• DOI:10.1080/02642069.2017.1333601
Corpus ID: 54745153

Travelling for Umrah: destination attributes, destination image, and post-travel intentions

@article{Gannon2017TravellingFU,
  title={Travelling for Umrah: destination attributes, destination image, and post-travel intentions},
  author={M. Gannon and I. Baxter and E. Collinson and R. Curran and T. Farrington and S. Glasgow and Elliot M. Godsman and Keith Gori and G. Jack and Sean Lochrie and Rebecca Maxwell-Stuart and Andrew Maclaren and R. Macintosh and K. O'Gorman and Luke Ottaway and R. Perez-Vega and Babak Taheri and J. Thompson and Ozge Yalinay},
  journal={The Service Industries Journal},
  year={2017},
  volume={37},
  pages={448 - 465}
}

M. Gannon, I. Baxter, +16 authors Ozge Yalinay

Published 2017

Sociology

The Service Industries Journal

ABSTRACT This paper examines the links between cosmopolitanism, self-identity, and a desire for social interaction on perceived destination image and behavioural intentions. A model was tested using a sample of 538 Iranian visitors to Mecca for the purpose of Umrah. The result from the structural model suggests that destination attributes influence perceived destination image. Further, such tourists are likely to revisit or recommend Islamic destinations if their experience matches their… CONTINUE READING

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