Segmenting Chinese Outbound Tourists by Perceived Constraints

Chinese Outbound tourists : Understanding their attitudes , constraints and use of information sources

Segmenting Chinese Tourists by the Expected Experience at Theme Parks Research paper

In this paper, we propose an experiential approach to tourist segmentation aimed at overcoming the limits of both socio-demographic and context-specific approaches widely adopted in the literature and in practice. In this study, segmentation is carried out based upon the expected experiences of Chinese tourists at the Shanghai World Exposition. The segmentation reveals four tourist clusters wit...

Segmenting Chinese Unknown Words by Heuristic Method

Chinese text segmentation is important in Chinese text indexing. Due to the lack of word delimiters in Chinese text, Chinese text segmentation is more difficult than English text segmentation. Besides, the segmentation ambiguities and the occurrences of out-of-vocabulary words (i.e. unknown words) are the major challenges in Chinese segmentation. Many research works dealing with the problem of ...

Ordering the Disordered Subject: A Critique Of Chinese Outbound Tourists as New Zealand Seeks to Become <i>China Ready</i>

Access to the published version may require subscription. Currently, expanding Chinese outbound tourism attracts significant practical research effort utilizing various conceptual approaches in many countries. In this Review Article, J. Zhang and Shelton note that this form of tourism to New Zealand is notably increasing and the nature of the experience is accordingly changing from group coach ...

Segmenting Chinese in Unicode

The automatic segmentation of Chinese text is an ongoing problem in information retrieval (IR) and computational linguistics: “words” in written Chinese are not delimited by spaces so tokenizing (the first phase of many IR tasks) is considerably more difficult than for Western languages. This paper presents an overview of the segmentation problem, detailing previous research into its solution a...