National Culture and Culinary Exploration: Japan Evidence of Heterogenous Moderating Roles of Social Facilitation

This article explores the role of national culture in the culinary consumption behavior of international tourists and the moderating influence of different types of travel companions. Study 1 adopted a text-mining, topical modeling approach to process useful reviews (n = 7,803) posted at TripAdvisor...

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Autores principales: Bin Liu, Yang Wang, Sotaro Katsumata, Yulei Li, Wei Gao, Xi Li
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4d7c455387984dbda751ca92b8768f7a2021-11-30T23:19:58ZNational Culture and Culinary Exploration: Japan Evidence of Heterogenous Moderating Roles of Social Facilitation1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.784005https://doaj.org/article/4d7c455387984dbda751ca92b8768f7a2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.784005/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078This article explores the role of national culture in the culinary consumption behavior of international tourists and the moderating influence of different types of travel companions. Study 1 adopted a text-mining, topical modeling approach to process useful reviews (n = 7,803) posted at TripAdvisor by users from 86 countries. Study 2 develops and tests a conceptual model of the relationships between national culture and culinary choices including culinary types and range of culinary choices, based on a secondary dataset of large-scale surveys from the tourism authority of the destination containing 9,141 responses by tourists from over 60 countries or regions. The results reveal that both Uncertainty Avoidance and Individualism-Collectivism have significant effects on tourist food consumption categories and the range of culinary choices. The study also evaluated the role of the moderating effect of travel companions, and results supported the significant relationship on the range of culinary choices when the tourists were accompanied by different types of travel companions.Bin LiuYang WangSotaro KatsumataYulei LiWei GaoXi LiFrontiers Media S.A.articletravel companionsuser-generated contentculinary consumptionuncertainty avoidanceindividualism-collectivismPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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topic travel companions
user-generated content
culinary consumption
uncertainty avoidance
individualism-collectivism
Psychology
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user-generated content
culinary consumption
uncertainty avoidance
individualism-collectivism
Psychology
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Bin Liu
Yang Wang
Sotaro Katsumata
Yulei Li
Wei Gao
Xi Li
National Culture and Culinary Exploration: Japan Evidence of Heterogenous Moderating Roles of Social Facilitation
description This article explores the role of national culture in the culinary consumption behavior of international tourists and the moderating influence of different types of travel companions. Study 1 adopted a text-mining, topical modeling approach to process useful reviews (n = 7,803) posted at TripAdvisor by users from 86 countries. Study 2 develops and tests a conceptual model of the relationships between national culture and culinary choices including culinary types and range of culinary choices, based on a secondary dataset of large-scale surveys from the tourism authority of the destination containing 9,141 responses by tourists from over 60 countries or regions. The results reveal that both Uncertainty Avoidance and Individualism-Collectivism have significant effects on tourist food consumption categories and the range of culinary choices. The study also evaluated the role of the moderating effect of travel companions, and results supported the significant relationship on the range of culinary choices when the tourists were accompanied by different types of travel companions.
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author Bin Liu
Yang Wang
Sotaro Katsumata
Yulei Li
Wei Gao
Xi Li
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Yang Wang
Sotaro Katsumata
Yulei Li
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Xi Li
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title National Culture and Culinary Exploration: Japan Evidence of Heterogenous Moderating Roles of Social Facilitation
title_short National Culture and Culinary Exploration: Japan Evidence of Heterogenous Moderating Roles of Social Facilitation
title_full National Culture and Culinary Exploration: Japan Evidence of Heterogenous Moderating Roles of Social Facilitation
title_fullStr National Culture and Culinary Exploration: Japan Evidence of Heterogenous Moderating Roles of Social Facilitation
title_full_unstemmed National Culture and Culinary Exploration: Japan Evidence of Heterogenous Moderating Roles of Social Facilitation
title_sort national culture and culinary exploration: japan evidence of heterogenous moderating roles of social facilitation
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