Developing a tourism cultural contact scale

Jürgen Gnoth and Andreas H. Zins

Journal of Business Research, 2013, vol. 66, issue 6, 738-744

Abstract: The authors conceptualize ‘interest in the other’ as cultural tourism's focal issue. Using an involvement level taxonomy, this study stratifies cultural tourism and applies McKercher and DuCros (2002) cultural visitor categories to predict tourist activities. This exploratory study includes 250 tourists from 20 nationalities and focuses on visitor interest to engage with Maori culture in New Zealand. The results demonstrate qualitative trustworthiness and quantitative validity. Both Guttman (1944, 1950) scale qualities and the factor statistics indicate a successful development of a measurement instrument that bridges the emic/etic divide between cultures.

Keywords: Guttman scale; Segmentation; Involvement; Cultural tourism; Tourism Culture Contact Scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.09.012

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