Impact of Travel Motivation on Tourist’s Attitude Toward Destination: Evidence of Mediating Effect of Destination Image

Pereira, Vijay; Jyoti, Jeevan; Hussain, Shabir

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“…Travel is thought to act as an antidote to tedious work and a regular environment, by satisfying human needs in various ways, with physiological, intellectual, and psychological facets ( Jang, Bai, Hu, & Wu, 2009 ; Mitchell, 1998 ). Given that travel motivation is defined as one's inner desire for tourism activities, it indicates unattained human needs that impel travel decisions and behaviors ( Pereira, Gupta, & Hussain, 2019 ). Travel motivation is built upon push and pull motivation theory.…”

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Inducing wellbeing through staycation programs in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

Lin

Wong

Kou

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Tourism Management Perspectives

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Inducing wellbeing through staycation programs in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

Lin

Wong

Kou

et al. 2021

Tourism Management Perspectives

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“…A better understanding of tourist motivation plays a vital role in the prediction of travel behavior and patterns. The questions why do people travel, what motivates tourists to travel to a particular destination have been a debatable topic among tourism academicians (Katsikari et al, Pereira et al, 2019). A widely accepted definition for tourist motivation is "biological and cultural forces that gives value and direction to travel choices, patterns, behavior and experiences" (Pearce, 2005).…”

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Understanding of Travel Motivations of Domestic Tourists

Luvsandavaajav

Narantuya

2021

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Domestic tourism plays an essential role in the tourism industry and contributes to the overall economic development. This study aims to investigate the relationship between push and pull travel motivations of domestic tourists, their behavioral intentions, a direct influence of travel motivations on perceived benefit and perceived value of domestic tourists. The paper applies the concept of push and pull factors of travel motivation, perceived benefit, perceived value, and behavioral intention. The study implies a quantitative research method - questionnaire survey targeting domestic tourists in Mongolia between July to September 2019. A total of 1068 returned questionnaires were analyzed using factor analysis, reliability test, regression, path analysis, and SEM. The research result suggests that travel motivations (push and pull factors) were significant constructs of behavioral intentions. Moreover, the research results are significant for tourism practitioners, researchers, and destination managers to understand the motivational factors of domestic tourists, their perceived benefit and value, and behavioral intention. The study outcomes could assist destination planners to develop new products and services or to enhance destination offer and tourist experiences by improving pull factors that include better service quality, various travel activities, ease of accessibility, reasonable pricing, and attractive environment; which latter lead to increase domestic tourist numbers and overall competitiveness of the destination.

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“…They also found that the cognitive component has a direct effect on the affective component, which in turn affects the overall image. Madden et al (2016) also analyzed this link, carrying out an exhaustive analysis of the literature, as did Dagustani et al (2018), Pereira and Hussain (2019) and Santoso (2019), who presented a behavior model studying the relationship between motivations, destination image and tourist satisfaction. In addition to these authors, many others have studied the close relationship between motivations and destination image, and we would highlight the studies by Mayo and Jarvis (1981), Michie (1986) and Gong and Sun Tung (2017).…”

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Rural Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals. A Study of the Variables That Most Influence the Behavior of the Tourist

2021

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Tourism is an activity that contributes directly and indirectly to the development of rural areas. But this development needs to be sustainable. To do this, appropriate policies that positively influence these areas from an economic, social and cultural point of view must be implemented. All this in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals. This study will analyze the contribution of rural tourism to develop and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products. The variables that most influence the tourist behavior, motivation, the destination image, and the satisfaction obtained by the tourist will be analyzed. After an exhaustive review of the literature, an empirical investigation was carried out with 1,658 valid surveys among rural tourists in Soria, a Spanish province with one of the highest levels of depopulation. A structural equation model was drawn up to discover the relationships between the variables. The results demonstrated the importance of the motivation in the formation of the destination image, as well as satisfaction with the trip. In the same way, we will verify which component of the image of the destination (affective or cognitive) has the most influence on their formation, and how the image of the destination, like motivation, influences tourist satisfaction. The proposed model could be used in many studies that analyze the different variables that influence consumer behavior since its reliability and predictive capacity have been proven. The results of the study can also be used by the authorities to design or modify the most appropriate strategies that influence rural tourism, specially promoting the destination image as a variable that positively influences tourist satisfaction.

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Impact of Travel Motivation on Tourist’s Attitude Toward Destination: Evidence of Mediating Effect of Destination Image

Cited by 78 publications

References 49 publications

Inducing wellbeing through staycation programs in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

Inducing wellbeing through staycation programs in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

Understanding of Travel Motivations of Domestic Tourists

Rural Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals. A Study of the Variables That Most Influence the Behavior of the Tourist

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