“…However, although brand experience has been investigated in several 649055C QXXXX10.1177/1938965516649055Cornell Hospitality QuarterlyKhan andRahman research-article2016 1 Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India contexts, for instance, website-based brand experience (Ha & Perks, 2005), brand experience in telecommunication (Nysveen, Pedersen, & Skard, 2013), online brand experience (S. A. Lee & Jeong, 2014;Morgan-Thomas & Veloutsou, 2013), corporate brand experience (Hamzah, Alwi, & Othman, 2014), destination brand experience (Barnes, Mattsson, & Sørensen, 2014), retail brand experience (Khan & Rahman, 2015), and brand experience in airline (Y. H. Lin, 2015), it remains relatively unexplored in the context of the hotel industry (hotel brand experience [HBE]). Prior studies also lay emphasis on the need for investigating and establishing relationships among the factors that constitute HBE (Alcántara-Alcover, Artacho-Ramírez, Martínez-Guillamón, & Campos-Soriano, 2013;Walls, 2013;Walls, Okumus, Wang, & Kwun, 2011).…”