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Chinese Visitors at Australia Wineries: Preferences, Motivations, and Barriers School of Economics & Business Department of Organisation Management, Marketing and Tourism Emily (Jintao) Ma, Bob Duan, Lavender (Mengya) Shu & Charles Arcodia Full Paper — Published Version Chinese visitors at Australia wineries: Preferences, motivations, and barrier Journal of Tourism, Heritage & Services Marketing Suggested Citation: Ma, E.J., Duan, B., Shu, L.M. & Arcodia, C. (2017). Chinese visitors at Australia wineries: Preferences, motivations, and barrier. Journal of Tourism, Heritage & Services Marketing, ISSN 2529-1947, Vol. 3, Iss. 1, pp. 3-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.401062 Persistent identifier (URN): https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-67075-7 Όροι χρήσης: Terms of use: Το παρόν έγγραφο μπορεί να αποθηκευτεί και να αναπαραχθεί για This document may be saved and copied for your personal and προσωπική και ακαδημαϊκή χρήση. scholarly purposes. 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This material cannot be remixed, transformed, αναδιανομή του για εμπορικούς σκοπούς. build upon, or used for commercial purposes. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ www.jthsm.gr Journal of Tourism, Heritage & Services Marketing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 3-8, 2017 3 Chinese visitors at Australia wineries: Preferences, motivations, and barriers Emily (Jintao) Ma University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Bob Duan Griffith University, Australia Lavender (Mengya) Shu University of Queensland, Australia Charles Arcodia Griffith University, Australia Abstract: China has become Australia’s most important source market and there are growing number of visitors participated in wine tourism. Using in-depth interviews, the study looked into Chinese tourists’ preferences, motivations and barriers to participate in wineries tours in Australia. The study enriched to literature on wine tourism. It offered practical implications for wineries and destinations to better understand and accommodate Chinese wine tourists’ needs and preferences. Keywords: Wine Tourism, Chinese Visitors, Preferences, Motivations, Barriers JEL Classification: L83, M1, O1 Biographical note: Emily (Jintao) Ma is associate professor at the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management of University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Bob Duan is doctoral researcher at the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management of Griffith University, Australia. Lavender (Mengya) Shu holds a doctorate from University of Queensland, Australia. Charles Arcodia is associate professor at the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management of Griffith University, Australia. Corresponding author: Emily (Jintao) Ma, e-mail: [email protected] 1 INTRODUCTION cellar door sales (Pratt & Sparks, 2014). Despite the popularity of wines, wine tourism with international visitors Wine tourism has been studied and characterized as a form of has been slow (Tourism Research Australia, 2013). cultural tourism and a type of special-interest tourism China has become Australia’s second largest market for (Charters and Ali-Knight, 2002; Frochot, 2000).Wine tourist arrivals and ranked first in terms of total expenditure tourism refers to tourists visiting vineyards with the primary (Tourism Australia, 2014). Chinese visitors are seeking a purpose of tasting or experiencing wine and wine related wider range of tourism experiences and wine tourism is activities (Hall et al., 2002). Wine tourism is value-adding progressively popular among Chinese tourists (Edgar, 2014). because it integrates grape growing, wine making, cellar door This creates an avenue for the growth of the Australian wine sales, food and beverage, accommodation and tours and tourism sector. The market is huge and has great potential to forms a complete set of tourism experiences (Carlson & grow because of the following reasons. First of all, China has Dowling, 2001). Australia has more than two thousand wine become the top six wine-consuming countries and wine businesses and the wine industry generates more than four consumption in China is expected to grow at a rate that is billion revenue every year (Australia Bureau of Statistics, seven-time of the global average (Qiu et al., 2013). Second, 2012). Wine tourism plays a vital role for Australian Chinese people recognize health benefits of wine (Qiu et al., wineries, whose sales are largely dependent