Purpose - The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the reader to six articles related to consumer behavior in tourism destinations. Design/methodology/approach - The paper introduces the papers in this special issue. ...

The objectives of this research were to determine if motivational differences existed between tourists from the same country visiting two geographical destinations and across those from two different countries visiting the ...

The purpose of this paper was to consider the repeaters' perceptions of changes in respect of the overall quality of sample destinations by examining in two categories such as positive (or better) and negative (or worse). ...

This study aims to investigate customer deviance directed against employees working in the hotel industry. First, the literature about the dark side of customers is reviewed. Second, the source of deviant behavior is ...

This research has been designed as a case study on Mallorca and Turkey to achieve two objectives. The first included the investigation of the methods used to identify performance gaps between these destinations. The next ...

Although the issue of tourist spending estimation has long been of considerable interest to many researchers, there has been no consensus yet about its definition as the dependent variable. This study attempts to estimate ...

There is no doubt that destination image (DI) is an important sub-field of tourism destination marketing. Several meta-analysis studies have appeared since the emergence of this construct in the 1970s, resulting in almost ...

This paper aims at a qualitative-based empirical investigation of how TV series influences the economic structure and stimulate the publicity of places where it was filmed and which are about to be considered as a visitor ...

This piper an investigation of gender diversity in the Turkish hospitality industry focuses on two primary objectives (a) exploring the potential relationships between gender and several demographic factors and (b) examining ...