Abstract
Among the diverse factors affecting the volume of tourism market for a given destination is the geographic distance. The classical theory of distance decay tells that people tend to use the nearby resources rather than those far from them. The theory has been widely used for exploring the relationship between distance and tourism demand. In this respect existing studies, however, tend to focus on the outbound travel from an origin place, thus to a large extent neglecting study of tourist arrivals to a destination. Taking advantage of the secondary data from the Hong Kong Tourism Board, the present study examines the international tourism market for Hong Kong. The study reports that the rate of distance decay is not uniform across all the market segments, which has a certain degree of implication for destination promotion.
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