This paper examines travel by western migrants who have moved to the
Hong Kong or Macau Special Administrative Regions of China. Previous
research suggests travel patterns are a form of learned behaviour. New
migrants initially exhibit patterns learned from their home countries,
but over time their patterns change and reflect more those of residents
of their new countries as they learn and adopt new behaviours. This
situation was not observed among western migrants. Instead, they
exhibited patterns that were internally consistent, regardless of the
migrant's origin, but different from those of the local Chinese
populace. The paper argues that western migrants, who generally live in a
parallel expatriate bubble to those host community, have learned travel
patterns from others who also live in that bubble