Tourist experience and Wetland parks: A case of Zhejiang, China

Wang, Wanfei; Chen, Joseph; Fan, Lingling; Lü, Jian

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2012.05.029

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“…It refers to the degree of traveller experience perceived to be delightful/enjoyable part from the utilitarian value of the experience (Kang and Gretzel, 2012a). According to Wang et al (2012), enjoyable experience evolved from the sensations generated when consumers buy goods. Moreover, enjoyment can exist via experience of being immersed and the outcomes of that immersion (Dong and Siu, 2013).…”

Section: Traveller Experiencementioning

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Experienced international business traveller’s behaviour in Iran: A partial least squares path modelling analysis

Rezaei

Shahijan

Naser

et al. 2016

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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Few researchers have examined travellers' experience with destinations despite the importance of their attitudes, behaviour and perception in selecting destinations. Current study aims to examine the relationship between risk perceptions, motivation, information source, travel experience and destination image among experienced international business travellers in Iran. The total number of 234 valid questionnaires was collected from international business travellers and structural equation modelling was employed using partial least squares path-modelling analysis to assess measurement and structural model for reflective constructs. Our empirical results support the negative relationship between destination image and risk perception, travel experience and risk perception while information sources were found to be unrelated to travellers risk perceptions. The results further shown that information sources and destination image, information sources and motivation, motivation and travel experience and destination image are related. However, the partial least squares-multigroup analysis results reveal that the significance of path coefficients differs across various demographic subgroups. Moreover, our results support experience and risk perception as a second-order reflective construct. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed along with a discussion on research limitations.

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Section: Traveller Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Experienced international business traveller’s behaviour in Iran: A partial least squares path modelling analysis

Rezaei

Shahijan

Naser

et al. 2016

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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“…The urban wetland park undertakes an important role of leisure and entertainment, while because of the sensibility of ecological environment; the developing intensity of tourism should be strictly controlled. The smart tourism is convenient for the public by actively perceiving information such as tourism resource, tourism economy, tourism activity, tourist and releasing to the public in time [10]. Electronic ticket business: wetland park makes use of comprehensive ticket management system integrating the selling, management, financing and checking, which will help to improve management efficiency.…”

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Application of Smart Technology in the Integrated Environmental Management of Urban Wetland Park

Zhao¹,

Wang²

2015

IJUNESST

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“…On the contrary, Blackwell, Minard, and Engel (2001) argued that if tourists are unhappy with the services provided or if they experienced bad things, they will not go back to those places again and they will tell those to their friends, families, and relatives. Wang, Chen, Fan, and Lu (2012) pointed out that the story or experience of tourism from friends, family members, or relatives has played a vital part in the decision-making process of people who planned to travel and insisted that most people will change their decisions after receiving or listening to the unhappy story or bad experience of friends, family members, or relatives (not to go). Quan and Wang (2004) described tourism experience as a relationship of activities and environment and mentioned that the best experience depends on the best support of related services, such as food services, accommodation, transport, and travel services.…”

Section: Tourist Experiencementioning

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Tourist Expectation and Tourist Experience in Cultural Tourism

Boonpat¹,

Suvachart²

2014

JTHM

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Chiang Rai is one of the most famous destinations in Thailand due to its rich tourism resources especially with many cultural resources and well-organized and developed tourism infrastructure. As a consequence, Chiang Rai has targeted to promote and develop cultural tourism in order to attract more foreign tourists to visit and satisfy their needs and expectations, which is seen as one of the most important aspects in the current tourism development strategies in Chiang Rai. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to compare the gap between pre-and post-experience of foreign tourists who visited Chiang Rai towards their expectation and experience on: (1) arts and crafts; (2) life style of local people; (3) local food; (4) festivals and local traditions; (5) ethnic/indigenous life style and culture; and (6) cultural heritage. The quantitative approach has been chosen to conduct the study by using a questionnaire with 400 foreign tourists and One-way ANOVA was the statistic used for gap analysis between tourist expectation and experience. The data collection included the analysis of government documents and the relevant literature. The finding of the study illustrated that cultural tourism plays an important role in tourism development in Chiang Rai and the gap between pre-and post-experience of tourists. However, in order to minimize the gap between pre-and post-experience of tourists and maximize their expectation and satisfaction, both government and private sectors should have an in-depth understanding towards the management of cultural tourism. The tourist needs more quality cultural products and foreign language skills from staff and local people.

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Tourist experience and Wetland parks: A case of Zhejiang, China

Cited by 112 publications

References 27 publications

Experienced international business traveller’s behaviour in Iran: A partial least squares path modelling analysis

Experienced international business traveller’s behaviour in Iran: A partial least squares path modelling analysis

Application of Smart Technology in the Integrated Environmental Management of Urban Wetland Park

Tourist Expectation and Tourist Experience in Cultural Tourism

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