Consumers expect a travel experience to arouse affective feelings of pleasure or excitement. Thus, an experience that delivers this emotional value (Hosany, 2012) will be thought of favorably, and consumers will have a positive attitude toward it. Travel also has a novelty value, arousing curiosity, altering the routine, and satisfying a desire for new and dif- ferent experiences (Assaker, Esposito, and O’Connor 2010; Lee and Crompton 1992). Combined with emotional value, novelty value forms part of hedonic value assessments. Therefore, it is hypothesized that: