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How consumers process online hotel ratings Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Bi Yang, Tian Ye, Stephanie Q. Liu, Yujie Zhao
Online travel agencies commonly utilize 5-point and 10-point scales to display hotel ratings. When processing and comparing hotel ratings on different numerical scales (e.g., 4.1/5 vs. 8.4/10), what method(s) do consumers use? Through nine studies, this research shows that consumers tend to employ absolute differences (e.g., 5–4.1 vs. 10–8.4) or relative differences (e.g., 4.1 ÷ 5 vs. 8.4 ÷ 10) when
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User-generated photos in hotel demand forecasting Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Jian Xu, Wei Zhang, Hengyun Li, Xiang (Kevin) Zheng, Jing Zhang
User-generated content has become an invaluable resource for researchers in hospitality and tourism, especially regarding sales and demand forecasting. Some scholars have analyzed textual data and sentiment information; however, few studies have addressed roles of user-generated photos in hotel demand prediction. This study fills this void by examining the effectiveness of various photo features (i
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Stag tourism and scripted liminality Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Lloyd C. Harris, Lisa O'Malley
Stag party tourism is a highly ritualized contemporary rite of passage that is associated with drunken excess and norm-breaking toxic masculinity. Despite contravening societal rules and encouraging deviant behaviour, stag parties are generally tolerated. This paper explores how stag tourism is a constructed rite of passage and a scripted liminality, packaged by destination marketers, staged by service
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The use of synthetic data in tourism Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Giampaolo Viglia, Susanne J. Adler, Caroline Lancelot Miltgen, Marko Sarstedt
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The road to success: Tourism social entrepreneurs' quest for regenerative tourism Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Dini Hajarrahmah, Nancy Gard McGehee, Joelle Soulard
This study investigates tourism social enterprises' challenges, strategies, and opportunities for regenerative tourism. Social movement theory was used to analyze fifty-seven social entrepreneur interviews. Three stages were identified: Inspiration – factors driving the creation and innovation of these enterprises; Sustaining – obstacles and strategies for long-term success; Exploring and participating
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Does the destination matter in domestic tourism? Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Bob McKercher, Aaron Tkaczynski
Do destinations really matter in domestic tourism when markets as a whole are considered? This study applies push-pull theory to assess destination choice among domestic Australian tourists. Two types of analyses are undertaken. The first compares push factors and pull features across a range of destination classes, while the second conducts a paired-destination analysis investigating differences between
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If the wind blows, adjust your sail: Political ideology, social responsibility, and performance Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Fernando Campayo-Sanchez, Abhinav Sharma, Francisco José Mas-Ruiz, Juan Luis Nicolau
Drawing on the upper echelons theory and the attention theory, this study investigates the influence of a chief executive officer's political beliefs on the market value generated by corporate social responsibility investments. The empirical analysis on U.S. hotel companies over a 25-year period (1998–2022) reveals that greater misalignment between a chief executive officer's ideology and the national
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Walled off: Tourism and justice in oppressed communities Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Rami K. Isaac, Jelena Farkic
Attending to the emergent debates on tourism and (in)justice, this study critically examines the role of the Walled Off Hotel, Banksy's tourism-artistic intervention in Palestine, in constructing justice. Utilising the evidence from 15 in-depth empathetic interviews, it explores the ways in which local residents make sense of the Hotel and how they frame and experience (in)justices. While demonstrating
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Providing a platform for self-transformation: Existential authentication and the inward gaze Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Netta Kahana
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Carbon price shocks and tourism demand Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 David Boto-García, Juan Francisco Albert, Nerea Gómez-Fernández
This article studies the effect of carbon prices on tourism demand. We adopt a novel identification strategy that exploits carbon price shocks induced by policy events on the supply of emission allowances in the European Trading System (EU ETS). Using monthly panel data on tourism arrivals and stays in 26 European countries between 2005 and 2019, and applying panel local projections, we find there
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Tourism in Oppressed Destinations: Political responsibility and the prospect of oppression offsetting Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Jack Shepherd
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Automatic video analytics in tourism: A methodological review Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Jingjie Zhu, Mingming Cheng
While there has been a growing interest in adopting videos as a data source, the use of video analytics, as a method, in gaining deep insights into tourism and hospitality theories and practices is still in its infancy. This study provides a critical review of the progress of automatic video analytics in tourism and hospitality and a guiding framework by detailing theoretical and methodological issues
