Destination Personality: An Application of Brand Personality to Tourism Destinations

By Y. Ekinci, Sameer Hosany. 2006

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Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Destination food image and intention to eat destination foods: a view from Korea (2017, background): “It has a number of inherent characteristics or dimensions, including product attributes and consumer benefits (Ekinci & Hosany, 2006).”
Destination Image: A Meta-Analysis of 2000–2007 Research (2010, methodology): “…Andsager & Drzewiecka, 2002; Kokosalakis, Bagnall, Selby, & Burns, 2006); general media and communications (e.g., Frost, 2006; Mercille, 2005); consumer behavior (e.g., Beerli, Meneses, & Gil, 2007); and marketing (e.g., Ahmed, Sohail, Myers, & Chan Pui, 2006; Cai, 2002; Ekinci & Hosany, 2006).”
Do Food Image and Food Neophobia Affect Tourist Intention to Visit a Destination? The Case of Australia (2019, background): “To the destination host, image is a key construct in destination positioning and promotion (Pike and Ryan 2004) and employment of tourism resources (Sun, Ryan, and Pan 2015) and is recognized as an expression of identity and personality (Ekinci and Hosany 2006).”
Measuring Tourists’ Emotional Experiences toward Hedonic Holiday Destinations (2010, background): “Ekinci and Hosany (2006) establish that tourists’ perceived destination personality can be represented in terms of three dimensions: sincerity, excitement, and conviviality.”
Destination Personality: Scale Development And Validation (2018, methodology): “Aaker’s (1997) BPS has been used in this study because the scale is the most comprehensive instrument for measuring brand personality and has been widely used in destination personality context.”
Brand management in higher education: The University Brand Personality Scale (2016, background): “In response, researchers offer a variety of industry- and culture-specific brand personality models ranging from regional (D'Astous & Boujbel, 2007; Ekinci & Hosany, 2006; Rojas-Méndez, Murphy, & Papadopoulos, 2013), to media (Valette-Florence & De Barnier, 2013), to corporate (Davies, Chun, Da…”
Toward The Perspective Of Cognitive Destination Image And Destination Personality: The Case Of Beijing (2013, methodology): “In particular, there is a burgeoning focus on crafting a unique identity for tourism destinations using destination personality (e.g., Ekinci & Hosany, 2006; Hosany, Ekinci, & Uysal, 2006, 2007; Morgan & Pritchard, 2002; Murphy, Benckendorff, & Moscardo, 2007a; Murphy, Moscardo, & Benckendorff,…”
Smart City and Smart Tourism: A Case of Dubai (2017, methodology): “In tourism, Ekinci and Hosany [66] developed a destination personality scale (DPS) to understand the perceived image of tourism destinations and to measure destination image based on Aaker’s [65] BPS framework.”
The Effect of Online Information Search on Image Development (2009, methodology): “This study, following Ekinci and Hosany‘s (2006) paper, measured cognitive image with a series of bi-polar semantic differential scales developed by Ong and Horbunluekit‘s (1997). The results might suggest that this scale lacks the sensitivity to detect changes, or is not particularly applicable to ”
Destination personality and destination image (2017, background): “Recent studies stress the role of destination personality in influencing touristic choice behaviour (Baloglu, Henthorne, & Sahin, 2014; Ekinci & Hosany, 2006; Hosany et al., 2006; Murphy et al., 2007; Zeugner-Roth & Zabkar, 2015).”
A Review of Personality Research in the Tourism and Hospitality Context (2010, methodology): “Destination personality has also been proposed as a tool for measuring destination image ( Ekinci & Honsany, 2006 ; Hosany, Ekinci, & Uysal, 2006 ).”
Branding places: applying brand personality concept to cities (2010, background): “While there is research on place brand personality, the focus of these studies is limited to tourism destinations (e.g. Hosany et al., 2006; Ekinci and Hosany, 2006; Henderson, 2000).”
Destination Image Components and Word-of-Mouth Intentions in Urban Tourism: A Multigroup Approach (2018, methodology): “…McCleary, 1999a; Beerli & Martín, 2004; Chi, 2011; King, Chen, & Funk, 2015; Prayag, 2009); and branding aspects of destination image management, including brand equity and brand personality (e.g., Ekinci & Hosany, 2006; Konecnik & Gartner, 2007; Papadimitriou, Apostolopoulou, & Kaplanidou, 2013).”