As Richards (2008) asserted, creative tourism is a new form of tourism that has
the potential to change tourism development and make a significant contribution in
differentiating and changing the tourism experience. Reviewing current literature, despite
increased attention being given to the conception of creative tourism, there has been little
empirical work focused on the tourists’ consumption psychology of creative tourism.
Thus, this study attempts to reveal tourists’ intention to revisit creative tourism attractions
by applying the theory of planned behavior, to explore the role of tourists’ motivation,
experience and perceived value on the influence of their intention to revisit creative
tourism attractions and to extend the theory of planned behavior by including the
variables of motivation, experience, and perceived value to develop an innovative model
for analyzing and exploring tourists’ intention to revisit creative tourism attractions. The
survey of this study was conducted at three creative tourism attractions in Taiwan.
Systematic sampling had been used. The results of this study revealed that the scales of
motivation, experience, perceived value adopted from existing literature have been
demonstrated with good reliability and validity and the usefulness of the theory of
planned behavior on understanding tourists’ intention to revisit creative tourism
attractions had also been demonstrated. In addition, the regression coefficients and t-test
indicated that only experience is statistically significant in predicting creative tourists’
revisit intentions; neither motivation nor perceived values were statistically significant
enough to explain tourists’ intentions to revisit creative tourism attractions. Finally,
extended model of the theory of planned behavior, by adding the variables of motivation, experience and perceived value, performs significantly better than the original model of
the theory of planned behavior. For creative attraction owners, the results of this study
suggest that cooperation with other creative tourism attractions should be a way to attract
tourists to visit their attractions.