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Doorbusters beyond the mall: Black Friday effects on tourism Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Veronica Leoni, Vicente Ramos, Bartolomé Deya-Tortella
Shopping holidays are worldwide phenomena that have gained momentum in marketing and management studies; however, there is a lack of research in the tourism academia. The current study aims to cont...
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Triggering place brand loyalty: the nexus between place brand credibility, fascination and attachment Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Saurabh Gupta
The study aims to develop a comprehensive model that examines the effect of place brand credibility (PBC) and destination fascination (DF) on place attachment (PA) and place brand loyalty (PBL). A ...
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Investigating the effect of tourism short video background music congruence on viewers’ travel intention Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Yanwei Zhou, Wenyu Jiao
Short video promotion has become increasingly popular in tourism marketing, yet there is scant academic research on how it influences tourists’ travel intention. This study investigates how congrue...
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Effect of short video storytelling on festival attractiveness: the moderating role of temporal orientation and novelty Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Jing Wang, Yu Wu, Zhaofeng Wang
Short video storytelling has become an important channel for destination marketing. However, how to take advantage of short video storytelling to enhance festival attractiveness is unclear. Based o...
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From work resources to safety performance: tour guides’ job burnout and personality profiles matter Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Yuan Li, Qionglei Yu, Yongguang Zou, Jianming Zhang, Jinjin Liao
Tour guides play an integral role in ensuring safe tourism; however, exactly how to improve tour guides’ safety performance remains unclear. Two studies were conducted in this research to investiga...
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Antecedents of cave visitors’ revisit intentions in the context of self-determination theory: a case study on Dupnisa Cave visitors in Turkey Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Kartal Dogukan Ciki, M. Murat Kizanlikli, Haluk Tanriverdi
Based on self-determination theory as a conceptual framework, the aim of this study is to reveal the relationships amongst cave visitors’ experiences, motivation, satisfaction and revisit intention...
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A human-centric decision-support system for smart and sustainable tourism management in urban settings Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Annarita De Maio, Roberto Musmanno, Aurora Skrame
This paper presents a human-centric decision-support system for planning a sustainable daily sightseeing tour in cities with diverse cultural and historical attractions. The system, personalised an...
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Fiery trails: tourism's forest fire dance Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Laxita Soontha, Syed Mohd Shahzeb, Mohammad Younus Bhat, Javeed Ahmad Ganie, Sonal Gupta
Tourism drives global economic growth and cultural exchange, but also raises climate vulnerability and forest fire concerns. This study explores the relationship between tourism and forest fires in...
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Are emissions from global air transport significantly underestimated? Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Stefan Gössling, Andreas Humpe, Ya-Yen Sun
Air transport is energy-intense, and considerable attention has been paid to the sector's use of fuel and emissions of greenhouse gases. Commercial aviation is believed to currently emit about 1 Gt...
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Hotel innovation and novelty: a case study of Disney’s Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Elizabeth A. Whalen, Rudy Dunlap
This study examines the impact of novelty and hedonic value on perceived value and intentions to revisit, using Disney's Galactic Starcruiser as a case study. Surveying past customers, participants...
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Establishing a destination image scale Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Dimitrios Stylidis
Although the image is pivotal for destination success, there is a lack of consensus in the literature about its measurement. Following rigorous multi-stage scale development procedures, and using d...
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Investigating the strategic role of business associations in willingness toward tourism coopetition Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Adriana Fumi Chim-Miki, Rui Augusto da Costa, Fevzi Okumus
This article examines the strategic role of business associations in the willingness toward coopetition, including variables of the three dimensions of the sectorial tourism context: firm, inter-fi...
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Correction Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-04-01
Published in Current Issues in Tourism (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Exploring the destination network in the context of tourism mobility: a multi-scale analytical framework Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Jin Xu, Tianrui Su, Xian Cheng, Hu Chen
Tourist mobility has attracted considerable attention from tourism academics and industry practitioners. This study explores the destination network, which is constructed based on tourists’ digital...
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Destination design: identifying three key co-design strategies Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Bert Smit, Frans Melissen, Xavier Font, Astrid Dickinger
Collaborative approaches to destination design require conscious and reflexive stakeholder involvement in activities and decision making. Design science studies such participatory processes by obse...
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Tourism development and ecological footprint indicators in island destinations: evidence from the members of the alliance of small island states Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Hamed Rezapouraghdam, Ozlem Altun, Mehmet Bahri Saydam, Burak Erkut
Considering the crucial debates on sustainable development it is significant to understand the link between the development of tourism in small island countries and the ecological footprint. Howeve...
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Climate vulnerability and capital investments in tourism Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Selahattin Tolga Er, Ender Demir, Conrado Diego Garcia-Gomez
This study explores the relationship between climate vulnerability and capital investments in tourism across 165 countries, considering the moderating role of readiness. Findings reveal that an inc...
