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Using Fuzzy Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) method, this study sought to develop a framework to identify and prioritize the factors influencing the selection of Iran by medical tourists. After a literature review, three main dimensions and 38 factors affecting tourism destination choices were identified. A Fuzzy SWARA questionnaire was used to ask experts how important each of the identified factors was to a medical tourist's choice of destination. In addition, medical tourists employed linguistic variables to assess the performance of the aforementioned factors. The results of the study revealed that "recommendations by friends and acquaintances," 'medical tourist's previous experiences, '"image/brand of the host country", "having friends or relatives in the destination country," and "international accreditation" were the top priorities for Iran's medical tourism policymakers and managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Incentive travel tourists generally come in large groups and travel at the full expense of their company. Their expenditure is greater than ordinary tourists, but they receive less attention in Indonesia’s marketing strategy as quality tourists. This condition occurs due to a lack of understanding of the incentive travel business process. This lack of understanding is because research on the MICE industry is more concerned with meetings/conferences or exhibitions than incentive travel. Also, a reference book that discusses incentive travel and its relation to the choice of destination processes or destination marketing strategy is limited. This study aims to determine who is involved in the destination selection process and their relationships. The research method used is a qualitative method using desk research for data collection and content analysis for analytical methods. The research method used is a qualitative method using desk research for data collection and content analysis for the analysis method. Desk research was carried out by reviewing literature related to travel incentives and research report documents conducted by research institutions related to incentive travel. The result shows several parties’ engagement and role in the incentive travel destination selection process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In business of organizing MICE events, the place (venue) is the main factor in determining destinations that are in accordance with the concept of the event. The destination image is important for an event organizer to determine the host destination for a MICE event. This study aims to explain the influence of destination image on destination selection and satisfaction from event organizers. Data collection was carried out using a questionnaire with a random sampling technique on 70 respondents who were in the MICE destination of Jakarta. The data analysis used in this research is general structured component analysis (GSCA). The results of this research prove that destination image has a significant effect on destination selection with a path coefficient value of 0.299 with a P-value of <0.001. It has a positive relationship, then destination selection has a significant effect on satisfaction with a path coefficient of 0.1013 and p-value of 0.047, while destination image has a significant effect on the satisfaction of 0.101 with a value < 0.001. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While there is a growing focus on 'who are environmental migrants,' the questions 'where do they go?' and 'why there?' have often been overlooked. We address this gap with data gathered from interviews with migrant and non-migrant households. Our results indicate those fleeing from environmental stress often move to nearby areas, sometimes shifting multiple times before settling down permanently. We also found that climate conditions of the potential destination, its geographic and social proximity to area or origin, and affordability are the most influential factors in destination selection. The relative importance of these factors varied significantly according to respondents' occupation and migration status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's world, eWOM has become increasingly important in the tourism sector because it is considered far more influential than advertising and marketing messages. Since it is usually information spread by friends or relatives, it is perceived as a more credible and reliable source than service providers' advertising. Due to the fact that eWOM occurs when customers exchange information online, it can take many forms, such as user-generated content, online product reviews, personal emails, and social media posts. More and more travellers are turning to social media platforms like Facebook, You Tube, Instagram and blogs to get first-hand information, learn about others' experiences and their reviews and recommendations for different destinations. Users' interaction with one another influences their behaviours and travel decision-making. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors of eWOM information, which affect consumers' behaviour, compare the influences of these factors on different platforms and their impact on destination choice through the moderating role of age and experience.

