Moderating Effects of Craftourism on Place Attachment and Destination Loyalty

<p style="text-align: justify;">Practice of traditional handicrafts play a significant role in enhancing destination attractiveness. Visitors assign considerable weightage to local craft practices to satisfy their desire to participate in the learning and production process, a case o...

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Main Author: Arup Kumar Baksi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Brawijaya 2015-09-01
Series:Journal of Indonesian Tourism and Development Studies
Online Access:http://jitode.ub.ac.id/index.php/jitode/article/view/157
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description <p style="text-align: justify;">Practice of traditional handicrafts play a significant role in enhancing destination attractiveness. Visitors assign considerable weightage to local craft practices to satisfy their desire to participate in the learning and production process, a case of role-reversal. Promoting this scope of role-reversal has been used by the Destination Marketing Organizations as differentiators. Craftourism has gained considerable momentum. This paper focuses on examining the moderating effects of craftourism on place attachment and destination loyalty. Dimensions of craftourism were identified by applying suitable statistical procedure. The results revealed craftourism, with option for visitors to enact role-reversal, improves the chances of destination loyalty following antecedent effects of place attachment.</p> <p><strong>Keywords: </strong>craftourism, place attachment, destination loyalty, visitor, moderating</p>
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spelling doaj.art-17862464a3424be6b1b30cc7375ca84a2022-12-21T23:28:22ZengUniversity of BrawijayaJournal of Indonesian Tourism and Development Studies2338-16472015-09-0133158Moderating Effects of Craftourism on Place Attachment and Destination LoyaltyArup Kumar Baksi0Assistant Professor, Dept. of Business Administration, Bengal Institute of Technology & Management, Santiniketan, West Bengal University of Technology, West Bengal, India<p style="text-align: justify;">Practice of traditional handicrafts play a significant role in enhancing destination attractiveness. Visitors assign considerable weightage to local craft practices to satisfy their desire to participate in the learning and production process, a case of role-reversal. Promoting this scope of role-reversal has been used by the Destination Marketing Organizations as differentiators. Craftourism has gained considerable momentum. This paper focuses on examining the moderating effects of craftourism on place attachment and destination loyalty. Dimensions of craftourism were identified by applying suitable statistical procedure. The results revealed craftourism, with option for visitors to enact role-reversal, improves the chances of destination loyalty following antecedent effects of place attachment.</p> <p><strong>Keywords: </strong>craftourism, place attachment, destination loyalty, visitor, moderating</p>http://jitode.ub.ac.id/index.php/jitode/article/view/157
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title Moderating Effects of Craftourism on Place Attachment and Destination Loyalty
title_full Moderating Effects of Craftourism on Place Attachment and Destination Loyalty
title_fullStr Moderating Effects of Craftourism on Place Attachment and Destination Loyalty
title_full_unstemmed Moderating Effects of Craftourism on Place Attachment and Destination Loyalty
title_short Moderating Effects of Craftourism on Place Attachment and Destination Loyalty
title_sort moderating effects of craftourism on place attachment and destination loyalty
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