Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop and test an integrated structural gastro-tourism wellbeing model consisting food-related lifestyle leisure attitude as a precursor the consumption enjoyment experience with satisfaction, life domain outcomes, tourism autobiographical memory satisfaction outcomes enjoyment. Design/methodology/approach conceptual was assessed quantitative data colle...

The tourism value chain plays an important role in sustainable development because it makes identifying the services possible order to create for tourists. This study is conducted identify basic elements of and measure their impact on tourist satisfaction, thereby evaluating effectiveness Vietnam. Hypotheses are tested from estimation coefficients Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) multigroup a...

The tourism footprint family comprises the tourism ecological footprint (TEF), the tourism carbon footprint (TCF) and the tourism water footprint (TWF). The tourism footprint represents an important tool for quantitatively assessing the impact of tourism activities on the ecosystem of a tourist destination. This paper systematically reviews the relevant literature on TEF, TCF and TWF, analyses ...

Introduction Tourism is an industry for people who are looking for something different and they want to be treated as valuable customers (Jung, 1993). Hughes (2000) indicates that holidays provide a strong fantasy element: there is often a hope that something exciting or romantic will happen while on holiday. Since taking a holiday is likely to be one of the largest single expenditures in a yea...

Before traveling, tourists need to ensure that they will have a well-organized trip, which mainly involves a smooth flow of visits to different tourist attractions by themselves or following a pre-designed plan made by tourism service providers. The present study examined how the sequence of visiting tourist attractions influences tourist satisfaction at the expectation and experience levels. P...

extended abstract 1. introduction in recent years, so many countries have paid many attention to tourism as a strategy to make money and benefit for the local communities. many researchers consider tourism an appropriate strategy for economic and social development of developing countries know. despite all the benefits of community-based tourism, in most developing countries, little authority i...

Following the identification of medical tourism as a growth sector by the Malaysian government in 1998, significant government sector and private-sector investments have been channeled into its development over the past 15 years. This is unfolding within the broader context of social services being devolved to for-profit enterprises and 'market-capable' segments of society becoming sites of int...