International Journal of Tourism Cities: Volume 4 Issue 2

Impact of Facebook on leisure travel behavior of Singapore residents

Veena Jadhav, Seetha Raman, Nitin Patwa, Krishna Moorthy, John Pathrose

Social media has fundamentally changed the leisure travel behavior of Singapore residents. The purpose of this paper is to focus on Facebook and its impact on travel behavior. The…

Loyalty membership for luxury hotels in Malaysia

Hasliza Hassan, Zahra Pourabedin, Abu Bakar Sade, Jiayi Chai

Loyalty membership is widely used as a marketing strategy to secure customer’s loyalty in many business sectors. The purpose of this paper is to focus on loyalty membership of…

Order effects and multi-city visits: tour guides’ perspectives

Samira Zare, Philip Pearce

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of the order in which a set of cities are visited to ascertain the effects of position on group tourists’ recall and…

Competitive performance as a substitute for competiveness measurement in tourism destinations: an integrative study

Edar da Silva Añaña, Raphaella Costa Rodrigues, Luiz Carlos da Silva Flores

The purpose of this paper is to address a new method to evaluate the competitiveness of tourist destinations based on competitive performance from the consumers’ perspective. The…

Service quality evaluation and the mediating role of perceived value and customer satisfaction in customer loyalty

Yousef Keshavarz, Dariyoush Jamshidi

Loyalty has become the most important strategic aim in the hotel industry. The purpose of this paper is to obtain an empirical understanding of loyalty in the Kuala Lumpur hotel…

From urban exploration to ruin tourism: a geographical analysis of contemporary ruins as new frontiers for urban tourism

Aude Le Gallou

Despite the increasing academic interest for urban ruins and evolutions of urban tourism, research on ruin tourism as an emergent form of urban tourism practice is still lacking…

Antecedents of tourist loyalty to tourist destinations: a mediated-moderation study

Suhail Ahmad Bhat, Mushtaq Ahmad Darzi

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of destination image on satisfaction level and tourist loyalty toward the various tourist destinations in Jammu and Kashmir. The…