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Social connections of tourism working holiday makers Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Thanasis Spyriadis, Ashlie Went
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No care without justice: A normative ethical perspective of the employment of people with disabilities in hospitality businesses Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Andrew Ngawenja Mzembe, Viachaslau Filimonau
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Using tourism intelligence and big data to explain flight searches for tourist destinations: The case of the Costa Blanca (Spain) Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Jorge Pereira-Moliner, Mario Villar-García, José F. Molina-Azorín, Juan José Tarí, María D. López-Gamero, Eva M. Pertusa-Ortega
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Co-creation of the tourist experience: A systematic assessment scale Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Yitong Deng, Hoffer M. Lee, Timothy J. Lee, Sunghyup Sean Hyun
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The impact of destination-brand social media content on consumer online brand-related activities (COBRAs) Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Fernando Oscar Grosso, Miguel Ángel Rodriguez-Molina, José Alberto Castañeda-Garcia
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Visitors' and non-visitors' destination food images: How do they vary in Egypt? Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Mohamed E. Mohamed, Xinran Y. Lehto, Carl Behnke
Food image is increasingly recognized as a source of destination brand building; however, food image variations between different tourist groups are not well understood. Using projective techniques, this study captures the variation of food images among visitors and non-visitors to Egypt. Differences exist in four food image domains: food health and quality, food accessibility and dining places, food
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Female perceptions of gender-themed exhibitions: An expectation-confirmation model approach Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Elizabeth Agyeiwaah, Zou Suyafei
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Illusive Inclusion: Destination-marketing, managing Gay Pride events and the problem with cosmopolitan inclusivity Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Laura Dixon
As macro-level shifts in global capitalism push cities into increasing competition with one another, events play a vital role in tourism development. For locations seeking to differentiate themselves, ‘cosmopolitanism’, indicating a perceived openness towards cultural difference, has become key to contemporary destination marketing. Within this discourse, embracing LGBT+ communities has been successfully
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Influencing wine tourists' decision-making with VR: The impact of immersive experiences on their behavioural intentions Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Nuno Sousa, Elisa Alén, Nieves Losada, Miguel Melo
Virtual Reality (VR) has proven to be an important contribution to tourists' decision-making regarding a destination. This fact can be determinant, especially when tourists face some social limitation or restriction that conditions their participation in tourism activities. Therefore, we aim to understand whether the possibility of experiencing immersive wine tourism activities can encourage future
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Smart destinations: A holistic view from researchers and managers to tourists and locals Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Elena Cerdá-Mansilla, Iis Tussyadiah, Sara Campo, Natalia Rubio
This paper analyses and expands the concept of smart destination and its characteristics using stakeholder theory and the multiple perspectives of the various agents involved: managers, researchers, tourists, and locals. In adopting a holistic focus to conceptualise smart destinations, its review and analysis fill a current vacuum in the academic literature. The study also provides in-depth analysis
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A multiwave study on tourist well-being: The role of attention restoration, psychological-need and social-sharing satisfaction Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Yulan Fan, IpKin Anthony Wong, Gongpeng Zhang, Zhiwei Lin, Lishan Wu
The objective of this research is to assess tourists' subjective and psychological well-being during and after their trips through a multiwave design. Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT) and attention restoration theory (ART), an integrated theoretical framework was proposed to examine the relationships among perceived attention restoration, social sharing satisfaction, psychological needs satisfaction
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Does a higher responder level generate more traveller reviews? The moderating role of managerial response content Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Ziqiong Zhang, Zili Zhang, Hengyun Li, Yukuan Xu, Chengwei Lv
Online reviews represent a public good that users can consume for free. Thus, academics and practitioners have actively sought to identify ways to motivate users to write online reviews. As an effective channel linking hotels and travellers, managerial responses can enhance hotels' performance along with traveller review-writing engagement. However, the impact of responder level on future traveller
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How authenticity in events fosters social sustainability: Towards an authenticity ecosystem and implications for destination management Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Truc H. Le, Margarida Abreu Novais, Charles Arcodia, Ralph Berchtenbreiter, Andreas Humpe, Nicole Nguyen
