Beyond symbolic: the role of tourism ethnocentrism in domestic travel
Abstract
As a positive ingroup bias, tourism ethnocentrism (TE) is considered a symbolic reason for travelling that drives tourists to choose domestic destinations as a way of supporting their country and its tourism industry. To provide an additional perspective on TE, through the lens of cognitive dissonance and rationalization, we studied its relationships with other factors that could affect tourists’ decision to travel domestically. The study was conducted in Serbia and used structural equation modelling to test these relationships. Our findings indicate that tourism xenophilia and tourism thalassophilia, defined as a preference for seaside summer holidays, do not affect TE and have only a limited negative impact on willingness to travel domestically. Constraints for travelling abroad and increased destination awareness as a consequence of the pandemic positively affect TE, thus questioning its purely symbolic nature and indicating that levels of TE in tourists could change due to external... factors.
Keywords:
tourism xenophilia / destination awareness / tourism ethnocentrism / travel constraints / domestic tourismSource:
Current Issues in Tourism, 2023Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Online
Funding / projects:
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200091 (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200091)
DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2195999
ISSN: 1368-3500
WoS: 000963510300001
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85152427578
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Geografski fakultetTY - JOUR AU - Todorović, Nikola AU - Belij Radin, Marija AU - Vesić, Marina AU - Pavlović, Sanja PY - 2023 UR - http://gery.gef.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1545 AB - As a positive ingroup bias, tourism ethnocentrism (TE) is considered a symbolic reason for travelling that drives tourists to choose domestic destinations as a way of supporting their country and its tourism industry. To provide an additional perspective on TE, through the lens of cognitive dissonance and rationalization, we studied its relationships with other factors that could affect tourists’ decision to travel domestically. The study was conducted in Serbia and used structural equation modelling to test these relationships. Our findings indicate that tourism xenophilia and tourism thalassophilia, defined as a preference for seaside summer holidays, do not affect TE and have only a limited negative impact on willingness to travel domestically. Constraints for travelling abroad and increased destination awareness as a consequence of the pandemic positively affect TE, thus questioning its purely symbolic nature and indicating that levels of TE in tourists could change due to external factors. PB - Taylor & Francis Online T2 - Current Issues in Tourism T1 - Beyond symbolic: the role of tourism ethnocentrism in domestic travel DO - 10.1080/13683500.2023.2195999 ER -
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Todorović, N., Belij Radin, M., Vesić, M.,& Pavlović, S.. (2023). Beyond symbolic: the role of tourism ethnocentrism in domestic travel. in Current Issues in Tourism Taylor & Francis Online.. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2195999
Todorović N, Belij Radin M, Vesić M, Pavlović S. Beyond symbolic: the role of tourism ethnocentrism in domestic travel. in Current Issues in Tourism. 2023;. doi:10.1080/13683500.2023.2195999 .
Todorović, Nikola, Belij Radin, Marija, Vesić, Marina, Pavlović, Sanja, "Beyond symbolic: the role of tourism ethnocentrism in domestic travel" in Current Issues in Tourism (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2195999 . .