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College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Research Article
Word of Mouth Marketing in Tourism Industry: Evidences from Chinese Business Immigrants in Ethiopia
Author(s): Ebrahim Hussen* and Shiferaw Muleta
Tourism and migration are an increasing and complementary outcome of globalization. Even though, the
interrelation of the two is confirmed by many studies, the motivation of migrants to invite their friends and relatives
is untouched. China is leading source of outbound tourist and half of them visit places recommended their friends
and relatives. The study was too conducted to examine factors which affect word of mouth and satisfaction of
Chinese business immigrants. Explanatory research design was employed to achieve the objective of the study and the
data was collected at once. The quantitative data was collected from 205 Chinese workers in Eastern industry zone
with convenience sampling. Eastern industry zone was selected purposively as study area. Mainly regression analysis
SPSS an extended SPSS Process Macro was used to analyze the data. The findings show th.. View More»