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Tourist destination choice on five priority destinations of Indonesia during health crisis J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Beatrice Amabella Utari, Sheryta Arsallia, Muhamad Abdilah Ramdani, Fitri Rahmafitria, Prawira Fajarindra Belgiawan, Puspita Dirgahayani, Reza Ashari Nasution
Destination choice is an important component of measuring tourism competitiveness. Although various studies have been conducted to analyze factors influencing destination choice, exploration during a health crisis (i.e. pandemic) has not been widely carried out. Besides, understanding the behavior of domestic tourists in choosing destinations during a pandemic can help tourism/destination managers
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Country branding in post-truth Era: A configural narrative J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Pramukh Nanjundaswamy Vasist, Satish Krishnan
This study investigates the impact of online disinformation and hate speech on a country's image, considering its implications for the destination's image and tourism prospects. Utilizing the theoretical lens of soft power, the study performs a macro-level empirical analysis across 56 countries on the influence of a diverse array of online disinformation variants and hate speech on the nation's brand
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Regenerative tourism: Perceptions and insights from tourism destination planners in Aotearoa New Zealand J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Jessica Mei Pung, Susan Houge Mackenzie, Brent Lovelock
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, ‘regenerative tourism’ has emerged as a promising alternative to the unsustainable growth paradigm underpinning traditional tourism practices. While this topic is increasingly explored in conceptual terms, what this approach means conceptually and in practice for a range of destination management stakeholders remains unclear. The present study analysed the meanings
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This country is Loveable: A model of destination brand love considering consumption authenticity and social experience J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Muhammad Dliyaul Haq, Ting-Hsiang Tseng, Hsiang-Lan Cheng, Chao-Min Chiu, Ya-Hui Kuo
Knowledge of how people love and behave out of love for a destination brand is limited. Thus, this study explores the antecedents and outcomes of destination brand love, which considers the moderating effects of social experiences (social exclusion vs. inclusion). The findings of this study reveal that consumption authenticity, which comprises brand, intrapersonal, and existential authenticity, has
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Consumers' concerns and the role of blockchain technology in mobile food delivery applications J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Khuram Shahzad, Qingyu Zhang, Abaid Ullah Zafar, Muhammad Faisal Shahzad, Wenping Liu
The use of blockchain technology (BT) is transforming consumer behavior and enhancing business values, but its role in the context of mobile food delivery applications (MFDAs) is underexplored. Therefore, this study utilizes stimulus–organism–response theory to determine consumers' willingness to pay more (WPM) and behavioral intention to use BT-enabled MFDAs. The empirical analysis was conducted using
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Discovering flamenco show audience tourists’ profile: Sentiment analysis, opinions and attitudes J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Lucía García-García, Miguel Ángel Solano-Sánchez, Tomás López-Guzmán, Salvador Moral-Cuadra
The aim of this work is to unveil the relationships between the socio-demographic profile of tourists attracted by flamenco shows and their opinions and perceptions about the importance of music in general and flamenco in particular as a motivation to travel, their interest and preference for flamenco and flamenco shows. The methodology employed is an artificial neural network to estimate a specific
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Evolution of the impact of social media in hospitality: A bibliometric analysis J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Miguel Ángel Sánchez Jiménez, Diego Gómez Carmona, María Moral Moral
The emergence and rise of social media have affected how companies address consumers, taking particular relevance in some sectors, such as hospitality. Despite this importance in the research literature, there needs to be more delimitation and understanding of social media's impact, specifically in the hospitality sector. Thus, this paper objective to learn about the evolution of social media research
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An analysis of the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg's destination marketing strategy with picture postcards from 1914 to 2020 J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Till Hägele
Botanical gardens are important tourist destinations, but their destination marketing strategies have historically received little attention. Among the most recognizable effort of destination marketing, picture postcards and their motifs give insight into previous strategies. In this analysis, I analyzed the motifs and style of the postcards produced by the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg over
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How specialized are coastal tourism destinations in Europe? J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Javier Fernández-Macho, Pilar González, Jorge Virto
This paper assesses the degree of specialization of tourism destinations along European coasts. It presents a European tourism database and a method based on Data Envelopment Analysis for creating an index of tourism specialization that ranks European basins, countries, and regions at the smallest Eurostat geocoding layer. The set of indicators selected respond to the economic logic of the tourism
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Does customer-based destination brand equity help customers forgive firm service failure in a tourist ecosystem? An investigation through explanatory sequential mixed-method design J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Taiba Musadiq Sahaf, Dr Asif Iqbal Fazili
