Predictors of Behavioral Loyalty Among Hikers Along the Appalachian Trail

By G. Kyle, A. Graefe, R. Manning, James Bacon. 2004

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Visitors’ Emotional Responses to the Festival Environment (2014, background): “Using Pritchard et al.’s measures, Kyle et al. (2004) tested the structural relationships of involvement, psychological commitment, and behavioral loyalty for hikers along the Appalachian Trail.”
Testing a Hierarchy of Effects Model of Sponsorship Effectiveness (2012, background): “Research has provided evidence that involvement is a multi-dimensional construct (Iwasaki & Havitz, 2004; Kyle et al., 2004; McIntrype & Pigram, 1992).”
Empirical study of destination loyalty and its antecedent: the perspective of place attachment (2011, methodology): “In recent years, papers in the recreation and tourism literature have demonstrated that the construct of place attachment can contribute to our understanding on the characteristics of a recreation behaviour (Bricker & Kerstetter, 2002; Kyle, Absher, & Graefe, 2003; Kyle et al., 2004b).”
Place attachment as a mediator of the relationship between nature-based recreation benefits and future visit intentions (2012, methodology): “For example, place attachment was found to play a significant role in predicting behavioral outcomes, such as support for recreation fees (Kyle, Absher, & Graefe, 2003 ), environmentally responsible behaviors (Vaske & Kobrin, 2001 ) and behavioral loyalty (Kyle, Graefe, Manning, & Bacon, 2004a ; ”
A Modified Involvement Scale (2007, methodology): “For example, Kyle et al. (2003, 2004) used McIntyre’s (1989) involvement scale to predict recreationists’ (i.e. hikers, boaters, and anglers) attachment to several different recreation settings (i.e. the Appalachian Trail, the south fork of the American River in California, and several Army Corps…”
Segmenting Winter Sport Tourists by Motivation: The Case of Recreational Skiers (2009, result): “A series of studies provided support for the construct validity of the tri-dimensional model ( Kyle et al, 2003 ; Kyle, Graefe, Manning, & Bacon, 2004 ).”
Examining the Antecedents of Brand Loyalty from an Investment Model Perspective (2008, background): “…conceptualization in the marketing and leisure/tourism literature (Backman 1991; Backman and Crompton 1991; Day 1969; Jacoby and Chestnut 1978; Kyle et al. 2004), the authors conceptualize that brand loyalty comprises both attitudinal and behavioral components, with attitudinal loyalty…”
How recreation involvement, place attachment and conservation commitment affect environmentally responsible behavior (2011, unknown): “Several studies in this area have utilized structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the linear relationships between recreation involvement and place attachment ( Hwang et al, 2005 ; Kyle, Graefe, & Manning, 2004 ; Kyle et al, 2003 ), recreation involvement and destination loyalty ( Iwasaki &”
A structural model for examining how destination image and interpretation services affect future visitation behavior: a case study of Taiwan's Taomi eco-village (2009, background): “Behavioral models of ecotourism or nature-based tourism are well developed, including the assessment of causal relationships between place attachment, tourist involvement, and interpretation services (eg, Hwang et al, 2005 ), between service quality involvement, satisfaction, and loyalty (eg, Lee ”
Increasing customers' loyalty in a skiing resort: The contribution of place attachment and service quality (2006, background): “While in most of the above models links among the variables were successfully established, Kyle et al. (2004c)”
Delineating the outcomes of sponsorship (2009, background): “Involvement has been perceived as a multi-dimensional construct (Kyle et al., 2004; McIntyre and Pigram, 1992).”
Physically Active Leisure and Tourism Connection: Leisure Involvement and Choice of Tourism Activities Among Paddlers (2011, background): “…of behavioral frequency, the results of this study provide initial evidence supporting the utility of psychological involvement invoking identity, importance, and centrality (Havitz & Dimanche, 1997; Kyle et al., 2004a, 2004b, 2004c; McIntyre, 1989) to understand the leisure-tourism connection.”
The influence of experiential marketing and activity involvement on the loyalty intentions of wine tourists in Taiwan (2012, background): “The results presented in this paper suggest that activity involvement directly affects loyalty intentions, which correspond to the results of previous studies that assessed hikers along the Appalachian Trail (Kyle et al., 2004) and visitors at a forest setting (Lee et al., 2007).”