Personalisation–privacy paradox: The effects of personalisation and privacy assurance on customer responses to travel Web sites

Chung Hun Lee and David A. Cranage

Tourism Management, 2011, vol. 32, issue 5, 987-994

Abstract: Personalisation refers to individualizing products, services, and contents according to customer interests and preferences. In order to deliver appropriate personalised offerings, firms inevitably need to collect rich customer data profiles. Prior research suggests that personalised services lead to positive customer responses such as increased willingness to disclose personal information and make purchases. However, another stream of research emphasizes negative outcomes of personalisation – namely, privacy concerns surrounding the use of personal information and associated negative effects on behaviour. The objectives of this study are twofold: (1) to examine how privacy assurance affects proximal outcomes of personalisation, such as perceived usefulness and privacy concerns; and (2) to identify the role such outcomes play in predicting customer behavioural responses, such as willingness to disclose personal information and make purchases. Our findings show that enhancing privacy assurance increases the perceived usefulness of services and decreases customer privacy concerns. Moreover, customer behavioural responses are positively related to the perceived usefulness of services and negatively associated with privacy concerns. However, despite the positive effects on perceived usefulness and purchase intentions, personalisation has no effect on privacy concerns and intentions to disclose personal information.

Keywords: Personalisation; Privacy assurance; Privacy concerns; Personalisation–privacy paradox; Travel Web sites (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2010.08.011

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