Artistic and religious experiences in online travel reviews about Saint Paul Outside the walls (Rome)
Informazioni aggiuntive
Autori
Tipo
Atti di conferenza
Anno
2013
Lingua
Inglese
Sommario
Word-of-mouth (WOM) is a social dynamic naturally occurring in the interaction among people, and represents the elective channel to share experiences. Thanks to web 2.0, WOM has gained a new significance: users now have a number of opportunities to voice their opinions and, conversely, to inform their decision thanks to advice from other users. The study presented is a first investigation of tourism experiences at a religious site shared on an online review platform. A corpus of Online Travel Reviews about the Roman Basilica of Saint Paul outside the Walls published on TripAdvisor served as a case study, to answer questions related to functional, content and semantic-linguistics aspects of religious tourism experiences reported online. In particular, the role of artistic religious sites as mediator for religious experiences is investigated.
Parole chiave
online travel review, religious tourism, world heritage site, artistic and religious experience
Editore
Konstantinos Andriotis
Nome convegno
ICOT 2013, International Conference on Tourism
Luogo convegno
Limassol, Cyprus
Data convegno
5-8 June 2013
Pagine (o numero dell’articolo)
160-173
ISBN
9789963979929
ISSN
1986-4256
