{"title":"Tell Me the Story: Film-themed Guided Tours in London","authors":"R. Camprubí, N. Galí","doi":"10.3727/154427222x16438247292418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427222x16438247292418","url":null,"abstract":"Destinations are constantly searching for new ways to create new products in order to attract visitors. In this context, film-themed guided tours have generated additional attractiveness for screened locations in motion pictures. Previous research has recognized the relevance of guide's\u0000 performance-role on guided tours. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the role storytelling plays in themed tours. Therefore, this article aims to examine how storytelling takes place in film-themed guided tours and which are the factors that influence it. By means of naturalistic\u0000 participant observation and an inductive thematic analysis, three different film-themed guided tours in London are studied. Findings reveal five influential factors (story, guide's background, guide's skills, support material, and visitors) that offer deeper insights into storytelling in film-themed\u0000 tours. Future research and managerial implications of the research are also provided.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48387992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Deters India to Emerge As a Major Hotspot Of Foreign Tourist Arrivals: an Empirical Inquiry From a Determinant Perspective","authors":"R. S. K. Lekshmi, Hrushikesh Mallick","doi":"10.3727/154427222x16438247292427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427222x16438247292427","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the major factors influencing foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) in India by incorporating the impacts of structural changes in policies. This is very much relevant in policy making since it portrays which determinants attract and dissuade FTAs. By implementing\u0000 ARDL to cointegration technique on the annual data from 1985 to 2020, it uncovers the long-run relationship between FTAs and its determinants. The estimates obtained from ARDL model interestingly reveal that in the long-run, real GDP of destination, real per capita GDP of source, terrorism\u0000 incidents in source, and air transport connectivity of the destination with major source countries are the crucial determinants that encourage FTAs. In contrast, real exchange rate (RER) of Indian Rupee per US dollar, terrorist incidents, and cognizable crimes in the destination are observed\u0000 to have strong negative impacts and are dissuading FTAs into India. Further, an application of dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) and canonical cointegration regression (CCR) techniques validated the estimates, ensuring robustness of our findings. This knowledge helps the policy making in\u0000 recommending more investment on factors of attraction and dampening the effect of dissuading factors. Identifying a country's strength and weaknesses in tourism helps in a long way to ameliorate FTAs and foreign exchange earnings (FEE).","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46504139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Covid Crisis and Stock Market Crash: Evidence from Selected European Hospitality Firms","authors":"Amin Sokhanvar","doi":"10.3727/154427222x16438247292364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427222x16438247292364","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the performance of 12 European firms active in the hospitality industry during the financial crisis triggered by COVID-19. The analysis adopts weekly data on the total number of confirmed COVID cases in EU countries for the period between the first week of\u0000 March and the last week of December 2020 to estimate the impact of this crisis on the stock returns of firms with various financial characteristics. The estimations are based on the generalized estimating equations (GEE) method, which is a convenient approach for analyzing correlated variables.\u0000 The findings confirm the negative impact of the crisis on stock returns. However, the larger firms with more cash flows can derive investors' positive market valuation through better self-funding. This study contributes to the literature by first identifying the drivers of the stock price\u0000 returns of hospitality firms during an unprecedented economic depression and second by introducing the most practical approaches to help the hospitality industry to survive future health crises considering the design of this industry in the postpandemic world. The findings of this study provide\u0000 vital themes for investment performance in the case of similar crises in the future.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48952682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Mixed-Methods Study of the Ways in Which Vacation Factors Impact Tourists' Use of Emotion Regulation Strategies","authors":"Jie Gao, Ye Zhang, Po-Ju Chang, Xiao Xiao","doi":"10.3727/154427222x16438247292373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427222x16438247292373","url":null,"abstract":"Emotion regulation is key to tourists' relationships, experiences, and happiness. This study used a mixed methods approach to examine the ways in which tourists use emotion regulation strategies (ERSs) during their vacations by examining the interactions between changes in tourists'\u0000 use of ERSs and vacation factors (e. g., previous experiences, current vacation factors). Multiple methods (e. g., online surveys, travel diaries) were used to collect participants' responses concerning their current vacations, previous