Highlighted definitions of destination image
| Author(s) | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hunt (1975) | Impressions that a person or persons hold about a state in which they do not reside |
| Lawson and Bond-Bovy (1977) | An expression of knowledge, impressions, prejudice, imaginations and emotional thoughts an individual has of a specific object or place |
| Crompton (1979) | The sum of beliefs, ideas and impressions that a person has of a destination |
| Assael (1984) | Total perception of the destination that is formed by processing information from various sources over time |
| Moutinho (1987) | An individual’s attitude toward the destination attributes based on their knowledge and feelings |
| Echtner and Ritchie (1991) | The perceptions of individual destination attributes and the holistic impression made by the destination |
| Kotler et al. (1994) | The image of a place is the sum of beliefs, ideas and impressions that a person holds of it. |
| Baloglu and McCleary (1999) | An individual’s mental representation of knowledge, feelings and global impressions about a destination |
| Murphy et al. (2000) | A sum of associations and pieces of information connected to a destination, which would include multiple components of the destination and personal perception |
| Tapachai and Waryszak (2000) | Perceptions or impressions of a destination held by tourists with respect to the expected benefit or consumption values |
| Bigné et al. (2001) | The subjective interpretation of reality made by the tourist |
| Kim and Richardson (2003) | A totality of impressions, beliefs, ideas, expectations and feelings accumulated toward a place over time |
| Bigné et al. (2009) | It consists of all that the destination evokes in the individual; any idea, belief, feeling or attitude that tourists associate with the place. |
| Matos et al. (2012) | Image is a set of complex mental impressions and total feelings that a potential tourist holds of a product, place or tourism destination. |
| Lai and Li (2016) | A voluntary, multisensory, primarily picture-like, qualia-arousing, conscious and quasi-perceptual mental (i.e. private, nonspatial and intentional) experience held by tourists about a destination. This experience overlaps and/or parallels the other mental experiences of tourists, including their sensation, perception, mental representation, cognitive map, consciousness, memory and attitude of the destination |
| Author(s) | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hunt (1975) | Impressions that a person or persons hold about a state in which they do not reside |
| An expression of knowledge, impressions, prejudice, imaginations and emotional thoughts an individual has of a specific object or place | |
| The sum of beliefs, ideas and impressions that a person has of a destination | |
| Total perception of the destination that is formed by processing information from various sources over time | |
| An individual’s attitude toward the destination attributes based on their knowledge and feelings | |
| The perceptions of individual destination attributes and the holistic impression made by the destination | |
| The image of a place is the sum of beliefs, ideas and impressions that a person holds of it. | |
| An individual’s mental representation of knowledge, feelings and global impressions about a destination | |
| A sum of associations and pieces of information connected to a destination, which would include multiple components of the destination and personal perception | |
| Perceptions or impressions of a destination held by tourists with respect to the expected benefit or consumption values | |
| The subjective interpretation of reality made by the tourist | |
| A totality of impressions, beliefs, ideas, expectations and feelings accumulated toward a place over time | |
| It consists of all that the destination evokes in the individual; any idea, belief, feeling or attitude that tourists associate with the place. | |
| Image is a set of complex mental impressions and total feelings that a potential tourist holds of a product, place or tourism destination. | |
| A voluntary, multisensory, primarily picture-like, qualia-arousing, conscious and quasi-perceptual mental (i.e. private, nonspatial and intentional) experience held by tourists about a destination. This experience overlaps and/or parallels the other mental experiences of tourists, including their sensation, perception, mental representation, cognitive map, consciousness, memory and attitude of the destination |
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