Antecedents and outcomes of smartphone usage among Indian Millennial travellers

Gore, Shashank, Paris, Cody Morris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0339-2471 and Balasubramanian, Sreejith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0475-7305 (2018) Antecedents and outcomes of smartphone usage among Indian Millennial travellers. In: Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2019. Pesonen, Juho and Neidhardt, Julia, eds. Springer. . [Book Section]

PDF - First submitted uncorrected version (with author's formatting) Restricted to Repository staff and depositor only Download (530kB)

Abstract

This study explored the extent to which the antecedents (psychological anxiety, behavioural anxiety, need for virtual comfort and security, and need for disconnectedness) impact smartphone usage while traveling, and the extent to which smartphone usage impacts travel efficacy and experience. Structural equation modelling was employed to analyse the data collected through a structured questionnaire from 227 Indian Millennials. The findings suggest that the need for virtual comfort & security and behavioural anxiety positive influence smartphone use while traveling, while psychological anxiety, and need for disconnectedness were found to have no significant impact. Further, smartphone use while traveling was found to have a strong impact on the travel efficacy and experience of users.

Actions (login required)

View Item

Statistics

DownloadsShow export options

Export as CSVXMLJSON

Activity Overview

6 month trend

1Download

6 month trend

18Hits

Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.