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The Distorted Gaze? Travel Photo Editing in the Social Media Era Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Ningqiao Li, Fang Meng, Drew Martin
Photo editing has emerged as a common practice among tourists when documenting experiences and sharing photos on social media. Examining this understudied phenomenon, the following study explores the motivations behind travelers’ photo-editing behavior and their perceptions on authenticity. Qualitative research methods were utilized, including 23 semi-structured interviews with a photo elicitation
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Understanding AI-Generated Experiments in Tourism: Replications Using GPT Simulations Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Xiling Xiong, IpKin Anthony Wong, GuoQiong Ivanka Huang, Yixuan Peng
The present work explores whether the generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) can complement empirical research in tourism as the GPT extends beyond commercial applications. In particular, we utilized OpenAI’s Python API to interact with the GPT-3.5-turbo. Using GPT as a special subject, we coined AI-generative study (AGS) to validate key findings of 16 scenario-based experiments published in leading
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Tourism Disaster Management: A Social Network Analysis of Nature-based Destinations in Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Lucia Danzi, Caroline Orchiston, James Higham, Rodolfo Baggio
Collaboration between tourism and emergency management organizations is critical for the safety of tourists and the communities they visit. Using a mixed methods social network approach, this study explores the practices and structural characteristics of tourism disaster management collaboration in Piopiotahi/Milford Sound and Tāhuna/Queenstown, in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Our analysis reveals five types
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Purchase and Protect: Dual Effects of Tourist Souvenir Customization Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Xingyang Lv, Zixin Yuan, Jia Luo, Xiaoxiao Fu, Han Shen, Jin Ai, Yalan Shen
As tourist souvenir consumption leans into co-creation, tourists transition from passive product consumers to active value co-creators. Drawing on psychological ownership theory, this study investigated how tourist customization simultaneously enhances the commercial and cultural attributes of tourist souvenirs through three studies. The findings revealed that tourists’ participation in souvenir customization
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Alleviating Travelers’ Privacy Concern in Personalized Recommendations Through Perceived Information Autonomy: Strategies via Hedge Words and Communication Styles Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Linxiang Lv, Siyun Chen, Gus Guanrong Liu, Mingwen Chen
Personalized recommendations based on personal information enhance travelers’ experiences but raise privacy concerns. The inherent uncertainty in tourism, where travelers cannot fully visualize their destination choices and frequently alter their plans, leads to highly variable and complex travel decisions. This complexity poses a challenge for intelligent systems attempting to predict traveler preferences
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Unveiling the Impact of Interpersonal Interactions on Brand Love: Insights from a Dual-Path Framework Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Jing Li, Forest Ma, Xiaolong Shao, Xingyi Zhang
The question of how to build meaningful relationships between customers and service brands has received considerable attention. Yet the academic literature has largely focused on customer–employee (C-E) relationships; less is known about interactions between customers themselves, especially in shaping brand love. Building on social exchange theory and social identity theory, this study explores brand
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Untangling the Complex and Idiosyncratic Nature of Tourist Destination Brand Equity Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Xi Fang, Kalliopi Chatzipanagiotou, Cleopatra Veloutsou
Research in Tourist Destination Brand Equity mainly adopts established linear brand equity models without accounting for the destination brand’s complex and idiosyncratic nature. This is the first study leveraging complexity theory and the advantages of Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to decode the Tourist Destination Brand Equity complexity. It employs a mixed-sequential design, data originating
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A Socio-Cognitive Approach to Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Indigenous Tourism Development: The Case of Nepal’s Newars Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Roshis Krishna Shrestha, Jean-Noel Patrick L’Espoir Decosta
Socio-cognitive factors play a significant role in multi-stakeholder collaborations but are often overlooked in Indigenous tourism research. This research examines the underlying attitudes, beliefs and values that shape structural and functional interactions in collaboration for Indigenous tourism development. Using ethnographic research approaches, this study explores the traditional ontologies and
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What Has the Most Impact? An Exploration of Dual-Processing Systems in Hotel Booking Decisions Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Eun Joo Kim, Carola Raab, Sarah Tanford
