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Natural landscape performance: Environmental restorativeness and its influence on tourist behavior International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Xiaohua Chen, Gyehee Lee, Dongoh Joo
This study uses environmental psychology theory to explore creative natural landscape performance (NLP), a form of tourism performing arts that combines natural beauty and cultural resources. Tourists who had experienced an NLP during the previous 2 years were surveyed, and 408 valid responses were collected through this online survey. The findings indicate that the natural setting of NLPs possesses
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Blockchain of things (BoT) innovation for smart tourism International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Pannee Suanpang, Pattanaphong Pothipassa, Chompunuch Jittithavorn
This study aims to (a) develop the innovation of BoT prototype; and (b) provide an effective platform to recommend tourists activity, implement and trials blockchain prototype for booking travel activities, whether booking travel programs, air ticket booking hotel stay visits to attractions and payment of goods and services, and evaluate tourist intention to use BoT. The developed architecture enables
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Gamification in the Metaverse: Affordance, perceived value, flow state, and engagement International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Seong‐Soo Cha, Choo Yeon Kim, Ying Tang
This study aims to empirically validate a theoretical model for the engagement of the performance Metaverse platform with other rapidly developing Metaverse platforms around the world. It innovatively examines the relationship between gamification affordance, perceived value, and flow state in the context of the Metaverse concert platform and the relationship that improves engagement in the tourism
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The effect of job stress on the quality of life of commercial pilots: Testing the mediating effects of mindfulness and job satisfaction International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Jinok Susanna Kim, WooMi Jo, Hyunghwa Oh, Yan Feng
The commercial pilots responsible for aircraft and passenger safety are exposed to various environmental job stresses. This study investigates the relationship between job stress and the quality of life of commercial pilots, and examines the mediating effects of mindfulness and job satisfaction in the relationship between job stress and quality of life. The results show that the job stress aced by
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Ecotourism branding in protected areas of Iran: Using an efficient hybrid multi-criteria decision-making method model International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Elnaz Tajer, Sara Demir
Ecotourism, as a nature-based sustainable tourism, raises awareness about the protection of natural and cultural landscape values. This study aims to determine the ecotourism criteria to develop strategies for a sustainable ecotourism branding in Golestan, located in the northeast of Iran. To reach this aim, Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT) analysis, multi-criteria decision-making
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Impact of corporate social responsibility on brand trust and brand loyalty: Case of Uber International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Joonho Moon, Jinsoo Hwang, Won Seok Lee
The purpose of this research is to investigate the structural relationship between Uber corporate social responsibility (CSR), brand trust, and brand loyalty. Stakeholder theory is the theoretical foundation of the study. The CSR subdimensions of eco-friendliness, quarantine, user privacy, user safety, and driver well-being are used. Amazon Mechanical Turk was employed for data collection. The number
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The effect of the authenticity of the Catholic pilgrimage site on spiritual well-being and quality of life of pilgrims International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Jin Wook Han, Myung Ja Kim, Namho Chung, Jinok Susanna Kim
With the growing interest in spirituality, there has been a corresponding rise in the number of pilgrimages. Modern pilgrims embark on pilgrimages not only for religious purposes but also for their own mental peace and health. To enhance our understanding of this trend we conducted an empirical survey of pilgrims visiting Saenamteo Catholic Martyrs' Shrine, a representative martyrdom site in Korea
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The effect of Covid-19 depression on spirituality and psychological well-being through the perceived environmental restorativeness of a pilgrimage route: Focusing on pilgrims on Seoul Catholic Pilgrimage Route International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Jinok Susanna Kim, Dong Cheol Lee, Hangun Cho, Hyeyoung Jo
During the COVID-19 pandemic, policies adopted by various countries to prevent the spread of the disease exacerbated social isolation among people, and their prolonged implementation has had a negative effect on people's mental health, leading to increased anxiety, stress, and depression. Group religious activities were prohibited, so believers continued their faith practices through individual pilgrimages
