Intentions and Motivations to Revisit Natural Heritage Sites (original) (raw)
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A Conceptual Review on Behavioural Intention to Revisit of Heritage Tourist
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There were plenty studies have been conducted to investigate the tourist behavioural intention to revisit and emerged some factors influencing. However, most of them were applied with difference perspective and in the various contexts. This paper aims to discuss the factors influencing heritage tourist’s behavioural intention to revisit a destination by applying the new conceptual framework. This paper uses a document reviews and provides a synthesis on the previous studies findings to find out the potential conceptual framework. The results emerged that some of factors were specified as antecedent variables of heritage tourist’s behavioural intention to revisit. Those variables were service quality, experience quality, destination image, promotion, and satisfaction. However, the relationship between variables still becomes a hot issue to debate in particularly the role of those variables to encourage the intention of tourits to behave. This paper proposes service quality and experi...
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The inscription of an area as World Heritage Site (WHS) is of utmost significance to preserve the historical and artistic heritage and at the same time, to encourage visits to the site. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the study of the relationship between WHS and tourism by presenting the results of a research conducted in the city of Córdoba (Spain) which analyses the socio-demographic profile and motivations of tourists who visit this City, differentiating between domestic and foreign tourists. The main results of the research show the important educational level of respondent tourists, the significant number of countries of origin, the high motivation to learn about the heritage roots of the city, the importance of gastronomy as a part of its cultural identity and the high satisfaction of tourists. As a point of improvement, the results show the low level of overnight stays in the city.
Currently, in an evolving economy, the study of tourist behaviour is crucial for the field specialists. Influenced by a variety of factors, tourists tend to change their behaviour in time. An important indicator of tourist behaviour, tourist motivation has the purpose of revealing consumer's desires and apirations when opting for a vacation. The analysis of tourist motivations has the advantage of preparing tourist practitioners, and therefore to prepare and forecast the oferr of tourism products that match the current and future demand. This paper is an exploratory research, based on data and studies on recent evolution of the travelling reasons, in order to identify the changing trends.