Do violent movies scare away potential visitors?

• Autores: Fang Yang, Bruce Vanden Bergh, Jonghwa Lee
• Localización: International Journal of Advertising, ISSN 0265-0487, Vol. 36, Nº. 2, 2017, págs. 314-335
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study explored movie transportation's role in the relationship between movie watching and tourism. Based on the transportation theory, the results indicated that movie transportation (i.e., movie immersion) had a significant impact on the viewers' affective place images, cognitive place images, and visitation interest. Regardless of movie content, the more the movie viewers were transported, the more favorable impressions they had for the featured tourism sites and consequently the more interested they were in traveling to the target place. Moreover, the results also demonstrated that movie transportation did weaken violent movie content's influence. Particularly, for the highly transported audience, there were no significant differences between the movie groups in terms of their perceptions of place images. However, significant differences were found among the audience that was not well transported. Finally, this study found that both affective place image and cognitive place image could enhance the viewers' visitation interest.