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How do leisure activities impact leisure domain and life domain satisfaction and subjective well-being? International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Dohee Kim, Jeongdoo Park, Byung-Jin Park
This study examines the impact of leisure activities on leisure domain and life domain satisfactions and subjective well-being (SWB) and explores the differences between genders in these associations, using data from 316 middle-aged adults. The results suggest that sports and travel & outdoor activities have the greatest impact on physiological, psychological, and relaxing satisfactions. Social activities
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The influence of tourists' emotional experiences on destination loyalty from the perspective of community economy International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Xiubai Li, Yuan Yuan, Jihao Zhang
Community research has been a significant topic in various fields over time. This study (a) constructs a structural equation model for hypothetical community relationships between six factors: tourist interaction, positive emotional experience, general emotional experience, tourists' subjective well-being, tourist satisfaction, and tourist destination loyalty, and (b) examines the impact of tourists'
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Tourists' perceived value and behavioral intentions based on the choice attributes of wellness tourism International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Miseong Kim, Hyunji Moon, Yeonwoo Joo, Yooshik Yoon
This study was carried out to examine the wellness that tourists wanted to fulfill through wellness tourism and identify the relationship between tourists' perceived value and their future behavioral intentions. To perform this study, residents aged 20 or older living in Seoul who are interested in wellness tourism were surveyed, and a total of 401 valid responses were used for analyses. The findings
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Spiritual well-being and restorative experiences: A case of a religious shrine International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Jinok Susanna Kim, Sung Tae Kim, Jin Wook Han
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the economic value of various functions of pilgrimage sites in the modern ere as pilgrimage became popular. To survey was conducted with pilgrims and tourists visiting the Solmoe Shrine, the birth place of Father Andrew Kim, the first ordained priest of Korea, and is located in Dangjin City, South Korea. Conservative evaluation method based on real setting
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International tourists' perceptions of Myanmar as a tourist destination in the crisis: A comparative study among three continents International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Soon Hwa Kang, Gyu Tae Lee, Chang Huh, Myong Jae Lee
Myanmar has emerged as a popular tourist destination following its recent political transformation, with the Travel and Tourism sector contributing significantly to the country's GDP. However, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic posed numerous challenges for the global tourism industry and Myanmar, including travel restrictions, border closures, and health concerns. This study examines the levels
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Impact of travelers' consumer ethnocentrism on purchase and behavior intention: moderating effect of implicit prejudice International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Haeok Liz Kim, Sunghyup Sean Hyun
This study investigated the effects of rigid thinking, ideology, and explicit and implicit prejudices on consumer ethnocentrism. Explicit and implicit prejudices significantly affected consumer ethnocentrism, but not travel behavioral intention. Among the three variances—Asian–European American, skin tone, and Arab-Muslim Implicit Association Test (IAT)—used as implicit prejudice control variables
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Exploring the on-site experience of slow tourists from an embodied practice perspective International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Jing Wu, Xiaofeng Wang, Chunhui Zhang
The rise of slow tourism reflects tourists' high-quality needs under the accelerated pace of contemporary life. However, the on-site slow tourism experience remains underexplored despite its importance to both tourists and destinations. This study aims to explore how on-site experiences are created and identifies the features of the on-site experiences of slow tourism. From the perspective of embodied
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The moderating effect of safety image on Guests' perceived risk and revisit intentions in luxury hotels International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Chen Kuo Pai, Haoran Chen, Yang Wang
This study explores the relationship between perceived risk and intention to revisit, based on four core dimensions of the subjectively perceived risk of luxury hotel guests to hotel safety image. In particular, this study innovatively uses the four dimensions of hotel safety image as moderating variables to explore how the relationship between perceived risk and intention to revisit is affected. The
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Exploring the impact of metaverse tourism experiences on actual visit intentions: An integrated model of presence, the Technology Acceptance Model, and the Theory of Planned Behavior International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Hengyu Liu, Keun-Soo Park
