Personal travel media content has become an important form of marketing tool for the travel industry given its characteristics of facilitating interaction between the content creators and the viewers. Therefore, it is essential to understand the viewer’s psychological decision-making process in order to utilize it as a marketing tool in an effective way. This study was conducted using the S-0-R model. An online survey was conducted on 282 viewers who watched personal travel media within the last 6 months in which the creator is shown directly in the content. As a result of the analysis, a total of four characteristics of personal travel media contents were derived as in the theoretical study: parasocial interaction, information quality, creator’s attractiveness, and real time broadcast. All content characteristics showed a positive impact on social presence. In particular, real time broadcast had the most significant impact on viewers’ social presence. Social presence was found to have a positive impact on a viewer’s behavioral intention too. Based on the results, providing useful and genuine information through attractive creators who can communicate in real time in an effective way is needed to get positive responses from the viewers. This study is meaningful in that it identified personal travel media contents through understanding the psychological decision making process of viewers. It also provided an effective way of utilizing personal travel media content as a new marketing tool.