I Bond, I Engage, I Visit: Investigating the Effects of Vloggers Tourist Engagement and Its Outcome on Tourist Attitudes
Subhadip Roy,
Rekha Attri
Abstract:The present study investigates the effectiveness of tourism vlogs (video blogs), the parasocial bonding between the vloggers and the tourist/prospect and the wishful identification of the tourist/prospect on the different components of engagement namely, affective, cognitive and behavioral. The study also inspects the subsequent effect of the components of engagement on visit intentions and electronic word of mouth. We adopted a mixed method approach involving two focus group discussions followed by a sample s… Show more
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