This study seeks to understand the impact of tourist experience of the metaverse on users' actual visit intentions by proposing an integration of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), using the construct of Presence. We developed a questionnaire-based experiment in which 478 responses were collected via an online survey to achieve the objectives of the study
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Characteristics of market segmentation for sustainable medical tourism International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Jaebin Cha, Mina Jo, Timothy J. Lee, Sunghyup Sean Hyun
This study investigated the characteristics of markets segmented by the push–pull factors associated with medical tourists. The questionnaire sought information on attributes of medical tourism motivations and included eight push factor attributes, 10 pull factor attributes, and 13 demographic and medical tourism behavior variables, for a total of 31 items. The surveys were translated into Chinese
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Strategies for health and wellness tourism development: Thai massage International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Emi Moriuchi, Jerome Agrusa, Joseph Lema
Driven by changing consumer behavior trends, a transitioning economy, unique cultural and historical traditions, in conjunction with a wide-ranging exposure to health, wellbeing, and holistic approaches to human needs, Thailand is well suited to accelerate its involvement in this niche market. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the traveler's motivations and revisit intentions to Thailand along
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Tourist choice of sustainable hot springs tourism under post-COVID-19 pandemic period: A case in Colorado International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Li Ding
Hot springs tourism has increasingly attracted tourists who pursue wellness and harmony with the natural environment. This paper investigates how four sustainability-related attributes influence tourist choice and estimates their marginal willingness to pay for Colorado hot springs tourism under the post-COVID-19 pandemic period. A fractional factorial choice experiment design and conditional logit
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Perception of medical practitioners on the importance of medical tourism services International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Xiubai Li, Sunghyup Sean Hyun, Hye-Sun Kim
This study (a) investigates the perception of medical practitioners regarding medical tourism, and (b) examines the differences in the perception of medical practitioners regarding the importance of the services involved. The hypotheses are focused on a series of comparisons of medical institutions that “are or are not involved in medical tourism.” The results showed that (i) professionalism of treatment
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Integrating destination positioning and identity salience to enhance childcare service experiences in family travel: An insight from Macau International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Jing Liu, Huiwen Mai, Ran Tao, Ziyan Wang, Yuanhao Zhang
Addressing the lack of an integrated view of family travel destination positioning and experience design, this study focuses on examining how a new form of family travel experiences, that is, childcare service experiences available during the hospitality and tourism consumption, combined with destination positioning to trigger travelers' positive perceptions of the overall tourism experiences in Macau
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The influence of value perceptions on tourist souvenir purchase decisions International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Wei Wang, Gallayanee Yaoyuneyong, Pauline Sullivan, Brigitte Burgess
Shopping is an important activity impacting the travel and tourism industry. This research explores the influence of value perceptions on tourists' souvenir purchase decisions. A convenience sample of 380 respondents from a southeastern US university completed a survey regarding value perception towards the destination visited, type of shopping venue, and souvenir purchase intention. Through structural
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Easing of travel restrictions: Examining increased intention toward proximity tourism through quasi-experiments International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Yang Zhang, Xiao-Xiao Fu, Yue Yin
The rise of proximity tourism since the onset of COVID-19 has enabled individuals to assess their daily lives from new perspectives. Nevertheless, in studies of this change, scant attention has been given to the influence of government performance on the perception and behavior of proximity tourists. Drawing upon micro-governance theory in conjunction with the two-factor hygiene model, this study proposes
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Paradoxical effects of tourism ethnocentrism on domestic tourism: The moderating effect of pandemic anxiety travel International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Haeok Liz Kim, Sunghyup Sean Hyun
