{"title":"Dark personality traits and dark tourism sites: Analysis of review generation and consumption behaviors","authors":"Salman Yousaf , Jong Min Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101190","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study is one of the pioneering research attempts to understand the review generation and consumption behavior of tourists with dark personality traits while visiting dark tourist sites. We analyzed 124,074 reviews related to 12 sites of dark touristic interest in the USA, China, India, Poland, Japan, Thailand, and Germany. To control for the city-specific effect, we selected 12 non-dark sites from the same cities as a reference point of comparison. Our findings show that dark tourist sites significantly moderate the review generation and consumption behavior of tourists with dark personality traits. The findings fill the existing theoretical gaps in the dark tourism scholarship, and provide practical implications for destination marketing organizations related to dark tourism sites.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101190"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Tourism Management Perspectives","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211973623001186","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The present study is one of the pioneering research attempts to understand the review generation and consumption behavior of tourists with dark personality traits while visiting dark tourist sites. We analyzed 124,074 reviews related to 12 sites of dark touristic interest in the USA, China, India, Poland, Japan, Thailand, and Germany. To control for the city-specific effect, we selected 12 non-dark sites from the same cities as a reference point of comparison. Our findings show that dark tourist sites significantly moderate the review generation and consumption behavior of tourists with dark personality traits. The findings fill the existing theoretical gaps in the dark tourism scholarship, and provide practical implications for destination marketing organizations related to dark tourism sites.
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Tourism Management Perspectives is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on the planning and management of travel and tourism. It covers topics such as tourist experiences, their consequences for communities, economies, and environments, the creation of image, the shaping of tourist experiences and perceptions, and the management of tourist organizations and destinations. The journal's editorial board consists of experienced international professionals and it shares the board with Tourism Management. The journal covers socio-cultural, technological, planning, and policy aspects of international, national, and regional tourism, as well as specific management studies. It encourages papers that introduce new research methods and critique existing ones in the context of tourism research. The journal publishes empirical research articles and high-quality review articles on important topics and emerging themes that enhance the theoretical and conceptual understanding of key areas within travel and tourism management.