This study seeks to examine the buffering effect of the brand equity of a destination on the customer responses to a service failure of the hotel/restaurant industry, which represents an important constituent of the tourism ecosystem. In this regard, a destination brand is viewed from the prism of customer-based brand equity as the “differential effect of destination brand knowledge on the responses
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Leveraging minority language in destination online marketing: Evidence from Alta Badia, Italy J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Serena Lonardi, Ursula Scholl-Grissemann, Mike Peters, Nadine Messner
This research investigates tourists’ reactions and perceptions about content-specific elements such as minority languages found on destination websites and social media accounts. Via an experimental study in the context of the Ladin minority of South Tyrol (Italy), the aim is to provide a greater understanding of online destination marketing, destination brand image, and social media engagement. The
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Smart host-guest relationship in a rural context: The case of Lebanon J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Alessandro Inversini, Caroline Aeberli, Salma N. Talhouk
The concept of smartness and smart tourism is gaining traction in the academic world; often applied to developed tourist destinations, this concept could also be applied in rural, developing and emerging areas to enable meaningful actor-to-actor relationships. Results of this research show the importance of focusing on human aspects of smartness for the co-creation of mutual value for host and guests
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Understanding destination brand experience through data mining and machine learning J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Víctor Calderón-Fajardo, Rafael Anaya-Sánchez, Sebastian Molinillo
This research formalises a new methodology to measure and analyse Destination Brand Experience, improving upon traditional approaches by offering greater objectivity and rigour. Adopting a case study approach, five distinct and complementary types of analysis have been conducted: comprehensive sentiment analysis and topic modelling, an analysis using multiple thesauri, statistical analyses for hypothesis
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Metaverse engagement and Korea travel intentions: Understanding affordances, presence, and place attachment among Brazilian ZEPETO users J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Seongeun Yoon, Yoonjae Nam
This study explored the relationship between metaverse experience and travel decisions through a survey of 459 Brazilian ZEPETO users. The results show that well-organized affordances had a significant impact on users' sense of presence. Neither social realism nor cyber sickness had a significant impact on immersion, but spatial presence was strongly correlated with immersion and place attachment.
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Multilayered spatial categories in tourism marketing and branding J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Tommi Inkinen, Maria Heikkonen, Teemu Makkonen, Simo Rautiainen
This paper explores the role and significance of spatial units in online tourism marketing and branding. The analysis is based on the application of different regional typologies as categorization units in understanding and analyzing quantitative and qualitative properties of tourism websites. The study combines four distinct ways of classifying regions into a spatial framework to systematize the properties
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Tourism motivation: A complex adaptive system J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Jalayer Khalilzadeh, Metin Kozak, Giacomo Del Chiappa
This article discusses the history and status quo of traditional tourism motivation theories as well as their shortcomings. By adopting a collective approach to motivation, this study proposes a framework that examines tourism motivations from a complex adaptive system's perspective. To conduct this study, the destination-motivation semantic system was designed as a bipartite scale-free network that
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Tourscape role in tourist destination sustainability: A path towards revisit J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Eduardo Torres-Moraga, Carla Rodriguez-Sanchez, Manuel Alonso-Dos-Santos, Agustín Vidal
The tourscape concept is recently coined to represent the general atmosphere experienced by tourists in a destination and includes four dimensions (stimuli): physical, social, socially symbolic, and natural dimensions. Tourist perception of these stimuli is relevant for the development of a tourist destination. This study proposes for the first time that tourscape can also be an important element of
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Co-designing tourism experience systems: A living lab experiment in reflexivity J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Bert Smit, Frans Melissen, Xavier Font
Stakeholders must purposely reflect on the suitability of process models for designing tourism experience systems. Specific characteristics of these models relate to developing tourism experience systems as integral parts of wider socio-technical systems. Choices made in crafting such models need to address three reflexivity mechanisms: problem, stakeholder and method definition. We systematically
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What shapes tourists’ visit intention in different stages of public health crises? The influence of destination image, information-literacy self-efficacy, and motivations J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Carmen M. Sabiote-Ortiz, J. Alberto Castañeda-García, Dolores M. Frías-Jamilena
