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Hotel quarantine and trip-induced wellbeing: the buffering effect of online crisis support Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Zhiwei (CJ) Lin, IpKin Anthony Wong, Fiona X. Yang
The traumatic effect of quarantine and its subsequent coping strategies have been fairly underexplored. This research note draws on the cognitive appraisal theory (CAT) of stress to put forth a cop...
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Examining the legitimacy of ethnic cultural festivals: development and validation of a measurement scale for residents’ perception of host destinations Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Thamires Foletto Fiuza, Fabricia Durieux Zucco, Pablo Flores Limberger, Fernanda de Souza Farias
Ethnic-cultural festivals are considered public celebrations aimed at preserving and celebrating the ethnic culture of communities established in a region after migration. This research aims to mea...
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Exploring parental risk perceptions in family travel in rural destinations Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Tahereh Sadeghloo, Siamak Seyfi, Khadijeh Bouzarjomehry, Mitra Yarahmadi, Tan Vo-Thanh
Family travel can offer an enjoyable and enriching experience for both parents and children, but it also comes with potential risks. Children's vulnerability is a significant concern during family ...
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Antecedents of domestic visitor’s memorable experiences and gender difference: a heritage tourism context Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Siamak Seyfi, S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Erose Sthapit, C. Michael Hall
This study explores the interplay between visitor engagement, authenticity, and destination image in shaping memorable tourism experiences (MTE) within the realm of domestic heritage tourism, as we...
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Senses, emotions and wellbeing in forest recreation and tourism Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Linsheng Zhong, Carly Campbell, Ralf Buckley, Dongfang Zhu, Hu Yu, Alienor Chauvenet, Mary-Ann Cooper
Outdoor tourism can provide nature therapies. Implementation research for mental healthcare aims to establish psychological mechanisms and specify designs, doses and durations for medical trials. A...
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Oral tradition, ancient history and religious tourism knowledge Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Stephen Schweinsberg, Richard Sharpley
Religious tourism is one of the most longstanding forms of leisure related travel in the world with a history dating back to antiquity. However, there has been a hesitation amongst many tourism sch...
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Structuring food and wine pairing experiences in an emerging economy – Implications for food and wine pursuits, recreation, and tourism Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Abel Duarte Alonso, Oanh Thi Kim Vu, Thanh Duc Tran, Luong Ngoc Tran, Trung Thanh Nguyen
By embracing the underpinnings of the structured experience and the experience economy literature, this study explores wine and food consumers in an emerging economy, where change and evolution are...
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Tracing emotional responses to nature-based tourism commercials and tagging individual sequences Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Christian Weismayer, Ilona Pezenka
Most tourism campaigns rely heavily on emotional appeals. Therefore, it is crucial to understand which video sequences elicit certain emotions to determine whether they are consistent with the targ...
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Tourism firms’ attitudes and willingness to contribute to payments for ecosystem services in tourism Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Henna Konu, Pinja Leino, Liisa Tyrväinen
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the discussions of the role of tourism firms in maintaining important natural environments and cultural ecosystem services of a tourism destination. Mo...
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The closer the better to the Great Pit of Daznak movie set? Residents of a rural town and their perceptions of film tourism Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Mar Cobeña, M. Ángeles Oviedo-García, Manuela Vega-Vázquez, Carmen Correal
Films are a powerful medium to promote destinations, particularly to attract tourists to film locations. Moreover, the economic development film tourism brings with it can revitalise rural areas un...
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Award: the best article of the year 2023 Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-01-31
Published in Tourism Recreation Research (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Outstanding reviewers of the year 2023 Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-01-31
Published in Tourism Recreation Research (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Stress and fresh-start mindsets promote repatronage intention in loyalty programs Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Wagner Junior Ladeira, Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Tareq Rasul, Haywantee Ramkissoon, Sumesh Nair, Mohd Azhar
The present research proposes and tests a conceptual model of the effects of mindsets (stress-based vs. fresh-start-based) on the relationship between compensations (discount coupons vs. bonus rewa...
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Traveling without money: deserving ‘drifters' or panhandling 2.0? Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Konstantinos Tomazos, Samantha Murdy
The controversial phenomenon of travelling without money, known as ‘beg-packing’, challenges conventional notions of travel. Our study explores the evolving landscape of beg-packing, including its ...
