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An analysis of the consumer profile and the willingness to pay in immersive virtual tourism J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Juan F. Prados-Castillo, Miguel Ángel Solano-Sánchez, José María Martín Martín, Francisco Liebana-Cabanillas
This study aims to determine the associations between socio-demographic profiles, respondents’ self-assessed technology proficiency, willingness to carry out different immersive virtual tourism experiences, and willingness to pay for these kinds of activities compared to real-life experiences. The theoretical framework of the Technology Acceptance Model identifies the perceived usefulness and ease
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What drives tourists’ sustainable mobility at city destinations? Insights from ten European capital cities J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Piotr Zientara, Magdalena Jażdżewska-Gutta, Monika Bąk, Anna Zamojska
The growth in tourism has brought benefits but also pressured urban transportation systems, particularly in capitals where it intersects with business and local life. While urban sustainable mobility development typically centers on the transportation needs of the residents, it frequently neglects the unsustainable travel habits of tourists. This study focuses on the key elements influencing sustainable
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Revisiting medical tourism research: Critical reviews and implications for destination management and marketing J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Antony King Fung Wong, Thanakarn Bella Vongvisitsin, Ping Li, Yingying Pan, Chris Ryan
In recent decades, hospitality and tourism scholars have shown increasing interest in medical tourism research. However, a comprehensive and systematic review of medical tourism research is lacking. To address this gap, this study undertook a review of 131 medical tourism studies published in the Social Sciences Citation Index-listed journals from 1987 to 2022. Their research designs, geographic foci
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Unveiling the Instagram effect: Decoding factors influencing visiting intentions of superstar Spanish museums J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Nuria Recuero Virto, Joaquin Aldas Manzano, Jesús García-Madariaga, Francis Blasco López
This study employs the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) paradigms to delve into the intricate variables that shape Instagram users' intentions to visit renowned Spanish museums, known as the Golden Triangle of Art. Leveraging a comprehensive analysis using partial least squares, this research scrutinizes the visiting intentions of Instagram users and synthesizes
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The impact of resilience on community variations in the relationships between tourism and quality of life J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Eunjung Yang, Jinwon Kim, Heather J. Gibson, Brijesh Thapa
Tourism aims to enhance community quality of life, but its impacts can be positive and/or negative by community. Under increasing uncertainty from multiple crises, this study links tourism sectors with the concepts of community resilience and quality of life to support sustainable development. We examined how community resilience spatially mediates dynamic relationships between tourism and community
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Beyond a lasting impression: Exploring the impact of brand image on revisit intention, unveiling place attachment as a mediating mechanism J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Rosa Rodrigues, Arlindo Madeira, Teresa Palrão
A robust and positive brand image, intertwined with a strong sense of place attachment, creates a symbiotic cycle that fuels customer loyalty and ignites the desire for a return visit. By leveraging a quantitative research approach and employing rigorous statistical methods, three distinct studies were conducted. The first study, primarily exploratory, was aimed at scrutinizing the psychometric attributes
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Leveraging emojis as visual semiotics for enhanced engagement in destination marketing J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Joanne Yu, Astrid Dickinger, Roman Egger
While emojis serve as a proxy of emotion in digital environments and pave the way for new epistemological viewpoints in destination marketing, certain symbols fail to receive equal attention. This study explores the sentiment of emojis across social media posts featuring different destination characteristics and their impact on engagement. By employing topic modelling and permutation feature importance
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Virtual streamer and destination visitation: An attractiveness transfer perspective J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Zhongyuan Zhou, Si Wen, Ting (Tina) Li, Xianfeng Zhang, Ming Chi
Virtual streamer has been utilized in the field of destination marketing where it has gained considerable success. This study develops an emotional richness–streamer attractiveness–parasocial relationship (PSR)–destination attractiveness–visit intention framework to explain the effect of virtual streamers on destination visitation based on image transfer theory. A total of 400 valid responses were
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Projected and perceived destination image of the Lake Lucerne Region J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Carolin Geyer, Luzia Zimmermann, Melanie Wyss
