Title :
A comparative analysis of tourists´ decision-making on the basis of internet comments about scenic areas—Taking Wuzhen Xishan as an example
Author :
Zhang Qing ; Ding Ling ; Huang Dong-mei
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Tourism Manage., CSUFT, China
Abstract :
Taking Wuzhen Xishan scenic area as an example, this article aimed at studying the impact scenic area internet comments had on tourists´ decision-making. Based on the tourism decision-making reference group theory and tourism decision-making behavior theory, using the experimental method, the author designed a pretest questionnaire and a post-test questionnaire respectively to get to know the changes in tourists´ relative decisions before and after reading the internet comments. Through the comparative analysis, we find that internet comments had great impact on tourists´ decision. And the main factors include the category of comments, style of comments, content of comments and identity reviewers.
Keywords :
Internet; decision making; travel industry; Internet comments; Wuzhen Xishan; identity reviewers; post-test questionnaire; pretest questionnaire; scenic areas; tourism decision-making behavior theory; tourism decision-making reference group theory; Decision making; Educational institutions; Entertainment industry; Internet; Object recognition; Software reliability; experimental method; impact; scenic area internet comments; tourism decision;
Conference_Titel :
Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3015-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSE.2012.6414272