Yue Liu , Yongge Niu , Xiaoxiao Fu , Catherine Prentice , Tian Lan
{"title":"The impact of haptic blocking on tourists’ variety-seeking consumption behavior","authors":"Yue Liu , Yongge Niu , Xiaoxiao Fu , Catherine Prentice , Tian Lan","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101056","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101056","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sensory interaction is a vital component of the tourist experience. However, tourists often encounter “no-touch” policies at attractions, particularly those rich in historical, natural, or cultural significance. This restriction can lead to haptic blocking, which refers to the isolation of physical interaction with objects, resulting in unfulfilled tactile desires. This study investigates whether such restrictions prompt compensatory behaviors, particularly an increased inclination toward variety-seeking in consumption. Four experiments were conducted to examine the influence of haptic blocking on both direct and indirect sensory compensation. The findings reveal that haptic blocking enhances the sense of freedom constraint, prompting tourists to seek variety in consumption as a way to mentally compensate. The purpose of purchase and the need for touch (NFT) were identified as moderating factors. These results emphasize the importance of sensory experiences in tourism management and hold significant implications for tourism marketers, retailers, and destination managers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101056"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145267211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gui Lohmann , M. Sadegh Eshaghi , Mona Afshardoost , Brent D. Moyle
{"title":"Weather adaptation strategies in tourism","authors":"Gui Lohmann , M. Sadegh Eshaghi , Mona Afshardoost , Brent D. Moyle","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Weather conditions impact tourism experiences and influence travel decisions. Nevertheless, studies tend to focus on climate change, with limited research investigating how tourism destinations can prepare for and adapt to day-to-day weather variability. The conceptual ‘Weather Adaptation Model for Destination Typologies’ is proposed, depicting the complex relationship between weather adaptation strategies and managerial interventions. By using a systematic narrative review, this study critically examines the weather-based adaptation strategies available to tourism operators, with emergent findings revealing four key adaptation directions: exiting, protecting, expanding, and sharing. As a result of this review, the ‘Weather Adaptation Managerial Toolkit’ has been developed, comprising seven tools and measures, offering practical insights for formulating and implementing weather adaptation strategies. Furthermore, policy interventions that destination managers, policymakers, and businesses can leverage to mitigate the impact of weather variability on tourism destinations of various typologies are articulated. The paper underscores the emerging field of collective efforts, sustainability, and strategic adaptation measures to navigate the complexities of weather-related challenges in the context of tourism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101054"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145220462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rong Lin , Bo-Wei Zhu , Lei Xiong , Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng
{"title":"Linking landscape features of urban parks to visitors' sense of place: A novel hybrid machine learning approach","authors":"Rong Lin , Bo-Wei Zhu , Lei Xiong , Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sense of place is an essential aspect that enhances people’s willingness to revisit, satisfaction and loyalty. Many scholars have conducted research on people's sense of place in public open spaces. However, limited attention has been given to the comprehensive exploration of the physical environmental factors that these studies suggest affect the sense of place. Moreover, the limitations of existing traditional methods and big data approaches remain unresolved. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the physical environmental factors and tourists' sense of place, drawing on dual-function parks in Shanghai as an empirical case study. Natural language processing (NLP) and grounded theory techniques were used to establish a framework for a corresponding sense of place and its associated environmental factors in urban parks via online reviews, and word banks were created to quantify the sense of place. Regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between the sense of place, positive sentiments and environmental factors. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between the positive sentiments of park visitors and many elements of the sense of place. Among environmental factors, 12 factors were found to significantly influence the strength of sense of place. This study contributes to expanding the conceptual framework of sense of place and introducing a new approach to investigate the relationship between environmental factors and tourists' sense of place, and proposing implications for park planning and design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101055"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145220463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capturing causal configurations of tourism destination competitiveness conditions for tourism performance: Asymmetric and symmetric application","authors":"Kanghwa Choi","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of this study was to unravel the intertwined causal configuration of destination competitiveness conditions underlying inbound tourist arrivals and expenditures. This study employed a two necessary condition analysis (NCA) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) methods to explore the necessary and sufficient configurations of destination competitiveness conditions across 133 country cases. Specifically, the country-specific destination competitiveness antecedents were taken from the World Economic Forum's ‘<em>Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index</em>’. In addition, this study conducted the multiple regression analysis to confirm the robustness of the results from the fsQCA by comparing symmetric and asymmetric models.</div><div>The findings from the fsQCA highlighted that countries have different causal configurations for boosting destination competitiveness. Thus, each country should consider its specificities when determining the optimal configurations of causal conditions to respond better to low or high levels of tourism outcomes. Notably, enabling capacity such as cultural and natural heritage is a critical for the destination competitiveness in both symmetric and asymmetric approaches. This is the first attempt to explore the complex causal configurations between tourism destination competitiveness conditions and inbound tourist arrivals and expenditures using symmetric and asymmetric approaches. The insights can guide country-level tourism marketing strategies to boost inbound tourist arrivals and tourism revenue.