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[구철모, 정오] The difference of information diffusion for Seoul tourism destination according to user certification on Sina Weibo: through data crawling method
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논문명

The difference of information diffusion for Seoul

tourism destination according to user certification

on Sina Weibo: through data crawling method

저자(참여인력명)

구철모, 정오

게재지명

International Journal of Tourism Sciences

핵심어

Rational information diffusion; Social Network Systems (SNSs) marketing; User certification; Sina Weibo

초록

Consumer’s information search and sharing behaviour is critical to firm’s stratigic decision-making in SNS tourism marketing. Although there are many studies on SNS marketing, unlike previous research, our empirical study investigates the relationship between user certification and information elaboration degrees on Sina Weibo. Tourism information diffusion is used as an indication of rationality in order to provide a test to the explanation of consumer behaviour towards ‘Repost’ and ‘Like’. To understand this phenomenon, we collected data from Sina Weibo with a data harvesting programme. After filtering data, anlaysis was carried out on 5746 units. Espeically, we focused on ‘Seoul’, one of the biggest cities in Asia for wannavisit tour destination. The focus of this study is the two types of user certification (official vs. personal) in concept of a rational information search and the moderating role of information elaboration level. To verify hypotheses, the Poisson Regression Method was applied. Empirical results indicated that ‘information shoppers’ for tourism purpose would react differently by information source certifications. Consumers are less likely to share ‘Like’ count generated by an official verified user when content elaboration level is relatively high. To the contrary, for a personal certification user, people are less likely to repost under high elaboration.