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Tourism is a sector in which consumers - tourists widely share their opinions, experiences and recommendations. Due to … influential factor and a significant resource of information transmission in the tourism market. Word-of-mouth has an important … and challenges for hospitality and tourism marketers. This paper aims to examine the influence of traditional word …
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The core objective of this paper is to determine the level of online dialogue in social media between the tourist industry leaders and their customers. This study applies sequential explanatory industry-representative comparison with statistical and qualitative analysis of online word-of-mouth...
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This study examines the gender differences in user-generated travel photographs posted on social networking services. Using 515 travel photographs—285 generated by females and 230 generated by males—from China's Sina Weibo website, the study analyzes the gender differences in the photographs...
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the problem of power distribution within networks of relationships between companies and consumers (business-to-consumer (B2C) networks) and to examine the ways in which value is created and captured in such structures. To this end, we applied the network...
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The last century's industrial and technological development has led to the growth of environmental problems such as global warming, climate changes, water, air, and ground pollution. The awareness of modern consumers about these issues is growing, and companies respond by using "green marketing"...
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Peer influence through word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an important role in many information systems but identification of causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game adoption in a social network for gamers by exploiting differences in individuals’...
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Word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an increasingly important role today in shaping consumers' attitudes and buying behaviors. Prior work in marketing has mainly focused on the aggregate impact of WOM on product sales as well as the generation of WOM. Very little attention has been paid to the consumption...
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This paper estimates a dynamic model of user behavior in a social network site using unique data on the daily login activity of a sample of members of MySpace.com. We view a social network as a stock of capital that yields a flow of utilities over time by creating interactions between the site...
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This study identified and examined variables that affected spectators' attitudes and intentions in both offline and online contexts. Based on the results of literature review, three variables (i.e., the club membership subscription, negative memory, and Facebook fan page visit) were identified,...
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As the growing global influence of Korean Pop-Culture (commonly referred to as Korea Wave or Hallyu) draws the attention of scholars and media practitioners, it seems appropriate to investigate from a wide spectrum of perspectives (including cultural, communication, and purchase decision...
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