“…Existing studies on customer engagement mainly focused on the travel service and lodging section and thus calls for the empirical exploration of customer engagement in different settings and sectors to enhance research applicability and generalisability (Aleti et al, 2018;Cabiddu, De Carlo, and Piccoli, 2014;Hapsari, Clemes, and Dean, 2017;Huh, 2018;Hyun and Perdue, 2017;Islam et al, 2019;Kim, Chiang, and Tang, 2017;Rather, Tehseen, and Parrey, 2018;Taheri et al, 2014;Wei, Hua, Fu, and Guchait, 2017a). For example, research can be conducted in different firm star categories (high/low-star) or firm types (individual, the local chain, international chain) (Choi et al, 2015;Hahn, Sparks, Wilkins, and Jin, 2017;Kim et al, 2017).…”