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, Ibrahim, Mansor
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Published:	American Scientific Publishers 2017
Subjects:	G Geography (General) H Social Sciences (General)
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spelling	iium-575742018-03-06T07:26:05Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/57574/ Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Ibrahim, Mansor G Geography (General) H Social Sciences (General) 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. © 2017 American Scientific Publishers. All rights reserved American Scientific Publishers 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57574/13/57574_socio%20demographic%20variation%20on%20tourism.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57574/14/57574_socio%20demographic%20variation%20on%20tourism_scopus.pdf Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir and Mohamed Osman, Mariana and Bachok, Syahriah and Ibrahim, Mansor (2017) Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area. Advanced Science Letters, 23 (4). pp. 2958-2961. ISSN 1936-6612 E-ISSN 1936-7317 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/article?option2=author&value2=Amir%2c+Syakir&pageSize=10&index=1 10.1166/asl.2017.7618
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spellingShingle	G Geography (General) H Social Sciences (General) Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Ibrahim, Mansor 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. © 2017 American Scientific Publishers. All rights reserved
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author	Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Ibrahim, Mansor
author_facet	Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Ibrahim, Mansor
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
publisher	American Scientific Publishers
publishDate	2017
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Socio-demographic variation on tourism expenditure in Melaka UNESCO world heritage area

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