Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of tourism image and satisfaction on
tourist loyalty in Vientiane Capital, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic. The questionnaire
was used as a tool to collect data from 422 tourist visiting Vientiane Capital. The descriptive
statistics is used to analyze data; frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation.
The inferential statistics is used to analyze data; pearsons correlation coefficient and
multiple regressions analysis. The result showed that satisfaction in the dimension of
amenity effect on tourist loyalty at 0.01 significant level, and tourism image in the dimension
of overall image and satisfaction in the dimension of attraction affects to tourist loyalty in
Vientiane Capital at 0.05 significant level. All of the independent variables are able to predict
tourist loyalty at 34.8 percent (AdjR2 = 0.348).