Destination quality, experience involvement And memorable tourism experience: is it relevant for rural tourism? [PDF]
Abstract The development of tourism industry includes the development of rural tourism based on Edu-Tourism. The biggest challenge of this industry is the lack of interest of the tourists to return to the rural tourism or Edu-Tourism destinations.
NUGRAHA, Kristian Suhartadi Widi +2 more
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Visitor Information Centres’ Contribution Towards Creating Memorable Visitor Experiences [PDF]
Information exchange is a process through which information, experience and skills are exchanged among stakeholders. While studies acknowledge the role of VICs in enhancing memorable visitor experiences, it remains unclear how the experiences that ...
Kholadi Tlabela, Anneli Douglas
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The effect of tourists’ perceptions of a tourism product on memorable travel experience: Implications for destination branding. [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to analyse how tourists’ perceptions of a destination’s tourism product influences memorable tourism experiences and how gender differences influence tourists’ perceptions of tourism product.
Ladkin, Adele, Tukamushaba, E., Xiao, H.
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How Memorable Are Agrifood Travel Experiences?
Destinations seek to increase their competitiveness by offering memorable experiences that can stimulate repeat visitation and positive word of mouth. Travel experiences centered on agrifood systems (i.e., agrifood tourism) encompass a set of attributes (
Jibin Baby +2 more
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The accommodation experiencescape: a comparative assessment of hotels and Airbnb [PDF]
PURPOSE: Accommodations providers in the sharing economy are increasingly competing with the hotel industry vis-à-vis the guest experience. Additionally, experience-related research remains underrepresented in the hospitality and tourism literature ...
Lehto, Xinran +2 more
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Memorable tourism experience is regarded as an important concept in understanding tourists’ travel experiences; however, emotional solidarity toward local residents and its influence on volunteer tourists has not been studied in the field of volunteer ...
Li Jiang, Thomas Eck, Soyoung An
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Understanding cycle tourism experiences at the Tour Down Under [PDF]
Sport tourism experiences are subjective and emotional, laden with symbolic meaning. This study explores the experiences of participants who adopted the multiple roles of both an active participant and event spectator, within the parameters of one chosen
Bourdieu P. +27 more
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Going back to its roots: can hospitableness provide hotels competitive advantage over the sharing economy? [PDF]
While the customer experience is at the heart of the hospitality industry, experience-related research remains underrepresented. This gap is critical, particularly given the emerging threat of the sharing economy to the hotel industry along experiential ...
Lehto, Xinran +2 more
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Memorable Tourism Experiences: Scale Development [PDF]
This paper presents the findings of a research intended to develop a reliable and valid measurement instrument for memorable tourism experiences from the perspectives of more regular and typical leisure-oriented travellers. The exploratory stage involved data analysis of 100 travel blog narratives and 35 in-depth interviews and the subsequent ...
Lalith Chandralal +1 more
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From Service to Experience: Understanding and Defining the Hospitality Business [PDF]
Failure adequately to define or understand hospitality as a commercial phenomenon has created a fragmented academic environment and a schizophrenia in the industry that has the potential to limit its development as a global industry.
Brotherton B. +19 more
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