This empirical study aims to identify the components of destination image and tourist motivation that help explain tourist visit intention during different stages of a major public health crisis. It also seeks to determine how tourists' information-literacy self-efficacy influences that image. The research focuses on two stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: 1) tourist behavior the alleviating effect of
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Impact of destination advertising on tourists’ visit intention: The influence of self-congruence, self-confidence, and destination reputation J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Yongrui Guo, Meijing Yu, Yuzong Zhao
This study aimed to develop and validate a theoretical model for examining how different types of destination advertising (abstract vs. concrete) affect tourists’ visit intention. The hypotheses developed in this study were validated through four scenario experiments. The results showed that abstract destination advertising increased visit intention more than concrete destination advertising. Further
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Attracting digital nomads: Smart destination strategies, innovation and competitiveness J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Lingxu Zhou, Dimitrios Buhalis, Daisy X.F. Fan, Adele Ladkin, Xiao Lian
Digital nomadism, as a new form of tourist mobility, brings opportunities and challenges for destination management. To attract this new market, smart destinations need to innovate to develop readiness and competitiveness. This research examines 225 digital nomad destination web articles, from multiple sources and different continents. The study aims to identify innovative strategies and practices
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Exploring the influence of short video platforms on tourist attitudes and travel intention: A social–technical perspective J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Liangwei Qiu, Xiangping Li, Suh-hee Choi
Despite the increasing popularity of short video platforms (SVPs) in tourism, there has been a lack of integrated theoretical understanding regarding the mechanism of how SVP users’ perceptions of social media influencers (SMIs) and quality of SVPs influence their intention to visit the destination. By combining social learning theory and the technology acceptance model (TAM), this study investigated
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Exploring relations among authentic tourism experience, experience quality, and tourist behaviours in phygital heritage with experimental design J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Şükrü Fırat Çiftçi, Beykan Çizel
Mixed reality (MR) in museums has become increasingly prevalent because of the rapid progress of digitalisation. However, there is a dearth of research examining the impact of MR on visitors' perceptions of authenticity and behaviour, particularly in relation to the role of tour guides. This paper describes a field experiment designed to compare the effects of three distinct service categories (MR
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Multidimensionality of nostalgic festival experiences: The Art Deco Festival case J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Emma Dresler, Victoria Jackson
Heritage festivals are interactive spaces imbued with stimuli to evoke feelings of nostalgia. This qualitative study draws on the narratives of attendees to the Art Deco Festival in Napier, New Zealand, to examine the nostalgia experience. Through in-depth interviews and thematic analysis of festival visitors, event organisers, and local businesses, the findings reveal four distinct types of nostalgia
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Online networking behaviour of tourism stakeholders in a multi-destination region: A hyperlink network analysis J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Volha Herasimovich, Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal, Basagaitz Guereño-Omil
Inter-organisational networking, essential for enhancing tourist destinations' performance, is often underutilised, resulting in low-density networks. To develop precise strategies for managing connectivity, it is crucial to examine stakeholders' networking behaviours – how they connect to a destination network and contribute to its structural formations within and beyond their sectors and geographic
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Building a framework for a resilience-based public private partnership J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Marwa Ghanem, Meril Ghaley
Covid-19's severe impacts on the tourism sector drove numerous research directions to explore resilience and define important aspects of surviving and adapting to unexpected disruptions, but relatively little exploration of tourism partnership resilience exists, despite the immense socio-economic importance of the tourism industry. This study pioneers exploration of the resilience of public-private
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The effect of online message congruence, destination-positioning, and emojis on users’ cognitive effort and affective evaluation J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Beatriz García-Carrión, Francisco Muñoz-Leiva, Salvador Del Barrio-García, Lucia Porcu
In today's digital world, it is crucial that Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) understand how tourists process and assimilate the information they receive through social media, whether this is posted online by the destination itself or by other users. When it comes to understanding the effectiveness of DMOs' integrated marketing communication (IMC) strategies, it is important to examine the
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Glamping tourism as a sustainable response to the need to reinvigorate domestic tourism J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Ana-Maria Pop, Alexandra-Camelia Marian-Potra, Gheorghe-Gavrila Hognogi, Viorel Puiu
Communing with nature and spending quality time in a natural environment as pollution-free as possible is an increasingly popular trend, including in the tourist industry. The restrictions on international travel and the social distancing measures imposed because of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic have led to the appearance and growth of alternative in-country ways of spending one's free time
