Fake News and Tourism – Whose Responsibility Is It?

Aaron Tham; Shu-Hsiang Chen

doi:10.47263/JRTM.02-01-04

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Fake News and Tourism – Whose Responsibility Is It?

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Fake News and Tourism – Whose Responsibility Is It?

Aaron Tham and Shu-Hsiang Chen

Journal of Responsible Tourism Management, Vol.2(1), pp.32-36

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47263/JRTM.02-01-04

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Abstract

Tourism

Socio-cultural issues in tourism

responsible tourism

sensationalistic reporting

media framing

credibility

online information

Fake news was Collins Dictionary's 2017 word of the year. The term was made extremely popular before and during the 2016 U.S elections where sensationalist news reporting, often unverified, were disseminated by political actors in their bid to secure support towards their campaigns. In brief, fake news refers to the reporting of articles that has been manipulated so that information is represented in a manner determined by a sender. For this reason, interest has been piqued to mitigate the effects of fake news given the ease of publicizing and disseminating user-generated contents digitally, especially so in the realm of social media. However, it has been conceded that fake news has hardly been addressed in tourism academic scholarship. This is somewhat surprising, given that online information search and dissemination is a core feature of a technologically mediated tourism industry, with recent instances of fake online reviews emerging. This project will explore the current scope of fake news in tourism, propose future areas of investigation, and discuss theoretical and practical implications for responsible tourism management.

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Title: Fake News and Tourism – Whose Responsibility Is It?
Authors: Aaron Tham (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
Shu-Hsiang Chen (Author) - Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Publication details: Journal of Responsible Tourism Management, Vol.2(1), pp.32-36
Publisher: Sarawak Research Society
Date published: 2022
DOI: 10.47263/JRTM.02-01-04
ISSN: 2773-5796
Copyright note: This paper is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). For more details, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99613707202621
Output Type: Journal article

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