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The primary purpose of this chapter is to get to know the public attitude towards sustainable tourism after COVID-19 and its polarity or emotion. Using Twitter Archiving Google Sheet, 6718 tweets were collected from July 11 to August 10, 2021, with the hashtags #covid19 and #tourism, #sustainabletourism or #ecotourism or #responsibletourism. Tableau and Gephi were used to visualise and aggregate the social media network. Using R Studio, the word frequency, association and sentiment analysis were carried out. The main findings are as follows: (1) retweets take most of all data; (2) media accounts are more visible and active than individual ones in the community network; (3) the “trust” emotion and “anticipation” emotion are dominant in the tweets. Besides, this chapter also tried to use related social behaviour theories to explain the observed social media user behaviours. Practical implications have also been provided to dissolve people’s psychological and emotional problems and enhance people’s confidence in tourism recovery.
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The authors thank editors and reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. This work is based on the short abstract presented by the first author at the Ideas Fair of TTRA 2022 Annual International Conference (Wu et al., 2022a) and was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71971124, 71932005); the Liberal Arts Development Fund of Nankai University (No. ZB21BZ0106); the One Hundred Talents Program of Nankai University (No. 63223067) and the Program of Overseas Studies for Postgraduates by Jiangnan University.
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Wu, D., Li, H., Li, Y., Wang, Y. (2023). Text Mining Tweets on Post-COVID-19 Sustainable Tourism: A Social Media Network and Sentiment Analysis. In: Dube, K., Nhamo, G., Swart, M. (eds) COVID-19, Tourist Destinations and Prospects for Recovery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22257-3_14
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