英文摘要 |
Tourists collect traveling information for making itinerary arrangement toenhance the traveling quality and decreasing uncertainties. In the process ofgathering travel related information, such as the reputation of the travelingdestination and advertisement promotions, tourists might change theirpsychological perception of the traveling destination and thus influencing theintent or interest for making the trip. The purpose of this study is toinvestigate whether the reputation (well known versus not well known),advertisement promotions, and the interaction between reputation and salespromotion of the leisure farms would influence the consumers’ perceptionevaluation on the quality, value, and risks associated with the travelingdestination. The structural equation modeling method was used to conductthe integrated analyses on the relationships between the latent variables andthe manifest variables. On site questionnaire were distributed to the touristson the leisure farms to collect the relevant information for the study. Theestimated results using LISREL procedure show that: the fame of the leisurefarms would decrease the tourists risk perception, but did not havesignificant effect on the interest to travel, perceived value, and the perceivedquality. Advertisement promotion price did increase the perceived quality, butwould decrease the interest for traveling; the reduction in perceived riskswould increase the perceived value on the farms, and increase the interestfor traveling, but did not have significant effect on the perceived quality. Theincrease in the perceived quality would increase the traveling interest andthe perceived value. |