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Brand Love and Brand Jealousy Mediating Electronic Word of Mouth On Online Hotel Reservation Intention
Brand Love and Brand Jealousy Mediating Electronic Word of Mouth On Online Hotel Reservation Intention
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Yuvita Ratnandika
Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas
Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia
Abstract
Online travel agent is a very common service provider in this globalization era. There-
fore, it is crucial to understand factors that can influence someone to use online travel
agent to make hotel reservations, and electronic word of mouth can be one of the fac-
tors. This research aims to determine and analyze the direct and indirect influence of
electronic word of mouth on hotel reservation intention mediated by brand love and
brand jealousy as the intervening variable. This explanatory research explains causal
relationship between variables through hypothesis testing. The sample of this study is
100 individual respondents who have read online hotel review through the online
travel agent website at least once. The hypothesis testing was done using T test and
Sobel test. The data were analyzed using partial least squares in Smart PLS 3.0-
structural equation modeling. The results of this study show that electronic word of
mouth have contributions on purchase intention mediated by brand jealousy and brand
love.
Keywords: Electronic word of mouth, Brand love, Brand jealousy, Hotel booking in-
tentions, Online travel agent.
online customer review (Yolanda & leads to an increase in hotel and con-
Ngai, 2011) is a review of others sub- dominium demand (Indonesia Invest-
mitted via the internet and can be ments, 2017). The growth of internet
called as electronic word of mouth. users (netter) in Indonesia can be
measured by calculating the rapidly
Reviews and recommendations increasing number of internet users
about a product from other consumers over time. According to the statistic
who have used it is a type of infor- released by Association of Internet
mation commonly sought by consum- Service Providers (APJII), internet us-
ers through the internet. Electronic ers in Indonesia in 2016 reached 132.7
word of mouth is a fundamental part of million people from the total popula-
marketing activities, because electronic tion of 256.2 (APJII, 2017).
word of mouth can influence consum-
ers in making decisions. Electronic The power of the internet make
word of mouth is the positive or nega- communication among people very
tive statement made by potential cus- easy, making electronic word of mouth
tomers or former customers about a (eWOM) activities among internet us-
product or company intended for many ers more frequent. By the time being,
people or institutions via the internet electronic word of mouth is considered
(Henning-Thurau et.al, 2004). The ex- as an effective marketing tool (Zhang
istence of electronic word of mouth et al., 2010). Electronic word of mouth
help consumers make online purchase can make the information from person
decisions. Consumers usually read in- to person spreads easily. Online review
formation about a product from online is one example of electronic word of
reviews, which are used as a basis to mouth. Currently traveler is easier to
assess whether the consumer will make access information through eWOM. In
a purchase or not (Lin et al., 2013). the past, a traveler sought information
about tourist destinations by asking
Indonesia is one of the develop- friends, reading travel guides, and
ing countries in the world. As a part of mass media (Duffy, 2015). However,
ASEAN Economic Community, Indo- no studies before have examined com-
nesia has opportunities in some sec- bining the effect of electronic word of
tors, one of which is tourism. This sec- mouth mediated by brand love and
tor is considered as one of the most brand jealousy on hotel booking inten-
prepared sectors in Indonesia that is tions at online travel agent website.
able to compete in the single market of
ASEAN Economic Community be- This literature review consists of
cause the country has advantages in four major theories; they are electronic
destinations and prices (Baderi, 2016). word of mouth, brand love, brand jeal-
ousy, and purchase intention. As social
The development of this sector human beings, people like to interact
immediately brings a positive impact with others, and the interaction can
on Indonesian hospitality industry. influence someone’s perspective. It is
This is driven by the increasing num- usually call as word of mouth (WOM),
ber of foreigners (tourists and busi- inducing a change in the behavior or
nessmen) from year to year, which the preferences of its addressee (Libai
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et. al., 2010). In generally, word of ple and institutions via the Internet
mouth is defined as communication (Henning-Thurau et. al, 2004).
between people about brands, goods,
or services (Zeithaml, 1981). The im- Brand love
pact of word-of-mouth depends on the
characteristics of customer, products, In this studies, brand love is per-
markets, message, channel, and rela- ceived as a recent marketing concept in
tionship between sender and addressee the research stream of consumer-brand
(Arndt, 1967; Libai et al., 2010; relationships (Vernuccio et al., 2015).
Schutze, 2014). Brand love is not just an emotional re-
sponse more intense than the connec-
Electronic word of mouth tion to the brand because it involves
integration of the brand with the con-
Based on consumer behavior sumer's identity and makes it difficult
studies, the activity of electronic word for consumers to have negative feel-
of mouth help someone create brand ings toward the brand (Filho et al.,
jealousy and brand love toward a brand 2010).
of products, either goods or services.
There are some various positive con- Recent research shows brand
sequences that brand love can have love as an important and direct ante-
from the viewpoints of consumers and cedent of active engagement
companies. As, on one side, loved (Bergkvist and Bech-Larsen, 2010).
brands contribute to developing con- The authors conclude that brand love is
sumer’s self (Ahuvia, 2005; Fournier, the most prominent factor in building
1998), on the other side, consumers customer engagement. Electronic word
who love a brand are the most loyal, of mouth can create brand jealousy in
committed advocates of the brand (e.g. consumer’s self. Recent studies found
Albert et.al, 2013). that brand love alone is not a sufficient
predictor for active brand engagement.
