...Jorge Ramos; Patrícia Pinto; Pedro Pintassilgo; Anabela Resende; Luís Cancela da Fonseca Purpose There is an increasing interest in visiting protected areas in the Algarve (Portugal). Tourists are interested in contact with nature activities. However, protected areas are quite sensitive to human...

...Roozbeh Babolian Hendijani Purpose The paper aims to investigate food-related experiences among international tourists visiting Indonesia and the effect of food on their overall satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through self-administrated questionnaires that were...

...Defang Zhao; Ingrid Y. Lin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a theoretical framework, the holistic mental model process, with major contextual factors (cultural, situation, cognitive and affective contexts) to help better understand tourists’ perception and evaluation...

...Bing Pan; Tzung‐Cheng Huan; Stephen W. Litvin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to motivate hospitality leaders and local festival and special event management to grow their events from simply local events to those that attract tourists and tourists' dollars to the community. Design...

..., incorporating Values and Lifestyles (VALS‐2). A questionnaire was designed to investigate the classification of culinary tourists' lifestyles and values in terms of three primary motivations such as ideals, achievement, and self‐expression including culinary tourists' activities and demographic characteristics...

...Fred Bronner; Robert de Hoog Purpose The consumer is currently feeling the consequences of the global economic crisis, leading to decreased spending by tourists. An important economizing strategy appears to be that vacationers do not give up their holiday but are likely to travel closer to home...

... Strand” tourist area. These 145 festival participants were administered surveys. Findings Less than 30 percent of total tourist spending at the festival is attributable to new tourists – those who specifically traveled to the destination primarily for the event and have historically attended Myrtle...

... motivating resident and tourist customers to engage in tourism shopping; satisfaction of resident and tourist customers with local retailers; and strategies to assist retailers in successful service delivery. Design/methodology/approach Using Dillman's survey techniques, data were collected from two...