In today's world, eWOM has become increasingly important in the tourism sector because it is considered far more influential than advertising and marketing messages. Since it is usually information spread by friends or relatives, it is perceived as a more credible and reliable source than service providers' advertising. Due to the fact that eWOM occurs when customers exchange information online, it can take many forms, such as user-generated content, online product reviews, personal emails, and social media posts. More and more travellers are turning to social media platforms like Facebook, You Tube, Instagram and blogs to get first-hand information, learn about others' experiences and their reviews and recommendations for different destinations. Users' interaction with one another influences their behaviours and travel decisionmaking. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors of eWOM information, which affect consumers' behaviour, compare the influences of these factors on different platforms and their impact on destination choice through the moderating role of age and experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present the problem of a regional airline based at a slot‐constrained airport, which must select a set of destinations to serve, how many flights per day to operate to each destination, at what time the flights take place and which aircraft operates each flight. Restricting ourselves to the special case of regional airlines, which fly round trips from a central hub, we are able to tackle the four above decisions jointly. By contrast, in the existing literature, these decisions are usually optimised separately for generic airline networks. To solve the proposed problem, we introduce two compact integer formulations: a three‐index and a two‐index formulation. This latter, however, only solves a relaxation of the original problem because it cannot guarantee that all constraints are respected. Therefore, we embed the two‐index formulation into an iterative algorithm which dynamically adds violated constraints. Computational experiments highlight the validity of this approach and provide insights into the characteristics of the solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main intent of this investigation is to ascertain the impact of diverse facets of a destination's image, encompassing online word-of-mouth, on the selection of travel destinations by tourists. Furthermore, this study examines how e-WOM impacts travellers' perceptions of a destination and their ultimate decision to visit that place. The instrument's validity and reliability were determined through a pilot study based on previous research. The present study employes a descriptive research design and a positivist approach. A sample of 380 valid questionnaires was analyzed for the present study. The convenience sample technique was used to obtain data from travellers who visited Kashmir Valley. SPSS.20 and AMOS software were utilised for data analysis. Using AMOS software and the Structured Equation Modelling (SEM) methodology, the stated assumptions were tested. According to the evidence, decisions made by tourists are heavily influenced by how a destination is perceived. The study's results validate that electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) functions as a mediator in the relationship between travellers' pre-existing perceptions of a particular destination and their final determination to travel there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 has crucially changed the motivations, attitudes, and behaviours of travellers. This study explores the shifts in travel attitudes after the COVID-19 pandemic and how these changes affect the intention for upcoming travels. It investigates the moderating role of the traveller personality in forming the relationships between travel attitude's antecedents and future travel intention. The study adopts the deductive approach and employs the quantitative method to achieve its aim. It compares the perceptions collected via a questionnaire from random travellers from three countries: UAE, Egypt, and Jordan. PLS-SEM is used for data analysis. It is revealed that protection motivation intentions, destination selection factors, and travel patterns/arrangements predict travel attitudes post the pandemic. Cautious travellers are highly concerned with protection intentions and destination selection post-epidemic compared with normal travellers. Findings help us understand the shifts in travel attitudes and intentions after the pandemic. Understating the influence of the epidemic on tourists' attitudes and intention to travel post-pandemic is strongly needed to accelerate tourism recovery and ensure a safe travel environment for tourists. Theoretically, the study responds to the research calls for examining the changes in travel motivations, attitudes, and behaviours. Practically, the study profiles travellers based on their travel personality (i.e., cautious versus normal travellers) and identifies the characteristics of each category. This will help destination marketers and service providers to adopt the relevant strategies to meet the tourists' needs, expectations and fears in the post-pandemic new normal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We analyzed agent behavior in complex networks: Barabási–Albert, Erdos–Rényi, and Watts–Strogatz models under the following rules: agents (a) randomly select a destination among adjacent nodes; (b) exclude the most congested adjacent node as a potential destination and randomly select a destination among the remaining nodes; or (c) select the sparsest adjacent node as a destination. We focused on small complex networks with node degrees ranging from zero to a maximum of approximately 20 to study agent behavior in traffic and transportation networks. We measured the hunting rate, that is, the rate of change of agent amounts in each node per unit of time, and the imbalance of agent distribution among nodes. Our simulation study reveals that the topological structure of a network precisely determines agent distribution when agents perform full random walks; however, their destination selections alter the agent distribution. Notably, rule (c) makes hunting and imbalance rates significantly high compared with random walk cases (a) and (b), irrespective of network types, when the network has a high degree and high activity rate. Compared with the full random walk in (a) and (b) increases the hunting rate while decreasing the imbalance rate when activity is low; however, both increase when activity is high. These characteristics exhibit slight periodic undulations over time. Furthermore, our analysis shows that in the BA, ER, and WS network models, the hunting rate decreases and the imbalance rate increases when the system disconnects randomly selected nodes in simulations where agents follow rules (a)–(c) and the network has the ability to disconnect nodes within a certain time of all time steps. Our findings can be applied to various applications related to agent dynamics in complex networks.

