Dimitrios Stylidis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4628975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitrios Stylidis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitrios |
| FAMILY NAME | Stylidis |
| SIGNATURE | STYLIDIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Crete |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9488-3160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Influential Role of Personal Values in Contributing to Residents' Involvement in Tourism Recovery: Applying a Value‐Attitude‐Behavior Model
This study applies a value‐attitude‐behavior model to investigate how personal values influence residents' perceptions of tourism impacts, their support for tourism recovery, and their involvement in tourism recovery efforts in Fiji. Survey data from 407 residents were analyzed following a two‐step confirmatory factor analysis followed by a covariance‐based structural equation modeling approach. Findings show egoistic values are positively associ…
Why Individuals Do Not Visit a Destination? The Role of Familiarity and Novelty Seeking in Shaping Non-visitors’ Destination Image
Non-visitors constitute a large but underexplored market pool with strong potential for tourist destinations. Drawing on the mere exposure and motivation frameworks, this study explores image differences among two groups of non-visitors (i.e., uninterested, unable to visit), along with the underlying factors for such variations. Findings drawn from two studies suggest that the groups significantly differ in terms of their images, novelty, familia…
Projecting destinations via organic tourist videos: The Role of Appearance, Production and Content
Although organic tourist videos on social media have been established as prominent agents of destination image formation, the influence of social media posted vlogs on potential tourists’ destination image remains insufficiently explored. Meanwhile, it is crucial to comprehend the underlying mechanisms that shape this process, especially how potential tourist forms their conative image of destination. Video elicitation interviews using two unspon…
Emotional intelligence as a catalyst for emotional solidarity in tourism: Insights from Fiji
Given the pressing need to improve resident-tourist relationships as of late, this study examines the role of emotional intelligence in enhancing emotional solidarity between residents and tourists. Using structural equation modelling, a multi-dimensional model of residents’ emotional intelligence, which includes mood regulation, appraisal of emotions, utilisation of emotions, and social skills, is assessed as a predictor of residents’ emotional …
Establishing a destination image scale
Although the image is pivotal for destination success, there is a lack of consensus in the literature about its measurement. Following rigorous multi-stage scale development procedures, and using data drawn from four different research settings, the study identified 5 dimensions with 14 underlying items that constitute peoples’ cognitive perceptions of a tourist destination: natural environment, tourist infrastructure, attractions, access, and so…
How do social learning and emotional solidarity shape pro-sustainable tourist behaviours? A social learning approach
Although individuals learn behaviours through observation, research on tourists’ cognitive developmental processing of the relationship they have with residents remains limited. This study investigates the antecedents of tourists’ pro-sustainable behaviour within a social learning framework. Survey data from visitors in Fiji (n = 407) show that social learning fosters feelings of solidarity with hosts and drives pro-sustainable behaviour. Novelty…
Tourism Planning and Development in the Middle East
Given the historical and cultural richness of countries in the Middle East region, as well \nas the economic development many have exhibited in recent years, tourism planning \nand development gains much significance for both scholars and practitioners. \nTurbulence, conflicts and crises exhibited in the area add further dimensions that need \nto be incorporated in tourism strategies and planning, and be taken into consideration \nby experts at a…
From virtual to actual destinations: Do interactions with others, emotional solidarity, and destination image in online games influence willingness to travel
The line between fantasy and reality has become blurred in online gaming, whereby tourists are willing to visit associated real-world destinations they have experienced within virtual worlds (e.g. online games). This study investigates the impact of gamers’ interactions with non-player characters (NPCs) and other gamers on their in-game emotional solidarity, destination image and willingness to visit associated real-world destinations. Data were …
Exploring how perceived tourism impacts evolve over time (2009–2019) in an era of uncertainty: Economic crisis, host-guest interactions, and Airbnb
Cross sectional studies focusing on a single setting are typically not sufficient in explaining how/why residents arrive at certain perceptions of impacts and attitudes towards tourism. This study aims to explore how the impacts of tourism are perceived by local residents over time (2009–2019), potentially shaped by the transient global and local contexts (economic crisis, Airbnb expansion); and frequency of exposure to tourists, explained via th…
Tourism Planning and Development in Western Europe
This book contributes to a better understanding of tourism planning and development in the Western European region, highlighting the key role public planning and policymaking play at the national, regional and local levels. This edited volume includes an introduction, six chapters dealing with tourism development in one particular country (or in the case of chapter 5, two), three chapters analysing tourism between countries or cities in the regio…
Tourism Marketing in Southeast and East Asia
Place-Oriented or People-Oriented Concepts for Destination Loyalty: Destination Image and Place Attachment versus Perceived Distances and Emotional Solidarity
Many studies have modeled several different concepts to explain destination loyalty; however, none have integrated place-oriented (e.g., destination image, place attachment) and people-oriented concepts (e.g., cultural distance, social distance, and emotional solidarity) for their relative influences on loyalty. The current study tested the influence of destination image (place-oriented) and perceived distances (people-oriented) as antecedents of…
