• DocumentCode
    2230833
  • Title

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

  • Author

    Tu, C.C. ; Liou, D.Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Ind. Educ.&Technol., Nat. Changhua Univ. of Educ., Changhua, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    8-11 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1961
  • Lastpage
    1965
  • Abstract
    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.

    Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

    "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.
  • Keywords
    consumer behaviour; retailing; travel industry; Taiwan night market; consumer motivation; environmental sanitation; leisure shopping; novelty-seeking; parking issue; product-related attribute; tourism industry; traffic issue; user perception; Cities and towns; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Environmental economics; Law; Licenses; Logistics; Marketing management; Shape; Technology management; environmental sanitation; novelty-seeking tourist night markets;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2008. IEEM 2008. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Singapore
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2629-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEEM.2008.4738214
  • Filename
    4738214