Individual differences in the tourist wayfinding decision making process

Wayfinding is an important aspect that should be considered by tourist park managers when allocating resources and facilities to aid tourists navigating their way through a park. This paper discusses the influence of individual differences such as age, gender, travel group, and familiarity with the...

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Main Authors: Abdul Khanan, M.F., Xia, Jianhong (Cecilia)
Other Authors: John Shi
Format: Conference Paper
Published: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 2010
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Online Access:http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/xxxviii/part2/Papers/22_Paper.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11105
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author Abdul Khanan, M.F.
Xia, Jianhong (Cecilia)
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Abdul Khanan, M.F.
Xia, Jianhong (Cecilia)
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description Wayfinding is an important aspect that should be considered by tourist park managers when allocating resources and facilities to aid tourists navigating their way through a park. This paper discusses the influence of individual differences such as age, gender, travel group, and familiarity with the environment towards the wayfinding decision making process and physical movement. A case study was conducted where respondents’ movements were traced using GPS receivers to look at the movement patterns and at the end, they were asked to complete a questionnaire particularly to determine the individual differences. The spatial and attribute data were analysed using ESRI ArcGIS Tracking Analyst and ET Geowizards. SPSS 17 were used for statistical purposes. As a result, in terms of decision making, specific landmarks and strategies were noticed for specified age, gender, travel group, and familiarity with the environment. Furthermore, correlations were found between gender and familiarity with the environment with the physical movement such as direction, distance, and arrival time. This paper highlights the need for tourist managers to understand that tourists use different methods of wayfinding and produce different results based on different individual differences and that management should provide complementary materials to assist in wayfinding.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-111052017-10-02T02:27:29Z Individual differences in the tourist wayfinding decision making process Abdul Khanan, M.F. Xia, Jianhong (Cecilia) John Shi wayfinding physical movement individual differences tourism GPS decision making GIS Wayfinding is an important aspect that should be considered by tourist park managers when allocating resources and facilities to aid tourists navigating their way through a park. This paper discusses the influence of individual differences such as age, gender, travel group, and familiarity with the environment towards the wayfinding decision making process and physical movement. A case study was conducted where respondents’ movements were traced using GPS receivers to look at the movement patterns and at the end, they were asked to complete a questionnaire particularly to determine the individual differences. The spatial and attribute data were analysed using ESRI ArcGIS Tracking Analyst and ET Geowizards. SPSS 17 were used for statistical purposes. As a result, in terms of decision making, specific landmarks and strategies were noticed for specified age, gender, travel group, and familiarity with the environment. Furthermore, correlations were found between gender and familiarity with the environment with the physical movement such as direction, distance, and arrival time. This paper highlights the need for tourist managers to understand that tourists use different methods of wayfinding and produce different results based on different individual differences and that management should provide complementary materials to assist in wayfinding. 2010 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11105 http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/xxxviii/part2/Papers/22_Paper.pdf The Hong Kong Polytechnic University restricted
spellingShingle wayfinding
physical movement
individual differences
tourism
GPS
decision making
GIS
Abdul Khanan, M.F.
Xia, Jianhong (Cecilia)
Individual differences in the tourist wayfinding decision making process
title Individual differences in the tourist wayfinding decision making process
title_full Individual differences in the tourist wayfinding decision making process
title_fullStr Individual differences in the tourist wayfinding decision making process
title_full_unstemmed Individual differences in the tourist wayfinding decision making process
title_short Individual differences in the tourist wayfinding decision making process
title_sort individual differences in the tourist wayfinding decision making process
topic wayfinding
physical movement
individual differences
tourism
GPS
decision making
GIS
url http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/xxxviii/part2/Papers/22_Paper.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11105