Frontiers in Psychology (Sep 2022)

Destination image, nostalgic feeling, flow experience and agritourism: An empirical study of Yunling Tea Estate in Anxi, China

  • Sunbowen Zhang,
  • Jingxuan Liang,
  • Yongqiang Ma,
  • Youcheng Chen,
  • Qiaohua He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.954299
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13

Abstract

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This study introduces destination image, nostalgic feeling, and flow experience into tea estate tourism and constructs a theoretical model that includes destination image, nostalgic feeling, flow experience, cultural identity, and tourists’ behavioral intention. Then, an empirical study is conducted with tourists at Yunling Tea Estate in Anxi, China. The results show that all hypotheses are supported except the hypothesis pertaining to the significance of the influence of flow experience on behavioral intention, which is not supported. The model includes eight mediating effects and one moderating effect that is influenced by cultural memory.

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