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The holy hues of Amritsar: an inquiry into the interplay of religious tourism and sacred space Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Priyanka Jha, Taruna Bansal, Pankaj Rawat, Vishal Warpa
Religious tourism is common in Asia because of the multi-religious nature of Asian culture. However, intriguingly, the terms ‘sacred space’ and ‘tourist space’ are becoming more interchangeable due...
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Coffee culture unravelled: exploring the coffee shop experience model in the Vietnamese context Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Oanh Thi Kim Vu, Abel Duarte Alonso, Thanh Duc Tran, Wil Martens, Lan Do, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Erhan Atay, Mohammadreza Akbari
Amidst the captivating realm of the coffee shop experience, this study contributes to its significance across various literature streams and diverse forms. More specifically, the study focuses on t...
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AI-powered ChatGPT in the hospitality and tourism industry: benefits, challenges, theoretical framework, propositions and future research directions Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Raouf Ahmad Rather
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and smart/e-tourism provide imperative opportunities to service industries; however, the implementation of ChatGPT in the tourism and hospitality industry is...
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Not just another trinket: defining unique attributes of food souvenirs Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Matthew J. Stone
Within tourism research, food and drink souvenirs have primarily been considered a subset of local goods. This research note justifies a separate classification for food souvenirs. After reviewing ...
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Social learning communities of practice as mechanisms for sustainable tourism: a process tracing evaluation of a government intervention Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Jenny Suno Wu, Xavier Font, Pete Barbrook-Johnson, Anna Torres Delgado
Many governments introduce interventions to help small enterprises adopt more sustainable practices. We used process tracing to evaluate how and why communities of practice and social forms of lear...
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Travel blog factors affecting the return intention of European tourists in Vietnam Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Phan Dinh Nguyen
This paper examines the effect of the travel blogs on European tourists’ return intention in Vietnam. Our findings show that travel blog plays an important role in guiding tourists to choose a dest...
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Unravelling conspicuous consumption amongst foreign tourists: a study on esteem-based luxury yachting in Fiji Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Vikas Gupta
This study evaluates the influence of individualistic and interpersonal behaviours on luxury yacht patronage and willingness to pay a premium (WTPP) among foreign tourists in Fiji. It examined the ...
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A phenomenological explication of immersion in forest bathing Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Yiqin Zhang, Hirofumi Ueda
This study adopts Schmitz’s new phenomenological approach to investigate tourists’ experiences of immersion in forest bathing. Immersion is a complex phenomenon with relevance in various domains e....
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The object of my desire! Exploring the antecedents of long-haul travel intentions in an era of uncertainty Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Tafadzwa Matiza, Anne Köchling
In an increasingly uncertain global tourism environment characterised by health, safety and security, energy, economic and climate change-related pressures, there is an impetus for research into an...
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Nature-based tourism and climate favourability: a case of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Christopher A. Craig
Nature-based tourism at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is a salient contributor to the national economy. Nature-based tourism involves travel to a destination dependent on the natural environm...
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Stakeholder assemblages of destination climate adaptation Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Elisa Burrai, Vanja Krajinović, Jane Turner, Rodolfo Baggio, Nevenka Čavlek, Chris Cooper
This paper examines local perceptions of climate adaptation. We develop climate scenarios using the Tourism Climate Index (TCI) to determine the type of tourism that future climate resources will s...
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Assessing the asymmetric influence of ICT on the tourism development: fresh insights from a tourist destination economy Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Arunava Bandyopadhyay, Md. Emran Hossain, Soumen Rej, Mohammad Haseeb, Md. Jaber Rana
The United Nations’ ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’ recommended seventeen viable strategies aimed at eradicating poverty, maintaining the quality of the natural environment, and assuring eve...
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Green consumption intention of tourist in tourist destinations: a moderation of destination social responsibility in the Theory of Planned Behavior model Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-11-17 The-Bao Luong
This study uses the Theory of Planned Behavior model to investigate the green consumption intentions of 528 Vietnamese tourists. It specifically explores the moderation of destination social respon...
