Exploring Identity via the Intersection of Cultural and Self-Perception of Urban Tourism

Alemayehu B

Published on: 2025-03-25

Abstract

This paper examines and analyses the tourism market in New York amid other issues that involve New York’s Chinatown and its accommodation. The essay highlights the problems of budgeted and mid-range hotels at the expense of high and reasonable-quality hotels. It also addresses the various reasons why domestic Americans and overseas visitors gyrate to New York and Chinatown. This essay will entail recommendations to address the impending problems and issues that face most visitors in order to alleviate their dissatisfaction and create a winning experience for Chinatown, New York. The research was done at ground level to note the experiences and opinions of the respondents which include “inside” and “outside” visitors using questionnaires. English was used as the main medium of interview, which overall had found no difficulties in retrieving replies.

Much of the sample was done by selecting a particular district that was safe and encompassed a whole range of budge to mid-range accommodation. It was in general a representative survey where most of the respondents answered without fear and irritation. Generally, the survey found that most people gyrated to budget and mid-range hotels due to many foreseeable reasons that Chinatown, New York could offer. What matters most is that visitors opt for accommodation that is safe, has high levels of quality and cleanliness. Price was hardly a factor.

Problem statement:

My research aims to address the issues of accommodation in New York based on certain variables? Its scope is derived from a generalized approach, or for a specific situation. In some cases, it is appropriate to put the problem statement as the overarching theme for the study.

Approach:

The quantitative method was used based on descriptive analysis using continuous or discrete tables. Survey questionnaires were conducted with two groups of people, namely the “insiders” and the “outsiders”. Bar charts are provided which allows for depiction of graphs accompanying statistic figures compiled from the respondents. The Kruskal-Wallis test is a oneway ANOVA, nonparametric statistical test for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution. It is used for comparing two or more independent samples of equal or different sample sizes.

Results:

Apart from the usual results found from the bar charts, I formulate hypothesis to determine the correlation-ship between gender and the type of accommodation chosen by using a H test statistic and Kruskal-Wallis formula. The test statistic was found to be H=1.61. The result also showed a large p-value of 0.652. This p-value is a particular set of observations if the null hypothesis were true. A small p-value shows a very small outcome for the null hypothesis

Conclusions:

It is therefore concluded that there is not enough data or evidence to reject the null hypothesis that there are no differences in gender scores across the three groups which I have selected to stay in the accommodation choices.