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Informatics and Management Science V pp 273–280Cite as

Research of Virtual Tour Impact on Destination Image

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Although virtual reality (VR) has been well known and investigated for practical use in various industrial fields after late 1980s and 1990s, it is recently that researchers and practitioners in the tourism field have attempted to understand the virtual tour. Few researches have been done to understand the role of destination image and to examine the impact that virtual tour has on the destination image. The purpose of this paper is to empirically elaborate the relationship between the virtual tour and tourists’ destination image under the context that applied VR technology. This study takes Shanghai Online-Expo as a case and participants either do or don’t have expo-exhibition experiences are all recruited from the Zhejiang University. Virtual tour is expected to positively affect the destination image, and furthermore, it is also significant among tourists’ without destination experience, and vice versa. These results have both managerial and theoretical implication.

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  1. School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Yuanwu Yu

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    Wenjiang Du

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Yu, Y. (2013). Research of Virtual Tour Impact on Destination Image. In: Du, W. (eds) Informatics and Management Science V. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 208. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4796-1_34

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