{"title":"Baby Come Back: Resident-Digital Nomad Conflicts, Destination Identification, and Revisit Intention","authors":"Dario Miocevic","doi":"10.1177/00472875231220945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231220945","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the increasing popularity of remote work, digital nomadism has become a growing trend. Given that digital nomads can stay in destinations longer, their contacts with residents become more dynamic, including numerous social conflicts. By drawing on realistic group conflict theory and social identity complexity, this paper investigates how the negative consequences of social conflicts can be mitigated to strengthen the digital nomads’ identification with the destination and increase revisit intention. Using a multi-national sample of 307 digital nomads from four popular destinations, we find that the negative consequences of social conflicts can be alleviated by stronger cooperative contact through which residents provide instrumental support to digital nomads. Moreover, we find that through enhanced identification and cooperative contact with residents, digital nomads also develop a localized identity that threatens their nomadic identity and thus reduces revisit intention. The study provides insights for practitioners on effectively catering to this segment of travelers.","PeriodicalId":48435,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Travel Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139592273","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":"The Interactive Effect of Message Framing and Power Distance Belief on Tourists’ Attitudes Toward Slum Tours","authors":"Sohyun Bae, Xiaoyan Liu, Piaoran Ren","doi":"10.1177/00472875231221148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231221148","url":null,"abstract":"Slum tourism, an activity in which tourists visit impoverished areas, has grown rapidly in recent years and, in turn, triggered intense debates in the public sphere and on social media. In the current research, we examine how and why different frames regarding slum tours (i.e., poverty tour vs. cultural tour) interact with tourists’ power distance belief (PDB) to influence their attitudes toward such tours. Using three studies, we show that tourists with low (vs. high) PDB have more negative attitudes toward slum tours when they are framed as poverty tours than as cultural tours, because they perceive taking such tours as being immoral. We further demonstrate that an appeal for donations mitigates the perceived immorality among low-PDB tourists, which consequently alters their negative attitudes toward such tours. Our research offers stakeholders in slum tourism, including travel agencies and policymakers, valuable insights into operating slum tours in a more ethical way.","PeriodicalId":48435,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Travel Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140491099","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":"Eliciting Mortality Salience in Dark Tourism and its Influence","authors":"Kai Bai, Rufeng Chen","doi":"10.1177/00472875231223659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231223659","url":null,"abstract":"While dark tourism research has increasingly emphasized mortality salience’s role in exploring dark tourists’ experiences, little is known regarding the triggers and effects of mortality salience. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 tourists visiting the Xuankou Middle School (Wenchuan earthquake site), revealing that both the objective and constructive authenticity of tourism objects can trigger mortality salience. Mortality salience can prompt tourists to seek to increase their self-esteem, family connectedness, and sense of national identity to cope with their inevitable deaths. A second survey-based study found a positive relationship between mortality salience and the identified triggers and effects. Theoretical contributions include advancing terror management theory’s development in dark tourism research, enhancing the understanding of dark tourism’s meanings, and inspiring research on dark tourism’s death education. Practical implications include suggesting managers continuously collect and display authentic objects related to the site’s disaster and provide message areas for tourists to share their experiences.","PeriodicalId":48435,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Travel Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139620203","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":"Governing the Tourism Commons: Can Self-governing Institution Ensure the Continuation of the Rural Tourism Life Cycle?","authors":"Yiqing Su, Rui Li, Qaunfeng Shu, Yahua Wang","doi":"10.1177/00472875231222834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231222834","url":null,"abstract":"Rural tourism is regarded as an important development strategy in many countries. However, some rural tourist destinations are facing decline after a period of prosperity. Based on the interaction between local residents involved in rural tourism and the common pool resources on which rural tourism depends, this paper discusses the reasons leading to the unsustainable development of rural tourism and proposes solutions to the tragedy of the tourism commons to realize a more sustainable development of rural tourism. This paper uses the data collected in 2017 from 56 villages across 13 provinces of China and obtains the following results using econometric methods. In the absence of a self-governing institution, there was a nonlinear inverted U-shaped relationship between the income of local residents involved in rural tourism and their scale, indicating that the increase of local residents involved in rural tourism only increased their incomes in the initial stage of rural tourism development. However, with the continuous increase of local residents involved in rural tourism, the tragedy of the tourism commons led to lower income from rural tourism. In the presence of a self-governing institution, there was a positive correlation between the income and scale of local residents involved in rural tourism, which indicates that the self-governing institution successfully overcame the tragedy of the tourism commons and ultimately supported the continuous surge of income from rural tourism. This paper also provides a new way for people to understand the development and evolution of the tourism area life cycle theory.","PeriodicalId":48435,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Travel Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139620337","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":"Make the Effort Visible: The Effect of Process Transparency on Public Forgiveness in Tourism Crisis Communication","authors":"Ting-Ting Yang, Wenqi Ruan, Yong-Quan Li, Shu-Ning Zhang","doi":"10.1177/00472875231221679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231221679","url":null,"abstract":"Public forgiveness in tourism crisis communication is conducive to improving destination reputation, although this connection has been ignored. To fill this research gap, this study conducts three experiments to investigate the effect of process transparency on public forgiveness. The results of two experiments reveal that response messages with high (vs. low) process transparency are more likely to promote public forgiveness, and the effect of process transparency on public forgiveness is mediated by perceived effort. The results of Experiment 3 also show that