This research explores the role of dual-processing systems in evaluating complex information on online travel agency (OTA) websites, explicitly focusing on the transformative effects of multiple cues considering information sources. Two experimental studies were conducted to explore the processing modes of information using priming in assessing the impact of a controllable cue (brand in study 1 and
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Travel Writing as a Tool for Sustainable Initiatives: Proposing a Dialogue Journaling Process Model Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-10 Charlie Mansfield, Hugues Séraphin, Philipp Wassler, Jasna Potočnik Topler
This study explores the transformative potential of travel writing, positioning it as a sustainable, dynamic, and adaptable tool crafted through written dialogue. It shows how travel stories, social media, new tech, and digital platforms work together and how they provide valuable data for research and potentially aid sustainability in tourism through a novel method. Introducing a Dialogue Journaling
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The Principle of Entropy Increase: A Novel View of How Tourism Influences Human Health Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Fangli Hu, Jun Wen, Danni Zheng, Tianyu Ying, Haifeng Hou, Wei Wang
The principle of “entropy increase” is a universal law describing a natural progression from order to disorder. This paper is innovatively the first to take the principle as a theoretical basis for assessing how tourism influences human health from a sociomateriality perspective. Despite a growing emphasis on the intersection of tourism and health, there remains a need for further theoretical development
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Mindset Matters to Well-being Boosting with Tourism Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Wan Yang, Ye Zhang
While tourism experiences are often recommended over material possessions for their superior potential to boost consumers’ well-being, the context-based nature of such tourism superiority remains under-investigated. This study accordingly examines the extent to which mindset (growth vs. fixed) defines the boundary conditions of this recommendation. Two experiments, designed with different mindset operationalizations
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Commercial Airline Pilots’ Stress Across the Travel Cycle: Multi-Level Stressors, Spillover Effects, and the Role of Resources Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Kirsteen Grant, Thomas Garavan, Peter Holland
Commercial airline pilots (CAPs) are a key employee group within the travel industry who are exposed to multi-level institutional and organizational demands that impact their lived experience of stress potentially leading to accidents and incidents. This study explores CAPs’ lived experience of stress and draws on conservation of resources theory and context and travel stage frameworks to investigate
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The Lasting Effects of Terrorism on Hotel Performance: Evidence from Jihadist Attacks in Europe Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Oriol Anguera-Torrell, David Boto-García
Despite extant research on how terrorism impacts tourism demand, we still know little about its long-lasting effects and how long it takes for the hospitality industry to bounce back. Moreover, while terrorism deters demand, the effect on prices and revenues is still poorly understood. Rooted on microeconomic and Prospect Theory, this work investigates the causal effects of Jihadist attacks in Europe
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Taking Advantage of Their Seniority: How the Misbehavior of Senior Tourists Influence Young Adults’ Prosocial Behavior Towards Them Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Guangmei Jia, Ji Wen, Lisa C. Wan
Although the senior tourism sector is widely recognized as a growing market, misbehaviors by elderly tourists is an under researched issue within the field of tourism. This paper offers insights into inappropriate behaviors by senior tourists and explores the responses of young adults toward such instances of misbehavior. Through a multimethod approach, we reveal that the intentional (vs. unintentional)
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An Extended Pre-testing Protocol in the Lead-up to Field Studies Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Anna K. Zinn, Danyelle Greene, Csilla Demeter, Sara Dolnicar
To establish whether interventions ultimately change behavior, they are best tested in the field. However, there is no clear consensus on how to pre-select such interventions. To address this, we propose an extended pre-testing protocol in the lead-up to field studies. This extended protocol combines different approaches by (1) distinguishing between (a) an intervention triggering the corresponding
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Group Package Tour Playfulness Climate: Scale Development and Validation Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Tien-Ming Cheng, Wei-Hsiang Lien
The purpose of this study is to establish the constructs and scale of Group Package Tour Playfulness Climate (GPT-PC). Study 1, in-depth interviews of 25 tour conductors and tour members in overseas GPTs were conducted. The initial items were determined by content analysis at this stage. Study 2, involved scale development based on a sample of 350 tour members experienced in short-term GPTs. Five factors
