How Does Emotional Solidarity Factor into Visitor Spending among Birders in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas? Academic Article

abstract

• While most work focusing on emotional solidarity has examined its antecedents, this work highlights outcomes of the construct in the form of visitor expenditures among nature tourists. During the peak tourist season for birders and other outdoor enthusiasts in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, on-site survey data were collected from individuals visiting key nature tourist attractions. In examining the relationship between emotional solidarity and visitor expenditures, results revealed that five of the eight multiple regression models were significant. Of the three Emotional Solidarity Scale (ESS) factors used to predict expenditures, feeling welcomed explained the most variance. This work provides continued support for extending Durkheims model of emotional solidarity by including expenditures as an outcome of the construct.

authors

• Dudensing, Rebekka
• Walker, Jamie

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• Woosnam, K. M., Dudensing, R. M., & Walker, J. R.

citation count

• 38

complete list of authors

• Woosnam, Kyle M||Dudensing, Rebekka M||Walker, Jamie Rae

publication date

• September 2015

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

keywords

• Birders
• Confirmatory Factor Analysis
• Lower Rio Grande Valley (texas)
• Multiple Regression
• Nature Tourism
• Visitor Expenditures

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0047287514522884

start page

• 645

end page

• 658

volume

• 54

issue

• 5

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1177%2F0047287514522884