H5.1 (a) | Attitude towards local food → Destination choice | Object-related authenticity | 0.025 | 0.019 | 0.071 | 0.341 | Reject |
H5.1 (b) | Attitude towards local food → Motivation to travel | Object-related authenticity | 0.168 | 0.091 | 0.257 | 0.001 | Accept |
H5.1 (c) | Attitude towards local food → Satisfaction | Object-related authenticity | 0.004 | 0.039 | 0.052 | 0.833 | Reject |
H5.2 (a) | Attitude towards local food → Destination choice | Existential authenticity | 0.618 | 0.547 | 0.697 | 0.001 | Accept |
H5.2 (b) | Attitude towards local food → Motivation to travel | Existential authenticity | 0.817 | 0.711 | 0.930 | 0.001 | Accept |
H5.2 (c) | Attitude towards local food → Satisfaction | Existential authenticity | 0.386 | 0.302 | 0.478 | 0.001 | Accept |
Hypothesis | Predictor | Outcome | Std Beta (β) | Decision on hypotheses |
---|---|---|---|---|
H1 | Attitude towards local food | Destination choice | 0.136 |
Accept |
H2 | Attitude towards local food | Motivation to travel | −0.89 |
Reject |
H3 | Attitude towards local food | Satisfaction | 0.320 |
Accept |
H4 (a) | Attitude towards local food | Object-related authenticity | 0.542 |
Accept |
H4 (b) | Attitude towards local food | Existential authenticity | 0.629 |
Accept |
Local food and destination choice | Pull | H1: Tourist attitudes to local food positively influence destination choice |
Tourist attitudes to local food and motivation to travel | Push |
H2: Tourist attitudes to local food positively influence motivation to travel |
Tourist attitudes towards local food and holiday satisfaction | Pull | H3: Tourist attitudes to local food positively influence holiday satisfaction |
Tourist attitudes towards local food and perceptions of authenticity | Pull | H4: Tourist attitudes to local food positively influence the perception of (a) object-related (b) existential authenticity. |
The influence of authenticity on travel behaviour | Push | H5.1: Object-related authenticity mediates the relationship between tourist attitudes to local food and (a) destination choice, (b) motivation to travel and (c) satisfaction. |
Exa_A | 0.668 | 0.502 | 0.494 | 0.672 | ||||||
Mot_Travel | 0.906 | 0.707 | 0.638 | 0.908 | 0.615 | |||||
Attitudes_LF | 0.833 | 0.602 | 0.304 | 0.887 | 0.528 | 0.402 | ||||
Satisfaction | 0.876 | 0.640 | 0.319 | 0.894 | 0.565 | 0.502 | 0.538 | |||
Obj_A | 0.863 | 0.679 | 0.238 | 0.874 | 0.371 | 0.396 | 0.488 | 0.342 | ||
Mot_Des | 0.824 | 0.702 | 0.638 | 0.850 | 0.703 | 0.799 | 0.551 | 0.531 | 0.381 |