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Connecting Through Chatbots: Residents' Insights on Digital Storytelling, Place Attachment, and Value Co-Creation
No full textErul, Emrullah/0000-0003-3785-9145; Uslu, Abdullah/0000-0002-3660-7096; Tosun, Petek/0000-0002-9228-8907Despite the widespread adoption of chatbots in tourism, there is limited research on their role in digital storytelling from residents' perspectives. Drawing on Social Presence Theory, the primary objective of this study was to examine the impact of a chatbot's anthropomorphic conversation style (emotional vs. neutral) on perceived digital storytelling components in destination marketing. Additionally, the research explored how digital storytelling through chatbots influenced residents' place attachment and, consequently, their engagement in value co-creation. To address these research objectives, the study adopted a quantitative perspective and employed an experimental design. Data were collected from 176 residents of Side, Turkey, using convenience sampling, and all hypotheses were confirmed. The perceptions of digital storytelling expressed as emotional (experimental group) were found to be more positive than the neutral (control group). In addition, digital storytelling significantly influenced place attachment, which was a significant predictor of value co-creation. Finally, place attachment partially mediated the relationship between digital storytelling and residents' value co-creation. The findings provided valuable insights for tourism stakeholders such as businesses, policymakers, and researchers, guiding the effective implementation of chatbots in destination marketing, investigating residents' perspectives regarding emotional digital storytelling by chatbots, and enhancing residents' engagement in value co-creation
Antalya Residents��� Attitudes Regarding the Impacts of All-Inclusive Resorts in the Turkish Coastal Destination
Full text linkAll-inclusive resorts (hereafter abbreviated AIR) have a long history of contributing to tourism revenue leakage from host economies. Antalya, with its high percentage of AIRs, is a prime tourist destination in Turkey that likely contributes to such leakage. In an effort to better understand AIR, the purpose of this study was to examine how residents perceive the impacts of AIR in Antalya, Turkey. In so doing, a further focus of the work was looking at the interrelationships between residents��� attitudes about their attachment to the community, existing tourism and tourism development, future tourism development as well as potential tourism development options and attitudes about AIR impacts.
A survey was conducted in four key districts in Antalya (based on the concentration of AIRs in the areas): the Antalya city center, Kemer, Serik and Manavgat, yielding a robust sample (n = 660). A questionnaire was designed to examine residents��� perceptions of AIR impacts on local communities, perceptions of existing tourism and tourism development, attitudes about future tourism development, attitudes about forms of potential tourism development, community attachment, and a host of demographic variables.
This study adopted social exchange theory and community attachment as conceptual frameworks to explain residents��� perceptions and attitudes toward AIR, existing tourism development, future tourism development and potential tourism development options. The study���s findings demonstrated that highly attached residents tend to view tourism development more favorably than less community-attached residents and support for future tourism development as well as potential tourism development options. Additionally, highly attached residents tended to perceive negative impacts of AIR. Furthermore, residents who perceived positive impacts of tourism were supportive of future tourism development as well as potential tourism development options.
Findings indicated that each of four AIR factors (AIR negative impacts, AIR positive impacts, AIR impacts on population, AIR impacts on quality) and degree of community attachment had direct significant influence on residents��� perceptions of existing tourism and tourism development, attitudes about future tourism development, and attitudes about forms of potential tourism development. Findings provide empirical support for social exchange theory and community attachment. Implications are described and directions for future research are discussed
Considering Residents’ Behavioral Support for Tourism Development: A Theoretical Examination of the Emotional Solidarity Theory and the Theory of Planned Behavior
Full text linkThis study examines the intimate relationships that exist between residents and
tourists (i.e., based on residents’ emotional solidarity (ES) with tourists) from attitudes
to actual behavior in ultimately explaining residents’ behavioral support for tourism
development (BSTD). This study linked two complementary theoretical frameworks
(i.e., the theory of Emotional Solidarity and the Theory of Planned Behavior or TPB) to
ultimately explain residents’ BSTD. The main purpose of this study was to gain an
understanding of how the emotional solidarity scale (ESS) (i.e., welcoming nature,
emotional closeness, and sympathetic understanding) affects and predicts residents’
behavioral intentions (BI) to support tourism development and how that in turn predicts
actual behavioral support for tourism development through the application of TPB.
To date, no research has been undertaken that extends the TPB model by
including residents’ emotions or their ES with tourists in efforts to explain residents’ BI
or BSTD. The proposed study intends to close this literature gap and draw the attention
of tourism scholars by linking the ES to the TPB to predict residents’ BI and BSTD.
Data for this study was collected through on-site self-administered questionnaires
distributed to Turkish residents living in the coastal city of Izmir. The survey was
conducted in four key districts in the city (i.e., the Izmir city center, Çeşme, Menderes,
and Selçuk) based on the concentration of tourism facilities in each area.
Each scale within the proposed model was confirmed through CFA and
supported through SEM. All scales demonstrated high internal consistency (i.e.,
reliability) and construct validity. CFA and SEM results indicate that the measurement
and structural models had good model fit based on the CFI, IFI, TLI, and RMSEA
scores. Results indicated that Izmir residents’ ES with tourists did significantly influence
their attitudes towards tourism and that attitudes with the inclusion of subjective norms,
and perceived behavioral control significantly predicted their BI. Ultimately, residents’
BI was a significant predictor of their BSTD, explaining approximately 23% of the
variance in the construct. Results are explained based on the ES theory and the TPB, as
implications, limitations, and future research are discussed at the close of the paper
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Sivas Yerel Halkının Turizmin Gelişimine Yönelik Niyetsel ve Davranışsal Desteklerinin Belirlenmesinde Yer Aidiyetinin ve Turizm Etkilerinin Rolü (The Role of Place Attachment and Tourism Impacts in Determining Sivas Residents’ Intentional and Behavioral Support for Tourism Development)
No full textTurizm faaliyetleri ekonomik ve sosyal gelişmeyi teşvik edebileceği gibi yerel halkın kültürüne ve doğal kaynaklarına zarar verebileceği de bilinmektedir. Bu nedenle turizmin ekonomik, sosyo-kültürel ve çevresel anlamda olumlu ve olumsuz etkilerinin yerel halk ile turizm gelişimi açısından desteklenip desteklenmediğinin ölçülmesi önemlidir. Genellikle yerel halk odaklı turizm gelişmeleri ile ilgili çalışmalar turizm açısından gelişmiş bölgelerde yapılmaktadır. Ancak mevcut çalışma, Sivas gibi turizm açısından yeterince gelişmemiş bir destinasyonda gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmanın temel amacı, Sivas yerel halkının turizm gelişimine niyetsel ve davranışsal desteklerini, yer aidiyeti ve turizmin etkileri (olumlu ve olumsuz) faktörlerini kullanarak belirlemek ve literatürdeki bu boşluğu gidermektir. Çalışma kapsamında, Sivas'ta yaşayan 450 kişiye anket yapılmış ve elde edilen veriler, doğrulayıcı faktör analizi ve yapısal eşitlik modeli analizleri ile değerlendirilmiştir. Analiz sonuçlarına göre yer kimliği ile destekleme niyeti arasında bir ilişki saptanırken, yer bağlılığı ile niyetsel destek arasında bir ilişki saptanamamıştır. Ayrıca turizmin etkilerinin yer aidiyeti üzerinde etkili olduğu, niyetsel desteğin ise davranışsal desteği etkilediği tespit edilmiştir. Çalışmanın sonunda, sınırlılıklar ve öneriler sunulmuştur
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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