Travel blogs on China as a destination image formation agent: A qualitative analysis using Leximancer

Tourism Management

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 347-358

  Tseng, Chi ^a   Wu, Bihu ^a   Morrison, Alastair M ^b   Zhang, Jingru ^a   Chen, Ying chen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Destination image formation; Leximancer; Travel blogs; User generated content (UGC)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION; WORLD WIDE WEB; INTERNET; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

CHINA;

EID: 84907081350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.07.012     Document Type: Article

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