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Empowering marginalised groups for inclusive tourism: a call for critical studies Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Prachi Thakur, Paolo Mura, Jess Sanggeyong Je, Catheryn Khoo, Mona Ji Hyun Yang
Published in Tourism Recreation Research (Vol. 48, No. 6, 2023)
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Envisioning an inclusive tourism for an equitable future Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Prachi Thakur, Catheryn Khoo, Paolo Mura, Jess Sanggeyong Je, Mona Ji Hyun Yang
Based on the collection of 15 studies in the special issue on ‘Empowering Marginalised Groups for Inclusive Tourism’ for this journal, this article highlights the issues experienced by hosts, suppl...
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How eco-service quality affects tourist engagement behaviour in ecotourism: eco-consciousness and eco activity-based learning and S-O-R Theory Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Indrani Paul, Gobinda Roy
This study aims to examine the growing role of eco-consciousness and eco-activity-based learning in the eco-service quality model and their effect on tourist engagement behaviour in ecotourism dest...
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Following mega sports events on social media impacts Gen Z travelers’ sports tourism intentions: the case of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Yangyang Jiang, Cenhua Lyu, Wangjie Chen, Jun Wen
Social media engagement theory provides a theoretical perspective for understanding customers’ social media experiences. However, research on how the social media experience related to mega sports ...
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Motivations and meanings for Camino pilgrims Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Michael Basil
While increasing in popularity, pilgrimages appear to be blurring their distinction with tourism. This research investigates the motivations and meanings behind contemporary pilgrimages along the C...
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Unpacking risk aversion and uncertainty avoidance: an analysis from a tourists’ personality traits and information search perspective Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Rongbin Yang, Peter O'Connor, Santoso Wibowo
Tourists’ behaviours are significantly affected by their risk aversion and uncertainty avoidance. However, several studies found that these two traits are often used interchangeably. Using partial-...
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Examining the effectiveness of a tourism–agriculture co-marketing alliance: an empirical study of fit and fit priming Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Juanyi Liu, Fang Liu, Dave (David) Webb
The relationship between places and products has been acknowledged in tourism and marketing. Nonetheless, limited empirical research has sought to understand this association from a co-marketing pe...
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Theoretical development of the tourist experience: a future perspective Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Zhaoyu Chen
ABSTRACT The tourist experience is a widely explored phenomenon in tourism research because of its importance to the design and provision of quality products and services and the enhancement of destination branding. Various theories and theoretical frameworks have been applied to understand tourist experiences, including the constructivist, experiential, and emotional perspectives. However, recent
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Consumption value in food tourism: the effects on purchase involvement and post-travel behaviours Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Matthew J. Stone, Suiwen (Sharon) Zou
ABSTRACT This study applied local food consumption values to food tourism (culinary tourism) activities. Prior research revealed that impacts of consumption values in food tourism often varied based on the destination. This study adapts the tourist’s local food consumption value (TLFCV) scale to food travel in general, using a survey of American leisure travellers (N = 489). Interaction value, emotional
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Applying a technology acceptance model to understand digital-free tourism Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Shavneet Sharma, Gurmeet Singh, Stephen Pratt
ABSTRACT This study investigates the factors influencing residents’ attitudes and intentions to engage in digital-free tourism (DFT), a form of tourism that restricts or excludes the use of digital technology to counter excessive reliance on electronics. Through the lens of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), a quantitative design was employed, and data was collected from
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‘Reverse gaze’ in spiritual tourism: fact or myth? Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Reni Polus
ABSTRACT The term ‘reverse gaze’ is used in tourism academia to describe the interaction between tourist photographers and local subjects, which challenges traditional power dynamics in tourism. However, further research is needed to explore this concept within the wider context of tourism. In this research note, I adopt an autoethnographic approach to provide a reflective analysis of the Ganga Aarti
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Fair vs. fake touristic degrowth Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Asunción Blanco-Romero, Macià Blázquez-Salom, Robert Fletcher
ABSTRACT This contribution aims to advance consideration of the potential and pitfalls entailed in discussions of degrowth within tourism development. Many mass tourist destinations suffer from saturation impacting local working conditions, access to housing and the collective enjoyment of public goods, among the many common drawbacks of so-called ‘overtourism’. Yet proposals to address the negative
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Understanding senior citizens’ intentions to use virtual reality for religious tourism in India: a behavioural reasoning theory perspective Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Sahil Raj, Brinda Sampat, Abhishek Behl, Kokil Jain
The study uses a multi-theoretical approach and the three behavioural theories of Behavioural Reasoning Theory (BRT), Self-Determination Theory (SDT), and Innovation Resistance Theory (IRT) to anal...
