VFR tourism

Shani, Amir; Uriely, Natan

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2011.07.003

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“…In fact, Chinese students in Australia can play an important role in Chinese outbound travel decision-making and tourist experience leverage, helping to create good memories of tourism experiences by providing accurate information, useful tips, company, and guidance. In addition, Chinese students in Australia attract a visiting-friends-and-relatives (VFR) market segment for different destinations in Australia, and constitute an important source of information for their guests (Backer, 2012;Shani & Uriely, 2012). According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2011), the number of student visa applications granted to Chinese students was about 50,000 annually from 2006 to 2010.…”

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Factors Influencing Chinese Students’ Behavior in Promoting Australia as a Destination for Chinese Outbound Travel

Chen

Dwyer

Firth

2015

Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing

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The importance of Chinese students in Australia has been largely neglected in the tourism development and place branding of Australia. This study explores the factors that influence Chinese students' word-of-mouth behaviors, as well as other behaviors influencing Australia as a tourism destination. Following a literature review, a taxonomy of word-of-mouth behaviours is proposed in terms of the way information is communicated. "Place attachment to Australia", "place attachment to China", and "place satisfaction in Australia", are proposed as the key factors that influence such behaviors. Using structural equation modelling, the authors find that "place attachment to Australia" and "satisfaction" with Australia are positively related to different behavior outcomes including Chinese students' word-of-mouth, intentions to recommend Australia as a tourism destination, and willingness to help Chinese tourists to create satisfying experiences in Australia. Based on these findings, the theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Factors Influencing Chinese Students’ Behavior in Promoting Australia as a Destination for Chinese Outbound Travel

Chen

Dwyer

Firth

2015

Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing

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“…While the scale developed for this study focused on second homeowners actively using their second home, the scale should expand to resident hosts of VFR like those sampled in Young, Corsun, and Baloglu (2007) and Shani and Uriely (2012). The typology of resident hosts introduced by Young, Corsun, and Baloglu (2007) might also exist with second homeowners such as those who do not rent their second homes.…”

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“…the VFR measures in Australia (Backer 2012). The recent literature on permanent resident hosting typology by Shani and Uriely (2012) should be incorporated into further examination of second homeowner hosting behaviours and typology.…”

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“…Seaton and Palmer (1997) suggested that the form of VFR travel be defined by motive versus accommodation. Subsequently, Shani and Uriely (2012) found in their in-depth interviews with local residents of Eilat, Israel, that such a simple dichotomous classification did not adequately capture the domain of VFR travel. They developed a typology of hosting behaviours that were distinguished by guest-oriented versus self-oriented styles of hosting.…”

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“…The owner has incredible flexibility in their utilization of the home because they can use it themselves, share it with visiting friends and relatives (VFR), and rent it to others on a short-term basis. Recent research has brought attention to the characteristics and behaviours of residents who host visitors in a destination (Young, Corsun, and Baloglu 2007;Shani and Uriely 2012).…”

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Second homeowners hosting friends and relatives

McLeod

Busser

2014

Annals of Leisure Research

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Recent research has brought attention to the characteristics and behaviours of residents who host visitors in a destination. This research examines the role of non-resident second homeowners in hosting visiting friends and relatives (VFR) in a destination. The exploratory research expands the scope of research on hosts by examining second homeowners and their willingness to host VFR. The purpose of this study was to develop a willingness to host scale and use it to examine the hosting of friends and relatives in second homes.

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On the Global Determinants of Visiting Home

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Basher

Louis

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Int. J. Tourism Res.

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In this paper, we examine possible macro-level determinants underlying the number of trips emigrants make back home by exploiting a panel of data comprising 25 countries over the period 1995-2010. To guide the empirical work, we first construct a simple model of the decision by emigrants to visit their home country. The model predicts, among other things, that the effects of distance on the frequency of visiting home are negative but the impact of the host country's wage on the decision to visit home is ambiguous: It depends on the legal status of the emigrants in the host country. Our empirical results based on a pooled estimator support these predictions. First, the number of trips back home is inversely related to distance but positively related to income and institutional quality. Second, emigrants living in Africa and North America are less likely to visit home, whereas emigrants living in the Arabian Gulf countries visit home more often. The results from cross-sectional estimations provide very similar results, indicating that our results are robust to alternative estimation approaches.

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VFR tourism

Cited by 130 publications

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Factors Influencing Chinese Students’ Behavior in Promoting Australia as a Destination for Chinese Outbound Travel

Factors Influencing Chinese Students’ Behavior in Promoting Australia as a Destination for Chinese Outbound Travel

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