...Deborah C. Fowler; Jingxue (Jessica) Yuan; Tammy R. Kinley; Judith A. Forney; Youn‐Kyung Kim Purpose Shopping is a popular tourist activity. While a person might not travel for the purpose of shopping, many tourists shop while traveling. This study aims to examine travel motivation as a predictor...

...Leonardo Dioko; Rich Harrill; Aram Son Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify Western travelers' image of Zhangjiajie, China as a tourist destination, drawing on data from contents of web travel blogs. Design/methodology/approach The study taps the rich content of travel blogs...

...Kenneth Hyde; Alain Decrop; Douglas G. Pearce; Christian Schott Purpose This paper seeks to analyze the extent to which New Zealand domestic and outbound travelers' book components of their trip in advance or at their destination and to explore the factors that influence this. Furthermore...

... in the travel and tourism industry. Originality/value The value of this paper lies in its review of traditional approaches to researching vacation decision making, and advice provided for future research on the topic. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Decision making Travel Leave Journey...

...Fang Meng Purpose The article aims to discuss the relationship of culture and tourist behavior. The focus of the study is to propose an extended research framework related to individualism/collectivism culture and group travel intention. The article seeks to argue that group travel intention...

...Drew Martin; Arch Woodside; Natan Uriely Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide researchers with an analytical tool for deconstructing well‐established tourist typologies in which motivations and meanings are coupled together with practices of travel arrangements. Design/methodology...

...Drew Martin; Arch Woodside; Songshan (Sam) Huang; Cathy H.C. Hsu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the relevant literature on travel motivation and provides a scenario‐based discussion on the applications of travel motivation theories in the industry practice. The paper offers...

...Uraiporn Kattiyapornpong; Kenneth E. Miller Purpose This study aims to ascertain the effect of socio‐demographic constraints on dimension of travel choice. This study also seeks to derive personal ecological explanations for variation in travel preference, travel intention and travel choice...

...Oriana Silva; Antónia Correia Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse facilitators and constraints of Portuguese south‐eastern residents face when making decisions for leisure travel participation. Design/methodology/approach The inquiry anchors on a case study research, supported...

..., and a provocative question and answer discussion of the darker side of Bitner's (1992) servicescape framework. What factors motivate consumers to travel great distances and to spend large amounts of money to vacation in remote Polynesian destinations, such as Bali, Fiji, or Hawaii? To answer this question...

...Antónia Correia; Patricia Oom do Valle; Cláudia Moço Purpose This study focuses on the Portuguese tourist decision process in terms of traveling to exotic places. Based on the push‐pull motive model defined by Crompton in 1979, this paper seeks to propose an integrated approach to understand...

...Drew Martin; Arch G. Woodside; Ning Dehuang Purpose To demonstrate how brand netnography is useful in showing how visitors interpret the places, people and situations that they experience when traveling. Design/methodology/approach Through analysis of online consumer stories about their travel...