In this globalization era, WOM Brand love and brand jealousy work
changes into eWOM as the impact together as a framework that can pre-
from the emergence of the internet, dict active engagement and purchase
information technology, and mobile intention better (Sarkar and Sreejesh,
technology. Electronic word of mouth 2014). Electronic word of mouth effec-
is defined as a word of mouth system tive in creating hotel booking inten-
that exists in virtual space in which tions through brand love and brand
messages related to product or services jealousy in online condition. Online
and consumers are sent or received reviews given by the traveler on an
through chatting or online boards (Lee, organization travel agent website are
et. al, 2013). Another definition of more trusted than review by the com-
electronic word of mouth is any posi- pany.
tive or negative statement made by po-
tential, actual, or former customers Brand Jealousy
about a product or company, which is
made available to a multitude of peo- On the other hand, brand jeal-
ousy has become a new issue in con-
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other opinion, seeking online review The brand jealousy were devel-
from others, giving the positive online oped from Sarker & Sreejesh (2014)
review, give liked when the relatives with 3 indicators and items. The re-
posted about hotel review at their so- spondent geeting hurt when they see
cial media. Based on the literature re- their relatives posted photo about their
view, the following hypotheses were vacation and they just stay at home, the
proposed. respondents want to use hotel services
also when they see their partners using
H1; Electronic word of mouth has a the service, respondents thought of us-
positive influence on brand ing hotel services when they saw their
jealousy. friends using the hotel.
H2; Electronic word of mouth has a H3; Brand love has a positive influence
positive influence on brand on purchase intention.
love.
H5
Brand
H1 Jealousy
H4
Electronic Word Purchase
of Mouth Intention
H2 H3
Brand Love
H5
some brand also higher triggering by tributed to 100 respondents who have
electronic word of mouth. Thus it is read online hotel review through the
proposed that: internet at least once. The demographic
of the respondents were show at Table
H5; Electronic word of mouth has a 1. Several questions have been asked
positive influence on purchase to the respondents through question-
intention mediated by brand naires describing about the profile of
jealousy and brand love. their age, gender, income per month,
and how many times they read online
Results hotel review at online travel agent
website.
The data of this research were
obtained through questionnaires dis-
The information about the re- question about have they ever read an
spondent’s characteristic is presented online review on online travel agent
in Table 1. The majority of sample in website at least once and is the age of
this research were female and between the respondent above 18 years old. The
18 and 23 years old. At the first, the most of respondent read online review
respondents were asked screening about hotel or online travel agent more
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than twice with the income per month from PEW, Nielsen, and Burst Media,
under 2 million rupiah. women turned out to use social media
more often than men. Popular plat-
The majority of respondents age forms for women are Facebook, Tum-
is at the age of students. if associated blr, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter
with the amount of income per month (Nistanto, 2014).
that is under 2 million rupiah it became
reasonable result. And also the majori- Statistical analysis was calcu-
ty of respondent are women. Women lated previously before testing the hy-
are more likely to frequently access the potheses. Reliability, convergent valid-
internet to find information about ity, and discriminant validity were
online lodging products on various so- checked before. Table 2 gives us in-
cial media owned by hotel websites formation that all questionnaire items
and from various other sources online. are valid and reliable. All data were
That women tend to access the internet checked to ensure their validity score.
more often to find various information, From Table 2 we get the information
this is in line with research conducted that all of the score were valid and re-
by Finance Online, which took data liable.
The Partial Least Square parame- model. The factor loadings for all
ter estimates for the measurement scales are acceptable, indicating robust
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measures. For first step before running significant correlation between elec-
data and getting the hypotheses testing, tronic word of mouth and brand love.
we should compare the factor loading The positive direction of the relation-
score to cross loading score. This step ship indicates that higher factor of
is used to avoid the discriminant va- electronic word of mouth enhances
lidity problem. The factor loading brand love. Third, there is a positive
score should be higher than cross load- and significant correlation between
ing score. brand love and purchase intention. The
positive direction of the relationship
This research is developed from indicates that higher factor of brand
marketing theory on electronic word of love enhances purchase intention.
mouth (eWOM) and purchase intention Fourth, there is a positive and signifi-
and here are five hypotheses proposed cant correlation between brand jeal-
in this research, and all of them have ousy and purchase intention. The posi-
direct and indirect positive effect on tive direction of the relationship indi-
purchase intention. Findings indicate cates that higher factor of brand jeal-
that Electronic word of mouth has a ousy enhances purchase intention.
positive influence on brand jealousy.
This leads to the accepted first hypoth- This research contributes to
eses and second hypotheses that Elec- knowledge about consumer behavior,
tronic word of mouth has a positive especially consumer psychology, in
influence on brand love. which both brand love and brand jeal-
ousy mediate the influence of electron-
On the other hand, from the hy- ic word of mouth on purchase inten-
potheses tested indicate that hypothe- tion. The results of this study are sup-
ses 3 and 4 also accepted, means that ported by pre-existing researches. Re-
brand love has a positive influence on cent research of Sarkar et al. (2014)
purchase intention and brand jealousy shows that brand love and jealousy
has a positive influence on purchase work together as a framework that can
intention. In terms of moderating effect better predict active engagement and
Electronic word of mouth has a posi- purchase intention better. Therefore,
tive influence on purchase intention brand love and brand jealousy are im-
mediated by brand jealousy and brand portant aspects marketers should con-
love from this result hypotheses 5 also sider to create in consumer’s mind
accepted. (Sarkar et al., 2014).
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