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Effects Of Air Quality And Weather Conditions On Chinese Tourists’ Emotional Experience, Ying Wang, Yang Yang, Songshan (Sam) Huang, Li Huang, Weijie Sun
Effects Of Air Quality And Weather Conditions On Chinese Tourists’ Emotional Experience, Ying Wang, Yang Yang, Songshan (Sam) Huang, Li Huang, Weijie Sun
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
Though the effects of air quality and weather conditions on tourism have been examined from different perspectives, their effects on tourists' emotional experience have not been investigated. Due to lack of effective measurements, tourists' real-time on-site emotional experience have not been duly examined. This study used tourists' geo-tagged check-in user-generated content (UGC) to extract the sentiments underlying tourists' real-time on-site emotional experience, and modelled the effects of air quality and weather conditions on tourists' emotional experience. The empirical results confirmed a negative and non-linear impact of air pollution, and an inverted-U effect of temperature on tourists' emotional experience. By developing …