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How to Establish Credibility? The Influence of Expression Manner on Tourist Information Adoption Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Chunxiao Li, Hongxu Liu, Lin Li
This study utilizes source credibility theory to examine how two manners of expression act as cues for source trustworthiness and expertise, impacting potential tourists’ adoption intentions. Importantly, we explore the interplay between source identity and the manner of expression. Throughout this investigation, four empirical studies were undertaken, integrating social media analytics and three experiments
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Tourist Film Souvenirs and Post-Postmodern Authentication Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Brendan Canavan
Identified and analyzed in this article are tourist film souvenirs. Associated with the Rickshaw Run adventure tourism experience, these travel artifacts are crafted from video fragments gathered on the road, combined into an organized overall, and shared online. Films are found to structure tourists’ self-imaginings during and post-travel. Filmmaking enables protagonists to roleplay as extraordinary
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Redirecting Slack Resources to Social and Environmental Issues: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Tourism Firms Post-Crisis Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Mohamed Nageh Ibrahim, Manuel Alector Ribeiro, Albert Nsom Kimbu
Drawing on the cognitive micro-foundations of institutional theory, attention-based view, stakeholder salience framework, and threat-rigidity hypothesis, this study fills key gaps in our understanding of how tourism firms allocate their slack resources to social and environmental issues during crises. Our model was tested using survey data collected from the managers of tourism firms in Egypt and the
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The Impact of Recommender Type on Tourist Price Sensitivity to Travel Plans Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Jiaqi Xu, Xiaofei Tang, Hongxia Lin, Yong (Eddie) Luo
Artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly replaced humans in providing travel recommendations to tourists. Previous research has predominantly focused on investigating tourists’ willingness to adopt AI. Given the perceived differences in recommendation capabilities between AI and human service providers, tourists may react differently to the prices of AI- and human-recommended travel plans. This
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Travel Stress, Leisure Exploration, and Trip Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Travel Adjustment Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Jase R. Ramsey, Ye Zhang, Melanie P. Lorenz, Sameer Hosany
Integrating Torbiorn’s theory of adjustment and Lazarus’ theory of stress, this study examines the antecedents, consequences, and mitigating factors of international business travel adjustment. Results from two studies, a unique pre (Time 1) and post (Time 2) travel survey conducted before COVID at two airports in North and South America, and data collected post-COVID using an online panel of business
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Autoethnographic Disability-Related Research in Hospitality and Tourism Journals: Empowering Marginalized Identity Scholars’ Voices Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Tin Doan, Simon Darcy
Autoethnography, an essential research approach, interweaves personal experiences with introspective insights from distinct communities. Despite its methodological significance, autoethnography remains inadequately represented in hospitality and tourism research discourse. This paper seeks to challenge this status quo by advocating for social model strength-based paradigms in understanding disability
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Communicating Green Innovation to Online Communities: Evidence from Sports Mega Events Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Xiangru Qin, Birgit Muskat, Haiyang Xia, Judith Mair, Gang Li
Tourism and event organizers implement green innovation to mitigate the negative environmental impacts they cause. However, how to effectively communicate these green innovations to online communities remains a challenge. Drawing on message framing and construal level theories, we collected 503 tweets and used an exploratory sequential mixed-methods approach to analyze the textual data. First, we conducted
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Environmental or Personal Benefit? The Role of Message Appeal and Information Type in Destination Social Media Advertisements Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Arnold Japutra, Ali Selcuk Can, Cihan Alphun
Destinations are increasingly focusing on sustainability awareness through tourism campaigns, but effective communication remains challenging. This research, rooted in consumption value theory, delves into the influence of message appeal (environmental vs. personal benefit) and information type (objective vs. subjective) on tourists’ behavioral intentions through two online experiments. Study 1 demonstrates
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On the Importance of Field Studies for Testing Theory-Driven Behavioral Change Interventions in (Sustainable) Tourism Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Emil Juvan, Oscar Yuheng Zhu, Bettina Grün, Sara Dolnicar
