This study develops a model based on the developmental theory of place attachment. The model considers the influence of tourists’ emotions on place attachment and the mediating effects of satisfaction and place attachment on the relationship between tourists’ emotions and intention to recommend. The model was tested using data collected from 464 international tourists at the end of their trip to Thailand. Results show that positive emotions, negative emotions and satisfaction are significant determinants of place attachment. In particular, negative emotions display a positive relationship with place attachment. In addition, only satisfaction mediates the relationship between tourists’ emotions and intention to recommend. Findings highlight the need for researchers to incorporate emotions in modeling place attachment and offer implications for marketers promoting Thailand as a tourist destination.

This study develops a tourist satisfaction assessment system based on a dual-model framework and demonstrates its general applicability. The first model concerns tourist satisfaction and its key antecedents and consequences. Structural equation modelling is employed to investigate the relationships amongst the constructs in the theoretical framework, and is then used as a basis for the computation of sectoral-level tourist satisfaction indexes. The second model is designed to estimate an aggregate service satisfaction index and an overall destination satisfaction index using a multiple indicator and multiple cause approach. The framework is applied to a large dataset that represents six tourism-related sectors and seven major source markets of inbound tourism to Hong Kong.

This paper studies the interplay between the N = 2 gauge theories in three and four dimensions that have a geometric description in terms of twisted compactification of the six-dimensional (2,0) SCFT. Our main goal is to construct the three-dimensional domain walls associated to any three-dimensional cobordism. We find that we can build a variety of 3d theories that represent the local degrees of freedom at a given domain wall in various 4d duality frames, including both UV S-dual frames and IR Seiberg-Witten electric-magnetic dual frames. We pay special attention to Janus domain walls, defined by four-dimensional Lagrangians with position-dependent couplings. If the couplings on either side of the wall are weak in different UV duality frames, Janus domain walls reduce to S-duality walls, i.e. domain walls that encode the properties of UV dualities. If the couplings on one side are weak in the IR and on the other weak in the UV, Janus domain walls reduce to RG walls, i.e. domain walls that encode the properties of RG flows. We derive the 3d geometries associated to both types of domain wall, and test their properties in simple examples, both through basic fieldtheoretic considerations and via comparison with quantum Teichmüller theory. Our main mathematical tool is a parametrization and quantization of framed flat SL(K) connections on these geometries based on ideal triangulations. arXiv:1304.6721v1 [hep-th] 24 Apr 2013 7 Example 2: interfaces for SU (2) N f = 4 70 7.1 Enhanced flavor symmetry and SO(12) surprises 71 7.2 The RG wall theory 76 7.3 The S-duality wall 78 -i -7.4 The 6j symbol and volumes of non-ideal tetrahedra 80 A Coordinates from hybrid triangulations 82 A.1 Boundary coordinates 83 A.2 Twists for small annuli 87 A.3 Tetrahedra and coordinates in the bulk 90 B Triangulation of general RG and duality manifolds 98 B.1 The construction 99 C Quantum dilogarithms 104 3 In [5] mainly the g = A1 case was discussed. The generalization to AK−1 is straightforward following [6]. 4 More precisely, different choices of polarization become related by Sp(2d, Z) electric-magnetic dualitytransformations of the combined 3d-4d system. We will review how t and Π are "erased" in Section 2.3.-4 -coupling turns out to be precisely the one described above -we will review how this arises in Sections 2-3. The full 3d-4d system does not depend on t or on big-boundary polarization Π. Now, for this picture to make sense, two things must be true:1. The regular line defects of the 6d A K−1 theory must be able to end. (Otherwise the dictionary between small discs and semi-infinite defects breaks down.)2. The abelian flavor symmetries of T K [M, t, Π] associated to the A-cycles of small annuli and tori, a priori U (1) K−1 , must be enhanced 5 to SU (K). (Because closed or infinite regular defects of the 6d theory carry non-abelian SU (K) flavor symmetry.) More precisely, these flavor symmetries of T K [M ] must be enhanced after coupling to Seiberg-Witten theories as above.A large part of this paper will be devoted to understandi...

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The purpose of this study is to test a two-step tourist satisfaction index framework empirically. The first step estimates sectoral-level satisfaction indexes based on a structural equation model, and the second obtains an overall tourist satisfaction index by conducting second-order confirmatory factor analysis. This study acts as a pilot test of the theoretical framework based on three selected tourism-related sectors in Hong Kong. The results indicate that mainland Chinese tourists are most satisfied with the hotel sector in Hong Kong, followed by the retail sector, and least satisfied with local tour operators. The aggregate tourist satisfaction index for Hong Kong is 74.04 out of 100. The results of this study have important practical implications for long-term destination management.