International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research: Volume 5 Issue 2

New perspectives on vacation decision making

Kenneth F. Hyde, Alain Decrop

This paper introduces the seven empirical studies on vacation decision making in this special issue of IJCTHR. The paper compares the findings of these seven studies to…

Domestic vs outbound booking and channel choice behavior: evidence from New Zealand

Douglas G. Pearce, Christian Schott

This paper seeks to analyze the extent to which New Zealand domestic and outbound travelers' book components of their trip in advance or at their destination and to explore the…

A new perspective on tourist information search: discussion in couples as the context

Fred Bronner, Robert de Hoog

Information‐search for vacation decision‐making can occur in two different contexts: an individual one, in which one forms one's preferences, and a social one in response to…

Marital power bases as predictors of spousal influence strategies in a vacation purchase decision

Ya'arit Bokek‐Cohen

This paper aims to uncover the relationships between marital power and influence strategies used during couples' vacation decision processes. Marital power includes two…

Towards a decision making model for city break travel

Gerard Dunne, Sheila Flanagan, Joan Buckley

The purpose of this paper is to examine the city break travel decision, and in particular, to develop a decision making model that reflects the characteristics of this type of…

The souvenir purchase decision: effects of online availability

Lisa J. Abendroth

Prior to e‐commerce, tourists could only purchase souvenirs at a destination. The goal of this research is to develop and test a theory to explain how adding a retail web site…

Expertise, experience and self‐confidence in consumers' travel information search

Karin Teichmann

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between consumer self‐confidence, product expertise, and travel experience in the context of travel information search…

Tourists' dual‐processing accounts of reasoning, judgment, and actions

Drew Martin, Arch G. Woodside

The purpose of this paper is to describe theory building and testing of dual processing of tourist reasoning, judgment, and actions.