Interdependencies and tensions between social media and tourism
Su, Rui ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0963-6817 and Cai, Huifen (Helen)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5893-8291
(2016)
Interdependencies and tensions between social media and tourism.
Proceedings of 6th Global Innovation & Knowledge Academy Conference (GIKA 2016).
In: 6th Global Innovation & Knowledge Academy Conference (GIKA 2016), 20-23 Mar 2016, Valencia, Spain.
ISBN 9788460838401.
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Abstract
This research develops a holistic and integrated understanding of social media in the tourism industry, particularly its communication between tourism producers and consumers. Applied with a qualitative approach, this paper assesses the theoretical and empirical roles that social media play with a dialectic relationship of interdependence and tension. The case study demonstrates the value of the interpretation model in Nanjing, due to recent major changes in China’s economy, society, politics and governance, and the city’s rich cultural heritage resources. Prominence is given to the tourism producers and consumers in the encoding and decoding of cultural tourism messages, in order to benefit other tourist destinations’ promotion and city marketing.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Keywords (uncontrolled): | social media, cultural meaning and interpretation, encoding and decoding, qualitative research, tourist destination promotion, producers and consumers, Chinese political economy |
Research Areas: | A. > Business School > Marketing, Branding and Tourism |
Item ID: | 19376 |
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Depositing User: | Rui Su |
Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2016 13:26 |
Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 22:02 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/19376 |
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