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Smart users: Effort management in earning rewards Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Xianwei Liu, Meini Han, Jianwei Liu, Ziqiong Zhang
Online travel agencies usually offer rewards and incentives to encourage high-quality reviews. Will these incentives compel tourists to strive to earn certain rewards and affect review quality? We collect data from Ctrip wherein tourists can earn 80 points by posting a review with ≥ 50 characters, which requires more keystrokes. This research context features a quasi-experimental setting and a reg
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Conceptualising dark events: A new framework Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 James Kennell, Metod Šuligoj
Dark events are organised events linked to death, disaster and suffering, and this conceptual study provides a new framework that can be used in their analysis. The framework has been developed through a theoretical synthesis of concepts from the domain theory of thanatology, and the method theories of dark tourism, dark leisure and collective memory. Six concepts of value for research into dark events
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The effect of emojis in travel experience sharing Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Huili Yan, Qiwei Liao, Hao Xiong
Emojis have been widely used in social media travel experience sharing as a communication tool to create a positive atmosphere. However, existing research has paid less attention to how the use of emojis in travel experience sharing affects the decision-making of potential travelers, especially based on the premise of emoji-text combination. Based on this research gap, we explore the matching effect
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The risk of local crises for destination image Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Konstantinos Vogklis, Alkmini Gkritzali
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Modeling uncertainty in tourism markets Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Juan Antonio Duro, António Osório, Alejandro Perez-Laborda
In the recent years the tourism sector has been hit by a number of uncertainty events. This paper studies how uncertainty impacts on the tourism markets and on the destinations price and promotion decisions. We consider a two-stage model with two reference destinations and product differentiation. Specifically, we distinguish between traveling and production costs/inputs uncertainty, and between informative
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Should we have a tourism academic pledge? Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Stephen Schweinsberg
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Combining polar cruise tourism and science practices Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Machiel Lamers, Nathalie A. Steins, Linde van Bets
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Enhancing tourism demand forecasting with a transformer-based framework Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Xin Li, Yechi Xu, Rob Law, Shouyang Wang
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The power of visuals in destination advertising Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Shanshi Li, Huiling Huang, Xinyu Liu, Zhenyu Chen
Tourism ads that feature human images have a significant impact on consumers' attitudes and decision-making processes. However, little is known about the relative effectiveness of tourism ads that portray models in candid versus posed stances. To address this gap, this study applies the narrative transportation theory and utilizes a mixed-method approach to examine the influence of modeling style (posed
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Influence of awe on tourism activity preferences Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Fangxuan (Sam) Li, Qianqian Su
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Job characteristics in hospitality occupations Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Santiago Melián-González
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Food festivals and well-being: Extending the PERMA model Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Giulia Rossetti, Allan Jepson, Valentina E. Albanese
Scholars are calling for more studies on short and long-term well-being outcomes of festival tourism, especially in different cultural settings. This interdisciplinary study applies Seligman's PERMA model to two food festivals in Italy and England. Findings illustrate how food festivals foster visitors' well-being and reveal which PERMA domains provide the greatest impact for participants. The theoretical
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Temporal variation in children's reactions to tourism advertisement Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Mimi Li, Ningning Xing, Guyang Lin
This study adopts a neuroscientific approach to explore children's real-time emotional experiences in responses to tourism advertisements with different valences. Sixty children were exposed to three high-positive valence and three low-positive valence tourism advertisements while their brain waves were collected via an electroencephalogram (EEG). Dynamic emotional trajectories of frontal alpha asymmetry
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Stablecoins: New perspectives for travel and tourism Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Viktor Manahov, Mingnan Li
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The rhythm-making of an island destination community Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Senyao Sang
Taking Baisha as a typical island tourism destination, the study explored how island tourism development affected islanders' lives and livelihood rhythms. The study also examined how islanders coped with the rhythmic changes. Findings showed the interrelations of rhythms on the island (tourism rhythm, islanders' life rhythms, traditional livelihood rhythms, and tourism livelihood rhythms). Findings
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The phases of self in transformative experiences: Insights from astronauts, econauts and psychonauts Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Barbara Neuhofer, Maria Laura Dulbecco
