Whether users are likely to accept the recommendations provided by a recommender system is of utmost importance to system designers and the marketers who implement them. By conceptualizing the advice seeking and giving relationship as a fundamentally social process, important avenues for understanding the persuasiveness of recommender systems open up. Specifically, research regarding influential factors in advice seeking relationships, which is abundant in the context of human-human relationships, can provide an important framework for identifying potential influence factors in recommender...

Tourism Marketing: in the Age of the Consumer is a comprehensive and integrated textbook that uniquely considers tourism marketing from the customer perspective in the era of e-marketing and ethical tourism to reflect the way Tourism Marketing has evolved. It introduce students to the distinctive aspects of tourism marketing by concentrating on how tourism marketing is planned, implemented, and evaluated based upon a thorough understanding of contemporary tourist consumer behaviour. It further highlights the opportunities and challenges that future practitioners face in an increasingly...