Visitors’ Place Attachment and Destination Loyalty: Examining the Roles of Emotional Solidarity and Perceived Safety

By V. Patwardhan, Manuel Alector Ribeiro, Valsaraj Payini, K. Woosnam, J. Mallya, P. Gopalakrishnan. Journal of Travel Research, 2020

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Hosting ethnically and culturally rich religious festivals provides visitors a glimpse into how a sense of togetherness and faith are not only established but strengthened through shared beliefs and ritualistic behavior. This research examines visitors’ destination loyalty through their emotional bonding with place, the emotional solidarity they experience with residents, and their perceived level of safety. Based on data collected from 813 visitors during the Attur Church Feast in Karkala, India, the results indicated that place attachment directly influences loyalty and two dimensions of emotional solidarity and, in turn, emotional solidarity has a positive effect on loyalty. Additionally, it was found that emotional solidarity partially mediates the effect of place attachment on destination loyalty. Finally, employing a moderated mediation analysis, visitor level of perceived safety at the festival partially moderated the indirect effect of place attachment on destination loyalty through emotional solidarity.

Subfields: Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science

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Place-Oriented or People-Oriented Concepts for Destination Loyalty: Destination Image and Place Attachment versus Perceived Distances and Emotional Solidarity (2021, methodology): “A handful of studies have explored the role of place attachment as a predictor of solidarity (Aleshinloye et al. 2020; Patwardhan et al. 2020; Woosnam et al. 2018).”
Perceived social impacts of tourism and quality-of-life: a new conceptual model (2020, background): “Place attachment in the tourism literature is defined as the emotional bonding between people and place (Patwardhan et al., 2020; Ramkissoon et al., 2012).”
Explaining Residents’ Behavioral Support for Tourism through Two Theoretical Frameworks (2021, background): “…NghiêmPhú 2016; Ribeiro et al. 2017; Woosnam, Erul, and Ribeiro 2017; Woosnam et al. 2018; Suess, Woosnam, and Erul 2020), tourists’ perspectives (Patwardhan et al. 2020; Ribeiro et al. 2018; Woosnam and Aleshinloye 2013; Woosnam et al. 2015), or collectively between the two groups (Juric,…”
Visitors' loyalty to religious tourism destinations: Considering place attachment, emotional experience and religious affiliation (2020, background): “As anticipated, our study confirms this assumption as Attur Feast is a Christian religious ceremony, however attended by people from different faiths and beliefs (Patwardhan et al., 2019).”
Developing a Scale to Measure Tourist Perceived Safety (2021, methodology): “Thus, TPSD has been identified as an antecedent influencing people’s travel decision-making processes, which has a fundamental impact on satisfaction, loyalty, and revisit intentions (Fourie, RosselloNadal, and Santana-Gallego 2020; Patwardhan et al. 2020; Sönmez and Graefe 1998b).”
Destination loyalty explained through place attachment, destination familiarity and destination image (2020, background): “dents (Ribeiro, Woosnam, Pinto, & Silva, 2018) and place attachment (Kirkup & Sutherland, 2015; Patwardhan et al., 2019; Prayag & Ryan, 2012; Stylos, Bellou, Andronikidis, & Vassiliadis, 2017).”