• DocumentCode
    1680484
  • Title

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

  • Author

    Wang, Hsiu-Yuan ; Chang, Hsun-Fang

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Hospitality Management Chung Hua University Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    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.
  • Keywords
    Australia; Blogs; Electronic commerce; Encyclopedias; Fluctuations; Internet; Open source software; destination image; travel blogs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    E -Business and E -Government (ICEE), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai, China
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8691-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEBEG.2011.5887135
  • Filename
    5887135