An empirical structural model of tourists and places: Progressing involvement and place attachment into tourism

Gross, Michael J.; Brown, Graham

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2008.02.009

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“…The extended TPB model demonstrated that involvement with food and wine activities had an effect on emotional attitude, and found, directly and indirectly, effects of food and wine involvement on intentions to participate in a wine-based holiday (Sparks, 2007). Gross and Brown (2008) examined the utility of combining leisure activity involvement and place attachment to assess destination-specific tourism experiences. They found that food and wine was one of the key multidimensional constructs of leisure activity involvement, including attraction, centrality to lifestyle, and self expression.…”

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“…They found that food and wine was one of the key multidimensional constructs of leisure activity involvement, including attraction, centrality to lifestyle, and self expression. The authors added that food and wine involvement was a positive predictor of place attachment (Gross and Brown, 2008). Kim, Eves, and Scarles (2009) attempted to identify crucial elements influencing consumption of local food in a tourist destination, and they showed three important categories: physiological factors (i.e.…”

Section: Food-related Personality Traits and Consumer Behavioursmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only a few studies on food-related personality (e.g. Cohen and Avieli, 2004;Getz and Brown, 2006;Gross and Brown, 2006;Gross and Brown, 2008;Kim, Eves, and Scarles, 2009;Sparks, 2007) have been investigated attitudes and behaviours towards food-related holidays. In addition, except for the work of Brown, Havitz, and Getz (2006) who developed a wine involvement scale (WIS), other studies have dealt with food-related personality traits as only a small element of their research.…”

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The relationships between food-related personality traits, satisfaction, and loyalty among visitors attending food events and festivals

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“…Leisure researchers began to explore involvement during the 1990s from both social-psychological and behavioural perspectives and have explored relationships between motivation and enduring involvement (Kyle et al 2006), involvement, commitment and loyalty (Iwasaki and Havitz 1998), involvement and attitudinal loyalty (Park 1996) and involvement and place attachment (Kyle et al 2003;Gross and Brown 2008) across a range of leisure settings (for an overview of earlier research see Kim et al 1997;Kyle and Chick 2002) but to date, involvement has not been explored from a heritage or arts context. Furthermore, Kyle et al (2007) note that most leisure scholarship focuses on either 'enduring' or 'situational' facets of the involvement construct.…”

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Involvement, Tate, and me

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Armstrong

2010

Journal of Marketing Management

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The involvement construct has been explored in relation to products, services and leisure but not in an art museum context. The purpose of this paper is to address this theoretical gap by drawing on the marketing and leisure literature to understand members' consumption of Tate using the involvement construct.Tate, a portfolio of four art museums in the UK has more than 90,000 members that receive a benefits package in return for a membership fee. Data were collected using an interpretive, qualitative approach. 59 face to face semistructured interviews were conducted with Tate Members during spring 2008.The narratives expose the complexity in exploring the involvement construct and the analysis revealed six new involvement characteristics: 1) Centrality and Pleasure; 2) Desire to Learn; 3) Escapism: Spirituality and Creativity; 4) Sense of Belonging and Prestige; 5) Physical; and 6) Drivers of Involvement. These are discussed in the context of previous studies into museum consumption, services and leisure involvement literature. The authors discuss how these findings may be transferred to other settings and the managerial implications for marketers and membership managers are considered.

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“…The reliability and validity of this selection rationale is supported by studies such as Kyle, Graefe, Manning and Bacon (2003), and Gross and Brown (2008). Moreover, one question in each research was included to examine the intended or actual participation (before the Olympics), and the actual participation of the respondents (after the Olympics), in decision-making, whilst the respondents' socio-demographics (gender, age and area of residence) were also collected for comparison of the two samples (Table 1).…”

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Pre- and Postevaluation of Residents' Participation and Support of the 2012 London Olympics

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2017

Event Management

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Even if the participation of locals is limited in mega-event decision-making, their support is crucial to the event's success. Using Social Exchange Theory, the study examines the extent to which community participation and perceived impacts affect residents' support of mega-events. Implementing a structural model, the examination is based on the combination of two pieces of research undertaken before and after the London Olympics. Findings confirm the importance of perceived benefits and costs in community support. They also reveal the increase in positive perceptions after the event, the strengthening of community participation willingness and residents' support, and provide an understanding of the role of perceived success in perspective formulation. Moreover, the study uses an explanatory model for the visualisation of the findings.Keywords: community participation, perceived impacts, mega-events, residents' attitudes, support model 2 INTRODUCTIONThe participation of locals in mega-events decision-making strongly influences the host community's support for further development (Gursoy & Kendall, 2006). This support in event related activities extends community participation and increases the willingness of locals to act as hosts in the foreseeable future (Pappas, 2014). Still, the participation of locals in decision-making is often limited due to: instructions for decision-making in governing systems (Eshlinki & Kaboudi, 2012), institutional and cultural constraints, resource property rights arrangements (Li, 2006), coordi nation problems amongst stakeholders (Grabher & Thiel, 2015), and the outdated incentives given to residents for the realisation of benefits over time (Suich, 2013).Support of the community in furthering tourism development has a significant influence on tourism planning policies (Yu, Chancellor & Cole, 2011), especially with regard to large-scale events since they heavily influence the life and the power relationships amongst locals (Frawley, 2015). Locals are likely to be positive and enthusiastic about hosting large-scale events such as the Olympics, since they perceive that their quality of life will be improved (Zhou & Ap, 2009). Still, megaevents may engender some participatory initiatives for the local community, but in general, decision-making and planning allow little input from local residents (Lamberti Noci, Guo & Zhu , 2011), whilst the more democratic approach to megaevent planning is surely more difficult to implement (Pappas, 2014). Consequently, the benefit asymmetry produced by mega-events historically hinders the diffusion of collaborative planning and community participation (Matheson, 2006). before and after mega-events. Taking into consideration the perspective that attitudes before, during and after the event could be significantly different (Gursoy & Kendall, 2006), the aim of the paper is to examine the extent to which community participation and perceived impacts affect residents' support of mega-events; more specifically, the London Olympics. Through the cr...

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An empirical structural model of tourists and places: Progressing involvement and place attachment into tourism

Cited by 323 publications

References 38 publications

The relationships between food-related personality traits, satisfaction, and loyalty among visitors attending food events and festivals

The relationships between food-related personality traits, satisfaction, and loyalty among visitors attending food events and festivals

Involvement, Tate, and me

Pre- and Postevaluation of Residents' Participation and Support of the 2012 London Olympics

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