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The power of photographs: the impact of marketer- and user-generated photographs on consumers' online hotel booking

Junhui He (College of International Business and Management, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China)

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics

ISSN: 1355-5855

Article publication date: 2 January 2023

Issue publication date: 13 November 2023

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Abstract

Purpose

This study examined how marketer- and user-generated photographs jointly influence consumers' online hotel booking.

Design/methodology/approach

Viewing photographs as stimuli that influence consumers' online hotel booking, this study proposes a research model and validates that using one quasi-experiment.

Findings

The findings of this study provide some empirical insights. Marketers can release room- and scene-related photographs. Users can release product- and social-related photographs. The interaction between room-related photographs by marketers and product-related photographs by users can promote energetic arousal and dominance and then promote online booking intention. The interaction between scene-related photographs by marketers and social-related photographs by users can promote energetic arousal and dominance and then promote online booking intention. Pleasure, energetic arousal and dominance can positively influence the attitude toward photographs. Pleasure and energetic arousal can positively influence the attitude toward photographs and then positively influence booking intention. Dominance can positively influence booking intention.

Originality/value

The findings of this study reveal significant interaction effects between marketer- and user-generated photographs on consumers' online booking. The findings will help researchers and marketers better understand the impact of photographs on consumers' online hotel booking.

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Acknowledgements

This study was funded by the Social Science Planning Project of Chongqing in China (No: 2021NDYB072). The author is grateful to the anonymous reviewers and the editors for their comments that significantly improved the study.

Citation

He, J. (2023), "The power of photographs: the impact of marketer- and user-generated photographs on consumers' online hotel booking", Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Vol. 35 No. 9, pp. 2145-2163. https://doi.org/10.1108/APJML-06-2022-0496

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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