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The coupling coordination of relationships between tourism destination image and product country image

  • Peng Zheng*
  • , Jinkai Li
  • , Jiejie Wang
  • , Hui Cheng
  • , Qianwen Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Based on coupling theory, this paper analyzes mainland Chinese tourists who had purchased Taiwanese products before they traveled to Taiwan, and presents three key findings: (1) The evaluation value of mainland Chinese tourists for tourism destination image (TDI) is higher than that of product country image (PCI). (2) The degrees of coupling coordination between TDI and PCI as well as cognitive TDI and cognitive PCI are barely balanced; the degree of coupling coordination between affective TDI and affective PCI is slightly unbalanced. (3) There are stable and fluctuating coupling coordination relationships between TDI and PCI in different social demographic groups.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)858-870
Number of pages13
JournalInternational Journal of Tourism Research
Volume23
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • coupling
  • product country image
  • tourism destination image

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