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ToolsFan, D. X.F., Buhalis, D. and Lin, B., 2019. Tourists' online and face-to-face social contact and destination immersion. e-Review of Tourism Research, 16 (2-3), 224 - 233.
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Abstract
Tourism is stated to provide a process of transition. Tourists are claimed to enter a liminal space when traveling. Along with the development of the internet, the liminal sense of tourism has been greatly haunted by the advanced communication technology. The current study, adopting a qualitative approach, explored tourists' online and on-site social contact when traveling with different groups. A six-fold tourist typology was established to portrait their behavioural patterns with robust theoretical evidence supported. A contact-liminality nexus was also developed to indicate different tourist types' tendency between their original zone and the liminal zone. Both theoretical contributions and practical implications were discuss
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSN: | 1941-5842 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | online social contact, face-to-face social contact, destination immersion, liminality, contact-liminality nexus |
| Group: | Bournemouth University Business School |
| ID Code: | 32070 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
| Deposited On: | 19 Mar 2019 12:36 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:15 |
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