User-generated content (UGC) can be found in various forms and on many digital platforms, from pictures and videos to reviews, rating stars, and comments. UGC platforms thrive on the content created by end-users to others like them. The objective of this study is to analyze how Internet users use websites and platforms that contain UGC and what is the role of UGC in trip planning in the form of information collection and perceived impact on their decision. This article investigates differences in influence on travelers between several types of popular UGC platforms - a booking platform, a review platform, and a social networking site (Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and Facebook, respectively) and explores how these platforms create interest towards a destination as well as the perceived impact on the decision making process. Research is extended into the comparison of user perception between user-generated content and business-generated content. The obtained results provide valuable insights for all tourism-related businesses, especially related to the potential of UGC and differences across various types of platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of engagement in social media with the image and tourism destination selection, ultimately. For this aim, a conceptual model that shows the relationship between engagement, cognitive mental image, emotional image and destination selection was designed and the research was carried out by using survey method and questionnaire tool. The target population of the study was the users of the active tourism groups in Telegram, and an available sample was our sampling method. Collected data were tested by using structural equation modeling and by helping SPSS22 and AMOS22. The results of the research model analysis indicated that there is a significant relationship between engagement in tourism-based Telegram groups with a cognitive and emotional image of the destination. In addition, cognitive mental image and emotional mental image have also a meaningful relationship with the destination selection. Finally, this study did not find evidence of a direct relationship between engagements with destination selection. At sum up, practical propositions for using telegram channel by tourism destination management have been provided.

This study tests the juxtaposition of Pearce's Travel Career Pattern with McKercher's tourism product taxonomy by examining the relationship between motive and the role attractions' taxa play in influencing the decision to visit a destination. The study represents the third in a series of three papers, with the first two presenting a conceptual model and testing the model with secondary data, respectively. The study concluded that Pearce's core motives were associated with tourists seeking a destination experience, while when respondents expressed middle and outer layer motives, they tended to seek more of an attraction specific experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study examines the importance of availability of halal food in destination selection, travel experience satisfaction and retention among Muslim travellers. The study adopted the qualitative approach. Required data were collected through 35 semi-structured interviews. The study revealed that the availability of halal food neither has a significant impact on Muslim travellers' destination selection decision nor on the overall travellers' satisfaction. However, the study findings indicated that availability of halal food affects the travellers' intentions to revisit the destination, length of stay and the type of accommodation chosen. The study findings are valuable for the hospitality industry managers and providers to understand the importance of halal food for Muslim travellers. The findings also help the Destination Management Organizations to better promote and serve products to Muslim travellers and increase the non-Muslims' awareness of halal principles and related food products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the increased competitive scenario destination authorities are looking at every possible aspect for attracting the tourists by serving quality services. Airports around the world are looking for enhancing airport service quality thereby working towards overall travel satisfaction. Quality of service and consumer satisfaction is considered as critical determinant of strategic framework for determining any business performance. The current study aims to examine the impact of airport service quality on passengers' revisit intentions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and further its association with destination selection or choice. Crisis situations like COVID-19 immediately hit airports and therefore, it becomes absolutely essential for them to revive and adapt their services quickly according to the changing conditions. The SEM analysis was applied where satisfaction was observed as a mediator between airport service quality and travelers' intent to revisit the airport, willingness to spend at the airport as well as their intent to come and visit again the destination. To this, positive and in fact significant relation has been observed between Airport Service Quality and willingness to spend at the airport and revisit the airport as well the destination. Since airports are amongst the service providers tourism destinations, this study gives the authorities with theoretical and empirical background to consider numerous factors that the passengers are actually looking in a service or might seek in future which currently is unclear and ambiguous due to COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Destination selection by international associations is a dynamic and complex decision-making process in which many stakeholders participate. In this process, key decision makers in associations engage in a series of individual decision-making processes based upon their own perceptions and decision criteria. The overall goal of this study is to understand the decision-making process and identify important decision-making criteria in international associations by applying a mixed-methods approach. This study reveals the complex structure and role of international association buying centers in the process of destination selection, and it identifies 24 important but underexplored attributes affecting this process based on a series of qualitative and quantitative research methods. The findings serve as a foundation for better marketing strategies in destination marketing organizations. • Applies mixed methods to understand destination selection process and attributes. • Discovers 24 important but underexplored destination selection attributes. • Reveals the complex structure of international association meeting decision. • Serves as a foundation for the formulation of DMOs' marketing strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Medical tourism is currently accepted as a developing industry. It describes the act of leaving home for treatment and care abroad. There are several factors that influence choice of destination for patients in medical tourism. Identification of these factors and prioritization according to importance weights could help international healthcare providers develop their marketing strategy.Methods: In the first stage of this research, an extensive review was done on recently published studies