To buy or not to buy? The effect of time scarcity and travel experience on tourists' impulse buying

Chunxiao Li, Yuting Wang, Xingyang Lv and Hui Li

Annals of Tourism Research, 2021, vol. 86, issue C

Abstract: By its very nature, tourism is a temporary experience. But how time scarcity makes an impact on tourists' impulse buying is still unclear. By looking into the role played by travel experience and overconfidence, this study explores the mechanism behind the influence of time scarcity on tourist impulse buying of local products through an integrated series of experiments together with a post-trip survey. The results show that the interaction between time scarcity and travel experience affects impulse buying. For tourists with rich travel experience, time scarcity increases their impulse buying, while for tourists with less travel experience, time scarcity decreases it. Overconfidence plays a mediating role in the effect of time scarcity and travel experience on tourists' impulse buying.

Keywords: Travel experience; Overconfidence; Time scarcity; Impulse buying (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2020.103083

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