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101042"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rural tourism as a catalyst for labor return? A rethinking of return migration from a mixed embeddedness perspective","authors":"Xinrui Wang , Dandan Huang , Meiling Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study conducts a typological investigation on return migrants during the development of rural tourism from the perspective of mixed embeddedness. It employs a comparative analysis of return migration in two case sites combined with the pattern-matching method. The findings suggest that return migrants in rural tourism destinations can be categorized into four types based on their motivation and the length of intended stay, including entrepreneurial return migrants, lifestyle return migrants, seasonal return migrants, and drifting return migrants. Return migration is influenced by a mix of cognitive, social, and institutional embeddedness, exhibiting varying degrees of mixed embeddedness among different types of return migrants. Given the heterogeneity among return migrants, the role played by rural tourism varies and is affected by their various levels of embeddedness. By providing a novel typology of return migration and investigating the distinct role of rural tourism, this study offers theoretical and practical insights into migration studies within the context of rural tourism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101041"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144932437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abolfazl Siyamiyan Gorji , Seyedasaad Hosseini , Siamak Seyfi , Fernando Almeida-García , Rafael Cortes Macías , Alfredo Mena Navarro
{"title":"‘Málaga for living, not surviving’: Resident perceptions of overtourism, social injustice and urban governance","authors":"Abolfazl Siyamiyan Gorji , Seyedasaad Hosseini , Siamak Seyfi , Fernando Almeida-García , Rafael Cortes Macías , Alfredo Mena Navarro","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101044","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on overtourism has often treated it as an issue of excessive visitor numbers or sustainability shortfalls, giving limited attention to how social injustice and governance failure shape its impacts. This study addresses this gap by examining how overtourism in Málaga, Spain, reorganizes urban life for long-term residents. Guided by social justice theory and critical urban theory, this qualitative research identifies distributive, recognitive, procedural, and restorative harms manifested in housing displacement, cultural loss, exclusion from governance, and failure of repair. The findings show that governance neglect, through weak regulation, tokenistic participation, and lack of accountability, converges with tourism growth to intensify resident precarity. Overtourism thus emerges not as a technical or managerial challenge but as a political process that deepens structural inequalities. By centering resident perspectives, the paper calls for governance approaches that place inclusion, recognition, and repair at the center, offering a justice-oriented roadmap for more liveable urban futures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101044"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144921147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiayu Xie , Xi Li , Yongle Li , Bingna Lin , Zeyin Qiao
{"title":"What accounts for the charm of collective tourism attraction? An explanation from the interaction ritual chains theory perspective","authors":"Jiayu Xie , Xi Li , Yongle Li , Bingna Lin , Zeyin Qiao","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101043","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101043","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Perceived emotional synchrony is a positive collective emotion that has a substantial impact on the experience of group activities. However, the mechanism of its formation and the subsequent impact have not been thoroughly investigated. Based on the interaction ritual chains theory, the research explores the role of perceived emotional synchrony and its mechanism. A mixed-method approach and a multi-study method were employed, consisting of social network analysis (Study 1: N = 2595), in-depth interviews (Study 2: N = 16), and questionnaires (Study 3: N = 585). The results shed light on the importance of perceived emotional synchrony by revealing how perceived emotional synchrony is formulated and how perceived emotional synchrony increases the probability of tourists re-engaging in the activities. This research also offers practical implications for the experience design of collective activities and tourism destination management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101043"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promoting and advertising tourism resorts in the UK 1914–1918: A re-appraisal","authors":"Stephen J. Page , Joanne Connell","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101040","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 101040"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From body to mind: Decoding emotional experiences at music festivals","authors":"Junchuan Wang , Mimi Li , Qiuju Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the growing interest in the body–mind connection within emotion-related research in tourism, this study decodes the underlying processes of individuals' emotional experiences by considering the link between bodily expression and felt emotions. An “emotion–feeling–consciousness” (E–F–C) framework is proposed based on Damasio's theory of consciousness. Multi-site qualitative data collection took place at four Midi Music Festivals in China over two years. Participant observations were conducted to identify environmental characteristics and festivalgoers' bodily states. Then, picture-elicited interviews were conducted to capture evocative narratives about festivalgoers' emotional bodily states, subjective experiences, and streams of thought. Findings revealed three overarching themes: emotional turmoil, feeling what happened, and consciousness with self-renewal. Results contextualize feelings with cognitive responses and stress the significance of consciousness for self-renewal during emotional encounters. This study underscores the importance of embodied emotion in crafting memorable tourism experiences, encouraging practitioners to incorporate body movement and emotional engagement to enhance visitor immersion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 101036"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144860589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does cultural distance matter? A decision tree machine-learning exploration on international travellers’ destination choices","authors":"Guei-Hua Huang, Yung-Jan Cho","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101039","url":null,"abstract":"While many studies have explored the influence of cultural distance on international travelers' destination choices, the findings have been inconsistent and fragmented. We systematically analyze the relationship between cultural distance and destination choices by applying machine learning techniques to the comprehensive dataset provided by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). In a tree of models split in accordance with Hofstede's cultural dimensions, we find positive, negative, concave, and convex cultural distance–destination choice relationships across countries. Countries with the same pattern are grouped by the similarity of their distinctive cultural traits.","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"101039"},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144901462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}