Practical measures to entice tourists to behave in environmentally sustainable ways are urgently needed. The effectiveness of such measures is typically tested in survey experiments. This study demonstrates that this approach can be misleading. We test two messages aimed at reducing buffet food waste. One builds on established theories of human behavior (theory of planned behavior, value-belief-norm
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Role of Body in Travel: Wheelchair Users’ Experience From a Multi-Sensory Perspective Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Guanghui Qiao, Songhe Hou, Qingwen Chen, Guopeng Xiang, Bruce Prideaux
The body plays a crucial role in the experience of tourists utilizing a wheelchair, providing a constant reminder of the need to pay attention to the “body-self.” However, the mechanism behind their travel experience remains a theoretical black hole that needs to be explored. Embodiment theory offers a unique perspective for investigating the formation of the experience of tourists who use wheelchairs
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How Do Tourism Stakeholders Co-Create Destination Images with Photos on Social Media? Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Yuchen Zhao, Elizabeth Agyeiwaah
Previous research overwhelmingly emphasizes discrepancies in constructing destination images from different stakeholders but ignores the potential attempt for convergence. From the perspective of symbolic convergence theory, this study explores how tourism stakeholders co-create destination images with photos on social media by occupying different roles. A blended approach combining content and thematic
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Travel Animosity and Affinity: A Chaordic Perspective Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Anna Farmaki, Nikolaos Pappas, Christina Karadimitriou
The aim of this study is to investigate the complex effects of animosity and affinity on travel intentions. In so doing, we draw from a sample of 400 Greek holidaymakers and use complexity theory to examine the chaordic influence of animosity and affinity on their intentions to potentially travel to Russia in the near future. Contrary to previous studies on animosity and affinity which adopted a linear
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Imprinting and Workplace Well-Being among Generation Z Hotel Employees Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Keheng Xiang, Mao-Ying Wu, Yixuan Tong, Chenxi He
This study investigated the dynamic imprinting processes that shape Generation Z hotel employees’ workplace well-being. An integrated research framework was built based on the insights of imprinting theory and positive psychology. Photo-elicitation interviews and narrative analysis were used as the key research techniques. Findings illuminate the dynamic processes of imprinting among Generation Z hotel
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Bridging the Green Gap in Homesharing: How Platforms Can Increase Hosts’ Sustainability Intentions and Behavior Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Oliver Rossmannek, Natalie David, Carlos Sandoval, Lluis Garay
Homesharing platforms are under substantive pressure to become more environmentally sustainable. Key to this challenge is these platforms’ homesharing hosts, who have the opportunity to introduce new sustainability innovations (e.g., water-saving measures). However, knowledge of what drives hosts’ sustainability behavior is currently limited. We address this gap and investigate antecedents for hosts’
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Paradoxes of Authenticity in Liminal Consumption: The Case of Casablanca’s Rick’s Café Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Diórgenes Falcão Mamédio, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego, Stewart Clegg
What makes a “ fake” seemingly “ authentic”? The case of Rick’s Café, known worldwide for the movie Casablanca, situates that question. Rick’s was a set constructed on a Hollywood sound stage. Another Rick’s was created materially in Casablanca decades later. Consumers are aware of this liminal condition. It is the reflexivity inherent in this awareness of performative inauthenticity that makes the
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Influential and Worthy: A Video-centric Exploration of Travel Influencers’ Value Chain Logic Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Siqi Guo, Ning Deng, Zeya He
Influencer marketing has ushered in a new mode of electronic commerce, necessitating research to explore this emerging business logic. This study, grounded in communication and persuasion theory, develops a theoretical framework of travel influencers’ value chain logic. It elucidates how these influencers’ communication strategies drive their audience members’ online engagement and influencers’ business
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Measurement of Visitors’ Subjective and Objective Emotional Response to Congestion in Public Spaces Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Rotem Mashkov, Noam Shoval
Research on the ties between congestion and visitors’ experiences in a destination has primarily used subjective methods. The current study proposes that the emotional, subjective visitor response to congestion be measured alongside the objective experience, in real time and real-world conditions. To do so, advanced tracking methods in time and space (GPS) were combined with the Experience Sampling
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Analyzing Destination Resilience From A Spatiotemporal Perspective Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Xiaoying Jiao, Gang Li, Richard T. R. Qiu, Jason Li Chen
