Long-Haul Tourist Preferences for Stopover Destination Visits

Masiero, Lorenzo; Qiu, Richard T.R.; Zoltan, Judit

doi:10.1177/0047287519867143

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“…Masiero, Qiu and Zoltan [46], beside other factors, studied how personality could influence long-haul tourists to visit a stopover destination. For measuring personality they used the BSSS [27] and concluded sensation seekers were more inclined to stopover visits.…”

Section: Psychology Of Tourismmentioning

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Modeling Tourists' Personality in Recommender Systems

Alves

Saraiva

Carneiro

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

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Personalization is increasingly being perceived as an important factor for the effectiveness of Recommender Systems (RS). This is especially true in the tourism domain, where travelling comprises emotionally charged experiences, and therefore, the more about the tourist is known, better recommendations can be made. The inclusion of psychological aspects to generate recommendations, such as personality, is a growing trend in RS and they are being studied to provide more personalized approaches. However, although many studies on the psychology of tourism exist, studies on the prediction of tourist preferences based on their personality are limited. Therefore, we undertook a large-scale study in order to determine how the Big Five personality dimensions influence tourists' preferences for tourist attractions, gathering data from an online questionnaire, sent to Portuguese individuals from the academic sector and their respective relatives/friends (n=508). Using Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, we extracted 11 main categories of tourist attractions and analyzed which personality dimensions were predictors (or not) of preferences for those tourist attractions. As a result, we propose the first model that relates the five personality dimensions with preferences for tourist attractions, which intends to offer a base for researchers of RS for tourism to automatically model tourist preferences based on their personality.

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Section: Psychology Of Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling Tourists' Personality in Recommender Systems

Alves

Saraiva

Carneiro

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

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“…Prior literature has largely overlooked stopovers as a tourist activity and business sector. A very recent article by Masiero et al (2020) is among the first to quantify the determinants of stopover visit intention by assessing a series of variables including price sensitivity, activity engagement, travelers' personalities, demographics, motivations, and travelers' profiles. The present study differs from Masiero et al (2020) in the following two aspects.…”

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“…A very recent article by Masiero et al (2020) is among the first to quantify the determinants of stopover visit intention by assessing a series of variables including price sensitivity, activity engagement, travelers' personalities, demographics, motivations, and travelers' profiles. The present study differs from Masiero et al (2020) in the following two aspects. First, conceptually, we focus only on the motivation factor that is the importance of stopover attributes.…”

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“…Similarly, when consumers attend to the destination experience before considering other destination attributes during the choice process, this can affect their final choice outcome (Oppewal et al, 2015). Indeed, more recent research by Masiero et al (2020) investigates a series of influencing factors of tourist preference for stopover destination and found that price sensitivity, travel personality, and activity engagement are all relevant factors to determine travelers' stopover intentions.…”

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Determining the Importance of Stopover Destination Attributes: Integrating Stated Importance, Choice Experiment, and Eye-Tracking Measures

Pike

Kotsi

Oppewal

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Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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Stopover tourism is an important but neglected area of study. This article combines a discrete choice experiment with eye-tracking measures and self-stated attribute importance ratings to analyze stopover destination preferences. A sample of Australian residents shows safety is the most critical determinant of stopover destination attractiveness based on both the importance ratings and choice model results, but that it does not receive the greatest amount of visual attention. Seven attributes showed little consistency between the methods. However, when the measures are combined into one choice model, there are insights into associations between ratings, amounts of visual attention, and the final impact of an attribute on the choice outcome. Findings indicate the overall importance of each attribute and show how attribute importance varies across the sample and during the choice process. The article thus illustrates how different measures can be combined to study preferences for destination attributes in a specific travel context.

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“…As mentioned, there has been little research interest in the effect of travel context on destination preferences. Perhaps surprisingly, research investigating aspects of the phenomenon of stopover destination attractiveness only commenced recently, relative to the volume of destination image research since the 1970s (see Masiero et al, 2020). The three research objectives were the following:…”

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Destination Brand Positioning Theme Development Based on Consumers’ Personal Values

Kotsi

Pike

2020

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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This research note reports an investigation into the personal values that are salient to consumers when considering stopover destinations during long-haul travel. The findings, from personal interviews using the Repertory Test and laddering analysis, present destination marketers with potential brand positioning themes based on personal values. One of the greatest challenges facing destination marketers is developing a succinct brand positioning theme representative of a multiattributed entity that effectively differentiates from competing places offering similar attributes and benefits. It is argued that the development of a brand identity based on personal values, which subsume a myriad of attributes and benefits, has the potential to appeal to a broader range of travelers. This study, in the context of international stopover destinations for Greek travelers, replicated a similar investigation undertaken in the context of Australian domestic short-break holidays. The commonality between the findings of the two studies supports the development of a proposition that a relatively small number of personal values are relevant across different destination travel contexts. This could represent a solution to the challenge of developing a brand positioning theme that will be relevant across different markets and will appease the diversity of stakeholders at the destination.

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Long-Haul Tourist Preferences for Stopover Destination Visits

Cited by 20 publications

References 44 publications

Modeling Tourists' Personality in Recommender Systems

Modeling Tourists' Personality in Recommender Systems

Determining the Importance of Stopover Destination Attributes: Integrating Stated Importance, Choice Experiment, and Eye-Tracking Measures

Destination Brand Positioning Theme Development Based on Consumers’ Personal Values

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