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Desire For Experiential Travel, Avoidance Of Rituality And Social Esteem: An Empirical Study Of Consumer Response To Tourism Innovation, Winnie Wing Yin Chan, Chester K.M. To, Alice Wai Ching Chu Jan 2016

Desire For Experiential Travel, Avoidance Of Rituality And Social Esteem: An Empirical Study Of Consumer Response To Tourism Innovation, Winnie Wing Yin Chan, Chester K.M. To, Alice Wai Ching Chu

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

This study investigates tourist consumption responses toward tourism innovation. To measure tourist responses, this study posits three key consumption drivers, namely social esteem, desire for experiential travel, and avoidance against rituality of tourism settings (a subscale of need for uniqueness) and models consumers’ affective response within the context of tourism innovation. It involves 295 respondents in an empirical survey. The findings affirm the three drivers toward tourist consumption behavior. Avoidance of rituality reflects tourist preference toward tourism product and service innovation. Desire for experiential travel and the pursuit of social esteem signify tourism management and marketing innovation. Social esteem, need …


Repeated Planning Applications By Developers Under Statutory Zoning: A Hong Kong Case Study Of Delays And Design Improvements In Private Residential Development, Lawrence W.C. Lai, Daniel Chi Wing Ho, K.W. Chau, Mark H. Chua Jan 2016

Repeated Planning Applications By Developers Under Statutory Zoning: A Hong Kong Case Study Of Delays And Design Improvements In Private Residential Development, Lawrence W.C. Lai, Daniel Chi Wing Ho, K.W. Chau, Mark H. Chua

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

Delays in obtaining development approvals have been advanced as a major reason for shortages if not also increase in cost of housing. This paper is the first systematic attempt to examine whether the apparently long period of time taken to obtaining statutory planning permissions by developers for major development projects under Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) zoning is due to Town Planning Board rejections or developers’ strategy to hoard land or improve building design. Publicly available Town Planning Board data obtained from the Planning Department, property transaction records kept by the Land Registry, property market statistics released by the Rating and …