in medical tourism to identify influential factors on selecting a destination for medical tourism. The review yielded fourteen factors. In the second stage, 40 related papers were selected and the content analysis method was used to calculate frequency of repetition for each factor in the 40 papers. Furthermore, by using the Shannon entropy formula, marginal entropy and importance weight were analyzed for each factor.Results: Results indicated that the most influential factors on selection of a destination for medical tourism were “quality of care,” “cost” and “promotional programs,” results that indicate common sense. The least influential factor was “employer encouragement programs,” an indication that most medical tourists make a personal choice to embark on medical tourism and employer encouragement programs had lower priority in the decision making process.Conclusion: This study highlights the most important influential factors on choice of destination among patients, internationally. According to these findings, hospitals providing a service internationally must provide a high quality service at affordable cost. Consideration of travelers’ priorities can be applied to develop performance and promotional activities that will attract more patients and increase medical treatment revenue in a country.

The paper is concerned with tourist behavior when selecting a tourist destination to visit in the age of smart tourism associated with modern information communication technologies. The theory of planned behavior is applied in a study of the issues with particular reference to Isfahan which is a very popular tourist center in Iran and one where technological innovations are being introduced to facilitate tourism. Results reveal that tourist attitude significantly and directly affects intention to travel to a smart destination while behavioral control does not have such an effect. Tourist beliefs and subjective norms are additionally found to positively influence visit intention and destination selection. Smartness emerges as an important force in shaping demand, to which the tourism industry must be responsive and attempt to ensure suitable provision. The research enhances knowledge and understanding of these aspects of the smart tourism phenomenon, the literature about which is still relatively limited, and further work is recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recognition that not all travel experiences are evaluated equally, there is the opportunity for different travel experiences to generate varying levels of “Social Return.” “Social Return” is the amount of positive social feedback that one's social media posts of travel generate. This paper develops the Social Return Scale (SRS) and uses the scale to predict 758 U.S. travelers' intentions to visit the country of Cuba. The CFA of the SRS revealed strong construct validity based upon factor loadings above 0.85, an average variance explained estimate of 86%, and a construct reliability coefficient of 0.91. The SRS also had a positive and significant relationship with intention to visit Cuba across six structural equation models that varied by time horizon (1 year, 5 year and 10 years) and the inclusion of Theory of Planned Behavior constructs. Results suggest that “Social Return” is a salient symbolic factor in the destination selection process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourism advertisement videos have been a good source of information today for tourists to select their holiday destinations. The short promotional videos enable the viewers to visualize, fantasize and dream about a holiday destination. It has been found that young tourists are more likely to travel to different destinations with different cultures, and most of them prefer audio-visual information sources like films, television or advertisement videos regarding the holiday destinations. By employing the AIDA model (hierarchy of effects model) proposed by Elmo Lewis, this research aims to investigate how tourism advertisement promotional videos influence the decision making of young tourists in choosing a holiday destination. This study will use email interviews as the research method to allow the respondents to express themselves more freely, as well as sharing their views in a more detailed manner according to their preferred or convenient time. Two latest and most popular tourism advertisement promotional videos from YouTube will be shown to the respondents at the beginning of the interviews in order to find out what attributes in the videos influence their decision making. This study also analyzes what other destination features (e.g. people, nature, religious places, landscape, leisure activity, season, architecture or heritage) can be included in the tourism advertisements to make them more influential in forming positive attitudes among young tourists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to assess the factors for medical tourism destination selection from medical tourist’s perspective and to determine the satisfaction level of medical tourists in Malaysia. Field survey was conducted with the structured questionnaire to medical tourists admitted at 11 public and private hospitals in Kuala Lumpur region during September and October, 2013. A non-probability convenience sampling technique was used and 72 response were collected. Geography of Malaysia was found to be an important factor having direct and positive impact on patient’s destinations selection and satisfaction level. Results also confirms that Malaysia is famous destination for Indonesians as a medical tourism destination. One of the apparent limitations of current research is the sample size, which is very small and also limited to hospitals in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A study with different sample size and several locations in Malaysia may provide fruitful results for the evaluation of medical tourism destination selection. Finding of the current research are very much beneficial for the health ministry, tourism ministry and practitioners to improve the service level and in attracting big number of medical tourists to Malaysia. Several countries are offering medical tourism in Asia Pacific region and attracting big number of tourist every year. This Research was conducted to find out the factors, which are very much important to attract medical tourists to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and their satisfaction level to improve the performance level in future. Different aspects are involved like organization’s functions, and Malaysian circumstances related to medical tourism in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

This article combines regional and local perspectives to analyze the factors that influenced the selection of destinations among transatlantic migrants from the Algarve, in southern Portugal. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the majority of migrants from Algarve left for Argentina. However, a closer look at the intra-regional variations reveals a more complex pattern. The article makes a comparison among the migration flows to Argentina, Brazil, and the United States. The Algarve case shows that migrants’ choice of destination was influenced by a combination of micro and macro factors, including socio-demographic characteristics, local origin, social and occupational networks, labor markets, and migration policies.

