Young Malaysians' travel lifestyles and intentions: The moderating effects of personal characteristics and perceived risks

The young travellers' segment is an emerging market for the travel and hospitality industry.However, the negligence in this lucrative market segment has caused failure in collecting statistics as well as having specific marketing plans and policies by most countries including Malaysia.In addit...

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Main Authors: Cheah, Swee Ting, Lim, Khong Chiu, Kayat, Kalsom
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Language:English
Published: 2012
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spelling my.uum.repo.79822013-05-23T04:23:25Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/7982/ Young Malaysians' travel lifestyles and intentions: The moderating effects of personal characteristics and perceived risks Cheah, Swee Ting Lim, Khong Chiu Kayat, Kalsom GV Recreation Leisure The young travellers' segment is an emerging market for the travel and hospitality industry.However, the negligence in this lucrative market segment has caused failure in collecting statistics as well as having specific marketing plans and policies by most countries including Malaysia.In addition, there is very little study conducted regarding travelling activities among young Malaysians.This paper focuses on the travel lifestyles and intentions of young Malaysians in travelling overseas.Personal characteristics and perceived risks are examined to study their moderating effects on the relationship between travel lifestyles and intentions.Thus, this study targets to remedy the shortcomings of prior research pertaining to young Malaysians' outbound tourism patterns. 2012 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/7982/1/Cheah.pdf Cheah, Swee Ting and Lim, Khong Chiu and Kayat, Kalsom (2012) Young Malaysians' travel lifestyles and intentions: The moderating effects of personal characteristics and perceived risks. In: Tourism and Hospitality International Conference (THIC 2012), 23rd - 24th November 2012, De Palma Ampang Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
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Cheah, Swee Ting
Lim, Khong Chiu
Kayat, Kalsom
Young Malaysians' travel lifestyles and intentions: The moderating effects of personal characteristics and perceived risks
description The young travellers' segment is an emerging market for the travel and hospitality industry.However, the negligence in this lucrative market segment has caused failure in collecting statistics as well as having specific marketing plans and policies by most countries including Malaysia.In addition, there is very little study conducted regarding travelling activities among young Malaysians.This paper focuses on the travel lifestyles and intentions of young Malaysians in travelling overseas.Personal characteristics and perceived risks are examined to study their moderating effects on the relationship between travel lifestyles and intentions.Thus, this study targets to remedy the shortcomings of prior research pertaining to young Malaysians' outbound tourism patterns.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Cheah, Swee Ting
Lim, Khong Chiu
Kayat, Kalsom
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Lim, Khong Chiu
Kayat, Kalsom
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title Young Malaysians' travel lifestyles and intentions: The moderating effects of personal characteristics and perceived risks
title_short Young Malaysians' travel lifestyles and intentions: The moderating effects of personal characteristics and perceived risks
title_full Young Malaysians' travel lifestyles and intentions: The moderating effects of personal characteristics and perceived risks
title_fullStr Young Malaysians' travel lifestyles and intentions: The moderating effects of personal characteristics and perceived risks
title_full_unstemmed Young Malaysians' travel lifestyles and intentions: The moderating effects of personal characteristics and perceived risks
title_sort young malaysians' travel lifestyles and intentions: the moderating effects of personal characteristics and perceived risks
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