Domestic Tourists Preferences Toward Water Transportations

DOI

10.2991/icoborot-18.2019.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

water transportation, preferences in choosing the type of water transportation, psychographic tourists profile

Abstract

This research intended to notice domestic tourists’ preferences in choosing water transportation at Kepulauan Seribu based on their psychographic profile by considering seven travel attributes (cost, duration, accessibility in obtaining the transportation, frequency, service level, security, and departure schedule). This research applied descriptive quantitative with data collection technique used distribution of questionnaire and observation by questionnaire and checklist, descriptive statistics as the data analysis technique with SPSS as the data analysis tool, and 168 samples. The results showed that speedboat became the most chosen vehicle among the three vehicles. The majority of domestic tourists at Kepulauan Seribu came from Jabodetabek, Java, and its surroundings, aged in their late teens and adulthoods, works as private employees, receive middle-upper incomes, have married, prepared minimalistic expenditures for tourism, visited for two until three days, have visited the destination more than three times, pleased to visit, and were motivated by a purpose of relaxation and take on vacation. Income, travel expense, latest education degree, satisfaction level, and age determined domestic tourist preference of choosing water transportation in Kepulauan Seribu. Overall, they chose speedboat as the best vehicle, followed by Kerapu ship and traditional ship, and assessed security as the most important travel attribute in traveling to Kepulauan Seribu.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Endang Kosmety
AU  - Adi Hendraningrum
AU  - Nastiti Rahmadiani
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - Domestic Tourists Preferences Toward Water Transportations
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference One Belt, One Road, One Tourism (ICOBOROT 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 162
EP  - 173
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icoborot-18.2019.4
DO  - 10.2991/icoborot-18.2019.4
ID  - Kosmety2019/12
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