Pub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2293807
Shu-Ning Zhang, Wan-Ya Zhang, Yong-Quan Li, Wenqi Ruan, Yan Zhou
ABSTRACT Appearance elements are driving tourist consumption. However, there is still a research gap in the matching effects of the peripheral design elements around tourism cultural and creative products (CCPs). Therefore, introducing the theoretical model of “consumer reaction to product form”, this study conducted two experiments to explore the matching influence mechanism of CCPs’ styles and hues on tourists’ willingness to buy. The results highlight that matching the styles and hues of tourism CCPs could positively affect tourists’ willingness to buy. Specifically, the tourism CCPs with typical style and cold hue will stimulate tourists’ willingness to buy through the mediation of fluency. Furthermore, the tourism CCPs with novel appearance and warm hue improve willingness to buy, in which fluency and perceived enjoyment play a mediating role. These findings contribute to the knowledge of tourism CCP marketing and provide insight into tourism CCP appearance design in the tourism industry.
{"title":"Will visual peripheral cues motivate you to purchase tourism cultural and creative products? Evidence from China","authors":"Shu-Ning Zhang, Wan-Ya Zhang, Yong-Quan Li, Wenqi Ruan, Yan Zhou","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2293807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2293807","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Appearance elements are driving tourist consumption. However, there is still a research gap in the matching effects of the peripheral design elements around tourism cultural and creative products (CCPs). Therefore, introducing the theoretical model of “consumer reaction to product form”, this study conducted two experiments to explore the matching influence mechanism of CCPs’ styles and hues on tourists’ willingness to buy. The results highlight that matching the styles and hues of tourism CCPs could positively affect tourists’ willingness to buy. Specifically, the tourism CCPs with typical style and cold hue will stimulate tourists’ willingness to buy through the mediation of fluency. Furthermore, the tourism CCPs with novel appearance and warm hue improve willingness to buy, in which fluency and perceived enjoyment play a mediating role. These findings contribute to the knowledge of tourism CCP marketing and provide insight into tourism CCP appearance design in the tourism industry.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"71 13","pages":"1434 - 1451"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139187436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2293810
J. Kim, Seongseop (Sam) Kim, Tadesse Bekele Hailu, Heekyeong Ha, Heesup Han
ABSTRACT Urban air mobility (UAM) is ready to fly and is a disruptive technology in improving city tourism. This study explores the roles of innovation characteristics, motivated consumer innovativeness, and attitude in stimulating intention to use UAM, with consideration of cultural differences. For this, we adopted both symmetric and asymmetric approaches based on data gathered in the United States and China. This study examined the structural relationships between predictors and tested the moderating effect of problem awareness in the link between motivated consumer innovativeness and attitude in developing travelers’ approach behaviors relating to UAM. This study found multiple solutions based on a complex interplay among antecedents, and identified a necessary condition to drive intention to use UAM. Our findings from multiple analytic approaches help to advance the current knowledge of UAM adoption behavior in different cultures.
{"title":"Impacts of UAM on tourism: the roles of innovative characteristics, motivated consumer innovativeness, attitude, problem awareness, and cultural differences","authors":"J. Kim, Seongseop (Sam) Kim, Tadesse Bekele Hailu, Heekyeong Ha, Heesup Han","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2293810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2293810","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Urban air mobility (UAM) is ready to fly and is a disruptive technology in improving city tourism. This study explores the roles of innovation characteristics, motivated consumer innovativeness, and attitude in stimulating intention to use UAM, with consideration of cultural differences. For this, we adopted both symmetric and asymmetric approaches based on data gathered in the United States and China. This study examined the structural relationships between predictors and tested the moderating effect of problem awareness in the link between motivated consumer innovativeness and attitude in developing travelers’ approach behaviors relating to UAM. This study found multiple solutions based on a complex interplay among antecedents, and identified a necessary condition to drive intention to use UAM. Our findings from multiple analytic approaches help to advance the current knowledge of UAM adoption behavior in different cultures.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"74 2","pages":"1452 - 1472"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139187551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2293803
Chenmei Liao, Di Tian, Rob Law, Shaogui Xu, Mu Zhang
ABSTRACT This study uses coupled coordination, spatial autocorrelation, and grey correlation analysis to examine the degree, trends, and spatial distribution of health tourism industry integration in Guangdong Province, China, to explore the relevant factors affecting its development, and to summarize the mechanisms and paths of such integration. Results show that (1) the overall development trend of convergence of the health tourism industry in Guangdong Province is generally positive, and the health and tourism industries are in a benign coupling state of mutual promotion; (2) the convergence of the health tourism industry in Guangdong Province shows obvious local spatial agglomeration characteristics, and the spatial distribution pattern of cold hot spots of industrial coupling coordination shows the characteristics of “cold in the north and hot in the south” and “cold in the east and west, hot in the middle;” (3) among those factors affecting the convergence of health tourism industry in Guangdong Province, market demand exerts the greatest influence, followed by human resources, technological innovation, government support, and basic transportation; and (4) in the convergence mechanism of the health tourism industry in Guangdong Province, demand is the endogenous driving force, talent cultivation and technological innovation are the sustained supporting forces, and government support is the external driving force. Some suggestions are put forward to promote the convergence of the health and tourism industries and to provide a reference for the global health tourism industry to achieve high-quality convergence and development.
