The study examines Jamaica's destination image and brand personality, and how they relate to future tourist behavior. An integrative model of tourist behavior, involving destination image (cognitive, affective, and overall), destination personality, and behavioral outcomes was developed and...

Purpose - This paper has two main aims: to show responses like yes or very likely for inbound visitors returning to a destination can lead to misleading and unreliable information; and to clarify the kind of information that should be collected. Design/methodology/approach - Responses from Taiwan's ...

Why do travel and tourism consumers appraise products as more or less favorable, and what makes them change their appraisals over time? In addressing these two fundamental questions, we focus on the construct of consumer value, a construct often regarded as pivotal in determining customer...

The purpose of this research is to estimate the use and preservation values of natural and/or cultural resources in 5 distinctive national parks in South Korea, using a dichotomous choice contingent valuation method. The empirical results show that natural and/or cultural resources of the sample...

This article argues that the models regarding retirement migration and tourism destinations (e.g. the tourism resort cycle) share common features and that these linkages need to be further developed to aid our understanding of international retirement migration. The Lake Chapala Riviera in Jalisco, ...

This study explored the influence of selected behavioural and nontraditional economic factors in influencing visitors' reactions. Analyses were undertaken on responses from 5 data sets that addressed pricing issues in the Texas state park system. Generally, the economic factors were more useful...