Examining the impact of visual presentations and online reviews on hotel booking intentions

2021 ◽  
pp. 146735842110219
Author(s):  
Dawood Amin ◽  
Anuar SB Mahomed ◽  
Yuhanis B Ab Aziz ◽  
Haslinda B Hashim

This study aims to examine the factors affecting the behavioural intentions toward online hotel booking. The study integrates visual presentations and online reviews with the technology acceptance model (TAM). Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to test the proposed hypotheses in this research. The results report that booking intentions are mainly determined by visual presentations and perceived usefulness. The statistical analysis supports the notion that visual presentations and online reviews have a positive impact on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. However, online reviews do not have any significant influence on booking intention directly. The study concludes that online consumers are more likely to book a hotel online if visual presentations and online reviews appear to be useful and easy to use. The findings contribute several implications for researchers and practitioners in the hospitality field.

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.34) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Alghizzawi ◽  
Mazuri Abd. Ghani ◽  
Ahmad Puad Mat Som ◽  
Muhamad Fazil Ahmad ◽  
Aziz Amin ◽  
...  

The aim of the study is to find out the effect of smartphone on marketing therapeutic tourist sites in Jordan. Several factors contribute to this study, including market type templates, therapeutic, demographic and their impact on tourist behavior in Jordan. We apply the technology acceptance (TAM) model to study through the incorporation of smartphone applications on marketing therapeutic tourist sites in Jordan. To achieve this, we use the quantitative research design and rely on appropriate data to test the hypothesis. We distributed questionnaire to 400 tourists as a sample of study but two hundred and four were collected. The researchers had used the structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) for measuring relationships and correlations between variables and their impact on the behavior of tourists in Jordan. According to the study findings, there was a positive impact on market type template, therapeutic, and demographics on tourists' perceived ease of use of smartphone on marketing therapeutic tourist sites in the country. Perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use also led to an increase in tourists' intention to use smartphone.  


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. S72-S89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Shankar ◽  
Biplab Datta

This study aims to identify the factors affecting mobile payment (m-payment) adoption intention in India by proposing a conceptual framework based on technology acceptance model (TAM). In addition to construct of TAM, four user-centric constructs have been added to evaluate m-payment adoption intention in India. The proposed research framework was empirically tested by data collected from 381 potential m-payment service users, through online and offline survey. Data were analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM) technique. The results exhibit that perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), trust, and self-efficacy (SE) have a significant positive impact on m-payment adoption intention. However, subjective norms (SN) and personal innovativeness (PI) have no significant impact on m-payment adoption intention. Findings of the study have important theoretical and practical implications, particularly to understand important user-centric factors affecting m-payment adoption.


2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 3465-3483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uttam Chakraborty

Purpose This study aims to evaluate the vitality of source, receiver and message factors on credibility assessment of online hotel reviews. Further, the current study determines the effects of perceived credibility of online reviews (PCOR) on hotel booking intentions (HBI). Design/methodology/approach The current study performs reliability analysis to determine the internal consistency of the measurement scales and to ensure the uni-dimensionality of the measurement scales the present study performs exploratory factor analysis. Further, the present study performs structural equation modeling to identify the relationships between the variables. Findings Two-sided online reviews have a more significant positive impact on PCOR as compared to the effects of receiver, review quality, review consistency and negative-sided online reviews. Originality/value This is one of the first study that analyses the impact of source, receiver and message on PCOR. Moreover, the present study offered theoretical justification behind the factors that affect the authenticity of online hotel reviews and its effects on HBI.


Author(s):  
Dety Nurfadilah ◽  
Sudarmawan Samidi

The objective of this study is to investigate the factors that are affecting customers’ intention to use Islamic FinTech services during the Covid-19 crisis. It expands the technology acceptance model (TAM) by adding government support as a new variable for the context of Islamic FinTech services during the pandemic. Using TAM as a framework, we propose a model outlining the impact of government regulation, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived trust, and user innovativeness on consumer attitude behaviour and the intention to use Islamic FinTech services, such as payment and peer-to-peer lending. 220 sets of data were collected from an online survey and analysed using partial least squares-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The results show that government support for Islamic FinTech during the Covid-19 pandemic has had an indirect impact on attitude behaviour in using Islamic services through perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. Attitude behaviour was found to have an impact on intention.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-85
Author(s):  
Prerna Lal ◽  
Sangeeta Shah Bharadwaj

This study aims to understand the drivers of cloud-based services (CBS) adoption and its impact on the performance of Indian organizations. The conceptual model was developed using diffusion of innovation theory, technology-organization-environment framework, transaction cost economics, technology acceptance model, and balanced scorecard model. This quantitative study collected data from IT experts of 334 Indian organizations using questionnaire survey method. Data analysis using structural equation modelling reveals that among six identified drivers, credibility of cloud service provider has the strongest impact on the decision to adopt CBS, followed by top management attitude, economic flexibility, perceived usefulness, and relative advantage. While perceived ease of use of the CBS was found statistically not significant. Conversely, the impact of CBS adoption was found strongest on the financial performance of the organizations. Further, CBS's adoption drivers and their impact on performance vary significantly on the basis of age and size of the organizations.


