Sustainable Tourism in the Social Media and Big Data Era

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; Airbnb; attitude toward tourism destination; Big Five personality traits; brand awareness; brand equity; brand image; city branding; consumption value; COVID-19; crowdfunding; cultural consensus; cultural consonance; destination image; dimensions of interest; e-WOM; era of big data; Generation Y; graffiti; improve customer satisfaction; inductive approach; information characteristics; inner innovativeness; latent Dirichlet allocation; mobile applications; multiscale GWR; musicals; nighttime light remote sensing; oblique photography; online hotel reviews; online review; online reviews; online travel agency; OpenStreetMap; organization-public relationship; orientation; overtourism; perceived risk; personality characteristics; place-visitor relationship; presence; purchase decisions; rural tourism; shared short-term rental; sharing economy; smart city; smart tourism; smart tourism city; SNSs; social characteristics; social media; social media usage characteristics; social media use; social network analysis; social networking service; social networks; spatial variance; stakeholders; sustainable development; sustainable tourism; technology acceptance model; text analytics; text mining; the intention to visit festival; theory of planned behavior; topic modeling; tourism; tourism 4.0; tourist destinations; travel reality variety program; trust; trustworthiness; Twitter; viewing motivation; viewing satisfaction; volunteered geographic information
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• ISBN: 9783039433247; 9783039433254; books978-3-03943-325-4
• Access: Open Access

• The aim of this Special Issue is to examine the current major topics concerning the use of social media and big data in sustainable tourism practices and to encourage interdisciplinary discussion among researchers regarding these issues. • This Special Issue covers all relevant areas of the debate, including 15 selected papers based on the following core ideas: smart tourism and big data, social media in the tourism industry, and online reviews and tourist behaviors. • This Special Issue discusses wide-ranging topics and research questions with regard to the smart tourism city, the impact of social media, online reviews, and tourist behaviors, and it represents a call to action for scholars to engage with broader social issues.