{"title":"Feeling good - bodies in destination brand love","authors":"Kaisa Aro , Jaana Tähtinen","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103998","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study extends the conceptualization of destination brand love with a bodily dimension. Although tourism research and affective and cognitive science acknowledge that we sense the world through our bodies, the human body seldom appears in brand-love studies. This study shifts the focus from the antecedents and consequences of brand love to consumers' multidimensional brand-love relationships. We distinguish two ontological approaches to brand love by studying an outdoor destination brand. The first conceptualizes destination brand love as a four-dimensional entity of bodily, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions. The second is a processual conceptualization considering destination brand-loving as an ongoing process. The study offers two alternative and connected conceptualizations for tourism marketing scholars: destination brand love and destination brand-loving.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103998"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Tourism Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738325001045","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study extends the conceptualization of destination brand love with a bodily dimension. Although tourism research and affective and cognitive science acknowledge that we sense the world through our bodies, the human body seldom appears in brand-love studies. This study shifts the focus from the antecedents and consequences of brand love to consumers' multidimensional brand-love relationships. We distinguish two ontological approaches to brand love by studying an outdoor destination brand. The first conceptualizes destination brand love as a four-dimensional entity of bodily, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions. The second is a processual conceptualization considering destination brand-loving as an ongoing process. The study offers two alternative and connected conceptualizations for tourism marketing scholars: destination brand love and destination brand-loving.
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The Annals of Tourism Research is a scholarly journal that focuses on academic perspectives related to tourism. The journal defines tourism as a global economic activity that involves travel behavior, management and marketing activities of service industries catering to consumer demand, the effects of tourism on communities, and policy and governance at local, national, and international levels. While the journal aims to strike a balance between theory and application, its primary focus is on developing theoretical constructs that bridge the gap between business and the social and behavioral sciences. The disciplinary areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to, service industries management, marketing science, consumer marketing, decision-making and behavior, business ethics, economics and forecasting, environment, geography and development, education and knowledge development, political science and administration, consumer-focused psychology, and anthropology and sociology.