HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2019, Vol. 58 ›› Issue (7): 11-15.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2019.07.002

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A review of domesticstudies on tourism destination image measurement

HU Meng-jiao, LIANG Yue-lin   

  1. College of Economics and Management,China University of Geoscience,Wuhan 430070,China
  • Received:2018-07-30 Online:2019-04-10 Published:2019-12-03

Abstract: The tourism destination image will directly affect the the travel decision-making behavior of tourists and tourism destination development.At the same time, the tourism destination image positioning, promotion and improvement must rely on scientific and accurate destination image measurement. 56 literature on tourism destination images from 1989 to 2015 were extracted from China Knowledge Network as the analysis samples,based on the retrospection of the contents of the destination image measurement, the author further made comparatively comprehensive arrangement, contrast and analysis on the structured and unstructured measuring methods of destination image used in research. The conclusions are that the three dimensions of destination image measurement are connected with each other, and the measurement contents of different levels are unified, which is beneficial to structural optimization of destination image dimension combining structured and unstructured measurement method is the future trend of the development of destination image measuring methods. The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematically theoretical reference for the future tourism destination image measurement research.

Key words: tourism destination image, measurement content, structured measuring method, unstructured measuring method

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