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Human values and tourism perception: a new approach in residents’ perceptions Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Maurício Gonçalves e Silva, Paula Remoaldo, Marília Luíza Peluso
This study examines how Basic Human Values (BHV), as Schwartz (Schwartz, S. H. (2012) can guide the selection of new tourist activities for development in Guimarães, Portugal. Two surveys, one base...
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Recreational use of protected areas: spatiotemporal insights from the Wikiloc mobile app Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Jorge Costa, Alberto Gomes, Martin Stokes, Miguel Saraiva
Managing the rising number of visitors to protected areas (PAs) without compromising their environmental goals is a critical challenge that requires a complete understanding of how and when visitor...
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Tourist citizenship behaviours towards international restaurants’ political stances: a MAXQDA analysis of political consumerism Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Rehab Daif, Khaled Elsayed
This research explores tourists’ citizenship behaviours toward international restaurants’ political stances during conflicts and wars. A qualitative methodology using thematic analysis and the MAXQ...
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Tourism firms’ coordination unravelled Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Sonia Messori, Serena Volo
Coordination among tourism firms operating within a destination is essential to enhance competitiveness and to face market changes. This study aims at investigating the constituent dimensions of co...
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Add-on pricing approach to hotel guestroom customisation Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Claudia Cozzio, Lorenzo Masiero
As financial outcomes of service customisation remain somewhat unclear and underexplored in hospitality contexts, this study aims at advancing understanding of how hotel practitioners can refine pr...
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Mocking oneself or teasing others? The interactive effects of humorous message framing and tourism crisis response strategies Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Wen-Qi Ruan, Zi-Ting Yang, Shu-Ning Zhang
Numerous studies have investigated tourism crisis communication, but few studies have focused on matching crisis communication message framing with crisis response strategy. Therefore, we explored ...
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Beyond the real world: Metaverse adoption patterns in tourism among Gen Z and Millennials Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Víctor Calderón-Fajardo, Miguel Puig-Cabrera, Ignacio Rodríguez-Rodríguez
The Metaverse opens a digital realm that offers transformative possibilities for the sector, promising to reshape the way tourists explore, experience, and interact with destinations. The objective...
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Water-saving strategies at hotels: which are more effective? Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Sara Suárez-Fernández, Emma Zapico, David Boto-García
Water overconsumption by tourists is nowadays a major environmental challenge, raising concerns for both hospitality managers and policymakers, especially in regions facing water stress. Hotels hav...
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The impacts of Metaverse on tourist behaviour and marketing implications Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Özge Kılıçarslan, Nisan Yozukmaz, Tahir Albayrak, Dimitrios Buhalis
Metaverse is expected to deeply affect the travel and tourism industry and requires a dearth of empirical research. In this investigation, two exploratory qualitative research studies were conducte...
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Unravelling long-stay tourist experiences and satisfaction: text mining and deep learning approaches Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Seong-Su Kim, Woosik Shin, Hee-Woong Kim
Despite the growing interest in long-stay tourism, a comprehensive understanding of long-stay tourists’ experiences remains largely unexplored. This study aims to explore the dimensions of experien...
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Tourism and income inequality in sub-Saharan African countries: the role of democracy Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Wang Jiaqun, Kihumuro Jotham, Toyo Amègnonna Marcel Dossou, Alastaire Sèna Alinsato, Simplice A. Asongu
The tourism literature has largely neglected another important factor that may influence the tourism and income inequality relationship. This factor reflects democratic institutions of the destinat...
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Tourists’ pro-environmental behaviour in an autonomous vehicle’s adoption: aligning the integration of value-belief-norm theory and the theory of planned behaviour Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Salman Khan, Qingyu Zhang, Ikram Ullah Khan, Safeer Ullah Khan, Shafaqat Mehmood
Automated vehicles powered by artificial intelligence (AI) represent some of the most disruptive technologies with broad social implications, including increasing safety for travelers and drivers, ...
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Modelling the determinants of birth tourism demand: a time series analysis Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Sakiru Adebola Solarin, Mufutau Opeyemi Bello, Taiwo Temitope Lasisi, Festus Victor Bekun
Birth tourism has been steadily rising in recent years as potential mothers travel across borders with the main purpose of giving birth. However, the economic reasons behind this form of tourism ha...
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Use of advanced measurement and reality technologies in cultural heritage sites from the perspective of technology and tourism Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Fatih Varol, Merve Öksüz
In recent years, in parallel with technological innovations, the use of modern techniques instead of traditional methods has become widespread in studies on archiving, preserving, restoring and vis...
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Symbolic interactionism: exploring the experience of traditional costume in a destination Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Lina Zhong, Xiangchi Qi, Sunny Sun, Jiating Liu, Rob Law
As a symbol of cultural exchange, destination clothing experience is of great importance in the construction of tourists’ identity, especially the traditional clothing experience. In recent years, ...
