Testing the influence of destination image and event quality on athletes’ intentions to re-visit the city: a case study of the 2017 World youth and juniors’ sambo championships in Novi Sad, Serbia

Matić, Radenko; Καραγιώργος, Θωμάς; Maksimović, Nebojša; Alexandris, Kostas; Bujkovic, Rajko; Drid, Patrik

doi:10.1080/23750472.2020.1724187

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“…Novi Sad boasts superior athletic infrastructure and facilities, which are required for an event, and excellent tourist capacities and potential. Therefore, this research is in line with the results by Matic, Karagiorgos, Maksimovic, Alexandris, Drid, and Bujkovic (2018), according to which Novi Sad is a desirable destination for sport event managers. It took into consideration the high-quality of sport events, alongside opportunities for ensuring the overall satisfaction of event participants (spectators) as well as the positive effect that athlete contentment has on the overall success of the event (Theodorakis, Kaplanidou, & Karabaxoglou, 2015).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Destination Image, Sport Event Quality, and Behavioral Intentions: The Cases of Three World Sambo Championships

Milovanović¹,

Matić

Alexandris

et al. 2019

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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This research tested the interactions among destination image, destination quality, sport event quality, and behavioral intentions in the context of small-scale sport events. The study included elite sambo athletes (N = 350) who participated in the World Sambo Championships, which were organized in Novi Sad (Serbia) in 2017 and 2018. The destination image was measured with the affective and cognitive dimensions, while the event quality was measured with the core, tangible and supporting dimensions. The results supported the measurement and structural models. They further indicated that the core aspect of the event quality directly influences participants’ behavioral intentions, while the destination quality partially mediates the relationship between destination image and participant behavioral intentions. The event quality was shown to have a direct relationship with the development of destination loyalty. The theoretical and applied value of these results are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Destination Image, Sport Event Quality, and Behavioral Intentions: The Cases of Three World Sambo Championships

Milovanović¹,

Matić

Alexandris

et al. 2019

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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“…So that there is a relationship between tourist visits and festival quality which affects the destination image (Getz, 2016a). However, not many have researched festival quality on destination image, only a few studies have examined this scope (Folgado-Fernández et al, 2019;Duarte et al, 2018;Hsu and Scott, 2020;Matic et al, 2020). Because of its important role in interpreting the relationship between humans and the festival landscape, attachment to festival quality has been applied in the tourism sector for destination management, marketing, and tourist behavior (Tsai, 2012).…”

Section: Literature Review Festival Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because of its important role in interpreting the relationship between humans and the festival landscape, attachment to festival quality has been applied in the tourism sector for destination management, marketing, and tourist behavior (Tsai, 2012). Matic et al (2020) explained that destination image is influenced by the experience of tourists, which later on from this experience can be shared through the presence of word of mouth and other types of communication. In line with Hsu and Scott (2020), it shows that experiences can involve tourists in travel destinations, create positive emotions and values, strengthen the bond between tourists and destinations, and influence the image of the visitor's destination.…”

Section: Literature Review Festival Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Festival Quality on Revisit Intention: Mediating Role of Destination Image in Jember Fashion Carnaval, Jember, Indonesia

SUPRIONO¹,

YULIANTO²

2021

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This study aims to investigate and explain festival qualities that are applied to festival organizers that affect the destination image and the tourist revisit intention. This research uses a quantitative approach through statistical analysis of PLS-SEM and distributed questionnaires that have been designed to 200 tourists. The findings of this study indicate that the constructs of the variables that shape the quality of the festival, namely program content, convenience, and staff, have a positive and significant effect on the image of the destination. In addition, the relationship between destination image and revisit intention has a positive and significant effect.

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“…In total, the festival has received more than 2.5 million international visitors, from more than 60 countries [100]. Capacity built through the experience of the Exit Festival has helped Novi Sad to develop a more diverse events portfolio [101] to support its wider development ambitions [102], which now sees the city hosting business events as well as international sports events [103]. Recently, Novi Sad was the European Capital of Youth Culture in 2019 [104] and will be a European Capital of Culture in 2022 [97].…”

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Fuzzy Modelling of Tourist Motivation: An Age-Related Model for Sustainable, Multi-Attraction, Urban Destinations

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Tourist motivation, as a core of travel behavior, significantly influences consumer intentions and has attracted academic attention for decades. A plethora of studies analyse sets of internal and external motivators, while methodologies that exclusively focus on a single factor, such as age, that can sometimes have a determining influence in multi-attraction destinations, are less prevalent. This study introduces a fuzzy logic approach to develop a new model for analysing the internal motivations of different-aged consumers in multi-attraction urban destinations. Fuzzy models, as a mathematical means of representing vagueness and imprecise information, have the capability of recognizing, representing, manipulating, interpreting, and utilizing data and information, which typically for urban tourist motivations, are vague and lack certainty. This research tests the model in a real-life setting, using the example of Novi Sad, a mid-sized European city, which is typical of many similar cities who are attempting to develop sustainable tourism by attracting older tourists. The new model shows how tourist motivations for multi-attraction destinations are affected by age, through a specially developed m-file for MATLAB, so that it can be applied and tested in other tourism contexts. Theoretical and practical implications for sustainable destination management and marketing are described.

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Testing the influence of destination image and event quality on athletes’ intentions to re-visit the city: a case study of the 2017 World youth and juniors’ sambo championships in Novi Sad, Serbia

Cited by 10 publications

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Destination Image, Sport Event Quality, and Behavioral Intentions: The Cases of Three World Sambo Championships

Destination Image, Sport Event Quality, and Behavioral Intentions: The Cases of Three World Sambo Championships

The Effect of Festival Quality on Revisit Intention: Mediating Role of Destination Image in Jember Fashion Carnaval, Jember, Indonesia

Fuzzy Modelling of Tourist Motivation: An Age-Related Model for Sustainable, Multi-Attraction, Urban Destinations

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