The relations between emotional responses, cognitive perceptions, behavioral intentions of tourists and destinationscapes

Identifying the destinationscapes; it was targeted to demonstrate tha casual relations of the emotional responses of tourists to destinationscapes, their cognitive perceptions and behavioral intentions in this study. In the process of identification, the theories and models for environmental psychology, evolutionary psychology and aesthetics, tourism and marketing disciplines were considered. The destinationscapes, the emotional responses, overall quality and overall satisfaction perceptions and behavioral intentions of tourists were all demonstrated by the questionnaire developed considering the related literature. Both incoming and domestic tourists of Bodrum Region and their responses to the questionnaire by face to face interviews were analyzed in this study. The results reveal that there are direct relations among the emotional responses of tourists to destinationscapes and their perceptions for overall quality while there are indirect relations for behavioral intentions. Furthermore, significant differences were revealed when taking the perceptions of tourists on destinationscapes demographical and vocational characteristics into considerations. Demonstrating the theoretical results in the study, the suggestions for destination professionals were improved including the pleasure and dominance emotions of domestic and incoming tourists, their quality perceptions, and their destination environment by developing the behavioral intentions.