The authors conceptualize ‘interest in the other’ as cultural tourism's focal issue. Using an involvement level taxonomy, this study stratifies cultural tourism and applies McKercher and DuCros (2002) cultural visitor categories to predict tourist activities. This exploratory study includes...

This article examines an unexplored area of consumer research—the effect of accidental interpersonal touch (AIT) from a stranger on consumer evaluations and shopping times. The research presents a field experiment in a retail setting. This study shows that men and women who have been touched...

Tourism in remote Outback areas of Australia has become increasingly homogenous in terms of products and markets over the last decade and is currently suffering substantial declines in visitor numbers (Carson and Taylor, 2009). As a result, calls have been mounting for more innovative approaches...

[Abstract]: All brands have status and status has an impact; yet little attention has been paid to the impact of brand status on consumer brand assessments, this study addresses this limitation. This study investigated perceived brand status’ impact on overall brand value across two product...

In the last decade sponsorship spending increased with large corporations now including some sponsorship spend in their marketing budget. With worldwide sponsorship spending now in excess of US$26 billion (IEG2005), it is important for marketers to understand the impact of sponsorship investment...

[Abstract]: With worldwide sponsorship spending now in excess of US$26 billion, it is important for marketers to understand how to best leverage their sponsorship spend to achieve marketing and corporate goals. One widely used form of sponsorship leverage, particularly in the FMCG Industry is...