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How do travel experience sharing type, tourism activity type, and temporal distance shape online viewers’ travel intentions? An application of construal level theory

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Pages 1590-1612 | Received 24 Dec 2022, Accepted 25 Apr 2023, Published online: 28 May 2023

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