How important is a bike park visit for the overall tourist destination experience?
Tourism has become a highly competitive sector, forcing destinations to reinvent and constantly enhance extraordinary experiences in accordance with their miscellaneous destination characteristics, whilst considering mountain biking as a growing phenomenon. This study, therefore, aims at providing a...
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| author | Philipp Schlemmer Florian Falkner Lisa Müller Christian Raschner Martin Schnitzer |
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| description | Tourism has become a highly competitive sector, forcing destinations to reinvent and constantly enhance extraordinary experiences in accordance with their miscellaneous destination characteristics, whilst considering mountain biking as a growing phenomenon. This study, therefore, aims at providing a general profile of bike park visitors and at identifying key success factors for a bike park in the context of a destination. A quantitative survey (n = 325) was conducted in a cross-sectional design. The results suggest differing types of visitors with diversified perceptions of a bike park’s key success factors related to the overall perception of sojourn satisfaction. This research extends the literature by (1) shedding light on a booming phenomenon and revealing profiles of bike-park tourists, (2) pointing out key success factors of a bike park and (3) providing information about the perceptions of a bike park related to the overall tourism destination. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f740f71396ad4fcab078e60beee7d33d2022-12-21T20:42:46ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Social Sciences2331-18862019-01-015110.1080/23311886.2019.16130271613027How important is a bike park visit for the overall tourist destination experience?Philipp Schlemmer0Florian Falkner1Lisa Müller2Christian Raschner3Martin Schnitzer4University of InnsbruckUniversity of InnsbruckUniversity of InnsbruckUniversity of InnsbruckUniversity of InnsbruckTourism has become a highly competitive sector, forcing destinations to reinvent and constantly enhance extraordinary experiences in accordance with their miscellaneous destination characteristics, whilst considering mountain biking as a growing phenomenon. This study, therefore, aims at providing a general profile of bike park visitors and at identifying key success factors for a bike park in the context of a destination. A quantitative survey (n = 325) was conducted in a cross-sectional design. The results suggest differing types of visitors with diversified perceptions of a bike park’s key success factors related to the overall perception of sojourn satisfaction. This research extends the literature by (1) shedding light on a booming phenomenon and revealing profiles of bike-park tourists, (2) pointing out key success factors of a bike park and (3) providing information about the perceptions of a bike park related to the overall tourism destination.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2019.1613027sports tourismtourist satisfactiondestination perceptionbikeparkdestination marketing |
| spellingShingle | Philipp Schlemmer Florian Falkner Lisa Müller Christian Raschner Martin Schnitzer How important is a bike park visit for the overall tourist destination experience? Cogent Social Sciences sports tourism tourist satisfaction destination perception bikepark destination marketing |
| title | How important is a bike park visit for the overall tourist destination experience? |
| title_full | How important is a bike park visit for the overall tourist destination experience? |
| title_fullStr | How important is a bike park visit for the overall tourist destination experience? |
| title_full_unstemmed | How important is a bike park visit for the overall tourist destination experience? |
| title_short | How important is a bike park visit for the overall tourist destination experience? |
| title_sort | how important is a bike park visit for the overall tourist destination experience |
| topic | sports tourism tourist satisfaction destination perception bikepark destination marketing |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2019.1613027 |
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