Perceptions of attractions, residents as “more knowledgeable others” and destination image: Evidence from two destinations
Drawing on work on the “more knowledgeable other” (MKO) and the mere exposure theory (MET), this study envisaged that visitors' engagement and interaction with key informants, along with their perceptions of the attractions visited, affect their image of and satisfaction with the destination. Findings drawn from two studies indicate that interaction with MKOs and perceptions of attractions determine cognitive, affective, and conative image along …
The effect of resident-tourist interaction quality on destination image and loyalty
Despite the widely recognized core position of the local community within tourism, a paucity of research has considered how the quality of interaction between residents and tourists shapes visitors’ image formulation, overall satisfaction, and destination loyalty. Building on the “zone of proximal development” theory and the concept of “the more knowledgeable other,” this study expands recent research on interaction quality by showcasing the vita…
Investigating antecedent constructs affecting potential Australian travellers’ destination image of Fiji amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines six antecedent constructs affecting potential Australian tourists’ destination image of Fiji. Data were collected from 416 respondents and analysed using covariance-based structural equation modelling. Results revealed that five constructs – impressions of Fiji, trust in the Fijian government, crisis management, solidarity, and COVID-19 mitigation practices – were positively associated with respondents’ cognitive and affective…
Tourism planning and development in South Asia
This book focuses on tourism impacts, development, planning and policy making in South Asia. It contains eight case studies of the following countries: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Maldives. The cases demonstrate successful and unsuccessful stories in the South Asian context, along with the issues and challenges tourism planners and developers are facing. Policy implications are also presented for eac…
Tourism marketing in Western Europe
This book aims to explore and valorize marketing paradigms utilized by various western European countries in order to manage their tourism offerings and position them in the global tourism arena. The book aims to enhance tourism literature by examining and comparing contemporary marketing tools currently used in western- European countries' case studies for understanding how tourism marketing on this side of the continent has been handled and has…
Diaspora tourists' emotional experience
This article attempts to empirically test a model to explain the hypothesized relationships between important constructs such as emotional experience, personal involvement, destination image, destination satisfaction, and place attachment as antecedents of the future intentions of mature/senior diaspora tourists. The hypothesized relationships were explored using a sample of 419 mature/senior diaspora tourists visiting Ghana. A three‐step process…
Tourism planning and development in Latin America
This book attempts to overcome past research negligence by focusing exclusively on tourism development, planning and impacts in a wide range of Latin American countries. It aims to widen the documentation and understanding of tourism in the sub-region in the English literature. The book has ten chapters, eight of them dealing with tourism development in one particular country and the remaining two analysing tourism between countries in the region…
Destination loyalty explained through place attachment, destination familiarity and destination image
This study explores how familiarity and attachment, along with cognitive and affective image explain destination loyalty across visitors with divergent degrees of frequency of visitation (low vs. high). Serbians ( n = 401) who have previously visited Greece comprised the sample population for this study and were surveyed using a self‐administered questionnaire. Findings reveal that overall familiarity shapes cognitive and affective destination im…
Using Destination Image and Place Attachment to Explore Support for Tourism Development: The Case of Tourism Versus Non-tourism Employees in Eilat
Apart from the economic motive, little attention has been given to factors such as destination image and place attachment in explaining how potential differences in intentional behavior (support for tourism, intention to recommend) develop between tourism employees and non-tourism employees in a community. This study, conducted in the remote resort of Eilat, explores whether these resident groups’ representations of and attachment to their place …
Explaining conative destination image through cognitive and affective destination image and emotional solidarity with residents
It is nearly impossible to consider a destination without also acknowledging its people as well as the relationship visitors have with such residents. Employing a hierarchical structure of destination image, this study examined how emotional solidarity along with cognitive and affective image explain conative image of Greece among Serbian visitors who had recently visited. Targeting Serbians living in Novi Sad, survey data were collected on-site …
Social determinants of place attachment at a World Heritage Site
Testing an integrated destination image model across residents and tourists
Tourism research has yet to confirm whether an integrated destination image model is applicable in predicting the overall destination image and behavioral intentions of local residents. This study examines whether the cognitive, affective and overall image - hypothesized to be predictors of behavioral intentions - are applicable to residents and tourists in the resort city of Eilat. The proposed model allowed for the distinct effect of each image…
Residents' support for tourism development: The role of residents' place image and perceived tourism impacts
Residents' support for tourism development: The role of residents' place image and perceived tourism impacts
Testing an integrated destination image model across residents and tourists
