Impressions of Liusanjie: a study of motivation, theatrical performance evaluation, and satisfaction

Yanling Huang, Shengfeng Luo, Peiyi Ding and Noel Scott

Current Issues in Tourism, 2014, vol. 17, issue 3, 280-296

Abstract: This paper examines the relationships between motivation to visit, performance evaluation, satisfaction, and behavioural intentions for tourists experiencing ‘Impressions of Liusanjie’, an iconic, outdoor, theatrical performance in Guilin, China. The study finds that motivation does not affect satisfaction directly but that performance evaluation is an intervening variable between motivation and satisfaction. It also finds that experiential evaluation of the theatrical performance has more effect on satisfaction than evaluation of technical and functional attributes. Tourists were surveyed after the performance and the results analysed using cluster, correlation analysis and structural equation modelling (SEM). The first two techniques were used to identify existing relationships amongst the study variables. SEM was applied to determine if a causal relationship existed and, if so, their strength. This research provides a contribution to the understanding of tourist motivation, theatrical performance evaluation, satisfaction, and behavioural intentions.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2012.733355

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