Research Article

The Brand Personality of Konya City As a Touristic Destination

Volume: 1 Number: 2 October 31, 2022
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The Brand Personality of Konya City As a Touristic Destination

Abstract

Brand personality is a process emerging as a result of identification of personality properties with brands. Brand personality takes importance for consumers to exhibit loyalty towards a certain brand since brand personality affects decisions of purchasing and enable to make a choice between competitors. Therefore, considering this approach, marketers and enterprises determine which personality properties become valid for consumers and bring these properties into the forefront in the communication. Destination image is associated with tourist self-image when examining in the model of general image, destination brand and brand personality. This relationship shows that lifestyles of individuals and their systematics of values are of vital importance during process of choosing a destination. How much opinion of the tourist regarding destination image is in accord with his/her self-concept, tendency of behavior, which shall result in visiting that destination, shall be exhibited. This study addresses brand and marketing world in terms of travelling destinations rather than items of consumers. Dimensions of brand personality of Province of Konya, which is a touristic destination for both domestic and foreign tourists, were executed in accordance with Aaker’s (1997) scale, its differentiations are investigated, the destination image is associated with tourist self-image, and based on results of the study, clues about destination marketing of the province are obtained.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Tourism (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 31, 2022

Submission Date

September 26, 2022

Acceptance Date

October 3, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 1 Number: 2

APA
Sakar, A. S. (2022). The Brand Personality of Konya City As a Touristic Destination. Selçuk Turizm Ve Bilişim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1(2), 25-31. https://izlik.org/JA88RL37LT

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