The Influence of Tourist Attraction Type on Product Price Perception and Neural Mechanism in Tourism Consumption: An ERP Study
Qiang Wei,1,* Dong Lv,1,2,* Shuna Fu,3,* Dongmei Zhu,1 Minxiao Zheng,1 Si Chen,3 Shihang Zhen4 1Department of Psychology, Jianghan University, WuHan, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, People’s Republic of China; 3Dep...
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| description | Qiang Wei,1,* Dong Lv,1,2,* Shuna Fu,3,* Dongmei Zhu,1 Minxiao Zheng,1 Si Chen,3 Shihang Zhen4 1Department of Psychology, Jianghan University, WuHan, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 4College of Economics and Management, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, XianYang, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Qiang Wei, Department of Psychology, Jianghan University, WuHan, HuBei, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-18671454618, Email weiqiang@jhun.edu.cn Dong Lv, School of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, FuJian, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-15798002728, Email lvdong@stu.hqu.edu.cnBackground: Tourism consumption is a topic with heated debates in tourism research, and pricing tourism products is a crucial task for tourism managers. Different types of tourist attractions offer different experiences to tourists, which affect their price perceptions and purchase decisions.Methods: This study combined questionnaires and event-related potentials (ERPs) measures to explore the magnitude of psychological conflict and the degree of emotional arousal that consumers experience when faced with different prices of goods in different scenic types.Results: The questionnaire results showed that attraction type influenced consumers’ price perceptions and that consumers were willing to pay higher prices for products in attractions. The ERP results implied that in the early stage of cognition, attraction type did not affect consumers’ perceptual processing, while price information attracted consumers’ cognitive attention. In the late stage of cognition, attraction type, and price information jointly influenced consumers’ decision-making, and consumers tended to accept high prices of products in entertainment attractions and cultural attractions, but consumers were more sensitive to the price of products in cultural attractions and less tolerant to price increases.Conclusion: The study elucidated how price information influenced consumers’ purchase decisions of tourism products at different stages of the dual-process theory, which can assist tourism managers in devising different pricing strategies and positioning strategies based on the attributes of attractions, to enhance product sales and revenues. This would further the vision of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) of “tourism fostering economic development”.Keywords: tourist attractions, price perception, neuromarketing, event-related potentials, P2, LPP |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1a5967e02412492eb5cc13b9f490cd642023-09-14T19:09:02ZengDove Medical PressPsychology Research and Behavior Management1179-15782023-09-01Volume 163787380386583The Influence of Tourist Attraction Type on Product Price Perception and Neural Mechanism in Tourism Consumption: An ERP StudyWei QLv DFu SZhu DZheng MChen SZhen SQiang Wei,1,* Dong Lv,1,2,* Shuna Fu,3,* Dongmei Zhu,1 Minxiao Zheng,1 Si Chen,3 Shihang Zhen4 1Department of Psychology, Jianghan University, WuHan, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 4College of Economics and Management, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, XianYang, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Qiang Wei, Department of Psychology, Jianghan University, WuHan, HuBei, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-18671454618, Email weiqiang@jhun.edu.cn Dong Lv, School of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, FuJian, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-15798002728, Email lvdong@stu.hqu.edu.cnBackground: Tourism consumption is a topic with heated debates in tourism research, and pricing tourism products is a crucial task for tourism managers. Different types of tourist attractions offer different experiences to tourists, which affect their price perceptions and purchase decisions.Methods: This study combined questionnaires and event-related potentials (ERPs) measures to explore the magnitude of psychological conflict and the degree of emotional arousal that consumers experience when faced with different prices of goods in different scenic types.Results: The questionnaire results showed that attraction type influenced consumers’ price perceptions and that consumers were willing to pay higher prices for products in attractions. The ERP results implied that in the early stage of cognition, attraction type did not affect consumers’ perceptual processing, while price information attracted consumers’ cognitive attention. In the late stage of cognition, attraction type, and price information jointly influenced consumers’ decision-making, and consumers tended to accept high prices of products in entertainment attractions and cultural attractions, but consumers were more sensitive to the price of products in cultural attractions and less tolerant to price increases.Conclusion: The study elucidated how price information influenced consumers’ purchase decisions of tourism products at different stages of the dual-process theory, which can assist tourism managers in devising different pricing strategies and positioning strategies based on the attributes of attractions, to enhance product sales and revenues. This would further the vision of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) of “tourism fostering economic development”.Keywords: tourist attractions, price perception, neuromarketing, event-related potentials, P2, LPPhttps://www.dovepress.com/the-influence-of-tourist-attraction-type-on-product-price-perception-a-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-PRBMtourist attractionsprice perceptionneuromarketingevent-related potentialsp2lpp |
| spellingShingle | Wei Q Lv D Fu S Zhu D Zheng M Chen S Zhen S The Influence of Tourist Attraction Type on Product Price Perception and Neural Mechanism in Tourism Consumption: An ERP Study Psychology Research and Behavior Management tourist attractions price perception neuromarketing event-related potentials p2 lpp |
| title | The Influence of Tourist Attraction Type on Product Price Perception and Neural Mechanism in Tourism Consumption: An ERP Study |
| title_full | The Influence of Tourist Attraction Type on Product Price Perception and Neural Mechanism in Tourism Consumption: An ERP Study |
| title_fullStr | The Influence of Tourist Attraction Type on Product Price Perception and Neural Mechanism in Tourism Consumption: An ERP Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Influence of Tourist Attraction Type on Product Price Perception and Neural Mechanism in Tourism Consumption: An ERP Study |
| title_short | The Influence of Tourist Attraction Type on Product Price Perception and Neural Mechanism in Tourism Consumption: An ERP Study |
| title_sort | influence of tourist attraction type on product price perception and neural mechanism in tourism consumption an erp study |
| topic | tourist attractions price perception neuromarketing event-related potentials p2 lpp |
| url | https://www.dovepress.com/the-influence-of-tourist-attraction-type-on-product-price-perception-a-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-PRBM |
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