IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/sgc/wpaper/107.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Chinese Are Coming – An Analysis Of The Preferences Of Chinese Holiday Makers At Home And Abroad

Author

Listed:
  • Maren A. Lau
  • Richard S.J. Tol

    (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin)

Abstract

We analyse the destination choice of Chinese tourists in China and abroad. Abroad, Chinese tourists prefer to travel to large and rich countries, and are little deterred by distance. Climate, coast, culture and political stability are irrelevant. Chinese tourists travel disproportionally to “approved destinations”, but this is being eroded as more countries acquire this status. The model predicts that Southeast Asian countries are harmed most by the extension of the ADS system, while North America suffers most from being excluded. Domestically, Chinese tourists prefer rich and densely population areas, but dislike cities. They value easy access by road and rail, and are attracted by nature. Cultural attractions are less important, and may even reduce tourist numbers. Although potential tourist numbers are large, tourist operators should not assume that Chinese tourists behave like other tourists.

Suggested Citation

  • Maren A. Lau & Richard S.J. Tol, 2006. "The Chinese Are Coming – An Analysis Of The Preferences Of Chinese Holiday Makers At Home And Abroad," Working Papers FNU-107, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Oct 2006.
    • Handle: RePEc:sgc:wpaper:107
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.fnu.zmaw.de/fileadmin/fnu-files/publication/working-papers/chinatourism2wp.pdf
    File Function: First version, 2006
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jacqueline M. Hamilton & Maten A. Lau, 2004. "The Role Of Climate Information In Tourist Destination Choice Decision-Making," Working Papers FNU-56, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Nov 2004.
    2. Chen, Weiqi & Hong, Huasheng & Liu, Yan & Zhang, Luoping & Hou, Xiaofeng & Raymond, Mark, 2004. "Recreation demand and economic value: An application of travel cost method for Xiamen Island," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 15(4), pages 398-406.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Hajkowicz, Stefan, 2006. "Taking a closer look at multiple criteria analysis and economic evaluation," 2006 Conference (50th), February 8-10, 2006, Sydney, Australia 139785, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    2. -, 2010. "The impact of climate change on the tourism sector in the Caribbean," Sede Subregional de la CEPAL para el Caribe (Estudios e Investigaciones) 38285, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    3. Ghislain Dubois & Jean-Paul Ceron & Stefan Gössling & C. Michael Hall, 2016. "Weather preferences of French tourists: lessons for climate change impact assessment," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 136(2), pages 339-351, May.
    4. Shih-Hao Wang & Meng-Tsung Lee & Pierre-Alexandre Château & Yang-Chi Chang, 2016. "Performance Indicator Framework for Evaluation of Sustainable Tourism in the Taiwan Coastal Zone," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(7), pages 1-13, July.
    5. Ridderstaat, Jorge & Oduber, Marck & Croes, Robertico & Nijkamp, Peter & Martens, Pim, 2014. "Impacts of seasonal patterns of climate on recurrent fluctuations in tourism demand: Evidence from Aruba," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 245-256.
    6. Kai Yin & Sudong Xu & Wenrui Huang & Rui Li & Hong Xiao, 2019. "Modeling beach profile changes by typhoon impacts at Xiamen coast," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 95(3), pages 783-804, February.
    7. -, 2011. "An assessment of the economic impact of climate change on the tourism sector in Aruba," Sede Subregional de la CEPAL para el Caribe (Estudios e Investigaciones) 38616, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    8. Jamie Tratalos & Robert Sugden & Ian Bateman & Jennifer Gill & Andy Jones & David Showler & William Sutherland & Andrew Watkinson, 2013. "The Conflict Between Conservation and Recreation When Visitors Dislike Crowding: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Recreational Beach Users," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 55(3), pages 447-465, July.
    9. Wang, Xuan & Chen, Weiqi & Zhang, Luoping & Jin, Di & Lu, Changyi, 2010. "Estimating the ecosystem service losses from proposed land reclamation projects: A case study in Xiamen," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 69(12), pages 2549-2556, October.
    10. Curtis, Kynda R. & McCluskey, Jill J., 2004. "Impacts of the Westernization of Food Preferences on Medical Costs in China," 2004 Conference (48th), February 11-13, 2004, Melbourne, Australia 58399, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    11. Jones, Thomas E. & Yang, Yang & Yamamoto, Kiyotatsu, 2017. "Assessing the recreational value of world heritage site inscription: A longitudinal travel cost analysis of Mount Fuji climbers," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 67-78.
    12. Jan Špaček & Michaela Antoušková, 2013. "Individual single-site travel cost model for Czech paradise geopark," Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, Mendel University Press, vol. 61(7), pages 2851-2858.
    13. -, 2011. "An assessment of the economic impact of climate change on the tourism sector In Barbados," Sede Subregional de la CEPAL para el Caribe (Estudios e Investigaciones) 38602, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    14. Jeuring, Jelmer & Becken, Susanne, 2013. "Tourists and severe weather – An exploration of the role of ‘Locus of Responsibility’ in protective behaviour decisions," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 37(C), pages 193-202.
    15. Maren A. Lau, 2006. "An analysis of the travel motivation of tourists from the People’s Republic of China," Working Papers FNU-108, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Oct 2006.
    16. -, 2011. "An assessment of the economic impact of climate change on the tourism sector in Curacao," Sede Subregional de la CEPAL para el Caribe (Estudios e Investigaciones) 38617, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    17. Zhipeng Zhu & Weicong Fu & Qunyue Liu, 2021. "Correlation between urbanization and ecosystem services in Xiamen, China," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 101-121, January.
    18. -, 2011. "An assessment of the economic impact of climate change on the tourism sector in Montserrat," Sede Subregional de la CEPAL para el Caribe (Estudios e Investigaciones) 38611, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    19. Hamilton, Jacqueline M., 2007. "Coastal landscape and the hedonic price of accommodation," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 62(3-4), pages 594-602, May.
    20. Hajkowicz, Stefan, 2007. "Allocating scarce financial resources across regions for environmental management in Queensland, Australia," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(2-3), pages 208-216, March.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    International tourism; domestic tourism; China; destination choice;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sgc:wpaper:107. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Uwe Schneider (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/zmhamde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.