Showing papers in "Tourism Management in 2007"

TL;DR: In this paper, a more integrated tourist behavior model by including destination image and perceived value into the "quality-satisfaction-behavioral intentions" paradigm was proposed, and the structural relationships between all variables with respect to different stages of tourist behaviors were investigated in the study.

TL;DR: The results showed that the image of Macau projected online varies by the different online information sources, which could largely be explained by theDifferent communication objectives and targeted audiences of the different web information sources.

TL;DR: The authors assesses the satisfaction of different tourist groups using a conceptual model that combines the concepts of the Expectancy Disconfirmation Paradigm (EDP) and Service Quality framework (SQF).

TL;DR: This paper explored the effects of tourists' novelty-seeking and destination satisfaction on the revisit intentions measured on short-term, mid-term and long-term bases, and found that novelty seeking was a significant antecedent of midterm revisit intention that was connected to longterm intention.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical model of tourists' DMZ tour-perceived value is proposed and empirically tested the constructs that are likely to affect DMZ tourists' tour satisfaction, which in turn influences tourists' recommending DMZ tours to others.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an innovative model for evaluation of the effect of a destination's image on the loyalty intentions of tourists, and explored whether market heterogeneity affects this relationship by performing a latent cluster analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied items on a measurement scale to develop a structural model to describe the tourism impact perceptions of the residents of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, and how these perceptions affect their support for tourism development.

TL;DR: In this paper, a large cross-sectional survey was undertaken within Australia to investigate potential wine tourists' intentions to take a wine-based vacation, and three wine tourism attitudinal dimensions were identified and confirmed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses.

TL;DR: The literature is focused on market segmentation, ecological impacts of wildlife viewing, and community-based ecotourism, but there has been minimal attention to critical areas such as quality control, the industry, external environments or institutions as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors compared how two different destinations use food in their marketing activities and found that Hong Kong makes extensive use of food as part of its core positioning statement and Turkey makes little reference to it, even though its indigenous cuisine is unique and rich.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined gender differences within the context of online travel Website functionality and content preferences as well as search behavior, and found that there were substantial gender differences both in terms of attitudes to information channels and travel website functionality preferences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated residents' attitudes towards tourism in a rural village of Bigodi, Uganda and found that residents have consistently positive attitudes toward tourism and that tourists bring random good fortune.

TL;DR: The reliability and validity of this five-factor scale are verified using empirical data, and it is found that the e-travel quality service scale has strong predictive capability in relation to online customer satisfaction and loyalty intention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how organizational culture with a focus on collaboration and certain types of leadership roles significantly affect knowledge sharing and reveal that there is a strong and positive relationship between a collaborative culture and the effectiveness of knowledge sharing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine whether risk perceptions in shopping affect tourists' emotions, their satisfaction judgement and expressed loyalty intentions, and support strong inverse associations between risk perceptions, emotions, satisfaction judgement, and behavioural intentions.

TL;DR: This article reviewed key themes that impact on the role and management of human resources in tourism (primarily relating to work and employment) and assesses whether the past 20 years provides evidence of significant change within the sector.

TL;DR: A revised IPA is presented which integrates three-factor theory concept, partial correlation analysis and natural logarithmic transformation and enables business managers to achieve a competitive advantage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed convention attendee motivations, performance evaluation, satisfaction, and behavioral intentions in a regional conference setting, and found that the relationships between educational activities, overall satisfaction, word-of-mouth, and intent to return were significant.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the general nature of environmental protection, waste management, purchasing, energy use, and conservation practices of hotels in Ankara, Turkey and found that hotel managers mostly lack the necessary environmental knowledge and interest to meet the basic objectives of social and environmental responsibility.

TL;DR: This study proposes a novel approach, known as genetic algorithm (GA)-SVR, which searches for SVR's optimal parameters using real value GAs, and then adopts the optimal parameters to construct the SVR models.

TL;DR: An overall service performance index for each pair hotel–date of survey is developed through TOPSIS to help hotel managers to understand their relative ranking position, and provide an adequate alternative to performance evaluation of hotel services which usually involve subjective judgments of qualitative attributes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-conceptualised the importance-performance analysis to one of importance satisfaction, enabling a focus on the quality of experience in the tourism management of national and marine parks.

TL;DR: In this article, a research model investigating the relationship of supervisor support and work-family conflict with the selected job outcomes was developed and tested using a sample of frontline employees in Northern Cyprus hotels.

TL;DR: This paper examined the influence of cultural distance on tourists' destination choices and found that perceived cultural distance and Clark and Pugh's index were most strongly related to Australian tourists' intentions to visit a variety of holiday destinations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a factor-cluster approach was employed to identify visitor segment profiles based on their motivations for visiting the national reserves in north central Kenya for developing a tourism strategy aimed at enhancing tourist opportunities at the reserves.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how climate change may influence park tourism in the Rocky Mountain region by focusing on both the direct and indirect impacts of climate change for visitation to Waterton Lakes National Park (WLNP).

TL;DR: In this article, the determinants of tourists' length of stay at a destination were analyzed through a questionnaire survey conducted in the summer of 2005, and the findings indicated that, out of 39 variables, 16 significantly associated with tourists' decisions about the length of their stays during a summer vacation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a more integrative theoretical framework is proposed to better describe and explain the nature and dynamism of collaborative destination marketing, and the implications of this framework are provided from both practical and theoretical perspectives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of Korean TV drama series on the potential or actual Japanese tourist flow to Korea and explored the reasons for the popularity of the Korean TV dramas, the change of perceived image as an impact of the melodrama, and the preferred products of soap opera-induced tourism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationships among work-family conflict, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction in a hotel setting, and found that the affective component of OC has stronger direct effects on job satisfaction than normative OC; continuance commitment had no effect.