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The role of social media in the luxury tourism business: A research review and trajectory assessment

Sustainability (Switzerland), ISSN: 2071-1050, Vol: 13, Issue: 3, Page: 1-13
2021
  • 22
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 136
    Captures
  • 1
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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Metrics Details

  • Citations
    22
    • Citation Indexes
      22
  • Captures
    136
  • Mentions
    1
    • Blog Mentions
      1
      • Blog
        1

Article Description

The luxury tourism industry immediately conjures up thoughts of exclusivity, with access to it confined to a small and elite group of travelers often located within their own social bubble. Our systematic literature review seeks to understand how tourism scholarship has addressed the issue of luxury travel based on social media pronouncements and the areas of concentration in which earlier studies have been conducted. Literature was sourced using the following key terms “luxury tourism”, “elite travel”, “social media”, and “sustainability” in various combinations using the OneSearch online platform, the Proquest Database, and Google Scholar. Only peer-reviewed journals were used for the critical analysis. Three main thematic areas were identified and reviewed: (1) the role of social media in luxury tourism; (2) the behavioral attributes of luxury travelers’ when using social media; and (3) the methodologies employed in the extant literature, given the limitations of accessing specific data for the luxury tourism market. The selected period for the journals and articles reviewed was the last ten years, from March 2010 to March 2020. NVivo version 12 was used to decipher the themes and focus areas as well as quantify the significance of social media to luxury tourism. Drawing from these literature review outcomes, the study explores future research areas and issues that require new theoretical and methodological frameworks to further our understanding of the intersection between social media and the luxury tourism business.

Bibliographic Details

K. Thirumaran; Haejin Jang; Zahra Pourabedin; Jacob Wood

MDPI AG

Social Sciences; Energy; Environmental Science

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