Although religion and religiosity arewell-known factors for influencing behaviour in different social settings, there is very limited research that explores the links between them and visitation patterns of tourists. In this study tourists’ visitation patterns to a heritage site of religious significance (the Wailing Wall, Israel) are explored. Differences are found between tourists based on th...

Businesses that are typically associated as belonging to ‘the tourist industry’ may find that tourists are only part of their business mix and may or may not strategically target tourists as a distinct segment. That is, businesses that serve tourists also serve non-tourists. As such, tourism is only ‘partially industrialised’. Despite being acknowledged three decades ago, only two empirical stu...

This paper performs an assessment of tourists' perception towards semces associated with lodging (hotel factors), dining (restaurant factors), and transportation (transportation factors). The results of the empirical analysis suggested that these are the underlying dimentions held by the tourists: (1) Hotel factors Staff service quality, room quality, business serVices,. security, value and foo...

This study aims to determine the effect of destination image on intention recommend memorable tourism experiences tourists participating in organized tours. In this context, relationships between variables image, experience, tourist satisfaction and were examined research process. Quantitative methods used study. A questionnaire was preferred as data collection tool. The population consists ind...

Hot springs are a major attraction for domestic tourists in Japan. Evoking favorable impression of the experience during information-gathering stage travel is important order to attract prospective tourists. Previous findings have suggested that photographic presentation hot-spring hotel can serve as medium managers In current online questionnaire study, five hundred and eighteen Japanese were ...

No profile of events can capture all the facts, the chaos, and the many thousands of pages devoted to what the Gulf of Mexico oil blowout was—and was not. During several visits to the Gulf region in 2010 and in the months I spent writing a book on the subject, the best way I found to make sense of the blowout’s many facets was as conceptual topography, its contours shaped by the interlaced fact...

The purpose of the study is to examine customers’ perceptions of service quality in the Croatian hotel industry. The aim is to assess the perceived service quality of hotel attributes and to determine the factor structure of service quality perception. A modified servqual scale was used to assess service quality perceptions from the perspective of domestic and international tourists. Data were ...

Behavioral constructs such as image, attitude, or (perceived) service quality used in explanatory models of tourist behavior are based on perceptual variables. In contemporary latent-variable-multiple-indicator models perceptions serve as observables linking a theoretical term such as image to the language of measurement. In tourism research image is the most widespread construct and destinatio...

An increased number of tourists viewing animals in the wild have increased stress on these animals (hereafter wildlife). Many wildlife-viewing locations rely on voluntary compliance with posted regulations to protect animals from tourists because of the expense of employing on-site enforcement personnel. Voluntary compliance, however, is ineffective. The presence of official-looking volunteers ...

Tourists want to tell other people about their journeys and adventures. This is often done via social networks and digital photos. But what if one could tell other people about a great tour by sharing the tour itself with others than just photos or short messages?. In this paper, we present an intuitive authoring tool for gamebased city tours and a rendering app for these tours on iOS. This way...