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Online reputation and tourism destination competitiveness – conceptual model development and pilot testing

Travellers use social media in all phases of travel planning. Previous research confirmed that people trust online reviews more than other sources of information. Building good online reputation is necessary for tourist destinations in order to be competitive. The purpose of this study is to provide a conceptual model for measuring the relationship between online reputation and tourism destination competitiveness and to present the results of the pilot study. The main objective of this study is to validate the studied constructs, the related questions and used scales. Descriptive statistics and reliability analysis was performed on a sample of 130 respondents. The total Cronbach’s alpha was .915 indicating a very high degree of internal consistency. The paper contributes to the existing literature by providing theoretical evidence of relationship between online reputation and tourism destination competitiveness and testing existing measurement scales on small tourism destination.

online reputation ; tourism destination competitiveness ; social media, reliability analysis

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