{"title":"Research on the spatial distribution and driving mechanism of the integrated development of the health tourism industry","authors":"Chenmei Liao, Di Tian, Rob Law, Shaogui Xu, Mu Zhang","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2293803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2293803","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study uses coupled coordination, spatial autocorrelation, and grey correlation analysis to examine the degree, trends, and spatial distribution of health tourism industry integration in Guangdong Province, China, to explore the relevant factors affecting its development, and to summarize the mechanisms and paths of such integration. Results show that (1) the overall development trend of convergence of the health tourism industry in Guangdong Province is generally positive, and the health and tourism industries are in a benign coupling state of mutual promotion; (2) the convergence of the health tourism industry in Guangdong Province shows obvious local spatial agglomeration characteristics, and the spatial distribution pattern of cold hot spots of industrial coupling coordination shows the characteristics of “cold in the north and hot in the south” and “cold in the east and west, hot in the middle;” (3) among those factors affecting the convergence of health tourism industry in Guangdong Province, market demand exerts the greatest influence, followed by human resources, technological innovation, government support, and basic transportation; and (4) in the convergence mechanism of the health tourism industry in Guangdong Province, demand is the endogenous driving force, talent cultivation and technological innovation are the sustained supporting forces, and government support is the external driving force. Some suggestions are put forward to promote the convergence of the health and tourism industries and to provide a reference for the global health tourism industry to achieve high-quality convergence and development.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"66 12","pages":"1399 - 1416"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139187520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2293797
Dang Thuan An Nguyen, Liwei Hsu
ABSTRACT This study focuses on understanding how transformation happens and the emergence of different dimensions, including existential transformation, learning transformation, and behavioral transformation from solo travelers’ perspectives. The hypotheses were drawn from sparse literature review and were tested based on validated measurement scales. A questionnaire was distributed and successfully collected 336 valid online responses, which was then analysis using SmartPLS 3.0. The findings reveal significant direct relationships between transformative travel experiences and their dimensions. The paper provides useful insights for transformation theory about the influence of different dimensions, namely, travel motivation, self-reflection on the transformation process of solo travelers.
{"title":"Exploring the transformative travel process: testing the moderating role of travel motivation and the mediating role of self-reflection of solo travelers","authors":"Dang Thuan An Nguyen, Liwei Hsu","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2293797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2293797","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study focuses on understanding how transformation happens and the emergence of different dimensions, including existential transformation, learning transformation, and behavioral transformation from solo travelers’ perspectives. The hypotheses were drawn from sparse literature review and were tested based on validated measurement scales. A questionnaire was distributed and successfully collected 336 valid online responses, which was then analysis using SmartPLS 3.0. The findings reveal significant direct relationships between transformative travel experiences and their dimensions. The paper provides useful insights for transformation theory about the influence of different dimensions, namely, travel motivation, self-reflection on the transformation process of solo travelers.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"46 2","pages":"1363 - 1379"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139187657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2293801
Debarun Chakraborty, Aruna Polisetty, Anubhav Mishra, N. Rana
ABSTRACT This study addresses this knowledge deficit by developing and testing a model that examines the effect of smart technologies on tourists’ satisfaction and intentions to repeat visit a travel destination. This study used a longitudinal approach and collected data from 438 tourists between December 2020 and March 2021, followed by another survey between September 2021 and March 2022. Technology characteristics such as accessibility, information quality, and personalisation positively influence tourists’ satisfaction, which mediates the relationship between trust and repeat visit intentions of tourists.
