The Marketers and residents of tourist places are facing tourism promotion-related challenges. The trends of digital marketing are stimulating traditional marketers for tourism promotion. Recently, the trend of digital media influencers has been getting considerable attention among marketing academicians and practitioners. However, this study aims to determine the role of modern digital marketing tools for green tourism promotion of foreign tourism in Pakistan. Consequently, 450 questionnaires for data collection were distributed among foreign tourists visiting different tourist destinations. The Partial Least Square (PLS) software was used to analyze the data, and the threshold for significant variables was (P<0.05). The study points out the critical role of modern digital marketing tools, i.e. YouTube marketing and social media influencers, in promoting green tourism through tourism v-logging in Pakistan. The practical implications of this study would enhance the experiences of marketers for green tourism promotion in Pakistan. Moreover, the current research fills the literature gap in the digital marketing domain by thoroughly discussing emerging digital marketing tools.
In Pakistan, consumers’ brand loyalty is changing due to emergence of advanced and modern marketing strategies. Therefore, the bricks and clicks businesses are facing allot of challenges because of deviating consumer behaviors in showrooming and webrooming modes. This study aims to explore webrooming as an appropriate strategy for developing brand loyalty for bricks and clicks businesses in Pakistan. The target population of this study was the consumers who purchased different online brands in Pakistan. The data was collected on a five-point Likert scale questionnaire and analyzed through Smart PLS 3.0. This research concludes that bricks and clicks businesses can utilize webrooming to develop brand loyalty by modifying consumer behavior through Instagram marketing. This contribution to the body of literature is remarkable as this area of research was not considered by any earlier studies in consumer behavior domains. The academic and marketing implications of this study are appropriate for developing strategies to modify consumer behavior for brand loyalty with Instagram marketing and webrooming.
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