In the transformation age, individuals pursue experiences that offer awe-inducing moments and long-lasting transformation. Grounded in a psychological and phenomenological approach, this research aims to map out the holistic process a person undergoes in transformative tourism experiences by analysing some of the world's most transformational settings, namely, outer space, natural environments, and
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Digital nomadism, gender and racial power relations Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Patricia Aida Linao, Bente Heimtun, Nigel Morgan
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Public health emergencies and travelers' review efforts Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Ziqiong Zhang, Bowen Wang, Rob Law, Yu Han
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Unintended indulgence in robotic service encounters Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Sungwoo Choi, Lisa C. Wan, Anna S. Mattila
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Knowledge mobility after tourism entrepreneurial failure: Life after death? Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Allan M. Williams, Isabel Rodríguez Sánchez
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Community empowerment: Pro-poor tourism income distribution Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Qingyun Pang, Fei Hao, Honggen Xiao, Jigang Bao
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Building resilience to crisis through slack resources: A longitudinal analysis of US hotels Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Linda Woo, Sung Gyun Mun, Kwanglim Seo
Building on slack resources theory and industrial characteristics, this study explores how hotels develop and deploy slack resources to achieve resilience to crisis. It conceptualizes that hotels could build various slack resources based on the flexibility of functional operations, such as rooms, food and beverage, and marketing. Using longitudinal data, we analyze the effects of slacks on resilience
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Frontier measurement for quality of life performance Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Adiyukh Berbekova, A. George Assaf, Muzaffer Uysal
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Flexwork and flextravel Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Li Miao, Fiona X. Yang, Jinyoung Im, Qiao Zhang
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Urban community-based tourism development: A networked social capital model Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Thanakarn Bella Vongvisitsin, Wei-Jue Huang, Brian King
The rapid and uncontrolled tourism growth has impacted local livelihoods in many cities through commodification, gentrification, and expropriation. Though community-based tourism offers a prospective development alternative, the phenomenon has been underexplored in urban contexts which are more complex than their rural counterparts. The urban dwellers who are seeking to engage in collective actions
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Travel philanthropy: A multifaceted ‘exchange economy’ Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Amy Scarth, Marina Novelli
Travelling with a purpose and ‘helping’ the ‘suffering’ is a growing practice within the important, but under-researched travel philanthropy phenomenon. Systems theory and critical realism informed this qualitative study exploring multiple travel philanthropy contexts in rural tourism destinations in three Sub-Saharan African destinations (Uganda, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia). This paper contributes new
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“If you like your history horrible”: The obscene supplementarity of thanatourism Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Sophie James, James Cronin, Anthony Patterson
By examining witch tourism in Lancashire, England, this paper reveals the ideological role that dark histories fulfil for consumer culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, we explore thanatourism as a means for ‘post-historical’ subjects to conceive of wilder, pre-liberal worlds before capitalist realism extinguished all alternatives. Nevertheless, because of how history remains subsumed and consumed
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Role reversal in adult child-aging parent family travel Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Guangmei Jia, Ji Wen, Daisy X.F. Fan, Xin Liu
While family tourism has gained increasing attention from researchers, the relationship between adult children and their parents in family vacations remains an under-researched area. Drawing on role reversal theory and social exchange theory, this research examines the effects of role reversal on the well-being of adult children in family travels and with respect to “individual” and “relation” perspectives
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Nudge pro-environmental contagion: Residents to tourists Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Yan Liu, Xinyue Cao, Xavier Font
Drawing on social contagion theory, nudge theory and norm activation theory, this study investigates how residents' pro-environmental behaviour may influence tourists' behaviour, thus, collaboratively achieving a tourist destination's sustainability. Findings from a field experiment and three scenario experiments confirm that tourists have a stronger intention to behave pro-environmentally in those
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Cross-border tourism and innovation system failures Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Teemu Makkonen, Allan M. Williams
The literature on cross-border regional innovation systems suggests that facilitating cross-border interaction and knowledge flows promotes the innovativeness of border regions. Tourism can heighten the interaction and knowledge flows between populations, businesses, and other organisations on opposing sides of the border. However, by reviewing empirical studies on the topic, the paper contends that