{"title":"A longitudinal study on how smart tourism technology influences tourists’ repeat visit intentions","authors":"Debarun Chakraborty, Aruna Polisetty, Anubhav Mishra, N. Rana","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2293801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2293801","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study addresses this knowledge deficit by developing and testing a model that examines the effect of smart technologies on tourists’ satisfaction and intentions to repeat visit a travel destination. This study used a longitudinal approach and collected data from 438 tourists between December 2020 and March 2021, followed by another survey between September 2021 and March 2022. Technology characteristics such as accessibility, information quality, and personalisation positively influence tourists’ satisfaction, which mediates the relationship between trust and repeat visit intentions of tourists.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"37 5","pages":"1380 - 1398"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139187697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2293806
Kowoon Kim, Hong-Youl Ha
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of three justice types' direct and three-way interactions on customer forgiveness, including the two moderators of sales promotions and customer type. Notably, the analysis revealed that procedural justice's impact on customer forgiveness is significant, but the direct effects of distributive and interactional justice are insignificant. Specifically, the more positive the non-complainers' evaluations of service recovery efforts, the more forgiving they are in response to price discounts. Meanwhile, although complainers respond positively to price discounts, their reactions to coupons and discounts are similar and increase somewhat in a positive nature.
{"title":"Service recovery types on customer forgiveness: a moderated moderation model of promotions and customer type","authors":"Kowoon Kim, Hong-Youl Ha","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2293806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2293806","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of three justice types' direct and three-way interactions on customer forgiveness, including the two moderators of sales promotions and customer type. Notably, the analysis revealed that procedural justice's impact on customer forgiveness is significant, but the direct effects of distributive and interactional justice are insignificant. Specifically, the more positive the non-complainers' evaluations of service recovery efforts, the more forgiving they are in response to price discounts. Meanwhile, although complainers respond positively to price discounts, their reactions to coupons and discounts are similar and increase somewhat in a positive nature.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"26 3","pages":"1417 - 1433"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139187630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2293790
Vikas Gautam
ABSTRACT Local residents play a significant role in establishing the destination’s strong brand. This study intends to weigh the support of community residents for sustainable tourism development (STD) using the latent variables of community citizenship behavior (CCB), place attachment, and destination psychological ownership (DPO). Primary data gathered through an offline survey from 367 inhabitants in 15 municipal wards in Hyderabad, India, were analyzed using structural equation modeling and the bootstrap method. The empirical results of the study show that DPO had a significant effect on place identification, place dependence, and social bonding. Barring involving behavior, rest four dimensions of CCB significantly impacted residents’ support for STD. This research provides theoretical and managerial insights on inhabitants’ roles in the development of a popular location. Study results are based on 367 sample data.
{"title":"Understanding interplay between destination psychological ownership and community citizenship behavior to support sustainable tourism development","authors":"Vikas Gautam","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2293790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2293790","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Local residents play a significant role in establishing the destination’s strong brand. This study intends to weigh the support of community residents for sustainable tourism development (STD) using the latent variables of community citizenship behavior (CCB), place attachment, and destination psychological ownership (DPO). Primary data gathered through an offline survey from 367 inhabitants in 15 municipal wards in Hyderabad, India, were analyzed using structural equation modeling and the bootstrap method. The empirical results of the study show that DPO had a significant effect on place identification, place dependence, and social bonding. Barring involving behavior, rest four dimensions of CCB significantly impacted residents’ support for STD. This research provides theoretical and managerial insights on inhabitants’ roles in the development of a popular location. Study results are based on 367 sample data.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"10 4","pages":"1345 - 1362"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139187543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2293787
Huixian Shen, Ivan Kai Wai Lai
ABSTRACT This study adopts the Stimuli-Organism-Response framework to explore how the perceived value of craft souvenirs in a souvenir gift-giving context arouses recipients’ (non-visitors) perception of destination image and ultimately induces their travel intention. Data were collected from 381 respondents in Chengdu, China. Results show that recipients’ perceived craft souvenir value positively influences two components of destination image (cognitive and affective), further influencing travel intention. This study contributes to souvenir-induced tourism research by focusing on a new perspective of stakeholders and inspiring researchers’ interest in understanding souvenir recipients. It also provides ways to utilize craft souvenirs to promote destinations.
