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From Savoring Past Trips to Craving Future Journeys: The Role of Destination Cultural Capital and Enjoyable Reminiscence

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: What is destination cultural capital, and what is its role in tourism? The present inquiry addressed these questions by examining a mediated relationship among perceived destination cultural capital, impression in memory, brand love, enjoyable reminiscence, and revisit intention based on cultural capital theory and mental time travel perspective. It further draws on shattered assumptions theory to underscore the boundary conditions of COVID-19 worries and meaning in life. By undertaking three empirical studies, this investigation offers a mechanism that explains how reminiscences of past travel memories could galvanize interest in future voyages during the new normal. This inquiry broadens the scope of cultural capital in tourism scholarship and identifies its role in tourists’ beliefs through a cognitive–affective moderated dyadic process. It enriches the literature by providing a theoretical synthesis of the shattered assumptions and cultural capital perspectives, one that links mental time and corporeal travel.

Source: Journal of Travel Research

DOI: 10.1177/00472875231206546

Authors: Danni Sun, IpKin Anthony Wong, Guoqiong Ivanka Huang, Jong-Hyeong Kim, Matthew Tingchi Liu

Institutions: Sun Yat-sen University, University of Macau, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hainan University, Arizona State University

Language: English

Topic: Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Awards: 旅游服务型中小企业模仿创新的形成机制与影响研究, G6154650469