Giacomo Del Chiappa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3482722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giacomo Del Chiappa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giacomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Del Chiappa |
| SIGNATURE | DEL CHIAPPA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sassari |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4318-0462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How does technology use within families shape children’s travel intentions
Although research on family tourism and decision-making has flourished in recent decades, little is known about how shared digital behaviours shape children’s mental imagery and travel behaviour. This paper presents a conceptual framework grounded in Family Systems Theory and the Theory of Planned Behaviour to test hypothesised relationships between digital attributes (i.e. ease of use, informativeness, and entertainment), family engagement, and …
Virtual cyclotourism: The interplay of vividness, interactivity, and telepresence
Affective triggers of authenticity and place attachment at heritage sites and consequences for destinations
Tourist transformation: An empirical analysis of female and male experiences
Recent advancements have been made in our understanding of transformative tourism, but the gap between conceptualisations and experiences has yet to be bridged. Using existing theories defining tourist transformation, this study empirically examines male and female travellers’ subjective experiences and identifies types of transformation. A survey of 514 participants was conducted, and the data analysed through an exploratory factor analysis. The…
European Journal of Tourism Research: 15 Years of Research Community Service
This editorial presents some of the key changes in the European Journal of Tourism Research in the period 2018-2022. In particular, the journal changed its publishing model and became a Platinum open-access journal, the journal’s scope was amended to focus on European tourism, an online submission system was introduced, and the editorial team was expanded. The paper also presents the editorial philosophy of the co-editors and their vision of how …
Covid-19 vaccine confidence and tourism at the early stage of a voluntary mass vaccination campaign: A PMT segmentation analysis
Restarting the mass tourism industry relies on the success of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign which requires individuals' voluntary participation to reduce health risks to hosts and visitors. This study identifies segments of Italian residents based on vaccine confidence at the early stage of a voluntary mass vaccination program. Using a survey held with 3,893 Italian residents, two COVID-19 vaccine confidence clusters were identified. These cl…
Enhancing visit intention in heritage tourism: The role of object‐based and existential authenticity in non‐immersive virtual reality heritage experiences
Virtual reality (VR) plays a relevant role in the tourism sector, specifically in experiences of remote attractions. The influence of VR experiences on tourist experiential factors such as authenticity and satisfaction has attracted limited attention. This paper investigates the role of object‐based and existential authenticity in non‐immersive virtual heritage tours. A theoretically driven model was tested on data from 2085 individuals who visit…
Diverse socialising patterns in wine tourist experiences: A segmentation‐based analysis of visitors to the wineries in South Australia
Wine tourism is a social phenomenon influenced by the presence and the dynamics of many individuals (e.g. service personnel, travel companions, and other tourists). This study, carried out in South Australia on 394 winery visitors, attempts to confirm, and further explore, the important role of social interaction as part of the winescape experience, its multidimensionality and its impact on wine tourist decision‐making behaviour. Results of the f…
Active and Reactive Value Dimensions: A Dynamic-Based Perspective in the Hotel Sector
This article provides an approach to the dynamic nature of value in a hotel experience by proposing a conceptual framework that seeks to explain the influence of value types on customer satisfaction and loyalty as being concatenated rather than simultaneous effects, as more usually described. The concatenation of effects is based on the distinction between active versus reactive values and is tested in a structural model consisting of eight types…
Travel desire over intention in pandemic times
Travel Intention was critically complicated by numerous factors linked to COVID-19. • We empirically validate Travel Intention, Craving and Vaccine Confidence. • Travel Intention, unlike Travel Craving, has no relationship with Vaccine Confidence. • We discuss implications for theory and marketing and communication strategies
Contemporary issues in ensuring excellence in tourism, travel and hospitality
Nostalgic feelings: Motivation, positive and negative emotions, and authenticity at heritage sites
This study examines psychological factors that can trigger nostalgia from the heritage tourism experience. We treat nostalgia as an emotion rather than a push travel motive and argue that nostalgic feelings can be predicted by visitors’ (domestic and international) motivation, positive and negative emotions, and perceived authenticity of the heritage experience. We develop and test five hypotheses among 500 visitors to Su Nuraxi, the most visited…
Novel coronavirus and tourism: Coping, recovery, and regeneration issues
Concerns over personal safety and health are among the most important factors that visitors often scrutinize when they are selecting their destination to ensure they are not exposed to threats of a
Determinants of travellers’ expenditures at airports
This study applies a Double-Hurdle Model to a sample of 2,723 passengers to analyse whether socio-demographics (i.e. gender, age, level of education, income and place of residence), travel-related variables (i.e. type of accommodation and travel party) and flight-related determinants (i.e. check-in mode, wait time) and the pre- intention to buy significantly influence passengers’ shopping behaviours (i.e. to buy or not to buy and the amount of mo…
