An Exploration of Cross-Cultural Destination Image Assessment
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- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Travel Research
- Vol. 38 (4) , 417-423
Abstract
The propensity of destinations to use the same visuals to lure tourists to their destinations, and the variety of cultures represented by target market countries, heightens the issue of meaning plurality in destination image perception. This article proffers multidimensional scaling analyses as a technique for examining cross-cultural image perception and provides an example to illustrate how the number and interpretation of image dimensions may differ between two cultures.Keywords
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