This chapter critically reviews travel motivation research which represents the development
of the travel motivation concept over the years. The chapter applies Maslow's hierarchy of …

As the global senior population expands, there is increasing scholarly interest in the
intersection between tourism and the aging population. After nearly four decades of …

The objectives of this study are to test the relationship between tourism motivations and
tourist satisfaction, and to test how 'Religion'moderates the relationship. The variable …

This study developed and tested a structural model in examining the effects of mainland
Chinese visitors' travel motivation, past experience, perceived constraint, and attitude on …

Tourism as a rural growth tool has to adapt to current market mechanisms, which are
becoming extremely competitive and which are dominated by communication and promotion …

The purpose of this work is to enrich the body of knowledge on destination image by
examining in depth the multi-dimensional nature of this concept, as well as analysing the …

Limited research exists on the tourism outbound market from the Middle East. To address
the literature gap, this study investigates young UAE travel motivations and perceptions of …

This study attempts to empirically test the mediating effect of overall tourist satisfaction
between travel motivations (push and pull) and destination loyalty. The tourism motivations …

The ERASMUS exchange program is considered an important contributor to the tourism
industry and higher education within and beyond the European Union (EU). However, the …

The literature of tourist destination choice pays great attention to the direct impact of the
attributes of “distance to the destination” and “prices of the destination”, but does not reach …