The Transit Tourists in Hong Kong
Tourism and Hospitality Management
ISBN: 978-1-78635-714-4, eISBN: 978-1-78635-713-7
Publication date: 15 September 2016
Abstract
This chapter aims to identify the characteristics of transit tourists in Hong Kong. It shows that the USA, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and India are the major generating regions of transit tourists. Transit tourists have more than 10 hours of transit-wait at the Hong Kong International Airport before connecting flights to the destination regions. Significant differences exist in travel and trip-breaking patterns among transit tourists from different generating regions. This study not only provides insights on the spatial movement of transit tourists but also serves as a prologue to future discussions on transit tourism, an emerging phenomenon of urban tourism.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Vigor Tours of Hong Kong for the dataset of the Hong Kong Transit Tour, without which, this study could not have been conducted.
Citation
Min Poon, P.C. and McKercher, B. (2016), "The Transit Tourists in Hong Kong", Tourism and Hospitality Management (Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 31-46. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1871-317320160000012004
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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