Tourists play an important role in shaping the destination image by posting their experiences on visual and audio-visual channels. Thus, it is increasingly important for a successful destination marketing strategy that destination managers know how their destination is perceived and whether this is aligned with the image they project. This comparative content analysis evaluates the potential gap between
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Balancing constructability and tourist experience: A comprehensive approach to tourist attraction construction J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Yi Huang, Haiming Liang, Asif Khan, Jiaying Lyu
Tourist attractions are the most vital elements in the tourism industry system and are central to a destination's appeal. Despite the considerable research interest in tourist attractions and their experiential offerings, there is a limited empirical foundation and theoretical underpinning addressing the optimal balance between constructability and tourist experience during attraction development,
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Tourism transitions, complex challenges and robust destination development in peri-urban areas: A case study of Zealand, Denmark J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Matias Thuen Jørgensen, Lars Fuglsang, Jon Sundbo
The concept of the peri-urban has been used to explore the dynamics of transition at the urban-rural interface, which has clarified the specific and diverse transitions taking place in these areas. However, research still offers little insight into tourism transitions in peri-urban areas that aim to use tourism as a catalyst for development. This paper addresses this gap with an in-depth study of tourism
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Memorable wildlife tourism experience: Evidence from the Mole National Park J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Erose Sthapit, Chunli Ji, Frederick Dayour, Frank Badu-Baiden
The goal of this research was to develop and validate an integrative model for memorable wildlife tourism experience. The study examined how escapism, experience co-creation, existential authenticity, and experiential satisfaction serve as drivers of memorable wildlife experience. It further explored the connection between memorable wildlife tourism experience and hedonic well-being, eudaimonic well-being
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Addressing common method variance in country- and destination-image research: Two practical approaches J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Hans Baumgartner, Alessandro De Nisco, Adamantios Diamantopoulos
Self-administered surveys are a widespread data collection method in tourism research. However, survey-based data are prone to what is widely referred to as common method variance (CMV). Common method variance represents systematic error variance which can potentially have a substantial confounding influence on empirical findings, since it can lead to incorrect assessments of construct validity and
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Exploring strategic multi-leveraging of sport tourism events: An action-research study J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Rute Martins, Margarida Mascarenhas, Elsa Pereira
Strategic planning of sport events should promote the maximisation of local communities' benefits. Among other dimensions of interest to the host destination's stakeholders, given the aim of sustainable development, sport events leveraging must integrate economic, social and environmental perspectives, justifying its multidimensional extensiveness. The general objective of this study was to stimulate
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Iranian children's memorable rural tourism experiences J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari, Seyed Reza Hosseini Kahnooj, Zahra Solimani, Bardia Shabani, Nicholas Wise
Family traveling, especially to rural areas, may lead to appealing fun experiences for children and make them memorable. Memorable experiences of children from various aspects can be useful for policy makers and planners of destinations, parents and children. The effectiveness of travels and children's learning from traveling are among the most significant concerns of parents and tourism activists
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Divergent impact of belief in COVID-19 misinformation on cross-border tourism J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Collins Opoku Antwi, Seth Yeboah Ntim, Jianzhen Zhang, Eric Adom Asante, Adjei Peter Darko, Jun Ren
In an atmosphere of pathogen danger and mistrust during a pandemic, misinformation can induce the urge to penalize the pathogen's origin-destination. This study exams the effect of COVID-19 origin belief (that is, the belief that the virus is human-engineered) on hospitality and tourism outcomes using multi-wave data (U.S. sample: = 351). The findings suggest that the diverse impact of COVID-19 origin
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Tourism supply and demand in the gateway communities of southeastern Utah (USA) J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Eunjung Yang, Jordan W. Smith
Although outdoor recreation and tourism drive the economies of many gateway and natural amenity regions (GNARs), community leaders in these areas often lack a clear understanding of how to strategically invest in resources in ways that lead to a balanced portfolio of assets that meets market demands. This research investigates the relationship between the supply of and demand for outdoor recreation
