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Building buyer personas to create virtual influencers as a digital marketing strategy in tourism contexts

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Title: Building buyer personas to create virtual influencers as a digital marketing strategy in tourism contexts
Authors: Mónica Pérez Sánchez, Javier Casanoves Boix, Mónica Isabel Mejía Rocha
Source: Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información. 30:1-27
Publisher Information: Forum XXI, 2025.
Publication Year: 2025
Subject Terms: vendes promoció, serveis web, interès personal, turisme, màrqueting per internet, comunicacions digitals
Description: Introduction: Buyer personas, semi-fictional representations of customers, have become essential in digital marketing to personalise strategies and improve the relationship with consumers through greater precision in segmentation. The objective of this work is to develop buyer personas to propose the profile of a virtual influencer for the city of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Methodology: The multiple cross-sectional descriptive research design is based on collecting official qualitative and quantitative data published by the “Ministry of Tourism” and the “Guanajuato State Tourism Observatory”, to know the profile of the tourist of the city of San Miguel de Allende, and analysing online behaviour to identify behavioural patterns and develop buyer personas to refine the initial proposals using techniques of digital ethnography and data analysis, thus creating detailed and accurate profiles of ideal customers. Results: Through the proposed methodological framework, it is possible to provide marketers with a practical tool to create virtual influencers based on buyer personas. Discussion: The buyer persona can be the basis for building a virtual influencer to promote destinations and tourism. Conclusions: Buyer personas are a powerful tool for understanding and delivering personalised customer service in a dynamic digital environment, and are now even more essential in the implementation of digital marketing strategies.
Document Type: Article
File Description: application/pdf
ISSN: 2695-5016
DOI: 10.35742/rcci.2025.30.e340
Access URL: https://hdl.handle.net/10550/115097
Rights: CC BY NC
Accession Number: edsair.doi.dedup.....5e8c4e8aad331a9d83115114dc4b6cef
Database: OpenAIRE
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ISSN:26955016
DOI:10.35742/rcci.2025.30.e340