Leisure,international retirement migration,and retirement adjustment: insights from the best exotic marigold hotel movies

ABSTRACT

International retirement migration (IRM) is a growing phenomenon linked to increased longevity, early retirement, and improved financial status. Encompassing both travel and leisure experiences, IRM is a topic relevant to both tourism and leisure studies. By analysing the fictional movie series The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) and The Second Best Marigold Hotel (2015) from psychological, gerontological, and sociological theoretical perspectives, this paper examines motivation, goal setting, continuity and change, and identity development in IRM experiences within tourism and leisure contexts. This paper (a) identified motivations for IRM as finance, romantic relationships, social relations, self-esteem, self-fulfilment, and social norms; (b) in turn, time perception and attitude influence IRM emigrants’ priority and emotional fulfilment; (c) innovation extricates IRM emigrants from role loss and facilitates role change; and (d) IRM emigrants experience various identity development processes. A conceptual framework for IRM is proposed that purports to explain the IRM experience process and indicates that such an understanding of IRM should incorporate psychological, gerontological, and sociological perspectives.     

Different but Similar: Social Comparison of Travel Motives Among Tourists

Although previous research suggests that people prefer to think of themselves as being authentic (or individualistic) travellers rather than stereotyped tourists, there have been few studies investigating the external validity of such claim. This paper addresses this research gap by investigating tendencies to dissociate the self from typical tourists in terms of travel motivation. Findings suggest that people perceive their own travel motives to be different from those who they perceive as typical tourists and that these tendencies generalize across people involved in different forms of tourism. This paper discusses the results from a social psychological perspective and provides implications for future research and destination management alike. © 2014 The Authors. International Journal of Tourism Research published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

企业纵向战略联盟动因:一个行业层面的分析

本文以我国22个行业中407家公司为样本,从行业层面对企业纵向战略联盟组建的动因进行了分析.结果表明,行业的成长性对纵向战略联盟的组建显著正相关,行业资本密度、进入壁垒则对纵向战略联盟的组建显著负相关.实证结果显示,行业盈利水平、成本压力与纵向战略联盟的组建影响不大.     

从认知视角看网络语言的生成理据性

任何语言的发展都有其理据性,都是社会发展到一定阶段的必然产物。网络语言的产生是特定时代的产物,它的生成符合年轻人的心理需求,符合语言的经济原则,符合人类思维发展的规律。     

上市动机、投资者情绪与首次公开募股市场收益

文章以发行人筹资收益最大化为假设,对市场热季周期下发行人、承销商与投资人三者之间的博弈过程以及投资者情绪对首次公开募股(IPO)市场定价的影响机制进行研究.研究结果表明,发行人最优发行数量小于市场需求数量、承销商定价低于市场需求价格的目的在于确保发行成功和获取日后收益;投资者高亢的投资情绪可以对IPO市场短期收益正偏和长期收益负偏成为普遍现象进行解释.     

反思与超越：水权交易中公民参与维度的构建

在水权交易中提高公民参与的力度,契合民主社会发展之需要,促进水资源的优化配置。利益博弈是公民参与水权交易主要动因,社会讯息互动、法律制度保障、公民参与精神等的缺失是当前制约公民参与水权交易的现实困境,因而今后应着力进行公民参与的多重建构,具体可在水权交易中引入公共参与的概念并对之进行具体体系构建,从法律和精神两个层面出发,通过全局体系构建模式完善公民参与制度。     

发挥网络平台的作用积极推进政务公开

政务公开网络平台,是依托互联网实现政务公开、满足社会公众服务需求的综合性网络平台。它直接面向社会公众,具有方便快捷、覆盖面广、时效性强和贴进群众生活等特点。积极发挥网络平台的监督作用对于政府管理创新,深化行政管理体制改革,积极推进政务公开,具有十分重要的意义。政府应采取由形象展示向便民服务转变;增加沟通交流,发挥群众的积极性;建立公共信息服务与企业网站的联系体系;加强监督,建立网络平台的保障机制等措施,从而充分发挥网络平台的作用。     

金融创新的动因研究

建立合理的金融创新体系和环境,适时推动金融创新,是我国实现经济社会发展战略的必然选择。本文在国内外相关研究的基础上,系统阐述了金融创新的内在动机和外在条件,并据此提出了推动我国金融创新发展的政策性建议。     

学习困难学生特点及影响因素个案研究

为了帮助不同的学习困难学生克服学习困难,改善现状,研究通过访谈法,对三名学习困难学生的特点及导致他们学习困难的影响因素进行了分析,结果表明学习困难学生具有智力正常,但注意力缺陷,学习动机不强且社会能力水平较低.而父母不恰当的期望或缺乏学习兴趣等原因导致他们学习困难.     

Why Do They Keep Coming Back? The Effect of Push Motives vs. Pull Motives,and Attribute Satisfaction on Repeat Visitation of Tourist Destinations

We conjecture that attribute satisfaction, push motives and pull motives will be positively related to return visitation of tourist destinations. We also hypothesize that push factors will be stronger related to return visitation of tourist destinations than pull factors, both directly and indirectly as mediators of the relationship between attribute satisfaction and return visitation. In addition, we predict that age and gender will moderate the effect of push and pull factors on repeat visitation. Finally, we argue that push factors and pull factors will be mutually reinforcing. To test these hypotheses, we conducted an online survey of repeat tourists’ motives, and received 986 complete responses. Survey participants were randomly chosen from a group that met a series or qualifying questions. PLS-SEM analysis of the data showed that, as we hypothesized, attribute satisfaction and push motives were positively related to repeat visitation. In contrast, pull motives were not related to repeat visitation, either directly or indirectly, but did reinforce the effect of push motives; gender did not moderate either push or pull motives and age moderated only pull motives. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.