This research findings to study the impact of socio-psychological, economic, and political antecedents on tourism and to study the relationship among tourism ethnocentrism (TE), civilized tourism behavioral intention, willingness to visit, and electronic-word of mouth. Also, it examines the moderating role of pandemic anxiety variables. The results show that American socio-psychological and political
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The Destination Marketing Organization as an intelligent agent: Evaluating engagement in knowledge management practices International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Michelle Novotny, Rachel Dodds, Philip R. Walsh
DMOs have been increasingly called upon to adopt the role of knowledge management, becoming intelligent agents with the capacity to gather, assess, and disseminate information among internal and external stakeholders. While knowledge management has remained a prominent topic in the literature, its application within the field of tourism management has been limited. The purpose of this study, therefore
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How to use augmented reality to promote a destination? The mediating role of augmented reality attachment International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Chris Zhu, Man-U. Io, Colin Michael Hall, Henrique Fátima Boyol Ngan, Rachel Luna Peralta
Augmented reality (AR) is gaining attention as one of the methods for realizing metaverse experiences. Although previous studies identified authenticity and narrative transportation as positive predictors of tourist behaviors in AR tourism, few studies have explained why authenticity and narrative transportation can affect tourist behaviors in AR tourism. To fill the research gap, drawing upon attachment
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Tourism in ASEAN-5: A novel panel unit-root test for shocks persistence with gradual structural breaks and common factors International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Jamal Husein
This study investigates whether shocks to tourist arrivals in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand (ASEAN-5) are permanent or transitory, given the frequent and severe external shocks experienced by the tourism industry. Using monthly data from 2000 to 2019, we employ a novel panel unit-root test that controls for cross-correlations, multiple gradual structural breaks, and other
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The nexus between firm-supply-chain relationships and the potential for tourism development: A case study approach International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Abel Duarte Alonso, Oanh Thi Kim Vu, Seamus O'Brien, Thanh Duc Tran, Trung Thanh Nguyen
This exploratory study examines the importance of firm-supply chain relationships for tourism development. Based upon prior observations, two firms seeking to boost their tourism offerings and operating in a popular Vietnamese tourist destination were selected. Semi-structured face-to-face and online interviews were conducted and complemented by on-site visits, and firm information. Various salient
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Short video marketing in tourism: Telepresence, celebrity attachment, and travel intention International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Chris Zhu, Lawrence Hoc Nang Fong, Xi Li, Dimitrios Buhalis, Hong Chen
Drawn upon Telepresence theory, this study aims to identify the relationships between existential authenticity, celebrity attachment, telepresence, and travel intention in the short video experience. Survey results show that existential authenticity fosters user attachment to celebrity and then travel intention, but has no impact on telepresence which is also not related to travel intention; Furthermore
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Is it a disaster once the celebrity endorser for a tourist destination is involved in a controversial scandal? Testing the concept of image-to-image influence International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Ting Yang, Chi Man Tam, Ivan Ka Wai Lai
This study aims to (1) examine whether scandals about the endorsers affect their image (in terms of believability and attractiveness) and (2) compare any difference in the destination image (in terms of cognitive, affective, and conative images) between destinations where their endorsers have and do not have scandals. The research results indicate that having scandals negatively affects endorsers'
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A systematic review of ethical leadership in tourism and hospitality settings International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Majd Megheirkouni
The aim of this study is to identify empirical studies that explore and investigate ethical leadership in order to assess and synthesise its impacts and outcomes. This study seeks to provide an evidence-informed answer to the following questions: (a) how is ethical leadership defined in the field of tourism and hospitality? (b) in what settings/contexts was ethical leadership empirically investigated
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Driving destination brand engagement: The role of traveler participation International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Man-Lai Cheung, Wilson K. S. Leung, Babak Taheri, Sin Yan Tse
This paper explores the importance of two forms of interactions, namely marketer–traveler interaction and traveler–traveler interaction in driving destination brand engagement (DBE) dimensions, and their effect on travelers' short-term and long-term behavioral intentions based on impulse buying and external search behavior. Using multi-group analysis, the impact of DBE dimensions on external search
