Ilma Aulia Zaim, Dimitrios Stylidis, Konstantinos Andriotis, Anthony Thickett
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Abstract
Νon-visitors comprise a lucrative but underexplored segment in the tourism literature. This study fills a research gap on non-visitors by proposing a new typology contributing to a better understanding of their travel motivations and intentions to visit or not a destination, after being exposed to user-generated video content online. Semi-structured in-depth interviews facilitated via two tourist videos of Raja Ampat, Indonesia, available on YouTube, were conducted with 31 Indonesians and 30 British non-visitors. Findings indicate the presence of five types of non-visitors based on travel motivations: neophiles, nationalists, narcissists, volunteers, and reluctant non-goers. The study contributes to a better understanding of non-visitors’ motivations across different cultures and sheds some light on how user-generated video content shapes visit intentions among those who have never visited a destination. In practical terms, the study offers prudent knowledge on enhancing the possibility that non-visitors will turn into goers.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Vacation Marketing is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles on topics relating to the marketing of destinations and businesses/organisations involved in the wider tourism, hospitality and events industries. Its objective is to provide a forum for the publication of refereed academic papers and reviewed practitioner papers which are of direct relevance to industry, while meeting the highest standards of intellectual rigour.