International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 3

A quantitative analysis of tourists’ preference of media platforms and their motivation in ecotourism participation: A case study of Sikkim

  • Author:
  • Amit Kumar1, Girija Shanker Sharma2
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Page Number: 585 to 598

1Department of Mass and Media Communication, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, India

2Department of Mass and Media Communication, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, India

Online published on 10 September, 2019.

Abstract

This study was a part of a research work with primary intention to explore the relation among the demographic profile of tourists, their preference of media platforms to receive the ecotourism related promotion and their primary motivation to participate in ecotourism. Further, this study attempted to dive deep into the media platforms choice of tourists to recommend most preferred medium for ecotourism promotion in the state of Sikkim. The primary data was collected during field survey through a set of questionnaire and cross-tabulation analysis was performed to analysed the data. The findings of this study suggested that, the most preferred medium for

Keywords

Ecotourism, Media Planning, Tourism Promotion, Destination Management, Tourists' Preference Analysis