Growing acceptance and concern about anthropogenic climate change is beginning to influence tourists' travel practices, with a hardening of attitudes towards long-haul aviation now evident in a number of key European outbound tourism markets. This raises timely questions as to whether or not the...

Drawing on literature about travel motivation and travel risk, this paper examines how cultural distance influences international tourist's intention to visit a destination country. Structural equation modeling is utilized to analyze the responses from 729 potential tourists in China. The data...

The spatial dimension of tourism provides insights about travel demands and travel flows and helps destinations in planning, development and management. The last decade has witnessed a steady and rapid growth in the Asia-Pacific region's tourism industry, in terms of both inbound and outbound...

Considered as having a great impact on consumer behavior, value has received limited empirical attention. Moreover, the effects of values that influence tourist behavior have also received limited empirical attention. The current study aims to investigate the influence of value on affective...

This brief paper focuses on Dutch outbound tourism, that is, international flows with the Netherlands as a place of origin. Using data provided by CBS Statistics Netherlands, we show that the total number of international holidays, both in absolute terms and per capita, has significantly grown in...

The overall purpose of this study is to examine the moderating roles of gender and generation in the effects of perceived destination image on tourist attitude and visit intention among Chinese potential tourists to Australia. Australia is one of the preferred destinations to Chinese tourists, and...

The characteristics of independent Chinese outbound tourists are addressed from five aspects: sociodemographic characteristics, motivations, decision-making process, spatial pattern of destinations, and consumer patterns. Comprehensive study methods including a questionnaire, in-depth interview and ...

Purpose - Classical socio-demographic segmentation approaches of tourists mostly fail to cluster customer groups appropriately. More recent segmentation approaches have employed a more customer-centric perspective, attempting to capture consumer behavioral patterns. Within such segmentation, one...

An increasing number of international tourists visiting Belize in the latter 1980s were venturing into the interior rather than just staying at the cays and coastal resorts. This research indicated that 13 165 tourists stayed in the Western Cayo District in 1987, increasing to 14 613 in 1988,...

Tourist vandalism has been a common phenomenon in different countries and regions with the rapid development of tourism industry. It is deteriorating the quality of recreational environment, and hazarding the safety. Current research implied that the unified understanding of the concept of...