This study systematically and critically synthesises how the notion of authenticity has been addressed in the extant events literature to foster social sustainability in host destinations. Studies between 1996 and 2020 were systematically collected and analysed, revealing an observable emphasis on how authentic events can drive and improve social sustainability in destinations. By adopting a systems
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Product purchase or gift-giving? An investigation of different viewer-streamer interaction strategies in tourism live streaming Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Shixuan Fu, Xiaojiang Zheng, Tingting Hou, Yunyi Yang
Building on the Uses and Gratification Theory (U>), a mixed-method approach was employed to investigate the influencing mechanisms of different viewer-streamer interactions on viewers' product purchase and gift-giving intentions. In study 1, we collected 331 valid questionnaires and examined the proposed quantitative model through SmartPLS 3.3.3. The quantitative findings from study 1 revealed the
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Estimating public preferences for thalassotherapy centers using a choice experiment Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Gi-Young Chae, Chul-Yong Lee
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals emphasize good health and well-being. Additionally, increasing life expectancy and the COVID-19 pandemic have led to greater interest in health. Responding to this crucial wave of change has necessitated protecting people's health and creating new industries at the national level. In Europe and Japan, marine healing has long been fostered as an industry
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The joint effect of online reviews and manager responses in driving company ratings Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Nina Krey, Shuang Wu, Shih-Hui (Steven) Hsiao, Tony L.J. Lin
The current study extends the literature on firm-customer online relationship building by jointly assessing customers' opinions and firms' responses to understand their impact on firm ratings. This study implements text analytics and sentiment analysis on customer reviews and manager responses. Specifically, the impact of message sentiment (emotional versus rational) and textual characteristics of
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Behind the invisible walls: Understanding constraints on Muslim solo female travel Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Mohammad Nematpour, Omid Oshriyeh, Mohammad Ghaffari
This study aims to investigate the challenges faced by solo-female travelers in Iranian societies and proposes measures to improve their experiences. To achieve this objective, a mixed-methods research design was employed in three phases. First, two-phased exploratory surveys were conducted to identify seven key constraints that affect the behavioral intentions of solo-female tourists, namely sociocultural
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Dining-out preferences of domestic tourists at a gastronomic destination: The major influence of localness in France Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Anne-Marie Lebrun, Patrick Bouchet
This exploratory research examines the dining-out preferences of 346 domestic tourists at a gastronomic destination following the COVID-19 pandemic. A conceptual model based on five variables (four independent variables—neophilia, neolocalism, gastronomy knowledge, and sensory appeal—and one moderating: generation) that could influence tourists' preferences for elite, local, and familiar dining was
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Can host–tourist interaction pull the plug on tourist stereotypes? Exploring the power of emotional solidarity Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Guoxiong Tan, Cathy H.C. Hsu
Multifaceted tourist stereotypes (i.e., general stereotypes towards tourists by residents) have only recently been conceptualised within a theoretical framework. Thus far, whether and how host–tourist interaction influences tourist stereotypes remain inconclusive. This study adopts an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design to examine the influencing mechanism of host–tourist interaction on tourist
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Tourism consumers' time estimation of virtual reality experience: Combining self-reporting and physiological measures Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Xiaoting Huang, Xi Yu Leung, Shanshi Li, Zhenda Wei
An internal clock model was adopted to explore the mechanism whereby experiences of virtual reality influence tourism consumers' time estimation. A multidimensional virtual reality theater simulator was used to create virtual reality experiences for 172 participants. Self-reported and physiological data were collected to test the model. The results of the study revealed that focused attention, indicated
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Healing the mind and soul through meditation pilgrimage: Understanding recreation specialization, attention restoration, and emotion regulation Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Aliana Man Wai Leong, Zhiwei (CJ) Lin, YiTing Zhou, IpKin Anthony Wong
Meditation has largely been associated with its religious connotation in the tourism literature. The present research steers away from that tradition to focus on meditative practices as a leisure activity. It addresses the literature void by conducting a survey study on meditation tourists who participated in a 7-day meditation excursion. Based on attention restoration theory and the two-factor theory
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Innovation for sustainability through co-creation by small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMEs): Socio-cultural sustainability benefits to rural destinations Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Evelina Maziliauske
