With the development of Web 2.0 technologies, Social Media is becoming more and more popularizing. Social Media make the information communication more convenient and more quickly. In such an environment, the electronic Word-of-Mouth information is al...
With the development of Web 2.0 technologies, Social Media is becoming more and more popularizing. Social Media make the information communication more convenient and more quickly. In such an environment, the electronic Word-of-Mouth information is also becoming more wide spread, the influence of it is also growing. Electronic Word-of-Mouth(eWOM) means any positive, negative, and neutral views about products or company which were published by potential, actual or previous consumers, and it can be used by a lot of people and institutions via the Internet.
On the other hand, due to the high consumption activity, overseas tourism activities cannot experience in advance before arriving the destination that means the purchase intension of consumers will be strongly affected by Word-of-Mouth. In terms of overseas tourism, the influence of eWOM information research is not yet sufficiently. Many of the leading research shows that the characteristics of Word-of-Mouth information has obvious effects to the its use. On this basis, this paper combines the consumer motivation and the acceptance degree of the overseas travel, as the characteristics of the consumer factors which effect the spread of Word-of-Mouth information, to empirically analyze the impact on the use of eWOM.
In this paper, on the basis of the collected 385 survey, the empirical analysis is carried on using the SPSS and AMOS software. The analysis results almost support the hypothesis. Firstly, the Unbiased of the Word-of-Mouth information, the professionalism of the senders, the practicability motivation of consumer have a significantly influence on the use of Word-of-Mouth information. Secondly, the use of Word-of-Mouth information has a significantly influence on the spread of Word-of-Mouth information and purchase intention.
Based on the research results, some inspirations could be gained. First, the higher of the use of Word-of-Mouth information degree, the influence of the spread of Word-of-Mouth and purchase intentions will be more strongly. Second, to increase the degree of the use of Word-of-Mouth, people should pay attention on the unbiased of Word-of-Mouth information, improve the practicability and the professionalism of Word-of-Mouth information.