Tourist information search behavior: cross-cultural comparison of European union member states

Urban destination loyalty drivers and cross-national moderator effects: The case of Barcelona

“…With respect to the tourism industry, numerous studies take as reference the country dimension to explain different aspects of tourist consumer behaviour: information search behaviour Gursoy & Umbreit, 2004), hospitality (McCleary, Choi, & Weber, 1998;Mok & Armstrong, 1998;Yuksel et al, 2006), destinations (Iverson, 1997;Kozak, 2002;Lee & Lee, 2009;Sakakida, Cole, & Card, 2004;You, O'Leary, Morrison, & Hong, 2000) and airline passengers (Kim & Prideaux, 2003). But although the presence of cultural differences and their impact has been dealt with in many aspects of human behaviour, very few studies analyse tourists' perceptions and their attitude and behaviour towards an urban destination in terms of their country of residence.…”

Social media use for travel purposes: a cross cultural comparison between Portugal and the UK

“…Further, since past studies have evidenced that national culture influences tourist behavior and the way they search for travel information (Pizam and Jeong 1996;Gursoy and Umbreit 2004;Ayeh et al 2016) the present study shows how the cultural dimensions could affect the use of social for travel purposes not only before travel, but also when travel and after travel, providing researchers and practitioners with a better understanding of the process of consumption and creation of travel related content.…”

“…Past studies have evidenced that national culture influences tourist behavior and the way they search for travel information (e.g. Pizam and Jeong 1996;Gursoy and Umbreit 2004). Therefore, based on the literature review carried out, several research questions were posited:…”

Türk turistlerin tatil satınalma sürecinde alternatiflerin değerlendirilmesinde içsel bilginin rolü

“…Bu amaca yönelik olarak Muğla bölgesini ziyaret eden yerli turistler üzerine bir araştırma yapılmıştır. Kuramsal çerçeveyi oluşturmak amacıyla sürecin "bilgi arama" ve "alternatifleri değerlendirme" aşamalarıyla ilgili yapılmış çalışmalardan (Gürsoy ve Chen, 2000;Gürsoy ve McCleary, 2004;Gürsoy ve Umbreit, 2004;Hyde, 2009;Pan ve Fesenmaier, 2006;Gronflaten, 2008;Schmallegger ve Carson, 2008) yararlanılarak bir anket oluşturulmuştur. Ankette katılım-cıların demografik özelliklerine yönelik olmak üzere 10 adet kapalı uçlu soru ve Likert tipi ölçekte, 21 adet bağımsız ve 2 adet bağımlı değişken sorusu olmak üzere toplam 33 adet soru yer almaktadır.…”

“…The general consensus in the literature is that a consumer starts information search with his prior knowledge (Engel, Blackwell and Miniard, 1993;Chen and Gürsoy, 2000;Gürsoy and Umbreit, 2004). The literature studies information search as internal and external (Engel, Blackwell and Miniard, 1993).…”