Implications for future research and destination attributes management are discussed based on these observations. Third, the attribute-based constructs represent the external/common antecedents of overall tourist satisfactions their predicting power may be eliminated when controlled by other internal/personal forces, such as personal values. Second, the unfavourable attributes of a destination may have some negative influences on tourist satisfaction. First, not all of the components of the attribute-based constructs (destination image, destination quality, destination attribute satisfaction) can have significant effects on the overall tourist satisfaction. However, three issues should be taken into account when interpreting this correlation. Using the data gathered from 34 previous studies and applying the metaanalysis method, this study found that destination image, destination quality, and destination attribute satisfaction have significant positive effects on the tourists’ overall satisfaction, whether the latter variable is singly or multiply scaled all the overall estimates have small to medium sizes. This study examined the correlation between tourists’ perception/evaluation of destination attributes and their overall satisfaction.
Email: image, destination quality, destination attribute satisfaction, overall tourist satisfaction, Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA). metagear is a comprehensive, multifunctional toolbox with capabilities aimed to cover much of the research synthesis taxonomy: from applying a systematic review approach to objectively assemble and screen the literature, to extracting data from studies, and to finally summarize and analyze these data with the statistics of meta-analysis. Department of Business Communication, National Institute of Technology - Fukushima College, 30 Taira Kamiarakawa Nagao, Iwaki, Fukushima 970-8034 Japan. metagear package purpose of the metagear package.