Enriching Travel Guidebooks with Travel Blog Entries and Archives of Answered Questions

Tourism is increasingly becoming an important sector to be considered when it comes to discussing the sustainable development of the Arctic. This chapter presents a research into the image of Norway—one of the Arctic nations—as a tourist destination. The image is traced through a qualitative study of Russian travel blog sites. Results from the study widen the understanding of Russian tourists' interests in Norway. The findings also highlight the process of image formation of Norway as an Arctic destination by the Russian travel bloggers.

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Automatic Compilation of an Online Travel Portal from Automatically Extracted Travel Blog Entries

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2011 ◽

10.1007/978-3-7091-0503-0_10 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 113-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Aya Ishino ◽

Hidetsugu Nanba ◽

Toshiyuki Takezawa

Keyword(s):

Travel Blog ◽

Online Travel

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Подорож „своїм” простором як спосіб конструювання національної ідентичності (на матеріалі онлайн-тревелогів Б. Логвиненка та А. Чапая)

Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0009.9108 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (5) ◽

pp. 0-0

Author(s):

Olesya Kalynyushko

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Transcultural Identity ◽

Travel Blog ◽

National Stereotypes

The article attempts to analyse B. Lohvynenko’s and A. Chapai’s online-travelogues. The specifi city of the character-traveller endowed with the transcultural identity within the boundaries of their country under the conditions of globalized society has been traced. The occurrence of the opposition “own / strange” in the wanderings of B. Lohvynenko and A. Chapai has been investigated. Other ways of construing travellers’ national identity have been shown. The formation of the traveller’s national identity in B. Lohvynenko’s travelogue by means of national stereotypes cultivation has been analysed. Moreover, the construction of the character’s identity in A. Chapai’s travel-blog by the destruction of stereotypes has been considered.

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Analysing digital communication: discursive features, rhetorical structure and the use of English as a lingua franca in travel blog posts

Journal of English Studies ◽

10.18172/jes.3556 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

pp. 255 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniel Pascual

Keyword(s):

Functional Analysis ◽

Digital Communication ◽

Data Driven ◽

Lingua Franca ◽

Rhetorical Structure ◽

Digital World ◽

Data Driven Approach ◽

Travel Blog ◽

Blog Posts

The digital world is currently offering new modes of communication that allow multiple opportunities for a more immediate and dialogical interaction. Within it, the blog shows up as a very resourceful and sophisticated genre where different sub-genres converge and where speakers from distinct linguacultural backgrounds can communicate through English, which is used as a lingua franca (ELF). Thus, to start comprehending the rationale of the blog, an analysis of the sub-genre of posts and, more specifically, those hosted in travel blogs, is provided in this paper. The linguistic and discursive prominent features encapsulated in travel blog posts will be explored through a data-driven approach, and their rhetorical structure will be identified via a functional analysis. This will allow to understand better how the ELF blogosphere makes use of such a digital sub-genre and what the readership may expect when communicating digitally through it.

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E-WoM di mom travel blog: keterikatan, pengaruh informasi, dan kekuatan informasi visual

Jurnal Studi Komunikasi (Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies) ◽

10.25139/jsk.v5i3.2655 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 791-811

Author(s):

Kunti Puspitasari

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Social Networking ◽

Visual Information ◽

Social Relationship ◽

Tie Strength ◽

User Engagement ◽

Informational Influence ◽

The Social ◽

Travel Blog

The Social Networking System (SNS) is used to share messages through electronic WoM (e-WoM) through blogs. Related to someone in e-WoM has a social construction motivation that involves tie strength and informational influence. This article analyzes how attachment, informational influence, the power of visual information in e-WoM user engagement on mom travel blogs can determine travel preferences and decisions for families. In addition to conducting a literature ulasan, this article also analyzes Mom Travel Blogs in Indonesia, namely jalanjalankenai.com and momtraveler.com. These blogs found that the social relationship between the reader and the blogger is an attachment that motivates involvement in e-WoM on the blog. These blogs also provide informational influence and present the power of visual information to convince readers of travel preferences.

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