Abstract
Recognizing the importance of tourism’s experiential aspects, this research examines how hedonic and utilitarian values relate to tourist’s overall shopping experience satisfaction and destination loyalty. Study findings suggest both hedonic and utilitarian shopping values are strongly linked to overall shopping satisfaction. Overall shopping satisfaction fully mediates utilitarian shopping value’s effect on destination repatronage intention (DRI), destination word-of-mouth (DWoM), and partially mediates hedonic shopping value’s (HSV) effect on DRI and DWoM. Study results advance consumer behavior theory and offer managerial implications for retailers operating in a rapidly maturing tourism destination in Turkey’s Mediterranean region.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1878-1885 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Business Research |
Volume | 68 |
Issue number | 9 |
Early online date | 4 Feb 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2015 |
Keywords
- hedonic shopping value
- ytilitarian shopping value
- destination loyalty
- tourist satisfaction
- tourism retailing
- tourist shopping