Purpose – This paper has two main aims: to show responses like yes or very likely for inbound visitors returning to a destination can lead to misleading and unreliable information; and to clarify the kind of information that should be collected. Design/methodology/approach – Responses from...

Purpose – The article's aim is to provide an overview of articles in this issue. Design/methodology/approach – The article gives summary information and perspectives on the articles that appear in the issue and provides information helping readers. Findings – The article first discusses...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the seven articles on festival and events research in this special issue of IJCTHR . Design/methodology/approach – The article gives summary information and perspectives on the articles that appear in the issue. Findings – This paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to learn about data structures in relation to decisions about family travel being influenced by sellers (i.e. agents), spouses/partners, spouse, kids and friends/relatives (i.e. influencing units). Concern is with units affecting decisions about duration,...

Purpose – This study seeks to examine the motivational and socio‐demographic characteristics of meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) visitors to Taiwan in order to identify salient market subgroups or segments. The aim is to establish results with relevance to Asian...

Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to draw implications about simultaneous consideration of demographics, preferences and attitudes in understanding travel behavior decision criteria. Design/methodology/approach – Convenience sampling was used to collect data. In 2006 university...

Purpose – Data collection from inbound tourists is a repetitive activity. This paper's main purpose is to show that, unless something useful about the nature of change is being established, repetitious collection of data from, for example, inbound visitors results in ineffective accumulation...