• Arpit Saxena
• Naveen Kumar Sharma

Tourism is animportant source of economic growth and a generator of employment of various kinds. The Rajasthan state has hardly managed to stay its place in the top 10 tourist destinations among domestic tourism ranks. However, the state managed to hold its place on foreign tourism map, with fifth rank. The main inflection of this paper is to investigate international tourist satisfactions in various tourist destinations in Western Rajasthan (Bikaner City). The survey method applied in this study in which questionnaire is designed based on the holiday satisfaction (HOLSAT) model. The study reveals that the tourist holiday satisfaction level in various tourist attractions in the area of Western Rajasthan (Bikaner city) is especially high for attraction attributes. The average mean of experience and expectation using the HOLSAT model in this studydepicts that attributes listed as activities and attraction components are those that are highly perceived by the international tourists. On the other hand, attributes categorized in amenities and accessibilities components receive the least score by the respondents, which means that the international tourist are not satisfied in these items.

Holiday satisfaction, Image, destination, international tourists, HOLSAT model, expectation, experience.

"Empirical Study of International Visitor’s Satisfaction at Western Rajasthan (Bikaner City): An Application of HOLSAT Model", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.43-52, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCT06009.pdf

"Empirical Study of International Visitor’s Satisfaction at Western Rajasthan (Bikaner City): An Application of HOLSAT Model", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp43-52, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCT06009.pdf