{"title":"From leisure to labor: How workations are reshaping hospitality and destination marketing in the era of New Work","authors":"Maximiliane Wilkesmann, Mona Bassyiouny","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.100991","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.100991","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rise of remote work, coupled with evolving traveler preferences, has created a new phenomenon called workations. This study explores the impact of workations on the hospitality industry and their role in the New Work paradigm. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory and New Work concepts, we examine the motivations of workationers, and the adaptations hospitality providers have made to serve this emerging market. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with five hospitality industry experts and six workationers, we uncover key drivers behind the workation trend, including the desire for improved work-life integration, escapism, and the pursuit of novel experiences. Our findings reveal that successful workation offerings depend on providing environments that support autonomy, competence, and relatedness - the core tenets of self-determination theory. Destinations looking to capitalize on the workation trend could improve infrastructure and amenities, foster community integration, enhance work-life balance opportunities, and expand their long-term stay offerings. All in all, this study contributes to the growing body of literature on the intersection of work and tourism and offers insights into how destinations can leverage the workation trend to increase their competitiveness and resilience in a rapidly evolving tourism landscape. The analysis suggests that workations are more than a temporary trend. Instead, they represent a fundamental shift in how work, leisure, and travel are conceptualized and experienced in the era of New Work.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100991"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do cartoon destination pictures inspire cartoon-induced tourism? Based on the associative network model and dual-coding theory","authors":"Xiaohong Wu , Ivan Ka Wai Lai","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.100989","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.100989","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Based on the associative network model and dual-coding theory, this study investigates whether cartoon destination pictures containing cartoon characters and classic quotes can evoke higher emotional intensity and cartoon-induced tourism impulses in viewers. Specifically, this study examines the mediating effect of emotional intensity, while also considering the moderating effect of the classic quotes. A between-subjects 2 (presence of cartoon characters vs. absence of cartoon characters) x 2 (presence of classic quotes vs. absence of classic quotes) factorial experiment was conducted. The results show that adding cartoon characters in pictures leads to higher emotional intensity and cartoon-induced tourism impulse. The presence of classic quotes moderates the effect of pictures on emotional intensity and cartoon-induced tourism impulse, and emotional intensity mediates the interactive effect of pictures and classic quotes on cartoon-induced tourism impulse. The study contributes to cartoon-induced tourism research by investigating the effectiveness of using pictures in promoting cartoon destinations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100989"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077760","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":"What are the most influential drivers of tourism destination competitiveness?","authors":"Hasan Evrim Arici , Mehmet Ali Köseoglu","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.100990","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.100990","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the complex drivers behind the competitiveness of global tourism destinations, employing a comprehensive machine-learning approach to analyze data from the World Economic Forum and the UNWTO for 2019 and 2021. By utilizing decision trees, random forest algorithms, and Partial Dependence Plots (PDPs), the research identifies key factors—such as ICT Readiness, Human Resources, Non-Leisure Resources, and Price Competitiveness—that significantly influence tourism competitiveness. Key findings indicate that ICT Readiness stands out as a critical determinant across all countries, highlighting the indispensable role of digital infrastructure in the tourism sector. For the 20 leading destinations by international arrivals, non-leisure resources and human resources are pivotal, suggesting that offering a wide array of activities and maintaining a skilled workforce are essential for a competitive edge. This research contributes valuable perspectives for policymakers, industry stakeholders, and academics, enriching the global dialogue on strategies for fostering competitive and sustainable tourism industries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100990"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990497","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":"Tourism and host education: Hosts' parental consumption on Children's education in China","authors":"Siya Wang , Jiuxia Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100976","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100976","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper, aligned with the ethical turn, applies the sociology of education to explore host parents' perceptions and strategies regarding children's education. It argues that educational aspirations and investments in children's education are closely linked to family social mobility and the future of the destination. Through an ethnographic and comparative study of three villages in Dali, China, the paper examines how tourism influences educational consumption among host parents, focusing on both institutional and alternative educational models. The findings show that tourism has reshaped parental consumption practices at both structural and cultural levels. Hosts recognize the value of cultural capital and reassess traditional educational practices. Tourism facilitates cultural capital accumulation and reshapes social stratification. Hosts also adopt new educational practices through exposure to external influences, integrating them into their own strategies for children's education. By linking tourism, educational beliefs, and children's education, the paper offers new theoretical insights into tourism as a driver of upward social mobility and provides an alternative framework for rural education and social development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100976"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101305","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":"Tourism development and residents’ well-being: Analysis of top ten tourist destinations using quantile-on-quantile approach","authors":"Shasha Li , Yixin Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100977","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100977","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present paper investigates the relationship between tourism development and residents' well-being in the top ten tourist destinations utilizing monthly data from 2007 to 2019. The novel quantile-on-quantile (QQ) regression approach introduced by Sim and Zhou is employed for this research, which offers an ideal framework for capturing the overall dependence structure between tourism and residents' well-being. The outcomes reveal that tourism development exhibits a positive influence on residents' well-being for France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Spain across most of the quantiles, while tourism development negatively affects residents' well-being for Turkey and the UK in the majority of the quantiles. The study also finds that China, Mexico, and the US produce the mixed (positive and negative) effects of tourism development on residents' well-being in the majority of the quantiles. Furthermore, there are substantial variations throughout nations and across quantiles of tourism development and residents' well-being within each nation. Additionally, the results of Granger causality in quantiles validate the bidirectional causal association between tourism development and residents’ well-being for all selected nations. This paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for theory and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100977"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101299","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":"Relationship