{"id":10593,"date":"2016-11-18T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T09:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2016-11-18T09:54:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T09:54:03","slug":"relationship-between-weather-and-tourist-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/relationship-between-weather-and-tourist-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationship between weather and tourist behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">A researcher team led at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) evaluated the impact of weather changes on tourists\u2019 behaviour and their level of satisfaction while visiting Hong Kong.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10594\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg\" alt=\"4009\" width=\"618\" height=\"369\" title=\"\"><\/a>A researcher team led by Prof. Bob McKercher at the School of Hotel and Tourism Management evaluated the impact of weather changes on tourists\u2019 behaviour and their level of satisfaction while visiting Hong Kong. The team conducted an investigation over a 57-day period in summer, studying tourists\u2019 intended activities, whether the weather changes had affected their plans as well as their understanding, perceptions and experiences on different weather conditions. During the investigation period, the tourists had experienced rains and thunderstorms, hot weather and typhoon warnings.<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\">Results showed that more than 50% of the tourists considered the weather in Hong Kong uncomfortable. Around 60% of them had checked the weather forecast before going out. Only about 25% of them had changed their plans because of unfavourable weather, such as extreme hot weather or heavy rains. However, tourists were still very active regardless of the weather fluctuations encountered. They spent an average of seven hours outdoors and visited or went past some eight places. Despite this, unfavourable weather did affect visitors\u2019 satisfaction in the visiting places.<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\">In conclusion, tourists are highly adaptable regardless of weather fluctuations. They would look for indoor activities to stay away from heat and rains.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A researcher team led at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) evaluated the impact of weather changes on tourists\u2019 behaviour and their level of satisfaction while visiting Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>4009A researcher team led by Prof. Bob McKercher at the School of Hotel and Tourism Management evaluated the impact of weather changes on tourists\u2019 behaviour and their level of satisfaction while visiting Hong Kong. The team conducted an investigation over a 57-day period in summer, studying tourists\u2019 intended activities, whether the weather changes had affected their plans as well as their understanding, perceptions and experiences on different weather conditions. During the investigation period, the tourists had experienced rains and thunderstorms, hot weather and typhoon warnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009-300x176.jpg",300,176,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",95,56,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",544,320,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",96,56,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4009.jpg",150,88,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/environment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Environment<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/research\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}