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muslim Amin ◽  
Sajad Rezaei ◽  
Maryam Abolghasemi

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU) and trust on mobile website satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 302 valid questionnaires were collected to empirically test the research model. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the measurement model and structural models. Findings – The results show that there is a positive relationship between PEOU, PU and mobile users’ satisfaction. PU is positively related to trust and mobile users’ satisfaction. Moreover, trust positively influences mobile users’ satisfaction. Practical implications – Drawing on the technology acceptance model and trust theory, this study develops and empirically examines a model for consumers’ satisfaction to use mobile services. This study contributes new insights concerning the marketing literature by examining the impact of PU, PEOU and trust on mobile users’ satisfaction. Originality/value – The contribution of the study is significant for both mobile marketers and academicians in the era of the third-generation environment. This study is among the first few attempts to integrate the TAM with trust to determine mobile user satisfaction.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Tessa Vanina Soetanto ◽  
Adelina Proboyo ◽  
Prilya Angel Putri

E-commerce market in Indonesia has tremendous growth and predicted to become significant contributor to Foreign Direct Investment. Millennials, heavily affected by technology and internet, considered to be the driver growth of e-commerce. Applying the theory of modified Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this research analyzes whether perceived of ease of use and perceived usefulness mediate the impact of computer self-efficacy on the behavior of e-commerce users to use Lazada platform. The study was a quantitative study with online questionnaire. Data of 200 respondents were analyzed by Structural Equation Modelling and the result shows that computer self-efficacy indirectly affects behavioral intention to use through perceived ease of use. Perceived usefulness and attitude towards use are not significant mediators because of their insignificance on intention to use. Computer self-efficacy has significant impact on behavioral intention mediated by perceived ease of use, but not by perceived usefulness.


2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung-Yuan Lin ◽  
Chi-Hsian Chiang

In this study, we discussed the antecedents of online game adoption based on the technology acceptance model. A total of 303 valid questionnaires were collected and hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling. Results showed that telepresence positively influences parasocial interaction, perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEU), and perceived playfulness (PP). Parasocial interaction was found to have a positive impact on subjective norms (SN), PU, and PP. In addition, SN positively influenced image (Im) and PEU positively influenced PU and PP. Finally, behavioral intention to use (BIU) online games was found to be positively affected by SN, PU, PEU, and PP.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juniati Juniati ◽  
Indarini Indarini

This study aims to identify relevant lifestyle factors that affect consumer adoption of mobilephone (BlackBerry). Furthermore, this study attempts to examine the impact of lifestyle factorson perception and adoption of BlackBerry consumers. Using the technology acceptance model asa theoretical framework, the conceptual model depicts the relationships among lifestyles,perceptions, and intention. Two-step structural equation modeling was used to test the proposedhypotheses. Results of this study show that consumer lifestyle factors (fashion consciousness,Internet involvement, and e-shopping preference) are direct and indirect antecedents ofconsumers’ intention to adopt BlackBerry phone. Findings of this study provide marketers withinsights into how knowledge about lifestyle factors can be integrated into marketing andadvertising strategies.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor gaya hidup yang mempengaruhiminat mengadopsi telepon selular (BlackBerry). Selain itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untukmenguji pengaruh faktor gaya hidup terhadap persepsi dan minat mengadopsi telepon selularBlackBerry. Studi ini menggunakan model penerimaan teknologi sebagai kerangka teori, modelkonseptual menggambarkan hubungan antara gaya hidup, persepsi, dan niat. Untuk mengujihipotesis yang diajukan digunakan pemodelan persamaan struktural. Hasil dari penelitian inimenunjukkan bahwa faktor gaya hidup konsumen (kesadaran fashion , keterlibatan internet, danpreferensi e-shopping) adalah anteseden langsung dan tidak langsung dari niat konsumen untukmengadopsi telepon selular BlackBerry. Temuan penelitian ini memberi pemasar wawasanmengenai bagaimana pengetahuan tentang faktor gaya hidup dapat diintegrasikan ke dalamstrategi pemasaran dan periklanan.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Aigul Aigul

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the environmental and organizational moderators on farmers’ e-commerce adoption behaviour. Data were collected from 384 wheat farmers in Kazakhstan. Descriptive analysis and multiple group analysis findings revealed that environmental (i.e. government) and organizational moderators had an insignificant effect on the relationship of the dependent variables (between behavioural intention and usage behaviour). However, there is a positive impact of the environmental (i.e. government) and organizational moderators on the relationship between the independent variables (Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, Social Influence, Facilititating Conditions, Compatibility) and dependent variable (behavioural intention).


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