1999
DOI: 10.1177/135676679900500105
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Predicting destination choice — A discussion of destination loyalty

Abstract: KEYWORDS: destination choice, destination loyalty, tourism forecastingSuccessfully predicting tourism destination choice by potential travellers would be an invaluable advantage to managers and marketers. This paper reviews the literature on brand loyalty, destination choice and repeat visitation behaviour. Based on this review it argues that previous destination choice over a long time period would provide the necessary information to segment (potential) tourists into loyalty segments which in turn will provi… Show more

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“…Despite this, Oppermann (1999) argues that the evaluation of loyalty to a destination can be misleading due to reasons related to time, space and motivation of subjects. Even when a time horizon is fixed, there might be tourists who used to repeat the vacation in a longer frequency than the one that was fixed.…”
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“…Despite this, Oppermann (1999) argues that the evaluation of loyalty to a destination can be misleading due to reasons related to time, space and motivation of subjects. Even when a time horizon is fixed, there might be tourists who used to repeat the vacation in a longer frequency than the one that was fixed.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is the case where loyalty coincides with 'habit'. Perhaps an active choice of going to 'that' place there might have been in the first times (Backman and Crompton, 1991a;Beatty and Kahle, 1988;Oppermann, 1999). But often it could be very arguable the fact that satisfaction has remained a main factor.…”
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