Aliana Man Wai Leong , Zhiwei (CJ) Lin , YiTing Zhou , IpKin Anthony Wong
{"title":"Healing the mind and soul through meditation pilgrimage: Understanding recreation specialization, attention restoration, and emotion regulation","authors":"Aliana Man Wai Leong , Zhiwei (CJ) Lin , YiTing Zhou , IpKin Anthony Wong","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Meditation has largely been associated with its religious connotation in the tourism literature. The present research steers away from that tradition to focus on meditative practices as a leisure activity. It addresses the literature void by conducting a survey study on meditation tourists who participated in a 7-day meditation excursion. Based on attention restoration theory and the two-factor theory of emotion, this research contributes to the literature by underscoring a theoretical synthesis of the transformative potential of meditation on tourists' psychological and emotional wellness. It moves beyond the religiously grounded meditation retreat to offer a more generalizable travel phenomenon for body–soul self-improvement. It opens a new avenue for meditation travel by attention restoration through an arousal–cognition perspective. This wellness-related tourism has great potential to gain further popularity for those who have suffered mental and physical stress from the pandemic and other life adversities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 101202"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211973623001307/pdfft?md5=f387d577425495b84d0b84c79cdf3287&pid=1-s2.0-S2211973623001307-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138297667","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":"Exploring the influence of historical storytelling on cultural heritage tourists' value co-creation using tour guide interaction and authentic place as mediators","authors":"Aliana Man Wai Leong , Shih-Shuo Yeh , Yanqian Zhou , Chien-Wen Hung , Tzung-Cheng Huan","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines how storytelling contributes to co-creating tourists' experiences with tour guide interactions and authentic places, ultimately facilitating positive value co-creation and identifying specific generated values. This expansion of knowledge applies to cultural heritage tourism contexts. Purposive sampling and personal interviews were conducted at Macau International Airport, involving 499 respondents. The research reveals that historical storytelling significantly enhances tour guide interactions and perceptions of authentic places, with tour guide interaction partially mediating this effect. Moreover, tour guide interaction positively influences perceived educational, entertainment, experiential, and emotional values. Authentic places primarily amplify educational value, serving as a partial mediator between tour guide interaction and perceived education, and as a full mediator between tour guide interaction and perceived entertainment, experiential, and emotional values. These findings bridge knowledge gaps and provide valuable insights for tour guide training programs and tourism management strategies to elevate tourist engagement and satisfaction in historical sites.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 101198"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211973623001265/pdfft?md5=9e85b496cc0d57fe40c20bb1436b6ba3&pid=1-s2.0-S2211973623001265-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138289565","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":"Exploring cruise tourists' sentiment expression pattern from online reviews: An insight into market positioning","authors":"Xiaodong Sun , Xiulian Cao , Yui-yip Lau","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The accumulation of information on online travel communities provides a useful reference for tourists and reflects tourists' positive or negative sentiments during the whole experience process. Using over 97,000 online reviews, including 172 cruise ships across 16 brands, the current study applies sentiment analysis to explore how tourists express their sentiments about elements and attributes of the cruise experience and differences in market positioning. The results show that among 10 attributes and over 50 elements, attributes of enrichment activities, service, fitness, and recreation are the most pivotal antecedents of positive sentimental expression. Service, lecture, steward, show, snorkelling, spa, music, balcony, and the beach have shown high positive sentimental intensity. For negative sentimental expression, embarkation attributes, including elements of embarkation, debarkation, and disembarkation, are the dominant attribute. When tourists express negative sentiments, elements of the bed, casino, buffet, food, and staff are also exhibited higher intensity. As such, how other cruise attributes and elements stimulate the formation of tourists' sentiments is explored. Additionally, differences in tourists' sentiment expression in market positioning are identified, bringing a new research agenda to cruise brand positioning. This study provides a sentiment basis for a deep understanding of tourists' sentiment preference at cruise attribute and element levels to improve tourists' cruise experience. This study also exhibits a paradigm shift in sentiment research by establishing relationships between cruise attributes/elements and sentiment words.