Motivations for sharing tourism experiences through social media

Munar, Ana María; Jacobsen, Jens Kr. Steen

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2014.01.012

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“…tourist blogs, social media and review websites). These findings demonstrate the applicability of these types of information sources to meet specific information needs and confirm the documented information-seeking patterns in extant literature [5,9,82].…”

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“…Indeed, high uncertainties are involved as tourists' experience cannot be evaluated prior to the 'purchase' [3]. The information provided online through various websites [4] and the extensive information sharing among individuals [5] has become a decisive factor related to the tourists' destination choices [6]. Online resources have a number of noteworthy advantages when compared with the conventional offline and counterparts, and hence, their popularity increases [7].…”

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Explaining travellers online information satisfaction: A complexity theory approach on information needs, barriers, sources and personal characteristics

Kourouthanassis

Mikalef

Pappas

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Information & Management

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Please cite this article as: P.E. Kourouthanassis, P. Mikalef, I.O. Pappas, P. Kostagiolas, Explaining travellers online information satisfaction: a complexity theory approach on information needs, barriers, sources and personal characteristics, Information and Management (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.im.2017.03.004 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.

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Explaining travellers online information satisfaction: A complexity theory approach on information needs, barriers, sources and personal characteristics

Kourouthanassis

Mikalef

Pappas

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Information & Management

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“…Sharing of experiential impressions and moments through ICTs, in particular social media, has become an integral practice of the tourist experience (Munar & Jacobsen, 2014). The findings reveal that tourists have a desire to share their trips live, in the moment, with others.…”

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Value Co-creation and Co-destruction in Connected Tourist Experiences

Neuhofer

2016

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2016

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become a key resource that has transformed travel and tourist experiences. Due to the increasing ubiquity and mobility of ICTs, they have become integral in creating connected experiences that interlink travel with everyday life. While recent studies have investigated value co-creation and the enhancement of experiences through ICTs, there is less knowledge about potential value co-destruction when ICTs come into place. This paper provides a first exploratory study to examine technology resource integration by looking at the dichotomous relationship of value co-creation and value co-destruction in connected tourist experiences. By adopting a qualitative in-depth methodology, this study has identified six dimensions, which highlight how value can be created and destroyed through connectedness. The paper contributes to service-dominant logic, resource integration and value creation discourses in a tourism and technology context, for which several theoretical and practical limitations are discussed.

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“…More recently attention has turned to virtual tourist communities where research strands have explored interest based communities, such as couch surfing (see, for example, Rosen, Lafontaine, & Hendrickson, 2011) and sharing of knowledge and tourism experiences through social media (Munar & Jacobsen, 2014). Aside from this, tourists and the physical contexts in which they come together have received little analysis from a community perspective, presumably because the tourism setting is considered too fleeting to constitute community in a meaningful sense.…”

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Tourism communities and social ties: the role of online and offline tourist social networks in building social capital and sustainable practice

Dickinson

Filimonau

Hibbert

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Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Mobile connectivity enables the adoption of new ways to connect with social networks which are changing how we might, and could, seek support. In the tourism domain we increasingly blend online and offline presence to engage with social networks in the spatial location, at a distance and across time. This paper explores the forms of community that exist in physical tourism contexts, contexts not previously analysed through a community lens, and explores how mobile technology is creating connections within and beyond existing social networks. It examines how sustainable tourism can be enhanced by mobile connectivity through new spaceÀtime practices and using ephemeral interpersonal relationships to harness niche groups to create bottom-up social systems interested in sharing experiences, ideas and resources. Special attention is given to the concept of gelling socialities which proposes a less ridged network structure, and to the need to understand the increasingly liquid social dynamics of mobile social interactions. The paper adds to the theories surrounding community, social ties and tourism's value to society. It draws on data from in-depth interviews undertaken while designing and testing a collaborative travel app. It contributes to growing research into the new technologies increasingly available for sustainable tourism marketing and implementation.

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Motivations for sharing tourism experiences through social media

Cited by 856 publications

References 37 publications

Explaining travellers online information satisfaction: A complexity theory approach on information needs, barriers, sources and personal characteristics

Explaining travellers online information satisfaction: A complexity theory approach on information needs, barriers, sources and personal characteristics

Value Co-creation and Co-destruction in Connected Tourist Experiences

Tourism communities and social ties: the role of online and offline tourist social networks in building social capital and sustainable practice

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