Effect of tourism architecture shape and self-construal

IF 7.8 1区管理学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Annals of Tourism Research Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.annals.2025.104075

Huarui Cao , Lin Mu , Xuejiao Mao , Tang Yao

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Abstract

The issue of whether tourists with varying characteristics exhibit distinct preferences for diverse geometric shapes of architecture remains underexplored in tourism literature. To address this gap, we drew on aesthetic distance theory and conducted eye-tracking and scenario-based experiments to examine an effect of tourism architecture shape in alignment with tourist self-construal. Our findings indicated that independent self-construal tourists favor circular-shaped architecture, while interdependent self-construal tourists prefer angular-shaped architecture. Additionally, the results confirmed the mediating role of novelty and highlighted architectural authenticity as a moderator in this effect. These insights enhance our understanding of aesthetic preferences for tourism architecture among tourists with different self-construals and provide practical recommendations for tourism industry to tailor specific architectural shapes to increase tourists' travel intentions.

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旅游建筑造型效应与自我建构

不同特征的游客是否对不同几何形状的建筑表现出不同的偏好，这一问题在旅游文献中仍未得到充分探讨。为了解决这一差距，我们借鉴了审美距离理论，并进行了眼动追踪和基于场景的实验，以检验旅游建筑形状与游客自我建构一致的影响。研究发现，独立型自我建构游客偏好圆形建筑，而相互依存型自我建构游客偏好棱角型建筑。此外，研究结果证实了新颖性的中介作用，并强调了建筑真实性在这种影响中的调节作用。这些见解增强了我们对不同自我建构的游客对旅游建筑审美偏好的理解，并为旅游业定制特定的建筑形状以增加游客的旅游意图提供了实用建议。

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来源期刊

Annals of Tourism Research Multiple-

CiteScore

19.10

自引率

9.10%

发文量

135

审稿时长

42 days

期刊介绍： 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.