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dc.contributor.authorRamkissoon, Haywantee
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:28:11Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:28:11Z
dc.date.created2016-02-28T19:30:29Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationRamkissoon, H. 2015. Authenticity, Satisfaction, and Place Attachment: A Conceptual Framework for cultural tourism in African Island Economies. Development Southern Africa. 32 (3): pp. 292-302.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31931
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0376835X.2015.1010711
dc.description.abstract

Small islands often host distinctive resources to influence their future through tourism development. Island economies in Africa have witnessed a growing number of tourists seeking authentic cultural and natural heritage tourism attractions. This paper critically examines and bridges the nexus between perceived authenticity, place attachment, place satisfaction and cultural behavioural intentions of tourists in African island economies. Adopting a theoretical framework from the authenticity literature, and the attitude-behaviour framework, this paper develops and proposes a conceptual model to investigate how authenticity of a cultural tourism attraction might influence place satisfaction, which in turn might influence levels of place attachment and prompt cultural behavioural intentions of tourists in African island economies. This research conceptually contributes to knowledge advocating the associations between constructs of authenticity, place satisfaction, place attachment, and cultural behavioural intentions of tourists in African island economies. Limitations of the study and practical implications for sustainable tourism development are discussed.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.titleAuthenticity, Satisfaction, and Place Attachment: A Conceptual Framework for cultural tourism in African Island Economies
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume32
dcterms.source.number3
dcterms.source.startPage292
dcterms.source.endPage302
dcterms.source.issn0376-835X
dcterms.source.titleDevelopment Southern Africa
curtin.departmentSchool of Marketing
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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