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Profiling Social Media Tourists Using Literature During 2015-2019: Criminal Profiling Method, Jijun Chen Jan 2021

Profiling Social Media Tourists Using Literature During 2015-2019: Criminal Profiling Method, Jijun Chen

Theses and Dissertations--Retailing and Tourism Management

With the continuous development of mobile commerce and the Internet, social media has deeply penetrated people’s lives and fundamentally changed the way of searching, reading and using travel-related information. With this backdrop, this research studied social media tourists (SMTs) who share or acquire information related to the hospitality and tourism on social media platforms. Based on 271 empirical articles retrieved from major databases and top hospitality and tourism journals in the recent five years from 2015 to 2019, this research developed a profiling framework about SMTs using criminal profiling method. The findings showed the possibility of using the criminal profiling …