Exploring the psychological restoration of tourists in natural and cultural destinations: The moderating roles of novelty and familiarity

IF 7.3 2区管理学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourism Management Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI:10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101362

Rui Cui , Sadaf Farahani (Vina Wang) , Yihua Xie , Xiaozhou He

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Abstract

This study, grounded in the Attention Restoration Theory, examines the relationship among perceived destination restorative quality, restorative effect, and revisit intentions. It particularly assesses how this relationship is moderated by novelty and familiarity in natural and cultural destinations. Utilizing partial least squares (PLS) analysis, it uncovers that novelty negatively moderates the relationship between perceived destination restorative quality and restorative effect in natural settings, while familiarity moderates non-significantly. In contrast, both factors positively moderate this relationship in cultural contexts. Moderated mediation analysis reveals that in natural environments, both factors negatively moderated the relationship, while in cultural environments, familiarity positively moderated but novelty exerted no effect. Findings theoretically contribute to introducing novelty and familiarity to deeply understand the restorative mechanisms in different environments, thus improving tourism psychology and tourist behavior research.

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游客在自然文化旅游目的地的心理修复：新奇性和熟悉性的调节作用

本研究以注意力恢复理论为基础，探讨了感知目的地恢复质量、恢复效果和重访意图之间的关系。它特别评估了自然和文化目的地的新颖性和熟悉度如何调节这种关系。利用偏最小二乘（PLS）分析，它发现新颖性负向调节感知目的地修复质量与自然环境中的修复效果之间的关系，而熟悉度无显著调节。相反，这两个因素在文化背景下对这种关系起到正向调节作用。有调节的中介分析表明，在自然环境中，熟悉度和新颖性对关系有负向调节作用，而在文化环境中，熟悉度和新颖性对关系有正向调节作用。研究结果在理论上有助于引入新颖性和熟悉性，深入了解不同环境下的恢复机制，从而完善旅游心理学和游客行为研究。

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15.60

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3.40%

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59 days

期刊介绍： Tourism Management Perspectives is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on the planning and management of travel and tourism. It covers topics such as tourist experiences, their consequences for communities, economies, and environments, the creation of image, the shaping of tourist experiences and perceptions, and the management of tourist organizations and destinations. The journal's editorial board consists of experienced international professionals and it shares the board with Tourism Management. The journal covers socio-cultural, technological, planning, and policy aspects of international, national, and regional tourism, as well as specific management studies. It encourages papers that introduce new research methods and critique existing ones in the context of tourism research. The journal publishes empirical research articles and high-quality review articles on important topics and emerging themes that enhance the theoretical and conceptual understanding of key areas within travel and tourism management.