Examining Antecedents and Consequences of Tourist Satisfaction: A Structural Modeling Approach

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 397-406

  Wang, Xia ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Gu, Chaolin ^b   Zhen, Feng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

destination; Guilin; structural equation modeling (SEM); tourist satisfaction

Indexed keywords

DESTINATION; DESTINATION IMAGE; GUILIN; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; PERCEIVED QUALITY; PERCEIVED VALUE; POSITIVE EFFECTS; SATISFACTION MODEL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING (SEM); STRUCTURAL MODELING; TOURIST SATISFACTION;

EID: 66149107107     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(09)70057-4     Document Type: Article

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