Small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMEs) are the dominant industry players in rural destinations. This study investigates how they can contribute to socio-cultural sustainability benefits of rural destination communities by engaging in co-creation in innovation for sustainability (IFS). The rural destinations of Vega and Røros were selected as qualitative empirical cases to investigate 14
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Exploring the influence of historical storytelling on cultural heritage tourists' value co-creation using tour guide interaction and authentic place as mediators Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Aliana Man Wai Leong, Shih-Shuo Yeh, Yanqian Zhou, Chien-Wen Hung, Tzung-Cheng Huan
This study examines how storytelling contributes to co-creating tourists' experiences with tour guide interactions and authentic places, ultimately facilitating positive value co-creation and identifying specific generated values. This expansion of knowledge applies to cultural heritage tourism contexts. Purposive sampling and personal interviews were conducted at Macau International Airport, involving
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How does tourism memory affect revisit decisions? The mediating role of episodic future thinking Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Zhiyue Zhao, Da Shi, Zixuan Huang, Xiyun Liu
Although scholars have explored how memorable tourism experiences affect tourists' behaviour, little research has considered the role of tourism memory from an autobiographical memory phenomenology perspective—particularly negative tourism memories. By combining the notion of mental time travel with the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis, this research proposes a theoretical framework describing
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The role of augmented reality for sustainable development: Evidence from cultural heritage tourism Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Eleanor E. Cranmer, M.C. tom Dieck, Timothy Jung
Issues of sustainability have gained interest and priority, examining ways organisations can protect environmental and cultural heritage, whilst addressing stakeholders' needs. Research exploring the role of Augmented Reality (AR) for sustainable tourism development has been limited. This study adopts the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) framework, to explore how AR can improve tourism attraction sustainability
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Frontline employees' turnover intentions in tourism and hospitality sectors: A systematic literature review and research agenda Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Cau Ngoc Nguyen, Giang Hoang, Tuan Trong Luu
Frontline employees play crucial roles in tourism and hospitality organizations because they work directly with the customers and represent the organization. However, the turnover rate among tourism and hospitality frontline employees was found to be higher than other groups of employees in the same sector. Therefore, detecting the factors that affect turnover intention among frontline employees is
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Rural tourism resource management strategies: A case study of two tourism villages in Bali Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Putu Devi Rosalina, Karine Dupre, Ying Wang, I. Nyoman Darma Putra, Xin Jin
Rural tourism is prominent in promoting sustainable use of resources and is implemented in Indonesia through a tourism village program. Present study explores resource management strategies in two Balinese villages, providing new and comparative insights into the underrepresented high customary setting. Data were collected through multiple qualitative methods and analysed using thematic analysis. Findings
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Exploring cruise tourists' sentiment expression pattern from online reviews: An insight into market positioning Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Xiaodong Sun, Xiulian Cao, Yui-yip Lau
The accumulation of information on online travel communities provides a useful reference for tourists and reflects tourists' positive or negative sentiments during the whole experience process. Using over 97,000 online reviews, including 172 cruise ships across 16 brands, the current study applies sentiment analysis to explore how tourists express their sentiments about elements and attributes of the
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How temporal contiguity cues influence tourists' purchase intentions: Regulatory focus and double-entry mental accounting perspectives Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Lingyan Hu, Haiyang Su, Tong Wen
This study explores the impact of temporal contiguity cues on tourists' purchase intention through three experiments. The findings reveal that review valence can moderate the relationship between temporal contiguity cues and purchase intention, while regulatory focus can further moderate the moderating role of review valence, and double-entry mental accounting plays a mediating role. This study resolved
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One pie, many recipes: The role of artificial intelligence chatbots in influencing Malaysian solo traveler purchase intentions Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Jennifer Yee-Shan Chang, Jun-Hwa Cheah, Xin-Jean Lim, Alastair M. Morrison
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are pervasive in the travel industry and have significantly alleviated solo travelers' concerns in trip planning and booking. However, many existing AI chatbots have yet to meet the expectations of solo travelers, especially when they demand more personalized information to assist in travel decision-making. Based on complexity theory, this research examines the
