Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesJapanese tourists’ perceptions of shopping at Taiwan Night Markets

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Japanese Tourists\´ Perceptions of Shopping at Taiwan Night Markets"
by C.C. Tu and D.Y. Liou
in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), Dec. 2008, pp.1961-1965

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

This paper contains substantial duplication of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

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"Shopping and Tourist Night Markets in Taiwan"
by An-Tien Hsieh and Janet Chang
In Tourism Management, Vol 27, 2006, Elsevier, pp. 138-145

From theoretical viewpoints, analyses of consumer motivation have been applied to the shopping and the tourism industry for decades. The objectives of this study are to understand tourists\´ motivations and their preferred leisure activities when they shop in tourist night markets. The unit of analysis is the Japanese tourist. According to the research results, novelty-seeking, experiencing local culture and customs are the major factors that motivate Japanese to shop in tourist night markets. The results also reveal that product-related attributes and novelty-seeking are significant tourist perceptions of leisure shopping. Existing problems in Taiwan tourist night markets perceived by Japanese tourists are environmental sanitation, parking and traffic issues. On the whole, Japanese tourists had the most negative image on environment amenities of Taiwan tourism night market whe- her they visited or not.