Malaysian's youth outbound travelling pattern

Recently, the youth travel market segment experienced an emergence of the new generations called ‘flash- packer’ (older backpacker which ages above 30 years old with bigger budgets), and ‘gap – packer’ (youth who travel several countries in their gap year) where some comparisons from previous study...

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Main Author:	Zaidy, Zainatul Asyhikin
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	G154.9-155.8 Travel and state Tourism
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87190/1/ZainatulAsyhikinZaidyMFAB2017.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.871902020-11-30T09:00:39Z Malaysian's youth outbound travelling pattern 2017 Zaidy, Zainatul Asyhikin G154.9-155.8 Travel and state. Tourism Recently, the youth travel market segment experienced an emergence of the new generations called ‘flash- packer’ (older backpacker which ages above 30 years old with bigger budgets), and ‘gap – packer’ (youth who travel several countries in their gap year) where some comparisons from previous study had been made showing that many young tourists nowadays tend to travel more frequently and stay longer at destination compared to their older counterpart. Furthermore, youth from all over the world are seemed to be into agreement that travelling overseas had become a trend nowadays, including the Malaysian. In Malaysia, the profile pattern of Malaysian that travelling overseas seems to change because of the increasing number on the youth segment market. Before this, Malaysians youths only involved with domestic tourism, but today they start to follow the world trend. This situation makes Malaysian’s youth identified themselves as backpackers because they are travelling for long periods with a limited budget. This study aimed to examine which type of travel style does Malaysian’s youth categorised in and to prove not all Malaysian’s youth could be identified as a backpacker’s style. In order to achieve these goals, several objectives have been identified which are 1) To determine Malaysian’s youth travelling profile based on destination, 2) To analyse youths’ expenditure pattern based on destination, and 3) To identify Malaysian’s Youth travel style for outbound travelling either ‘backpackers’, ‘flash – packer’ or ‘gap – packer’. Methodology instrument that has been used in this study was in a form of questionnaire. The questionnaire and online survey have been proposed. Besides that, sampling techniques that have been used in this study consist of the convenience sampling and simple random sampling, which focused only on Malaysian youth traveller. Data that required in this study was a data which might identify the Malaysian’s youth outbound travelling pattern where’s all findings then will be an analyst to identify Malaysian’s youth travel style either they are backpackers, flash – packer or gap – packer. 2017 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87190/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87190/1/ZainatulAsyhikinZaidyMFAB2017.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:132383 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Built Environment Faculty of Built Environment
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language	English
topic	G154.9-155.8 Travel and state Tourism
spellingShingle	G154.9-155.8 Travel and state Tourism Zaidy, Zainatul Asyhikin Malaysian's youth outbound travelling pattern
description	Recently, the youth travel market segment experienced an emergence of the new generations called ‘flash- packer’ (older backpacker which ages above 30 years old with bigger budgets), and ‘gap – packer’ (youth who travel several countries in their gap year) where some comparisons from previous study had been made showing that many young tourists nowadays tend to travel more frequently and stay longer at destination compared to their older counterpart. Furthermore, youth from all over the world are seemed to be into agreement that travelling overseas had become a trend nowadays, including the Malaysian. In Malaysia, the profile pattern of Malaysian that travelling overseas seems to change because of the increasing number on the youth segment market. Before this, Malaysians youths only involved with domestic tourism, but today they start to follow the world trend. This situation makes Malaysian’s youth identified themselves as backpackers because they are travelling for long periods with a limited budget. This study aimed to examine which type of travel style does Malaysian’s youth categorised in and to prove not all Malaysian’s youth could be identified as a backpacker’s style. In order to achieve these goals, several objectives have been identified which are 1) To determine Malaysian’s youth travelling profile based on destination, 2) To analyse youths’ expenditure pattern based on destination, and 3) To identify Malaysian’s Youth travel style for outbound travelling either ‘backpackers’, ‘flash – packer’ or ‘gap – packer’. Methodology instrument that has been used in this study was in a form of questionnaire. The questionnaire and online survey have been proposed. Besides that, sampling techniques that have been used in this study consist of the convenience sampling and simple random sampling, which focused only on Malaysian youth traveller. Data that required in this study was a data which might identify the Malaysian’s youth outbound travelling pattern where’s all findings then will be an analyst to identify Malaysian’s youth travel style either they are backpackers, flash – packer or gap – packer.
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author	Zaidy, Zainatul Asyhikin
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title	Malaysian's youth outbound travelling pattern
title_short	Malaysian's youth outbound travelling pattern
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title_full_unstemmed	Malaysian's youth outbound travelling pattern
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Built Environment
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Malaysian's youth outbound travelling pattern

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