The tourism industry is vulnerable to external shocks. Various crises inevitably impact the tourism industry and tourist destinations negatively but at the same time bring opportunities to examine destination resilience in response to a real shock that is hard to simulate. To manage a crisis more effectively, two critical issues should be addressed: the duration of the impact of the crisis (i.e., temporal
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Intersectional Emancipation for Biocultural Conservation: An Exploratory Neolocalism Framework Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Christina T. Cavaliere, Julia R. Branstrator, Joseph M. Cheer
Ketchikan, Alaska, is a coastal gateway community that has experienced rapid changes, unearthing visceral realizations of biocultural vulnerabilities and bioregional interdependencies. Bordering the Tongass National Forest, the community embodies and endures complicated historicized impacts from neoliberalism, reproduced today by mass cruise tourism. During the COVID-19 global lockdown, remote field
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How Consumer Photo Reviews and Online Platform Types Influence Luxury Hotel Booking Intentions Through Envy Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Jee Yun Park, Hye Eun Lee
When booking hotels, travelers often rely on content created by other consumers to inform their decisions. This study examines the effect of consumer-generated photos of luxury hotels, specifically those that emphasize the quality of one’s experiences versus the quality of the hotel’s facilities, as well as the type of platform through which such photos are shared, such as social media versus review
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Text Analysis in Tourism and Hospitality: A Comprehensive Review Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Jian-Wu Bi, Xue-Er Zhu, Tian-Yu Han
Despite numerous studies that adopt text analysis in tourism and hospitality published in the past decade, a comprehensive review of this topic is still lacking. This study endeavors to bridge this gap by conducting a systematic review of text analysis research published in the top five journals in tourism and hospitality between 2013 and 2023. From a thematic analysis perspective, this paper provides
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Exploring the Potential of Chatbots in Extending Tourists’ Sustainable Travel Practices Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Gilang Maulana Majid, Iis Tussyadiah, Yoo Ri Kim
Recent advancement in Generative Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) has opened the possibility of promoting chatbots for nudging. Tourists returning home from destinations that enforce sustainable transport regulations might be nudged to continue traveling sustainably. Through exploratory qualitative research, this study conceptualizes a chatbot to facilitate pro-environmental behavior spillover
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The Paradox of Positivity: How Overly Positive Responses by Hosts Can Backfire on Peer-to-Peer Rental Platforms Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Sai Liang, Danmeng Wu, Ziru Li, Yang Yang, Hong Xu, Dexiang Yin
Effective strategies for managerial responses to guest reviews on peer-to-peer rental platforms remain undefined. This study utilizes symbolic interaction theory to explain the effect of hosts’ response positivity on guests’ review-posting intention. The study employs a mixed-methods approach, combining econometric modeling with experiment, to empirically examine the effects of response positivity
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Tourism, War, and Media: The Russia-Ukraine War Narrative Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Jie Tan, Mingming Cheng
Underpinned by framing theory, this study examines how the mainstream news media constructs the war and tourism narratives. Using frame analysis and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), this paper systematically unpacks the intertwined relationship between war and tourism in constructing its narratives during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Three main frames were identified, including “impact,”
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Understanding the Travel Decision-Making Behaviors of Ethnic Minority Tourists: The Moderating Role of Psychological Empowerment Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Yoo Ri Kim, Albert Nsom Kimbu, Sumeetra Ramakrishnan, Prosanjit Saha
Grounded on the concept of ethnicity, this paper explores the travel consumption and decision-making behaviors of ethnic minority travelers through the lens of psychological empowerment. Employing a quantitative-dominant concurrent nested mixed-methods approach, 951 surveys (404 white and 547 ethnic minority participants), 6 focus groups, and 10 semi-structured interviews (with ethnic minority travelers)
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Reducing Shower Duration in Tourist Accommodations: A Covert True Experiment of Continuous Real-Time Eco-Feedback and Persuasive Messaging Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Pablo Pereira-Doel, Xavier Font, Kayleigh Wyles, Jorge Pereira-Moliner
This study inductively applies the Feedback Intervention Theory by empirically demonstrating the effectiveness of continuous, real-time eco-feedback and its interaction with motivational factors in modifying showering behavior. We conducted a covert true experiment across six tourist accommodations in Denmark, Spain, and the UK, where we deployed smart technology, in the form of a timer to provide
