An Empirical Study of Constraints of Chinese Women’s Leisure in Theme Park

Research about women’s leisure constraints has grown consistently over the past 30 years from different perspectives. In this study, the authors used leisure-constraint theory and importance-satisfaction model to research this subject under the context of Chinese culture. The authors found Chinese women’s leisure constraints with data from a sample of 186 women tourists from three theme parks. In study 1, the results showed that the constraints of Chinese women’s leisure included three kinds of types as intrapersonal, interpersonal and structural. The authors examined the specific constraints of women’s leisure using theme park tourists ' satisfaction model and importance-satisfaction mode in Study 2, the results suggested that diet, entertainment and service perception were assessed as being important to women tourists, but of unsatisfactory performance. Further, managerial implications of improving women tourists ' leisure quality and exploiting women market value are discussed