Food-related personality traits and the moderating role of novelty-seeking in food satisfaction and travel outcomes

Mingjie Ji, IpKin Anthony Wong, Anita Eves and Caroline Scarles

Tourism Management, 2016, vol. 57, issue C, 387-396

Abstract: Previous research on tourist food consumption acknowledges that food-related personality traits, including neophilic and neophobic tendencies, can impede or encourage tourists to try novel food at a destination. However, the travel motivation literature advocates that tourists tend to be in a general condition of seeking novel experiences, including sampling a destination's novel food. How food-related personality traits interact with novelty pursuits to influence tourists' food consumption and subsequent satisfaction and travel outcomes remains unknown. The study proposes a framework of tourist food experience that leads from food-related personality traits, novel food consumption, and satisfaction to travel outcomes. While the results support the baseline model, the moderating effect of novelty seeking demonstrates that novelty seeking does not moderate the relationship between personality traits and consumption of novel food. It does, however, moderate satisfaction with food.

Keywords: Food-related personality traits; Novelty seeking; Neophilic; Neophobic; Satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2016.06.003

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