The relationship between narcissism and landmark check-in behaviour on social media

Tan, Wee-Kheng; Yang, Chieh-Yu

doi:10.1080/13683500.2021.1881053

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“…It is home to several natural tourist attractions and authentic tourist experiences central to travel photography primarily due to its unique geographical location, tradition, and cultural practices. Given the limited understanding of the notion of narcissism in the context of travel selfies (Tan & Yang, 2021;Christou et al, 2021), a qualitative approach was deemed more suitable for this study. In-depth semi-structured interviews with a cross-section of tourists who have shared travel selfies via social media were employed to explore how travel selfies and tourists' desire for narcissism create challenges to destination marketing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most tourism practitioners are encouraging and enabling tourists to take and share selfies on social media, thus giving prominence to the notion of selfie marketing. However, selfie posting behaviour is far less researched in the tourism literature (Tan & Yang, 2021;Chirstou et al, 2022), a void this paper attempts to fill.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…As Christou et al (2021) resonated, there is a growing "tendency to capture oneself (or mostly oneself) in a travel selfie while excluding destination attributes or shifting them to the side of the photograph" (p. 289). However, except for very few studies, narcissism has received less praise in tourism literature (Tan & Yang, 2021). Consequently, tourism literature lacks a comprehensive framework that can provide detailed descriptions of how travel selfies and tourists' desire for narcissism create challenges to destination marketing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In social media research, the notion of narcissism is defined as creating and sharing self-promoting content via social media (Casale & Banchi, 2020). Although travel selfies have taken a central role in tourism (Tan & Yang, 2021), scholars have largely ignored the concept of narcissism in the context of travel selfies and its influence when marketing tourist destinations. The only exception is Chirstou et al (2022), who investigated whether selfies taken by tourists shift the focus of the photograph to oneself only, excluding important tourist attractions from the photograph, underpinning a self-centered manifestation of narcissism.…”

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#MeTravel: Travel Selfies, Narcissism and Destination Marketing

Gamage

2022

S. Asian J. Tourism & Hosp.

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While posting travel selfies on social media, many tourists strategically attempt to adjust them to better portray their images by excluding destination attributes, thus manifesting narcissism. Following the inductive research approach, based on in-depth interviews conducted with 27 tourists, this paper explores how travel selfies and tourists' desire for narcissism create challenges to destination marketing. The findings indicate a growing tendency among tourists to capture themselves in travel selfies while excluding unique and attractive destination attributes or shifting them to the side of the photograph, thus diluting the attention toward tourist destinations. This paper suggests several managerial implications for tourism practitioners on strategically marketing tourist destinations using tourists' selfie posting behaviour.

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2022

S. Asian J. Tourism & Hosp.

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“…As a tourism-related intrinsic motivation, the awakening of enjoyment reflects a visitor's perception of positive emotions such as joy and pleasure during tourism experiences (Tan and Yang, 2021). On the other hand, cultural identity relies on the internal intention of self-perception and is a process of integrating heritage into the self-concept (Pratt, 2005).…”

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The impact of the creative performance of agricultural heritage systems on tourists’ cultural identity: A dual perspective of knowledge transfer and novelty perception

Song

Chen²,

Zhang³

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Front. Psychol.

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Tourism in the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) is critical to the inheritance and innovation of excellent traditional farming cultures. Based on social identity theory, this paper explored the process by which agricultural heritage systems’ creative performance influences tourists’ cultural identity through 406 questionnaires from Chinese tourists. The results indicate that creative performance affects tourists’ cultural identity through a dual perspective of knowledge transfer and novelty perception. Furthermore, perceived authenticity acts as a moderator, weakening the impact of creative performance on tourists’ knowledge transfer, while perceived authenticity does not affect the process of tourists’ novelty perception. This research provides a fresh perspective on the sustainable development of agricultural heritage tourism. Meanwhile, it offers theoretical foundations and practical inspirations for the development of agricultural heritage’s creative tourism.

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