This study was conducted to theoretically develop by out-bound tourist's behavior process of package tour. It explained perceived risk of tourist throughout researching difference by each level based on between tourist's before and after travel experi...
This study was conducted to theoretically develop by out-bound tourist's behavior process of package tour. It explained perceived risk of tourist throughout researching difference by each level based on between tourist's before and after travel experience. It offers an integrated approach to understand tourist motivation and attempts to extend empirical evidence on the causal relationships among the push and pull motivation, perceived risk, and travel typology.
A total of 441 usable surveys were collected from randomly selected out-bound travelers to North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. Four hypotheses were proposed and tested by SPSS 12.0 and LIMDEP 8.0 for the descriptive, the factor analysis, the reliability analysis, the multinomial logistic analysis, the discriminant analysis, the paired t-test analysis, the canonical analysis, and the one-way ANOVA analysis.
The proposed hypotheses are attempted to identify: the impact of push and pull factor on travel typology choice, the impact of perceived risk on travel motivation and travel typology choice, the difference in perceived risk level according to tourist's behavior, the impact of travel typology on traveler's behavior.
The results of this study indicates that hypotheses pertaining to objectives one showed that push and pull factors were significantly varied on travel typology choice and objective two exposed pre-perceived risk was significant between travel motivation and travel typology choice. Results of the hypothesis tests pertaining to objective three appeared that the differences between pre-perceived risk and perceived risk after travel were significant. It was significant that the effect of tourist behavior had differences from pre-perceived risk and perceived risk after travel. The result of testing hypothesis pertaining to objective four showed the impact of travel behavior on travel typology chosen by traveler which were significant.
This study showed that the push motivation separated from the pull motivation determines the travel typology choice. This study revealed and confirmed the existence of the critical relationship among push and pull motivations, perceived risk, and travel typology choice. This finding suggested that it would be worthwhile for travel agency to make greater investments in their travel typology choice resources, in order to continue to enhance experiences.