“…PLS-SEM was used to examine the suggested model using WarpPLS software. PLS-SEM is widely used in empirical tourism research (Abou-Shouk et al , 2021b, Elgarhy et al , 2019; Seyfi et al , 2021; Tichaawa et al , 2021; Wan et al , 2021) and is suitable for measuring sophisticated models with direct–indirect causal relationships (Hair et al , 2021; Kock, 2021). The study followed the thresholds of average variance extracted (≥ 0.50) (Fornell and Larcker, 1981) to achieve convergent and discriminant validities and ≥ 0.7 for reliability (Hair et al , 2016).…”