The role brand equity on developing tourism industry

During the past few years, there have been growing interests in developing tourism industry in developing tourism economy. This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of different factors including brand awareness, quality perception, brand associate and brand loyalty on deve...

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Main Authors: Behnam Ghorbanifard, Hosseinali Aziziha, Seyed Alireza Hosseini Tabatabaee, Shahram Hasheminia, Seyed Shahab Mousavi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2014-01-01
Series:Management Science Letters
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Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2013_363.pdf
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author Behnam Ghorbanifard
Hosseinali Aziziha
Seyed Alireza Hosseini Tabatabaee
Shahram Hasheminia
Seyed Shahab Mousavi
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description During the past few years, there have been growing interests in developing tourism industry in developing tourism economy. This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of different factors including brand awareness, quality perception, brand associate and brand loyalty on developing tourism economy. The proposed study was accomplished in city of Karaj located in province of Alborz, Iran. The study designed a questionnaire consist of 27 questions designed in Likert scale and distributed it among 400 randomly selected people who visited this city during the year of 2012. Using Spearman correlation, they study confirmed that there were some positive relationship between brand awareness and tourism economy (r=0.434, Sig.=0.02), a positive relationship between quality perception and tourism economy (r=0.198, Sig.=0.008), a positive relationship between brand associate and tourism economy (r=0.261, Sig.=0.000) and finally there was a positive and relationship between brand loyalty and tourism economy (r = 0.302, Sig. = 0.05). In addition, the implementation of stepwise regression model has indicated that brand awareness played essential role on tourism economy followed by brand loyalty and quality perception.
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spelling doaj.art-7910f60855e146709b434c28556d0def2022-12-22T01:22:42ZengGrowing ScienceManagement Science Letters1923-93351923-93432014-01-0141107110The role brand equity on developing tourism industryBehnam GhorbanifardHosseinali AzizihaSeyed Alireza Hosseini TabatabaeeShahram HasheminiaSeyed Shahab MousaviDuring the past few years, there have been growing interests in developing tourism industry in developing tourism economy. This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of different factors including brand awareness, quality perception, brand associate and brand loyalty on developing tourism economy. The proposed study was accomplished in city of Karaj located in province of Alborz, Iran. The study designed a questionnaire consist of 27 questions designed in Likert scale and distributed it among 400 randomly selected people who visited this city during the year of 2012. Using Spearman correlation, they study confirmed that there were some positive relationship between brand awareness and tourism economy (r=0.434, Sig.=0.02), a positive relationship between quality perception and tourism economy (r=0.198, Sig.=0.008), a positive relationship between brand associate and tourism economy (r=0.261, Sig.=0.000) and finally there was a positive and relationship between brand loyalty and tourism economy (r = 0.302, Sig. = 0.05). In addition, the implementation of stepwise regression model has indicated that brand awareness played essential role on tourism economy followed by brand loyalty and quality perception.http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2013_363.pdfBrand equityTourism IndustryBrand awarenessPerception qualityBrand associate
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Hosseinali Aziziha
Seyed Alireza Hosseini Tabatabaee
Shahram Hasheminia
Seyed Shahab Mousavi
The role brand equity on developing tourism industry
Management Science Letters
Brand equity
Tourism Industry
Brand awareness
Perception quality
Brand associate
title The role brand equity on developing tourism industry
title_full The role brand equity on developing tourism industry
title_fullStr The role brand equity on developing tourism industry
title_full_unstemmed The role brand equity on developing tourism industry
title_short The role brand equity on developing tourism industry
title_sort role brand equity on developing tourism industry
topic Brand equity
Tourism Industry
Brand awareness
Perception quality
Brand associate
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