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Hashtag Power through SNS Advertising: Achieving Brand Loyalty Based on Customer Engagement within the Egyptian Tourism and Hospitality Market

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Universally, Over 60% of people use social media platforms daily which reflect the role of social media "reach" that organizations could have when launching a social media campaign. Including a hashtag in social media campaigns is an approach to increase reach as using hashtags helps increase social media audience and interaction. Hence, this paper aims to investigate the power of hashtag to boost hospitality and tourism services especially after the dominance of social network services (SNS) in digital marketing during the last decade. Also the paper aims to explore the role of hashtag to achieve customer loyalty for tourism and hospitality organizations based on their engagement in the hashtag. Using the questionnaire form as a data collection tool, the research sample includes potential customers who use SNS to decide using specific tourism and hostility service within the Egyptian market. All hypotheses tested via PLS structural equation modeling. the research findings help tourism and hospitality organizations to boost marketing campaigns via SNS and achieve more reach for their marketing campaign, in addition, the research focuses on exposing the awareness of hashtag value to make marketing more reachable by customers. The research focuses on one of the most successful marketing approach which is used widely and achieves high reach percentages that reflect more customer engagement and achieve their loyalty.

DOI

10.21608/thalexu.2024.302413.1133

Keywords

hashtag, SNS Advertising, Brand loyalty, Customer engagement, tourism and hospitality

Authors

First Name

Hesham

Last Name

Dar

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Faculty of Tourism and Hotels-Alexandria University

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hesham.dar@alexu.edu.eg

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الاسكندرية

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0000-0002-4803-765X

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sara

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ahmed abdelfatah gad

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Faculty of Tourism and Hotels-Alexandria University

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sara_ahmed1982@alexu.edu.eg

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alexandria

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Magdy

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Affiliation

Pharos University in Alexandria,Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management

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ahmad.magdy@pua.edu.eg

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orcid.org/0000-0002

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21

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1

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48749

Issue Date

2024-06-01

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2024-04-07

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2024-06-30

Page Start

275

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290

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2314-7024

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2682-2180

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931

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The Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Alexandria University

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https://thalexu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Hashtag Power through SNS Advertising: Achieving Brand Loyalty Based on Customer Engagement within the Egyptian Tourism and Hospitality Market

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24 Dec 2024