Abstract

This study examines travel motivations and constraints of rural migrant workers in China as a socially disadvantaged group. Through 20 in-depth interviews, the study identified 21 motivations in three categories: personal seeking, interpersonal seeking and personal escaping. Nine travel constraint factors were also identified. The identified motivations and constraints were interpreted through the Escaping-Seeking tourism motivation framework and the Hierarchical Constraint Model. The study concludes that personal seeking motivations predominate rural migrant workers’ travel motivations, whereas structural constraints are more influential than intrapersonal and interpersonal constraints. Social context was found to be a significant confounding factor in determining travel motivations and constraints of this social group. This study contributes to the theories of travel motivations and constraints. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

RAS ID

60330

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

8-23-2023

Volume

43

Issue

4

Funding Information

National Social Science Fund of China, NSSFC, (22FGLB103)

School

School of Business and Law

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Identifier

Songshan (Sam) Huang

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4990-2788

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in LEISURE STUDIES on 23/08/2023, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02614367.2023.2249259.

Qiao, G., Huang, S., & Vorobjovas-Pinta, O. (2023). Seeking tourism in a social context: An examination of Chinese rural migrant workers’ travel motivations and constraints. Leisure Studies, 43(4), 608-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2023.2249259

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10.1080/02614367.2023.2249259