Notice of RetractionProposing a framework to predict travel blogs´ influence on potential tourists´ travel intention

Notice of Retraction

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Travel blogs are rapidly turning into a popular new source of reading material for web users. By travel blogs, potential tourists can share and access other persons´ travel experiences from articles, photos and even videos. This study presents a new research framework that can capture cognitive, affective and cyber-interactive components influencing travel blog readers´ travel intention through affecting their perceived destination image. Seven propositions are proposed to promote future empirical research.