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18 - Cybertourism

from Part III - Activities in Cyber Behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2024

By
Marios Sotiriadis
Edited by
Zheng Yan
Zheng Yan
Affiliation:
University at Albany, State University of New York
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Summary

1 Introduction

 1.1 The Approach

 1.2 Developments and Advances in ICTs and Cyberspace: The Main Eras of Research

 1.3 Library Resources

2 First Era: Electronic Tourism Research

 2.1 Major Topics, Antecedents and Influences

  2.1.1 Customer Experience Journey

  2.1.2 Website Design and Evaluation

  2.1.3 Antecedents: Website Attributes and Consumers’ Personal Traits

 2.2 Other Elements

  2.2.1 Theories

  2.2.2 Timeframe

3 Second Era: Digital Tourism Research

 3.1 Web 2.0 and Social Media

  3.1.1 Main Topics

  3.1.2 Antecedents

  3.1.3 Influences of Online Reviews and UGC on Consumer Behaviour

  3.1.4 Other Elements

 3.2 Mobile Technology and Devices

  3.2.1 Topics

  3.2.2 Antecedents and Influences

  3.2.3 Other Elements

 3.3 Enabling Technologies

  3.3.1 Topics

  3.3.2 Antecedents and Influences

  3.3.3 Other Elements

4 Third Era: Smart Tourism Research

 4.1 Topics

 4.2 Other Elements: Theories and Methods

  4.2.1 Theories

  4.2.2 Methods and Approaches

  4.2.3 Timeframe

5 Avenues/Pathways for Future Research: Suggestions

 5.1 Tourist Consumer Behaviour

 5.2 Technological Advances, Applications and their Influence on Tourist Consumers

Keywords

tourist consumersperiods of academic researchleading researcherscyberspaceinformation and communication technologiesbehaviourantecedentsinfluences
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The Cambridge Handbook of Cyber Behavior , pp. 517 - 549
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Edited by Zheng Yan, University at Albany, State University of New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Cyber Behavior
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  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Cyber Behavior
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107165250.022
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