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Future Space Tourists’ Motivations, Constraints, and Negotiation Strategies: A Grounded Theory Approach Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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 8.933) 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
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What Makes You Palpitate With Excitement? The Differentiation Effect and Mechanism of Message Appeal in Tourism Short Videos Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Yu-Ting Tang, Wen-Qi Ruan, Shu-Ning Zhang, Xi Li, Yan Zhou
How destinations use tourism short videos to stand out in the fierce digital market is crucial. Based on the “cognitive-affective-conative” theoretical model, this study investigates the differential effects and mechanisms of tourism short video message appeal on users’ travel intention by conducting three experiments. The findings show that: emotional appeal (vs. rational appeal) is more likely to
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Communicating Destination Social Responsibility Through Social Media: The Roles of Tourists’ Social Engagement, Citizenship Behaviors, and Emotions Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Patricia Martínez García de Leaniz, Ángel Herrero, María del Mar García de los Salmones
Social media is a particularly useful tool to promote sustainable tourism destinations. However, little is known about consumer engagement with social media communication in a destination social responsibility (DSR) context within the tourism industry. Grounded in the Stimulus-Organism-Response model, this study examines the factors that influence the intention to generate electronic word-of-mouth
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Price it High if it is Varied: Perceived Heterogeneity and the Effectiveness of Discount Framing Strategies for Travel Packages Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Xia Wei, Shubin Yu, Xi Li
In recent years, consumers have been confronted with the proliferation of package bundling (i.e., marketing multiple products or services together in a single package at a discounted price) in the tourism industry. This paper aims to investigate how different discount framing strategies affect consumers’ purchase intention of a vacation package. Through four experimental studies, this paper reveals
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The Interactive Effect of Message Framing and Power Distance Belief on Tourists’ Attitudes Toward Slum Tours Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Sohyun Bae, Xiaoyan Liu, Piaoran Ren
Slum tourism, an activity in which tourists visit impoverished areas, has grown rapidly in recent years and, in turn, triggered intense debates in the public sphere and on social media. In the current research, we examine how and why different frames regarding slum tours (i.e., poverty tour vs. cultural tour) interact with tourists’ power distance belief (PDB) to influence their attitudes toward such
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Baby Come Back: Resident-Digital Nomad Conflicts, Destination Identification, and Revisit Intention Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Dario Miocevic
Due to the increasing popularity of remote work, digital nomadism has become a growing trend. Given that digital nomads can stay in destinations longer, their contacts with residents become more dynamic, including numerous social conflicts. By drawing on realistic group conflict theory and social identity complexity, this paper investigates how the negative consequences of social conflicts can be mitigated
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Eliciting Mortality Salience in Dark Tourism and its Influence Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Kai Bai, Rufeng Chen
While dark tourism research has increasingly emphasized mortality salience’s role in exploring dark tourists’ experiences, little is known regarding the triggers and effects of mortality salience. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 tourists visiting the Xuankou Middle School (Wenchuan earthquake site), revealing that both the objective and constructive authenticity of tourism objects can
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Make the Effort Visible: The Effect of Process Transparency on Public Forgiveness in Tourism Crisis Communication Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Ting-Ting Yang, Wen-Qi Ruan, Yong-Quan Li, Shu-Ning Zhang
Public forgiveness in tourism crisis communication is conducive to improving destination reputation, although this connection has been ignored. To fill this research gap, this study conducts three experiments to investigate the effect of process transparency on public forgiveness. The results of two experiments reveal that response messages with high (vs. low) process transparency are more likely to
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Matching Crisis Event With Destination Response Strategy Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Lujun Su, Bocong Jia, Scott R. Swanson
A conceptual model is tested across four studies that examine how tourist destination crisis types (external/internal) impact the information processing mode (heuristic/systematic), internal state (empathy/animosity), and boycott intentions of tourists. The matching effect between destination crisis event type and response strategy (defensive/accommodative) are also examined. Results suggest that internally
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Measuring Travel Insurance Literacy: Effect on Trust in Providers and Intention to Purchase Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Gonzalo Luna-Cortés, Michael Brady
Recent research suggests that some deficiencies in the insurance industry might be associated with tourists’ lack of knowledge. However, the literature does not present a tool that captures objective knowledge of travel insurance literacy. This research presents a comprehensive, multi-step scale development process resulting in a 15-item scale, which measures objective knowledge about travel insurance
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Viewer In-Consumption Engagement in Pro-Environmental Tourism Videos: A Video Analytics Approach Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Jingjie Zhu, Mingming Cheng, Ying (Wendy) Wang
Underpinned by Media Richness Theory and the Elaboration Likelihood Model, this study examines the impacts of the content features (i.e., informativeness and visual variation) of pro-environmental tourism videos on viewers’ in-consumption engagement. Pro-environmental tourism videos were analyzed at the scene level using advanced video analytics. The findings of this study show that there are inverted
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Well-being Through Transformation: An Integrative Framework of Transformative Tourism Experiences and Hedonic Versus Eudaimonic Well-being Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Xingyu Huang, Peihao Wang, Laurie Wu
Transformative tourism experiences are powerful life moments with the capacity to elevate individuals’ well-being. With the rise of transformative tourism and the growing attention to well-being, t...
