Measuring tourist satisfaction and destination image with HOLSAT

Understanding and Measuring Tourist Destination Images

A destination image is `the expression of all objective knowledge, impressions, prejudice, imaginations, and emotional thoughts an individual or group might have of a particular place' (Lawson and Baud Bovy, 1977). Destination images in ̄uence a tourist's travel decision-making, cognition and behaviour at a destination as well as satisfaction levels and recollection of the experience. This paper...

Assessing Tourist Experience Satisfaction with a Heritage Destination

Mining tourist imagery to construct destination image position model

This study presents a position model for evaluating the image of tourists a destination. The evaluation is based on secondary data from 1999 through 2004, using a database composed of 20,023 respondents. Data are analyzed using the K-Means data mining method. Analytical results indicate that the destination image position (DIP) model is established, and four groups of visitor are identified. Th...

The Role of Destination Attributes in Assessing/ Constructing the Image of Tourist Destination

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...

MODELING TOURIST MOVEMENTS A Local Destination Analysis

Models depicting the spatial movement patterns of tourists within a destination are proposed in this paper. They are developed using an inductive approach based on urban transportation modeling and tourist behavior, to identify explanatory factors that could influence movements. Factors identified included a set of destination characteristics and a set of tourist characteristics that influence ...