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Wellness Tourism Attributes and Tourist Outcomes: An Analysis of Configurational Effects Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Amr Al-Ansi, Seongseop (Sam) Kim, Yuchen Xu, Che Chen, Bee-Lia Chua, Heesup Han
Prior studies have identified the complexity involved in explaining the relationship between wellness tourism attributes and tourist behavior. This study investigated the configurational effects of 10 constructs in predicting the ambiguous area between overall satisfaction and destination behavioral loyalty. To achieve this, the study used a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) and necessary
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Is Travel Resurgence in the Post-Global Health Emergency a Form of Revenge Travel? A Multi-phase Qualitative Study Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 N. Meenakshi, Amandeep Dhir, Puneet Kaur, Raj V. Mahto, Juan Luis Nicolau
This paper aims to conceptualize whether revenge tourism is an apt description of travel in the post global health emergency period from the perspective of travelers. Furthermore, it examines the outcomes of post global health emergency travel. The multiphase work included screening and three phases of qualitative study. Participants perceived the term “ revenge” with skepticism, although the nature
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Unlocking Nontransactional Value Co-creation: Insights From Online Travel Communities Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Hui Jiang, Fang Meng, Bing Liu
Online travel communities have been pivotal touchpoints for tourists to co-create nontransactional values with both platforms and other tourists. This study employed a mixed-method approach to examine the antecedents of tourists’ nontransactional value co-creation, including tourist-initiated and platform-initiated value co-creation, and its influence on the effective creation of knowledge value. The
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Online Hosts’ Storytelling Strategies: A Narrative Analysis of Mindfulness-Themed Airbnb Online Experiences Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Yue (Darcy) Lu, Yao-Chin Wang
Although virtual tours and online tourism experiences have been developed with technological advancement and COVID-19 lockdowns, knowledge gaps exist to systematically conceptualize online tourism experiences and clarify online hosts’ storytelling strategies. Drawing upon theatrical theory, this study aims to conceptualize the online tourism experience and online hosts’ storytelling strategies. Our
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Future Space Tourists’ Motivations, Constraints, and Negotiation Strategies: A Grounded Theory Approach Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Chris Slaney, SoJung Lee, James Busser
Space tourists’ decision-making would be far more complicated than general tourism, but limited research has investigated the process. This research explored potential space tourists’ decision-making process, grounded in the constraint–effects–mitigation (CEM) model. Through in-depth interviews with 10 individuals who experienced extensive space tourism activities, the grounded theory approach revealed
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How Negative Framing Affects VR Tourism Adoption: Exploring the Role of Travel Anxiety During Crisis Events Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Suresh Malodia, Tobias Otterbring, Babak Taheri, Amandeep Dhir
This study investigates the impact of information framing (negative vs. positive) on the adoption of virtual reality (VR) tourism applications amidst various crisis events such as pandemics, natural disasters, political unrest, or terrorism. Using three experiments, we found that negatively framed information increases travel anxiety and the adoption of VR tourism more than positive framing, a pattern
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Value Co-Creation and Co-Destruction Through Adult Child–Parent Interactions During Family Vacations: Scale Development and Validation Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Guangmei Jia, Yanbo Yao, Daisy X. F. Fan
Although numerous benefits of family vacations have been recognized, the value of family interactions during tourism activities remains under-explored in the literature. Through a series of dual-perspective studies using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, this research developed and validated two multidimensional datasets to measure value co-creation and co-destruction from the perspectives
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Bridging Theory and Practice: An Examination of How Event-Tourism Research Aligns With UN Sustainable Development Goals Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Shinyong Jung, Jason Draper, Kristin Malek, Thomas C. Padron, Eric Olson
This paper provides an overview of the current state of academic research in event-tourism and its impact on the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). Through a systematic review and bibliometric analysis of 159 articles, this study reveals a moderate alignment between the literature on sustainable event tourism and the UN SDGs. However, certain SDGs, such as No
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Examining the Use of Public Transportation by Tourists in Ten European Capitals Through the Lens of Hierarchical Leisure Constraints Theory Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Piotr Zientara, Magdalena Jażdżewska-Gutta, Monika Bąk, Anna Zamojska
