{"title":"Leveraging elevation to deter deviant tourist behaviours","authors":"Shanshi Li , Laurie Wu , Xinyan Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103953","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Deviant tourist behavior is a critical issue as it poses risks to the safety and well-being of tourists, destinations, and local communities. In the current research, we examine how elevation - a unique and powerful other-praising emotion - serves as a deterrent to tourist behaviors that deviate from socially accepted norms. The results from three scenario-based experiments and one field experiment show that when tourists feel elevated, they are less inclined to engage in deviant behaviors. Furthermore, this research elucidates role model influence and moral self-efficacy as the psychological mechanism underlying these effects. Moreover, the effect is moderated by tourists' sense of power. Altogether, the findings from this research provides significant theoretical and managerial implications for reducing deviant tourist behaviors through eliciting elevation among tourists.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103953"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Tourism Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738325000593","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Deviant tourist behavior is a critical issue as it poses risks to the safety and well-being of tourists, destinations, and local communities. In the current research, we examine how elevation - a unique and powerful other-praising emotion - serves as a deterrent to tourist behaviors that deviate from socially accepted norms. The results from three scenario-based experiments and one field experiment show that when tourists feel elevated, they are less inclined to engage in deviant behaviors. Furthermore, this research elucidates role model influence and moral self-efficacy as the psychological mechanism underlying these effects. Moreover, the effect is moderated by tourists' sense of power. Altogether, the findings from this research provides significant theoretical and managerial implications for reducing deviant tourist behaviors through eliciting elevation among tourists.
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The Annals of Tourism Research is a scholarly journal that focuses on academic perspectives related to tourism. The journal defines tourism as a global economic activity that involves travel behavior, management and marketing activities of service industries catering to consumer demand, the effects of tourism on communities, and policy and governance at local, national, and international levels. While the journal aims to strike a balance between theory and application, its primary focus is on developing theoretical constructs that bridge the gap between business and the social and behavioral sciences. The disciplinary areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to, service industries management, marketing science, consumer marketing, decision-making and behavior, business ethics, economics and forecasting, environment, geography and development, education and knowledge development, political science and administration, consumer-focused psychology, and anthropology and sociology.