Rethinking Emotions and Destination Experience: An Extended Model of Goal-Directed Behavior

Abstract

<jats:p> This research aims to extend the model of goal-directed behavior, by deepening its emotional path and including new variables to predict tourist behavioral intention: hedonism, destination experience, and tourism innovativeness. Based on a final sample of 457 European tourist nationals, the findings showed the significant influence of hedonism and tourism innovativeness on tourist desire. In addition, findings uncover the mediating role of hedonism on the emotional path. The findings also extend previous research by revealing that not all destination experience dimensions (sensory, affective, behavioral, and intellectual) equally influence tourist behavioral intention. Indeed, only sensory and intellectual destination experience dimensions were found to affect behavioral intention. The findings have important implications for tourism managers crafting destination experiences and contribute to tourism research by presenting a more comprehensive framework of goal-directed behavior applied to tourism. </jats:p>

Diaspora tourists' emotional experience

“…In order to measure the emotional experience of diaspora tourists (applied in this study as current travel experiences), material was selected from previous studies on tourists' emotional or sentimental expressions in the context of diaspora tourism (Abaka, 2012; Bruner, 1996; Coles & Timothy, 2004; Etemaddar et al, 2016; Gorton, 2007; Huang et al, 2016; Li et al, 2020; Li & McKercher, 2016b; Maliepaard et al, 2010; Maruyama & Stronza, 2011; Nawijn et al, 2018; Otoo, Kim, & King, 2021) and those relating to general overseas tourism (Hosany & Gilbert, 2010; Hosany & Prayag, 2013; Huseynov et al, 2020; Lee & Kyle, 2013; Prayag et al, 2013). A pool of items to measure personal involvement were selected on the basis of past research (e.g., Brown et al, 2016; Chen, 2018; Gross & Brown, 2008).…”

“…First, both positive and negative emotions can result from a tourist experience (del Bosque & San Martín, 2008;Huseynov et al, 2020;Nawijn et al, 2018;Otoo et al, 2019;Song et al, 2019).…”

Tourists’ Goal-Directed Behaviors: The Influences of Goal Disclosure, Goal Commitment, and Temporal Distance

“…(1) the knowledge of the contingency between the action and the outcome and (2) the representation of the outcome as a goal for the person (Dickinson and Balleine 1994). Later, Perugini and Bagozzi (2001) proposed the classic model of goal-directed behavior (MGB), which highlighted the linkages among human emotions, affection, past behaviors, and goal-directed behaviors (J. S. Kim, Lee, and Kim 2020;Huseynov et al 2020). The MGB posits that goal-directed behaviors are dominated by external incentives in the environment and restricted by individual internal psychological needs (J. S. Kim, Lee, and Kim 2020).…”

“…In the tourism literature, some researchers have demonstrated good validity of the classic MGB model in the tourism context and further extended the model by incorporating new variables (Huseynov et al 2020;J. S. Kim, Lee, and Kim 2020).…”

Ecotourism Practices in Potatso National Park from the Perspective of Tourists: Assessment and Developing Contradictions

“…The second reason is the lack of paths and channels for tourists to develop environmental behaviors. In educating tourists on the environment, tourists' other interests should not be neglected [55,56]. For example, although most tourists liked the wooden plank roads and horse trails, many found the wooden plank roads, made of round logs, and the muddy horse trails difficult to walk on, on rainy days.…”