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Diversification in the tourism sector and economic growth in Australia: a disaggregated analysis International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Sakiru Adebola Solarin, Taiwo Temitope Lasisi, Md. Emran Hossain, Festus Victor Bekun
In most countries inclusive of Australia, tourism policies do not only deal with how to diversify tourism markets but also how to diversify tourism activities. Efforts are often made to increase the inflows of tourists from different source markets and to improve arrivals for various tourism activities. However, the existing literature on the economic impact of the diversification of the sector has
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Sustainable tourism development in a host community: The mediating role of community resilience in response to disasters and crises International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Eunjung Yang, Jinwon Kim
Given the increasing risks from disasters and crises, prioritizing resilient and sustainable tourism development has become imperative. Using resilience theory, this research proposed an integrated tourism-community resilience-quality of life (QOL) framework, considering both the recurring major natural hazards and the COVID-19 crisis in a host community. Based on the integrated framework, we tested
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Social scarcity and tourist's life satisfaction: An empirical and theoretical analysis International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Salvatore Bimonte
This paper presents the results of an analysis that compared two types of tourists who hold a different view of and interact differently with their surrounding environment. It evidenced that more consumptive and consumer-oriented tourists are normally less happy than those practising more appreciative and sharing-oriented activities. To explain the differential, it offers a theoretical interpretation
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The dependency-autonomy paradox: A core-periphery analysis of tourism development in Mediterranean archipelagos International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Karl Agius, Samantha Chaperon
Debates on island tourism have challenged the inevitability of underdevelopment in peripheral islands. A paradox of geopolitical dependency but optimal autonomy has been proposed where tourism can create a ‘virtuous periphery syndrome’. This study used a dependency theory lens and a core-periphery framework to analyse stakeholders' perspectives on this, in two Mediterranean archipelagos. The most peripheral
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Understanding the sense-making process of visitor experience in the integrated resort setting: Investigating the role of experience-centric attributes International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Kefang Li, Chunli Ji, Qiuyue He, Raymond Rastegar
Almost all existing customer experience research has been based on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) paradigm or the interaction-based perspective, and very few on the sensemaking theoretical perspective. This study aims to address this gap by developing and testing an integrated conceptual model of customer experience creation based on the sensemaking theory. Focusing on the case of six luxury
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Is travel bragging in the eye of the beholder? Bragger and audience perspectives International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Hongbo Liu, Xiang (Robert) Li, Scott Cohen
Travel bragging refers to showing off or boasting about travel experiences. Despite its ubiquity on social media, travel bragging has been relatively under-researched. This study examines travel bragging from a dual perspective of both braggers and audiences. Based on 30 semi-structured interviews with participants who frequently posted or bragged about travel experiences and who had been frequently
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The role of air quality for reaching tourism environmental sustainability: A segmentation approach based on visitors' pro-environmental behaviors International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Celeste Eusébio, Vitor Rodrigues, Maria João Carneiro, Mara Madaleno, Margarita Robaina, Alexandra Monteiro
Due to the growing awareness concerning environmental problems, specifically air pollution, it is crucial to understand the relationship between perceptions of air quality and the pro-environmental behaviors of visitors. This study segments visitors based on self-reported pro-environmental behaviors. A survey was carried out in Portugal (N = 602). Three clusters with different pro-environmental profiles
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National risks and equity strategies for cross-border mergers and acquisitions in the tourism industry International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Changyao Song, Zhihua Tao, Xinjian Li
Uncertainties and risks have posed significant challenges to cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in tourism. By using the cross-border M&A data from 2000 to 2020, this study examines the relationship between the national risks of the host country and equity strategies for cross-border M&As in tourism. The results show that the greater the host country's comprehensive risk and economic risk
