Title
Conceptual foundations of a landmark personality scale based on a destination personality scale: Text mining of online reviews.
Abstract
Landmarks play an important role in representing tourist destinations because they symbolize a destination's image and personality. Despite the significance of landmarks to the perception of a destination's image and personality, a personality scale based on landmarks has not been developed. To this end, the purpose of this study is to propose a conceptual foundation of a landscape personality scale based on a destination personality scale using online travel reviews, which are regarded as more valid sources for understanding actual tourist perceptions than simple answers to survey questionnaires. The results of this study imply that the words that describe specific landmarks may differ from those that portray the entire destination and suggest that the words tourists actually use in real situations to characterize tourism resources can be distinguished from hypothetical words of a destination personality scale. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications of the research and directions for future studies are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s10796-016-9725-z
Information Systems Frontiers
Keywords
Field
DocType
Landmark perspective,Landmark personality scale,Destination personality scale,Brand personality,Online travel review,Tourism destination
Advertising,Computer science,Cognitive psychology,Tourism,Knowledge management,Landmark,Perception,Personality,Destinations
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
4
1387-3326
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seung-Hun Shin1123.85
Sung-Byung Yang214313.45
Kichan Nam349239.22
Chulmo Koo429132.67