Research dealing with the motives of sports tourists from a marketer’s perspective remains underdeveloped. This chapter describes the phenomenon of sports tourism and aspires to examine with an empirical study the motives of winter and summer sports tourists. The first sample (n=339) was comprised of active as well as passive summer sports tourists. The second sample (n=477) only focused on act...

While tourism presents considerable potential for the use of new mobile technologies, we currently have little understanding of how tourists organise their activities or of the problems they face. This paper presents an ethnographic study of city tourists’ practices that draws out a number of implications for designing tourist technology. We describe how tourists work together in groups, collab...

Medical tourism, a thriving industry encompassing both healthcare and tourism sectors, has experienced exponential growth over the past decades. The intensifying competition within global market necessitates closer examination of pivotal role played by perceptions medical tourists in their decision-making process regarding health destination visits. Thus, this study aims to explore interplay be...

The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions millennial generation towards Kintamani as a tourism destination from three aspects, namely attractions, facilities and accessibility. As qualitative research, data analysis was carried out in descriptive manner. sample 99 people, determined by Slovin method, consisting 89 domestic tourists 11 foreign tourists. results showed that Tourism ...

This study presented and tested a conceptual model that examined how negative event at tourism destination influenced perceived betrayal boycott among tourists. A mixed method approach with three studies was adopted to verify the proposed hypotheses. In Study 1, using Weibo microblogging platform data, we evaluated impacts of on tourists' perception intentions participate in boycott. 2, an expe...

This study examines the relationship between local food quality perception, dining satisfaction, and post-dining behavioral intention in context of sustainable gastronomy tourism Manavgat/Antalya. The research also analyzes moderator roles neophilia neophobia this relationship. A face-to-face survey was conducted with tourists who visited region experienced restaurants. Accordingly, 487 partici...

Previous studies have reported the negative impacts of tourism on nonhuman primates (NHPs) and tourists and advocated the improvement of tourism management, yet what constitutes good quality management remains unclear. We explored whether rates of macaque aggression and self-directed behaviors (SDBs) differed under the supervision of two park ranger teams at the Valley of the Wild Monkeys (VWM)...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Transplant "tourism" typically refers to the practice of traveling outside the country of residence to obtain organ transplantation. This study describes the characteristics and outcomes of 33 kidney transplant recipients who traveled abroad for transplant and returned to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for follow-up. DESIGN, SETTINGS, PARTICIPANTS, & ME...

Along with the popularization of network, travel decisions have been relying more on the network. This article attempted to study , the role of network in the new generation of tourism decision-making and the behavior of tourists and sum up the investigation and analysis of the literature. In addition, , based on the analysis of various factors that affect tourists’ travel decisions, the study ...

Affected by the factors like population, economic and geographic conditions, accommodation offerings are inherently different at different cities and characterized with their specific features. This heterogeneity is not limited to the supply-side but covers the demand-side as well. For instance, business and leisure tourists may favor different travel destinations. Therefore, the development of...