RT Journal Article
T1 Tourists' perceived destination image and behavioral intentions towards a sanctioned destination: comparing visitors and non-visitors
A1 Siyamiyan Gorji, Abolfazl
A1 Almeida-García, Fernando
A1 Mercade-Mele, Pere
K1 Irán - Descripción y viajes - Evaluación del riesgo
K1 Comportamiento colectivo
K1 Turismo
AB Drawing on a qualitative study, this study aims to provide an improved understanding of how tourists perceive a sanctioned destination's image and how sanction-induced crises influence tourists' behavioral intentions. To do so, this study employed semi-structured interviews with 30 individuals each with and without prior experience visiting Iran. The findings revealed that sanctions influence affective and cognitive images and enhance tourist risk perceptions, including financial, satisfaction, terrorism and war, political, crime, security, and functional/performance risks. Furthermore, a positive post-trip evaluation was found to play a significant role in further behavioral intention, thereby enhancing destination image. Overall, this study enriches the literature on tourism and crises by focusing on visitors' and non-visitors' perceptions of a sanctioned destination and their subsequent behavioral intents. The theoretical and practical implications of the study are provided in the conclusion.
PB Elsevier
YR 2022
FD 2022-12-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26529
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26529
LA eng
NO Abolfazl Siyamiyan Gorji, Fernando Almeida Garcia, Pere Mercadé-Melé, Tourists' perceived destination image and behavioral intentions towards a sanctioned destination: Comparing visitors and non-visitors, Tourism Management Perspectives, Volume 45, 2023, 101062, ISSN 2211-9736, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2022.101062.
NO The research in this paper was funded by the projects; a) ‘New strategies for new tourist conflicts in Andalusian historic centers’ (UMA20-FEDERJA-005), FEDER Andalusian Operational Program 2014-2020, Spain, and b) ‘Residents versus tourists in Andalusian historic centres? Conflicts, strategies and new post-Covid scenarios’(P20_01198), Andalusian Plan for Research, Development and Innovation (PAIDI 2020), Spain.  ///  Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 15 abr 2026