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Eliciting small island tourists’ ecological protection, water conservation, and waste reduction behaviours J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Pipatpong Fakfare, Noppadol Manosuthi, Jin-Soo Lee, Pornpisanu Promsivapallop, Heerae Kang, Heesup Han
Small island destinations possess fragile ecosystems that are susceptible to the effects of tourism. Ensuring sustainability in these destinations is undoubtedly of utmost importance. This research delved into the fundamental cognitive, affective, and normative processes underlying tourists' intentions toward ecological protection, water conservation, and waste reduction during their visits to small
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Can co-creating a “slow destination” image boost sustainability? J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Dolores M. Frías-Jamilena, Ana I. Polo-Peña, Francisco Peco-Torres, Carmen M. Sabiote-Ortíz
The aim of this study is to determine whether a “slow tourism” image, coupled with value co-creation, can help develop sustainable tourist destinations. The study adapts a “slow destination image” scale and proposes that online value co-creation can be a valid strategy in the quest to encourage pro-environmental behaviors among visitors. A quantitative empirical study is conducted on a sample of Spanish
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Impact of psychic distance stimuli on international tourist flows: A cross-country analysis J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Yuhong Shao, Songshan (Sam) Huang, Tingting Huo, Rui Huang, Zhiyong Li
Research on psychic distance in tourism studies has mainly focused on perceived psychic distance, while little attention has been paid to psychic distance stimuli. Applying the Cultural-Administrative-Geographic-Economic (CAGE) distance framework, this study employs a gravity model framework to investigate the relationship between psychic distance stimuli and international tourist flows and the moderating
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Pride (in the name of tourism): Mitigating the effects of overtourism on festivals J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Cynthia Morgana Boos de Quadros, Fabricia Durieux Zucco, Tércio Pereira, Pablo Flôres Limberger
During popular festivals, overtourism can be a significant problem that negatively affects many tourist destinations. This study carried out a systematic review of the literature on pride and the effects of perceived overtourism. Based on the variables and concepts found in the literature, a questionnaire was developed with 37 items that reflect different dimensions and stages of mitigating the effects
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Navigating uncertainty: The role of perceived risks in supporting sustainable tourism development in low-density territories J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Isabel Vieira, Elisa Alén, Didiana Fernandes, Ana Paula Rodrigues
We are increasingly confronted with external factors that affect or promote sustainable tourism development. The pandemic triggered by COVID-19 has shown that to effectively manage uncertainty, it is essential to include perceived risk as a predictor variable. This study analyses residents′ support for sustainable tourism development in low-density territories and proposes a model that takes into account
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Social media frames my move and visual: The echo chamber effects on on-site tourism behaviors and destination marketing J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Xuan Tang, Linghan Zhang, Kexue Yuan
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How deep is your lab? Understanding the possibilities and limitations of living labs in tourism J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Ko Koens, Guido Stompff, Janneke Vervloed, Roos Gerritsma, Donagh Horgan
Living labs are increasingly popular in discussions on co-creation, destination design and education, particularly with regards to their potential to deal with so called ‘wicked’ problems. However, the living labs concept is ill-defined and critical practitioners warn that this undermines the potential of living labs and may lead to inflated expectations. This article seeks to provide more clarity
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Stronger family ties vs. less social contact: Use intention of autonomous vehicles in family tourism J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Yao-Chin Wang, Takumi Kato, Yue (Darcy) Lu
Autonomous vehicle-related services, such as Waymo, are now available for tourists, creating a new era of ground transportation in the tourism industry. However, research on autonomous vehicles in tourism literature remains in the beginning stage. To enrich understanding of autonomous vehicles in tourism and to contribute practical insights, this study examines potential users’ assessment, expectancy
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Can AI fully replace human designers? Matching effects between declared creator types and advertising appeals on tourists’ visit intentions J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Mengmeng Song, Hongyu Chen, Yuchen Wang, Yucong Duan
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers digital tools that advertisers can use to create ads and automate various advertising processes. It has reorganized and upgraded traditional advertising and specifically improved advertising efficiency for tourist destinations. Adopting the computers-are-social-actors paradigm and spreading–activation theory, this study examined how the relationship between declared
