کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1012553 939148 2012 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Web users’ behavioural patterns of tourism information search: From online to offline
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری استراتژی و مدیریت استراتژیک
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Web users’ behavioural patterns of tourism information search: From online to offline
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper presents a conceptual framework of Web users’ engagement in tourism information search for a comprehensive understanding of their integrated online and offline search behaviour. The information search experiences are characterised as a process constituting some common elements: prior knowledge and searching experiences, online searching strategies, processing and recording information, barriers to online searching, reasons for ending an online search, summarising information, exchanging information and searching for more information through other sources. Such behaviour goes beyond the scope of information searching and captures the other activities, including information processing, utilising and disseminating. The grounded theory research method is employed as an inductive investigative process in which the authors construct the framework by systematically collecting and analysing data. The aim of this research method is to build a theory. The data sets consist of both semi-structured in-depth interviews with subjects and their field observations based on online searching. A theoretical model incorporating 10 propositions is proposed for future testing.


► We propose a behavioural framework of Web users’ tourism information search.
► We provide an information search model across online and offline environments.
► We describe tourism information search as a process with related activities.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Tourism Management - Volume 33, Issue 6, December 2012, Pages 1468–1482
نویسندگان
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