Most wine tourists and visitors to wine regions can be viewed as actual or potential consumers of a lifestyle beverage, who visit wine regions in order to have wine-related experiences. An exploratory wine tourism research study in the Coonawarra and McLaren Vale wine regions in South Australia...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of wine's region of origin in the consumer wine-buying decision-making process in the Australian domestic market.Design/methodology/approach – Data collection takes place by means of a self-administered and online approach in...

Wine is particularly suited to various dimensions of the internet and hence creating a brand image that will attract and retain consumers is the conundrum of the online wine retailers. This article outlines the findings of a primary ‘field' research study with a final sample size of 1377 using...

This study investigates the impact of eliminating a search channel on purchase incidence, order size, channel choice and, ultimately, sales and profits. We analyze customer panel data from a large retailer over a five-year period. The retailer conducted a randomized field test in which the firm...