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Navigating uncertainty: exploring festival and community events’ crisis management in three North American countries Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Christine M. Van Winkle, Driselda Sánchez-Aguirre, Bingjie Liu-Lastres
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic affected many industries, including the organisation of community events. One of the main consequences of the pandemic has been ongoing uncertainty. Defining and managing uncertainty is complex and has been explored from different angles; however, little has been written from the perspective of event and festival organisations. This study employs qualitative interviews
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‘We didn’t want it to be a touch-and-go thing': exploring shifts across short-term youth voluntourism outputs and long-term outcomes and impact Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Jin Yao Kwan
ABSTRACT Short-term volunteer outputs of youth voluntourism have been documented, yet more recent studies have examined longer-term youth voluntourism outcomes and impact and voluntourism’s transformative features. However, research gaps exist. Less is known about how individual volunteers may be personally shaped by past voluntourism experiences in the long-term – including on hindsight – shifts across
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Medical tourism index and travel willingness via travel anxiety: PLS-NCA approach Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Muhammad Haroon Shoukat, Islam Elgammal, Shahab Aziz, Hossein Olya, Kareem M. Selem
ABSTRACT This empirical research developed a conceptual model to predict medical tourists’ willingness to travel in the post-pandemic era. The paper employed complexity theory to assess the complex role of medical tourism index (MTI) dimensions on tourist willingness through travel anxiety. Data were gathered using a questionnaire-based survey and analysed using partial least squares structural equation
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Does the travel career pattern model work for repeat tourists? Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Manisha Agarwal, Philip L. Pearce, Hera Oktadiana, Abhishek Singh Bhati, Alexander Josiassen
ABSTRACT Tourism researchers and practitioners have an interest in understanding tourists’ travel patterns, and one of the most used models applied to reach this goal is the seminal Travel Career Pattern (TCP) model. However, repeat tourism is underexplored and in the present research, the authors provide an initial investigation of repeat tourists using the TCP model. Based on survey data from 500
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Emotional intelligence & ethical decision making in hunting tourism: a virtue based approach Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Margaret C. Keiper, Eduardo Wilner
ABSTRACT Recent research has indicated that hunting tourism is growing and that hunters tend to act more unethically when hunting as tourists. Informed by an Aristotelian Virtue-Ethics theoretical framework, the researchers propose and test a link between emotional intelligence and ethical decision-making. Specifically, survey-based research tests the relationship between emotional intelligence and
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An empirical investigation of the effects of entrance fees on national park visitors Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Hyunseo (Violet) Yoon, Suiwen (Sharon) Zou
ABSTRACT The budget reduction to public lands in the U.S. press parks to generate own revenues. Implementing entrance fees is considered by park management, but there is controversy surrounding the potential impacts on visitation and revenue. Drawing insights from the zero-price effect and the transactional utility theory, this study conducted two separate written vignette experiments targeting different
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Envisaging creative tourism through boutique hotels: an integrated framework of transformative experience Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Shradha Kabra, Pratibha Singh
ABSTRACT Experience co-creation as a distinguishing aspect of creative tourism has garnered significant scholarly attention. However, there remains a dearth of studies that investigates the phenomenon of value co-creation in innovative spaces such as boutique hotels. The present study examines boutique hotels in the creative city of Jaipur in India as potential vehicles of creativity. The study aims
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Vulnerabilities in tourism scholarship – scholars’ plea for a viable future Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Shalini Singh
Published in Tourism Recreation Research (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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The ‘misplaced’ vulnerability of tourism studies: towards a relational ontology, epistemological pluralism and affirmative ethics Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Jaume Guia, Marlisa Ayu Trisia
ABSTRACT As the closing article of the Special Issue of TRR, ‘Vulnerabilities and Viabilities in Tourism Studies’, the paper takes each one of the articles in the issue as reference and looks in them at concurrences and diffractions concerning claims of vulnerability and viability proposals for the field of tourism studies. The paper problematizes current practices of tourism research, and focuses
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Remembering Keith Hollinshead Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Shalini Singh
Published in Tourism Recreation Research (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Concept mapping in tourism: a case study of visitor attitudes Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Arghavan Hadinejad, Brent D. Moyle
