• DocumentCode
    2745829
  • Title

    A Study about the WOM Influence on Tourism Destination Choice

  • Author

    Zhu, Min ; Lai, Shenquiang

  • Author_Institution
    Finance & Econ. Dept., South-west Univ., Chengdu, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    6-7 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    120
  • Lastpage
    124
  • Abstract
    From EWOM perspective, this paper empirically studies how the online information influences on the tourism destination choice. The research concludes that the volume of the online reviews and the tourist blogs correlate significantly with the actual tourist reception population, but comments grades and the volume of travels consultation do not correlated significantly with tourist reception population.
  • Keywords
    Web sites; information services; travel industry; EWOM influence; online information influences; online reviews; tourism destination choice; tourist blogs; Electronic commerce; EWOM; tourism destination; tourist behavior;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronic Commerce and Business Intelligence, 2009. ECBI 2009. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3661-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECBI.2009.104
  • Filename
    5189500