Business ought to understand their customers' needs and wants, if they want to remain successful in a competitive market place. Therefore, this chapter introduces its readers to market research as tourism businesses continuously require information on their customers. In this light, a well...

This research integrates the congruity and the social identity theories to better understand the consumer-brand relationships. A structural equation modelling approach was used to explore the drivers of brand loyalty in the context of upscale hotels. The findings suggest that the customers are...

This paper explores the relationship between destination image, cultural contact, perceived risk, satisfaction, and the revisit intention of international tourists to Binh Thuan province in Vietnam based on data obtained from 405 international tourists. Employing Partial Least Squares Structural...

Purpose: This research identifies the critical factors of online service delivery of electronic commerce (ecommerce) websites, including website attractiveness, website functionality, website security and consumer fulfillment during an unprecedented Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....

Several brands are striving in their endeavors to find new ways to improve their consumer engagement through social media. They are using different tools including influencer marketing through social networking sites (SNSs). Therefore, this chapter addresses a gap in the academic literature as...

While previous research investigated the effects of online consumer reviews on purchase behaviors, currently, there is still a lack of knowledge on the impact of the reviews' credibility, content quality and information usefulness on the customers’ satisfaction levels with them. Data were...

Recognizing the growth of Facebook and advertising on this platform in an emerging market, we conducted a study on the impact of Facebook advertising characteristics on the market's purchase intention. This study attempts to identify and test key factors that have a direct impact on customer...

The study investigated the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and green advertising receptivity (GAR) on the behavioral intentions of organizational customers within Vietnam's industrial and marine coatings sector, with a particular focus on the mediating role of green trust (GT)....