Stopover destination image — Using the Repertory Test to identify salient attributes

Business tourists’ perceptions of nation brands and capital city brands: a comparison between Dublin/Republic of Ireland, and Cardiff/Wales

“…Context is important when researching destination image Pike and Kotsi (2016). These findings can inform our knowledge about destination influence, and destination criteria for decision making regarding business tourism, contextualised to academic forms of business tourism.…”

“…In this respect, context becomes important, not only to clarify the language used in various different bodies of literature (Hanna and Rowley, 2008;Skinner, 2008), but also the context of the various types of tourism studied. Pike and Kotsi (2016) stress that although the earliest studies into destination image published in the 1970s were indeed context specific, since that time context has tended to be absent from this aspect of the travel and tourism literature. One area where context does occur is in the extant literature relating to sports tourism (Kim, Chen & Funk, 2015).…”

Visual communication: a methodology for measuring management intention and shopfloor acknowledged meaning

“…This was consistent with sample sizes used by recent authors of the Repertory Grid Analysis technique (Bauman 2015). It was consistent with the range of three to sixteen mentioned by Pike & Kotsi (2016) and Smith et al (1997) …”

“…Various approaches have been used by others to consolidate elicited comments to key themes (Pike & Kotsi 2016, Ab Aziz et al 2015, Michie et al 2005) but I found no evidence to show that the ECRS process had been used previously in this context. Its use represented a form of content analysis (Symon & Cassell 2012); a four step systematic way in which the elicited bi-polar constructs were consolidated to core themes.…”

Destination competitiveness from a tourist perspective: A case of the United Arab Emirates

“…The study was conducted in the UAE—a new and emerging tourism destination in the Gulf region. Only a few studies have been conducted in the context of the UAE tourism (e.g., Kotsi, Balakrishnan, Michael, & Ramsoy, ; Pike & Kotsi, ). This is unfortunate because the UAE attracts an increasing number of international tourists.…”