among creative tourism development strategies, creative industries, and activities: A case study of Lucknow, India","authors":"Namia Islam, Shubhajit Sadhukhan","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100988","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100988","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Creative tourism provides a novel, diversified, and meaningful experience to tourists. It is distinctive due to the active participation of tourists in activities. Destination managers often lack awareness of the complex relationship between creative activities and the role of creative industries, which is crucial for tourism development. Limited studies have explored the dynamics between creative tourism, creative industries, and activities, necessitating investigation of this area of research. Hence, the present study addressed the knowledge gap by identifying key strategic areas for creative tourism development. The first objective was to analyse the interrelationship of creative activities and their influence on each other. The second was to rank the importance of creative industries based on creative activities. Accordingly, the expert opinion survey was conducted, and collected information was analysed using two multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. While the causal effect of activities and their weights were calculated through fuzzy DEMATEL, creative industries were prioritised using the fuzzy TOPSIS method. This study identified six activities and 12 creative industries contributing to creative tourism. Findings indicated that 'visiting workshops' significantly impacted every other activity, while 'interaction of tourists with artisans' emerged as the most influential activity. Furthermore, the 'handicraft' industry was identified as most suitable for engaging tourists in creative tourism, followed by the 'design' and 'performing art' industries. The study underscored the interlinkage of creative tourism activities and emphasised that improvement in one activity can positively affect others. These findings will assist decision-makers in formulating strategies for specific activities and creative industries, enhancing creative tourism experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100988"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142825370","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}
Lucía Rubio-Escuderos , Francisco Javier Ullán de la Rosa , Hugo García-Andreu
{"title":"What is stopping the process? Analysis of obstacles to accessible tourism from a stakeholders' perspective","authors":"Lucía Rubio-Escuderos , Francisco Javier Ullán de la Rosa , Hugo García-Andreu","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100879","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100879","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People with disabilities still encounter many hurdles when traveling. This study aims at identifying the factors hindering the development of accessibility in tourist destinations. To this end, we developed a stakeholder analysis using the Spanish Costa Blanca as a case study. Employing a qualitative approach, insights from accessible tourism stakeholders were gathered. Data was collected through 83 semi-structured interviews. The research revealed instances of non-collaborative relationships and conflicts among stakeholders, which are acting as obstacles to accessible tourism. Among others, discrimination by firms and non-disabled customers to tourists with disabilities, inconsistencies in legislation, or challenges associated with the implementation of Universal Design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100879"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confidence-Model: Cooperative networks to develop destination resilience","authors":"Martin Fontanari , Anastasia Traskevich","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100962","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100962","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The research examines a conceptual approach to proactive, resilient, and cooperative initiatives to develop destination resilience. This approach addresses internal factors of tourism service production as objects of resilient cooperation. The framework for tourism cooperative networks for co-creating value in the destination is elaborated theoretically and confirmed by experts. The synthesis of corporate, network, and destination resilience creates the model of resilient cooperative networks, Confidence-Model. The model showcases value-chain co-creation, consisting of integrative survival capacities, transition networks, cooperative resource management, leisure sharing economy, and communication collection points. Value-chain co-creation is aligned on a regional level. The Confidence-Model reiterates the embeddedness of stakeholders in destinations through the resilient business model. Transitioning towards destination resilience involves ensuring self-sufficiency in tourism supply chains and developing resilient products, ultimately leading to new experiences and the creation of meaningful livelihoods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"35 ","pages":"Article 100962"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789977","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}
Svetlana Stepchenkova , Andrei Kirilenko , Jing Yang
{"title":"Capturing differences between culturally dissimilar audiences in the authentication of SMIs who organically promote destinations: The large language model approach","authors":"Svetlana Stepchenkova , Andrei Kirilenko , Jing Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100957","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100957","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how online users from domestic and international audiences authenticate social media influencers (SMIs) that contribute to building a destination's organic image through creative content about the destination's culture, traditions, heritage, and the life of its ordinary people. The context of the study is a popular Chinese influencer, Li Ziqi, whose videography depicts domestic, day-to-day life in rural areas of the Sichuan province of China. We use an approach that combines the Large Language Model (LLM) prompt engineering with theoretically guided human interpretations of authentication aspects such as genuineness, otherizing, traditionalizing, nostalgia, and existential authenticity. We obtained evidence that authentication through otherizing and existential authenticity, specifically self-reflection and self-discovery, is more prevalent among international followers, while domestic viewers use traditionalizing and nostalgia more. Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) can potentially leverage those differences in perceptions in their marketing communications with respective audiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"35 ","pages":"Article 100957"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143129195","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":"Artificial intelligence (AI) technology in destination advertising: The impact of video-based destination anthropomorphism on destination image","authors":"Junfeng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100966","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100966","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing upon existing anthropomorphism literature, this research employed two experiments to investigate the relationships among video-based destination anthropomorphism, AI mind perception, and destination image, while examining the moderating influence of AI anxiety. Study 1 confirmed that video-based destination anthropomorphism and AI mind perception positively impact destination image. It also demonstrated that video-based destination anthropomorphism positively affects AI mind perception and established the mediating role of AI mind perception. Study 2 verified that AI anxiety moderates the impact of video-based destination anthropomorphism on AI mind perception. These research outcomes contribute to the body of knowledge in destination marketing literature by constructing an integrated model. Furthermore, the findings offer valuable insights for destination marketers and advertisers in enhancing destination image through anthropomorphic strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"35 ","pages":"Article 100966"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744231","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}