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Author : Boopendra Seetanah & Viraiyan Teeroovengadum & Kesseven Padachi
School/Work Place : University of Mauritius | University of Technology, Mauritius
Contact : b.seetanah@uom.a.mu
Year : 2017

Loyalty of customers is recognized as a key ingredient for the success of organisations. A 5% increase in customer retention has been linked to 85% increase in profits (Reichfield and Sasser, 1990). As noted by Assael (1984), long term organizational success does not depend on first time purchase but rather on repurchase. The same principles have been found to apply at destination level (Oppermann, 2000). With increasing recognition of the importance of destination loyalty, studies in tourism and hospitality have given more and more consideration to this concept during the last years (Gursoy, Chen and Chi, 2014; Hultman, Skarmeas, Oghaziand Beheshti, 2015; Sun, Chi and Zu, 2013; Zhang, Fu, Cai and Lu, 2014). According to Chen and Phou. (2013, p.270) “destination loyalty has become a critical part of destination marketing and management research, due to increasing competition and the recognition of the importance of loyal visitors”. Undeniably, gaining a better understanding of destination loyalty, so as to enhance it, depends on knowledge about its determinants.

Seetanah, Teeroovengadum, Padachi, Travelers Satisfaction with Dimensions of Tourist Tertiary Support Services and its Effect on Destination Loyalty PP.pdf

Seetanah, Teeroovengadum, Padachi, Travelers Satisfaction with Dimensions of Tourist Tertiary Support Services and its Effect on Destination Loyalty.pdf


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
334 Think Tank IX What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal... file 15992 Oct 13, 2013

Sustainable Tourism has emerged as a major field of specialisation within tourism and has been so pervasive that some have suggested that the field represents a fifth platform of tourism research, while others have argued that the field has...

Author: Pierre Benckendorff 

Year: 2009 

333 Think Tank X Is Ecotourism a Strategy for Regional Economic Develop... file 15724 Oct 14, 2013

The state of Uttarakhand (in the Himalayas) in which the two case studies were conducted is trying to expand its already existing strength in the tourism sector as well. Tourism is estimated to make up for about 20% of GDP in Uttarakhand in...

Author: Harald Pechlaner & Christopher Reuter 

Year: 2010 

332 Think Tank XII Destination Governance and Tourist Mobilities: New Par... file 15617 Nov 06, 2013

Resort communities are complex systems where destination governance has become increasingly challenged by new mobilities of capital, finance, labor, communication, transportation, leisure and tourism. Popular destinations like the coastal co...

Author: Dianne Dredge & Tazim Jamal 

Year: 2012 

331 Think Tank XIII Assessing the Impact of Rural Tourism Development on t... file 15559 Nov 06, 2013

Past literature has posited that tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors and has been signified as an attractive investment proposition. Rural tourism sector has been actively promoted by the Malaysian government and currently, it is c...

Author: May-Chiun Lo, Vikneswaran Nair, Peter Songan & Helen Lee HuiHui 

Year: 2013 

330 Think Tank VIII Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit... file 15507 Oct 13, 2013

Employment is one of the important requirements for the integration of disabled people to daily life. The tourism industry is one of Turkey’s important industries with a great potential for growth. However this growth must be a planned and ...

Author: Sabah Balta & Murat Bengisu 

Year: 2008 

329 Think Tank XIV Leadership at the Nexus: Exploring the Connection betw... file 15498 Jun 26, 2014

The development of sustainable and competitive tourism destinations is contingent upon many factors including the creation of inclusive policy (Pforr, 2006), the development and implementation of strategic plans (Jordan, Vogt, Kruger, and Gr...

Author: Whitney Knollenberg & Nancy Gard McGehee 

Year: 2014 

328 Think Tank X The Impact of Climate Change on Alpine Leisure Tourism... file 15462 Oct 14, 2013

This paper presents an interacting multi-agent model as a new method of examining the impact of climate change on Alpine leisure tourism and ski areas in a complex interacting model network. Since tourism varies at a small scale concerning ...

Author: Alexander Dingeldey & Anja Soboll 

Year: 2010 

327 Think Tank XIV Exploring the potential of Community Based Ecotourism ... file 15448 Jun 27, 2014

Development in developing countries often results in mass land-use change and subsequent increase in greenhouse gas emission by deforestation or forest degradation. For instance, approximately a-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions was a...

