Memorable Whale Watching Tourism Experiences: Insights From the Azores

IF 4.1 3区管理学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

International Journal of Tourism Research Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI:10.1002/jtr.70039

Erose Sthapit, Teresa Borges-Tiago, Muhammet Kesgin, Carlos Picanco, Brian Garrod

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This study examines the roles of learning, experience co-creation, and experiential satisfaction as antecedents of a memorable whale-watching tourism experience, as well as the relationships between experiential satisfaction, memorable whale-watching tourism experience, hedonic well-being, place attachment, and pro-environmental behavior. Using data collected from 247 tourists who had taken a whale-watching trip in the Azores, partial least squares structural equation modeling was then applied to the dataset. The results indicate that the higher the levels of learning, experience co-creation, and experiential satisfaction, the more memorable is the whale-watching tourism experience. Experiential satisfaction and memorable whale-watching tourism experience are, in turn, significant determinants of hedonic well-being, place attachment, and pro-environmental behavior. The paper therefore calls for greater efforts by whale-watching trip providers to enhance their learning and interpretation programs and to ensure that the overall trip experience is as interactive as possible.

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难忘的观鲸旅游体验：来自亚速尔群岛的见解

本研究探讨了学习、体验共同创造和体验满意度在难忘观鲸旅游体验中的作用，以及体验满意度、难忘观鲸旅游体验、享乐幸福感、地方依恋和亲环境行为之间的关系。利用从247名在亚速尔群岛进行赏鲸之旅的游客那里收集的数据，然后将偏最小二乘结构方程模型应用于数据集。研究结果表明，学习水平、体验共同创造水平和体验满意度越高，观鲸旅游体验越令人难忘。体验满意度和令人难忘的观鲸旅游体验反过来又成为享乐幸福感、地方依恋和亲环境行为的重要决定因素。因此，这篇论文呼吁赏鲸旅行提供者加大努力，加强他们的学习和解释计划，并确保整个旅行体验尽可能地互动。

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International Journal of Tourism Research HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Tourism Research promotes and enhances research developments in the field of tourism. The journal provides an international platform for debate and dissemination of research findings whilst also facilitating the discussion of new research areas and techniques. IJTR continues to add a vibrant and exciting channel for those interested in tourism and hospitality research developments. The scope of the journal is international and welcomes research that makes original contributions to theories and methodologies. It continues to publish high quality research papers in any area of tourism, including empirical papers on tourism issues. The journal welcomes submissions based upon both primary research and reviews including papers in areas that may not directly be tourism based but concern a topic that is of interest to researchers in the field of tourism, such as economics, marketing, sociology and statistics. All papers are subject to strict double-blind (or triple-blind) peer review by the international research community.