This study examines tourists’ use of public transportation through the lens of hierarchical leisure constraints theory. Drawing on data collected in 10 European capitals among 5,220 tourists, it aims to provide evidence supporting the relevance of the theory in this research domain, thereby deepening our understanding of the mechanisms underlying tourists’ use of public transportation. Except for the
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A Time-lagged Examination of Voluntary and Task-related Green Behavior in the Travel Industry Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Amandeep Dhir, Shalini Talwar, Sahil Raj, Brinda Sampat, Juan Luis Nicolau
With climate change continuing to threaten the earth’s ecosystems, the travel industry is under increased pressure to adopt green policies. The effective implementation of these policies is largely dependent on employee commitment, but research offering insights into employees’ green behavior in the travel industry is sparse. We addressed this gap using the value-belief-norm theory to conceptualize
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Conceptualization and Measurement of Happy Travel Experiences Using Hedonic, Eudaimonic, and Engagement Aspects Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Hakseung Shin, Yonghyeon Kim, Mira Kim, Hoon Lee
The ultimate value of travel lies in the experience of happiness. However, most tourism research has focused on cognitive satisfaction or meaningful travel experiences, which has led to a lack of understanding of the nature of happy travel experiences. This study conceptualizes happy travel experiences in terms of their hedonic, eudaimonic, and engagement aspects, and develops a multi-dimensional scale
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The Art of Post Captions: Readability and User Engagement on Social Media Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Joanne Yu, Wilson Cheong Hin Hong, Roman Egger
In addition to the significance of visual content, text characteristics serve as salient factors influencing how users react to social media posts. By extracting 9,766 Instagram posts published by destination marketers, this research investigates the interplay between the readability of post captions and destination attributes derived from pictorial content on user engagement. Grounded in the theoretical
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Wayfarers in Cyberspace: A Temporal Investigation of Digital Nomads Based on Liquid Modernity Theory Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Yunhao Xiao, Christoph Lutz
Following the recent rise of digital nomadism, this study explores changing patterns of travel and work among highly mobile individuals. We draw on liquid modernity theory to analyze data from Reddit’s r/digitalnomad subreddit over 3.5 years. Fifteen topics and seven clusters capture the rich discussions. The most discussed topic was Destination review and recommendation, followed by Emotional needs
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Travel Dining Experiencescape: A Comparative Evaluation of Dining Experiences in Restaurants and P2P Dining Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Oswald Mhlanga
The emergence of P2P dining services has fundamentally altered consumer experiences in tourism gastronomy. Despite an increase in experience-related research in the sharing economy, existing literature focuses almost exclusively on P2P accommodation, with an obvious neglect of P2P dining. The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of experiential consumption underlying restaurants and P2P
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Thriving in a World of Giants: Craft Breweries’ Workings in a Major Tourism Destination Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Brendali Carrillo, Carla Barbieri
Major tourism destinations depending on iconic resources to draw tourists are seeking to diversify their offerings. Building upon neolocalism, craft-beverage tourism has emerged as a diversification strategy. Such a strategy requires establishing a vibrant craft-beer industry that, according to the resource partitioning theory (RPT) requires applying four mechanisms (location, anti-mass production
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Airline Social Media Recovery Satisfaction: Has COVID Changed Everything? Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Tripti Ghosh Sharma, Mahima Gupta, Vinu Cheruvil Thomas, Bharadhwaj Sivakumaran
This study deals with airlines’ handling of customer complaints pre- and post-Covid 19. Authors extracted airlines’ responses regarding redress, timeliness, apology, credibility, facilitation, and attentiveness and analyzed them pre- and post-pandemic. The results indicate the differential impacts of organizational responses on recovery satisfaction pre- and post-pandemic. Attentiveness (timeliness)
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Residents’ Perceived Benefits of Host-Guest Interaction: Scale Development and Validation Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Fangfang Shi, Xing Han, Carla Estefanía Samaniego-Chávez
The amiability of residents is an essential element of destination competitiveness. Pleasant host-guest interactions (HGIs) can create a memorable experience for tourists. Limited attention has been paid to the benefits of HGIs from the residents’ perspective. This research aims to construct a scale that measures this. Based on an extensive literature review, 52 in-depth interviews, and two surveys