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| A COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH REVIEW OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE INTERNET INFORMATION ON THE TOURISTS' DECISION-MAKING: A DOMESTIC AND ABROAD COMPARING PERSPECTIVE |
| WEI Bao-xiang1,2, KONG Shan-shan1,2 |
1. School of Tourism, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China;
2. Research Center for Tourism Market and Destination Development of Northwest Area of China, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China |
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Abstract Based on the methodology of classification, analysis and comparison, this paper concludes that internet information's psychological effect on the touristic information searching, the effect of the internet comments and the E-WOM(Electronic Words-of-Month) on touristic decision-making are the highlights of tourism research abroad. The majority of this kind of literature focuses on the touristic new experience under the influence of internet information, the touristic psychological innovative information searching and the influence of the network comments on touristic decision-making. There is rather little literature in the research on the touristic psychological innovative information searching and the influence of the network comments on touristic decision-making. The research on the influences of virtual tourism and smart tourism on touristic experiences is still at a preliminary stage for both foreign and Chinese scholars. However, research literature in China and abroad have the following problems. Firstly, the literature of touristic motivation of network information search decreases sharply in recent years, and related research is lack of depth. Secondly, research on the touristic motivation to comment and evaluate traveling on the Internet which is altruistic or selfish is inconvincible. Finally, the research viewpoints on the psychological behavior of touristic network information searching are controversial.
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Received: 29 May 2015
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2016, Vol. 31 
