Travel motivation among cross border tourists: Case study of Langkawi

Park, Jong‐Hyun; Musa, Ghazali; Moghavvemi, Sedigheh; Thirumoorthi, Thinaranjeney; Taha, Azni Zarina; Mohtar, Mozard; Sarker, Moniruzzaman

doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2019.03.004

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“…In this regard, Valls et al (2018) point out that the influence exerted by psychological factors on tourists when choosing a destination has long been studied and acknowledged in literature. Consistently, Park et al (2019) highlight that the analysis of tourist motivation is fundamental for the understanding, explanation, and conceptualization of travel behaviors, since travel motivation influences tourists' attitudes, perceptions, and involvements. Plog (1974Plog ( , 2001 proposed an allocentric/psychocentric model which explains why different people tend to travel to different destinations; allocentric people are venturesome and self-assured, while psychocentrics have some common personality tendencies (such as territory boundedness, generalized anxieties, and sense of powerlessness) (Hsu & Huang, 2008).…”

Section: Tourist Motivationmentioning

confidence: 86%

Curiosity as Brazilian tourist motivation in visiting Europe

Ciasullo

Tommasetti

Troisi

et al. 2019

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Although the theme of push and pull motivations has received increasing attention in tourist behavior literature, little attention has been devoted to the investigation of the interaction between single push motivations and visitor loyalty and other relevant variables influencing tourist behavior. Given its undoubtable relevance in motivating human behavior, we propose curiosity as a single push motive by examining its causal relationships with destination attributes (evaluated in holistic way), attitude toward destination, and loyalty. In particular, we tested a new research model on a sample of 273 potential Brazilian travelers to Europe by using a structural equation modeling approach. Sample size is in line with the state-of-the-art in literature (Ciasullo et al., 2017). The data moderately well fitted the “curiosity model” and the findings highlighted that curiosity plays a crucial role in shaping attitude and pull motivation, and in influencing tourist loyalty. Consequently, destination managers or European Union institutions should magnify the role of curiosity, attitude towards destination, and pull motivations in terms of marketing policies.

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Section: Tourist Motivationmentioning

confidence: 86%

Curiosity as Brazilian tourist motivation in visiting Europe

Ciasullo

Tommasetti

Troisi

et al. 2019

RBTUR

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“…The order and importance of these travel needs are dependent on stage in life, access to information, financial status, well-being, and the level on travel engagement (Pearce and Lee 2005). The fluctuation of needs as postulated in TCL, however, makes it difficult to measure the causal relationship between motivation and actual behavior (Park et al 2019). In addition, travel motivations are also influenced by cohort effects and generational gaps (Otoo and Kim, 2020).…”

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“…Kim, Lee, and Klenosky 2003; Murdy, Alexander, and Bryce 2018). Others, however, diverge from the simplicity of the push–pull motivation theory, arguing that micro- as well as macro-level factors are often overlooked (Otoo and Kim, 2020; Park et al 2019). They advocate for a context-driven approach in measuring travel motivation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Developing a Multidimensional Measurement Scale for Diaspora Tourists’ Motivation

Otoo

Kim

Choi

2020

Journal of Travel Research

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Despite its increased recognition among tourism planners and destination governments, a lacuna exists regarding the motivation of diaspora tourists travelling to a destination they regard as an ancestral homeland. Thus, in the current research, we seek to develop and validate a scale that measures the motivations of diaspora tourists. The result of a rigorous seven-stage scale development procedure generates a five-factor structure for diaspora tourists’ motivations. The scale is successfully verified through various reliability and validity tests. This multidimensional scale of diaspora tourist motivations contributes to our understanding of the nature of diaspora tourism.

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“…Visser [39] and Waitt and Markwell [40] also studied the effect of sexual orientation as one of the factors that influences the interests and motivations of visitors and its influence on visits to certain places during their trips. Bo et al [41] and Park et al [42]analyzed the effect of tourists' country of origin to study how this factor influences movements. The results of these studies show that foreign visitors seem to have a greater tendency to visit the most well-known tourist attractions of a destination, whereas national and regional visitors are more likely to move more actively within the destination and to spend larger amounts of money at more distant and less known attractions.…”

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Preventing Overtourism by Identifying the Determinants of Tourists’ Choice of Attractions

Padrón‐Ávila

Martín

2019

Sustainability

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Popular tourism destinations based on specific attractions along with coastal and island destinations have been considered potential candidates to suffer from overtourism. In this context, in-depth knowledge of the determinants of tourists’ choices of attractions can be used to improve policies against crowding. This paper analyzes why tourists decide to visit certain attractions instead of others in the context of an island destination with sustainability concerns. To do so, discrete choice models are used to determine if a set of 96 variables can explain why 11 attractions are visited on the island of Lanzarote. The results show that 86 variables are significant to explain visits to at least one of the attractions. The analysis also identifies both similarities and differences on the effects these variables have on the probability of visiting each of the 11 attractions. These results are useful to cluster attractions depending on the profile of those tourists most likely to visit them and to cluster variables regarding their effect on visiting attractions. Furthermore, the results provide useful information for public and private managers involved in evenly reallocating tourist flows in time and space to avoid the negative impacts of overtourism.

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Travel motivation among cross border tourists: Case study of Langkawi

Cited by 36 publications

References 56 publications

Curiosity as Brazilian tourist motivation in visiting Europe

Curiosity as Brazilian tourist motivation in visiting Europe

Developing a Multidimensional Measurement Scale for Diaspora Tourists’ Motivation

Preventing Overtourism by Identifying the Determinants of Tourists’ Choice of Attractions

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