TY  - JOUR
T1  - Tourist Satisfaction: Relationship Analysis among its Antecedents and Revisit Intention
AU  - Bam, Nirajan
AU  - Kunwar, Amrita
PY  - 2020
DA  - June
DO  - 10.30519/ahtr.519994
JF  - Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR)
PB  - Akdeniz University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2147-9100
SP  - 30
EP  - 47
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - This study aims to investigate the factorsaffecting tourists’ satisfaction and their revisit intention by randomlyselecting 280 tourists from Pokhara, Nepal. Result of structural equationmodeling confirmed the positive relationship between exogenous variables;hospitality service, the behavior of the people, and the cost of stay withtourist overall satisfaction. It further confirmed the significant positiveassociation between tourist overall satisfaction and their intention to return.All the relations are statistically significant at the 5% level ofsignificance. This study provides salient reference for future researcher,destination managers and policy makers of tourism industry of Nepal.
KW  - tourist satisfaction
KW  - revisit intention
KW  - Pokhara
KW  - hospitality
KW  - structural equation modelling
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