Handbook of Customer Engagement in Tourism Marketing

Edited by Raouf Ahmad Rather, Scientific Researcher, Jammu and Kashmir, India and Haywantee Ramkissoon, Fellow of the Peer Review College, British Academy of Management, UK; Professor, UniSA Business, University of South Australia and Visiting Professor, School of Tourism and Hospitality, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism (CRiT), Taylor’s University, Malaysia

Contents:

Preface xxi

Introduction to the Handbook of Customer Engagement in Tourism Marketing xxv
1 Customer engagement in tourism and hospitality research 1
Raouf Ahmad Rather, Haywantee Ramkissoon, Linda D. Hollebeek,
and Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro
2 Positive and negative customer engagement in the tourism
industry: should these constructs be studied separately? 25
Jenely Dayana Villamediana-Pedrosa, Natalia Vila-López, Inés
Küster-Boluda, and Diana Kolbe
3 Negative customer engagement behavior in online social
networks: understanding the nuance 43
Matthew Alexander and Jaylan Azer
4 Customer engagement conceptualization and conceptual links 56
Shuyue Huang
5 Measuring the value of customer engagement metrics 73
Adele D. Berndt and Daniel J. Petzer
6 Promotion of urban tourism: an analysis of customer
engagement on Instagram in two Spanish cities 86
Juan Tugores-Ques, María Bonilla-Quijada and Joan Ripoll-i-Alcon
7 Connecting the dots between customer-perceived value of
travel vlogs and Generation Z travel intention: the mediating
role of online customer engagement 99
Yangyang Jiang, Xiya Zhang, M. S. Balaji and Tenghao Wang
8 The influence of customer engagement on destination loyalty
from a destination marketing organisation perspective 115
Catarina Calisto de Freitas, Ricardo Godinho Bilro, and Susana
Henriques Marques
9 Tourists’ affective, cognitive, and behavioral engagement
through destination brand reputation 129
Raouf Ahmad Rather and Farhat Amin
10 Customer engagement and employee engagement, two sides of
a coin: intellectual structures using bibliometric analysis 142
Mohsin Abdur Rehman, Zuhair Abbas, Raouf Ahmad Rather, Maroof
Khalil, and Shoaib Muhammad
11 Customer engagement and trust: the moderating role of age
and gender 158
Imran Khan and Mobin Fatma
12 The impact of virtual reality on customer engagement in
tourism marketing: do age, gender and buyer readiness matter? 170
Kim Willems and Malaika Brengman
13 Customer engagement in evolving technological environments 187
Carlos Flavián and Sergio Barta
14 Consumer engagement in tourism-based images on social
networking sites and behavioral intention to visit a destination 201
Khalil Hussain, Amir Zaib Abbasi, Muddasar Ghani Khwaja, and
Ting Ding Hooi
15 Cross-cultural co-creation of a tourist site: the emic and etic makings 218
Young-Sook Lee, Line Mathisen and Siri Ulfsdatter Søreng
16 Customer experience and revisit intention: implications
of redesigning hospitality services through technological
innovations and servicescape reorganisation 231
Erisher Woyo
17 Eliciting tourists’ commitment through tourist engagement:
evidence from the tourism destination industry 246
Raouf Ahmad Rather and Farhat Amin
18 Impact of COVID-19 on tourism customer engagement:
a cross-destination comparison 261
Jesús Cambra-Fierro, María Fuentes-Blasco, Lily (Xuehui) Gao,
María Eugenia López-Pérez and Iguácel Melero-Polo
19 Customer engagement in the tourism industry at the time of
COVID-19: an exploratory study 278
Francesca Cabiddu, Ludovica Moi, and Gianluca Pusceddu
20 From communication to customer engagement: insights from
a tourist destination before and during COVID-19 291
Jesús Cambra-Fierro, María Fuentes-Blasco, Lily (Xuehui) Gao and
Iguácel Melero-Polo
21 Post-COVID-19-based customer engagement creation and
contributions in tourism and hospitality social media: an
integrative framework and future research directions 312
Raouf Ahmad Rather, Khalid Mehmood, Tareq Rasul, Lisa Cain, and
Huda Khan
22 Conclusion: revisiting customer engagement and scope for
future research 330
Raouf Ahmad Rather

Index