{"title":"Understanding travel constraints, negotiation strategy and travel expenditure: An empirical study of Chinese senior tourism","authors":"Lan Pan , Zhirong Ge , Jifeng Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101397","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101397","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Population aging promotes the senior tourism market in China. In practice, however, the travel expenditure of Chinese seniors is relatively low, despite their high desire to travel. This study examines the effects of travel constraints and negotiation strategies on the travel expenditure of Chinese senior tourists. Based on the travel constraint negotiation theory, we first identify the subdimensions of intrapersonal constraints (physical issues and mental problems), interpersonal constraints (lack of partners and caring for grandchildren), and structural constraints (financial restriction and employment status). In addition, we distinguish two types of negotiation strategies from the perspective of adult children's support, including emotional support and financial support. By examining a rich dataset of 12,905 Chinese seniors spanning 2011 to 2020 from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS project) through zero inflated negative binomial regression, we find that physical issues, mental problems, lack of partners, financial restriction and employment status have significant negative effects on travel expenditure, while caring for grandchildren has a significant positive effect on travel expenditure. Meanwhile, both emotional support and financial support from adult children play important roles in moderating the relationships between travel constraints and travel expenditure. This study not only provides a deeper understanding of the travel constraints affecting seniors' travel expenditure and the ways in which they can negotiate these travel constraints in the Chinese cultural context but also offers valuable guidelines for the tourism industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101397"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144711572","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":"Tourist spiritual experience: A scale development and empirical study","authors":"Sheng-Hshiung Tsaur , Ying-Syuan Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101394","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101394","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A growing body of research has shown that tourists can have spiritual experiences through travel, but at present, no valid and reliable instrument is available for assessing this phenomenon. To address this gap, this research was conducted and comprised two studies. In Study 1, an instrument was developed for measuring the concept of tourist spiritual experience. A scale with 25 items measuring six factors was established. The six factors were inner peace, sense of social connection, self-awareness, self-transcendence, awareness of the environment, and meaningful travel. In Study 2, researchers utilized the scale to investigate the relationship between the sources of tourist spiritual experience (tourism authenticity, interpersonal interaction, transcendental connection, and activity immersion) and the consequences (memorable experience and well-being). This study expands the theoretical knowledge on spirituality in tourism. The findings of this study serve as a reference for activity planning and itinerary design by tourism operators.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101394"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144696674","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":"Social capital, resource bricolage and micro-innovation strategies for rural tourism small enterprises: A longitudinal case study","authors":"Yu Li , Xinrui Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101395","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101395","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Micro-innovation strategies are crucial for rural tourism small enterprises, particularly in emerging economies, but their complexity and effectiveness remain underexplored in the tourism literature. This study integrates the resource bricolage and social capital frameworks to explore how tourism small enterprises implement micro-innovation strategies by conducting a longitudinal case study of Mengdong Company in rural China. The findings reveal a three-stage evolutionary process: first, micro-innovation is differentiated through bridging capital, network bricolage, and spatial bricolage to access external resources; second, micro-innovation is integrated by bonding capital, organizational bricolage, and market bricolage to enhance internal capabilities; finally, collaborative micro-innovation using linking capital, social bricolage, and market bricolage to promote multi stakeholder collaboration. There are two key drivers of this evolution: the temporal sequencing of diverse forms of social capital that enable strategic adaptation and the combinatorial logic of bricolage that transforms resource constraints into opportunities. Theoretically, the framework reconceptualizes micro-innovation as a stakeholder-driven dynamic process, emphasizing the roles of social capital and resource bricolage. Practically, this study provides valuable insights and managerial recommendations for fostering the innovative development of these enterprises in rural areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101395"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144687440","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 visual and textual information influences repeat tourists: Insights from self-report data and an eye-tracking experiment","authors":"Xiaohong Wu , Ivan Ka Wai Lai","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101396","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101396","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It remains unclear how visual and textual information in destination pictures influences potential repeat visitors to revisit. This study investigates how tourist-generated content influences positive recall emotions and affects potential repeat tourists' willingness to revisit when viewing destination pictures and text. This study conducts a 2 × 2 between-subjects factorial experiment combined with eye-tracking. Visual information varied by category (space vs. subject), and textual information was manipulated as absent or present. The results indicate that compared with subject-category destination pictures, space-category destination pictures are more effective in inducing tourists' positive recall emotion and willingness to revisit. Positive recall emotions evoked by the pictures mediate the relationship between destination pictures and tourists' willingness to revisit. In addition, textual information moderates the effect of visual information on emotions and willingness to revisit. However, the moderated mediating effect of positive recall emotions is only observed in the absence of textual information. These findings offer insights for destination marketing to attract repeat tourists.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101396"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144680684","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}
Xialei Duan , Jian Ming Luo , Ifeanyichukwu C. Nduka , Renyu Guo , Yefu Gu
{"title":"The dual threat of heatwaves and air pollution: Evaluating tourist responses to hot-and-polluted episodes","authors":"Xialei Duan , Jian Ming Luo , Ifeanyichukwu C. Nduka , Renyu Guo , Yefu Gu","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101393","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101393","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Deteriorating air quality and escalating heatwaves pose significant impact to individuals' wellbeing. Related effects on tourist activities and emotions due to the co-occurrence of the two events have not yet been comprehensively investigated. This study examines the influence of hot-and-polluted episodes (HPE) on Chinese domestic tourists to Hong Kong by analyzing travel logs on a tourism platform using a hybrid method of text analysis and econometric techniques across diverse datasets. Results indicate that HPE lead to significant changes in tourists' travel activities among different types of attractions, and generate negative emotional responses. We also reveal that the synergistic effect of HPE identifiers is critical in affecting tourists rather than their individual impacts. This research provides practical implications for the tourism industry, pointing to the need for adaptive strategies to mitigate the compound impact of air pollution and heatwaves and promote sustainable tourism development under ongoing climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101393"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144680683","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}
