ASEAN Journal on Hospitality and Tourism
Vol. 19 No. 2 (2021)

Destination Image of Himachal Pradesh: Foreign Tourist Perception

Sunil Kumar (Mittal School of Business Lovely Professional University India)
Sandeep Sharma (Central University of Himachal Pradesh)



Article Info

Publish Date
08 Sep 2021

Abstract

Destination Image is a psychological set of emotions in a tourist’s mind. This study is aninquiry from 384 Foreign Nationals who included destination Himachal in their visit toIndia. The latent factors of ‘destination image’ were extracted and validated throughstructural equation modeling (SEM). Out of the ten explored latent factors ‘affective’dimension is the major element followed by ‘infrastructure’, ‘culture’ and ‘safety’ are actingas significant persuading forces in destination image formation. The study will help variousorganizations and agencies to position their tourism products. Future researchers caninvestigate the change in destination image with other locations having the samegeographical conditions. This study is limited to the present experience of tourists anddidn’t include the revisit experiences of foreign tourists.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ajht

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Engineering Social Sciences

Description

The main purpose of this international refereed journal is to advance and foster tourism and hospitality education, research, and professionalism in the Southeast Asia region. The journal provides a vehicle for increasing awareness, consideration and analysis of issues in tourism and hospitality, ...