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...

In order to explore the relationship of promotion activities, destination attribute and destination image of Vietnam and find possible solutions, this study uses decision system analysis (DSA) method to develop flowcharts based on three rounds of expert interviews. The interviews were conducted with the experts who were confirmed to directly participate or influence on the decision making that ...

Contextual impacts have a major role for the tourist pro-environmental behaviour at destination, however, they remain under-researched. In this article, we explore change in of tourists from daily to tourism context. We surveyed asking them evaluate environmental image, their recently visited destination and life, then analysed data with t -test regression analysis. The results show that: 1) mo...

Standard tours combined with lack of information make many tourists miss some important experiences a destination has to offer. The target of the Dynamic Tour Guide (DTG) is to discover Tour Building Blocks (TBB), e.g. attractions like sights or restaurants, dependent on the actual context which is defined by personal interests, location and schedule of a tourist. It determines current informat...

West Nusa Tenggara Province, especially the island of Lombok, has many tourist destinations, namely nature tourism, cultural and attractions (sports tourism). Still, tourism sector in NTB is one sectors most affected by COVID-19 pandemic era. This study aimed to determine risk perception, destination image experience on revisit intention after Covid-19 pandemic. uses a quantitative approach wit...

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...

This article discusses tourist-activated networks as a concept to inform technological applications supporting dynamic bundling and en route recommendations. Empirical data were collected from travelers who visited a regional destination in the US and then analyzed with respect to its network stmcture. The results indicate that the tourist-activated network for the destination is rather sparse ...

This study investigates the advantages and the potentiality of the ‘tourist kit’, an Italian solution based on the concept of a prepaid card that is issued by a large postal operator. The destination card can be reloaded by tourists according to their needs and its validity is not restricted to short periods. Thus, the kit provides tourists with an integrated, practical, and flexible tool capab...

Safety and security are key aspects for the success of tourism in every destination. Rather than objective risks, it is rather the tourist's individual and subjective perception of these risks that mostly infl uence destination choice and in the long run tourism fl ows from one country to another. Th e concept of risk perception has been highly studied in tourism, however the literature remains...