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Do companies' risk perceptions affect investor confidence? Evidence from textual risk disclosure in the tourism industry Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Yuyao Feng, Jianping Li, Xiaolei Sun, Guowen Li
Few studies have examined tourism risk perception from a company perspective, which can better reflect their real risk situation. Moreover, when companies' risk perception is captured, it can have an impact on investor confidence and lead to abnormal market volatility. Therefore, it is essential to investigate tourism companies' risk perceptions and their effect on investor confidence. For this purpose
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Four shades of Airbnb and its impact on locals: A spatiotemporal analysis of Airbnb, rent, housing prices, and gentrification Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Seonjin Lee, Hany Kim
Despite the growing amount of tourism literature examining short-term rentals, few studies have examined their economic impact on locals. This study is unique in that it elucidates Airbnb listings' heterogeneity and reflects spatiotemporal effects in the analysis of their impact on locals. The study revealed that Airbnb has different impacts on local housing markets by their characteristics. Furthermore
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Fostering employee promotive voice in hospitality: The impact of responsible leadership Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Osman Seray Özkan, Irene Huertas-Valdivia, Burcu Üzüm
Promotive voice refers to employees sharing novel ideas or suggestions aimed at improving the functioning of their work unit or organization. However, in many cases, employees reserve their contribution of constructive ideas for situations where they feel their contributions are acknowledged and appreciated by their managers. The manager's leadership style is therefore of utmost importance in fostering
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Assisting visitor path creation in experiential tourist attractions Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Frederic Ponsignon, Mehdi Amiri-Aref, Renaud Lunardo, Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva
The question of how to design the visitor journey in experiential settings has received limited attention in the tourist movement literature. In two related studies conducted at a leading wine tourism museum, it was examined whether experiential attractions should provide assistance to visitors in creating their paths. Study 1, a field experiment, shows that providing assistance is beneficial to visitors
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Assessing the performance of corporate social responsibility (CSR): Impact range-performance analysis and impact-asymmetry analysis Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Antony King Fung Wong, Seongseop (Sam) Kim, Seoki Lee, Munhyang Oh
This study assesses the multidimensionality of employee-perceived hotel corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and its influences on three organizational attitudes and behavior. Impact range-performance analysis (IRPA) and impact-asymmetry analysis (IAA) were applied, using data from 410 hotel staff. A five-domain solution (financial, legal, ethical, social/philanthropic, and environmental)
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Perceived tourism authenticity on social media: The consistency of ethnic destination endorsers Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Yani Dong, Yan Li, Hai-Yan Hua, Wei Li
This study explores how ethnic minority destination endorsers as social media influencers impact tourists' perception of authenticity and destination image. It sets up a structural model between endorser consistency, tourists' perceived authenticity, destination image, and tourist satisfaction. Using textual analysis, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews, four studies were conducted to analyse
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The impact of pluralistic values on postmodern tourists' behavioural intention towards renovated heritage sites Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Shan Wang, Ivan Ka Wai Lai, Jose Weng Chou Wong
Referring to the value-attitude-behaviour model, perceived pluralistic values may be abstract cognition that influences postmodern tourists to continue to visit renovated heritage sites. However, there is a lack of studies on the pluralistic values of postmodern tourists. Thus, the dimensions of pluralistic values are unclear. This study first conducted personal interviews with 27 postmodern tourists
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The effect of risk message framing on tourist safety behavior: A heuristic-systematic model perspective Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Chaowu Xie, Lingling Fan, Jiangchi Zhang, Songshan (Sam) Huang
This research examined the effect of pandemic risk message framing (amplifying vs. attenuating) on tourists' safety behavior from the perspective of heuristic-systematic information processing, as well as the roles of ontological security threat and public opinion climate of risk in moderating such effect. The results of two experiments showed that risk message framing had significant effects on tourists'
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Lost tourism Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 John Tribe, Brendan Paddison
Tourism is in a constant state of change, yet little attention has been paid to those aspects of tourism which have disappeared, become lost or absent. This article addresses this research gap. Inspired by an exhibition by the artist Ellen Harvey, it adopts a conceptual research method informed by empirical and philosophical analysis. Its original contribution is threefold. First it offers a novel
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Gender diversity in sport event tourists’ willingness-to-pay for ancillary services: A choice experimental approach Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Seong Ok Lyu, Innhoo Baek, Jinwon Kim
