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26 September 2025

Study on the Construction and Communication Strategy of Urban Tourism Image from the Perspective of Mobile Short Videos

Xuexue Zhuang1 Yabei Wang1
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1 Xinjiang University of Science and Technology, School of Culture and Media, Korla 841000, Xinjiang, China
LNE 2025 , 3(8), 305–310; https://doi.org/10.18063/LNE.v3i8.863
© 2025 by the Author. Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

With the iteration of mobile Internet technology, short videos have become the core carrier for the dissemination of urban tourism images. This paper takes Bayingolin Prefecture as the research object, integrates tourism management and communication theories, and uses text analysis, questionnaire survey and semi-structured interview methods to systematically explore the current situation and predicaments of Bayingolin Prefecture’s tourism image dissemination in the short video perspective. The research finds that there are cognitive biases, such as “obvious stereotypes and lack of humanistic connotations,” in the tourism image of Bayingolin Prefecture, and the short video dissemination faces core problems such as content homogenization, imbalance in platform adaptation, superficial exploration of cultural genes and lack of interaction mechanisms. Based on this, this paper constructs a five-in-one communication strategy of “precise positioning - segmented communication - content innovation - co-creation and collaboration - long-term guarantee”, providing theoretical references and practical paths for border cities to upgrade their tourism images and promote cultural and tourism economic development through short videos.

Keywords
Mobile short videos
Urban tourism image
Communication strategy
Frontier city
Bazhou
Funding
This article is the research result of the 2025 university level project “Research on the Construction and Communication Strategy of Urban Tourism Image from the Perspective of Mobile Short Video - Taking Bazhou, Xinjiang as an Example” (Project No.: X202513561068) of Xinjiang University of Science and Technology.
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