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The prime objective of this study is to examine how international student travellers are engaged and involved in the digital marketing communication efforts of educational export providers. Based on an online survey conducted among international student travellers in New Zealand, the study identified critical factors influencing the success of digital marketing communication, particularly through social media networks. The four significant factors that influence online user’s adoption and use of marketing information are found to be argument quality, source credibility, user involvement and audience engagement. Further, the current study examined the mediating roles of audience involvement dimensions including transportation, parasocial interaction and identification as well as audience engagement dimensions including cognitive, emotional and behavioural engagement in social media marketing communication process. Further to its contributions to the marketing literature, the study provides valuable implications to the educational export providers and other destination marketers.
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John, S.P. (2020). Digital Marketing Strategies in Educational Tourism: A Social Media Perspective. In: MartÃnez-López, F.J., D'Alessandro, S. (eds) Advances in Digital Marketing and eCommerce. DMEC 2020. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47595-6_15
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