The hotel industry is trying to use "private traffic" to promote direct channel reservation. From the perspective of social trust, the structural equation model is used to verify the social interactions between hotel and customers on WeChat, the interactions between customers' WeChat friends,...

Appealing to tourists' intrinsic interest for high-quality tourism environments, and thus encouraging them to act with a greater sense of personal responsibility toward the environment, could be critical to promoting sustainable tourism. Proliferating media channels makes the choice, style and...

The role that information plays is critical in changing behavior, thus it is surprising that so little research has examined informational strategies in activating pro-environmental personal norms. The aim of this study was to investigate whether personal norms were activated by user-generated...

No one can deny the importance of fans in spectator sports. Sports fans' tweets are an excellent big data source for investigating large-scale spatial-temporal dynamics of fan behavior. Using tweets related to the 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals between the Toronto Raptors and the ...

Purpose: Destination monitoring is crucial to understand performance and identify key points of differentiation. Visitor satisfaction is an essential driver of destination performance. With the fast-growing volume of user-generated content through social media, it is now possible to tap into very...

Social media have been increasingly used by sports organizations to communicate with the public. This study explored the Twitter-using practices of National Basketball Association (NBA) clubs (N=30) in the U.S. in building relationships with their fans during the 2013-14 season. Specifically, it...

Objective: To analyze the epidemiological characteristics of a measles outbreak in international schools in Minhang district of Shanghai during May-June in 2019. Methods: An epidemiological investigation was conducted in all the suspected measles cases detected in the outbreak. Blood samples and...

As the main contributor to leisure vacations, family travel is an important topic in academia; however, limited tourism research has addressed the subject. Most family travel studies have focused on who makes the decision with comparatively little attention paid to how. The present study argues...