The demographic breakdown of the respondents is
summarized in Table 1. There were roughly equal numbers
of male (48.9%) and female (46.7%) respondents.
ARTICLE IN PRESS
Website Quality
Customer Satisfaction
(Satisfaction) Purchase Intentions
(PurchaseIn)
Functionality
∗ purchase information (Funct1)
∗ service/products information (Funct2)
∗ destination information (Funct3)
∗ quality of information (Funct4)
∗ contact information (Funct5)
Usability
∗ language (Use1)
∗ layout and graphics (Use2)
∗ information architecture (Use3)
∗ user interface and navigation (Use4)
∗ general (Use5)
∗ I am satisfied with my decision
to visit travel websites. (Sat1)
∗ If I had to visit again, I would
feel differently about visiting
travel websites. (Sat2)
∗ My choice to visit travel
websites was a wise one. (Sat3)
∗ I feel badly regarding my
decision to visit travel websites.
(Sat4)
∗ I think I did the right thing by
visiting travel websites. (Sat5)
∗ I am unhappy that I visited
travel websites.(Sat6)
∗ How likely will you
purchase from travel
websites within the
next six months?
(PurchIn1)
∗ How likely will you
purchase from travel
websites within the
next two years?
(PurchIn2)
Fig. 1. A conceptual model of website quality, customer satisfaction, and purchase intentions.
Functionality
Customer
satisfaction
Usability Purchase
Intentions
Fig. 2. A rival model of website quality, customer satisfaction, and
purchase intentions.
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Results indicate that the respondents were relatively
young with 93.8% of them less than 46 years old. The
sample seemed to be a highly educated group, with the
majority of the respondents (55%) holding a college/