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The determinants of social self-efficacy of tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Leonardo de Sousa, Álvaro Lopes Dias, Leandro Ferreira Pereira
Tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs (TLEs) play a vital role in destination competitiveness by providing creative and co-created experiences intrinsically associated with local communities. To preserve their way of life, they are also deeply involved in local social activities. However, the processes underlying the social performance of these entrepreneurs remain underexplored. This study uses structural
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Conceptualising local perceptions of research-related tourism in an indigenous village in Fiji International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Chetan Shah, Alexander Trupp, Marcus L. Stephenson
Despite increasing academic interest concerning host perceptions of tourists and tourism, local perceptions of research tourists—whether this includes students, consultants, scientists, or volunteers—have attracted little attention. The study conceptualises and examines perceptions of Research-related Tourism (RrT) in the context of an indigenous Fijian village. Qualitative research was conducted,
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Antecedents and outcome of tourists' positive achievement emotions in visiting risky destinations: The case of Middle East International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Nafiseh Rezaei, Wei-Jue (Sabrina) Huang, Kam Hung
The learning experience is an inseparable part of tourism, especially in a risk context. This study investigates the mechanism of tourists' achievement emotions in visiting risky destinations. The Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions has been applied and transposed from the education to tourism context for the first time. Data was collected from seven top markets for the Middle East. Local
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Land acquisition in rural tourism destinations: How social relations influence cooperative behaviours? International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Xinrui Wang, Jiuxia Sun
Land acquisition is becoming prevalent in most rural destinations. This study investigates the dynamic interaction process between rural residents regarding tourism-led land acquisition and analyses how social relations influence cooperative behaviours by using social network analysis. The findings suggest that informal social relations between rural residents transmit influence and information, generating
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Who takes part in film tourism? The analysis of determinants of visiting film locations International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Peter Moritz, Michal Hrivnák, Ľudmila Mazúchová, Zuzana Sándorová
Film tourism is one of the fastest developing sub-segments of creative tourism in the 21st century. Many studies investigated tourists' motivation and behavior towards film tourism in the context of psychological and emotional motives and their involvement and experience. However, we still know very little about the structure of visitors of film sites. Utilizing primary data collected in Slovakia and
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Exploring non-immersive virtual reality experiences in tourism: Empirical evidence from a world heritage site International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Chris Zhu, Don Chi Wai Wu, Colin Michael Hall, Lawrence Hoc Nang Fong, Sara Naderi Koupaei, Feifei Lin
With the popularization of the concept of the metaverse, non-immersive virtual reality (VR) has become a focus of tourism destination marketing. Drawing upon telepresence theory, this study identifies the antecedents and consequences of telepresence to help interpret tourist behavior in the context of non-immersive VR experience. Results revealed that mental imagery and vividness positively predict
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Residents as gratuitous referrals at destination: An integrative model from altruistic values to pro-tourism behavior International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 María Ángeles Plaza-Mejía, Juana María Haldon-Hermoso, Nuria Porras-Bueno
The altruistically shared information provided by residents is significant for travelers, affecting decisions they postpone until arrival at their destination. This study integrates altruism as a personal value with the basic postulates of social exchange theory and theory of reasoned action to explain the behavior of residents in terms of gratuitous referrals at destination (GRAD). A structural equation
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Career development of tourism, hospitality and events graduates International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Bob McKercher, Xin (Cathy) Jin, Denis Tolkach, Andy Lee, Niki Macionis
This paper reports on career development of graduates of three of Australia's leading university level tourism, hospitality and events providers. The study examines how well their programmes equipped them for their first and current jobs, key attributes to career development and advice they would give to prospective students. Career development is highly individualistic, with no single template.
