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City University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

ABSTRACT

Diving is a recreational activity of growing significance in many countries. In the recreational SCUBA diving industry, a liveaboard service offers tourists to stay on board for several nights and that allows time to travel to more distant dive sites. SCUBA diving belongs to an adventure tourism, while cruise is much more leisure tourism activity. However, they share a similar travel mode, so it is very interesting to find the reason behind. Do cruise tourists be the potential diving tourists? The paper adopted the cruising motivation scale for diving tourists to develop a scale for SCUBA divers’ motivations of liveaboard. Convenience sampling was used to select participants for the study. After exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the results showed that there were six dimension of SCUBA divers’ liveaboard motivation, and the added dimension of divers’ preference was valid. Finally, a measurement scale of SCUBA divers’ liveaboard motivation was proposed in this study, and the discussion and implication were also presented in the paper.

KEYWORDS

SCUBA diving, liveaboard, motivation, measurement scale

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Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Jan.-Feb. 2020, Vol. 8, No. 1, 35-42 doi: 10.17265/2328-2169/2020.01.003

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