Chinese Outbound tourists: Understanding their attitudes, constraints and use of information sources

Tourism Management

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 483-494

  Sparks, Beverley ^a   Pan, Grace Wen ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ACNielsen   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Chinese outbound tourists; Information sources; Theory of planned behaviour; Travel constraints

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; INTERNET; MEDIA ROLE; TELEVISION; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANGHAI;

EID: 67349175264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2008.10.014     Document Type: Article

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