The paper examines which travel risks are more salient for tourists' destination choice. An integrated travel-decision risk typology with survey data from 835 potential tourists is developed and tested. Specifically, this paper explores the interplay of risk types, tourist attributes and ...

Ethical decisions to visit disappearing destinations are self-serving and influences feed into self-interest. Data were collected from a sample of pre-, during- and post-visit tourists to Venice and Svalbard, using expressive techniques and scenarios using the Hunt-Vitell model to understand...

This study was designed to identify the relative importance vacation motives as perceived by the tourist visiting Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia. In addition, this study also explored the underlying dimensions of the vacation motives and determinants factors. Questionnaires were distributed using ...

This study was quantitative by means of the survey method. 421 questionnaires were used with tourists evaluating the memorable tourist experiences based on the Aroeira, Dantas and Gosling model (2016), identifying: the country, which was related to the memorable tourist experience chosen as the...

Selection of the best hotel for vacations requires a highly complex decision-making process. This complexity stems from factors including, but not limited to, the products of the hotel, information regarding the hotel and personal preferences. Determining the factors which affect the selection of...

This paper examines the statistical significance of socio-demographic variables with reference to perception of Australia as a tourist destination among a sample of 675 West Malaysians. To the variables of age, gender, educational attainment, and household income are added the variables of...