“I want to share a beautiful journey with my friends!” — Chinese Millennial travelers’ sharing of travel videos via social media and their tourism experiences
Du, Xin
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Title
“I want to share a beautiful journey with my friends!” — Chinese Millennial travelers’ sharing of travel videos via social media and their tourism experiences
Author(s)
Du, Xin
Issue Date
2019-04-23
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Santos, Carla Almeida
Committee Member(s)
Liechty, Toni
Department of Study
Recreation, Sport and Tourism
Discipline
Recreation, Sport, and Tourism
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Level
Thesis
Date of Ingest
2019-08-23T20:36:02Z
Keyword(s)
Social media
travel videos
tourism experiences
Chinese
Millennials
Abstract
In Web 2.0, the consuming and sharing of user-generated travel videos are becoming increasingly popular among Chinese Millennial travelers. However, research regarding the motivations to create and share personal video recorded travel content is scarce, and understanding of the power of such videos in influencing tourism experiences is inadequate. The purpose of the current study was to explore the reasoning and social justifications of tourists to engage in the production and sharing of travel videos and how an involvement of social media practices in everyday life experiences extended to tourism contexts. Using phenomenology, this study conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 tourists who had experiences watching, creating and posting travel videos via social media. Data were analyzed following the “phenomenological attitude”—eidetic reduction. Findings suggest that altruistic, hedonistic and social-related motivations are the three primary reasons for tourists to watch, produce and share travel videos, and the spillover impacts exhibited from everyday life, especially the impacts of social media use, have clearly extended to tourism context, resulting in the blurring of boundaries between tourism experiences and everyday life experiences, the private life and the public life as well as the unlocking of three stages of tourism experiences.
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DU-THESIS-2019.pdf