Introduction: Medical tourism is currently accepted as a developing industry. It describes the act of leaving home for treatment and care abroad. There are several factors that influence choice of destination for patients in medical tourism. Identification of these factors and prioritization according to importance weights could help international healthcare providers develop their marketing strategy. Methods: In the first stage of this research, an extensive review was done on recently published studies in medical tourism to identify influential factors on selecting a destination for medical tourism. The review yielded fourteen factors. In the second stage, 40 related papers were selected and the content analysis method was used to calculate frequency of repetition for each factor in the 40 papers. Furthermore, by using the Shannon entropy formula, marginal entropy and importance weight were analyzed for each factor. Results: Results indicated that the most influential factors on selection of a destination for medical tourism were "quality of care," "cost" and "promotional programs," results that indicate common sense. The least influential factor was "employer encouragement programs," an indication that most medical tourists make a personal choice to embark on medical tourism and employer encouragement programs had lower priority in the decision making process. Conclusion: This study highlights the most important influential factors on choice of destination among patients, internationally. According to these findings, hospitals providing a service internationally must provide a high quality service at affordable cost. Consideration of travelers' priorities can be applied to develop performance and promotional activities that will attract more patients and increase medical treatment revenue in a country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research evaluates Plog’s model of allocentricity and psychocentricity in order to test its effectiveness as a predictor of travel behavior. While some of Plog’s psychographic system’s behavioral characteristics were confirmed, the major finding related to the actual visitation patterns of the tested sample’s travel, with the vast majority of the sample’s travel, regardless of the traveler’s Plog classification, to destinations classified as psychocentric. Practical marketing and destination management implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European Union's ambition to create a harmonized reception system for asylum seekers differs from the realities on the ground. We address how differences in national reception conditions stimulate the secondary migration that challenges the creation of an effective common migration regulation in Europe. We base our analysis on the Dublin Regulation (DR) and the secondary movement of Eritrean asylum seekers from Italy to Norway. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with civil servants, NGO representatives, and Eritrean migrants in Milan and Rome, and Norwegian civil servants. Recently developed models of migration destination selection were used to analyse the interaction between individual aspirations and structural constraints. We found that the Eritrean informants remained highly motivated to apply in a second country but were to some extent held back by the DR. Supranational regulations were challenged by the migrants' actions and by national differences in reception and welfare standards. Both the migrants' aspirations to move on and the challenges to a harmonized regional regulation of migration increased during times of economic crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article summarizes recent findings related to temporal orientation and marketing. Differences in temporal orientation are largely between two groups: present and future. Succinctly put, future-oriented people consider the future consequences of their decisions; in contrast, present-focused individuals focus primarily on near-term benefits. This concept is widely studied, and accepted to impact perception, information processing, attitudes and behavior across several industry segments. Results of exploring this concept within a tourism context indicate a difference in destination selection between the two orientations. Authors suggest how tourism marketers may apply these preliminary findings and how future research may more fully tap this robust concept for tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

By 2006, Macao became the global leader in casino tourism, surpassing the Las Vegas Strip in terms of gross gaming revenue primarily driven by Macao being the only place in China where casino gambling is legal. Conspicuous within Macao’s casino marketing strategy has been the investment in celebrity endorsement to lure Chinese visitors to Macao. China has also emerged as one of the world’s largest and increasingly sought-after high-yield travel markets. As competition intensifies for the emerging Chinese travel market globally, understanding the most optimum communication strategy that can be effectively applied to and influence Chinese outbound travelers can give greater direction to destination marketing agencies and National Tourism Authorities. With a focus on the influence of the celebrity endorsement tactic on travel perceptions and decision making, a face-to-face survey was conducted on 305 Chinese