Impact of culture on perceptions of landscape names

Zhang, Chaozhi; Gürsoy, Doğan; Zeng, Deng; Gao, Jun

doi:10.1080/14616688.2014.959991

Cited by 13 publications

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“…Consistent with these previous findings, Zhang et al (2015) confirmed that tourists' cultural backgrounds lead to diverse interpretations of landscape names and influenced their preferences. Specifically, tourists from cultures with high levels of power distance and low levels of individualism prefer landscape names that are mystic, dreamy, fictive, ingenious, original, and poetic, whereas their counterparts (i.e., tourists from cultures with low levels of power distance and high levels of individualism) prefer names that simply describe the landscape.…”

Section: Cultural Differences In Tourist Experiencessupporting

confidence: 87%

Understanding the causes of negative tourism experiences

Kim

Wang

Song

2020

Current Issues in Tourism

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The extant literature on destination attributes has seldom focused on negative tourism experiences. Considering that negative tourism experiences result in undesirable future behaviors, destination managers and researchers must understand the factors that influence tourists' negative experiences. Therefore, this research examined the destination attributes that influence visitors' negative experiences. A total of 298 travelogues were analyzed via an a priori approach. We identified 16 destination attributes that result in negative tourism experiences, including safety, price, quality of service, environment, physiography, culture and history, infrastructure, accessibility, hospitality, variety of activities, weather, food, tourist information, unethical business practices, regulations and customs, and visitor management. The chi-square and correspondence analysis results show that these destination attributes differ by contextual factors, such as the travel destination (domestic or international) and travel type (independent or package tour). Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed based on the study results, and directions for future research are provided.

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Section: Cultural Differences In Tourist Experiencessupporting

confidence: 87%

Understanding the causes of negative tourism experiences

Kim

Wang

Song

2020

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…Furthermore, location also plays an important role in landscape perception. This research shows that people from different countries may hold various opinions about a landscape, consistent with previous studies [68,98,117]. In the study presented by [68], Australian participants fixated more frequently and for longer durations on tourism images than Chinese participants.…”

Section: Demographic Differences In Mountain Landscape Perceptionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Impact of Artificial Elements on Mountain Landscape Perception: An Eye-Tracking Study

Guo

Sun

Chen

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The landscape is an essential resource for attracting tourists to a destination, but this resource has long been overused by tourism development. Tourists and scholars have begun noticing the interference of human structures in the natural environment and how this can change the meaning of a landscape. In this study, the impact of artificial elements on mountain landscapes was investigated by measuring the characteristics of visual perception and a landscape value assessment using eye-tracking analysis. Furthermore, this study includes socio-demographic features for testing whether they have an impact on landscape perception. The results show that human structures impact both visual perception and the perceived value of landscapes. Hotels and temples attract more visual attention than a purely natural landscape. Modern hotels appear to have a negative influence on mountain landscape valuation, while temples with unique culture have positive impacts. Socio-demographic groups differ significantly in how they observe landscape images and, to a degree, how they value the landscape therein. Our study should be of value to landscape planning and tourism policy making.

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“…The literature review by Pike (2002), of destination image articles, reveals that 6 of the 142 published destination image papers showed an explicit interest in affective images, whereas cognitive image is a widely accepted, solid destination measurement base. The majority of destination image studies have analyzed cognitive perceptions by focusing on tangible attributes of destinations (Pearce, 1977(Pearce, , 1982Gartner, 1989;Pike, 2002;Beerli and Mart ın, 2004a;Lee and Lee, 2009;Agapito et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2014;Stylos et al, 2016Stylos et al, , 2017Stylidis et al, 2017;Lin et al, 2018).…”

Section: Cognitive Factors Affecting Destination Image Perceptionmentioning

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Cross-nationality importance performance analysis of Middle East all-inclusive mass tourism destination image

Ceylan

Çızel

Karakaş

2020

JHTI

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PurposeThe paper aims to analyze cognitive attributes affecting the overall destination image perception of British, German and Russian tourists toward Antalya, a well-positioned mass tourism destination in the East Mediterranean region dominated by an all-inclusive (AI) system.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is an empirical study using a structured questionnaire conducted in the summer of 2018 with 274 British, 179 German and 231 Russian tourists departing to their respective source markets from Antalya International Airport. The mean values are used as performance and correlation coefficients of the relationship between each cognitive image dimension and overall image evaluation is used to express importance.FindingsThe paper provides empirical insights that these three nationalities prefer Antalya as an AI holiday destination for different reasons and that each nationality demands attention to different factors of the destination for improvement or preservation.Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides specific recommendations for AI destinations such as Antalya for the German, British and Russian source markets. When other source markets or types of destinations are considered, the findings of this study should be re-considered. Utilization of the original and modernized importance performance analysis (IPA) plot interpretations in this research reveals a deeper understanding of current findings and provides a new perspective for further research and guidance for destination managers and marketers.Practical implicationsUtilization of both original and modernized IPA plot interpretation in this research not only reveals a deeper understanding of current findings but also provides a new perspective for future studies and guidance for destination managers and marketers.Originality/valueUnlike the majority of destination image research, this study of destination image based on individual nationalities enables tailor-made destination image development according to diversified importance and performance of destination attributes affecting the overall destination image for each nationality.

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Impact of culture on perceptions of landscape names

Cited by 13 publications

References 54 publications

Understanding the causes of negative tourism experiences

Understanding the causes of negative tourism experiences

Impact of Artificial Elements on Mountain Landscape Perception: An Eye-Tracking Study

Cross-nationality importance performance analysis of Middle East all-inclusive mass tourism destination image

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