Destination restaurants, place attachment, and future destination patronization

Abstract

Consumers sometimes travel to a destination for the main purpose of enjoying the food and services a restaurant can offer. These restaurants are termed destination Restaurants. This study explores what constitutes such an experience at destination restaurants and how such experience influences visitors’ sense of place development for the destination they travel to and their revisit intention for the place. Data was gathered using a self-administered questionnaire distributed to tourists dining in destination restaurants in Hwayang-Dong in Chungbuk province, South Korea. Based on a convenience sample of 244 participants, the results suggest that a destination restaurant experience compromises seven components including ‘Food quality’, ‘Locale image’, ‘Restaurant atmosphere’, ‘Price Fairness’, ‘Ingroup socialization’, ‘Ease of conversation’, and ‘Immersion’. The research showed that locale image, atmosphere, ease of conversation, and immersion significantly affect overall restaurant experience satisfaction. The findings also demonstrated that the destination restaurant experience positively affects tourist place attachment and destination revisit intention.

Evidence on the Relationship between Place Attachment and Behavioral Intentions between 2010 and 2021: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Place attachment, meanwhile, was found to positively influence recommendation and revisit intentions [27,64,71]. Although the study by Reference [68] demonstrated that positive destination restaurant experiences had a positive effect on place attachment, they could not find a significant relationship between place attachment and revisit intention. Similarly, the work by Reference [86] revealed that place attachment had no significant direct effect on revisit intention.…”

Exploring the Drivers of Tourists' Revisit Intention: Does Digital Payment Adoption and Tour Guide Performance Matters?

“…In the tourism literature, destination attachment has received great attention as it can lead to satisfaction and loyalty to destinations (Clarke et al, 2018;Boley et al, 2021) and ongoing return visits (Peštek and Savan, 2020;Eger et al, 2022;). To predict destination attachment, many potential determinants have been explored such as image (Hansen and Mossberg, 2017;Boley et al, 2021;Mohamed et al, 2022), involvement (Rasoolimanesh et al, 2019), experience (Seyfi et al, 2020;Nugraha et al, 2021;Rasoolimanesh et al, 2022), and shared beliefs (Lee and Jeong, 2021). Destination attachment theory asserts that positive emotions and happiness are associated with bonds between people and places (Hansen and Mossberg, 2017;Lee and Jeong, 2021).…”

“…For example, Syakier and Hanafiah (2022) examined the influence of tour guide performance on tourists' satisfaction and their behavioral intention, and found that tour guide performance can predict tourists' satisfaction and positive behavioral intention. In addition, Mohamed et al (2022) developed a model of tourist' destination attachment and highlighted its influence on tourists' revisit intention. Finally, Bagla and Sancheti (2018) analyzed how the adoption of digital payment using digital wallets can lead to customer satisfaction, which in this study, is translated into the use of digital payment adoption in tourism context.…”

Slowing Down in “Little Shanghai”: A Nostalgia-induced Framework of Reciprocity between Psychological Ownership and Heritage Preservation

“…Another symbolic motive is place attachment , accentuating the need for forming an emotionally driven bond over time that links the self with the heritage site (Chen et al, 2021). Also, place attachment comprises two categories: place dependence and place identity (Mohamed et al, 2022). We define place dependence as the need for forming a functional attachment to the heritage site due to cognitive evaluations of its importance in crafting a satisfactory experience.…”