Experimental study on tourist satisfaction using participatory simulation in a virtual environment

Before traveling, tourists need to ensure that they will have a well-organized trip, which mainly involves a smooth flow of visits to different tourist attractions by themselves or following a pre-designed plan made by tourism service providers. The present study examined how the sequence of visitin...

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Autores principales: Chao, Dingding, Kanno, Taro, Furuta, Kazuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25674403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-552
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description Before traveling, tourists need to ensure that they will have a well-organized trip, which mainly involves a smooth flow of visits to different tourist attractions by themselves or following a pre-designed plan made by tourism service providers. The present study examined how the sequence of visiting tourist attractions influences tourist satisfaction at the expectation and experience levels. Participatory simulation with a virtual environment platform was employed in the experiments to assess their experience. The research reveals that the contrast bias has significant influence on the assessment. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-2-552) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-43201622015-02-11 Experimental study on tourist satisfaction using participatory simulation in a virtual environment Chao, Dingding Kanno, Taro Furuta, Kazuo Springerplus Research Before traveling, tourists need to ensure that they will have a well-organized trip, which mainly involves a smooth flow of visits to different tourist attractions by themselves or following a pre-designed plan made by tourism service providers. The present study examined how the sequence of visiting tourist attractions influences tourist satisfaction at the expectation and experience levels. Participatory simulation with a virtual environment platform was employed in the experiments to assess their experience. The research reveals that the contrast bias has significant influence on the assessment. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-2-552) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer International Publishing 2013-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4320162/ /pubmed/25674403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-552 Text en © Chao et al.; licensee Springer. 2013 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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