ABSTRACT Concept maps are effective tools designed to summarise prior knowledge by capturing the organisation of key concepts. While common in various areas of research, the value of concept mapping for articulating future trends and directions within and across tourism knowledge (sub)domains is under-explored. Consequently, this short commentary develops a relational concept map of research on visitor
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Tourists’ perceptions of the sustainability of destination, satisfaction, and revisit intention Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-07-08 S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Shi Yin Chee, Neethiahnanthan Ari Ragavan
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of tourists’ perceptions of a destination’s sustainability on their satisfaction and revisit intention. Specifically, perceived sustainability of a destination is measured employing five indicators of sustainability dimensions: economic, environmental, socio-cultural, political, and technology. Furthermore, this study analyses the mediating role of satisfaction
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Metaverse marketing and consumer research: theoretical framework and future research agenda in tourism and hospitality industry Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Raouf Ahmad Rather
ABSTRACT While research on metaverse (MV) has expanded, the domain of real-time multisensory-social-interactions (RTMSIs) in metaverse-tourism has not been recognized so far in travel, tourism and hospitality marketing. This research note develops a theoretical-framework that recommends nine set of important research propositions in MV-tourism. An extensive literature review was conducted to examine
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Empathy in animal-based tourism contrasting constructed care and care ethics at a captive wildlife venue Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-07-07 David A. Fennell
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to introduce the work of the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder on empathy to contemporary tourism. Animals and humans share a language of nature, which was an essential point of departure for Herder in arguing that the sensual must be elevated alongside the empirical in arriving at deeper truths. Herder’s philosophy is used as a benchmark
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Community inclusion in tourism development: young people’s social innovation propositions for advancing sustainable tourism Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Mari Partanen, Marika Kettunen, Jarkko Saarinen
ABSTRACT Different community groups and members hold varying power positions in tourism development discussions and decision-making. From the sustainable development perspective, tourism planning and management should involve a diversity of voices, including also those with limited political or economic power. This article focuses on relatively little studied young people’s views on tourism development
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Rethinking or reinventing tourism? Exposing the ontological and epistemological conflicts in tourism studies literature during the COVID-19 pandemic Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Boualem Kadri, Dominic Lapointe, Samira Tacherifet
ABSTRACT While tourism was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars published articles reflecting on tourism and what should or would be tourism during and after the pandemic. Situating this corpus of tourism studies scientific discourses within the larger crisis of social science, the paper exposes through discourse analysis two poles of arguments on (re)thinking tourism or (re)inventing tourism
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Identifying, selecting and defining research questions: reflections on fifty years of tourism scholarship Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Geoffrey Wall
ABSTRACT It is argued that the selection and definition of research topics are crucial early research steps that deserve more systematic attention than is commonly the case. Research topics should be actively sought. Means of finding research topics and narrowing the foci to delimit research questions, through the construction of venn and hourglass diagrams, are suggested. These are crucial tasks for
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Empowering people with visual disabilities through rural tourism: the benefits of nature activities and how the various travel constraints can be overcome Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Ana Gomes, Celeste Eusébio
The aim of this study is to identify the main constraints faced by people with visual disabilities (PwVD) when visiting a rural destination, as well as the benefits sought through their participati...
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Free time as a central issue of tourism studies: a genealogy of leisure/idleness based on the indigenous cosmovisions of Latin America Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Mozart Fazito, Sebastião Vargas
ABSTRACT The dominance of the neoliberal ideology over tourism praxis in the last decades have undermined the possibilities for tourism to be seen as a social transformative force. This article considers that the richest part of the tourist experience belongs to the realm of ‘free time’. There is evidence of the importance of free time and leisure in indigenous societies, and to justify that the common-sense
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The relationship between accommodation type and tourists’ in-destination behaviour Tourism Recreation Research Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Bob McKercher, Bruce Prideaux, Michelle Thompson
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between accommodation choice and in-destination behaviour among tourists visiting Cairns, in far north Queensland, Australia. The findings are based on an exit survey of 2715 domestic and international tourists between 2016 and 2018. Significant differences were observed in the profile, travel patterns and in-destination behaviours when segmented by accommodation