Investigating the antecedent mechanism of destination image formation using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis

Ahmed Hamdy is Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, and Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Commerce, Assiut University, Egypt. His research interests include branding, electronic marketing, gender research and tourism marketing. Dr Hamdy has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management; Marketing Intelligence and Planning; Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Kybernetes; the International Journal of Tourism Research; the Journal of Product and Brand Management; Operations Management Research; the Journal of Cleaner Production and others. Furthermore, Dr Hamdy serves as an editorial board member of the International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management and the International Journal of Online Marketing (IGI Global, USA).

Jian Zhang is Professor of Human Resource Management at the School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. Her research interests include motivation and emotion at work, creativity at work and consumer behavior. Dr Zhang has published more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management; Marketing Intelligence and Planning; European Management Journal; Environment, Development, and Sustainability and Kybernetes.