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South Korean DMZ tourists’ experience co-creation explained by motivation, interaction, and emotional solidarity J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 SoJung Lee, Dongoh Joo, Choong-Ki Lee, JaePhil Lim
Despite the military and political tensions surrounding the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), over 1.2 million individuals visit the destination each year. Considering various tourist motivations and the group-oriented tour setting at the DMZ and employing the Interaction Ritual Theory as a theoretical guide, this study examined how South Korean DMZ tourists' motivations and interaction led to emotional
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The orientation of Gen Zs towards metaverse tourism J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Santanu Mandal, Justin Paul, V.V. Devi Prasad Kotni, Manoj Gour Chintaluri
Our study explored the enabler role of perceived usefulness, enjoyment, and ease of use from metaverse tourism on Gen Z engagement and satisfaction. Furthermore, the enabler role of Gen Z's engagement and satisfaction with metaverse tourism on their word-of-mouth intentions are also explored. Lastly, the study examined the contingency effects of age, annual family income, and gender. Data were collected
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Tourists’ sense of place and heritage protection when visiting natural disaster memorials J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jinwei Wang, Zhihua Zhou, Ting Lei, Jie Sun, Hong Zhang, Lili Qian
Sense of place primarily reflects the relationship between people and places. Dark tourism is an activity that establishes an emotional interaction between tourists and the destination. However, research on tourists' sense of place in dark tourism is scarce. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between tourists' sense of place and heritage protection in dark tourism. The results show that
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Tourist destination choice on five priority destinations of Indonesia during health crisis J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Beatrice Amabella Utari, Sheryta Arsallia, Muhamad Abdilah Ramdani, Fitri Rahmafitria, Prawira Fajarindra Belgiawan, Puspita Dirgahayani, Reza Ashari Nasution
Destination choice is an important component of measuring tourism competitiveness. Although various studies have been conducted to analyze factors influencing destination choice, exploration during a health crisis (i.e. pandemic) has not been widely carried out. Besides, understanding the behavior of domestic tourists in choosing destinations during a pandemic can help tourism/destination managers
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Country branding in post-truth Era: A configural narrative J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Pramukh Nanjundaswamy Vasist, Satish Krishnan
This study investigates the impact of online disinformation and hate speech on a country's image, considering its implications for the destination's image and tourism prospects. Utilizing the theoretical lens of soft power, the study performs a macro-level empirical analysis across 56 countries on the influence of a diverse array of online disinformation variants and hate speech on the nation's brand
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Regenerative tourism: Perceptions and insights from tourism destination planners in Aotearoa New Zealand J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Jessica Mei Pung, Susan Houge Mackenzie, Brent Lovelock
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, ‘regenerative tourism’ has emerged as a promising alternative to the unsustainable growth paradigm underpinning traditional tourism practices. While this topic is increasingly explored in conceptual terms, what this approach means conceptually and in practice for a range of destination management stakeholders remains unclear. The present study analysed the meanings
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This country is Loveable: A model of destination brand love considering consumption authenticity and social experience J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Muhammad Dliyaul Haq, Ting-Hsiang Tseng, Hsiang-Lan Cheng, Chao-Min Chiu, Ya-Hui Kuo
Knowledge of how people love and behave out of love for a destination brand is limited. Thus, this study explores the antecedents and outcomes of destination brand love, which considers the moderating effects of social experiences (social exclusion vs. inclusion). The findings of this study reveal that consumption authenticity, which comprises brand, intrapersonal, and existential authenticity, has
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Consumers' concerns and the role of blockchain technology in mobile food delivery applications J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Khuram Shahzad, Qingyu Zhang, Abaid Ullah Zafar, Muhammad Faisal Shahzad, Wenping Liu
The use of blockchain technology (BT) is transforming consumer behavior and enhancing business values, but its role in the context of mobile food delivery applications (MFDAs) is underexplored. Therefore, this study utilizes stimulus–organism–response theory to determine consumers' willingness to pay more (WPM) and behavioral intention to use BT-enabled MFDAs. The empirical analysis was conducted using
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Discovering flamenco show audience tourists’ profile: Sentiment analysis, opinions and attitudes J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Lucía García-García, Miguel Ángel Solano-Sánchez, Tomás López-Guzmán, Salvador Moral-Cuadra
