COMPARISON FOR THE EFFECTS OF CHINESE AND WESTERN TOURISTS’ PERCEIVED IMAGES OF FOOD TOURISM FACILITIES ON DESTINATION SELECTION: CASE OF THAILAND’S FOOD TOURISM
Published In: 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT AND HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Author(s): ROJANASAK CHOMVILAILUK , THANATHORN VAJIRAKACHORN
Abstract: his research aims to examine a research problem of which how tourist’s perceived image of Thai street food and/or street-food shop affect foreign tourist’s destination selection. In particular, the tourist’s perceptions are relevant to cleanness, safety, physical characteristics, and social circumstances, cultural identify manner, touristy, and value of money. Quantitative research method was conducted by collecting questionnaires from Chinese and Western tourists at the tourism attraction locations, especially for walking street in the tourism places. Eighty nine Chinese and one hundred and twenty one Western tourists participated in this research. The research results statistically support theoretical aspects and previous research in terms of four perceived factors; cleanness, physical characteristics, social circumstances, and touristy, affecting the tourist’s destination selection. However, the hypothesis tests compared between the Chinese and Western tourist groups are different.
- Publication Date: 11-Oct-2015
- DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-067-5-74
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THE MYTH BEHIND CIVIL SERVICE AS THE MOST POPULAR CAREER IN CHINA
Published In: 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT AND HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Author(s): FRANCIS Y.K. LEUNG , LINA VYAS
Abstract: The China civil service system is always a myth to the outside world. However, the civil service has been becoming more and more popular as a career in China. In the 2013 central level civil servants employing written examination conducted in China, there were a total 1.52 million participants, with a 7192:1 ration for the most popular post. This study aims at analyzing the reasons why the civil service has been becoming a popular career for graduates in China recently. The researchers used a comparative approach to evaluate the civil service reform in China in the past few decades. A questionnaire survey was used to collect data for statistical analysis on what makes the civil service a popular career in China. The research started with a discussion on the history of the civil services in China as the background of the study. The main theme of the research was on a broad questionnaire survey of 521 Chinese civil servants randomly selected by the interviewers in different provinces in
- Publication Date: 11-Oct-2015
- DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-067-5-75
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