Curating memories of a future past: Anticipated nostalgia, prospective memory and travel decisions

IF 8.1 1区管理学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Annals of Tourism Research Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-13 DOI:10.1016/j.annals.2025.104098

Lin Li , Scott McCabe , Megan Burnett , Chunxiao Li

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Abstract

Tourism often includes temporal dimensions due to time differences between booking and travel, leading to future imaginings and anticipations of both the journey and its positive outcomes upon returning home. Yet, we know little about the dynamic or bi-directional of these projection processes. This study introduces “anticipated nostalgia” to tourism research, revealing these bidirectional mental time-travel processes and their influence on tourist decision-making. Employing a constructivist cognitive framework and a grounded theory approach from psychology, our findings suggest that anticipated nostalgia acts as a cognitive heuristic, enhancing travel impulsivity, shaping prospective memories, and influencing proactive memory behaviors. We identify key factors influencing anticipated nostalgia, showing how prospective memory helps understand tourists' imaginative engagement with the future and therefore, decision-making processes.

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策划对未来过去的回忆：预期的怀旧、未来的回忆和旅行决定

由于预订和旅行之间的时间差异，旅游通常包含时间维度，导致对旅行及其回国后的积极结果的未来想象和预期。然而，我们对这些投射过程的动态或双向性知之甚少。本研究将“预期怀旧”引入旅游研究，揭示这种双向心理时间旅行过程及其对旅游决策的影响。运用建构主义认知框架和心理学的基础理论方法，我们的研究结果表明，预期怀旧作为一种认知启发式，增强了旅行冲动，塑造了前瞻性记忆，并影响了主动性记忆行为。我们确定了影响预期怀旧的关键因素，展示了前瞻记忆如何帮助理解游客对未来的想象参与，从而帮助理解决策过程。

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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.