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...

Purpose - In a context where retail stores are closing down and high streets are declining, the purpose of this paper is to analyse on-site shopping by tourists. This work identifies the drivers that lead tourists to use digital information sources at the beginning of the shopping process....

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to explore how students as an important travel segment are involved in social media during the travel process and explore the underlying dimensions of social media use by students during the travel process.Design/methodology/approach – The quantitative...

Over the last decades, the global hospitality and tourism (or H&T) industry has undergone dramatic changes. Among the factors stimulating the growth of the H&T industry, the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social media should be emphasized. The same trends...