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Reducing Resistance to Sponsorship Disclosure: The Role of Experiential Versus Material Posts Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Saleh Shuqair, Giampaolo Viglia, Diego Costa Pinto, Anna S. Mattila
Despite the growing relevance of influencer marketing, recent research suggests that consumers have negative reactions to social media ads. Our research investigates how different types of disclosu...
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Regenerative Management of Coastal Tourism Destinations for the Anthropocene Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Sergio Alvarez
The current geologic era—the Anthropocene—is defined by human-driven transformation of landscapes and seascapes that has profoundly altered Earth’s climate and other life-support systems. This lett...
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Slowing Down in “Little Shanghai”: A Nostalgia-induced Framework of Reciprocity between Psychological Ownership and Heritage Preservation Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Zhiwei (CJ) Lin, Wilson Cheong Hin Hong, Xiwen (Sivin) Xiao
While the phenomenon of nostalgic heritage travel has gained traction, scarce inquiries have researched how nostalgia for heritage sites can render a means for heritage preservation. This inquiry u...
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Small Changes Make a Big Difference: The Impact of Visual Symbol Color Lightness on Destination Image Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Yun He, Xiao Li, Ke Zhong
Visual symbols, such as logos, landmark pictures, and mascots, play a significant role in attracting tourists and improving destination images. However, only a few studies have examined how the bas...
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Exploring the Role of Advertising in the Context of Tourist-Destination Congruity Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Tina Šegota
Tourists are flooded with advertising messages, including destination-attribute-based or user-imagery-based pictures, to persuade them to visit the destination. While research emphasizes destinatio...
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An Assessment of Prospect Theory in Tourism Decision-Making Research Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Gabrielle Lin, Michael S. Lin, Haiyan Song
Prospect theory has been an essential theoretical foundation for behavioral economics, as recognized with the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2002. The growing interest in behavioral economics ...
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Place Branding: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Swapnarag Swain, Charles Jebarajakirthy, Bhuvanesh Kumar Sharma, Haroon Iqbal Maseeh, Amee Agrawal, Jinal Shah, Raiswa Saha
This study aims to systematically review the place branding literature and comprehensively synthesize the academic research in this domain. Accordingly, this study examines the development of place...
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Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a Mixed-Method and Analysis Technique: A Comprehensive Systematic Review Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Yechale Mehiret Geremew, Wei-Jue (Sabrina) Huang, Kam Hung
The review aims to explore fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) as a bridge between the qualitative and quantitative paradigm divide in tourism, leisure, and hospitality management st...
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Do Tourists stand by the Tourism Industry? Examining Solidarity During and After a Pandemic Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Florian Kock, Albert George Assaf, Mike Tsionas, Alexander Josiassen, Marion Karl
How does the suffering of a whole industry influence people’s attitudes toward that industry? This research is the first, across disciplines, to examine this question. The authors provide the first...
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Preference Shifts During Health Shocks: Foreign Tourists’ Expenditure–Price Elasticity Throughout the Pandemic Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 David Boto-García, José Francisco Baños Pino
This study evaluates the changes in the expenditure–price elasticities of foreign tourists in the summer periods of 2019, 2020, and 2021. We first develop a theoretical characterization that combin...