This study aims to propose diverse feasible management strategies for developing an effective ancillary service items offered at sport events. Using a sample of South Korean sport event tourists attending KBO (Korea Baseball Organization) League games, this study employs a gender perspective to devise marketing strategies that are capable of effectively attracting the buying power of female sport event
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Is the salesperson persuasive enough? The role of the tourists' perceived time adequacy and processing fluency Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Yaoqi Li, Zhengren Chen, Chun Zhang
Communication style has been well-researched for over four decades. However, the communication style in the tourism context and the role of time conditions are unknown. This research attempted to identify the effective communication styles in souvenir purchases based on different tourists' subjective time perceptions. Three studies were conducted using text and video respectively for different scenarios
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Sweet to bitter: Dissonance of scuba diving experience Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Caglar Bideci, Mujde Bideci
This paper investigates cognitive dissonance in the scuba diving experience. Recent studies show that despite the positive attitudes of scuba divers, negative behaviour and unsupervised practices have had undesirable effects on the ecosystem and its experience economy. Therefore, this paper examines the sweet and bitter sides of experience from scuba divers' perspective, and the role of cognitive dissonance
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Korean tourists' experience of intercultural communication through English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in overseas travel: A grounded theory approach Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Kanghee Lee, Namhee Lee, Timothy J. Lee
This study examines Korean tourists' experience of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in overseas travel using grounded theory. The data is based on semi-structured interviews with 17 South Korean tourists, and the analysis using paradigm theory demonstrated 146 concepts, 29 subcategories, 11 main categories, and a core category entitled ‘enhancing the quality of tourism experiences and the motivation
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Can bike-sharing availability improve tourist satisfaction? Evidence in Chicago Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Ziqiong Zhang, Yang Yang, Sen Yang, Zili Zhang
Bike sharing has enriched the tourist experience while posing hidden risks to tourist attractions. However, the exact impact of bike sharing around tourist attractions on the tourist experience remains under-researched. Using data on tourist attractions and bike sharing collected from TripAdvisor and Divvy, and employing a time-varying difference-in-differences model, the main objective of this study
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The use of co-creation within the community-based tourism experiences Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Austin Rong-Da Liang, Wei Tung, Tung-Sheng Wang, Vince Wei-shen Hui
This study aims to design community-based tourism(CBT) using a combination of the co-creation viewpoints of service-dominant logic(SDL) and customer journey mapping(CJM). This study conducts four field experiments in traditional fishing villages. Via t-tests it was found that: (1) The design of CBT tours using a combination of SDL and CJM leads to tourists' positive experiences and satisfaction, overall
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Nostalgic emotions, meaning in life, subjective well-being and revisit intentions Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Deniz Karagöz, Haywantee Ramkissoon
The main purpose of this research is to examine the psychological and behavioral consequences of nostalgic emotions. Specifically, the study examines the interrelationships between nostalgic emotions, meaning in life, subjective well-being, and revisit intentions. Data were collected using an online survey via MTurk, and structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed hypotheses. Findings
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A typology of tourism mobility apps Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Amit Birenboim, Yael Bulis, Itzhak Omer
Smartphones and mobile applications (apps) have become indispensable tools for travelers. Despite their pivotal role in the tourism industry and continuous advancements, our understanding of their usage and integration is limited. Adopting a bottom-up approach, we analyzed and characterized 347 tourism mobility apps, differentiating between globally-used apps and those that are developed and used locally
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Creating cooperative value for destination resilience Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Sebastian Hoffmann, Theresa Deppisch, Martin Fontanari, Anastasia Traskevich
The purpose of this study is to conceptualise a hotel-to-destination process of resilience building. The qualitative study describes managerial experiences of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Problem-centred expert-interviews (21) were conducted with family-owned and chain-hotels in urban and rural destinations in Germany and Austria. This contribution is focused on networks at the destination
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Understanding Fijian residents' opposition to tourism post-pandemic Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Kyle Maurice Woosnam, Shavneet Sharma, Dimitrios Stylidis, Gurmeet Singh
