and Structured Travel—Preferences by Outbound Chinese Holidaymakers

Cited by 3 publications

References 45 publications

Chinese tourists’ changing behavior in package tours: The suppliers’ account

Chinese tourists’ changing behavior in package tours: The suppliers’ account

Tourists' perception of time: Directions for design

Experimental study on tourist satisfaction using participatory simulation in a virtual environment

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