The Impact of Tourism Infrastructures on Tourists' Loyalty (Case Study: Isfahan)

The purpose of this study is to explain the impact of tourism infrastructures on tourists' loyalty (case study: isfahan). The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of method. The statistical population of the study consists of domestic tourists in Isfahan who have traveled to Isfahan from July to September 2019. According to Morgan's table, 400 people were counted and 380 valid questionnaires were extracted from the sample. The data collection tool was a standard questionnaire that was provided to the statistical sample by available sampling method. Content validity (by 25 university professors and industry activists) and structural validity (with confirmatory factor analysis) were reviewed and confirmed, and also the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated and confirmed by Cronbach's alpha (0.9). The conceptual model of the research was examined and analyzed in AMOUS software and all of the hypotheses were confirmed. The results of the path analysis of the present study indicate that the tourism infrastructures affect tourist satisfaction with a coefficient (0.934) and destination image with a coefficient (0.654) directly, and affect tourism loyalty with a coefficient (0.594) indirectly. These results indicate that improvement of the tourism infrastructures increases tourist satisfaction and the desirability of the destination image directly, as well as the loyalty of the tourist indirectly