{"title":"Tourism forecasts after COVID-19: Evidence of Portugal","authors":"Rosanna Mueller , Nuno Sobreira","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2024.100127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2024.100127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Based on a comprehensive tourism forecasting competition using Portugal's regional data, we study the impact of COVID-19 on the ability of time series models to forecast tourism demand. We find that the stable seasonal patterns observed before the pandemic did not persist in 2020, but regions with higher weights of domestic tourism showed much lower tourism declines and seasonal shifts. Although this change was temporary, it caused significant forecast breakdowns in all methods. However, the intensity of the break differed across models leading to important changes in model rankings, especially in the most affected regions. We discuss the effectiveness and implications of applying straightforward data adjustments and how they can attenuate the pandemic impact on <em>ex-post</em> assessment of tourism forecasts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"5 1","pages":"Article 100127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666957924000090/pdfft?md5=0e583d228b9bf307c94434ec131db42f&pid=1-s2.0-S2666957924000090-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139985403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander Josiassen , Anne-Marie Hede , Metin Kozak , Florian Kock , Albert Assaf
{"title":"Place solidarity: A case of the Türkiye earthquakes","authors":"Alexander Josiassen , Anne-Marie Hede , Metin Kozak , Florian Kock , Albert Assaf","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2024.100125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2024.100125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"5 1","pages":"Article 100125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666957924000077/pdfft?md5=f46acbea7a93dbf5937f086fd39dcf8f&pid=1-s2.0-S2666957924000077-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139942066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Co-creating with ChatGPT for tourism marketing materials","authors":"Yaozhi Zhang , Nina Katrine Prebensen","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2024.100124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2024.100124","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The launch of ChatGPT has the potential to disrupt conventional approaches to tourism marketing. In this context, the present research explores the distinguishability between marketing content created by ChatGPT and that by tourism marketers, while also comparing their respective effects on downstream tourism marketing outcomes. Drawing on two online experiments aligned with realistic destination marketing endeavors, the findings reveal that tourism marketing materials created by ChatGPT successfully pass the Turing Test and achieve textual fluency and perceived attractiveness that are no lower than those yielded by tourism marketers. This study provides preliminary experimental evidence showing the efficacy of applying generative AI like ChatGPT in creating tourism marketing materials, advocating a co-creation relationship between generative AI and tourism marketers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"5 1","pages":"Article 100124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666957924000065/pdfft?md5=d4e0970e346faf1e63cbae0c96a4ee54&pid=1-s2.0-S2666957924000065-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139748268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The billionaire space race: Internet memes and the netizen response to space tourism","authors":"Joshua D. Bernstein","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2024.100122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2024.100122","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined netizen attitudes toward space tourism. A content analysis was performed on 260 memes collected in response to the first tourist-focused suborbital spaceflight of Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. While findings indicate a variety of perspectives toward both historic moments for the new commercial space industry, the overall sentiment was negative. Using cultural references and humor, this critical response focused on the billionaire founders Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, downplayed their achievement, and questioned their environmental, financial, and social/ethical practices. This discursive contention is sharply opposed to dominant narratives which typically frame space tourism as a net positive for humankind. Findings offer insight into emerging attitudes toward present-day space tourism and potential challenges to the industry's future development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"5 1","pages":"Article 100122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666957924000041/pdfft?md5=0b0f5d47c4a116612eb7cb0fa022e666&pid=1-s2.0-S2666957924000041-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139743392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claudia Gil Arroyo , Whitney Knollenberg , Carla Barbieri
{"title":"The craft beverage tourism research agenda: Recommendations to move forward","authors":"Claudia Gil Arroyo , Whitney Knollenberg , Carla Barbieri","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2024.100123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2024.100123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"5 1","pages":"Article 100123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666957924000053/pdfft?md5=4d244477e1a893ac6b7ba235898bf433&pid=1-s2.0-S2666957924000053-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139731665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John K. Coffey , Moji Shahvali , Deborah Kerstetter , Arthur Aron
{"title":"Couples vacations and romantic passion and intimacy","authors":"John K. Coffey , Moji Shahvali , Deborah Kerstetter , Arthur Aron","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2024.100121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2024.100121","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite limited empirical support, vacations are marketed as beneficial for romantic partners. Using the self-expansion model as a foundation, we tested how self-expanding (e.g., novel, interesting, challenging) vacation experiences are associated with passion, physical intimacy, and relationship satisfaction. Study 1 (<em>n</em> = 238 partners) found that higher individual self-expanding experiences on vacations predicted higher post-vacation romantic passion and relationship satisfaction for couples traveling <em>with</em> their partners, but not those that did not travel together. Study 2 examined 102 romantic dyads that traveled together and found that higher self-expanding experiences on vacations predicted more post-vacation physical intimacy. Our findings advance self-expansion research and provide evidence for the tourism industry to design and promote self-expanding vacation experiences for couples seeking improved relationships and meaningful vacations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"5 1","pages":"Article 100121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266695792400003X/pdfft?md5=8a939e27b4be0e9084d1d6e6339ec23c&pid=1-s2.0-S266695792400003X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139675361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian T. Musselman , Scott R. Winter , Stephen Rice , Joseph R. Keebler , Keith J. Ruskin