Hien Thu Bui , Viachaslau Filimonau , Hakan Sezerel
{"title":"Exploring value co-creation and co-destruction between consumers & generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in travel","authors":"Hien Thu Bui , Viachaslau Filimonau , Hakan Sezerel","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101392","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101392","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Little is known about the (dis)benefits of using generative artificial intelligence (GAI) with travel-related purposes, which hinders an understanding of the value co-created and co-destructed in the process of its use by tourists. This mixed methods study explored and examined the key factors in value co-creation and co-destruction when using a popular GAI's conversational interface, ChatGPT, in tourism. The results indicate that the key perceived utility of ChatGPT is in travel planning and time saving, and the main perceived shortcomings are its limited knowledge and inaccurate responses. The study pinpoints the importance of refining and developing GAI collaboratively by all tourism stakeholders given that perceived value co-creation outweighs value co-destruction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101392"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144517945","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":"Home and away: The existential well-being of left-behind children in travelling","authors":"Yawei Wu, Weng Hang Kong","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101391","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101391","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research explores the left-behind children's travel experience during their visits to their parents and examines the impact of these experiences on their existential well-being, primarily focusing on the interplay between ‘home’ and ‘away’ experiences. To achieve this goal, qualitative research methods were used, including participant observation of six families and interviews with 16 families. Findings show that left-behind children's ‘home’ and ‘away’ experiences are multidimensional, with each dimension influencing the others. During the trips, they not only gain the warmth and safety of ‘home’ but also encounter the challenges of independence and the desire for exploration associated with ‘away’. However, this process might also have potential negative impacts due to the tension between emotional attachment and the desire for independence, which may adversely impact children's mental health. Based on the existential theory of well-being and the lifeworld-led approach, this research introduces a new theoretical framework to explore the relationship between travel experiences and well-being. It provides a basis for policy formulation and social intervention whilst advancing inclusive and sustainable tourism development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101391"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144472249","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":"Examining the serial mediating role of emotional solidarity and perceived concern in the effect of residents' community commitment on support for tourism development","authors":"Ömer Ceyhun Apak , Muhammed Taş , Erkan Güneş","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101388","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101388","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the serial mediating role of emotional solidarity and perceived concern in the impact of community commitment on support for tourism development. The study is designed within the framework of the relational survey model, which is one of the quantitative research designs. The data were collected from the residents of Bayburt (Türkiye), one of the destinations in the early stages of tourism development. The residents participating in the study were informed that it was voluntary. Thus, the study was conducted on a total of 423 samples. SPSS and PROCESS macros Model 6 were used to analyze the data in the study. As a result of the study, community commitment and emotional solidarity were positive, and perceived concern was negatively related to support for tourism development. In addition, it was determined that emotional solidarity and perceived concern significantly mediate the effect of community commitment on support for tourism development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101388"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308053","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":"Enhancing tourist visit intentions through virtual endorsers' short videos: A narrative transportation theory","authors":"Jiahui Huang , Dan Huang , Keyu Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101389","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101389","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Virtual humans, as actors in the metaverse, are increasingly being utilized as endorsers in short videos to promote tourism destinations. Yet few studies have examined their effectiveness in destination marketing. This study applied the narrative transportation theory to build a model that investigates the impact of virtual endorsers' short videos on tourist visit intentions. The model was empirically tested with a popular virtual endorser (i.e., <em>Su Xiaomei</em>). Results show that endorser-destination congruence, narrative coherence, and authenticity boost empathy and indirectly influence visit intentions, while anthropomorphism directly influence visit intentions. Empathy plays a mediating role in the relationship between these narrative elements and visit intentions. This research provides valuable insights into how virtual endorsers, in conjunction with other elements within the video narrative, can effectively promote destination marketing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101389"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144288778","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":"Twenty years of red tourism research: A systematic literature review using the theories-contexts-characteristics-methods framework","authors":"Terrence Tsz Hei Kong, Runqi Zou, Honggen Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101390","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101390","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous red tourism reviews fall short of evaluating the theoretical foundations, contexts, characteristics and methods of existing literature. Through employing the Theories-Contexts-Characteristics-Methods framework, this paper is the first systematic review that synthesized 279 CSSCI Chinese-written and 30 English-written empirical research articles. It provides a snapshot of the state-of-the-art of red tourism scholarship to highlight extant knowledge gaps. Results show that research questions on red tourism exhibit a dominant managerial focus over the past 20 years. Most of the studies failed to address core attributes that make red heritage distinctive, including identity, emotions, memories, sense of place and power dynamics. This review also shows that the theoretical foundation of red tourism research is weak and fragmented. Most deployed theories are human-centric, which marginalizes red heritage and its endogenous attributes. Furthermore, current red tourism literature principally examines general domestic tourists and tangible heritage sites. Residents who are carriers of red memories and cultural practices, inbound tourists, adolescents and intangible red cultural heritage and traditions were overlooked. Drawing from critical heritage studies, this review contributes to red tourism and heritage tourism studies by suggesting new theoretical lenses (e.g., storytelling and post-anthropocentrism). Novel research questions that go beyond the current overreliance on specific research contexts are provided, complemented with a list of possible new methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101390"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144279919","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}