A motivation-based segmentation of Italian Airbnb users: An exploratory mixed method approach
Existing studies applying a motivation-based segmentation of Airbnb users are still limited and mainly concentrated in the US; even less are studies applied in the European context. This paper applies an exploratory mixed method approach in Italy, where no study has been published around this research area so far. A qualitative study based on 26 in-depth interviews was carried out to verify if Italians are driven by the same motivations that have…
An exploratory and qualitative study on the meaning of transformative tourism and its facilitators and inhibitors
While transformative tourism may represent a timely form of tourism conveying hope in an ever-changing world, there is still limited research adopting a demand-side perspective and exploring the understanding and experiences that tourists have about transformative tourism. This paper contributes to fill this research gap by analysing transformative tourism experiences and investigating its characteristics, especially the aspects that facilitate a…
Tourist transformation: Towards a conceptual model
International convention tourism: A choice modelling experiment of host city competition
Tourism in Central Asia: Cultural potential and challenges
Understanding the Relationships between Tourists’ Emotional Experiences, Perceived Overall Image, Satisfaction, and Intention to Recommend
The purpose of this study is to empirically test an integrative model linking tourists’ emotional experiences, perceived overall image, satisfaction, and intention to recommend. The model was tested using data collected from domestic tourists visiting Sardinia, Italy. Results show that tourists’ emotional experiences act as antecedents of perceived overall image and satisfaction evaluations. In addition, overall image has a positive influence on …
Opinion and Consensus Dynamics in Tourism Digital Ecosystems
Entrepreneurial strategies in leveraging food as a tourist resource: A cross-regional analysis in Italy
When local food is resourced by restaurants that establish good relationships with other local stakeholders, this can enhance local food production, shape the place identity and image of a destination. While some of these aspects are beginning to receive scholarly attention, there is still too little research that examines the attitude of restaurants toward using and marketing local food as a way of promoting local identity and reinforcing the co…
Tourist transformation: Towards a conceptual model
Entrepreneurial strategies in leveraging food as a tourist resource: A cross-regional analysis in Italy
When local food is resourced by restaurants that establish good relationships with other local stakeholders, this can enhance local food production, shape the place identity and image of a destination. While some of these aspects are beginning to receive scholarly attention, there is still too little research that examines the attitude of restaurants toward using and marketing local food as a way of promoting local identity and reinforcing the co…
International convention tourism: A choice modelling experiment of host city competition
Nostalgic feelings: Motivation, positive and negative emotions, and authenticity at heritage sites
This study examines psychological factors that can trigger nostalgia from the heritage tourism experience. We treat nostalgia as an emotion rather than a push travel motive and argue that nostalgic feelings can be predicted by visitors’ (domestic and international) motivation, positive and negative emotions, and perceived authenticity of the heritage experience. We develop and test five hypotheses among 500 visitors to Su Nuraxi, the most visited…
Tourist transformation: An empirical analysis of female and male experiences
Recent advancements have been made in our understanding of transformative tourism, but the gap between conceptualisations and experiences has yet to be bridged. Using existing theories defining tourist transformation, this study empirically examines male and female travellers’ subjective experiences and identifies types of transformation. A survey of 514 participants was conducted, and the data analysed through an exploratory factor analysis. The…
Opinion and Consensus Dynamics in Tourism Digital Ecosystems
Entrepreneurial strategies in leveraging food as a tourist resource: A cross-regional analysis in Italy
When local food is resourced by restaurants that establish good relationships with other local stakeholders, this can enhance local food production, shape the place identity and image of a destination. While some of these aspects are beginning to receive scholarly attention, there is still too little research that examines the attitude of restaurants toward using and marketing local food as a way of promoting local identity and reinforcing the co…
Understanding the Relationships between Tourists’ Emotional Experiences, Perceived Overall Image, Satisfaction, and Intention to Recommend
The purpose of this study is to empirically test an integrative model linking tourists’ emotional experiences, perceived overall image, satisfaction, and intention to recommend. The model was tested using data collected from domestic tourists visiting Sardinia, Italy. Results show that tourists’ emotional experiences act as antecedents of perceived overall image and satisfaction evaluations. In addition, overall image has a positive influence on …
Tourism in Central Asia: Cultural potential and challenges
International convention tourism: A choice modelling experiment of host city competition
Determinants of travellers’ expenditures at airports
This study applies a Double-Hurdle Model to a sample of 2,723 passengers to analyse whether socio-demographics (i.e. gender, age, level of education, income and place of residence), travel-related variables (i.e. type of accommodation and travel party) and flight-related determinants (i.e. check-in mode, wait time) and the pre- intention to buy significantly influence passengers’ shopping behaviours (i.e. to buy or not to buy and the amount of mo…
A motivation-based segmentation of Italian Airbnb users: An exploratory mixed method approach
