Trends in Tourist Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. New Tourism Products and Consumer Behaviour

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Diagnose of Equestrian Tourism: The Case of France and Romania

      • Sorina Cernaianu, Claude Sobry

      Pages 3-16

   3. Analysis and Segmentation of Sports Events’ Participants: The Marathon Course in Palma de Mallorca

      • Margarita Alemany-Hormaeche, Francisco Rejón-Guardia, María Antonia García-Sastre

      Pages 17-34

   4. Sailboat Race Events: Exploring the Effects of a Regatta in the Balearic Islands

      • Francisco Rejón-Guardia, María Antonia García-Sastre, Margarita Alemany-Hormaeche

      Pages 35-51

   5. Tourists’ City Trip Activity Program Planning: A Personalized Stated Choice Experiment

      • Astrid Kemperman, Theo Arentze, Petr Aksenov

      Pages 53-70

   6. The Youth Tourism Market: A Structural Equation Model of Determinants and Impacts of Social Interactions

      • Maria João Carneiro, Celeste Eusébio, Ana Caldeira

      Pages 71-92

   7. Wine Tourism: Constructs of the Experience

      • Arlindo Madeira, Antónia Correia, José António Filipe

      Pages 93-108

   8. EBSCode—Eco Based Surf Code—Surfing for a Sustainable Development of Beaches: The Portuguese Case

      • Fernanda Oliveira, Sofia Eurico, João Paulo Jorge

      Pages 109-123

3. Tourism Experiences and Consumer Behaviour

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. The Importance of Experience in Participant’s Motivations in Recreational Sport Tourism Events in Portugal

      • Teresa Palrão, José António Filipe

      Pages 127-145

   3. Impact of Superior Destination Experience on Recommendation

      • Gurel Cetin, Ismail Kizilirmak, Mehtap Balik, Sema Kucukali

      Pages 147-160

   4. What Percentage of Travelers Are Writing Hotel Reviews?

      • Juan Pedro Mellinas

      Pages 161-174

   5. Destination Choice, Repeating Behaviour and the Tourist-Destination Life Cycle Hypothesis

      • Andrés Artal-Tur, Antónia Correia, Jaime Serra, María Isabel Osorio-Caballero

      Pages 175-193

   6. Back to the Same Place of Holidays. An Analysis of European Tourists’ Preferences Towards Cultural Tourism

      • Rui Amaral, Jaime Serra

      Pages 195-208

   7. Factors Influencing Tourism Expenditure on Accommodation in World Heritage Cities

      • Juan Ignacio Pulido-Fernández, Isabel Carrillo-Hidalgo, Ana Belén Mudarra-Fernández

      Pages 209-224

   8. Analysis of the Spatial Distribution Pattern of Tourist Activity: An Application to the Volume of Travellers in Extremadura

      • Cristina Rodríguez-Rangel, Marcelino Sánchez-Rivero

      Pages 225-245

This book examines both how tourist behavior is being shaped by the new tourism products and segments that are appearing on the European market and how the tourist experience influences post-trip evaluation of destinations and of tourism and hospitality businesses. On this basis, practical implications and recommendations are highlighted that will help destination management organizations to improve the performance of their destinations and particular businesses. The first part of the book explores visitor engagement with a range of new products relating to sports activities and events, city tourism, wine tourism, and youth tourism. In the second part, the focus is primarily on the ways in which tourist experiences influence subsequent trip recommendations, revisiting attitudes, and reviewing behavior on social media. Other topics to be addressed include the factors affecting tourism expenditure on accommodation in World Heritage Cities and the impacts of experience on the motivation of participants in recreational sports tourism events. The book will be of interest for researchers, industry professionals, under- and postgraduate students, and others who wish to learn about new trends in tourist behavior and emerging tourism products.

• Tourist behavior
• Consumer behavior
• Sport tourism
• Experiential tourism
• Destination choice
• City tourism
• Tourism sustainability
• Cultural tourism
• Trip advisor
• Equestrian tourism
• Sailboat race
• Youth tourism market
• Wine tourism
• World heritage cities
• Destination management organizations

• Department of Economics, Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

  Andrés Artal-Tur

• School of Tourism, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey

  Metin Kozak

• Faculty of Tourism, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey

  Nazmi Kozak

Andrés Artal-Tur, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Cartagena (Spain). He is a member of the Research Excellence Group EMODs; a Research Associate at the Institute of International Economics (IEI-UV), University of Valencia; and a founding member of the FEMISE Network. His main research interests reside in the analysis of tourist behavior, destination planning, culture, and sustainability.

Metin Kozak is a Professor in the School of Tourism at Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey. He holds both Master's and PhD degrees in tourism management. His research focuses on consumer behavior, benchmarking, destination management, and sustainability. He acts as the co-editor of Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research and has been a visiting scholar at various universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. 


Nazmi Kozak is a Professor in the Faculty of Tourism at Anadolu University, Turkey. He holds both Master’s and PhD degrees in tourism management. His research activities focus on tourism marketing, the history of tourism, and bibliometrics. He is the editor of Anatolia: Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi and the co-editor of Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research. He has attended several universities in the United States as a visiting scholar.

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