Tourist behavioural intentions towards gastronomy destination: evidence from international tourists in Indonesia

Drawing upon the extant literature, this study aimed to investigate tourist experience quality of culinary tourism in Indonesia by examining the relationships between the quality of culinary experience, the satisfaction of culinary experience, the satisfaction of destination experience, and behavioural intentions using a structural equation modelling approach. In total, 395 international tourists who travelled to Indonesian gastronomydestinationsparticipatedinthesurvey.Theresultshowedthedirect effects of the culinary experience quality on culinary experience satisfaction and destination experience satisfaction. However, it is the indirect and not direct effects of the quality of culinary experience quality that impact on behavioural intentions when mediated by culinary experience satisfaction and destination experience satisfaction