Destination image and destination personality: An application of branding theories to tourism places

By Sameer Hosany, Y. Ekinci, Muzaffer Uysal. 2006

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Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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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).”
Toward The Perspective Of Cognitive Destination Image And Destination Personality: The Case Of Beijing (2013, background): “For example, these two concepts have been used interchangeably in studies such as Smothers (1993) and Graeff (1997), whereas conceptual differences between destination personality and destination image have been identified in Hosany et al. (2006).”
Development and validation of a destination personality scale for mainland Chinese travelers (2017, background): “…personality allows tourists to differentiate a destination from similar ones (Murphy, Moscardo, & Benckendorff, 2007), build positive affective destination images, and therefore, make their decision making process easier (Hosany et al., 2006; Usakli & Baloglu, 2011; Yuksel, Yuksel, & Bilim, 2010).”
Destination Personality, Affective Image, and Behavioral Intentions in Domestic Urban Tourism (2015, methodology): “…been related to affective, cognitive destination image and destination personality components (Baloglu and McCleary 1999; Ekinci and Hosany 2006; Hosany, Ekinci, and Uysal 2006), cognitive image has been rather secondary when it comes to the explanatory power of affective components (Hosany,…”
City image, city brand personality and generation Z residents' life satisfaction under economic crisis: Predictors of city-related social media engagement (2020, result): “Despite different results of city personality dimensions being reported in each study, such results confirmed that the brand personality concept can be employed also in the city context, which does not constitute, however, a traditional product (Hosany et al., 2006).”
The Antecedents of Psychic Distance (2010, background): “Studies of the formation of destination images suggest that psychic distance perceptions contain both cognitive and affective elements and are influenced by both personal factors and environmental stimuli (Balougu and McCleary, 1999; Hosany, Ekinci and Uysal, 2006; Ryan, 2005).”
Destination Image: A Meta-Analysis of 2000–2007 Research (2010, background): “Thus, Hosany, Ekinci, and Uysal (2006) have measured destination personality using the scale for consumer goods; these researchers advocate a creation of a destination specific scale, so that personality traits are representative to the destination.”
Destination Personality: Scale Development And Validation (2018, neutral): “…methodologies Authors Methodology Ekinci and Hosany (2006) Structured: Aaker’s (1997) BPS, content validity, 27 items, 5-point bipolar scale Hosany, Ekinci, and Uysal (2006) Structured: Aaker’s (1997) BPS, content validity, 27 items, 5-point bipolar scale d’Astous and Boujbel (2007)…”
Responsible brands vs active brands? An examination of brand personality on brand awareness, brand trust, and brand loyalty (2017, background): “For example, out of the brand personality dimensions developed by Aaker (1997), many studies mainly focus on two, namely, sincerity and excitement, respectively (e.g. Aaker et al., 2001; Hosany et al., 2006; Ivens and Valta, 2012; Rojas-Mendez et al., 2004; Sung et al., 2015).”
Consumer perceptions of frontline service employee personality traits, interaction quality, and consumer satisfaction (2009, background): “extroversion and agreeableness on interaction quality confirm Hurley’s (1998a) results regarding the importance of these two traits in understanding service performance outcomes.”