The Moderating Effects of Resident Characteristics on Perceived Gaming Impacts and Gaming Industry Support: The Case of Macao

Yoo, Joanne; Zhou, Yong; Lu, Tracy; Taegoo, Kim

doi:10.1080/10548408.2014.873314

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“…The new administration intended to transform this area into a center of gaming, cultural events, conferences, and exhibitions (McCartney, ). These goals have been realized magnificently: Macau's gaming industry has grown tremendously as a result of massive integrated entertainment projects generously funded by organizations such as the Las Vegas Sands, the Wynn Resorts, and MGM Mirage (Yoo, Zhou, Lu, & Kim, ). Nearby in the region, Singapore is another country that has improved its economy through the use of casinos—despite strict anti‐gambling laws that might have been expected to pose a critical hindrance (Hendler & Hendler, ); until two mega‐casinos opened in 2010, legitimate gambling in Singapore was limited to government‐run lotteries and horse racing.…”

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Forecasting casino revenue by incorporating Google trends

Kim

Malek

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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This study investigates whether Google Trends has predictive power for improving casinorevenue forecasting. More specifically, the present study aims to (a) examine the value of using readily available Google Trends data to improve predictive accuracy in the forecasting of casino revenue and (b) compare domestic casinos and foreigner-only casinos given the significantly different spending patterns of such casinos' patrons. Accordingly, this research utilizes time-series analyses that incorporate Google Trend data into five steps: the selection of keywords, the processing of search data, indexing construction, the prediction casino revenues, and evaluations of forecast accuracy. The evidence collected suggests that forecasting models using Google Trends data do significantly improve forecasting models for casino revenue. This study provides discussions of and implications for this type of methodology, for casino research, and for better industry practices.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Forecasting casino revenue by incorporating Google trends

Kim

Malek

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…Three items were used for attitudes towards transformation, and lastly, three items were used to measure attitudes towards social involvement. The items were adopted and modified from studies about residents' perceptions and attitudes, especially in the event settings and in Macao [55][56][57]. (See Table 2 for details.)…”

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Negotiating with Authenticity to Ensure Sustainability of Traditional Cultural Festivals: Residents’ Perspectives about Macao’s Drunken Dragon Festival

2020

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The present study examines the three perceptual factors (cultural, economic, and social) that affect residents’ attitude towards transformation in the search for sustainability. Macao’s Drunken Dragon Festival, China’s intangible cultural heritage, was used as the case. Self-administered surveys were conducted on 378 resident festival participants in 2015 and 692 residents (both participants and non-participants) in 2017. The results show that regardless of previous experiences of participating in the festival, those who perceive more strongly about its cultural values tend to have positive attitudes towards its transformation, which may involve a loss of objective authenticity. Those who perceive more strongly that the festival is exclusive and does not embrace diverse participants are more likely to support its transformation. However, such a perception does not lead to their belief that diverse groups of people should be incorporated into the festival. Only among the non-participants from the sample collected in 2017, the perception that this festival provides economic benefit is associated with positive attitudes towards transforming and incorporating diverse groups of participants. This study provides insight into understanding the residents’ common and differentiated attitudes with regards to how much transformation is necessary to ensure sustainability of a local traditional cultural festival.

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“…Studies have implied that residents' knowledge about the tourism industry would positively affect their support of regional tourism development (Andereck et al, 2005). Social exchange theory has been a frequentlyadopted framework (Andereck et al, 2005;Yoo et al, 2014). Studies adopting this theory have used path models to support that perceived benefits and negative impacts determine how much individual residents are likely to support tourism development (Ko and Stewart, 2002;Li and Wan, 2013).…”

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Resident attendees of Macao's Drunken Dragon Festival: a cluster analysis

Choi

Couto

Imon

2020

IJEFM

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PurposeThe present study aims to investigate resident attendees' perceptions and attitudes towards a traditional cultural festival. It further clusters the attendees and identifies the profiles of each cluster based on its demographic, attitudinal and behavioral variables.Design/methodology/approachThe Drunken Dragon Festival, a traditional cultural festival in Macao SAR, which has been embedded in the local community for about a century, is used as a case. Data collected from 378 residents on the day of the festival were factor analyzed and then grouped by using cluster analysis.FindingsA two-cluster solution revealed that the two groups, overall, had distinct demographic characteristics and had somewhat different perceptions and attitudes towards the festival.Practical implicationsThe results not only show the overall perceptions of the Drunken Dragon Festival among the resident attendees, but they also imply that the government and the organizers need to communicate with and involve the two resident attendee clusters differently.Originality/valueThis study is one of the first attempts to investigate the residents' attitudes towards the transformational development of a traditional cultural festival as an effort to ensure the viability of intangible cultural heritage and to utilize it as a tourism resource.

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The Moderating Effects of Resident Characteristics on Perceived Gaming Impacts and Gaming Industry Support: The Case of Macao

Cited by 14 publications

References 57 publications

Forecasting casino revenue by incorporating Google trends

Forecasting casino revenue by incorporating Google trends

Negotiating with Authenticity to Ensure Sustainability of Traditional Cultural Festivals: Residents’ Perspectives about Macao’s Drunken Dragon Festival

Resident attendees of Macao's Drunken Dragon Festival: a cluster analysis

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