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The choice of travel destinations is the key issue of traveling decision-making of tourists. This paper studies tourist's destination choice behavior. Tourists travel behavior survey conducted in eight parks which located in Beijing area. In order to analyze travel behavior of tourists, the authors investigated 633 tourists using questionnaire survey in Beijing. Four motivation factors were extracted form 22 items and four categories of tourists were classified according to the four motivation dimensions. This paper proves that tourist motivation significantly affects their behavior of travel destination choice by building a two- step model which includes variables of motivation types. In addition, it is revealed that the impact of distance is significantly varied in the two different stages. The model has high accuracy, and this study provides a theoretical basis for further study on destination choice behavior.
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Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology
ISSN: 1009-6744
Year: 2014
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Page: 175-180
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