Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area

Melaka City has been designated as UNESCO World Heritage site since 2008 that offers authentic heritage and cultural attractions to tourists worldwide. The study explores the domestic and inbound tourists spending pattern and its socio-demographic effects to the expenditure pattern in the Melaka Her...

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Main Authors:	Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir, Mohamed Osman, Mariana, Bachok, Syahriah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) NA4170 Public buildings
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/5/SOSHUM_2016.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/9/50543_program.pdf

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spelling	iium-505432016-06-30T06:16:31Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/ Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah H Social Sciences (General) NA4170 Public buildings Melaka City has been designated as UNESCO World Heritage site since 2008 that offers authentic heritage and cultural attractions to tourists worldwide. The study explores the domestic and inbound tourists spending pattern and its socio-demographic effects to the expenditure pattern in the Melaka Heritage area. 1000 diary record surveys were collected from domestic and inbound tourists and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the research hypothesis. Socio-demographic characteristics including age, marital status, occupation, education level, first-time and repeat visit were found to significantly affect domestic tourism expenditure while only age, marital status and purpose of visit were found to significantly affect inbound tourism expenditure. 2016-04-19 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/5/SOSHUM_2016.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/9/50543_program.pdf Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir and Mohamed Osman, Mariana and Bachok, Syahriah (2016) Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area. In: 2016 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (SOSHUM 2016), 19th–21st April 2016, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. (Unpublished) https://soshum.com/
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spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) NA4170 Public buildings Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area
description	Melaka City has been designated as UNESCO World Heritage site since 2008 that offers authentic heritage and cultural attractions to tourists worldwide. The study explores the domestic and inbound tourists spending pattern and its socio-demographic effects to the expenditure pattern in the Melaka Heritage area. 1000 diary record surveys were collected from domestic and inbound tourists and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the research hypothesis. Socio-demographic characteristics including age, marital status, occupation, education level, first-time and repeat visit were found to significantly affect domestic tourism expenditure while only age, marital status and purpose of visit were found to significantly affect inbound tourism expenditure.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah
author_facet	Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah
author_sort	Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir
title	Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area
title_short	Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area
title_full	Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area
title_fullStr	Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area
title_full_unstemmed	Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area
title_sort	socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in melaka unesco world heritage area
publishDate	2016
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/5/SOSHUM_2016.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/50543/9/50543_program.pdf
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Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area

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