The Influence of Personal Involvement on Festival Attendees’ Revisit Intention: Food and Wine Attendees’ Perspective

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is an interesting paper on "the structural relationships between the variables of motivation, different types of involvement, physical/intangible service satisfaction, and loyalty in the context of food and wine festival". The paper is rich in information, bur before it is publishable, the paper needs some revisions:

1. The aims of the paper need to come in the introduction. Please signal it in the introduction, in two or three sentences. In my opinion, you need to clarify what this study brings new in the existing debates and literature.

2. In my opinion the part „Conceptual Background and Hypotheses” is too complex on the one hand, and superficial on the other. It should be arranged. Perhaps it should be divided into two parts: "literature review” and, for example, on the "conceptual framework" (where he hypotheses will be indicated). This is a suggestion, please consider it.

3. Are there too many hypotheses? In my opinion, before the section „Implications and Conclusion” a few paragraphs of interpretation of the results would be useful, as it follows that you confirmed or not the hypothesis? This is partly in "Implications and Conclusion", but needs restructuring (maybe to clarify section „results” should be added?)

4. I like the section „Implications and Conclusion” of the paper, but several more connections to international literature are needed to be added. Maybe you should also add two-three sentences on showing some the limitations of this study and how other authors can develop further the outcomes of this paper?

5. I noticed minor linguistic mistakes - please check it (e.g. in hypotheses: 1e i 1f, see. „Attendee’s he motivation…”).

Author Response

Attached is the responses to the reviewer 1

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Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript is about an interesting topic. Here my comments and some suggestions to improvement. Good luck! 

1. It would be nice to add 1-2 research questions in the end of Introduction, after the aim is presented.
2. Conceptual background: As I understood by your logic in Introduction you try to investigate the relationship between Motivation, Involvement, Satisfaction, and Revisit Intentions. These 4 aspects constitute the red thread in your paper but in 2.3 &  2.4 you suddenly separate them, why? My suggestion is that you Keep the texts and hepotheses as they are but you put one common sub-heading and heading number for all these hypoteses and aspects (i.e. you merge 2.3+2.4).
3. Literature: A good base of literature although half of the references are older than 15 years. 
4. Methods: Important information about your data collection needs to be added. Which year and month you did it? Other important issues on the procedure; How many researchers participated? Which language/es were used? How many questions? Only close-ended? etc? In 3.1 you mention socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds of your respondents, good. But they are not used in your overall analysis. You should mention it shortly. Perhaps you need to define "Caucasian" people/ethnic groups in a footnote. Same page, 80,000$/year should be the correct formulation.  In table 1 you show dropouts for several variable (highest for education). Was it the same for all your other questions and items used there? if yes, you need to mention them and justify whether they have affected the results or not  or actually which sample with how many completed answers (including ticked-off items) you ultimately used in your analysis. In same table, "Mixed Race" should be changed to Mixed Ethnicities. What do you mean by Trade? After 3.2 and ahead; would be fine to know if all 450 respondents answered all questions and ticked-off all items or not, and ultimately how many complete questionnaire were used.
5. Results: in the text you mention ICR but in the table 2 you use C.R. please use only one both in text and table. Or if you mean Composite Reliability (C.R.) you should mention and define it here. Please just shortly clarify if all ICR values above 0,70 on the right side of table 2 are positive significant results. Table 3; would you please explain shortly the results in few rows in everyday terms not with language used in Business Administration? Also please do the same for Table 4, especially those values that are highlighted with *
6. Section 4.3, Results in Figure 1 and Table 5 need to be more clearly (in everyday terms) presented since they are the essence of the findings and are directly linked tothe  purpose of the research and hypothese.
7. Heading 5 should be changed to Conclusion and Implications in accordance of the text apperance.
8. The plagiarism control in our system shows 17% similarity. The system might has wrong or most probably it comes through comparison with your own earlier published research articles. Please make sure to reduce the precentage.

Author Response

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Reviewer 3 Report

Please, look at the attached report.

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Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Although English is not my first language, I see some small language errors that you need to consider. For example adjective has been used instead of adverb (page 2, rows 84-85; ...have positively influenced..). more example: page 2, rows 49-50, and page 7 row 335 (nth).

 

Author Response

Thank you for your suggestions. We edited the sentences following your suggestions.

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Reviewer 3 Report

The authors have done a great job in this revision. I am happy with it.

The manuscript is now ready for publication, upon implementation of the minor comments reported below.

Minor comments:

1. Line 122. Replace "[27];" with "[27]:" 
2. Line 140. Add "on" after "focus"
3. Line 197. For consistency, replace "mis purchase" with "mis-purchase"
4. Lines 235-246. Justify the text form (i.e, align it also to the right).
5. Line 267. Replace "spend more local products and services" with "spend more in local products and services"
6. Lines 278-285. Justify the text form (i.e, align it also to the right).
7. Line 408. Replace “was conducted utilizing Partial Least Squares (PLS)” with “was conducted through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) utilizing Partial Least Squares (PLS)”
8. Line 434. Table 2: Replace "Pressure Experience" with "Pleasure Experience"
9. Page 10, footnote 1. Delete the full stop before “RMSEA”
10. Lines 501-504, Figure 1. Do the indicators 1, 2 and 4 in Q1, Q2 and Q4 in Figure 1 refer respectively to hypothesis H1, H2 and H3? If yes, then replace all Q4 with Q3 in Figure 1. If not, then please explain in a footnote to what 1, 2 and 4 refer to. Why indicators Q3 are missing? 
11. Line 507. Replace “have a positive impact” with “has a positive impact”
12. Line 510. Replace “insignificantly affect” with “insignificantly affects”
13. Line 521. Insert a comma before “with”
14. Line 541. Replace “have” with “had”
15. Line 551. Replace “was the important” with “was an important”
16. Line 560. Delete “The” before “H3a”
17. Line 561. Replace “lead” with “led”
18. Line 563. Replace “lead” with “led”
19. Line 565. Replace “affect” with “affects”
20. Line 651. Put "Food, Wine and China: A Tourism Perspective" in Italic fonts
21. Line 663. Replace "J Sustain Tour" with "Journal of Sustainable Tourism"
22. Lines 668-669. Put "Annals of Tourism Research" in Italic fonts
23. Line 685. Put "Tourism Management" in Italic fonts and "2010" in bold fonts
24. Lines 760-763. Put "Variance-Based Structural Equation Modeling: Guidelines for Using Partial Least 760 Squares in Information Systems Research" in normal fonts and "Research Methodologies, Innovations and Philosophies in Software Systems Engineering and Information System" in Italic fonts. Delete "doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0179-6.ch010"
25. Lines 771-777. Delete the doi of citations 65-67, and justify the text form (i.e, align it also to the right).

Author Response

We sincerely appreciate your time and effort putting into the improvement of this paper. We have edited and revised the manuscript accordingly based on all your comments and suggestions. Please see the attached file.

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