Author, as appears in the article.: Orden-Mejía M; Huertas A
Department: Estudis de Comunicació
URV's Author/s: Huertas Roig, Maria Asuncion / Orden Mejía, Miguel Ángel
Keywords: User satisfaction Smart tourism technology Interactivity Informativeness Information-systems success Empathy Chatbot Accessibility user satisfaction smart tourism technology service robots responsiveness model loyalty interactivity informativeness impact empathy decision-support accessibility
Abstract: Chatbots are an emerging technology that is disrupting the tourism industry. Despite their implementation in companies and at destinations, there is little research that evaluates chatbots’ smart tourism technologies (STTs) attributes and their influence on tourist satisfaction. This study seeks to examine the relationship between informativeness, empathy, accessibility, interactivity and chatbot user satisfaction. The research was based on an experiment and a survey conducted on a sample of 468 potential tourists who used a chatbot during their trip. Statistical tools such as exploratory factor analysis and the hierarchical regression method were used in the data analysis. The results suggest that informativeness, empathy and interactivity of destination chatbots are the attributes that influence and predict tourist satisfaction while accessibility does not. The main contribution of this study is the analysis of the attributes of STTs applied to destination chatbots, which also provides valuable information for both tourism chatbot developers and smart destination managers who wish to adopt this technology. Highlights: The communication with a chatbot resembles the dialogues they have with human agents. Informativeness is a predictor factor in users’ satisfaction with chatbot The empathic ability of the chatbot is a factor that predicts user satisfaction A high level of interactivity in a human-chabot interaction predicts user satisfaction.
Thematic Areas: Tourism, leisure and hospitality management Human geography and urban studies Hospitality, leisure, sport & tourism Geography, planning and development Geografía General o multidisciplinar Environmental studies Economia Ciencias sociales
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: sunsi.huertas@urv.cat miguelangel.orden@estudiants.urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-6684-4220
Record's date: 2023-02-19
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13683500.2021.1997942
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Current Issues In Tourism. 25 (17): 2854-2869
APA: Orden-Mejía M; Huertas A (2022). Analysis of the attributes of smart tourism technologies in destination chatbots that influence tourist satisfaction. Current Issues In Tourism, 25(17), 2854-2869. DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2021.1997942
Article's DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2021.1997942
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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