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Exploring Tourists’ Virtual Reality-Based Brand Engagement: A Uses-and-Gratifications Perspective Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Raouf Ahmad Rather, Linda D. Hollebeek, Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro, Imran Khan, Rajibul Hasan
Though prior research has addressed the role of virtual reality (VR) in tourism, the dynamics and consequences characterizing tourists’ VR-based brand engagement, which has grown significantly sinc...
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Effect of Display Methods on Intentions to Use Virtual Reality in Museum Tourism Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Jinwei Wang, Yue Sun, Liyan Zhang, Saiyin Zhang, Ling Feng, Alastair M. Morrison
The application of virtual reality (VR) promises unique visitor experiences in museum tourism; however, the underlying characteristics of the experiences still need to be well-researched. This rese...
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Seize the Time! How Perceived Busyness Influences Tourists’ Preferences for Destination Advertising Messages Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Chen Yang, Jing Hu
This study examines the impact of perceived busyness on the effectiveness of destination advertising based on construal level theory. Results from four experiments using two different tourism desti...
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Diffusion and Future Influence of Tourism Research: Addressing the How and When Questions of Tourism Knowledge Structures Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Yiannis Kouropalatis, Sebastian Zenker, Robert E. Morgan, Adam Lindgreen
This article addresses how core tourism research has influenced other cognate research disciplines through the diffusion of its knowledge structure and when, in the future, this diffused knowledge ...
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Leading for Resilience: Fostering Employee and Organizational Resilience in Tourism Firms Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Girish Prayag, Birgit Muskat, Chaminda Dassanayake
Grounded in conservation of resources (COR) theory, this study identifies the effect of leadership behaviors on the resilience of tourism firms and employees in Sri Lanka during the early stages of...
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Changes in Authenticity and Alienation Following a Holiday Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Jibin Yu, Bin Liu
Recent developments in existential authenticity and psychoanalytic alienation have challenged the traditional account of tourism’s contribution to authenticity. To evaluate these distinct accounts ...
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Shaping In-Destination Group Decision-Making: The Sociomateriality of Smartphones Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Dan Wang, Iis Tussyadiah, Elaine Zhang
In-destination travel decisions exist due to uncertainties after arrival and the flexibility of leisure travel. Concurrently, smartphone use encourages instant information searching and communicati...
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Building Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Resilience in Tourism Firms During COVID-19: A Staged Approach Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Girish Prayag, Yawei Jiang, Mesbahuddin Chowdhury, Muhammad Ismail Hossain, Nasrin Akter
Using dynamic capabilities (DCs) and the disaster/crisis management cycle (DMC) as the theoretical lens, this study explores how different types of DCs build and sustain organizational resilience o...
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Deploying Cultural Knowledge of Nature to Construct the Nature Sports Experience Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Francis Farrelly, Michael Beverland
A tourist’s cultural construction of nature can shape their nature sports experience. It can also impact how they perceive the destinations where they engage in nature sports. This ethnography iden...
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Good Match, Deep Love: Three Studies Examining the Celebrity Endorsement’s Influence on Destination Brand Love Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Hui Zhang, Honggang Xu
Destination brand love plays an important role in contributing to the competitive advantage of a destination. Based on the meaning transfer theory, match-up hypothesis, schema theory, etc., this st...
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Promoting Country Image and Tourism in New or Underdeveloped Markets Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 José I. Rojas-Méndez, Gary Davies
In this paper, the theoretical framework of the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) was applied in the context of a host country promoting its tourism to new or underdeveloped markets. The host country’...
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Power of Sentiment Expressions on Peer-to-Peer Rental Platforms: A Mixed-Method Approach Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Xi Zhang, Xin Wei, Te Zhang, Sai Liang, Yao Ma, Rob Law
Studies have confirmed the ineffectiveness of sentiment expressions generated by sellers in improving guests’ purchasing intentions. However, how sentiment expressions can influence guest behavior ...
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Determinants of Consumers’ Intentions to Reduce Air Travel Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Barbara Seegebarth, David M. Woisetschläger, Stefanie Sohn, Vanessa Frenser
Although consumer air travel reduction has important societal, economic, and environmental implications, knowledge about the determinants of consumers’ decisions to reduce air travel is sparse. The...
