Gabrielle Walters

TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship among tourists' risk perceptions and various types of their prior knowledge, namely subjective knowledge, objective knowledge, prior visitation, and past international travel experience, and found that subjective knowledge appeared to have the strongest influence on tourist risk perceptions.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3 × 3 factorial experimental design is employed to examine the effects of pictures and text as advertising stimuli to evoke elaborate consumption visions among the participants within the context of holiday decision making.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effectiveness of nine disaster recovery message themes commonly used by destination marketing organizations and found that the messages were presented to respondents via a print advertisement promoting the Victorian region of Gippsland.

TL;DR: This paper explored the primary risk dimensions that the Australian tourism market associates with the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Jordan and investigated how prior knowledge may counter these perceived risks, and identified three risk dimensions associated with the region, namely: physical, general, and destination specific.

TL;DR: The threat of terrorism is increasingly relevant to tourism on a global scale, and no destination can claim exemption as discussed by the authors, and tourism managers need to be aware of the impact that past, current, and future terrorism has on tourism.