Grounded in the norm activation theory and the theory of planned behaviour, this study investigated antecedents of residents' active and passive opposition to tourism. Data were collected from 569 Fijian residents and analysed using covariance-based structural equation modelling. Results revealed that awareness of the problem was positively associated with ascribed responsibility for COVID-19 and residents'
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An evaluation model for the recreational carrying capacity of urban aerial trails Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-18
Different from traditional trails, urban aerial trails are limited by the carrying capacity of visitors. Therefore, it is necessary to research the recreational carrying capacity of aerial trails, in order to provide satisfactory recreational experiences to the visitors. This study took Xiamen Mountains-to-Sea Trail as the research target, and obtained the number of visitors and acceptability data
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Hotel working conditions and challenges in a time of crisis: Perceptions of Spanish women managers Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-15
The health crisis caused by Covid-19 is also driving a social and economic crisis that has a powerful effect on the hospitality sector. The large number of women employed in the sector means that the consequences of the crisis may have a disproportionate impact on female employment in hospitality. The objective is to analyse the experience of women hotel managers, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Ski touring on groomed slopes—Exploring an alpine winter sports trend and potential tourism product Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-15
Winter sports tourism in the Alps remains competitive and challenges destinations to develop and offer new tourism products. Slope ski touring (SST) is an excellent example. In the Alps, this winter sport has been experiencing a tremendous boom. However, SST has been poorly examined in academia. Thus, we aimed to gain in-depth understanding of the SST phenomenon from both a supply and demand perspective
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Stakeholders' perception and competitiveness of heritage towns: A systematic literature review Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-15
Although urbanization is a distinguishing element of the contemporary era, the current model of urban growth fundamentally modifies the perspective-competitive environment, frequently diminishing positive stakeholders' perceptions and, as a result, endangering heritage continuity and tourism. A more harmonic relationship should be considered in an innovative perspective-economic inter and intra-regional
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How emotions sound. A literature review of music as an emotional tool in tourism marketing Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-14
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An integrative approach to examining the celebrity endorsement process in shaping affective destination image: A K-pop culture perspectives Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
With the growing importance of celebrity endorsement in destination promotions, this study investigated how destination image is developed through the celebrity endorsement process by integrating the meaning transfer model (MTM), social connectedness theory, and self-expansion theory into a conceptual framework. Based on a scenario-based online survey, a sample drawn from the audience of Bangtan Sonyeondan
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From tourist motivations to buying decisions: A multilevel engagement perspective Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-12
This paper offers theoretical and practical implications regarding digital media content generated on social media networks (SMNs). However, limited research has been conducted on this topic, resulting in important knowledge gaps. To narrow this gap, this paper proposes a theoretical framework that explored an important tourist-based antecedent (involvement) and its first- (engagement levels), second-
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Spatial, temporal, and social dynamics in visitation to U.S. national parks: A big data approach Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-11
The degree to which many benefits of national parks are realized hinges on public access. Traditional methods in estimating park visitation can be time-consuming, costly, and labor-intensive. Fortunately, the growing availability of ‘big data’ offers new opportunities for rapid and large-scale estimation. This study investigated the spatiotemporal dynamics in visitation to all National Park Service
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The effect of event experience on subjective well-being through perceived event benefit in neo-tribes Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-11
Using the neotribe approach, this study investigates the mediatory effect of group activities' perceived individual and community benefits on the relationship between the experience economy and subjective well-being. Individuals who were both participants and residents of the annual event of a local cycling community known as a neotribe were examined. The data gathered through the survey were analysed
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Glamping: An exploration of emotional energy and flow experiences in interaction rituals Tour. Manag. Perspect. (IF 7.608) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Keheng Xiang, Yang Cao, Guanghui Qiao, Wenyao Li
Glamping, a popular niche in the outdoor hospitality industry, caters to individuals who enjoy nature-based tourism. This study explored the process mechanisms and outcomes of interaction rituals in glamping. Empirical research was conducted on glamping participants (n = 18) and campsite managers (n = 8) through two studies using visual ethnography, focus-group interviews, and in-depth interviews.