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Shared Festival Tourism Experiences: The Power and Purpose of Remembering Together Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Emma Harriet Wood, Maarit Kinnunen, Jonathan Moss, Yanning Li
Although there is much discussion of what makes travel experiences memorable there is less on how remembering those experiences together then makes us feel and act. This empirical paper builds upon...
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Spatial Authenticity and Extraordinary Experiences: Music Festivals and the Everyday Nature of Tourism Destinations Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Alexandros Skandalis, Emma Banister, John Byrom
Research taking into account the everyday nature of tourism destinations and its impact upon authenticity and attendees’ resulting extraordinary experiences is limited. Drawing upon a 3-year ethnog...
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The Tourism Demarketing Mix: Working to Reduce Revisits to Egyptian Nature Reserves Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Ahmed M. Elsetouhi, Mohamed E. Elshourbagi, Ahmed A. Hammad, Alaa A. Elnazer
This study tests the impact of the tourism demarketing mix (product, price, place, promotion) on tourists’ intention to reduce revisits to nature reserves in Egypt. In particular, this work focuses...
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How do Different Types of User-Generated Content Attract Travelers? Taking Story and Review on Airbnb as the Example Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Sihan Li, Yongli Li, Chao Liu, Ningyuan Fan
User-generated content (UGC) has been validated as an important factor in travel decisions. However, it is still unclear whether different types of UGC function differently. Social cognitive theory...
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When We Practice to Deceive: Service Worker Manipulation and (Mis)Behavior on Cruise Ships Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Andrew D. Pressey, Lloyd C. Harris
Studies of service delivery often assume that any deviance from service protocols when interacting with customers is largely due to service worker ineptitude or incompetence; this is particularly t...
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Travel While Working Remotely: A Topological Data Analysis of Well-Being in Remote Work Trip Experiences Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Ekaterina Chevtaeva, Barbara Neuhofer, Roman Egger, Mattia Rainoldi
The proliferation of novel work arrangements, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to the emergence of remote work trip experiences in which work is conducted within the context of leisure...
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Travelers’ Psychological Ownership: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Cenhua Lyu, Yangyang Jiang, M. S. Balaji
Scholarly interest in research on travelers’ psychological ownership has recently increased given its relationship with traveler behavior. This study provides a systematic literature review centere...
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Re-enactment in Lighter Dark Tourism: An Exploration of Re-enactor Tour Guides and Their Perspectives on Creating Visitor Experiences Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Brianna Wyatt, Anna Leask, Paul Barron
This study explores the perspectives of re-enactor tour guides (RTG) concerning their role and re-enactment of dark histories—an overlooked topic within dark tourism research. A conceptual model is...
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How Do Voice Characteristics Affect Tourism Interpretation Purchases? An Empirical Study Based on Voice Mining Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Ying Wang, Yang Yang, Xuequn Wang, Qingyan Zheng, Rong Peng
This study investigates how voice characteristics (i.e., speech rate, loudness, pitch) affect interpretation purchases in digital interpretation platforms through the lenses of signaling theory and...
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Does Social Globalization Affect the Relationship Between International Tourism and Economic Growth? Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Hazwan Haini, Pang Wei Loon, Soo Keong Yong, Sufrizul Husseini
This study examines the moderating effect of social globalization on the relationship between international tourism and economic growth using a dataset of 143 economies from 1995 to 2017. Social gl...
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Brand Personality Word Embedding Model: UNESCO World Heritage Personality Scale Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Mohamed Abdalla Elsayed Hassan, Konstantina Zerva, Silvia Aulet
Despite having received considerable academic attention, existing brand personality (BP) scales are difficult to generalize and likely need further development. The aim of this study was to design ...
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Disaster Planning Intentions of Tourism Accommodation Managers: Understanding the Influence of Past Disaster Experience and Disaster Management Training Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Sunil Sahadev, Neeru Malhotra, Lakmini N. Kannangara, Brent W. Ritchie
Tourism is one of the most vulnerable industries to disasters, and empirical studies on disaster preparedness have been surprisingly sparse. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, this study sh...
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Climate Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Investment: Evidence From the U.S. Tourism and Hospitality Sector Journal of Travel Research (IF 8.933) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Jing Gao, Lei Zhang
We examine the association between climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and corporate investment using U.S. data on tourism and hospitality firms over the period 2001–2020. We find that the aggregate c...