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Semantic analysis and the evolution towards participative branding: Do locals communicate the same destination brand values as DMOs?

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  • Mohammed Jabreel
  • Assumpció Huertas
  • Antonio Moreno

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Participative branding is a process by which DMOs, locals and visitors contribute, through their activity in social media, to the definition of the emotional values associated to a destination. From the communicative point of view it is particularly important that DMOs and local citizens work together in the transmission of a set of coherent values that compose a personalised identity. This paper presents a novel methodology, based on semantic similarity measures, that permits to make an automated analysis of the emotional values transmitted by official tourist offices and by local citizens through social media. A study of 54,000 tweets from 9 main European tourist destinations highlights the lack of a strategy towards the communication of a distinctive brand and a strong gap between the official view transmitted by the DMOs of the destinations and the one communicated by their residents.

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  • Mohammed Jabreel & Assumpció Huertas & Antonio Moreno, 2018. "Semantic analysis and the evolution towards participative branding: Do locals communicate the same destination brand values as DMOs?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(11), pages 1-29, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0206572
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206572
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