Destination fascination: Conceptualization and scale development

Liu, Chyong-Ru; Wang, Yao‐Chin; Huang, Wen-Shiung; Chen, Shan-Pei

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2017.06.023

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“…Liu et al (2017) defined destination fascination as “the extent to which a destination gives tourists the freedom to pay attention to their interests, to freely explore details in the destination, and to freely and personally define meanings of the destination” (p. 257). Theoretical foundations of destination fascination are generated from discussions about human–environment relationships.…”

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Destination Fascination and Destination Loyalty: Subjective Well-Being and Destination Attachment as Mediators

Wang

Liu

Huang

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Journal of Travel Research

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Following the Reasonable Person Model, this study examines the effects of destination fascination on subjective well-being and destination attachment as well as looking at the subsequent outcome of destination loyalty. A total of 936 responses were collected from tourists to national parks (302), forest recreational areas (300), and theme parks (334). The results of this study prove the effect of destination fascination on improving subjective well-being and destination attachment and shows the effects of subjective well-being and destination attachment on enhancing destination loyalty. Subjective well-being and destination attachment fully mediated effects from destination fascination to destination loyalty. Moreover, extensive validity of the proposed model was verified by engaging different destination types. The findings of this study enrich the base of knowledge about destination fascination in the tourism academy and contributes practical implications for destination management and marketing.

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“…Kaplan and Kaplan 2011). Based on attention restoration theory, Liu et al (2017) established a 24-item Destination Fascination Scale with six dimensions: fitness, friendliness, uniqueness, attractiveness, mystique, and richness.…”

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Destination Fascination and Destination Loyalty: Subjective Well-Being and Destination Attachment as Mediators

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Huang

et al. 2019

Journal of Travel Research

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“…They found that correlations across these characteristics generally followed the predictions of Laumann, while they appeared most notably in the relationship between extent and compatibility. A fascinating environment draws people's attention effortlessly, freeing them from a situation that induces fatigue, and people define the meaning of an environment with their intrinsic motivations [24]. Extent has been considered a key antecedent of fascination as it provides a sufficiently rich and coherent environment to constitute a whole world for exploring fascination [25].…”

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Listening to Forests: Comparing the Perceived Restorative Characteristics of Natural Soundscapes before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020

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Natural sounds are known to contribute to health and well-being. However, few studies have investigated what makes a natural sound renew and re-energize people, especially in the face of significant stressors caused by the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study examined the interactive mechanism towards the perceived restorative characteristics of natural soundscapes: fascination, being-away, compatibility, and extent. Two groups of data were collected in Burleigh Heads National Park, Australia, before the outbreak of COVID-19 (n = 526) and in October 2020 (n = 371). The objective measures of LAeq confirmed that the acoustic environment of Burleigh Heads National Park are quiet and peaceful for attention restoration. The results of the subject evaluation revealed that participants from the post-COVID-19 group reported higher stress levels, while there was a greater mental restoration through water sounds. There are significant differences between the pre- and post-COVID-19 groups with respect to the relationships among the perceived restorative characteristics of natural soundscapes. The direct effects of extent and fascination, as well as the mediating effects of fascination, were more significant among the post-COVID-19 group than the pre-COVID-19 group. However, the effects of being-away on compatibility were less significant in the post-COVID-19 group. This study reduces the gap that exists on the research of environment–people–health–wellbeing nexus. Knowledge about natural soundscapes encourages administrations to consider it as a guideline for the planning and management of natural resources, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…The other, which Churchill (1979) recommended, is to explore dimensionality with the first round of data and then collect and analyze a new data sample with the purified questionnaire. As a means of assessing reliability and construct validity, this second approach has been widely used to develop improved measures (e.g., Chu and Murrmann 2006; Fetscherin and Stephano 2016; Liu et al 2017; Wen et al 2018). The current study followed Churchill’s recommendation, which yielded 319 valid questionnaires from the 400 distributed (Appendix B).…”

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“…Although this research provides timely theoretical contributions for TMR and practical implications for the tourism market, it has several limitations. First, even with all the data collected in China, cross-cultural reliability and validity (Knight 1997) were not tested in this study (Liu et al 2017). To further validate the scale, future research could replicate the current study using data from other cultural contexts.…”

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Evaluating Tourism Market Regulation from Tourists’ Perspective: Scale Development and Validation

Liu

Yao

Fan

2019

Journal of Travel Research

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Despite the increasing attention given to tourism regulation in recent years, great ambiguity surrounds this concept and no valid and reliable instrument exists to measure tourism market regulation (TMR). This study uses multi-step mixed methods to develop a measurement scale of TMR from the perspective of tourists. In the first step, interviews and focus groups are undertaken to formulate a clear definition of TMR and its attributes. In the second step, a scale development procedure is adopted to analyze two rounds of data for dimension exploration via exploratory factor analysis and confirmation via confirmatory factor analysis. Through these analyses, five dimensions are generated: regulatory oversight, truth in advertising, tourism contract compliance, fulfilling tourism contracts, and travel feedback processing. The reliable and valid results contribute to refining TMR in the context of China. They also provide a useful tool for tourists and destination marketing organizations to measure and govern TMR in other regions/countries.

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Destination fascination: Conceptualization and scale development

Cited by 39 publications

References 64 publications

Destination Fascination and Destination Loyalty: Subjective Well-Being and Destination Attachment as Mediators

Destination Fascination and Destination Loyalty: Subjective Well-Being and Destination Attachment as Mediators

Listening to Forests: Comparing the Perceived Restorative Characteristics of Natural Soundscapes before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Evaluating Tourism Market Regulation from Tourists’ Perspective: Scale Development and Validation

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