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Assessing tourists' cognitive, emotional and behavioural reactions to an unethical destination incident

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Tourism Management, Volume: 54, Pages: 209 - 220

Swansea University Author: Brian Garrod Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.tourman.2015.11.004

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Studies of how tourists react to unethical incidents in destinations are scarce. Based on an online survey (n = 1350) and grounded in cognitive appraisal theory, this study examines people's reactions to a hypothetical breach of ethics at a tourism destination. Results from a structural equatio...

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Published in: Tourism Management
ISSN: 02615177
Published: 2016
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