Tourism and Public Transport
(2024) p.301-330- Abstract
Despite the important interrelationships between transport and tourism, research on public transport and tourism remains limited. The role of transport can be generally seen as: an essential/utility of bringing the tourists to tourism destinations and enabling them to move between places at the destinations (transport for tourism); and/or transport that is used as part of the tourism attractions to enrich the tourists’ experiences (transport as tourism). Public transport is usually considered as a basic transport service. Public transport research has also largely focused on the local travel, and there is a need for more knowledge about the specifics of regional public transport. This circumstance raises the question, if public... (More)
Despite the important interrelationships between transport and tourism, research on public transport and tourism remains limited. The role of transport can be generally seen as: an essential/utility of bringing the tourists to tourism destinations and enabling them to move between places at the destinations (transport for tourism); and/or transport that is used as part of the tourism attractions to enrich the tourists’ experiences (transport as tourism). Public transport is usually considered as a basic transport service. Public transport research has also largely focused on the local travel, and there is a need for more knowledge about the specifics of regional public transport. This circumstance raises the question, if public transport is or can become the tourists’ choice for travelling long-haul, especially if more time-consuming or expensive than other transport modes. In this chapter, the authors examine tourist use of public transport at tourism destinations, emphasising the various factors that influence tourists’ travel-transport behaviour, in terms of personal characteristics (socio-demographic and psychographic factors), trip characteristics and public transport attributes.
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- author
- Azman, Inoormaziah ; Jean, Lim Xin ; Hall, C. Michael LU and Prayag, Girish
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism
- edition
- 2nd
- pages
- 30 pages
- publisher
- Wiley
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85206144161
- ISBN
- 9781119753797
- 9781119753742
- DOI
- 10.1002/9781119753797.ch22
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 2f48a914-93c0-4a91-8d90-e2251550ab5c
- date added to LUP
- 2024-12-18 14:17:05
- date last changed
- 2025-07-31 09:05:11
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abstract = {{<p>Despite the important interrelationships between transport and tourism, research on public transport and tourism remains limited. The role of transport can be generally seen as: an essential/utility of bringing the tourists to tourism destinations and enabling them to move between places at the destinations (transport for tourism); and/or transport that is used as part of the tourism attractions to enrich the tourists’ experiences (transport as tourism). Public transport is usually considered as a basic transport service. Public transport research has also largely focused on the local travel, and there is a need for more knowledge about the specifics of regional public transport. This circumstance raises the question, if public transport is or can become the tourists’ choice for travelling long-haul, especially if more time-consuming or expensive than other transport modes. In this chapter, the authors examine tourist use of public transport at tourism destinations, emphasising the various factors that influence tourists’ travel-transport behaviour, in terms of personal characteristics (socio-demographic and psychographic factors), trip characteristics and public transport attributes.</p>}},
author = {{Azman, Inoormaziah and Jean, Lim Xin and Hall, C. Michael and Prayag, Girish}},
booktitle = {{The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism}},
isbn = {{9781119753797}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{301--330}},
publisher = {{Wiley}},
title = {{Tourism and Public Transport}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119753797.ch22}},
doi = {{10.1002/9781119753797.ch22}},
year = {{2024}},
}