英文摘要 |
The various literatures in e-commerce for tour operators focused on the contents of websites, information and performance. However, the previous research lacked the nonlinear behavior of consumer intention. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to identify whether the factors, including the satisfaction and switching cost, impacting decisions of consumers through the tourism e-commercial platform choice and to determine the relationship between the impacting factors and consumer loyalty. The cusp catastrophe model (CCM) is utilized for constructing the non-linear choice behavior and explaining the non-linear features in management implications. Along with the qualitative analyses of CCM, the quantitative parameters estimation could help tour operators examine the feasible marketing strategies for e-commerce operating. The analytical results reveal that “the uncertainty about obtaining better service quality for switching the transaction to the other website of tourism operator” is the most critical item increasing switching costs. Moreover, the item significantly influences satisfaction represents “the website meets my expectation of e-commerce for tour operator.” Tour operators thus should provide significantly different level of satisfaction to facilitate the switching behaviors of tourism e-commerce consumers with higher switching cost. |