Browsing by Author "Ahsan, U.M."

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    An Analysis of Push and Pull Travel Motivational Factors of Beach Tourists to Trincomalee
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2017) Ahsan, U.M.
    The purpose of this research paper to investigate the perception of Trincomalee,' Sri Lanaka held by foreign and local tourists. The research will overlook inbound characteristics of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka and it will mainly concern the factors that induces the decision making process of tourists, their motivations, expectations and their needs. The objectives of this research are to identify the demographic profile of beach tourists and to identify the most & the least push and pull travel motivational factors of Beach tourist's arrival to Trincomalee. Mixed data analysis methods were employed in this research. The questionnaire was developed to reflect their travel motivation factors based on multiple choice questions, and it was distributed among 100 foreign and local tourists based on convenient sampling technique. The respondents were selected from Nilaveli, Uppuveli, Marble beach, Arisimale and Town beach of Trincomalee areas. The study shows that both push and pull travel motivational factors stimulate the higher Beach tourists' arrivals to Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. The mean ranking of the constructs within travel motives showed that, Seeking Relaxation and Fulfilling Prestige were regarded as the most and the least influential push and travel motivational factors, respectively. Among pull travel motivational dimensions, Natural Resources and Events and Activities were identified as the most and the least influential pull travel motivational factors, respectively. This study attempts to identify motivational factors of beach tourists to the Trincomalee as different tourist markets demonstrate different domains of behavior. This may have important marketing implications to the Trincomalee especially in terms of examination of motives in segmenting markets, designing promotional programs and decision making about destination development. Based on the study's findings, practical implications for tourism marketers are suggested and future research recommendations are provided.
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    Travel Motivations of Beach Tourists: Push and Pull Approach from Trincomalee
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2018) Ahsan, U.M.; Damunupola, A K A.; Gunaratne, Y.M.C.
    Tourist arrivals to Trincomalee destination, Eastern Sri Lanka has been recorded with a positive trend as the destination boast with its rich natural, ancient history and diversity. Importance of tourist arrivals to a destination has been influenced by tourist's motivations and the question arises that which pull and push motivational factors influence on their travel destination decision. These two factors explain people travel because they are pushed by their own internal forces and pulled by the external forces of destination attributes. This study investigates the travel motivational perception of the tourists visited to beaches in the destination and further the study is overlooking inbound characteristics of the destination. The study based on primary data gathered through a questionnaire survey from a sample of 100 tourists including local and foreign who visited to Nilaveli, Uppuveli, Marble, Arisimale and Town beaches in the destination. Descriptive and graphical representations have been adapted to analyze the data. The key findings of this study indicate that both push and pull travel motivational factors stimulate the higher Beach tourists' arrivals to the destination. Further this study concludes that the mean ranking of the constructs within travel motives showed that seeking relaxation and fulfilling prestige were regarded as the most and the least influential push travel motivational factors respectively, where natural resources and events and activities were identified as the most and the least influential pull travel motivational factors respectively. This study recommends that the travel motivational factors are important marketing implications to the destination specially in terms of examination of motives in segmenting markets, designing promotional programs and decision making about destination development.