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How Millennial Travelers Are Forcing Indonesian Tourism to Go Digital

2019

Millennials are familiar with digital technology and have a lot of influence on lifestyle changes, from communication, interacting through social networking, through to making transactions with creative new business models. Therefore, their creativity and knowledge can have a strong impact on Indonesia’s future, especially in tourism. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between perceived ubiquity, perceived informativeness, perceived personalization and mobile app usefulness in Indonesia’s tourism industry. The study used nonprobability sampling with purposive sampling and received 350 useful responses. The smart-PLS method was performed to test the proposed relationships. The paper found support for the positive effect of perceived ubiquity, perceived informativeness, perceived personalization, and mobile app usefulness. This paper is expected to support and enable marketing managers of tourism to develop a better focus on their efforts to identify millenni...

WHY MILLENIALS AS DIGITAL TRAVELERS TRANSFORMED MARKETING STRATEGY IN TOURISM INDUSTRY

International thematic monograph TOURISM IN FUNCTION OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA Тourism in the Era of Digital Transformation, 2018

As digital natives, millennials have led to significant shifts in the marketing approach of organizations in the tourism industry. The aim of the paper is to analyze how digital technologies have influenced the travel behavior of millennials and to create their profile, in order to help marketing managers in tourism to create effective marketing strategy. Meta-analysis approach has been used, taking different published studies into account, focused on tourism and marketing concepts in the era of information technology. The analysis showed that millennials have a high level of technological proficiency, they are price sensitive, not predictable, do not respond to traditional marketing, use social media and digital influencers as a source of information for travel decisions, prefer mobile applications for travelers, are equipped with many digital devices while traveling and choose destinations that offer them experience that can be shared on social networks instantly.

Millennials' Travel Behavior in Small Island Destination: The Overview of Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

Asian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports, 2021

Aims: The purpose of this study is to examine the travel behavior of millennial generation tourists in Gili Trawangan at the pre-, during-, and post-travel stages. This research also looks into the viability of Gili Trawangan as a small island destination. Methodology: This study employs a qualitative descriptive approach, with data gathered through questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and literary techniques. The questionnaire was distributed in May and June, with 100 millennial generation tourists on Gili Trawangan, both international and domestic, serving as respondents. Result: According to the findings of this study, Gili Trawangan is one of the small island destinations that offers tourism-related products such as water tourism attraction, accessibility, ancillary service, and tourist activity. On the demand side, millennial tourists who visit this island are productive generations who come from various large cities in Indonesia or abroad. They are considered a digital generation due to their reliance on smartphones and social media in all aspects of daily life, including work, entertainment, and travel. As a result, millennial tourists' travel decisions are heavily influenced by digital information such as social media status and digital advertisements. Although there is almost no significant difference in the travel behavior of the two types of tourists in general. However, there are some basic differences caused by socio-cultural differences and economic conditions. Implication/Applications: This research is useful as a reference for tourism industry stakeholders on the island of Gili Trawangan to comprehensively understand the characteristics of millennial generation tourists. Theoretically, the results of this study can also enrich the existing information related to the behavior of millennial tourists, especially those who visit small island destinations. The Originality of the Study: The small sample size and short questionnaire distribution period were two of the study's limitations. As a result, future research will be able to examine other island tourist destinations with better numbers and an even distribution of vacation sessions.

Millennial Tourists in Bali: Motivation, Satisfaction and Revisit Intention

E-Journal of Tourism, 2020

The Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia has developed strategies to attract millennial tourists who are estimated to dominate the world tourism market, where Bali is ranked as the fourth most desirable destination for millennials around the world. One of the important factors for tourists in making a visit decision is motivation. Motivation can affect tourists' satisfaction that is triggered by evaluations through their experiences during a visit and it can affect their revisit intention. Decision making for revisit intention to a destination is actually the behavior of satisfied tourists. This research is a quantitative study with samples of millennial tourists visiting the areas of Ubud, Kuta, Seminyak, Canggu and Uluwatu. Research results were analyzed by Structural Equations Modelling (SEM) analysis usings SmartPLS software 3.0 version. The results showed that motivation consisting of push and pull factors has a significant effect on tourist satisfaction. Tourist satisfaction has a significant effect on the revisit intention. The push factor has a positive but not significant effect on the revisit intention while the pull factor has a significant effect on the revisit intention. Another result showed that 69% of millennial tourists make use of social media as a source of information about Bali. This is also the reason for the facts that 91% of millennial tourists prefer to arrange their own trips.

Destination Successes Factors for Millennial Travelers Case Study of Tanah Lot Temple, Tabanan, Bali

ADI Journal on Recent Innovation (AJRI), 2020

Millennials are a popular term to replace the term Generation Y (Gen Y). There are 2.5 billion millennials worldwide. They have contributed to business travel, and tend to spend most of their expenses on travel and vacation, driven by future travel trends. This research conducted to shape the success factor of the destination for millennial tourists, where the destination of Tanah Lot Temple is used as a case study, which is quantitative research, using survey design and purposive sampling. There are 160 millennial tourists as respondents (who are visited Tanah Lot Temple). The instrument used was a questionnaire with a Likert scale, and the data were analysed using descriptive statistics and factor analysis. This research has indicated that there are nine (9) main factors that shape the success factor of the destination for millennial tourists. The nine main factors are: Millennials interested in traditional costume guides and officers, believe in social media reviews, Millennial w...

