When east meets west: An exploratory study on Chinese outbound tourists’ travel expectations

Britain in bloom? A study into Chinese tourists’ experience

“…Chinese outbound tourists share many of the same desires of all tourists, but they also have unique expectations and requirements of their overseas tours (Li, Lai, Harrill, Kline, & Wang, 2011). Several studies have addressed the motives of Chinese tourists visiting overseas destinations (e.g.…”

“…Mohsin (2008) suggests that relaxation needs are an important motive for Chinese tourists visiting New Zealand. Sparks and Pan (2009) Like all tourists, Chinese tourists' travel motivations and expectations are usually shaped by their culture (Burt & Sparks, 2002;Li et al, 2011). The significance of culture in understanding tourist evaluations of holiday experiences should not be underestimated (Sun et al, 2015).…”

“…Xu and McGehee's (2012) study of Chinese tourists' shopping behaviour in the US showed that Chinese tourists regard the quality of American products to be better and prices lower than similar products at home, and they tend to have a positive image of shopping in the US than European and Asian destinations. Another study of Chinese tourists' expectations of outbound travel products reveal details of Chinese outbound tourist expectation along five key important destination attributes: accommodations, food and drinks, tour guides and itineraries, entertainment and activities, and transportation (Li et al, 2011 and hospitality, safety and noise level.…”

Studying Volatility and Dependency of Chinese Outbound Tourism Demand in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand: A Vine Copula Approach

“…Recognizing the relevance and significance of tourism industry to SMT economy, a number of studies have been undertaken on various aspects of outbound tourism from China to SMT: for example, Li et al [1] examined the Chinese tourists' expectations of outbound travel products, Lee [22] studied the dynamic interactions be-tween hotel room rates and international inbound tourists in Singapore, and Chang et al [5] forecasted tourism demand from East Asia to Thailand. However, none of the literature relates to the dependencies and volatility of tourism demand from China to SMT except just one paper which is by Liu and Sriboonchitta [15] who studied the volatility and dependence between tourist arrivals from China to Thailand and those to Singapore.…”

“…To use the C-vine and D-vine constructions to represent dependency structure through copulas, we assume that there are three univariate marginals that are uniform in [0,1]. Note that these univariate marginals correspond to cumulative distribution functions of the standardized residuals by generating from ARMA-GARCH model.…”