Bonding to a new place never visited: Exploring the relationship between landscape elements and place bonding

Place Familiarity and Attachment: Moderators of The Relationship Between Readers’ Credibility Assessment of A Travel Blog and Review Acceptance

“…Destination developers can actively work to provide an experience that can develop a high level of self-identity among the visitors. Previous studies have shown that destination brand and its brand personality (Murphy, Benckendorff, & Moscardo, 2007;Orth, 2011),; involvement (Cheng & Kuo, 2015;Su, Cheng, & Huang, 2011), and pleasure and arousal evoked during the visit (Loureiro, 2014;Orth et al, 2010) could generate place attachment. The result showed that there is still room for the Pingsi developer to boost place attachment and familiarity.…”

“…Similar to the notion of place attachment, they have often been used interchangeably with place attachment (Cheng & Kuo, 2015;Hammitt et al, 2006). However, place attachment remains the most popular term being used (Prayag & Ryan, 2012;Ramkissoon et al, 2013), and is used in this study.…”

“…These additional dimensions have moved beyond personal connection to the place to include connection to the natural environment and the community of the place, that is to say the sociocultural dimension of the place (Raymond et al, 2010). Despite the presence of other place attachment dimensions, place identity and place dependence are the two most often researched dimensions (Hammitt et al, 2006) and remain the most commonly used dimensions of place attachment (Budruk et al, 2011;Cheng & Kuo, 2015;Needham & Little, 2013;Smith et al, 2010). Raymond et al (2010) have also suggested that these two dimensions "may be more robust measures of place attachment because they may be less dependent on the characteristics of the social setting of a given study region than family bonding and friend bonding" (p. 432).…”

“…It is also useful in understanding how tourists' behavior, such as shaping their image of the destination, their views of the attractiveness of the destination, and their visit intention (Chen & Lin, 2012;Horng, Liu, Chou, & Tsai, 2012;Milman & Pizam, 1995), are formed. Place familiarity also serves as the initial stage of a people-place relation (Cheng & Kuo, 2015).…”

A Study on Kinmen Residents’ Perception of Tourism Development And Cultural Heritage Impact

“…According to above two definitions, perception of crowding contained two concepts of descriptive information and evaluative information. The former presented the number of people, and the latter showed personally subjective judgment of the number of people (Vaske & Donnelly, 2002;Vaske & Shelby, 2008;Cheng& Kuo, 2015). Such two concepts also implied the factors in perception of crowding.…”