A metamodel for tourist intentions to visit a destination using systematic literature review

Abstract

Different social and psychological variables has been identified in previous studies leading to understand the tourist's behavior and intentions to visit a destination. However, tourism literature does not have a combined list of these constructs for predicting such intentions. Understanding these constructs can provide guidelines for tourism's stakeholders to attract tourists to a specific destination. This review identifies the variables that provoke the intentions of tourists to visit a destination. A systematic literature review methodology has been adopted, focusing on conference papers published during the last six year on tourism research. The study uncovered six essential constructs, namely: Satisfaction, Destination Attractions, Perceived Behavioral Control (PBC), Perceived Risk, Perceived Value, and Experience. A metamodel has been designed revealing the relationship among the aforementioned constructs. Moreover, the findings show that tourist's satisfaction, experience and destination attractions creates positive intentions to visit a destination or recommend it to others.