What do Millennials see in Indonesia? An analysis of Generation Y travel intentions through Social Media

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2019

To research the determinants of intention to travel, this paper employs the technology acceptance model (TAM) to investigate Indonesian millennials' behavioural process of post-adoption by considering their attitudes toward visiting cultural heritage sites. No previous research has investigated whether there is a link between cultural motivation, serious leisure, and electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM). Structural equation modelling technology was used to assess the responses from 442 questionnaires. The results show that social eWOM is the strongest predictor of attitude towards visiting heritage sites, followed by serious leisure and culture motivation.

The Impact of Insta Tourism on Tourism Decision Making of Generation Y

2021

Instagram is considered a mega trend on digital platforms that allow participants to interact with each other and virtually communicate and share information among users. In addition to increasing efficiency and competitiveness in the tourism industry. This study aims to identify the impact of Instagram on generation Y's choices of their destination, to investigate Instagram performance as a source of information for tourists, and evaluate travel agencies' usage of Instagram. This study has a quantitative approach which is collecting information using an online questionnaire that targeted 305 Instagram users from generation Y. Travel agencies should use Instagram for inspiration and marketing their tourism programs to travellers. They also should be up to date with all the social media platforms in order to reach their target market more easily.

The Profile and Behaviour of 'Digital Tourists' When Making Decisions Concerning Travelling Case Study: Generation Z in South Jakarta

Advances in Research, 2018

Generation Z is predicted to be tourism"s main target market in the next five to ten years. This generation"s social behavior is relatively different from that of its predecessors, especially as they grew up and developed in the technological era. Market behavior concerning tourism is important information for tourism industry stakeholders. They are required to always anticipate and adapt to changes in market behavior or tourists especially how generation Z organists their travels (pre-trip, during the trip, and after the trip). This research seeks to identify these behaviors and to describe the media this generation use. The sample for this research is made up of adolescents who were born between 1995 and 2000 and lived in South Jakarta. A qualitative descriptive approach was used for this research, while the data analysis technique uses the triangulation method, or in other words by synchronizing various data sources such as interviews, literature studies, and questionnaires. The study found that Generation Z can be categorized as "digital tourists" as they are highly dependent on and intensively use (six to 16 hours per day) technologies such as gadgets, social media, and the Internet. When travelling, they are more likely to utilize online media than conventional travel agencies to search for information and make reservations. Meanwhile, during their trip, Generation Z tends to obtain "direct contact" with local people, having an interest in culture and culinary areas. In addition, whether a location is "Instagramable" or not is a very important factor as most of their activities involve documenting images or videos and publishing these on their social media accounts. In general, due to their characteristics, this generation can be called "Incipient Mass" tourists. Keywords: Generation Z; digital tourists’ behaviour; making decisions and travelling.

The Influence of Social Media on the Domestic Tourist's Travel Motivation Case Study: Kota Tua Jakarta, Indonesia

Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology , 2019

The growth of information and technology has given significant influence on the tourism industry and system, both positive and negative impacts. As of now, through social media, tourists and destinations or tourism attractions may interact with one another, monitor, and give opinions, as well as evaluate every form of service given firsthand, by various internet platforms. One of the heritage site tourism attractions that utilize social media in attracting tourists' interest is Kota Tua. This study aims to identify social media used by the Kota Tua tourism area manager as a media to promote; furthermore, this study compares the performance of each social media platforms. Also, this study examines the influence of social media toward tourist motivation in visiting Kota Tua Jakarta. The approach utilized in this study is quantitative with a descriptive method. Whereas the sampling technique used is incidental sampling with the number of involved respondents of 100 people. Gathered data is then analyzed through linear regression analysis method by using SPPS v.25.0 program. Linear regression analysis is conducted to see if there are any social media influences Short Research Article Damanik et al.; CJAST, 36(6): 1-14, 2019; Article no.CJAST.50495 2 toward the tourist motivation of visit. This study has found that visitors that come to Kota Tua are mostly high school students, whereas the most frequently used type of social media to access information about Kota Tua is Instagram. The result of data analysis also shows that there is indeed a correlation between social media variable with the tourist motivation of visit to Kota Tua Jakarta. This study is expected to be a reference related to the role of social media for the tourism industry, especially historical heritage attractions. The limitations of this study are respondents who are limited and cannot represent or be generalized as domestic tourists in general (Indonesian scope).

The Relationship of Experience, Satisfaction, and Trust of Y Generation Tourist Instagram Social Media Users to Tourism Destination Loyalty in Yogyakarta

Technium Social Sciences Journal

The purpose of this study is to understand the factors of Y Generation Instagram users in choosing tourism destinations, so that they can be a reference for community groups to develop innovative products based on potential resources and human resource competencies to design sustainable and competitive authentic products. This research uses quantitative method. Purposive sampling is a technique for determining research samples with certain considerations aimed at making the data obtained more representative. The number of samples used as many as 385 people belonging to Y Generation, who have visited a tourism destination in the Special Region of Yogyakarta more than once and as users of social media Instagram. To test the hypothesis empirically using the AMOS 2.2 application. A decision-making model regarding tourism destination loyalty by exploring the influence of experience, satisfaction, trust and loyalty to tourism destinations. In addition, it also includes a moderating variab...