Destination image: to see or not to see?

By Christopher J. White. 2004

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A review of the tourism literature revealed that the conceptualisation and operationalision of destination image as a construct was fragmented and incomplete. Literatures relating to philosophy and cognitive psychology were reviewed and revealed that the concept of image has been the focus of much research and debate in those domains. The dominant themes that emerged from this work are summarised in this article and the implications for destination image management and research are discussed.

Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Examining Chinese College Students’ Intention to Travel to Japan Using the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior: Testing Destination Image and the Mediating Role of Travel Constraints (2017, background): “Destination image is multifaceted and consists of cognitive, affective, and conative components (Pike & Ryan, 2004; White, 2004).”
Gaming Destination Images: Implications for Branding (2010, background): “Most recent destination image and branding studies examined both cognitive and affective elements of the brand image (Baloglu and McCleary 1999a, 1999b; Day, Skidmore, and Koller 2002; White 2004; Beerli and Martin 2004a, 2004b; Baloglu and Love 2005; Hosany, Ekinci, and Uysal 2006).”
Russia's destination image among American pleasure travelers: Revisiting Echtner and Ritchie (2008, background): “However, as meta-analyses of destination image studies indicated (Chon, 1990; Gallarza, Saura, & Garcia, 2002; White, 2004), due to its complexity, subjectivity, and elusive nature, the concept of destination image has been interpreted differently by various researchers.”
A Structural Model to Examine How Destination Image, Attitude, and Motivation Affect the Future Behavior of Tourists (2009, background): “Destination image is multifaceted and consists of cognitive, affective and behavioral elements (Pike & Ryan, 2004; White, 2004).”
Destination Image, Novelty, Hedonics, Perceived Value, and Revisiting Behavioral Intention for Island Tourism (2013, background): “…of cognitive image, affective image, and overall image elements (Baloglu & Brinberg, 1997; Baloglu & McCleary, 1999a, 1999b; Pike & Ryan, 2004; White, 2004), and the majority of previous studies on travel destination image adopted a multi-attribute approach (e.g. Beerli & Martın, 2004;…”
Exploring Destination Image Decay (2015, background): “Tourists’ “attitude toward a destination” is habitually used by tourism destination researchers as synonymous or interchangeable with DI without clarification (White, 2004).”