Cited by 195Diverse Aspects of Tourism ResearchPlace Attachment and Urban StudiesCustomer Service Quality and Loyalty

Place-oriented or people-oriented concepts for destination loyalty: destination image and place attachment versus perceived distances and emotional solidarity

Open access
Tasci, Asli D.A., Uslu, Abdullah, Stylidis, Dimitrios, Woosnam, Kyle Maurice·2022·Journal of Travel Research

Abstract

Many studies have modeled several different concepts to explain destination loyalty; however, none have integrated place-oriented (e.g., destination image, place attachment) and people-oriented concepts (e.g., cultural distance, social distance, and emotional solidarity) for their relative influences on loyalty. The current study tested the influence of destination image (place-oriented) and perceived distances (people-oriented) as antecedents of place attachment (place-oriented) and emotional solidarity (people-oriented) for their relative influences on destination loyalty. Survey data collected from both domestic ( n=260) and international ( n=250) visitors to a city in Turkey, Antalya, revealed that place-oriented concepts (cognitive and affective destination images and place attachment) are better predictors of destination loyalty than people-oriented concepts (cultural distance, social distance, and emotional solidarity). Together, they explain about half of the variance in destination loyalty, 42% in past loyalty and 60% in future loyalty.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1177/0047287520982377

Cites

129 of 129 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

2 of the 131 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Tasci, A. D. A., Uslu, A., Stylidis, D., & Woosnam, K. M.
Affiliations
  • University of Central Florida (US)
  • Akdeniz University (TR)
  • Middlesex University London (GB)
  • University of Georgia (US)
Corresponding author
Tasci, Asli D.A.
Venue
Journal of Travel Research
Published
2021-01-12
Volume
61
Issue
2
Pages
430-453
ISSN
  • 0047-2875 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-6763
OpenAlex
W3119277892
Cited by
195
References
131
Citations by year
2026: 34 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 8
FWCI
42.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Travel Research (publishedVersion)
  • Middlesex University Research Repository (Middlesex University Of London) (acceptedVersion)
  • Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Place Attachment and Urban Studies
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
Keywords
tourist loyalty, destination image, place attachment, cultural distance, social distance, emotional solidarity, perceived distance, tourist behavior

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review