vacation experience, and daily use of ERSs during their\u0000 vacations. The results found that both factors related to current vacations (e. g., travel organizer) and those related to previous experiences (e. g., previous length of stay) can explain changes in ERSs (i. e., capitalizing, savoring, emotional expression, and behavioral activation\u0000 ) during tourists' travel experiences. These previous experience factors significantly influence tourists' use of capitalizing, savoring, and emotional expression on vacation, while factors related to tourists' current vacations were found to significantly influence changes in\u0000 their patterns of behavioral activation. Tourism researchers and professionals must account for the role played by vacation factors in tourists' emotional experiences. Understanding tourists' patterns of using ERSs is important for both tourists and tourism providers and can provide\u0000 critical suggestions to improve tourists' happiness as well as the service quality and performance of tourism providers.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47683682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Africa Tourism in Change: Past and Present","authors":"T. Tichaawa, C. Rogerson","doi":"10.3727/154427221x16317419620282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427221x16317419620282","url":null,"abstract":"Globally it is apparent that tourism exists in a state of continual change that impacts destinations and the tourism system. The nexus of \"tourism and change\" requires research perspectives at different scales of analysis. In addition, it demands the extended application of historical\u0000 perspectives in order to inform contemporary debates and practices. Arguably, change in tourism in sub-Saharan Africa is not a new phenomenon. Over recent decades, however, several events and processes have intensified the shifting complexions of African tourism, most recently the COVID-19\u0000 pandemic. It is argued that the pandemic poses a host of new challenges for research concerning tourism and change in Africa. Welcome signs exist of an emerging African scholarship that is engaged and addresses several of the challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis. This emergent strand of\u0000 writings includes works on both Africa tourism in change, past and present.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45739334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DESTINATION ARRANGEMENT FOR AN EMERGING TOURIST MARKET: AN APPLICATION OF AN ACCULTURATION MODEL","authors":"Chidchanok Anantamongkolkul","doi":"10.3727/154427222x16438247292319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427222x16438247292319","url":null,"abstract":"This research applies the concept of bidimensional acculturation to the Indian tourist market in order to seek a greater understanding of how short-time travelers adapt to host cultures. A qualitative research design using the snowball sampling technique was applied. In-depth interviews with 12tourism stakeholders in Phuket were conducted. The applicability of the acculturation model became evident as the Indian tourists were more likely to apply the separation strategy of cultural adaptation. All the informants completely agreed that Phuket has great potential to host tourists, including the Indian tourist market, because of being a world-renowned tourist destination. Nevertheless, it was evident that key informant implied Indian tourists were likely to adopt the separation strategy of the acculturation model. The interview analysis suggests the evidence of three key themes underlying the adopted strategy, namely, seeking home comfort and suitable food and activities, maintaining their unique characteristics, and spending time with a big group of family. The research findings benefit both private and public tourism organizations. Unique challenges and destination arrangement for a destination in order to host an Indian tourist market are suggested.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69746570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Covid-19 Crisis Management Responses of Small Tourism Firms in South Africa","authors":"Irma Booyens, C. Rogerson, J. Rogerson, T. Baum","doi":"10.3727/154427221x16245632411872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427221x16245632411872","url":null,"abstract":"Although the literature on COVID-19 is expanding, particularly in relation to crisis management responses pursued by large tourism enterprises, currently few studies exist on the responses of small tourism firms and more specifically of the crisis management practices of small and microaccom modation establishments. The aim in this study is to investigate the business management responses of small tourism firms to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and restrictions in South Africa. Themes of concern are whether enterprises have been able to sustain operations and adopt certain coping mechanisms or management strategies to mitigate the pandemic’s impact. The article reports on an interview survey of small and microenterprises engaged in accommodation services (N = 75) in South Africa under lockdown restrictions as a means of assessing the responses and coping strategies during an unprecedented crisis of this core component of the country’s tourism industry. Among key findings are that small and microlodging firms that have suffered severe financial losses because of the COVID-19 shock have few viable mechanisms to cope with the impact of the crisis and that government support to aid recovery has been insufficient in South Africa. This research contributes to the limited body of international scholarship that examines how small and microaccommodation firms, a major group and contributor of many economies, are navigating the unprecedented COVID-19 environment.