The Influence of Pahang Heritage Food on Behavioral Intentions among Malaysian Domestic Tourists

Abstract

This study investigated how domestic tourists perceive Malaysian heritage food and how this may influence behavioral intentions. A survey was distributed through social media applications, and 164 tourists responded, with three being international, which were then discarded. In this study, correlation and regression analyses are used to analyze the responses and found that a positive and significant influence exists between emotional value, quality value, epistemic value, and a domestic tourist’s behavioral intentions to consume heritage foods. This study helps expand the understanding of Pahang’s heritage food's consumption value elements and its influence on the domestic tourists' behavioral intentions.

Keywords: Consumption Value; Heritage Food; Behavioral Intentions; Domestic Tourists

eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i16.2680