Investigating the impact of social media images’ value,consumer engagement,and involvement on eWOM of a tourism destination: A transmittal mediation approach |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Entrepreneurship and Management Studies, SRM University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India;2. Department of Humanities and Management, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India;3. Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, Research Lab LITEM, 9, Rue Charles Fourier, Evry, France,;4. Department of Management, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;1. School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, PR China;2. Center for Tourism Planning and Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Building 329, 135 Xingangxi Road, Guangzhou 510275, PR China;3. Research Institute of Nanchang, Sun Yat-sen University, Nanchang, PR China |
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Abstract: | Tourism organizations use social media to promote their destinations and attract new customers. However, there is a challenge in how tourism organizations can choose or create social media images to successfully attract consumers' attention, induce their engagement with the destination, and motivate their eWOM behavior. This study aims to identify and test the direct and indirect factors related to social media images of tourism destinations that could predict eWOM. Using the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S–O-R) as an umbrella framework, we integrated Ducoffe's model and the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), to study the role of social media destination images' features (entertainment, informativeness, irritation, credibility, personalization, and incentives) on consumer's perceived value and eWOM through consumer engagement and involvement. Using a survey research method, we collected data from 307 individuals and tested the proposed structural model using the PLS-SEM-based transmittal mediation approach. The findings supported the proposed relationships providing valuable theoretical and practical implications. |
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Keywords: | Destination images value Social media Consumer engagement Consumer involvement eWOM Ducoffe's model Elaboration likelihood model (ELM) |
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