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Sweden as a last resort for European skiing? An outbound market perspective Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Harald Rice, Scott Allen Cohen, Daniel Scott
Previous work identified Northern Swedish skiing as a beneficiary from worsening climate change, with its relative improvement in snow reliability increasing its attractiveness over areas of the Eu...
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Tourism, animals & the vacant niche: a scoping review and pedagogical agenda Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 David A. Fennell, Carol Kline, Mucha Mkono, Bryan S. R. Grimwood, Valerie A. Sheppard, Katherine Dashper, Jillian Rickly, Georgette Leah Burns, Giovanna Bertella, Erica von Essen, José-Carlos García-Rosell, Yulei Guo, Hin Hoarau-Heemstra, Álvaro López López, Gino Jafet Quintero Venegas, Patrick J. Holladay, Christina T. Cavaliere, Kellen Copeland, Brian Danley, Jessica Bell Rizzolo, Chris E. Hurst
The topic of animal ethics has advanced in tourism studies since its inception in 2000, based on a diverse range of studies on species involvement, types of uses and contexts, level of engagement, ...
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From tourism in the Darkverse to tourism with digital detox: designing responsible Metaverse tourism experiences Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Mahmoud Ibraheam Saleh
The rapid adoption of immersive technologies such as the Metaverse promises to transform the tourism industry. However, some Metaverse tourism experiences fail to elicit positive feelings about cor...
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UNPACKING TOURISM FATIGUE: travel frequency, duration and its effects on satisfaction and revisit intention Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Xing Su, Jinkun Sun, Xiaofang Duan, Jinhe Zhang
While prior research has recognised the significance of tourism fatigue, there exists limited empirical evidence regarding its causes and consequences. Drawing upon the stressor-strain-outcome fram...
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The lonely traveller’s mind: exploring the influence of loneliness on revisit intention Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Fangxuan (Sam) Li, Guojie Zhang, Yue Liu
Despite the fact that feelings of loneliness offer invaluable opportunities for marketing and management, studies on its impacts and consequences in the travel context are still in their infancy. D...
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The influence mechanism of travel livestreaming's (TLS) characteristics on users' tourism well-being Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Fengyi Deng, Yue Zhang, Yirui Lai, Yajun Lin, Gongmei Zhou
An emerging new format, travel livestreaming (TLS), has recently elicited increasing academic attention. However, previous studies have only discussed the marketing value of TLS and overlooked its ...
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The impact of digitalisation and digitisation in museums on memory-making Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Joel Qi Hong Yap, Zilmiyah Kamble, Adrian T.H. Kuah, Denis Tolkach
Museums have expanded beyond their initial role in preserving artefacts as memory intuitions, playing an educational role and being tourist attractions. They had to adapt and increasingly utilise d...
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Assessing social carrying capacity of tourists in protected natural areas Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Juan Ignacio Pulido-Fernández, Isabel Carrillo-Hidalgo, Yaiza López-Sánchez, Jairo Casado-Montilla
Knowing the limits of the social carrying capacity of tourism is a fundamental component of sustainable destination management, especially in protected natural areas, which implies understanding th...
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Tourism demand forecasting using graph neural network Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Xuedong Liang, Xiaoyan Li, Lingli Shu, Xia Wang, Peng Luo
Forecasting tourism demand is pivotal for crafting policies that nurture sustainable tourism. Despite its significance, the field grapples with challenges that limit its wider application, particul...
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All hands on the pump: the role of strategic thinking and gender diversity on crisis management Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Klenam Korbla Ledi, Ivy Adu Asare Obeng, Enya Ameza - Xemalordzo, Rebecca Bridget Dumeda
The study examines the effect of strategic thinking on crisis management through innovation within the hospitality industry. The study further posits gender diversity as a pivotal boundary conditio...
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Adults’ pro-environmental behaviours and childhood experiences: the mediating role of nature connectedness, psychological ownership, and environmental knowledge Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Fatemeh Shekari, Fatemeh Azizi, Zahed Ghaderi
Despite childhood experiences’ significant role in the pro-environmental behaviour of adults, this issue has insufficiently been addressed within the tourism and recreation context. The current stu...
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‘Experience the destination in times of crisis’: lessons from the approach of DMOs to destination marketing from concept to practice Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Aneta Pawłowska-Legwand, Joanna Hibner, Magdalena Kubal-Czerwińska
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the established practices of DMOs. However, it also prompted a shift towards utilising the untapped potential and resources of regions, which could present unique op...
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A pilgrim but a tourist too: re-examining the contemporary links Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 María Andrade Suárez, Iria Caamaño Franco, Antón Álvarez Sousa
The discussion about the definition of ‘tourism’ and ‘pilgrimage’ has been intensified over the time. This paper has as its main goal to understand how pilgrimage routes are perceived and experienc...