The aim of this work is to unveil the relationships between the socio-demographic profile of tourists attracted by flamenco shows and their opinions and perceptions about the importance of music in general and flamenco in particular as a motivation to travel, their interest and preference for flamenco and flamenco shows. The methodology employed is an artificial neural network to estimate a specific
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Evolution of the impact of social media in hospitality: A bibliometric analysis J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Miguel Ángel Sánchez Jiménez, Diego Gómez Carmona, María Moral Moral
The emergence and rise of social media have affected how companies address consumers, taking particular relevance in some sectors, such as hospitality. Despite this importance in the research literature, there needs to be more delimitation and understanding of social media's impact, specifically in the hospitality sector. Thus, this paper objective to learn about the evolution of social media research
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An analysis of the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg's destination marketing strategy with picture postcards from 1914 to 2020 J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Till Hägele
Botanical gardens are important tourist destinations, but their destination marketing strategies have historically received little attention. Among the most recognizable effort of destination marketing, picture postcards and their motifs give insight into previous strategies. In this analysis, I analyzed the motifs and style of the postcards produced by the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg over
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How specialized are coastal tourism destinations in Europe? J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Javier Fernández-Macho, Pilar González, Jorge Virto
This paper assesses the degree of specialization of tourism destinations along European coasts. It presents a European tourism database and a method based on Data Envelopment Analysis for creating an index of tourism specialization that ranks European basins, countries, and regions at the smallest Eurostat geocoding layer. The set of indicators selected respond to the economic logic of the tourism
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Does customer-based destination brand equity help customers forgive firm service failure in a tourist ecosystem? An investigation through explanatory sequential mixed-method design J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Taiba Musadiq Sahaf, Dr Asif Iqbal Fazili
This study seeks to examine the buffering effect of the brand equity of a destination on the customer responses to a service failure of the hotel/restaurant industry, which represents an important constituent of the tourism ecosystem. In this regard, a destination brand is viewed from the prism of customer-based brand equity as the “differential effect of destination brand knowledge on the responses
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Leveraging minority language in destination online marketing: Evidence from Alta Badia, Italy J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Serena Lonardi, Ursula Scholl-Grissemann, Mike Peters, Nadine Messner
This research investigates tourists’ reactions and perceptions about content-specific elements such as minority languages found on destination websites and social media accounts. Via an experimental study in the context of the Ladin minority of South Tyrol (Italy), the aim is to provide a greater understanding of online destination marketing, destination brand image, and social media engagement. The
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Smart host-guest relationship in a rural context: The case of Lebanon J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Alessandro Inversini, Caroline Aeberli, Salma N. Talhouk
The concept of smartness and smart tourism is gaining traction in the academic world; often applied to developed tourist destinations, this concept could also be applied in rural, developing and emerging areas to enable meaningful actor-to-actor relationships. Results of this research show the importance of focusing on human aspects of smartness for the co-creation of mutual value for host and guests
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Understanding destination brand experience through data mining and machine learning J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Víctor Calderón-Fajardo, Rafael Anaya-Sánchez, Sebastian Molinillo
This research formalises a new methodology to measure and analyse Destination Brand Experience, improving upon traditional approaches by offering greater objectivity and rigour. Adopting a case study approach, five distinct and complementary types of analysis have been conducted: comprehensive sentiment analysis and topic modelling, an analysis using multiple thesauri, statistical analyses for hypothesis
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Metaverse engagement and Korea travel intentions: Understanding affordances, presence, and place attachment among Brazilian ZEPETO users J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Seongeun Yoon, Yoonjae Nam
This study explored the relationship between metaverse experience and travel decisions through a survey of 459 Brazilian ZEPETO users. The results show that well-organized affordances had a significant impact on users' sense of presence. Neither social realism nor cyber sickness had a significant impact on immersion, but spatial presence was strongly correlated with immersion and place attachment.
