Keywords

Cohorts, Destination Tourism, Image, Millennial Generation, Movies

Abstract

This study examines the degree to which the leisure activity of "going to a movie film" influences an individual's image formation process, and therefore desire to visit the portrayed tourist destination. The results of this single case study are twofold. First, demographic differences occur between pretest and posttest measures of destination attributes as the result of exposure to a destination specific movie, and second, the desire to visit the film locations as expressed in the movie significantly vary by gender, age, and ethnicity.

Publication Date

2-1-2008

Original Citation

Hahm, J. Upchurch, R. Wang, Y. C. (2008). Millennial Students, Movies and Tourism. Tourism Analysis, 13(2), 189-205.

DOI

10.3727/108354208785664229

Number of Pages

189-205

Document Type

Paper

Language

English

Source Title

Tourism Analysis

Volume

13

Issue

2

Publication Version

Publisher's version

College

Rosen College of Hospitality Management

Location

Rosen College of Hospitality Management

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