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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...
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Sustainable medical tourism service network with a stakeholder perspective Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Saliha Karadayi-Usta
Along with the challenges and disruptions faced in the COVID-19 outbreak, medical tourism is an emergent field of business bringing multiple sources of service providers to provide cross-border med...
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Show me the destination or show me the tourist? Effect of image-based user-generated advertisement type on tourists’ destination interest Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Lilei Wang, Ziqi Guo, Fangxuan (Sam) Li, Xing’an Xu
This study investigated how image-based user-generated advertising (UGA) affects a tourist’s interest in travel destinations using self-referencing and mental imagery theories. Two studies with fou...
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World uncertainty and international tourist arrivals: does good governance make a difference? Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Emrah Kocak, Cihan Cobanoglu
World uncertainty has been rising steadily over the past two decades. While uncertainty affects all sectors negatively, tourism is much more vulnerable to shocks. Therefore, it is critical to expla...
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Capitalism’s spatial dominion: unraveling Isfahan city through tourism and virtual networks Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Zohreh Korani, Manouchehr Jahanian, Zahed Shafiei
This study scrutinizes capitalism’s influence on spatial organization and its manifestation in Isfahan’s city through tourism and virtual networks. Adhering to a critical perspective, our objective...
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Mental readiness and travel choices in crisis recovery Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Tianyu (Bell) Pan, Rachel J. C. Fu
Although crisis communication and recovery strategies have been studied extensively, the coping mechanisms of consumers during the recovery phase of a product-harm crisis have been insufficiently e...
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Dynamically forecasting the restructuring performance of tourism firms with a similar-scenarios-based modelling framework: the role of investors’ ex-ante attention Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Ling-Yang He, Hui Li
The tourism firm is vulnerable to suffering losses after restructuring owing to its sensitivity and vulnerability. This work investigates the foresight effect of investors’ ex-ante attention to a t...
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Comparative analysis of inbound tourist flows of different groups: the case of Japan Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Bindan Zeng, Ting Yu, Yinchun He, Jinwei Wang
Analyzing the tourism mobility characteristics and preferences of different tourist groups helps develop corresponding tourism strategies and targeted tourism planning. This study applied Social Ne...
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Tourism talent management: empirical research among tourism academics, practitioners, and government officials Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Yan Li, Yangyang Jiang, Jun Wen
This study explores tourism talent management by integrating the perspectives of tourism academics, senior industry practitioners, and government officials. Semi-structured interviews were conducte...
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Understanding the role and impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) hallucination within consumers’ tourism decision-making processes Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Jeff Christensen, Jared M. Hansen, Paul Wilson
ChatGPT, which launched only a year ago, is the fastest-growing website in the world today. When generative AI software such as ChatGPT generates ideas for people, they often generate false ideas. ...
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Game analysis of service quality evolution of online tourism supply chain under PPI participation Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Lu Fang, Du Yi-Xin, Luo Ding-Ti, Pan Yong
While platform protection insurance (PPI) is extensively employed as an insurance policy in many sharing platforms, research on its influence on the tourism supply chain is lacking. At this point, ...
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The geopolitics and challenges of current issues in tourism Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Chris Cooper, C. Michael Hall
The tourism industry, destinations, and the wider tourism community and stakeholders face several significant short and long-term challenges that will substantially affect the future direction of t...
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Authenticity, ethics and restoration of an earthquake-modified landscape: Jiuzhaigou World Natural Heritage Site Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Li Cheng, Meiyu Wang, Tingting Wang, Yifan Wang, Xue Zhang, Geoffrey Wall
Restoring a World Natural Heritage Site (WNHS) after a disaster to attract tourists raises multifaceted issues that concern heritage authenticity, environmental ethics, and tourists’ acceptance. In...
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Disabilities, functionings and capabilities: the capability approach in accessible tourism Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Seonyoung Kim, Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong
In this conceptual paper, through the introduction of Sen’s capability approach we seek to make a significant contribution to accessible tourism research. The capability approach offers a flexible ...
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Tourism planning as a social practice in times of change and uncertainty: views from a troubled Latin American country Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Carla Ricaurte-Quijano, Mathias Pécot, Cinthy Veintimilla-Mariño, Luis Encalada-Abarca, Diana Guayaquil, Sergio Bauz, Johny Pambabay
Tourism planning is seen as a ‘steering wheel’ to leverage growth, development or economic transitions during times of adversity and rapid change. Given the limited capacities within the public sec...
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Smart tourism destination (STD): developing and validating an impact scale using residents’ overall life satisfaction Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Wenqi Wei, Irem Önder, Muzaffer Uysal
Smart tourism destinations (STDs), driven by technological advancements, aim to increase travellers’ experiences and residents’ quality of life. However, the existing research primarily focuses on ...
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A structure and agency perspective of sustainable tourism Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Muhammad Abdullah, Jawad Syed, Tamer Koburtay
This study reviews the literature on sustainable tourism to aid theory development in the field of sustainability and tourism and to develop a framework to facilitate integration of sustainable and...
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How does destination natural quality influence second homeowners’ life satisfaction: a mediation model and importance-performance map analysis Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Serhat Adem Sop, Utku Ongun, Hasan Evrim Arıcı
This study examines the effects of destination natural quality, place attachment, and destination psychological ownership on the life satisfaction of individuals having a second home in a tourist d...
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Interpreting the impact of augmented reality on heritage tourism: two empirical studies from World Heritage sites Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Chris Zhu, Man-U. Io, Henrique Fátima Boyol Ngan, Rachel Luna Peralta
The promotion of tourism experiences through Augmented Reality (AR) technology has become a hot topic in current tourism research. Nevertheless, in heritage tourism research, when AR technology is ...
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Light versus dark motives in dark tourism: a conceptualization from an ethical perspective Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Laura Czermak, Ralf Vogler
A light versus dark spectrum is a common tool to conceptualize dark tourism. The existing spectrums, however, have a clear focus on destinations and attractions and leave the tourist and in particu...
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News media coverage of hurricane events and Caribbean tourism: a critical analysis of the last 40 years Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Kelly-Ann Wright, Michelle Rutty, Daniel Scott
When making travel decisions, the news is a key source of weather information for tourists, particularly when there is a perceived risk of holiday disruption. Misrepresentation and sensationalist m...
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Personalizing guest experience with generative AI in the hotel industry: there's more to it than meets a Kiwi’s eye Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Pola Q. Wang
Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has pioneered a new era in AI, globally acclaimed for its content creation and language understanding. This advancement is reshaping industries like hospi...
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Tourists’ perception of airport luxury shopping Current Issues in Tourism (IF 7.578) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Samuel Camison, Damien Chaney
While airport shopping has garnered extensive attention in the literature, the significance of integrating luxury stores within airport environments remains an underexplored facet. In this qualitat...