Existing studies applying a motivation-based segmentation of Airbnb users are still limited and mainly concentrated in the US; even less are studies applied in the European context. This paper applies an exploratory mixed method approach in Italy, where no study has been published around this research area so far. A qualitative study based on 26 in-depth interviews was carried out to verify if Italians are driven by the same motivations that have…
An exploratory and qualitative study on the meaning of transformative tourism and its facilitators and inhibitors
While transformative tourism may represent a timely form of tourism conveying hope in an ever-changing world, there is still limited research adopting a demand-side perspective and exploring the understanding and experiences that tourists have about transformative tourism. This paper contributes to fill this research gap by analysing transformative tourism experiences and investigating its characteristics, especially the aspects that facilitate a…
Tourist transformation: Towards a conceptual model
Contemporary issues in ensuring excellence in tourism, travel and hospitality
Nostalgic feelings: Motivation, positive and negative emotions, and authenticity at heritage sites
This study examines psychological factors that can trigger nostalgia from the heritage tourism experience. We treat nostalgia as an emotion rather than a push travel motive and argue that nostalgic feelings can be predicted by visitors’ (domestic and international) motivation, positive and negative emotions, and perceived authenticity of the heritage experience. We develop and test five hypotheses among 500 visitors to Su Nuraxi, the most visited…
Novel coronavirus and tourism: Coping, recovery, and regeneration issues
Concerns over personal safety and health are among the most important factors that visitors often scrutinize when they are selecting their destination to ensure they are not exposed to threats of a
Covid-19 vaccine confidence and tourism at the early stage of a voluntary mass vaccination campaign: A PMT segmentation analysis
Restarting the mass tourism industry relies on the success of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign which requires individuals' voluntary participation to reduce health risks to hosts and visitors. This study identifies segments of Italian residents based on vaccine confidence at the early stage of a voluntary mass vaccination program. Using a survey held with 3,893 Italian residents, two COVID-19 vaccine confidence clusters were identified. These cl…
Enhancing visit intention in heritage tourism: The role of object‐based and existential authenticity in non‐immersive virtual reality heritage experiences
Virtual reality (VR) plays a relevant role in the tourism sector, specifically in experiences of remote attractions. The influence of VR experiences on tourist experiential factors such as authenticity and satisfaction has attracted limited attention. This paper investigates the role of object‐based and existential authenticity in non‐immersive virtual heritage tours. A theoretically driven model was tested on data from 2085 individuals who visit…
Diverse socialising patterns in wine tourist experiences: A segmentation‐based analysis of visitors to the wineries in South Australia
Wine tourism is a social phenomenon influenced by the presence and the dynamics of many individuals (e.g. service personnel, travel companions, and other tourists). This study, carried out in South Australia on 394 winery visitors, attempts to confirm, and further explore, the important role of social interaction as part of the winescape experience, its multidimensionality and its impact on wine tourist decision‐making behaviour. Results of the f…
Active and Reactive Value Dimensions: A Dynamic-Based Perspective in the Hotel Sector
This article provides an approach to the dynamic nature of value in a hotel experience by proposing a conceptual framework that seeks to explain the influence of value types on customer satisfaction and loyalty as being concatenated rather than simultaneous effects, as more usually described. The concatenation of effects is based on the distinction between active versus reactive values and is tested in a structural model consisting of eight types…
Travel desire over intention in pandemic times
Travel Intention was critically complicated by numerous factors linked to COVID-19. • We empirically validate Travel Intention, Craving and Vaccine Confidence. • Travel Intention, unlike Travel Craving, has no relationship with Vaccine Confidence. • We discuss implications for theory and marketing and communication strategies
European Journal of Tourism Research: 15 Years of Research Community Service
This editorial presents some of the key changes in the European Journal of Tourism Research in the period 2018-2022. In particular, the journal changed its publishing model and became a Platinum open-access journal, the journal’s scope was amended to focus on European tourism, an online submission system was introduced, and the editorial team was expanded. The paper also presents the editorial philosophy of the co-editors and their vision of how …
Affective triggers of authenticity and place attachment at heritage sites and consequences for destinations
Tourist transformation: An empirical analysis of female and male experiences
Recent advancements have been made in our understanding of transformative tourism, but the gap between conceptualisations and experiences has yet to be bridged. Using existing theories defining tourist transformation, this study empirically examines male and female travellers’ subjective experiences and identifies types of transformation. A survey of 514 participants was conducted, and the data analysed through an exploratory factor analysis. The…
How does technology use within families shape children’s travel intentions
Although research on family tourism and decision-making has flourished in recent decades, little is known about how shared digital behaviours shape children’s mental imagery and travel behaviour. This paper presents a conceptual framework grounded in Family Systems Theory and the Theory of Planned Behaviour to test hypothesised relationships between digital attributes (i.e. ease of use, informativeness, and entertainment), family engagement, and …
Virtual cyclotourism: The interplay of vividness, interactivity, and telepresence
Tourism (18 works) · Business (17 works) · Marketing (15 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)