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Impact of Airbnb on the hotel industry in Japan J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Satoka Nakamura, Angathevar Baskaran, Sonia Kumari Selvarajan
The main aim of this paper is to find out whether the occupancy rate of the hotels would increase or decrease with the number of listings in Airbnb in Japan. It employs a panel data gathered from annual Airbnb's listings and hotel occupancy rates, covering all 47 prefectures in Japan and 5 accommodation types for 7 years. The findings indicate that the number of Airbnb listings did not have a statistically
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Has COVID-19 changed the factors explaining the occupancy of Airbnb accommodation? Madrid as a case study J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Adrián Más-Ferrando, Luis Moreno-Izquierdo, José Francisco Perles-Ribes, Antonio Rubia
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the dynamics of short-term rental demand, particularly on Airbnb, have seen pivotal shifts. Using Madrid as a case study, this research used strategic sampling to investigate changes in occupancy, housing attributes, and online reputation. Leveraging a sup-likelihood ratio test and a hedonic-type pooled panel-data Logit regression, we identified a marked structural
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Does linguistic diversity make destinations more sophisticated? Exploring the effects on destination personality J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Hanyu(Yuki) Chen, Lili Wang, Xuan Zhang, Wei Wei, Jiaying Lyu
Today's destinations are gradually moving toward linguistic diversity to help tourists obtain a better experience. Accordingly, using diverse languages is developing as a noteworthy destination marketing and management measure. Applying destination personality theory, this research examines the impact of linguistic diversity on destination personality, as well as tourists' attitudes and behavior across
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Towards a model of sports franchise leverage for destination marketing J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 David Proctor, Gerard Dunne, Sheila Flanagan
This research investigates the leverage of sports franchises by destination marketing organisations for their tourism potential. Leverage in this instance is manifested by the opportunities afforded DMOs to co-opt the often global recognition of professional sports clubs to enhance the profile of a destination for the benefit of the wider stakeholder environment and not simply as a tool to attract
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How to improve destination brand identification and loyalty using short-form videos? The role of emotional experience and self-congruity J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Zhigang Li, Jing Zhang
In the new media era, although the short-form video has become an essential tool for destination brand marketing, few empirical studies have concentrated on how to use it to improve destination brand identification and brand loyalty. The conceptual model of short-form video features, consumers and destination brands was constructed based on the stimulus-organism-response framework. A total of 523 valid
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Music-induced tourism: Korean pop (K-pop) music consumption values and their consequences J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Seongseop (Sam) Kim, Sangkyun Kim, Antony King Fung Wong
People are exposed to a diverse range of music genres through numerous media in everyday life. Pop music, being a significant cultural symbol, has evolved into a major tourist attraction; an example is found in Korean pop (K-pop) music and its fandoms. This study aimed to examine an integrated structural model which included consumption values and their consequences. Three key domains of K-pop music
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Service attributes for sustainable rural tourism from online comments: Tourist satisfaction perspective J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Jie Wu, Tong Yang
While there have been many tourism studies exploring business opportunities from online comments, research in the context of sustainable rural tourism is rare. In particular, practitioners involved in rural destinations are usually transformed from farmers who are relatively new to information technology and therefore unable to understand the voices of tourists in a timely and effective manner. Aiming
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Embarking on the trail of sustainable harmony: Exploring the nexus of visitor environmental engagement, awareness, and destination social responsibility in natural parks J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Mehdi Pourhossein, Bradley J. Baker, Morteza Dousti, Mohsen Behnam, Saeid Tabesh
The importance of pro-environmental behavior of tourists in nature-based public destinations is undeniable. This study investigates the role of perceived environment quality and environmental awareness on pro-environmental behavior through environmental engagement. The moderation role of social destination social responsibility on the association between environmental engagement and pro-environmental
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Exploring the perceptions and attitudes of residents at modern art festivals: The effect of social behavior on support for tourism J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Miwa Nishinaka, Hisashi Masuda, Isabelle Frochot
This study examines the extent to which residents' perceptions and attitudes regarding a modern art festival influence their support for the event. Tourism events can affect residents' quality of life and lead to diverse levels of support among the local population. Few studies have used residents' social behavior as a variable. Exchange-based variables, such as the interaction between residents and
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Sustainable practices, mindfulness, tranquility, and well-being: A mixed-method approach J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Madhurima Deb, Vinay Kumar Sharma, Padma Panchapakesan