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Navigating travel constraints for individuals with mental health conditions Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Eunhye Park, Kwangwon Lee, Sung-Bum Kim
While previous accessible travel studies focused primarily on physical disabilities, this research examined the perceptions and challenges related to travel experiences among individuals with menta...
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Connecting through chatbots: residents’ insights on digital storytelling, place attachment, and value co-creation Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Petek Tosun, Abdullah Uslu, Emrullah Erul
Despite the widespread adoption of chatbots in tourism, there is limited research on their role in digital storytelling from residents’ perspectives. Drawing on Social Presence Theory, the primary ...
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How climate change is damaging the US ski industry Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Daniel Scott, Robert Steiger
Since the mid-twentieth century, warming in mountain regions has outpaced the global rate, with important regional implications for snowpacks and the ski industry. Recent climate litigation by comm...
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Tourism degrowth: quantification of its economic impact Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Maria Sard, Elisabeth Valle
The decision to restrict tourist arrivals must be carefully tailored to the unique circumstances and objectives of each destination. This paper aims to assess the economic impacts of limiting touri...
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A destination performance measurement framework: exploring the relationships among performance criteria and revisit intentions Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Alastair M. Morrison, Jun-Hwa (Jacky) Cheah, Rajinder Kumar
Measuring the success of tourism destinations is vital to policymakers, destination managers, researchers, and businesses. However, the processes and metrics vary considerably across academia, tour...
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‘Hotels are much easier’: motivation for non-participation in travel-related sharing economy exchanges Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Veronica Blumenthal, Merethe Lerfald, Kristine Blekastad Sagheim
The rise of the sharing economy (SE) has inspired researchers to examine the motivation behind user participation in SE exchanges. Few studies have, however, examined the motivational factors that ...
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Nuclear accident sites and tourism: a comparative analysis of the Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Anna Duda, Takamitsu Jimura
This article aims to explore similarities and differences in the relationship between nuclear accident sites and tourism through a comparative study of two culturally different exclusion zones, nam...
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Travel and tourism sharing platforms: governance and monetization strategies Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Yusaf H. Akbar, Andrea Tracogna
The emergence of sharing platforms in travel and tourism is an important transformation over the past two decades. An understanding of why some sharing economy platforms grow while others fail is a...
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Beyond the numbers: unveiling the environmental impacts of international tourism and the role of renewable energy transition Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Yuan Li, Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Khalid M. Al-Aiban, Shafiq ur Rahman, Imran Naseem, Khalid Zaman
In pursuit of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 objectives for a sustainable and low-carbon future, this study examines the intricate dynamics between carbon emissions and key variables crucial to the nat...
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Understanding Vanlife: the current state of the art of a vehicle-based hypermobile travel phenomenon Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Christina Susanne Muhs, Dora Lúcia Miguel Agapito, Luís Nobre Pereira
This article outlines the current state of the art on Vanlife from a tourism perspective, highlighting and summarizing definitions derived from literature. Hypermobile lifestyles, often used interc...
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Analysis of the coordinated evolution and driving mechanism of the coupling of tourism economy and urbanization in Southwest China Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Zhengyong Yu, Wei Liu, Qiang Ren, Jingyi Zhong
The coordinated development of the tourism economy and urbanization is one of the hot issues in the practice and research of regional development. Exploring the complex dynamic relationship between...
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Tourists and epidemics: how news media cover the risks of Zika virus and chikungunya outbreaks in the Americas Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Elizabeth Pellecer Rivera, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Laura N. Rickard, Andrea Caprara, Lorena N. Estrada
Globally, the tourism industry has shown to be vulnerable to emerging infectious diseases outbreaks (i.e. COVID-19, Ebola, H1N1). In general, these diseases are often novel and unknown; therefore, ...
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Robot restaurant experience and recommendation behaviour: based on text-mining and sentiment analysis from online reviews Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Zhiyong Li, Feng Yuan, Zhenzhong Zhao
The robot restaurant, as a brand-new and innovative catering mode, greatly relies on customer recommendations on top catering platforms. By extracting the main dimension of the robot restaurant exp...
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Evaluating localized conceptions and embedded applications of the Food Waste Hierarchy in luxury hotels Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Gaurav Chawla, Peter Lugosi, Rebecca Hawkins
The Food Waste Hierarchy is a prescriptive framework advocating the use of waste prevention and reuse strategies above less sustainable ones such as recycling, recovery, and disposal. However, its ...
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Transformative event experiences: a visual in-situ study of change Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Krzysztof Celuch, Barbara Neuhofer
Transformative experiences are currently on the rise, and that includes life-changing experiences in tourism, hospitality, and events. While research has focused on understanding the triggers of tr...