Tourism research has yet to confirm whether an integrated destination image model is applicable in predicting the overall destination image and behavioral intentions of local residents. This study examines whether the cognitive, affective and overall image - hypothesized to be predictors of behavioral intentions - are applicable to residents and tourists in the resort city of Eilat. The proposed model allowed for the distinct effect of each image…
Social determinants of place attachment at a World Heritage Site
Tourism and the economic crisis in Kavala, Greece
Projecting destinations via organic tourist videos: The Role of Appearance, Production and Content
Although organic tourist videos on social media have been established as prominent agents of destination image formation, the influence of social media posted vlogs on potential tourists’ destination image remains insufficiently explored. Meanwhile, it is crucial to comprehend the underlying mechanisms that shape this process, especially how potential tourist forms their conative image of destination. Video elicitation interviews using two unspon…
Residents' support for tourism development: The role of residents' place image and perceived tourism impacts
Tourism and the economic crisis in Kavala, Greece
Testing an integrated destination image model across residents and tourists
Tourism research has yet to confirm whether an integrated destination image model is applicable in predicting the overall destination image and behavioral intentions of local residents. This study examines whether the cognitive, affective and overall image - hypothesized to be predictors of behavioral intentions - are applicable to residents and tourists in the resort city of Eilat. The proposed model allowed for the distinct effect of each image…
Social determinants of place attachment at a World Heritage Site
Tourism planning and development in Latin America
This book attempts to overcome past research negligence by focusing exclusively on tourism development, planning and impacts in a wide range of Latin American countries. It aims to widen the documentation and understanding of tourism in the sub-region in the English literature. The book has ten chapters, eight of them dealing with tourism development in one particular country and the remaining two analysing tourism between countries in the region…
Destination loyalty explained through place attachment, destination familiarity and destination image
This study explores how familiarity and attachment, along with cognitive and affective image explain destination loyalty across visitors with divergent degrees of frequency of visitation (low vs. high). Serbians ( n = 401) who have previously visited Greece comprised the sample population for this study and were surveyed using a self‐administered questionnaire. Findings reveal that overall familiarity shapes cognitive and affective destination im…
Using Destination Image and Place Attachment to Explore Support for Tourism Development: The Case of Tourism Versus Non-tourism Employees in Eilat
Apart from the economic motive, little attention has been given to factors such as destination image and place attachment in explaining how potential differences in intentional behavior (support for tourism, intention to recommend) develop between tourism employees and non-tourism employees in a community. This study, conducted in the remote resort of Eilat, explores whether these resident groups’ representations of and attachment to their place …
Explaining conative destination image through cognitive and affective destination image and emotional solidarity with residents
It is nearly impossible to consider a destination without also acknowledging its people as well as the relationship visitors have with such residents. Employing a hierarchical structure of destination image, this study examined how emotional solidarity along with cognitive and affective image explain conative image of Greece among Serbian visitors who had recently visited. Targeting Serbians living in Novi Sad, survey data were collected on-site …
Tourism planning and development in South Asia
This book focuses on tourism impacts, development, planning and policy making in South Asia. It contains eight case studies of the following countries: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Maldives. The cases demonstrate successful and unsuccessful stories in the South Asian context, along with the issues and challenges tourism planners and developers are facing. Policy implications are also presented for eac…
Tourism marketing in Western Europe
This book aims to explore and valorize marketing paradigms utilized by various western European countries in order to manage their tourism offerings and position them in the global tourism arena. The book aims to enhance tourism literature by examining and comparing contemporary marketing tools currently used in western- European countries' case studies for understanding how tourism marketing on this side of the continent has been handled and has…
Diaspora tourists' emotional experience
This article attempts to empirically test a model to explain the hypothesized relationships between important constructs such as emotional experience, personal involvement, destination image, destination satisfaction, and place attachment as antecedents of the future intentions of mature/senior diaspora tourists. The hypothesized relationships were explored using a sample of 419 mature/senior diaspora tourists visiting Ghana. A three‐step process…
Tourism Planning and Development in Western Europe
This book contributes to a better understanding of tourism planning and development in the Western European region, highlighting the key role public planning and policymaking play at the national, regional and local levels. This edited volume includes an introduction, six chapters dealing with tourism development in one particular country (or in the case of chapter 5, two), three chapters analysing tourism between countries or cities in the regio…
Tourism Marketing in Southeast and East Asia
Place-Oriented or People-Oriented Concepts for Destination Loyalty: Destination Image and Place Attachment versus Perceived Distances and Emotional Solidarity
Many studies have modeled several different concepts to explain destination loyalty; however, none have integrated place-oriented (e.g., destination image, place attachment) and people-oriented concepts (e.g., cultural distance, social distance, and emotional solidarity) for their relative influences on loyalty. The current study tested the influence of destination image (place-oriented) and perceived distances (people-oriented) as antecedents of…
