The main objective of this article is to analyze the destination image construct. More specifically on how the destination website, as a virtual place where the potential tourist can experience some attributes of the tourism service, search for information and get to know a place in a better way, may influence a destination image. To do so first is presented a literature review on destination image, how this construct relates to the use of websites and how it has been measured. Secondly, a case in Brazil was investigated: the state of Pernambuco official websites. The results indicated that the websites combine, not in a well balanced way, both functional and aesthetics characteristics. Destinations compete globally and the web seems to be the most effective instrument to target a broad audience without boundaries. The case here studied, the destination websites from Pernambuco, Brazil, offers the possibility to envision a way to understand how a website can contribute to the image construction or positioning. This paper shows a methodology that can be applied to different websites as a way to evaluate their effectiveness and to a better site design with the balance of functional and aesthetics components.

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Destination image on the web: evaluation of Pernambucco's Official Tourism Destination Websites

The authors examine the implications of electronic shopping for consumers, retailers, and manufacturers. They assume that near-term technological developments will offer consumers unparalleled opportunities to locate and compare product offerings. They examine these advantages as a function of typical consumer goals and the types of products and services being sought and offer conclusions regarding consumer incentives and disincentives to purchase through interactive home shopping vis-à-vis traditional retail formats. The authors discuss implications for industry structure as they pertain to competition among retailers, competition among manufacturers, and retailer-manufacturer relationships.

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The Internet is changing the purchasing habits and behaviours of the consumer. A preliminary step in the adoption of the Internet was its use as an information channel, thereby generating favourable attitudes towards the Internet. The following step was its use as a purchase channel by firms and consumers. From the consumer perspective, we should take into account a set of psychological factors that might be contributing to its adoption or acting as formidable barriers to its diffusion (into the Spanish leisure tourism): favourable attitudes towards the Internet use, trust and consumer-perceived risk. In our paper the keys factors are trust toward Internet and perceived risk.

The Adoption of the Internet as a New Distribution Channel for Holiday Tourism in Spain: The Challenge of Consumer Perceived Risk and Consumer Attitudes

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The Adoption of the Internet as a New Distribution Channel for Holiday Tourism in Spain: The Challenge of Consumer Perceived Risk and Consumer Attitudes