Personal prestige through travel? Developing and testing the personal prestige inventory in a tourism context
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in: Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality, Jahrgang 18, Nr. 1, 08.02.2023, S. 1-16.
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T1 - Personal prestige through travel? Developing and testing the personal prestige inventory in a tourism context
AU - Kuhn, Friedericke
AU - Kock, Florian
AU - Lohmann, Martin
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
PY - 2023/2/8
Y1 - 2023/2/8
N2 - Purpose: Leisure travel has long been seen as a means of conspicuous consumption in pursuance of personal prestige; yet, there is no empirical evidence that travel affects personal prestige of tourists. The aims of this study are to develop a scale measuring personal prestige and to experimentally test prestige evaluations based on amount of leisure information, tourism participation and different types of leisure. Design/methodology/approach: In an experimental online survey, 477 respondents were presented with a manipulated social media profile and asked to evaluate personal prestige of the person on the profile. Findings: Results present evidence that representation of travel experience has a positive effect on personal prestige evaluations of tourists. The authors found significant differences in personal prestige depending on experimental variations. Originality/value: This study advances methodological approaches towards the study of tourists’ prestige by providing a reliable, multidimensional measurement scale for personal prestige. The findings yielded by subsequent application of the scale in an experimental setting provide empirical evidence that sharing travel experiences has measurable and experimentally testable personal prestige benefits for tourists.
AB - Purpose: Leisure travel has long been seen as a means of conspicuous consumption in pursuance of personal prestige; yet, there is no empirical evidence that travel affects personal prestige of tourists. The aims of this study are to develop a scale measuring personal prestige and to experimentally test prestige evaluations based on amount of leisure information, tourism participation and different types of leisure. Design/methodology/approach: In an experimental online survey, 477 respondents were presented with a manipulated social media profile and asked to evaluate personal prestige of the person on the profile. Findings: Results present evidence that representation of travel experience has a positive effect on personal prestige evaluations of tourists. The authors found significant differences in personal prestige depending on experimental variations. Originality/value: This study advances methodological approaches towards the study of tourists’ prestige by providing a reliable, multidimensional measurement scale for personal prestige. The findings yielded by subsequent application of the scale in an experimental setting provide empirical evidence that sharing travel experiences has measurable and experimentally testable personal prestige benefits for tourists.
KW - Online experiment
KW - Optimal distinctiveness
KW - Personal prestige
KW - Social media
KW - Travel experience
KW - Management studies
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U2 - 10.1108/CBTH-03-2022-0073
DO - 10.1108/CBTH-03-2022-0073
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85146268211
VL - 18
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality
JF - Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality
SN - 2752-6666
IS - 1
ER -