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69751495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Longing for the Victory of South Korean National Football Team: Sport Tourists to a Football Museum","authors":"Euisoo Kim, Yunduk Jeong","doi":"10.3727/154427222x16438247292382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427222x16438247292382","url":null,"abstract":"To attract nostalgic sport tourists, sporting destinations should understand antecedents of tourists’ wordof mouth (WOM). Thus, this study investigated structural relationships among perceived value, satisfaction,place attachment, and WOM while examining the mediating roles of satisfaction and place attachment among nostalgic sport tourists. Data were collected from 282 visitors to the Football Museum inSuwon City, South Korea. Construct validity of the measurement scale was verified by high-order confirmatory factor analysis, factor loadings, average variance extracted, construct reliability, and correlation analyses. Cronbach’s alpha analyses were conducted to ensure reliability of the measurement scale.A structural equation modeling analysis with maximum likelihood estimation was executed to examine relationships among the variables in the specified model using the responses of 282 participants. The results revealed positive impacts of (a) perceived value on satisfaction and WOM and (b) satisfactionon WOM and place attachment, and demonstrated (c) a partial mediating impact of satisfaction on the relationship between perceived value and WOM. Place attachment was not found to influence WOM or mediate the relationship between satisfaction and WOM. The findings of this study provide additional supporting evidence of the positive relationship between satisfaction and place attachment, whose relationship has been debated in tourism literature. Moreover, the results revealed a partial mediating effect of satisfaction on the relation between perceived value and WOM among football museum visitors. Contrary to previous findings, this study did not find a significant impact of place attachment on WOM; thus, satisfaction was not found to affect WOM via place attachment.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69746861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE STATE OF THE ART OF EMOTIONAL ADVERTISING IN TOURISM: A NEUROMARKETING PERSPECTIVE","authors":"Sara DE-FRUTOS-ARRANZ, M. B. Blasco López","doi":"10.3727/154427221x16317419620246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427221x16317419620246","url":null,"abstract":"Due to increasing competition in the tourism sector, destinations struggle to attract the attention of potential visitors through advertising. This article addresses the influence of emotions in tour ism advertising, arguing that they are an effective predictor of individual behavior, and essential in destination choices, which have an important unconscious component. This bibliometric work discusses the role of emotional advertising, reviews the literature in order to describe the current state of knowledge in tourism and neuromarketing, and assess the valuable findings made by recent years due to advances in neuroscience. The literature review provided an in-depth understanding on how neuromarketing contributes to reveal tourists’ implicit emotional responses that affect subsequent decision marking and seek to prove that neuromarketing research can increase tourism competitiveness through providing data to conduct more efficient campaigns. Consequently, the field is an important subject for further research and several lines of future investigation have been identified.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69746233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thais González-Torres, E. Pelechano-Barahona, F. García-Muiña
{"title":"BUSINESS INNOVATIONS AND INTERORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: DOES PARTNER DIVERSITY MATTER?","authors":"Thais González-Torres, E. Pelechano-Barahona, F. García-Muiña","doi":"10.3727/154427221x16317419620255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/154427221x16317419620255","url":null,"abstract":"Innovation is a potential source of differentiation and competitive advantage for the hospitality industry. However, the dynamism of the environment forces hotel operators to establish multiple and simultaneous interorganizational relations—portfolio of alliances—in order to provide the accommodation service and develop innovation activities while being efficient, aimed at remaining competitive in dynamic contexts. The benefits obtained, considering the set of relationships from a global perspective, are superior to those addressing alliances from an individual point of view. Bearing this in mind, this study empirically tests how the diversity among the agent’s attributes—resources and cognitive schemes—within the portfolio of alliance can affect the introduction of business innovations. It is also analyzed whether the previous experience in collaboration of the hotel firm moderates this relationship. The results reveal that hotel companies must design their partner configuration according to the type of innovation to be introduced, focusing mainly on areas such as service and marketing.","PeriodicalId":46032,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Review International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69745886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}