on visitors and 2013). Third, Chinese people consider wine drinking as an Copyright © 200 © 2017 Authors. Published by Alexander T.E.I. of Thessaloniki Some rights reserved. ISSN: 2529-1947. UDC: 658.8+338.48+339.1+640(05) Except otherwise noted, this work is licensed under http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.41062 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Published online: 27 March 2017 4 Emily (Jintao) Ma, Bob Duan, Lavender (Mengya) Shu & Charles Arcodia indication of higher education levels and social status (Liu & 2.2 Chinese visitors to Australia and the wine tourism Murphy, 2007), therefore, most Chinese tourists consider segment wine, particularly foreign wines as a suitable gift option for China is Australia’s second largest inbound market in terms social purpose. of visitor arrivals (7.18 million for the year ending August Wine tourism is an emerging field of study in the tourism 2015) and ranked first in terms of total expenditure (Tourism marketing literature. As an emerging field of study, Chinese Australia, 2014). Chinese visitors are seeking a wider range travellers’ wine tourism experiences have not received of tourism experiences and wine tourism has recently become enough attention in Australian contexts (Qiu et al., 2013; popular (Edgar, 2014). Despite positive attitude toward Camillo, 2012). This has left important research gaps foreign wines, the majority of Chinese consumers have (Carlsen & Dowling, 2001). Given the growing importance limited knowledge about wine. Given the historical of the Chinese market to Australian tourism industry, it is dominating status of European wines, researchers suggest time to pay more attention to Chinese travellers’ wine that most Chinese consumers consider that best wines are tourism experience in Australia. This study aims to explore produced in Europe (Qiu et al., 2013). In 2013, 5.1 million and understand Chinese tourists’ perception toward the wine overnight food and wine visitors travelled to Australia and tourism experience in Australia. Specifically, the study will 14% (232,600) of them were Chinese (Tourism Australia, explore Chinese visitors’ preferences, motivations and major 2014). Wineries provide ideal contexts for Chinese visitors to barriers of participating in wine tourism. The study will make experience and learn about Australian wines. It can also significant theoretical contribution in the wine tourism and provide opportunities to understand Chinese visitors’ consumer behaviour literature. Moreover, the findings of the preferences and experiences with wine tourism, which is study can offer empirical recommendations to Australia’s critically important in developing this market, because wine industry and tourism industry to better accommodate current only 4% of Chinese travellers in Australia visited Chinese wine tourists’ need. wineries (Tourism Australia, 2014). This suggests great potential to promote Australian wines to Chinese travellers using winery. Meanwhile areas of improvements could be 2 LITERATURE REVIEW identified. We can take actions to make wineries sustainable yet effective promotional tools/sites for Australia’s wine 2.1 Wine and wine tourism in China - past and present industry. The history of wine in China can trace back to more than two 2.3 Motivations, preferences and barriers thousand years ago (Duan, Arcodia, & Ma). The first modern Wine tourists want more from their wine destination th wine factory was set up in the late 19 century and in a bit experience than just to purchase wines. They desire quality th over one century’s time, China has become the 8 wine offerings; attractions, including cultural, recreational, retail production country in the world. China is also the 5th largest th choices; and a rural, wine region landscape to enjoy (Brown wine consumption country and ranked 4 in wine importing et al., 2006; Bruwer & Alant, 2009; Cohen & Ben-Nun, 2009; (Vinexpo, 2015). Red wine comprised more than 90% of Dawson et al., 2011; Galloway et al., 2008; Getz & Brown, wines consumed in China. French is the largest wine 2006; Park et al., 2008; Martins, 2016). Charters (2006, p. importing countries to China (14,500,000 boxes), followed 214) also suggested that wine tourists seek an experience that by Australia (4,100,000 boxes). China has been the fastest ‘is a complex interaction of natural setting, wine, food, growing exporting market for Australian wine for the past 10 cultural, and historical inputs and above all the people who years, accounting about 5.4%
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