Tourists’ Recommendations: Socio-demographic Analysis
Keywords:
tourism, consumer, recommendation, word-of-mouth, socio-demographic, characteristics, cross-tabulationAbstract
In tourism, information can be treated as the most important factor influencing consumer behaviour. Word-of-mouth is one of the possible ways to transfer information. It is a form of communication – through recommendations - which involves consumers discussing their experience after service consumption. The aim of this paper is to highlight the differences in the frequency of spreading information through word-of-mouth among consumers – tourists of different socio-demographic characteristics (gender, age and, education). The survey was conducted in the period from October to December 2018 on a sample that included 228 respondents from the territory of AP Vojvodina. Based on a literature review and research objective, three hypotheses have been set. The cross-tabulation method was used for testing the proposed hypotheses.
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