Effect of tourist photographs on attitudes towards destination: Manifest and latent content

Tourism Management

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 29-41

  Kim, Hany ^a   Stepchenkova, Svetlana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Attitude; Behavior; Cognition; Content analysis; Destination image; Photographs; User generated content

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; IMAGE; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPH; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84923365916     PISSN: 02615177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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