Perceptions of attractions, residents as “more knowledgeable others” and destination image: Evidence from two destinations
Drawing on work on the “more knowledgeable other” (MKO) and the mere exposure theory (MET), this study envisaged that visitors' engagement and interaction with key informants, along with their perceptions of the attractions visited, affect their image of and satisfaction with the destination. Findings drawn from two studies indicate that interaction with MKOs and perceptions of attractions determine cognitive, affective, and conative image along …
The effect of resident-tourist interaction quality on destination image and loyalty
Despite the widely recognized core position of the local community within tourism, a paucity of research has considered how the quality of interaction between residents and tourists shapes visitors’ image formulation, overall satisfaction, and destination loyalty. Building on the “zone of proximal development” theory and the concept of “the more knowledgeable other,” this study expands recent research on interaction quality by showcasing the vita…
Investigating antecedent constructs affecting potential Australian travellers’ destination image of Fiji amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines six antecedent constructs affecting potential Australian tourists’ destination image of Fiji. Data were collected from 416 respondents and analysed using covariance-based structural equation modelling. Results revealed that five constructs – impressions of Fiji, trust in the Fijian government, crisis management, solidarity, and COVID-19 mitigation practices – were positively associated with respondents’ cognitive and affective…
Tourism Planning and Development in the Middle East
Given the historical and cultural richness of countries in the Middle East region, as well \nas the economic development many have exhibited in recent years, tourism planning \nand development gains much significance for both scholars and practitioners. \nTurbulence, conflicts and crises exhibited in the area add further dimensions that need \nto be incorporated in tourism strategies and planning, and be taken into consideration \nby experts at a…
From virtual to actual destinations: Do interactions with others, emotional solidarity, and destination image in online games influence willingness to travel
The line between fantasy and reality has become blurred in online gaming, whereby tourists are willing to visit associated real-world destinations they have experienced within virtual worlds (e.g. online games). This study investigates the impact of gamers’ interactions with non-player characters (NPCs) and other gamers on their in-game emotional solidarity, destination image and willingness to visit associated real-world destinations. Data were …
Exploring how perceived tourism impacts evolve over time (2009–2019) in an era of uncertainty: Economic crisis, host-guest interactions, and Airbnb
Cross sectional studies focusing on a single setting are typically not sufficient in explaining how/why residents arrive at certain perceptions of impacts and attitudes towards tourism. This study aims to explore how the impacts of tourism are perceived by local residents over time (2009–2019), potentially shaped by the transient global and local contexts (economic crisis, Airbnb expansion); and frequency of exposure to tourists, explained via th…
Emotional intelligence as a catalyst for emotional solidarity in tourism: Insights from Fiji
Given the pressing need to improve resident-tourist relationships as of late, this study examines the role of emotional intelligence in enhancing emotional solidarity between residents and tourists. Using structural equation modelling, a multi-dimensional model of residents’ emotional intelligence, which includes mood regulation, appraisal of emotions, utilisation of emotions, and social skills, is assessed as a predictor of residents’ emotional …
Establishing a destination image scale
Although the image is pivotal for destination success, there is a lack of consensus in the literature about its measurement. Following rigorous multi-stage scale development procedures, and using data drawn from four different research settings, the study identified 5 dimensions with 14 underlying items that constitute peoples’ cognitive perceptions of a tourist destination: natural environment, tourist infrastructure, attractions, access, and so…
How do social learning and emotional solidarity shape pro-sustainable tourist behaviours? A social learning approach
Although individuals learn behaviours through observation, research on tourists’ cognitive developmental processing of the relationship they have with residents remains limited. This study investigates the antecedents of tourists’ pro-sustainable behaviour within a social learning framework. Survey data from visitors in Fiji (n = 407) show that social learning fosters feelings of solidarity with hosts and drives pro-sustainable behaviour. Novelty…
The Influential Role of Personal Values in Contributing to Residents' Involvement in Tourism Recovery: Applying a Value‐Attitude‐Behavior Model
This study applies a value‐attitude‐behavior model to investigate how personal values influence residents' perceptions of tourism impacts, their support for tourism recovery, and their involvement in tourism recovery efforts in Fiji. Survey data from 407 residents were analyzed following a two‐step confirmatory factor analysis followed by a covariance‐based structural equation modeling approach. Findings show egoistic values are positively associ…
Why Individuals Do Not Visit a Destination? The Role of Familiarity and Novelty Seeking in Shaping Non-visitors’ Destination Image
Non-visitors constitute a large but underexplored market pool with strong potential for tourist destinations. Drawing on the mere exposure and motivation frameworks, this study explores image differences among two groups of non-visitors (i.e., uninterested, unable to visit), along with the underlying factors for such variations. Findings drawn from two studies suggest that the groups significantly differ in terms of their images, novelty, familia…
Tourism (26 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (24 works) · Geography (20 works) · Business (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Destinations (13 works) · Destination Image (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Marketing (11 works) · Political science (10 works)