A Distorted Destination Image? The Case of Turkey

By S. Sönmez, E. Sirakaya. 2002

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Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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The Relationships of Destination Image, Satisfaction, and Behavioral Intentions: An Integrated Model (2010, background): “…nature of destination image and suggest that tourism destination image should be understood as a multi-dimensional construct jointly formed by both cognitive and affective components (Beerli & Martin, 2004; Baloglu & McCleary, 1999b; Lin, Morais, Kerstetter, & Hou, 2007; Sonmez & Sirakaya, 2002).”
Destination images, holistic images and personal normative beliefs: Predictors of intention to revisit a destination (2016, background): “Tourism destinations are central to the tourism industry (Kozak & Rimmington, 1999), with destination image critical to destination positioning (Kotler, Haider & Rein, 1993; Pike & Ryan, 2004; Sönmez & Sirakaya, 2002) and destination selection process (Chon, 1990; Hunt, 1975; Pike, 2008).”
Destination Image and Its Functional Relationships (2007, background): “…terrorism, insurgency, crime, and war, and natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes (Alhemoud and Armstrong 1996; Dimanche and Lepetic 1999; Gartner and Shen, 1992; Mansfeld 1999; Milo and Yoder 1991; Sonmez, Apostolopoulos, and Tarlow 1999; Sonmez and Sirakaya 2002).”
Why Do First-Time and Repeat Visitors Patronize a Destination? (2010, background): “Recent advances suggested that destination image includes both cognitive and affective components ( Baloglu & McCleary, 1999 ; Sonmez & Sirakaya, 2002 ).”
Destination image: origins, developments and implications. (2011, background): “…image more likely to be considered and selected at the end of the decisionmaking process (Mayo, 1973, Hunt, 1975; Goodrich, 1978; Pearce, 1982; Woodside & Lysonski, 1989, Ross, 1993; Milman and Pizan, 1995, Chen and Kerstetter, 1999; Bigné, Sánchez and Sánchez, 2001; Sönmez and Sirakaya , 2002).”
Brand personality and destination image of Istanbul (2011, background): “Aaker, 1997 ; Baloglu & McCleary, 1999b ; Beerli & Martin, 2004 ; Echtner & Ritchie, 1991 ; Hosany et al, 2006 ; Sonmez & Sirakaya, 2002 ), the image attributes and destination personality characteristics regarding Istanbul are determined and incorporated into a self-administered questionnaire”
Cultural Differences in Travel Risk Perception (2006, background): “For example, safety was regarded by the American travelers as one of the significant predictors of their likelihood of travel to Turkey (Sonmez & Sirakaya, 2002).”
Mainland Chinese residents' perceptions and motivations of visiting Hong Kong: Evidence from focus group interviews (2005, background): “Potential visitors' perceptions play a key role in forming future behavioral intentions (Lennon, Weber & Henson, 2001 ; Sonmez & Sirakaya, 2002 ; Yuksel & Yuksel, 2001 ).”
Destination image and tourist behavioural intentions: A meta-analysis (2020, positive): “Most of studies have seen destination image as an abstract formed object (Rossiter, 2002) and adopted the two-or three-component approach (Gartner, 1994; Baloglu & McCleary, 1999; Sönmez & Sirakaya, 2002; Lin, Morais, Kerstetter, & Hou, 2007).”
Effect of tourist photographs on attitudes towards destination: Manifest and latent content (2015, background): “An important role of commercial photographs was to construct “place-myths” (Jenkins, 2003; Urry & Larsen, 2011) that would project desired destination images to potential tourists for consumption (Butler & Hall, 1998; Molina & Esteban, 2006; Santos, 1998; S€onmez & Sirakaya, 2002).”