Religious tourism studies: evolution, progress, and future prospects

B Kim, S Kim, B King - Tourism Recreation Research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This review study examines evolving themes in the scholarly literature on religious tourism
and identifies research gaps that provide a basis for future investigations. The researchers …

Investigating tourist destination choice: Effect of destination image from social network members

X Pan, S Rasouli, H Timmermans - Tourism Management, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper aims to investigate tourist destination choice, focusing on the research question
how and to what extent the destination images of tourists' social network members influence …

Medical tourism destination image and its relationship with the intention to revisit: A study of Chinese medical tourists in Malaysia

TH Cham, YM Lim, BC Sia, JH Cheah… - Journal of China tourism …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Medical tourism in Malaysia has grown over the years and has become a promising
industry. However, due to the establishment of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), we see …

Travel live streaming: an affordance perspective

Z Deng, P Benckendorff, J Wang - Information technology & tourism, 2021 - Springer
This study draws on tourism literature and current examples to propose that the emergence
of Travel Live Streaming (TLS) provides new affordances for live streamers, viewers, and …

Religious tourism: a bibliometric and network analysis

A Das, RKR Kondasani, R Deb - Tourism Review, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to highlight the theoretical foundations and future research
directions in religious tourism and related topics from 2003 to 2023. Design/methodology …

Destination loyalty explained through place attachment, destination familiarity and destination image

D Stylidis, KM Woosnam, M Ivkov… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study explores how familiarity and attachment, along with cognitive and affective image
explain destination loyalty across visitors with divergent degrees of frequency of visitation …

The complexities of religious tourism motivations: Sacred places, vows and visions

M Terzidou, C Scarles, MNK Saunders - Annals of Tourism Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to understand the complexity of travel motivations to sacred places.
Using ethnographic techniques within the Greek Orthodox context, we argue that while …

Destination image's mediating role between perceived risks, perceived constraints, and behavioral intention

MU Nazir, I Yasin, HH Tat - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
This study aims to examine the effect of destination image, perceived risk, and perceived
constraints on the behavioral intention of international tourists to revisit Pakistan. The study …

Can film tourism experience enhance tourist behavioural intentions? The role of tourist engagement

HY Teng - Current Issues in Tourism, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The development of film and television entertainment and overseas travel has stimulated the
rapid growth of global film tourism. Although film tourism has been the focus of extensive …

Characteristics of destination image: visitors and non-visitors' images of London

D Stylidis, B Cherifi - Tourism Review, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to explore the characteristics (ie complex, specific) of destination
image as perceived by visitors and non-visitors to a tourist place. Design/methodology …