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Multilayered spatial categories in tourism marketing and branding J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Tommi Inkinen, Maria Heikkonen, Teemu Makkonen, Simo Rautiainen
This paper explores the role and significance of spatial units in online tourism marketing and branding. The analysis is based on the application of different regional typologies as categorization units in understanding and analyzing quantitative and qualitative properties of tourism websites. The study combines four distinct ways of classifying regions into a spatial framework to systematize the properties
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Tourism motivation: A complex adaptive system J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Jalayer Khalilzadeh, Metin Kozak, Giacomo Del Chiappa
This article discusses the history and status quo of traditional tourism motivation theories as well as their shortcomings. By adopting a collective approach to motivation, this study proposes a framework that examines tourism motivations from a complex adaptive system's perspective. To conduct this study, the destination-motivation semantic system was designed as a bipartite scale-free network that
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Tourscape role in tourist destination sustainability: A path towards revisit J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Eduardo Torres-Moraga, Carla Rodriguez-Sanchez, Manuel Alonso-Dos-Santos, Agustín Vidal
The tourscape concept is recently coined to represent the general atmosphere experienced by tourists in a destination and includes four dimensions (stimuli): physical, social, socially symbolic, and natural dimensions. Tourist perception of these stimuli is relevant for the development of a tourist destination. This study proposes for the first time that tourscape can also be an important element of
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Co-designing tourism experience systems: A living lab experiment in reflexivity J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Bert Smit, Frans Melissen, Xavier Font
Stakeholders must purposely reflect on the suitability of process models for designing tourism experience systems. Specific characteristics of these models relate to developing tourism experience systems as integral parts of wider socio-technical systems. Choices made in crafting such models need to address three reflexivity mechanisms: problem, stakeholder and method definition. We systematically
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What shapes tourists’ visit intention in different stages of public health crises? The influence of destination image, information-literacy self-efficacy, and motivations J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Carmen M. Sabiote-Ortiz, J. Alberto Castañeda-García, Dolores M. Frías-Jamilena
This empirical study aims to identify the components of destination image and tourist motivation that help explain tourist visit intention during different stages of a major public health crisis. It also seeks to determine how tourists' information-literacy self-efficacy influences that image. The research focuses on two stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: 1) tourist behavior the alleviating effect of
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Impact of destination advertising on tourists’ visit intention: The influence of self-congruence, self-confidence, and destination reputation J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Yongrui Guo, Meijing Yu, Yuzong Zhao
This study aimed to develop and validate a theoretical model for examining how different types of destination advertising (abstract vs. concrete) affect tourists’ visit intention. The hypotheses developed in this study were validated through four scenario experiments. The results showed that abstract destination advertising increased visit intention more than concrete destination advertising. Further
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Attracting digital nomads: Smart destination strategies, innovation and competitiveness J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Lingxu Zhou, Dimitrios Buhalis, Daisy X.F. Fan, Adele Ladkin, Xiao Lian
Digital nomadism, as a new form of tourist mobility, brings opportunities and challenges for destination management. To attract this new market, smart destinations need to innovate to develop readiness and competitiveness. This research examines 225 digital nomad destination web articles, from multiple sources and different continents. The study aims to identify innovative strategies and practices
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Exploring the influence of short video platforms on tourist attitudes and travel intention: A social–technical perspective J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Liangwei Qiu, Xiangping Li, Suh-hee Choi
Despite the increasing popularity of short video platforms (SVPs) in tourism, there has been a lack of integrated theoretical understanding regarding the mechanism of how SVP users’ perceptions of social media influencers (SMIs) and quality of SVPs influence their intention to visit the destination. By combining social learning theory and the technology acceptance model (TAM), this study investigated
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Exploring relations among authentic tourism experience, experience quality, and tourist behaviours in phygital heritage with experimental design J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Şükrü Fırat Çiftçi, Beykan Çizel
