The Influence of Destination Awareness, Destination Image and Destination Experience on Travel Decision to Baduy Cultural Tourist Destination, Banten

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...

Spatial and Temporal Tourist Dispersal Analysis in Multiple Destination Travel

Mining tourist imagery to construct destination image position model

This study presents a position model for evaluating the image of tourists a destination. The evaluation is based on secondary data from 1999 through 2004, using a database composed of 20,023 respondents. Data are analyzed using the K-Means data mining method. Analytical results indicate that the destination image position (DIP) model is established, and four groups of visitor are identified. Th...

Understanding and Measuring Tourist Destination Images

A destination image is `the expression of all objective knowledge, impressions, prejudice, imaginations, and emotional thoughts an individual or group might have of a particular place' (Lawson and Baud Bovy, 1977). Destination images in ̄uence a tourist's travel decision-making, cognition and behaviour at a destination as well as satisfaction levels and recollection of the experience. This paper...

Impact of Travel Information Search Behavior on the Image of Tanzania as a Tourist Destination

Information has been noted to be the key to the formation of destination image. Destination marketers are aware of this fact and they aggressively try to influence the tourist’s decisions by altering the image of their destinations through information provision. During their trip planning, tourists usually engage themselves with active information search. Despite motives being the crux of trave...