Effective destination advertising: Matching effect between advertising language and destination type

Jaemun Byun and Jang, SooCheong (Shawn)

Tourism Management, 2015, vol. 50, issue C, 31-40

Abstract: Destination advertising is important as a communication resource for both travelers and destination managers. This study attempted to identify effective advertising language for destinations through a 2 × 2 experimental design with affective and cognitive language by hedonic and utilitarian destination types. The results suggest that advertising language has no significant effects on travelers' attitudes and behavioral intentions toward advertisements. However, when the destination type moderates, a significant interaction effect was found for both city-level and attraction-level destination advertisements. Travelers tend to show more positive attitudes toward cognitive language in city-level utilitarian destination advertisements, whereas they tend to show more positive attitudes toward affective language in attraction-level hedonic destination advertisements. This implies that managers can more effectively promote their destinations by matching advertising language with destination type.

Keywords: Destination; Attraction; Advertisement; Language; Matching effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2015.01.005

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