Reference Group Influences among Chinese Travelers

By Cathy H. C. Hsu, Soo K. Kang, T. Lam. 2006

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Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Residents as Travel Destination Information Providers: An Online Community Perspective (2010, background): “Hsu, Kang, and Lam (2006) found that family and friends were the most influential reference group regarding decisions made to visit Hong Kong.”
Chinese Outbound tourists: Understanding their attitudes, constraints and use of information sources (2009, methodology): “Based on past research (e.g. Hsu et al. 2006), for potential Chinese tourists, the types of normative pressures are most likely to include that from friends, family, or travel agents.”
Impact of the perceived risk from Covid-19 on intention to travel (2020, background): “Conversely, other authors point to the opinion of relatives or friends and even, albeit to a lesser extent, of travel agents or co-workers (Hsu et al., 2006), as having a strong association with individuals’ intention to travel (Martin et al., 2011).”
Planning a wine tourism vacation? Factors that help to predict tourist behavioural intentions (2007, unknown): “Similarly, Hsu, Kang & Lam (2006) demonstrate support for the importance of reference group influences in travel behaviour.”
Predicting the travel intention to take High Speed Rail among college students (2010, result): “In accordance with the findings of Hsu, Kang, and Lam (2006) that the reference group has an influence on travel behavior, Lam and Hsu (2006) found subjective norm (SN) to be an important factor influencing Taiwanese tourists’ intentions to visit Hong Kong.”