{"title":"The value of craft souvenirs induces travel intention by shaping destination image: from the perspective of souvenir gift recipients","authors":"Huixian Shen, Ivan Kai Wai Lai","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2293787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2293787","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study adopts the Stimuli-Organism-Response framework to explore how the perceived value of craft souvenirs in a souvenir gift-giving context arouses recipients’ (non-visitors) perception of destination image and ultimately induces their travel intention. Data were collected from 381 respondents in Chengdu, China. Results show that recipients’ perceived craft souvenir value positively influences two components of destination image (cognitive and affective), further influencing travel intention. This study contributes to souvenir-induced tourism research by focusing on a new perspective of stakeholders and inspiring researchers’ interest in understanding souvenir recipients. It also provides ways to utilize craft souvenirs to promote destinations.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"1311 - 1326"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139290827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2293786
Zhonghao Zhang, Sunweiyu Huang, Siyu Zhang, Xiang Liu, Wei Jiang, Zihao Zheng, Junjun Zhi, Yi Long
ABSTRACT Online texts and images have become an important data source for investigating tourism emotion. However, tourism emotion extracted from online data cannot reflect the emotions in the real world. Few scholarly attempts have focused on the complex biases in tourism emotion based on online data. By comparing online and offline emotion, this study quantified biases in tourism emotion and explored patterns among biases. Facial expressions and texts within Disney Resort were collected. Based on facial expression recognition and text mining, several indices were proposed to measure tourism emotion and biases. Our results reveal that tourists tend to share stronger happiness, increased anger in commerce areas and exaggerated disgust in waiting areas. In addition, males show “surprise-suppress”; while females show “surprise-exaggeration” in recreation areas. Our research can help scholars reexamine previous conclusions based on online tourism emotion and provides a theoretical basis for improving the quality of online tourism emotion.
{"title":"Online versus offline tourism emotion: uncovering the bias pattern in online tourism emotion within theme parks","authors":"Zhonghao Zhang, Sunweiyu Huang, Siyu Zhang, Xiang Liu, Wei Jiang, Zihao Zheng, Junjun Zhi, Yi Long","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2293786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2293786","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Online texts and images have become an important data source for investigating tourism emotion. However, tourism emotion extracted from online data cannot reflect the emotions in the real world. Few scholarly attempts have focused on the complex biases in tourism emotion based on online data. By comparing online and offline emotion, this study quantified biases in tourism emotion and explored patterns among biases. Facial expressions and texts within Disney Resort were collected. Based on facial expression recognition and text mining, several indices were proposed to measure tourism emotion and biases. Our results reveal that tourists tend to share stronger happiness, increased anger in commerce areas and exaggerated disgust in waiting areas. In addition, males show “surprise-suppress”; while females show “surprise-exaggeration” in recreation areas. Our research can help scholars reexamine previous conclusions based on online tourism emotion and provides a theoretical basis for improving the quality of online tourism emotion.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"218 1","pages":"1295 - 1310"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139290558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2293809
Jingjing Liu, Yahui Su, Lanxin Ren, Peter Nijkamp
ABSTRACT This paper introduces the concept of individual authenticity from psychology into tourism research, aiming to develop and test the intricate mechanisms of individual authenticity, place attachment, and the behavioral intentions of tourists. Several relevant hypotheses are formulated and empirically tested using a structural equation model (SEM), with data from China. Results demonstrate that individual authenticity experience is an important antecedent of tourists’ behavioral intentions, where place dependence and place identity play a partial chain mediating role. The research provides fresh insights into the role of subject-related authenticity in tourism, which also provides anchor points for enhancing destination marketing.
{"title":"The influence of individual authenticity experience on tourists’ behavioral intentions: the chain mediating role of place dependence and place identity","authors":"Jingjing Liu, Yahui Su, Lanxin Ren, Peter Nijkamp","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2293809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2293809","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper introduces the concept of individual authenticity from psychology into tourism research, aiming to develop and test the intricate mechanisms of individual authenticity, place attachment, and the behavioral intentions of tourists. Several relevant hypotheses are formulated and empirically tested using a structural equation model (SEM), with data from China. Results demonstrate that individual authenticity experience is an important antecedent of tourists’ behavioral intentions, where place dependence and place identity play a partial chain mediating role. The research provides fresh insights into the role of subject-related authenticity in tourism, which also provides anchor points for enhancing destination marketing.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"186 1","pages":"1279 - 1294"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139290924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}