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The quest for sustainability in lower orbit: Conceptual models for space tourism International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Stefania Paladini, Krishnendu Saha
1 INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE ARTICLE From the day Dennis Tito became the first private citizen to travel to space for no other reason but the sake of the experience itself, space tourism stops being a chimaera and became a reality, albeit an elitist one. And if only seven passengers flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on board of Russian Soyuz rockets during the new millennium's first decade
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Frightened or familiarised? Permanent residents' and second-home owners' risk perceptions of extreme weather events International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Adam Czarnecki, Aneta Dacko, Mariusz Dacko, Barbara Skowera
The number and severity of extreme weather events have been increasing globally. Given the vulnerabilities of second homes to natural disasters, it is important to learn how their owners consider the related risks. This paper investigates the extreme weather-event risk perceptions and their preconditions between second-home owners and local people in the Little Beskid mountains in Poland. The results
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Building heritage brand equity through social media sales promotion: The role of Power Distance International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Esmeralda Crespo-Almendros, Ma Belén Prados-Peña, Lucia Porcu, Juan Miguel Alcántara Pilar
This paper aims to look into the moderating effect of individual's cultural characteristics—Power Distance—on the relationship between the use of discounts and gifts and the formation of the brand equity of a heritage tourist site is assessed. The results of a quasi-experimental 2×2 factorial design among Internet users from two countries and using two different promotional stimuli showed: a positive
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Does diversification drive tourism demand? A structural change perspective: Evidence from a casino tourism destination International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Joey Pek-U Sou, Ricardo Chi Sen Siu
Structural change in the tourism industry is a potential driving force for tourism demand. Using sectoral-level data of capital formation, employment, and value-added as diversification measures, a positive relationship is found to exist between sectoral diversification and tourism demand in Macao. Heterogeneous effects on market origins of varying saturation levels show that sectoral diversification
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Agents or stewards? Non-profit organisations managing visitation: The case of New Zealand ecosanctuaries International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Julia N. Albrecht, Marco Haid, Abrar Faisal
This study identifies the management functions performed in non-profit ecosanctuaries relevant to tourism in New Zealand. Following a pragmatic qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews in and pertaining to eco-sanctuaries were conducted. The findings are contextualised using principal-agent and stewardship theory. The results reveal that non-profit ecosanctuaries fulfil various functions alongside
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Intrapreneurial behavior and in-role job performance across organizational ecosystems in tourism and hospitality International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Maria de Lurdes Calisto, Soumodip Sarkar
Despite its potential, corporate entrepreneurship, and its related concept, intrapreneurial behavior (IB), is a relatively recent area of interest for researchers in tourism and hospitality. In addition, the attention given to the contribution of IB to individual-level performance is surprisingly scarce due to extant research focusing largely on firm-level performance. We address those gaps using a
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‘Long term impacts of a mega event: Case study Weymouth (London 2012)’ International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Debbie Sadd, Hai Nguyen
This paper investigates the long-term impacts of a mega event, using the case of the London 2012 Olympics' impacts on Weymouth and Portland (as a joint destination in Southern England). The study used the 2 sets of data, collected in 2003 and 2017, containing the residents' perceptions before and after the event. The findings revealed important changes in terms of residents' perceptions towards the
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Exploring the relevance of Social Exchange Theory in the Middle East: A case study of tourism in Dubai, UAE International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Christopher S. Dutt, William S. Harvey, Gareth Shaw
Whilst numerous studies have explored residents' perceptions of tourism, there are three significant gaps with Social Exchange Theory (SET). First, the appropriateness and generalisability; second, the heterogeneity of host population perceptions; third, perceptions in non-Western empirical contexts. A mixed methods study was conducted, using 36 face-to-face interviews with expatriates and nationals
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Integrating tradition and innovation within a wine tourism and hospitality experience International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Abel Duarte Alonso, Alessandro Bressan, Oanh Vu Thi Kim, Seng Kiat Kok, Erhan Atay
This study explores the strategic choices among wineries involved in wine tourism experiences, including whether they rely on tradition, fully embrace innovation, or combine both. The study, conducted between December of 2018 and January of 2019, draws on face-to-face interviews with 32 owners/managers of New World wineries that, on average, have operated for nearly three decades. The findings illustrate
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Who are the language tourists? A factor-cluster analysis based on language-related attitudes, beliefs, and travel outcomes International Journal of Tourism Research (IF 4.737) Pub Date : 2022-10-23 Inês Carvalho, Ana Ramires, Fiona Bakas
Researching language tourism (where language learning is a primary or secondary motivation for the trip) is a growing field of interest as the importance of language within tourism experiences is recognized. Conceptually located at the intersection of cultural, youth, academic, and educational tourism, past research has focused on the analysis of tourists who travel to formally learn a language, missing