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Business Tourist Segment: Empirical Analysis in Spain about the Influence of Social Media and Smartphone in Reservations for Hotels

Smartphones and social media influence the decision to buy tourism goods, especially in the case of business. Specifically, we show that smartphone bookings made by business tourists coming to Barcelona are increasingly popular. Methodologically, we devised a quantitative questionnaire. Data collection was carried out for 4 months in 2015 with n=1512. We conducted a sieve with inclusion and exclusion criteria and which discarded all participants who did not travel for business. The final sample was 494 participants. We conclude that social media (Booking, TripAdvisor, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare) are used by youngers because people have known they belong to social network. Users consider the information provided by the companies in social media reliable. The most used means for contacting the accommodation are phone and email. The more useful apps are the hotels apps

Horizon Research Publishing

Author: Fondevila i Gascón‏, Joan Francesc
Berbel, Gaspar
Muñoz González, Mónica
Mir Bernal, Pedro
Puiggrós, Elena
Sierra Sánchez, Javier
Tena León, Marta
Santana, Eva
Rom, Josep
Ordeix Rigo, Enric
Date: 2016 March 14
Abstract: Smartphones and social media influence the decision to buy tourism goods, especially in the case of business. Specifically, we show that smartphone bookings made by business tourists coming to Barcelona are increasingly popular. Methodologically, we devised a quantitative questionnaire. Data collection was carried out for 4 months in 2015 with n=1512. We conducted a sieve with inclusion and exclusion criteria and which discarded all participants who did not travel for business. The final sample was 494 participants. We conclude that social media (Booking, TripAdvisor, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare) are used by youngers because people have known they belong to social network. Users consider the information provided by the companies in social media reliable. The most used means for contacting the accommodation are phone and email. The more useful apps are the hotels apps
Format: application/pdf
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/20294
Language: eng
Publisher: Horizon Research Publishing
Collection: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.13189/aeb.2016.040506
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2331-5059
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Subject: Viatges de negocis -- Espanya
Business Travel -- Spain
Mitjans de comunicació social
Social media
Xarxes socials
Social networks
Telèfons intel·ligents
Smartphones
Turisme -- Màrqueting
Tourism -- Marketing
Title: Business Tourist Segment: Empirical Analysis in Spain about the Influence of Social Media and Smartphone in Reservations for Hotels
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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