The present study aims to understand how tourists perceive the sustainable practices adopted by hotels and rural homestays and how this impacts their well-being. The current research used a mixed-methods approach. A qualitative study explored preliminary information on the state of formal certification of prevalent sustainable practices adopted by rural homestays and hotels in India. At the same time
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Creating luxury brand names in the hospitality and tourism sector: The role of sound symbolism in destination branding J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Kosuke Motoki, Jaewoo Park, Abhishek Pathak, Charles Spence
Service firms can use sensory cues to provide a perception of luxury in terms of quality and service. In the area of destination branding, brand names are one of the core elements of brands that help communicate their image to a consumer in the hospitality and tourism sector. Psycholinguistics research demonstrates that linguistic cues embedded within brand names can be used to convey the image of
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Cruise tourism destinations: Practices, consequences and the road to sustainability J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Hindertje Hoarau-Heemstra, Karin Wigger, Julia Olsen, Laura James
This narrative review article contributes to the discussion on destination sustainability by focusing on cruise tourism practices. Cruise tourism is a complex industry, particularly from a destination perspective. There have been many calls for cruise tourism to become more sustainable for destinations but little consensus about what this means, or how it could be achieved. The aim of this article
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Responding to an unprecedented shock — Elucidating how 113 DMOs changed the marketing communications on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Viriya Taecharungroj, Ake Pattaratanakun
This study analysed the changes in destination marketing organisation's (DMOs) marketing communications in response to the unprecedented shock of the pandemic. A total of 250,979 tweets and 44,560 replies by 113 DMOs before and during the pandemic were carefully examined using descriptive and time series analyses, topic modelling, sentiment analysis, and principal component analysis. The findings revealed
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Parasitic events and host destination resource dependence: Evidence from the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Michael Duignan, Joan Carlini, David McGillivray
Major events possess limited resources relative to those they must seize, extract and control from a host destination. All sport events, to varying degrees, are parasitic as they are highly dependent onexternal host destination resource environments to deliver complex operational and strategic event objectives. This dynamic poses a management challenge as the event's existence, sustenance and survival
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The role of technology in enhancing the tourism experience in smart destinations: A meta-analysis J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Inés Sustacha, José Francisco Baños-Pino, Eduardo Del Valle
An increasing number of destinations are using smart technology to enrich the travel experience. The aim of this paper is to integrate the findings about how technology affects the tourism experience in smart destinations to provide an overview of its impact. Meta-analysis allows this question to be addressed in a transparent, objective and replicable way by providing unified conclusions based on previous
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How do event zones influence visitor behaviour and engagement with host destinations? A longitudinal study of the Cambridge half marathon (2017–2020) J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Michael B. Duignan, Sharon Zou, Jeongeun Park, Sally Everett, Lewis Walsh, Stephen Page, Alan Fyall, Marcus Hansen
This work identifies important influencing factors that affect event visitor behaviour in and beyond event zones, utilising a four-year, mixed-method, longitudinal study (n=6212) of the Cambridge Half Marathon (2017–2020). We counter a commonly held view that visitors naturally spill out into local cultural and business precincts, arguing that event zones represent cities within cities that spatially
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Digital destination branding: A framework to define and assess European DMOs practices J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Maria Giovanna Confetto, Francesca Conte, Maria Palazzo, Alfonso Siano
The current tourism scenario is complex, marked by deep crises and changes due to Covid-19 pandemic impacts. Tourist destinations more than ever need to assert their brand on the global market. This paper proposes a framework for setting up destination branding choices in the digital realm and for measuring the choices made by tourismplayers such as Destination Marketing Organisations (DMOs). This
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Assessing the contribution of different markets in combatting destination seasonality: The case of Benidorm, Spain J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 José David Cisneros-Martínez, Scott McCabe, Antonio Fernández-Morales
This study assesses the relative contributions that different demand segments make to a reduction in seasonality at tourism destinations. Specifically, we ask which types of markets are the most effective for counter-balancing seasonality in high seasonality-prone coastal destinations? This is particularly important where there is a significant presence of ‘non-market’ based segments, such as social
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Managing visitor experience at religious heritage sites J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Kiranraj Pande, Fangfang Shi
