Ana Belén Martín-Gago , Carmen Camarero , Marta Laguna-García
{"title":"Pay more and sacrifice more for environmental practices? The role of compensation in hotel booking intentions","authors":"Ana Belén Martín-Gago , Carmen Camarero , Marta Laguna-García","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101384","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper aims to further understand willingness to sacrifice and willingness to pay a higher price for booking a hotel with environmental practices. We examine the acceptance of individual sacrifices (without compensation) versus shared sacrifices between hotel-client (with compensation), and we shed light on effective compensatory methods. The research comprises three studies: a questionnaire to potential hotel guests and two experiments. The findings suggest that both the willingness to sacrifice and to pay a higher price are primarily determined by consumers' sustainable attitudes and perceived behavioural control. Social norms appear to encourage individuals to make bookings when sacrifices are rewarded. When customers are presented with a shared sacrifice proposition, the type of compensation (economic vs. social) influences their intention to book a hotel, although this effect is moderated by the price level. This study advances the literature on sustainable consumer behaviour and provides insights for hoteliers to enhance operational sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101384"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144167117","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}
Taehyee Um , Minwoo Lee , Ki-Joon Back , Namho Chung
{"title":"Does Airbnb matter to the domestic tourism market? Empirical evidence from Airbnb supply and tourism demand in South Korea","authors":"Taehyee Um , Minwoo Lee , Ki-Joon Back , Namho Chung","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101381","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101381","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The growth of Airbnb has given rise to changes in tourist behavior and tourism-related industries. However, research on domestic tourism demand (DTD) for Airbnb supply has been limited. Thus, this study uses the autoregressive distributed lag model and Granger causality analysis based on the tourism demand theory to investigate the relationship between Airbnb supply and DTD. Expenditure on tourism-related products, number of visitors, and search volume of tourism destinations are applied to measure the DTD. The results indicate that expenditure has a positive relationship with Airbnb supply in the short term, while the number of visitors and search volume have positive relationships with Airbnb supply in the long term. The findings show differences depending on the types of Airbnb listings and property hosts. Results of the Granger causality analysis indicate Airbnb supply Granger-causes DTD. Theoretical and practical implications regarding tourism demand are discussed based on the findings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101381"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147435","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}
Sera Vada , Sarah Gardiner , Brent Moyle , Sebastian Filep , Lu Chang
{"title":"Eudaimonic well-being outcomes from international study tourism experiences: The Lotus framework of well-being","authors":"Sera Vada , Sarah Gardiner , Brent Moyle , Sebastian Filep , Lu Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101383","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101383","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scholarship on the concept of tourist well-being has experienced significant growth. Despite this, studies have predominantly explored the hedonic aspects of well-being, leaving eudaimonic dimensions underexplored and conceptually underdeveloped. Consequently, this research seeks to explore the underlying dimensions of eudaimonic well-being which emerge from international study tourism experiences. Drawing on the outcomes of photo elicitation focus group discussions with 23 participants, this research revealed that international study tourism experiences fostered feelings of achievement, learning and self-reflection as well as connections with nature and enhanced social relationships. This paper contributes by developing the Lotus Framework of Well-being which incorporates personal, relational, and environmental dimensions to articulate the transformational triggers of eudaimonic well-being in the study tourism context. Future work should further explore how the advancement of the Lotus Framework can provide a stimulating environment for knowledge sharing and capacity building to improve sustainable tourism development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101383"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144115711","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}
Alex O. Acheampong , Eric Evans Osei Opoku , Isaac Koomson
{"title":"Effect of inbound tourism on inclusive growth: Does institutionalized democracy matter?","authors":"Alex O. Acheampong , Eric Evans Osei Opoku , Isaac Koomson","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101382","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101382","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the effect of inbound tourism on inclusive growth and whether the effect is moderated by countries' democratic institutions. Using data from 154 countries from 2000 to 2020 and the dynamic generalized method of moments estimator, we found that inbound tourism (tourism arrival, receipt, and expenditure) is positively related to inclusive growth. Also, democracy is found to have a significant positive effect on inclusive growth. The results also showed that the impact of inbound tourism on inclusive growth is moderated by democracy. The results are consistently established when alternative econometric methods are applied, and they vary across income groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101382"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105951","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":"Navigating innovations and Indigenous tourism: Insights from a systematic literature review in a four-decade journey of exploration","authors":"Xuan Minh Dam , Kim-Lim Tan , Emiel L. Eijdenberg","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101368","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101368","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Indigenous tourism plays a crucial role in sustainable development, cultural heritage preservation, and social equity. However, the integration of innovation in Indigenous tourism remains fragmented and underexplored. This research employs the Theory, Context, Characteristics, and Methodology (TCCM) framework to systematically review 131 studies from major academic databases, offering the first comprehensive analysis of innovations in Indigenous tourism. The findings highlight China as a leading contributor in this field, emphasizing incremental innovations and their social and economic impacts. Despite progress, critical areas such as well-being, education, community empowerment, and environmental impacts remain underrepresented. To address these shortcomings, the study proposes ten propositions to advance theoretical and practical understanding in the sector. These insights guide future research and policy-making, strengthening Indigenous tourism's capacity to foster sustainable development, protect cultural heritage, and empower communities while addressing existing challenges in implementing innovations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101368"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144115710","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":"Integrating smart technologies and artificial intelligence to build smart tourism destination ecosystems: A model for smart destination management","authors":"Serhat Bingöl , Yang Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores how smart technologies and artificial intelligence transform destination management into smart destination management in urban destinations in the United States. Hence, primary and secondary data were collected in ten cities in the United States through qualitative research to provide multiple perspectives. The secondary data consisted of smart technologies and artificial intelligence initiatives published by Destination Management/Marketing Organizations, Departments of Transportation, and Technology Offices across these cities. The authors also interviewed professionals from these organizations, including initiative leaders, project managers, marketing specialists, and data analysts. The study revealed that these destinations have created smart technologies and artificial intelligence initiatives to transform destination management into smart destination management by developing destination ecosystems. The study proposes a smart destination model that guides destinations in adopting smart technologies and artificial intelligence initiatives to build smart destination ecosystems. The results offer conceptual, theoretical, and practical applications for enhancing destination management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101380"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144067188","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}
Wei Xiong , Xiaowen Luo , Xi Yu Leung , Meijiao Huang
{"title":"Unraveling meaning in life from tourism: An iconology approach on cancer patients","authors":"Wei Xiong , Xiaowen Luo , Xi Yu Leung , Meijiao Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101369","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101369","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on the tourism experiences of cancer patients and their perceptions of meaning in life is limited. Based on the tourist gaze, this study investigates visual-textual narratives in social media posts by 83 breast cancer patients, employing an iconology approach integrating multi-source validation and objective coding protocols to ensure methodological rigor. The findings revealed five landscape symbols, namely meteorology, waterscapes, mountainscapes, vegetation, and heritage elements, alongside three color symbols: calm and healing, uplifting, and solemn. These symbols collectively revealed multi-layered meanings embedded in the landscapes, including “life's blessings and spirituality” “power, rejuvenation, and healing” “challenges and peace”, and “tranquility and healing”. Furthermore, cancer patients engage in constructing life's meaning through landscape symbolism during travels, reflecting a dual process of “presence” and “search”. This study contributes to tourism literature by offering a novel perspective on how nature-centered tourism experiences support vulnerable individuals in their exploration of life's meaning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101369"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143924697","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}
Changwei (Aiway) Hu , Xingbao (Simon) Hu , Yingsha Zhang
{"title":"How important is charisma? The impacts of charismatic tour-guiding and service disclosure on tourist trust, self-disclosure, interaction quality, and emotional solidarity","authors":"Changwei (Aiway) Hu , Xingbao (Simon) Hu , Yingsha Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101367","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101367","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Integrating charismatic leadership theory and social penetration theory, this study employs PLS-SEM and multigroup analysis to explore how charismatic tour-guiding and service disclosure impact tourist trust, interaction quality, and emotional solidarity in both natural and cultural destinations. Results from two studies reveal that both charismatic tour-guiding and guide service disclosure enhance tourist trust, self-disclosure, interaction quality, and tourist-guide emotional solidarity. A socio-psychological mechanism exists whereby the effects of charismatic tour-guiding and service disclosure on emotional solidarity are transmitted through tourist trust and/or tourist self-disclosure. Male tour guides' charismatic tour-guiding is more effective in fostering tourist trust, whereas female guides' service disclosure is more impactful in nurturing it. Of the four dimensions of charismatic tour-guiding, professional expertise is essential for cultural destinations but not for natural ones. This research provides valuable insights for traditional tour guides and destinations in addressing the challenges posed by the rise of emerging technologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101367"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143911775","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}
Sheng-Hshiung Tsaur , Tien-Ming Cheng , Tsung-Lin Yang
{"title":"An exploratory study on the personal brand of tour leaders","authors":"Sheng-Hshiung Tsaur , Tien-Ming Cheng , Tsung-Lin Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101371","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101371","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forming and establishing the personal brand of tour leaders is crucial to personal competitiveness and developing a tour‑leading career. This study used the self-expansion theory to comprehensively understand the concept and implications of a leader's personal brand. This approach addresses the limitations identified in previous research, which has primarily focused on analyzing a leader's attributes through a singular lens. This study involved interviews with 20 tour leaders with personal brands using a qualitative approach and classified their personal brands into four types: (1) Personal style; (2) Charismatic narration; (3) Being a sincere service provider; (4) Relationship management. Identifying these four categories will bridge the gap between the single trait of a tour leader and research on branding. This framework can serve as a valuable reference for tour leaders in developing their personal brand, as well as for guiding the recruitment and training of travel agents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101371"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143911774","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":"Giving face or not losing face? The effect of AI service robot politeness strategy on value co-creation in hospitality","authors":"Yu Wang , Xiuli Zhong , Wenlong Mu","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101370","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101370","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Politeness has been widely incorporated into AI-driven etiquette systems. Drawing on <em>face</em> concept, <em>guanxi</em> model, and <em>li</em> code, this study explores the effect of politeness strategy on value co-creation (VCC). Three between-subject experiments investigated the relationship between politeness strategies and VCC and the mediating role of customer commitment (CC). The moderating effect of the robot type and anthropomorphism role is examined. Our paper finds that AI service robots using positive politeness led to greater customer VCC than those using negative politeness, with CC mediating this effect. Furthermore, we find the positive (vs. negative) politeness strategy increases VCC when humanoid (vs. non-humanoid) robots are employed and when they are anthropomorphized as friends (vs. servants). Our findings extend the relationship between the robot's interaction strategies and customer VCC with important theoretical contributions. A simplified guide for hospitality managers to optimize the communication strategies of AI service robots is discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101370"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905922","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}