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dc.contributor.authorCini, Francesca
dc.contributor.authorSaayman, Melville
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-11T10:13:15Z
dc.date.available2015-05-11T10:13:15Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationCini, F. & Saayman, M. 2013. Understanding visitor's image of the oldest marine park in Africa. Current issues in tourism. 16(7):664-681. [http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcit20/current]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1368-3500
dc.identifier.issn1747-7603 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/13798
dc.description.abstractIn successful tourism development and destination marketing, an important factor is individuals' tourist destination image (TDI). A review of the literature revealed a dearth of studies on the image of national parks as tourist destinations in less-developed countries (LDCs). To help alleviate this lack, visitors to the oldest marine park in Africa – the Tsitsikamma National Park (TNP) in South Africa – were surveyed to investigate their image of the TNP. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 165 day visitors. Subsequently, independent t-tests and ANOVA were performed on the collected data. The contribution of this study to the literature on TDI was twofold. First, it analysed the image of a national park in an LDC as a tourist destination. Tourism in protected areas is an important and growing sector of the worldwide tourism industry, particularly in developing countries where a large portion of the world's biodiversity is concentrated and where tourism can really be a tool for poverty alleviation. Second, it contributed to the TDI-formation process by investigating the relationship between the respondents' TNP image – overall, cognitive and affective dimensions – and a set of their personal factors. This relationship is an issue that needs to be resolved by empirical studies, especially with regard to the cognitive but also the affective image components and its overall image.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcit20/current
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjectTourist destination imageen_US
dc.subjectnational parksen_US
dc.subjectnature-based tourism developmenten_US
dc.subjectdestination marketingen_US
dc.subjectless-developed countryen_US
dc.titleUnderstanding visitor's image of the oldest marine park in Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.researchID10201424 - Saayman, Melville


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