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Subdivisions and causes of alienated travel experience Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ziye Shang, Yu Pan
Although tourism is one of the most popular leisure activities in contemporary times, it is also regarded as one of the most typical alienated activities. However, few studies have extensively examined tourists' experiences of alienation. Informed by the General System Theory-based alienation model, this study endeavors to explore the subtypes and causes of alienated tourism experiences. Using critical
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Residents' coping with cruise tourism Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Amanda Hauso Sandven, Matias Thuen Jørgensen, Philipp Wassler
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Corrigendum to “The girlfriend getaway as an intimacy” [Annals of Tourism Research, volume 92 (2022), 103337] Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Shaojun Kong, Jia Guo, Dan Huang
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Security, economy, and the touristification of borders Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Xiaobo Su
Due to large flows of cross-border tourists and their increasing geopolitical and geoeconomic influence, borders have become increasingly touristified. Entailing at least three impulses—commodification, desecuritization, and differentiation, the touristification of borders develops a nuanced understanding of borderscapes and bordering practices. Borders obtain new meanings and functions from a touristic
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Proximity and tourism in the Anthropocene Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Outi Rantala, Emily Höckert, Sara Anttila, Suvi Ranta, Anu Valtonen
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A REVIEW OF TOURISM AND BORDERING PROCESSES: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on tourism and territorial borders Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Arie Stoffelen
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Worker income level, mobility, and income growth: A dynamic structural equation model Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Kreg Lindberg
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Tourism academic legacy: The importance of deciding what to leave behind Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Stephen Schweinsberg
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Trust transfer effect: The impact of effective market order on tourists' purchase behavior Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Yuting Wang, Hui Li
By its nature, the tourism market is characterized by uncertainty and unfamiliarity, and so the success of market transactions depends on an effective market order. However, it is unclear how the latter affects tourists' purchase behavior, and whether tourists with different degrees of travel experience behave heterogeneously in this regard. This study innovatively employs quantitative methods to analyze
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Tourism, pilgrimage and the sacred: At home or away Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Nelson Graburn
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Stability of risk and uncertainty preferences in tourism Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Vladimír Baláž, Jason Li Chen, Allan M. Williams, Gang Li
This paper provides a novel longitudinal analysis of the stability of risk preferences in the travel domain, and how these are impacted by major life events during a crisis. Analysis of a four-wave survey during COVID-19 demonstrates strong inter-temporal stability of most risk preferences. It also reveals greater stability of generic risk traits and risk and uncertainty tolerance in travel compared
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Post-holiday memory work: Everyday encounters with fridge magnets Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 John Byrom, Duncan Light, Dominic Medway, Cathy Parker, Sebastian Zenker
While souvenirs have generated considerable interest within tourism research, less attention has been paid to their post-holiday ‘afterlife’. Utilising perspectives from memory research and more-than-representational theory, this paper focuses on interactions with a ubiquitous souvenir: the fridge magnet. Drawing on semi-structured interviews we illustrate how, because of their embeddedness within
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Polycrisis and the metamorphosis of tourism capitalism Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Raoul V. Bianchi, Claudio Milano
While the disruption caused by the COVID19 pandemic has receded, tourism capitalism continues to be imbricated in multiple and intersecting crises. This paper argues that the roots of such crises and the manner of their unfolding do not merely ‘impact’ tourism but have been incubated within and shaped by the structural dynamics of tourism capital accumulation itself. This paper draws on a historical
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Tourism non-participation – A persistent social welfare issue Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Anya Diekmann, Jan Vidar Haukeland
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Working from anywhere? Work from here! Approaches to attract digital nomads Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Jan Bednorz
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Theory in tourism Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Scott McCabe
Tourism's relationship with theory is a vexed and complex issue. Previous research has examined the status of the academic study of tourism in disciplinary terms and the epistemological basis of knowledge production, yet very little examination of the conceptual structure of tourism has been undertaken. This conceptual article examines the presence of theory of tourism. It presents evidence, via the
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Does enjoyment focus prevent proenvironmental behaviour? Annals of Tourism Research (IF 10.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Sabina Albrecht, Anna Kristina Zinn, Bettina Grün, Sara Dolnicar