The purpose of this study is to define destination social responsibility as a multidimensional construct and examine the relationships among destination social responsibility, tourists’ emotional responses, overall satisfaction, and their revisit in...
The purpose of this study is to define destination social responsibility as a multidimensional construct and examine the relationships among destination social responsibility, tourists’ emotional responses, overall satisfaction, and their revisit intention through the lens of corporate social responsibility. The study uses a sample of 359 random foreign tourists caught in Hoi An, Vietnam, and the structural equation modeling technique to analyze the relationships among variables. The results indicate that all investigated destination responsibility dimensions, including economic, environmental, legal-ethical, and philanthropic responsibilities significantly enhance tourists’ emotions while only legal-ethical and philanthropic responsibilities directly affect tourists’ satisfaction. The findings also confirm the positive relationship between tourists’ emotional responses and overall satisfaction. In addition, both emotional responses and overall satisfaction are found to have positive impacts on tourists’ revisit intention. Theoretical and managerial implications are suggested, concurrently limitations and future research directions are considered.