PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Authors are encouraged to submit their structured abstract (1200 words including references) as early as possible but no later than 29 September 2017. Each submitted work will go through a double blind review process to ensure quality and adherence to the conference theme. Once accepted, authors will be notified as soon as reviews are available.

At least one author of each paper must register for the presentation at the conference. All abstracts will be published in the abstract booklet.

Please prepare your work in MS Word format. All references should be in APA 6th Edition format – see : http://www.apastyle.org

Submit your work to Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice20170

SAMPLE ABSTRACT

Title

An integrated model of festival revisit intentions: Theory of planned behavior and festival quality/satisfaction

Purpose

This paper aims to investigate the determinants of current visitors’ festival revisit intentions. The concepts of festival quality and satisfaction were adapted and integrated with the theory of planned behavior (TPB) from social psychology to theorize a model of festival revisit intentions. In addition, given the importance of social characteristics in festival visiting behavior, the relative impacts of three modes of social influences (i.e. subjective norms, group norms and social identity) were investigated.

Design/methodology/approach

Statistical analyses were conducted using structural equation modeling to examine the hypothesized relationships with the data collected onsite during the Nonsan Strawberry Festival, held in Nonsan, South Korea. The eleven constructs were incorporated into the structural model to examine the hypothesized relationships among the latent factors.

Findings

Results of the analyses indicated that the proposed model had an acceptable fit to the empirical data. The overall explanatory power of the model had an R² of 84 per cent for revisit intention and an R² of 60 per cent for satisfaction. Satisfaction was found to be the strongest predictor of visitors’ revisit intensions, followed by social identity, subjective norms and group norms.

Research limitations/implications

This study developed an integrated model to explain festival visitors’ revisit intentions by adopting not only visitors’ personal evaluation of the festival experience and but also a series of social influences.

Practical implications

Based on the results, festival managers should allocate their marketing resources for the festival program, environment and souvenirs to increase the visitors’ perception of quality. Particular attention should also be given to visitor groups and their travel companions’ influences on their intentions to revisit the festival.

Originality/value

The incorporation of festival quality and satisfaction and TPB extended with additional social influence variables provided a model with a theoretical basis to explain festival revisit intentions. This approach may provide an initial blueprint for further investigation of other theoretical revisit models.

Keywords: festivals, repeat buying

FULL PAPERS

All Submissions must be made in Microsoft Word format.
The formatting style adopted by the conference is APA 6th Edition (please refer to http://www.apastyle.org.

All accepted abstracts will be published on the abstract booklet and all full papers will be published on the conference proceedings with an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN).
At least one author of each paper submitted must register for the conference and is invited to deliver a 20-minute presentation plus Q&A.
Nominations for best paper awards will be drawn only from full paper submissions.
See attached template for full papers. See template for full papers. (link to the attached word document). The deadline for full paper submission is 15 October 2017.