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  • External and Internal Determinants Contributing to Event Participation and Destination Revisitation: A Sport Tourism Perspective

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    Author(s)
    Chen, Nan
    Primary Supervisor
    Funk, Daniel
    Other Supervisors
    King, Ceridwyn
    Filo, Kevin
    Year published
    2012
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    Sport tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the tourism industry and is gaining burgeoning research interest from academia. However, there are limited studies combining sport and tourism research to understand sport tourists’ attitudes and decision-making related to an event-host destination. This PhD research addresses this gap by examining the formation and change of sport tourists’ destination attitudes in order to understand why sport tourists travel to a specific place to attend sport events and why they decide to return to this destination in the future as leisure vacationers. Specifically, the objectives ...
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    Sport tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the tourism industry and is gaining burgeoning research interest from academia. However, there are limited studies combining sport and tourism research to understand sport tourists’ attitudes and decision-making related to an event-host destination. This PhD research addresses this gap by examining the formation and change of sport tourists’ destination attitudes in order to understand why sport tourists travel to a specific place to attend sport events and why they decide to return to this destination in the future as leisure vacationers. Specifically, the objectives of this research are threefold. Firstly, to identify and examine factors influencing sport tourist’s initial attitude formation towards a specific event-host destination, thereby understanding their initial travel decisions. Secondly, to assess how the actual visit experience of sport tourists contributes to their attitude change towards the destination. Thirdly, to reveal how the sport tourists’ post-visit destination attitude changes over time, thereby understanding the temporal effect of their future revisit decisions. Destination image (DI), a construct normally regarded as interchangeable with destination attitude, is adopted to operationalise the destination attitude of sport tourists because of its longstanding popularity in tourism research. Moreover, a tripartite attitudinal perspective was utilised to examine how the three components of DI (i.e., cognition, affect, and conation) change when the overall DI undergoes a change. The Psychological Continuum Model (PCM) provides the theoretical framework to guide this investigation. Combining the staged decision-making process model and the literature of DI formation and change with the hierarchical PCM provides the rationale for the conceptual model of this study.
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
    Degree Program
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    School
    Griffith Business School
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/2296
    Copyright Statement
    The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
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    Public
    Subject
    Sport tourism
    Psychological continuum Model
    Destination image
    ING Miami marathon event
    Exploratory factor analysis
    Second-order confirmatory factor analysis
    Structural equation modeling
    General linear model repeated measures analysis
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367326
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