Annals of Tourism Research 

TL;DR: Crompton et al. as discussed by the authors identified nine socio-psychological motives of pleasure vacationers, namely escape from a perceived mundane environment, exploration and evaluation of self, relaxation, prestige, regression, enhancement of kinship relationships, and facilitation of social interaction.

TL;DR: A major finding was that a destination image is formed by both stimulus factors and tourists' characteristics, which provides important implications for strategic image management and can aid in designing and implementing marketing programs for creating and enhancing tourism destination images.

TL;DR: In this paper, a structural equations model was used to investigate the effect of perceived performance quality on behavioral intentions and satisfaction, and the results indicated that the perceptions measure of quality fitted the hypothesized model better than data derived from the subjective disconfirmation measure.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual clarification of the meanings of authenticity in tourist experiences is presented, and three approaches are discussed, objectivism, constructivism, and postmodernism, and the limits of object-related authenticity are also exposed.

TL;DR: In this article, three basic assumptions, common in the literature on tourism, regarding "commoditization", "staged authenticity" and the inability of tourists to have authentic experiences are re-examined.