Tourism destination attributes: what the non-visitors say - higher education students' perceptions
The paper presents a study on tourists’ consumption values and perceived beneficial image of the tourist destination, Mauritius. Specifically, the two innovations of the study are, first, that the target market is university student travellers and, second, the respondents have no previous travel exp...
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| author | Shanka, Tekle Phau, Ian |
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| description | The paper presents a study on tourists’ consumption values and perceived beneficial image of the tourist destination, Mauritius. Specifically, the two innovations of the study are, first, that the target market is university student travellers and, second, the respondents have no previous travel experience to the tourist destination. Independent sample t-tests and one-way analysis of variance tests indicated a number of statistically significant differences of value components (from established scales) across demographics. In general, Mauritius emerged to command a very favourable perception as a tourist destination for student travellers. Several managerial and theoretical implications are discussed, with suggestions for future directions. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-325972017-09-13T15:52:52Z Tourism destination attributes: what the non-visitors say - higher education students' perceptions Shanka, Tekle Phau, Ian destination image consumption values Mauritius perceived beneficial image tourism information sources The paper presents a study on tourists’ consumption values and perceived beneficial image of the tourist destination, Mauritius. Specifically, the two innovations of the study are, first, that the target market is university student travellers and, second, the respondents have no previous travel experience to the tourist destination. Independent sample t-tests and one-way analysis of variance tests indicated a number of statistically significant differences of value components (from established scales) across demographics. In general, Mauritius emerged to command a very favourable perception as a tourist destination for student travellers. Several managerial and theoretical implications are discussed, with suggestions for future directions. 2008 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32597 10.1080/10941660701883383 Routledge restricted |
| spellingShingle | destination image consumption values Mauritius perceived beneficial image tourism information sources Shanka, Tekle Phau, Ian Tourism destination attributes: what the non-visitors say - higher education students' perceptions |
| title | Tourism destination attributes: what the non-visitors say - higher education students' perceptions |
| title_full | Tourism destination attributes: what the non-visitors say - higher education students' perceptions |
| title_fullStr | Tourism destination attributes: what the non-visitors say - higher education students' perceptions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tourism destination attributes: what the non-visitors say - higher education students' perceptions |
| title_short | Tourism destination attributes: what the non-visitors say - higher education students' perceptions |
| title_sort | tourism destination attributes: what the non-visitors say - higher education students' perceptions |
| topic | destination image consumption values Mauritius perceived beneficial image tourism information sources |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32597 |