Examining young Malaysians travel behavior and expenditure patterns in domestic tourism

Young travelers, though restricted by relatively low levels of disposable income, are commonly having high interest and leisure time in exploring new destinations.It has been found that young travelers have high expectations regarding the importance of value for money though they have their financia...

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Main Authors: Lim, Khong Chiu, Ramli, Kamal Izzuwan, Yusof, Noor Suhaila, Cheah, Swee Ting
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/16686/1/L2.pdf
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author Lim, Khong Chiu
Ramli, Kamal Izzuwan
Yusof, Noor Suhaila
Cheah, Swee Ting
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description Young travelers, though restricted by relatively low levels of disposable income, are commonly having high interest and leisure time in exploring new destinations.It has been found that young travelers have high expectations regarding the importance of value for money though they have their financial resources available for travelling.Therefore, it has raised questions on the worthiness of carrying out a study about the travel behavior and expenditure patterns among the young travels in Malaysia.The study employed a survey questionnaire to collect data, which was adapted from standardized measures.A total of 643 respondents, which has been randomly selected in the Northern States of Malaysia were involved in the study.The completed questionnaires were analyzed to measure the variables of the study consisted of selected socio-demographic, travel behavior and expenditure patterns.This study found the expenditure patterns of the young travelers vary with regards to the purchase of tourism products.In addition, the results of the study also portrayed the differences of selected travel-related characteristics of young travelers in relation to the motive of travel. Thus, this study may provide information which will help tourism marketers to develop marketing tools to satisfy and fulfill those young tourists’ needs, and understand certain reasons behind their spending patterns.
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spelling uum-166862016-01-03T07:01:51Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/16686/ Examining young Malaysians travel behavior and expenditure patterns in domestic tourism Lim, Khong Chiu Ramli, Kamal Izzuwan Yusof, Noor Suhaila Cheah, Swee Ting GV Recreation Leisure Young travelers, though restricted by relatively low levels of disposable income, are commonly having high interest and leisure time in exploring new destinations.It has been found that young travelers have high expectations regarding the importance of value for money though they have their financial resources available for travelling.Therefore, it has raised questions on the worthiness of carrying out a study about the travel behavior and expenditure patterns among the young travels in Malaysia.The study employed a survey questionnaire to collect data, which was adapted from standardized measures.A total of 643 respondents, which has been randomly selected in the Northern States of Malaysia were involved in the study.The completed questionnaires were analyzed to measure the variables of the study consisted of selected socio-demographic, travel behavior and expenditure patterns.This study found the expenditure patterns of the young travelers vary with regards to the purchase of tourism products.In addition, the results of the study also portrayed the differences of selected travel-related characteristics of young travelers in relation to the motive of travel. Thus, this study may provide information which will help tourism marketers to develop marketing tools to satisfy and fulfill those young tourists’ needs, and understand certain reasons behind their spending patterns. 2015-04-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/16686/1/L2.pdf Lim, Khong Chiu and Ramli, Kamal Izzuwan and Yusof, Noor Suhaila and Cheah, Swee Ting (2015) Examining young Malaysians travel behavior and expenditure patterns in domestic tourism. In: The 2015 International Academic Research Conference, 12-15 April 2015, Paris, France. http://www.ijbts-journal.com/images/column_1451620023/Proceeding%20Full%20Paper%20Paris.pdf
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Examining young Malaysians travel behavior and expenditure patterns in domestic tourism
title Examining young Malaysians travel behavior and expenditure patterns in domestic tourism
title_full Examining young Malaysians travel behavior and expenditure patterns in domestic tourism
title_fullStr Examining young Malaysians travel behavior and expenditure patterns in domestic tourism
title_full_unstemmed Examining young Malaysians travel behavior and expenditure patterns in domestic tourism
title_short Examining young Malaysians travel behavior and expenditure patterns in domestic tourism
title_sort examining young malaysians travel behavior and expenditure patterns in domestic tourism
topic GV Recreation Leisure
url https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/16686/1/L2.pdf
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