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101195"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71417496","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":"Frontline employees' turnover intentions in tourism and hospitality sectors: A systematic literature review and research agenda","authors":"Cau Ngoc Nguyen , Giang Hoang , Tuan Trong Luu","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101197","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101197","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Frontline employees play crucial roles in tourism and hospitality organizations because they work directly with the customers and represent the organization. However, the turnover rate among tourism and hospitality frontline employees was found to be higher than other groups of employees in the same sector. Therefore, detecting the factors that affect turnover intention among frontline employees is necessary to develop effective human resource management strategies in the tourism and hospitality sectors. Our article reviews the empirical studies on frontline employees' turnover intention in tourism and hospitality and proposes a research agenda for future research. Through a systematic and rigorous selection process, we obtained a sample of 72 empirical studies. By analyzing and synthesizing the research results from these studies, we found that: (a) studies on frontline employees' turnover intention in tourism and hospitality are mainly anchored in conservation of resources theory, social exchange theory, and the job demands-resources model; (b) turnover intention of frontline employees has been investigated in different cultural contexts mainly using quantitative methods; (c) various scales were utilized to measure turnover intention; and (d) antecedents, mediators, and moderators of frontline employees' turnover intention in a variety of tourism and hospitality contexts have been identified. Based on the findings of our review, we developed an integrated framework for turnover intention in tourism and hospitality contexts and provided research implications for future studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101197"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211973623001253/pdfft?md5=5a8094e451117d350931a7e9c89eea4b&pid=1-s2.0-S2211973623001253-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435461","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}
Jennifer Yee-Shan Chang , Jun-Hwa Cheah , Xin-Jean Lim , Alastair M. Morrison
{"title":"One pie, many recipes: The role of artificial intelligence chatbots in influencing Malaysian solo traveler purchase intentions","authors":"Jennifer Yee-Shan Chang , Jun-Hwa Cheah , Xin-Jean Lim , Alastair M. Morrison","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are pervasive in the travel industry and have significantly alleviated solo travelers' concerns in trip planning and booking. However, many existing AI chatbots have yet to meet the expectations of solo travelers, especially when they demand more personalized information to assist in travel decision-making. Based on complexity theory, this research examines the factors that stimulate solo travelers' purchase intentions when using AI chatbots, particularly covering the three main aspects of marketing efforts, communication quality, and affective characteristics. Drawing from a sample of 281 solo travelers, partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) are used to examine the proposed relationships. The PLS-SEM results illustrate that interaction, entertainment, trendiness, communication competence, and satisfaction have significant direct effects on purchase intentions. The fsQCA results further revealed four solutions exhibiting high purchase intentions among solo travelers. Different core, peripheral, and necessary causal conditions in each configuration path were identified. The findings enrich the AI chatbot literature by examining the underlying reasons why solo travelers react differently to this emerging technology and produce practical recommendations for designing AI chatbot systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101191"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71416814","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}
Putu Devi Rosalina , Karine Dupre , Ying Wang , I. Nyoman Darma Putra , Xin Jin
{"title":"Rural tourism resource management strategies: A case study of two tourism villages in Bali","authors":"Putu Devi Rosalina , Karine Dupre , Ying Wang , I. Nyoman Darma Putra , Xin Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101194","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rural tourism is prominent in promoting sustainable use of resources and is implemented in Indonesia through a tourism village program. Present study explores resource management strategies in two Balinese villages, providing new and comparative insights into the underrepresented high customary setting. Data were collected through multiple qualitative methods and analysed using thematic analysis. Findings support the need for customary and community involvement in retaining local control over resources, collectively enabling the effective use of infrastructure and workforce. These allow co-creative experience-making and storytelling to facilitate resource conservation. Two management challenges and a management outcome of a spiritual belief in <em>Tri Hita Karana</em> (three harmonious relationships) were identified. The findings revealed the challenges, outcomes and strategic use of tourism resources for the improvement of the tourism village program. Our contributions concern the importance of harmony between spirituality, people and nature, customary involvement and conservationist resource reinterpretation in rural tourism resource management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101194"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211973623001228/pdfft?md5=2a083e5c9c32080c726e725b445a44de&pid=1-s2.0-S2211973623001228-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71417495","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}
Eleanor E. Cranmer , M.C. tom Dieck , Timothy Jung
