What Shapes Activity Preferences? The Role of Tourist Personality, Destination Personality and Destination Image: Evidence from Serbia

Kovačić, Sanja; Jovanović, Tamara; Vujičić, Miroslav D.; Morrison, Alastair M.; Kennell, James

doi:10.3390/su14031803

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“…Moreover, the study results support previous findings (i.e. Kova ci c et al, 2022;Neuburger and Egger, 2021), stating that DI substantially influences the intention to visit. In addition, the findings revealed that familiarity mitigated the negative effects of CFU on DI and travelers' intention to visit when their familiarity with the place was greater than other people's.…”

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confidence: 89%

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COVID-19, destination image, and destination visit intention: unpacking the impacts of familiarity, generation, and gender amidst COVID-19

Hamdy,

Eid

2023

CBTH

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Purpose This study aims to analyze the moderating roles of familiarity, generation and gender on the impacts of coronavirus fear-uncertainty on the destination image and visiting intentions post-COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach This paper seeks to provide evidence for a research conclusion by conducting a survey of 431 potential travelers of various nationalities who visited Egypt. The data were examined using structural equation modeling with a multigroup analysis and PROCESS MACRO. Findings The findings indicated that the links between coronavirus fear-uncertainty, the destination image and intention to visit were significantly different from one gender and generation group to another. Moreover, it showed that destination familiarity moderates the negative effects of coronavirus fear-uncertainty on the destination image and intention to visit. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to explore the moderating role of destination familiarity, generation and gender in the effects post-COVID-19 of coronavirus fear-uncertainty on the destination image and travelers’ intention to visit using generational cohort theory and gender schema theory.

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Section: Key Resultssupporting

confidence: 89%

“…According to several studies (i.e. Huang and Hsu, 2009;Kova ci c et al, 2022;Nazir et al, 2021;Neuburger and Egger, 2021;Singh et al, 2022), the DI directly impacts on the intention to visit. Thus, the next hypothesis was established:…”

Section: Coronavirus Fear-uncertainty Perceived Destination Image And...mentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19, destination image, and destination visit intention: unpacking the impacts of familiarity, generation, and gender amidst COVID-19

Hamdy,

Eid

2023

CBTH

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“…Transforming tourists’ value systems to support sustainable practices is a key concern in the tourism industry (Goh et al , 2017). Encouraging environmentally responsible attitudes and conduct among employees and guests can provide benefits for all stakeholders involved (Kovačić et al , 2022; Miller et al , 2015; Packer et al , 2022). The incorporation of sustainability indicators in destination competitiveness models is significant, as it recognizes the importance of sustainable tourism development (Cucculelli and Goffi, 2016; Ritchie et al , 2000).…”

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The theory of sustainability values and travel behavior

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Oshriyeh

Iskender

et al. 2023

IJCHM

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Purpose This paper reports the results of research that examines the interrelationships between efficacy of sustainability values (SV) and pro-sustainable behaviors of potential tourists. A partially mediated model is postulated and tested to help explain additional error variance in predicting consumers’ destination choice decisions in tourism, hence voiding a critical research gap. Coined as the “environmentally intellectualist behavior,” a new mediator variable is tested to explain additional error variance in human-value models. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on data collected from two representative samples of potential tourists from the USA and Canada. Data analyses include exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses that were used to examine the underlying domain structures of SV, followed by a predictive model using structural equation modeling. Findings The study findings suggest that values are salient factors that underlie pro-sustainable tourism and travel behavior. Moreover, the results confirm the existence of a higher-order sustainability construct. The study contributes original insights to the field by demonstrating that there are direct and indirect positive relationships between SV, environmental behaviors and decisions of consumers who take a pro-sustainable stance when traveling. Originality/value By modeling values as antecedents to attitudes and testing interrelationships between SV and the mediator variables coined as the environmentally intellectual behavior, the authors developed and tested a predictive model to explain destination- and product choice decisions. The model tested herein advances the value theory in two fundamental ways: first, this study demonstrates that SV can be modeled as higher-order factors. Second, values are antecedents to attitude and other variables, therefore must be included in consumer behavior models. Finally, the culture or origin of tourists matters when examining the impact of values on tourists’ choice decisions. Political actions and environmental attitudes can be modeled as mediators to explain additional error variance.

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“…Hence, this study sheds light on the relevance of national tourism festival celebrations and of building a city's tourism brand image in promoting subsequent inbound tourism at the city level. This has important theoretical implications for destination tourism brand management and impression building and can effectively expand related theories in these fields, such as the tourism destination image theory (Chen et al, 2021;Chen and Li, 2018;Hosany et al, 2006) and the brand management theory of tourist destinations (Ceylan et al, 2021;Jeong and Kim, 2020;Kovačić et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Brand management research has been a hot topic in tourism destination marketing research in recent years and has introduced a lot of new knowledge (Ceylan et al, 2021; Jeong and Kim, 2020; Kovačić et al, 2022). Festivals are the main form of building the cultural and entertainment connotations of modern travel brands within tourism destination marketing (Kozlovska, 2021).…”

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The impact of national tourism day festivals on inbound tourism: A spatial difference-in-differences approach

2023

Tourism Economics

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A comprehensive and accurate assessment of the policy effect of national tourism days is of great significance to further promote urban inbound tourism. Based on the panel data of 59 cities in China from 2000 to 2017, this paper evaluates the local and spatial spillover effects of the China Tourism Day policy on urban inbound tourism using a spatial difference-in-differences model based on the establishment of the China Tourism Day as a quasi-natural experiment. The study found that the China Tourism Day policy significantly increased the number of foreign tourists in cities but significantly reduced their average length of stay, with a positive spatial spillover effect on inbound tourism in surrounding cities.

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What Shapes Activity Preferences? The Role of Tourist Personality, Destination Personality and Destination Image: Evidence from Serbia

Cited by 28 publications

References 103 publications

COVID-19, destination image, and destination visit intention: unpacking the impacts of familiarity, generation, and gender amidst COVID-19

COVID-19, destination image, and destination visit intention: unpacking the impacts of familiarity, generation, and gender amidst COVID-19

The theory of sustainability values and travel behavior

The impact of national tourism day festivals on inbound tourism: A spatial difference-in-differences approach

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