Examining the relationship between place attachment and behavioral loyalty in an urban park setting

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The Relationship Between Park Satisfaction, Place Attachment and Revisit Intention in Neighborhood Parks with Physical Activity Facilities

“…For instance, Budruk and Stanis (2013) used these dimensions in their study which examined the relationship between place attachment and recreation experience preference. In addition, Plunkett et al (2019) used these three dimensions in their study on the relationship between behavioral loyalty and place attachment for urban park visitors. Finally, Fulthrop and Plunkett (2019) examined the participants' place attachment to special recreational events organized in municipal parks by using a model consisting of these dimensions.…”

“…In other words, place attachment can be defined as an emotional and social bond an individual creates with a particular place (Low & Altman, 1992). Previous research shows that place attachment has an important effect on revisit intention (Lee, Kyle, & Scott, 2012;Loureiro, 2014;Plunkett, Fulthorp, & Paris, 2019). Accordingly, place attachment, which affects people's quality of life and encourages them to participate in physical activities (Kuo, Bacaicoa, & Sullivan, 1998), might have a significant effect in whether people continue to do physical activities.…”

“…Place attachment has been a topic of interest in studies conducted in various different contexts (Chen, Hall, Yu, & Qian, 2019;Fu, Yi, Okumuş, & Jin, 2019;Han, Kim, Lee, & Kim, 2019;Rastbod & Aflatounian, 2017). It has been examined in relation to national parks (Halpenny, 2006;Ramkissoon & Mavondo, 2015;Ramkissoon, Smith, & Kneebone, 2014), urban parks (Lee & Shen, 2013;Plunkett, Fulthorp, & Paris, 2019) and neighborhood parks (Strzelecka, Sorensen, & Wicks, 2013). However, the limited number of studies on neighborhood parks and lack of empirical studies examining parks with physical activity facilities imply that there is a need to examine this issue in more detail.…”

City vs. Town residents’ place attachment, perceptions and support for tourism development in a linear World Cultural Heritage Site

“…Kyle, Mowen [ 14 ] added a social dimension termed as social bonding (SB) in their conceptualization of place attachment, which were perceived as another conative component other than PD. Empirical evidences have been found in recreational settings supporting that the provision of social ties by places may lead to higher level of attachment [ 11 , 14 – 16 , 52 ]. SB was also a significant predictor of people’s place attachment empirically in built-environment such as residential communities [ 36 , 53 , 54 ].…”

“…The concept of place attachment was initially associated with people’s home environment such as their residences or neighborhoods [ 1 ], and then it was adopted in the recreation and tourism related research [ 9 ]. Most tourism studies focus on visitors’ place attachment to certain travel destinations [ 10 , 11 ] and how it relates to visitors’ fee spending attitudes [ 12 ], site setting perceptions [ 13 ], visit motivations [ 14 ], place satisfaction [ 15 ], place loyalty [ 16 ], future visit intentions [ 17 ], pro-environment behaviors [ 15 , 18 ], etc. However, most of these study only focused on measuring residents’ place attachment to certain travel destinations, not the entire host living places [ 19 , 20 ].…”