How Experiences With Cultural Attractions Affect Destination Image and Destination Loyalty

Does the Localisation of Cultural Markers Affect User’s Destination image?

This paper represents a pioneer work on the discussion of the effects of the localisation of cultural markers on tourism destination websites on user’s destination image. First, a preliminary research was conducted on 130 sites in order to identify the cultural markers of New Zealand, Chinese and Indian tourism destination sites. Afterwards, an experiment was conducted to investigate the influe...

Towards a Conceptual Framework for Tourists‟ Destination Knowledge and Loyalty

The Long Tails of Destination Image

This study examined the long tail nature of destination image using China as an example. The results indicated that the keywords the travelers used to describe China’s image follow power-law distribution. The destination images, expressed by the keywords/terms the respondents typed in, dominated by a few keywords on the top, but contain large amount of small niches. Since those keywords are lik...

Virtual Tourism Destination Image Innovating measurement methodologies

This paper reports on an innovative research study that utilised the enabling technologies of the internet and computerised content analysis to approach the measurement of destination image from a phenomenographic post-positivist perspective. In an online survey, respondents were asked to describe their image of one of seven case-study destinations that they had never visited before, in story f...

The Role of Destination Attributes in Assessing/ Constructing the Image of Tourist Destination

This chapter aims to present and discuss the concept of ‘destination image’, as shown in the literature to date and also to identify the way in which the image has been formed. The process of image formation is a dynamic one, in which the influence factors have a different importance and they continuously change and complete each other. It intend to analyze the formation and communication of th...