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cord-281333-fj2u5uif	Rittichainuwat, Bongkosh	Ghosts A travel barrier to tourism recovery	2011-04-30		.txt	text/plain	8149	345	48	According to Rittichainuwat (2006) , many inbound Chinese and Thai tourists substituted their original travel itineraries to tsunami-affected areas with trips to other beach resorts due to perceived risks affiliated with ghosts and uncomfortable feelings about enjoying themselves at a resort where a lot of people had been killed, because the place was thought to be too sorrowful and inappropriate to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Thus, this study aims to examine travel barriers associated with tsunami-hit destinations, and also to assess cultural differences regarding such beliefs between Asians tourists from China and Thailand and Western tourists from Britain, Germany, and the United States and also across different demographic variables. Hence, this study hypothesizes that while belief in the existence ghosts is a travel barrier for Asian (Thai and Chinese) tourists, it would not deter Western (American, British, and German) tourists from visiting the tsunami-affected areas.	./cache/cord-281333-fj2u5uif.txt	./txt/cord-281333-fj2u5uif.txt