Sustaining eSports Industry and Regulatory Focus: Empirical Evidence From Chinese Universities

Zhao, Gongyan; Cheng, Yue; Liu, Xinggue; Meng, Wentao

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.907050

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“…As for the fans, they intentionally devote their spare time and finances to closely experience the competitions, meet their favorite players, and share their passions with other enthusiastic fans of similar interests. In the words of eSports tourists, live event attendance is considered to be a unique and unforgettable experience, deriving pleasure from satisfying vanity and snobbism [17,[44][45][46].…”

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eSports Events Trend: A Promising Opportunity for Tourism Offerings

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eSports events are a groundbreaking phenomenon worldwide. For this reason, this study aims to recognize the potential of eSports as an alternative for tourism events diversification in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Within the methodological framework of an exploratory-descriptive scope, it was proposed to analyze the conditions of eSports events and the tourist perception of them in the selected city. A survey was applied to 384 participants of eSports events (potential tourists), using video game rooms and player community networks throughout Latin America. The instrument used to collect data was a questionnaire available online for six months for further analysis. The principal findings in terms of quality performance of the event, perception of the event, destination image, and satisfaction revealed four vital indicators associated. Event staff, event atmosphere, hospitality, and good feelings about live attendance must be taken into consideration while designing a satisfactory experience to integrate into eSports into the city’s tourism offerings. Attendees also expressed their willingness to return to the city in the future. These results contribute to expanding the scientific literature on the evaluation and management of eSports events for other developing cities and countries.

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“…E-sports events and competitions are held either online or offline in arenas and stadiums (Exley and Bertram, 2021;Nikas and Poulaki, 2021). Some places are popular for holding e-sports tournaments including the USA, Asia, and Europe (Zhao et al, 2022;Jenny et al, 2018).…”

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Investigating the Potential of E-sports Tourism in New Egyptian Tourism Cities

Elsaid,

Fathallah

2023

International Journal of Tourism, Archaeology and Hospitality

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The rapid evolution of e-sports has made it an interesting phenomenon for many tourism cities in terms of tourism growth and new cities awareness. Similar to traditional sports, e-sports have significant economic impacts and the potential to be a tourism motivator and a new market for tourism destinations, that could be used for attracting tourists, increasing tourist expenditure, and developing city branding. However, there is a lack of research concerning e-sports events as a sports events tourism and how they could be a great motivator for thousands of tourists. Accordingly, this paper aims to investigate the potential for e-sports tourism in the Egyptian destination, especially the new cities, such as Alamein city and the New Administrative Capital which have numerous resources that may provide great opportunities for hosting e-sports events. The study uses qualitative research with a phenomenological approach to investigate Egypt as an e-sports tourism destination and describe the state of e-sports events in Egypt. The findings of the study demonstrate that e-sports tourism is growing rapidly and has a positive influence on tourism destinations' branding and economic development. Therefore, the study recommends expanding the e-sports events in Egypt and considering e-sports tourism as a vital resource for sustainable tourism in the future.

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“…However, this study ignored a key predictor variable of behavioral intention – attitude ( Yan, 2014 ), as well as other relevant factors that matter in e-sports context, such as team identification and satisfaction with past experience. Similarly, a study conducted by Zhao et al (2022) in China’s Henan Province confirmed the significant positive impact of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use on the attitude toward e-sports, while overlooking the explaining power of motivation on attitude and behavioral intention.…”

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Do Chinese viewers watch e-sports games for a different reason? Motivations, attitude, and team identification in predicting e-sports online spectatorship

Shi,

Ren

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionUnderstanding factors that predict the intention of e-sports game online spectatorship has drawn a great deal of scholarly attention. Prior work on this topic has primarily focused on explaining the mediation mechanism between the spectator motivations and behavioral intention, such as attitude and subjective well-being, while overlooking the specific role of team identification and satisfaction with past experience, which were understudied in the previous studies but also prominent in the context of e-sports spectatorship. Besides, previous research was mainly conducted in a Western context; therefore, little was known about the online e-sports audience in China and their motivations to view e-sports games on live-streaming platforms.MethodsThe current study thus aims to examine if and how these factors are related to the intention of watching e-sports games online by hierarchical regression and structural equation modeling.ResultsResults from a survey of 452 Chinese e-sports online audiences suggested that three motivations (skill improvement, entertainment, and friends bonding), attitude towards e-sports game online spectatorship, and satisfaction with past experience were positively related to watching intention. These motivations and satisfaction also positively influenced attitude, while socialization opportunity (one of the motivations) negatively influenced attitude. Furthermore, team identification negatively moderated the relationship between satisfaction with past experience and behavioral intention. Also, attitude mediated the association between motivations, satisfaction, and behavioral intention.DiscussionIn general, our study identifies the motivations that relate to Chinese e-sports viewers’ attitude as well as their watching intention, and underscores the role of satisfaction with past experience, attitude, and team identification in the context of e-sports. These findings contribute to deriving a holistic view of e-sports game online spectatorship.

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Sustaining eSports Industry and Regulatory Focus: Empirical Evidence From Chinese Universities

Cited by 4 publications

References 87 publications

eSports Events Trend: A Promising Opportunity for Tourism Offerings

eSports Events Trend: A Promising Opportunity for Tourism Offerings

Investigating the Potential of E-sports Tourism in New Egyptian Tourism Cities

Do Chinese viewers watch e-sports games for a different reason? Motivations, attitude, and team identification in predicting e-sports online spectatorship

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