Creative tourism: a preliminary examination of creative tourists’ motivation, experience, perceived value and revisit intention

International Journal of Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 401-419

  Chang, Lan Lan ^a   Backman, Kenneth F ^b   Huang, Yu Chih ^c  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Creative tourism; Perceived value; Revisit intention; Taiwan; Tourism; Tourists experience

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84915807478     PISSN: 17506182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJCTHR-04-2014-0032     Document Type: Article

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