Religious tourism makes up a significant proportion of global tourism, with religious sites attracting large numbers of visitors from around the world. This study investigates visitor experience at two religious heritage sites associated with Hinduism and Buddhism and employs cross-site analysis to suggest a common management strategy. The importance-performance framework is used to assess visitors'
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Wish you were here? Tourists’ perceptions of nature-based destination photographs J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Florian Ortanderl, Thomas Bausch
This article delves into the cognitive perceptions and affective responses of tourists when viewing destinaton photographs. This study involved 149 participants interested in a holiday in South Tyrol, Italy, who provided feedback on various types of destination photographs in a web-based qualitative study using QDC studio. These photographs featured compositions with a single person, a group of people
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Immersive experiences as a resource for promoting museum tourism in the Z and millennials generations J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Lorena Robaina-Calderín, Josefa D. Martín-Santana, Francisco Muñoz-Leiva
In recent years, immersive experiences have gained a leading role in cultural and museum tourism. However, not all the benefits of virtual reality as a promotional tool for museum tourism, especially among the younger generation, are being exploited. This paper conducted an experiment in three different immersive scenarios, using the virtual reality headset, the mobile application plus virtual reality
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The 2022 consensus on advances in destination management J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Stephan Reinhold, Pietro Beritelli, Christian Laesser
This article presents the 2022 Consensus on Advances in Destination Management, a research agenda for destination marketing and management. Like its predecessors, this agenda is grounded in the collaborative consensus discourse methodology. To identify relevant avenues for future research, the consensus draws on three days of structured interactions among scholarly and industry experts invested in
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The effect of the wine tourism experience J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Diego Gómez-Carmona, Alberto Paramio, Serafín Cruces-Montes, Pedro Pablo Marín-Dueñas, Alexander Aguirre Montero, Antonio Romero-Moreno
The international promotion of wine routes is leading to a growing demand for wine tourism activities. More and more tourists are choosing wine tourism as an option when planning their trips. Although the data are encouraging, little is known about the effect that these tourist activities have on wine consumers. This paper shows the effect of the wine tourism experience on a group of consumers. Through
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The adoption of a smart destination model by tourism companies: An ecosystem approach J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Jesús Collado-Agudo, Ángel Herrero-Crespo, Héctor San Martín-Gutiérrez
This research examines the factors influencing the adoption of a smart destination model by tourism companies, adopting an ecosystem approach. The focus on tourism companies is a relevant contribution, as they are key stakeholders for the development and implementation of a smart destination model in a region. Based on the Technology-Organisation-Environment Framework (TOE) and the Technology Acceptance
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The (negative) impact of violent and gore TV crime series on destination image and travel motivation J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 António Azevedo, Juliana Araújo Alves, Rúben Rodrigues Fernandes
Several studies have addressed the reasons for the popularity of film locations as tourism destinations. However, there is a gap in the literature as there are few studies examining the impact of violent crime series on the (de)motivation to travel to these locations and on the perception of destination safety (safe to travel). This study proposes a new theoretical framework to describe viewers' processing
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Destination brand personality self-congruity and crime perceptions: Effects on travel intentions J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Oliver Cruz-Milán, Ismael Castillo-Ortiz
Given limited research about the effects of identity-related and self-congruity constructs in destinations with insecurity issues, this study investigates tourists' travel intentions as predicted by two central constructs: destination brand personality self-congruity (DBPSC) and perceived risks derived from criminal activities at destinations. In order to better understand their respective role as
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From bystanders to actioners: A tri-theoretical exploration of residents’ roles in tourist PEBs J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Aijing Liu, Emily Ma, Wenzhong Wei, Hailin Qu
Using a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design supported by quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study explored how local residents can trigger tourists' pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) from three theoretical perspectives: social learning, norm activation, and reference group theories. Our findings suggested that residents' PEBs trigger tourists' PEBs by serving as reference groups for
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How does virtual tourism involvement impact the social education effect of cultural heritage? J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 7.158) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Fengyi Ji, Fang Wang, Bihu Wu
Cultural heritage has benefited from virtual tourism in the post-epidemic era, but more research is needed to understand how virtual tourism can contribute to cultural heritage's social education effect. Based on the theory of involvement, this study takes the Forbidden City as a case to examine the social education mechanism of tourists involved in virtual cultural heritage tourism. The results show
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