Travelers’ Prior Knowledge and its Impact on their Information Search Behavior

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What makes a useful online review? Implication for travel product websites. (2015, background): “The literature about consumer behaviour has suggested that prior knowledge of a product/service affects the external information search and evaluation as well as the final decision (Gursoy & McCleary, 2004).”
Propensity To Complain: Effects of Personality and Behavioral Factors (2007, methodology): “…measure one construct should not be related 370 JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY & TOURISM RESEARCH Gursoy et al. / COMPLAINING 371 to the measures of other constructs in the measurement model if the constructs in the proposed measurement model are to have discriminant validity (Gursoy & McCleary, 2004).”
Employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, and financial performance: An empirical examination (2009, background): “70 represent the lower limit of acceptability (Gursoy and McCleary, 2004).”
Sport Tourists’ Involvement with a Destination (2013, unknown): “However, more recent authors (e.g., Cheng, Lam, & Hsu, 2006; Gursoy & McCleary, 2004) have adopted the procedure recommended by Anderson and Gerbing (1988) to assess the discriminant validity of measures.”
An examination of tourists' attitudinal and behavioral loyalty: Comparison between domestic and international tourists (2009, background): “Thus, prior product knowledge enhances one’s internal memory and assists in the decision-making process (Gursoy and McCleary, 2004).”