Mixed reality (MR) in museums has become increasingly prevalent because of the rapid progress of digitalisation. However, there is a dearth of research examining the impact of MR on visitors' perceptions of authenticity and behaviour, particularly in relation to the role of tour guides. This paper describes a field experiment designed to compare the effects of three distinct service categories (MR
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Multidimensionality of nostalgic festival experiences: The Art Deco Festival case J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Emma Dresler, Victoria Jackson
Heritage festivals are interactive spaces imbued with stimuli to evoke feelings of nostalgia. This qualitative study draws on the narratives of attendees to the Art Deco Festival in Napier, New Zealand, to examine the nostalgia experience. Through in-depth interviews and thematic analysis of festival visitors, event organisers, and local businesses, the findings reveal four distinct types of nostalgia
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Online networking behaviour of tourism stakeholders in a multi-destination region: A hyperlink network analysis J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Volha Herasimovich, Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal, Basagaitz Guereño-Omil
Inter-organisational networking, essential for enhancing tourist destinations' performance, is often underutilised, resulting in low-density networks. To develop precise strategies for managing connectivity, it is crucial to examine stakeholders' networking behaviours – how they connect to a destination network and contribute to its structural formations within and beyond their sectors and geographic
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Building a framework for a resilience-based public private partnership J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Marwa Ghanem, Meril Ghaley
Covid-19's severe impacts on the tourism sector drove numerous research directions to explore resilience and define important aspects of surviving and adapting to unexpected disruptions, but relatively little exploration of tourism partnership resilience exists, despite the immense socio-economic importance of the tourism industry. This study pioneers exploration of the resilience of public-private
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The effect of online message congruence, destination-positioning, and emojis on users’ cognitive effort and affective evaluation J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Beatriz García-Carrión, Francisco Muñoz-Leiva, Salvador Del Barrio-García, Lucia Porcu
In today's digital world, it is crucial that Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) understand how tourists process and assimilate the information they receive through social media, whether this is posted online by the destination itself or by other users. When it comes to understanding the effectiveness of DMOs' integrated marketing communication (IMC) strategies, it is important to examine the
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Glamping tourism as a sustainable response to the need to reinvigorate domestic tourism J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Ana-Maria Pop, Alexandra-Camelia Marian-Potra, Gheorghe-Gavrila Hognogi, Viorel Puiu
Communing with nature and spending quality time in a natural environment as pollution-free as possible is an increasingly popular trend, including in the tourist industry. The restrictions on international travel and the social distancing measures imposed because of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic have led to the appearance and growth of alternative in-country ways of spending one's free time
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Impact of Airbnb on the hotel industry in Japan J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Satoka Nakamura, Angathevar Baskaran, Sonia Kumari Selvarajan
The main aim of this paper is to find out whether the occupancy rate of the hotels would increase or decrease with the number of listings in Airbnb in Japan. It employs a panel data gathered from annual Airbnb's listings and hotel occupancy rates, covering all 47 prefectures in Japan and 5 accommodation types for 7 years. The findings indicate that the number of Airbnb listings did not have a statistically
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Has COVID-19 changed the factors explaining the occupancy of Airbnb accommodation? Madrid as a case study J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Adrián Más-Ferrando, Luis Moreno-Izquierdo, José Francisco Perles-Ribes, Antonio Rubia
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the dynamics of short-term rental demand, particularly on Airbnb, have seen pivotal shifts. Using Madrid as a case study, this research used strategic sampling to investigate changes in occupancy, housing attributes, and online reputation. Leveraging a sup-likelihood ratio test and a hedonic-type pooled panel-data Logit regression, we identified a marked structural
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Does linguistic diversity make destinations more sophisticated? Exploring the effects on destination personality J. Destin. Mark. Manag. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Hanyu(Yuki) Chen, Lili Wang, Xuan Zhang, Wei Wei, Jiaying Lyu
Today's destinations are gradually moving toward linguistic diversity to help tourists obtain a better experience. Accordingly, using diverse languages is developing as a noteworthy destination marketing and management measure. Applying destination personality theory, this research examines the impact of linguistic diversity on destination personality, as well as tourists' attitudes and behavior across