{"title":"The role of augmented reality for sustainable development: Evidence from cultural heritage tourism","authors":"Eleanor E. Cranmer , M.C. tom Dieck , Timothy Jung","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101196","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101196","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Issues of sustainability have gained interest and priority, examining ways organisations can protect environmental and cultural heritage, whilst addressing stakeholders' needs. Research exploring the role of Augmented Reality (AR) for sustainable tourism development has been limited. This study adopts the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) framework, to explore how AR can improve tourism attraction sustainability and create business benefits beyond enhanced visitor experiences. A UNESCO-recognised small cultural heritage tourism attraction in the UK was selected as a case study. Adopting a stakeholder approach, 50 interviews were conducted and analysed using thematic analysis. This study reveals AR presents strategic opportunities to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability, extending the current understanding of the TBL in a small tourism business context. We propose AR as a tool to help tourism attractions ensure their long-term viability and sustainability, and the findings provide important insight into how to achieve this.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101196"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71417899","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":"How temporal contiguity cues influence tourists' purchase intentions: Regulatory focus and double-entry mental accounting perspectives","authors":"Lingyan Hu , Haiyang Su , Tong Wen","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101193","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores the impact of temporal contiguity cues on tourists' purchase intention through three experiments. The findings reveal that review valence can moderate the relationship between temporal contiguity cues and purchase intention, while regulatory focus can further moderate the moderating role of review valence, and double-entry mental accounting plays a mediating role. This study resolved the related dispute about the moderating effect of review valence between temporal contiguity cues and purchase intention from the perspective of regulatory focus theory and found a new mechanism based on double-entry mental accounting theory. It helps companies grasp tourist psychology and provide reviews containing different temporal contiguity cues for tourists with different types of regulatory focus to increase performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101193"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71417497","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":"Airline travellers' ethnocentric tendencies and their impact on travellers' behaviours: Extending consumer ethnocentrism to airline services","authors":"Hany Ragab , Ana I. Polo-Peña , Abeer A. Mahrous","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101200","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although recent political and economic conflicts have highlighted the significant role of ethnocentrism, empirical investigation into the consequences of this concept in the travel and tourism industry, especially airline services, remains under investigation. Therefore, this study aims to develop an integrated scale to capture airline travellers' ethnocentric tendencies that fit with the characteristics of airline services and go beyond the socioeconomic perspective of the existing measures of ethnocentrism<strong>,</strong> as well as to investigate their impact on travellers' behaviours. Data were gathered using questionnaires and were analyzed using EFA, CFA, and SEM. The results showed that the developed multidimensional scale has adequate reliability, validity, and predictability. It also confirmed the significant influence of travellers' ethnocentric tendencies on their perceptions of service quality, perceived value, and loyalty. Nevertheless, these effects were more prominent in travellers' behaviours towards national airlines compared to foreign airlines. The study concludes with implications for airline services marketers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101200"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134655739","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":"How does tourism memory affect revisit decisions? The mediating role of episodic future thinking","authors":"Zhiyue Zhao , Da Shi , Zixuan Huang , Xiyun Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101199","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although scholars have explored how memorable tourism experiences affect tourists' behaviour, little research has considered the role of tourism memory from an autobiographical memory phenomenology perspective—particularly negative tourism memories. By combining the notion of mental time travel with the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis, this research proposes a theoretical framework describing the effects of positive and negative tourism memories on revisit intention through episodic future thinking. A questionnaire survey and two experiments jointly revealed that tourists' revisit intentions were stronger when memories of previous visits were positive. Episodic future thinking partly mediated the association between tourism memory valence and revisit intention. Moreover, positive external information could strengthen the effect of episodic future thinking on this intention. Results offer practical guidance on harnessing tourism memory to improve destinations' competitiveness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101199"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134832575","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}