{"title":"Point-to-point suborbital space tourism motivation and willingness to fly","authors":"Brian T. Musselman , Scott R. Winter , Stephen Rice , Joseph R. Keebler , Keith J. Ruskin","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2024.100119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2024.100119","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Suborbital space tourism is a catalyst for space industry revenue that could reach $1.1 billion by 2032. This study evaluated the influence of the four dimensions of Iso-Ahola's (1982) theory of tourism motivation on willingness to fly as a point-to-point suborbital space tourist. 870 participants responded to an online survey. The survey results were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The tourism dimensions of interpersonal seeking and personal seeking had the greatest influence on willingness to fly. The model explains 40% of the variance in willingness to fly. The results provide validated data for targeted marketing to potential point-to-point space tourists. The results of this study are a catalyst for future space tourism research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"5 1","pages":"Article 100119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666957924000016/pdfft?md5=2b16c466321e606fcc92fb528e19b0e5&pid=1-s2.0-S2666957924000016-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139549561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of the civil wars in Colchester's tourist image","authors":"Michael Sewell","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2024.100120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2024.100120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article explores the relationship between useable pasts and tourism to show how towns reinvented themselves using their local and unique histories throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. To achieve this, the article focuses its attention on the growing influence and importance that tourism had on Colchester's development. It shows how important visible landmarks and mythical stories are in ensuring a past's usability. Alongside this it highlights the importance of local stakeholders and businesses in owning the past and marketing the town as a historic location. In doing so it demonstrates the ways in which Colchester reinvented itself from an old Market town to become an Historic town. Focusing on the controversial history of the Siege of 1648, it will show how towns dealt with tragic narratives as they began using the past to sell themselves to the nation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"5 1","pages":"Article 100120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666957924000028/pdfft?md5=391e9838c1fa2b67ad333edc8d889930&pid=1-s2.0-S2666957924000028-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139505310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bing Pan , Lucy Harbor , Soyoung Park , Rui Li , Ashley Schroeder , Yaqi Gong
{"title":"The motivation and experience of alma mater tourists","authors":"Bing Pan , Lucy Harbor , Soyoung Park , Rui Li , Ashley Schroeder , Yaqi Gong","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2023.100118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2023.100118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates alma mater tourists' motivation and experience through semi-structured interviews. We propose that one's tertiary educational institution serves as a Home of Exploration between one's Home of Origin and Home of Procreation. This Home of Exploration occupies a liminal stage in life when one can be truly free. Alma mater tourists revisit their places of higher education to reminisce about the days when they were authentic to themselves and experience a unique blend of happiness, nostalgia, and other emotions. This experience is explained herein with sociological concepts including authenticity, spiritual center, push and pull factors, and life course theory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"5 1","pages":"Article 100118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666957923000332/pdfft?md5=f70f4665349bd438695931c06bd9ed55&pid=1-s2.0-S2666957923000332-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139050339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles Atanga Adongo , Frederick Dayour , Shaibu Bukari , Evelyn Addison Akotoye , Eunice Fay Amissah
{"title":"Workaholism among young people in the ride-hailing travel economy","authors":"Charles Atanga Adongo , Frederick Dayour , Shaibu Bukari , Evelyn Addison Akotoye , Eunice Fay Amissah","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2023.100117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annale.2023.100117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effects of precarious jobs on young people's well-being could be enduring. Research into the causes of harmful working behaviours among young people in the ride-hailing economy is limited. We used qualitative data from 40 ethnographic in-depth interviews with drivers in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and South Africa to explore the root causes of workaholism among them and, in turn, proposed a typology. The framing of the typology was guided by the three-tiered tourism workforce taxonomy, which resulted in seven workaholic types. Beyond technology mediation, the reasons for their workaholism included demanding contractual structures, dependency, limited mandatory breaks, culminating into their reliance on energy drinks. Among other actions, deploying catalytic capital to support car loans, reforming regulations and, implementing universal breaks can help address the casues of overworking among ride-hail drivers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"5 1","pages":"Article 100117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666957923000320/pdfft?md5=1837b7600801f6a80e6d5c49ce1aebc8&pid=1-s2.0-S2666957923000320-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139033615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}