Exploring thematic influences on theme park visitors' satisfaction: An empirical study on Disneyland China

S Bai, H He, C Han, M Yang, D Yu, X Bi… - Journal of Consumer …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims to explore thematic influences on theme park visitors' satisfaction through
user‐generated data. To this end, we first used an unsupervised machine learning method …

Crowded and popular: The two sides of the coin affecting theme-park experience, satisfaction, and loyalty

A Milman, ADA Tasci, W Wei - Journal of Destination Marketing & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Crowding has become popular in academic research. Empirical studies have not, however,
addressed the role of crowding on increasingly popular theme-park settings. This study …

Visitor management in highly-visited attractions: Lessons that practitioners can learn from the US theme park industry and the national parks

A Milman - Overtourism, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Overtourism has become popular in academic research in the past few years, and the
academic literature has contributed several theoretical models to better understand the …

A conjoint analysis of attributes influencing attendance of academic conferences

M Cavusoglu, S Dogan, O Kirant Yozcu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the relative importance of various
attributes (ie the total cost of attending, conference organizer, publishing opportunities for an …

Customer emotions minute by minute: How guests experience different emotions within the same service environment

EN Torres, W Wei, N Hua, PJ Chen - International Journal of Hospitality …, 2019 - Elsevier
For years, the importance of customer emotions has been recognized in the service
literature. Despite existing research, the discrete emotions generated by each service …

Why visit theme parks? A leisure constraints and perceived authenticity perspective

WK Tan, SY Huang - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Using the leisure constraints concept, this study investigates the effects of leisure constraints
on authenticity, a topic that remains largely unexplored. It investigates impact of constraints …

Customer delight and outrage in theme parks: A roller coaster of emotions

EN Torres, A Milman, S Park - International Journal of Hospitality & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The present study explored the key drivers of customer delight and outrage in North
American theme parks. Following content analysis of TripAdvisor postings, the authors …

[HTML][HTML] The prevalence of storyworlds and thematic landscapes in global theme parks

C Baker - Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 2023 - Elsevier
Narrative has been emerging as a more prevalent concept in tourism contexts, but it has
been less defined in literature on theme parks. This study, which investigates the leading 77 …

Theme park experience: Factors explaining amount of pleasure from a visit, time allocation for activities, perceived value, queuing quality, satisfaction, and loyalty

M Godovykh, A Milman, A Tasci - Journal of Tourism and …, 2019 - search.proquest.com
A considerable amount of literature describes concepts that predict theme park visitor
behavior. Although previous studies made an effort to measure the impact of several …

Choice experiment method for sustainable tourism in Theme Parks

MY Chang, YS Hsu, HS Chen - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Previous relevant studies on theme parks lack an exploration of various tourism attributes,
eg, recreational facilities, themes, wait times, fast pass drawings, and pricing, etc., all of …