visitors to Macao in 2013. The study revealed that perceptions and destination decision making differed among Chinese visitors with regard to age, gender, education, and income range, when using the celebrity endorsement tactic. The findings showed that celebrity endorsement could be used more strategically to influence and target certain Chinese traveler segments, emphasizing the need to carefully assess the usefulness of such a costly tactic within destination promotional campaigns aimed at the Chinese audience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The current study used Orlando, Florida as a case study, and investigated whether there are differences between the three meeting planner types (association, corporate, third party) in regard to destination selection attributes. The study further identified attributes that affect future bookings to Orlando. Data were collected from a nationwide survey of meeting planners with a usable sample of 2,388 completed phone surveys and 118 completed online questionnaires. One significant difference was found between the three meeting planner types. This research was performed in the midst of the recent recession and explored the impact the recession has had on planning meetings. Some effects of the economic downturn on the events industry are decreased attendance and more conservative budgets. Most association meeting planners did not cancel or postponed their events, although all planners agree that attendance to their meetings decreased. Third-party planners seemed to be the most sensitive to budget allocations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose a P300 brain–computer interface (BCI) with visual stimuli presented on a head-up display and we apply this BCI for selecting destinations of a simulated vehicle in a virtual scene. To improve the usability of the selection system, we analyze the effects of the number of electroencephalogram (EEG) rounds on system performance. Experimental results from eight participants show that the BCI-based model of destination selection can be built with EEG data from eight channels, and participants can use this BCI to select a desired destination with an accuracy value of 93.6% \pm 1.6% (mean value with standard error) in about 12 s of selection time. This paper lays a foundation for developing vehicles that use a BCI to select a desired destination from a list of predefined destinations and then use an autonomous navigation system to reach the desired destination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Generating travel behavior based on artificial population and an activity plan is a conventional method for traffic simulation. As a complicated and important constituent of travel behavior, destination selection is a decision-making process for space transfer and has been studied extensively in the disaggregate model. However, existing selection models only focus on the psychology or custom of individuals from a microscopic perspective and rarely take account of the actual traffic state. This causes a large deviation in simulation results and thus results in some obstacles for application. In this paper, a new destination selection model based on link flows is proposed. Further, a searching algorithm for an observed link set is given, and compressed sensing is used in the model solution. Experiments demonstrate that this model can predict the actual traffic state in rush hours quite well. Therefore, it contributes to the credible simulation and computational experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Planning or deciding where to vacation may rely on nonrational thought and be influenced by imaginative processes such as creating visions of oneself in future consumption experiences together with associated emotions. This study examined the influence of pictorial and textual stimuli on dimensions of consumer consumption vision. It also tested whether elaborate and quality consumption visionary responses to print advertising, mediated by emotional responses, result in heightened product interest and expedited purchase decisions. Two hundred and sixty community members participated in the study measuring consumption vision, emotions, and decision making by responding to simulated advertising material. Pictures together with concrete words influenced consumption vision elaboration, whereas instructions to imagine alone versus concrete words influenced consumption vision quality. A series of standard regression analyses tested these propositions and confirmed emotion as a mediating variable for consumption vision and vacation purchase decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the role of motivations, prior travel experience, social ties and destination choice in pre-trip attitude formation. The sample for this study is composed of a group of university students who recently participated in study abroad programs to the South Pacific or Europe. The results revealed that academic motivations and social ties influence students' destination selection for the study aboard program. Social motivation emerged as the most important factor that influences attitude toward the destinations prior to the trip. Further analysis found that the destination intended to visit mediates the effect of social motivation on pre-trip attitude formation. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]