Abstract
Travel significantly affects tourism and tourist satisfaction. Better tourism transport provision is essential to sustainable mobility and smart tourism. Knowing why tourists prefer specific travel alternatives is therefore important. Travel needs several trip stages over tourism space. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) offers alternatives to traveling to tourist attractions through various trip stages. The paper aims to show the relationships of the tourist preference for tourism travel alternatives represented as MaaS portfolios with MaaS provision of tourism destinations. To this end, the paper analyzes conjoint choices of tourism travel portfolios using a mixed logit model, evaluates the resultant willingness to pay (WTP)-based travel service preferences for 10 locally most visited cities of Korea, and compares the evaluations with the physical levels of MaaS provision of those cities. The preference for travel is found unique for tourism, and the tourists' evaluation of travel services has subtle differences from the MaaS provision level.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 103263 |
Journal | Information Processing and Management |
Volume | 60 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 May |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) grant funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (No. RS-2022-00143647). The authors also thank the Division of Tourism Transport of the Korea Tourism Organization for allowing the use of the conjoint survey data collected for this research.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) grant funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (No. RS-2022-00143647 ). The authors also thank the Division of Tourism Transport of the Korea Tourism Organization for allowing the use of the conjoint survey data collected for this research.
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Information Systems
- Media Technology
- Computer Science Applications
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Library and Information Sciences