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Cross‐cultural tourist behaviour: a replication and extension involving Hofstede's uncertainty avoidance dimension
Author(s) -
Litvin Stephen W.,
Crotts John C.,
Hefner Frank L.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of tourism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.155
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1522-1970
pISSN - 1099-2340
DOI - 10.1002/jtr.468
Subject(s) - uncertainty avoidance , hofstede's cultural dimensions theory , dimension (graph theory) , tourism , sample (material) , german , psychology , cross cultural , replication (statistics) , social psychology , population , sociology , statistics , economics , geography , mathematics , demography , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography , individualism , anthropology , pure mathematics , market economy , collectivism
Hofstede's five cross‐cultural dimensions have been broadly applied in the literature. Money and Crotts recently applied the dimension of uncertainty avoidance to a matched sample comprised of low uncertainty avoidance German and high uncertainty avoidance Japanese tourists, finding their behaviours consistent with those behaviours predicted by Hofstede. This study both replicates and extends their research across a representative sample of first time leisure visitors to the USA representing 58 nations. It was found that visitors from high uncertainty avoidance cultures exhibited behaviours consistent with those of the Japanese in the Money and Crotts research, whereas visitors from low‐uncertainty avoidance cultures behaved similarly to their German subjects. Such findings, across a broad sample population, validate the original research through a more rigorous test of its propositions, provide increased confidence regarding their generalisability, and further contribute to our understanding of the influence of national culture on tourist behaviour. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley &Sons, Ltd.