The role and dimensions of authenticity in heritage tourism

E Park, BK Choi, TJ Lee - Tourism Management, 2019 - Elsevier
This study set out to investigate how authenticity affects tourist satisfaction with, and loyalty
to, an attraction and its heritage value. Different factors were seen as likely to influence the …

Chinese heritage tourists to heritage sites: what are the effects of heritage motivation and perceived authenticity on satisfaction?

THH Nguyen, C Cheung - Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Much of the literature on authenticity is Western-centric, while little work addresses the
concept in the Asian environment. The literature relating to authenticity from Asian tourists' …

Assessing the economic values of World Heritage Sites and the effects of perceived authenticity on their values

H Kim, CO Oh, S Lee, S Lee - International Journal of Tourism …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Authenticity of tourism sites is expected to positively affect their economic values because
tourists preferably visit sites perceived as more authentic. This study aims to examine the …

Investigating the structural relationships among authenticity, loyalty, involvement, and attitude toward world cultural heritage sites: An empirical study of Nanjing …

S Shen, J Guo, Y Wu - Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined the relationships among authenticity, loyalty, involvement, and attitude
toward world cultural heritage sites (WCHS), as well as the relevance between two basic …

The effect of perceived authenticity in cultural heritage sites on tourist satisfaction: the moderating role of aesthetic experience

V Genc, S Gulertekin Genc - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to investigate the moderating role of aesthetic experience in the
effect of authenticity on satisfaction in cultural heritage sites. At the same time, this study …

Deconstructing the internal structure of perceived authenticity for heritage tourism

YC Lin, YC Liu - Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Although modern society is more inclined to view authenticity from a postmodernist
perspective, few quantitative studies on heritage tourism explored existential authenticity in …

Visitors' engagement and authenticity: Japanese heritage consumption

D Bryce, R Curran, K O'Gorman, B Taheri - Tourism Management, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding the sense of authenticity of heritage attractions is important for tourism
management and marketing because presentation, interpretation and verification has a …

Authenticity and loyalty at heritage sites: The moderation effect of postmodern authenticity

X Yi, X Fu, L Yu, L Jiang - Tourism Management, 2018 - Elsevier
Authenticity and postmodern authenticity are often regarded as contradictory, and the two
are rarely considered simultaneously by researchers. Taking as research cases two …

Testing the structural relationships of tourism authenticities

T Zhang, P Yin - Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The main purpose of this study is to examine the structural relationships of authenticities in
the cultural heritage tourism context. This paper deconstructs authenticity into objective …

Heritage tourism in Singapore Chinatown: A perceived value approach to authenticity and satisfaction

S Lee, I Phau, M Hughes, YF Li… - Journal of Travel & …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines object-based and existential authenticity using a multidimensional
approach to perceived value. The effects of value perceptions on satisfaction are also …