The role of motivation in visitor satisfaction: Empirical evidence in rural tourism

By M. Devesa, Marta Laguna, Andrés Palacios. 2010

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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Islamic tourism: an empirical examination of travel motivation and satisfaction in Malaysia (2017, methodology): “For example, Devesa et al. (2010) empirically confirm that specific attributes of destination affect the level of visitor satisfaction. Zabkar et al. (2010) have found that destination attributes affect tourist satisfaction, while Fang et al. (2008) report that destination attributes are a function ”
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Tourists’ COVID-19 Risk Perception and Vacation Behavior Shift (2021, background): “The motivation to travel is an internal force that drives people toward the satisfaction of physical and psychological needs [44], typically operationalized as travel intentions [45,46].”
Tourist loyalty in creative tourism: the role of experience quality, value, satisfaction, and motivation (2020, result): “More specifically, this study shows that tourist motivation is not only a direct effect on tourist loyalty as reported in the previous studies (Devesa et al., 2010; White, 2015; Yoon & Uysal, 2005), but also mediates the link between tourist loyalty and experience quality, perceived value, and…”
The formation of visitor behavioral intention to creative tourism: the role of push–Pull motivation (2019, background): “From the earliest research in tourism, researchers have investigated the motives of visitors and why they travel (Devesa et al., 2010).”
Evaluating the relaxation effects of emerging forest-therapy tourism: A multidisciplinary approach (2017, result): “With respect to studies on tourists' satisfaction with rural tourism, Devesa, Laguna, and Palacios (2010) dealt with an orthodox relationship between motivation and visitor satisfaction with rural tourism in Spain.”
Who is consuming the countryside? An activity-based segmentation analysis of the domestic rural tourism market in Portugal (2017, background): “…et al., 1999; Park et al., 2014), segmentation based on motives for choosing rural accommodation units (Polo et al., 2016) or a rural destination (Devesa et al., 2010) or activity-based segmentation (Carmichael & Smith, 2004; Pesonen, 2015) - are most useful for guiding destination management…”
Attracting and Leveraging Visitors at a Charity Cycling Event (2010, result): “Based on earlier work by Crompton (1979) and Dann (1977, 1981), studies in tourism often make a distinction between the motivations that ‘push’ a person to 270 R. Snelgrove & L. Wood want to travel, and those that ‘pull’ a person to a particular destination (Devesa et al., 2010).”