Author: Stephen Wearing, Paul Chatterton, Amy Reggers & Hanna Sakata 

Year: 2014 

326 Think Tank VI The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: CSR, Film and Tourism.... file 15289 Oct 13, 2013

This paper reports on an element of an ongoing research project undertaken since 1999 in relation to the effects of film-induced tourism on a small community based in North Yorkshire, England, namely Goathland.  Goathland is better known to ...

Author: Sue Beeton 

Year: 2006 

OPA: 2006 Runner Up 

325 Think Tank VII Destination and Enterprise Management for a Tourism Fu... file 15272 Oct 13, 2013

A key element of a successful tourism industry is the ability to recognize and deal with change across a wide range of key factors and the way they interact. Key drivers of global change can be classified as Economic, Social, Political, Tec...

Author: Larry Dwyer, Deborah Edwards, Nina Mistilis, & Carolina Roman 

Year: 2007 

324 Think Tank VIII Environmental Education and Ecotourism: A Case Study o... file 15219 Oct 13, 2013

In this paper we take the standpoint that environmental education and ecotourism are highly related and depend on each other, and that ecotourism cannot be achieved without proper environmental education. Furthermore, in order to achieve qu...

Author: Mojca Arsenijevic & Marko Bohanec 

Year: 2008 

323 Think Tank XII Opportunities and Obstacles for Sustainable Tourism Mo... file 15173 Nov 06, 2013

Cross border destination management is characterized by some extra challenges: national, district or county interests, different administrative structures, a high impact of politics and policies, inequality of tourism infrastructures, power ...

Author: Tatjana Thimm 

Year: 2012 

322 Think Tank XII Micro-Mobility Patterns and Service Blueprints as Foun... file 15143 Nov 06, 2013

This paper proposes the use of micro-mobility patterns and service blueprints in visitor management planning. Using a nature-based conservation area and visitor attraction in Wellington, New Zealand, as a case study, micro-mobility patterns ...

Author: Julia Albrecht 

Year: 2012 

321 Think Tank X Drowning with Tourism? Stakeholder Perspectives from T... file 15070 Oct 14, 2013

Climate change and its impacts on nations, regions and populations as well as its anthropogenic causes have become one of the prevailing issues of global society and, hence, subject to ongoing debates among e.g. the natural, political and s...

Author: Anna Huebner 

Year: 2010 

320 OPA award Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,... file 15035 Dec 01, 2013

Hotels are traditionally geared towards providing a high-level of comfort and entertainment, as well as a broad spectrum of services, often without giving much concern to associated environmental or socio-economic impacts. Hotel companies ty...

Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Branko Simanic & Ivo Martinac 

Year: 2004 

OPA: 2004 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

319 Think Tank VII Environmentally Sustainable Practices of Victorian Tou... file 14980 Oct 13, 2013

Environmental sustainability has been a growing concern in our society for the past twenty years, and is a primary issue of many leaders of the tourism industry. In spite of the many efforts to encourage and/or enforce environmentally sound ...

Author: Sue Beeton, Sue Bergin-Seers & Christine Lee 

Year: 2007 

318 Think Tank IV Integration of Theory and Practice in Hospitality Sust... file 14847 Oct 13, 2013

This brief paper describes a new educational model developed at Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL) to link theory and practice, or more specifically, coordinate learning opportunities between the classroom (Sustainable Tourism) and current pr...

Author: James Holleran 

Year: 2004 

317 Think Tank XIV The Emergence of Cross-border Governance Structures: t... file 14806 Jun 26, 2014

It is well recognized that the local borders of a tourism destination are not easy to delineate as they are constantly changing through complex practices and discourses due to historical, political, and economic factors. In fact, recent stud...

Author: Dani Blasco, Jaume Guia & Lluís Prats 

Year: 2014 

316 Think Tank VIII Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ... file 14585 Oct 13, 2013

The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive research of secondary and tertiary education s...

Author: Jane Stacey, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin & Anna Tottle 

Year: 2008 

315 Think Tank IX Courchevel, an outstanding alpine ski resort at a turn... file 14573 Oct 13, 2013

“Courchevel is first and foremost one among the founding elements of the huge touristic complex of les Trois Vallées in France. Linked to the neighbouring Allues and Belleville valleys by a 3,000 acres network area of regularly packed and ma...

Author: Daniel Tixier 

Year: 2009 

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