Moderating Effects of Tourists' Novelty-Seeking Tendencies on Destination Image, Visitor Satisfaction, and Short- and Long-Term Revisit Intentions

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 600-613

  Assaker, Guy ^a,b   Hallak, Rob ^b  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; destination image; multigroup invariance analysis; novelty seeking; revisit intentions

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MARKETING; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84880984946     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287513478497     Document Type: Article

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