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The Influence of Tourists’ Safety Perception during Vacation Destination-Decision Process: An Integration of Elaboration Likelihood Model and Theory of Planned Behavior

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Safe and Secure Cities (WIS 2014)

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Safety has long been an important consideration in tourism industry due to the nature of intangible and experiential of tourism. Despite the fact that tourists’ destination decision-making has attracted lots of concentration, it is noteworthy that few of them touched the relationship between safety perception and destination decision in the perspective of influence process. In order to better understand the influence process of safety perception on travel destination decision-making is still scant, an integrated model based on the two well-tested model, elaboration likelihood model (ELM) and theory of planned behavior (TPB), is proposed in the paper. Cultural dimension of uncertainty avoidance, which related directly to safety issues, are extended to the model. Altogether seven hypotheses are given based on the conceptual framework. Conclusions on the contribution of this paper, and limitations and future research are also discussed.

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Wang, P. (2014). The Influence of Tourists’ Safety Perception during Vacation Destination-Decision Process: An Integration of Elaboration Likelihood Model and Theory of Planned Behavior. In: Saranto, K., Castrén, M., Kuusela, T., Hyrynsalmi, S., Ojala, S. (eds) Safe and Secure Cities. WIS 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 450. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10211-5_23

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