tourism

Description In-depth tourism is a new traveling pattern, which combines thematic traveling experience and personal knowledge. This paper aims to analyze the industry characteristics and approaches to develop and promote in-depth tourism from a service innovation perspective. International...

Description This research aims to treat voluntary simplicity lifestyle (VSL) as general lifestyle and explore the correlation between VSL and selection preference of special interest tourism (SIT). International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research Special interest tour...

Description The purpose of this paper is to gain a broader knowledge of the concept of cognitive age and its use as a variable when segmenting the market of people aged over 55 International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research Cognitive age as a criterion explaining senior...

Description The purpose of this paper is to assess Chinese tourists’ perceptions of the UK hotel service quality, and to analyze the role of Chinese culture in influencing their expectations and perceptions International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research Cultural...

Description The purpose of this paper is to analyze tourist and trip-related characteristics and tourist motivations in connection with the decision to participate in shopping and for those tourists who decide to participate, the main determinants of the amount of expenditure International...

Description In 1867, the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, undertook a great pleasure excursion across Europe. Visiting a range of sites, from those associated with the Christian Cult of Death to the notable cultural heritage attractions of the time, Twain published...

Description The purpose of this paper is to show how to identify red flags in letters responding to customer complaints and demonstrate elements of effective response letters International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research Writing a credible form letter: implications for...

Description This study focuses on the Portuguese tourist decision process in terms of traveling to exotic places. Based on the push-pull motive model defined by Crompton in 1979, this paper seeks to propose an integrated approach to understand tourist motivations and how these contribute to the...

Description Shopping is a popular tourist activity. While a person might not travel for the purpose of shopping, many tourists shop while traveling. This study aims to examine travel motivation as a predictor of the importance assigned to desired shopping center attributes for three different...

Description The purpose of the research is to conceptualize a model of tourist satisfaction at the destination level which can serve as a background for designing a universal, parsimonious, short and easily applicable measurement instrument. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and...

Description This study aims to focus on the unique challenges of retail service delivery in rural tourism markets. This paper specifically seeks to address: factors attracting individuals to a rural tourism community; factors motivating resident and tourist customers to engage in tourism...

Description The purpose of this paper is to propose voyeurism as one possible lens to analyse the experiential nature of dark tourism in places of socio-political danger, thus expanding psychoanalytic understandings of those who travel to a ‘‘dark’’ place. International Journal of Culture...

Description This paper views the growing popularity of death tourism which directs the confrontation with grief and mortality with the expressed purpose of orchestrating travel that culminates in assistance to end one’s life. The specific aims of this paper are to describe the emerging...

Description Prior to e-commerce, tourists could only purchase souvenirs at a destination. The goal of this research is to develop and test a theory to explain how adding a retail web site affects tourists’ decision-making for souvenir purchases. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and...

Description As there is still only limited research about expectation formation in destination marketing, the aim of this paper is to enhance this body of knowledge by providing theoretical and empirical evidence about the role of different factors which generate tourist expectations. In...

Description The purpose of this study is to identify Western travelers’ image of Zhangjiajie, China as a tourist destination, drawing on data from contents of web travel blogs. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research International tourists' image of Zhangjiajie...

Description By means of a longitudinal study the research investigates the main topics of discussion in couples, and the information sources couples use in their discussion. Furthermore, the research investigates whether the information sources used depend on the nature of the sub-decision –...

Description The purpose of this paper is to suggest a shift in the tourism marketing paradigm away from economic profit priorities toward sustainability. The sustainability approach adopts a holistic, integrated view of marketing, considering social equity, environmental protection, and economic...

Description The paper aims to differentiate the differences of both night market experience and image between temporary residents and foreign visitors in Taiwan and to explore the relationship between experience and image. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research Night...

Description This paper seeks to analyze the extent to which New Zealand domestic and outbound travelers’ book components of their trip in advance or at their destination and to explore the factors that influence this. Furthermore, the paper compares the distribution channels used by domestic and...