narrative (vs. non-narrative) messages with high process transparency have a stronger impact on perceived effort and public forgiveness. However, for messages with low process transparency, the effect of process transparency does not vary by message type. This study expands the research framework of tourism crisis communication and provides a new research perspective on emotional recovery. It also provides managers with effective and low-cost tourism crisis communication strategies.","PeriodicalId":48435,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Travel Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139528397","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":"National Identity and Attachment Among Overseas Chinese Children: Diaspora Tourism Experiences","authors":"Mimi Li, Weiwei Liu, C. Zhang, Zhiye Dai","doi":"10.1177/00472875231221673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231221673","url":null,"abstract":"Immigrants’ national identities in relation to their homelands have received considerable academic attention. Although childhood plays a substantial part in national identity, studies on diaspora tourism and immigrants have often overlooked children’s experiences. Ethnic and cultural symbols are embedded in place and contribute to one’s attachment to a territory for identity development. This study explores the nexus between diaspora tourism, national identity, and place attachment from children’s perspectives. Metaphor elicitation technique and participant observations were used to examine how overseas Chinese children make sense of their “homeland” national identity and place attachment in a diaspora tourism context. Findings address how overseas Chinese children’s cultural pride, social connections, and self-representation intertwine with meaningful symbols tied to China and Chineseness. Major theoretical implications derived from the research include delineating how children’s diaspora tourism experiences influence their place attachment and national identities, and revealing the corresponding relationship between place attachment and national identity.","PeriodicalId":48435,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Travel Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139531135","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":"Measuring Travel Insurance Literacy: Effect on Trust in Providers and Intention to Purchase","authors":"Gonzalo Luna-Cortés, Michael Brady","doi":"10.1177/00472875231220944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231220944","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research suggests that some deficiencies in the insurance industry might be associated with tourists’ lack of knowledge. However, the literature does not present a tool that captures objective knowledge of travel insurance literacy. This research presents a comprehensive, multi-step scale development process resulting in a 15-item scale, which measures objective knowledge about travel insurance terms, regulations, and processes. The results show that travel insurance literacy is associated with trust in sellers. Although no relationship was found between travel insurance literacy and perceived travel risks, these two constructs influence purchase intention. The results also show that there is no relationship between subjective knowledge (self-assessment literacy) and objective knowledge (ratings on the scale). Hence, the research presents a new measurement tool that differs from self-assessment scales prevailing in the tourism literature, opening new opportunities for literacy constructs in the field. Finally, the findings present key managerial implications for the insurance industry.","PeriodicalId":48435,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Travel Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139532390","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":"Matching Crisis Event With Destination Response Strategy","authors":"Lujun Su, Bocong Jia, Scott R. Swanson","doi":"10.1177/00472875231218267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231218267","url":null,"abstract":"A conceptual model is tested across four studies that examine how tourist destination crisis types (external/internal) impact the information processing mode (heuristic/systematic), internal state (empathy/animosity), and boycott intentions of tourists. The matching effect between destination crisis event type and response strategy (defensive/accommodative) are also examined. Results suggest that internally attributed destination crisis events may be more likely to lead to boycott, and tourists tend to employ a heuristic information processing mode for externally attributed crises but a systematic mode for internally attributed crises. The matching effect of destination crisis type with response strategy indicated that a defensive (accommodative) strategy may effectively weaken the negative effects of externally (internally) attributed crises. Discerning the nature and perceived causes of crisis events offers a means to pinpoint approaches for guiding response strategies to mitigate the likelihood of boycotts and inform effective strategies for handling a destination crisis.","PeriodicalId":48435,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Travel Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139626323","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":"Viewer In-Consumption Engagement in Pro-Environmental Tourism Videos: A Video Analytics Approach","authors":"Jingjie Zhu, Mingming Cheng, Ying (Wendy) Wang","doi":"10.1177/00472875231219634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231219634","url":null,"abstract":"Underpinned by Media Richness Theory and the Elaboration Likelihood Model, this study examines the impacts of the content features (i.e., informativeness and visual variation) of pro-environmental tourism videos on viewers’ in-consumption engagement. Pro-environmental tourism videos were analyzed at the scene level using advanced video analytics. The findings of this study show that there are inverted U-shape effects of pro-environmental tourism video informativeness and visual variation on viewers’ in-consumption engagement. This study advances the sustainable tourism literature by providing theoretical explanations on how and why pro-environmental tourism video content features influence communication effectiveness through the lens of in-consumption engagement. This study provides practical implications for content creators on how to design effective pro-environmental videos in tourism by highlighting the balance of informativeness and visual variations.","PeriodicalId":48435,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Travel Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139440154","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}
Stephen J. Page, Joanne Connell, Stephan Price, Steven Owen, Katie Ledingham, Linda Clare
{"title":"Operationalizing Transformative Tourism: Creating Dementia-Friendly Outdoor and Nature-Based Visitor Experiences","authors":"Stephen J. Page, Joanne Connell, Stephan Price, Steven Owen, Katie Ledingham, Linda Clare","doi":"10.1177/00472875231217735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231217735","url":null,"abstract":"A values-based approach embedded in the transformative tourism research paradigm is used to examine dementia-friendly outdoor and nature-based experiences. Interview and site audits were conducted to explore the visitor economy-nature-well-being nexus. Using thematic analysis, researchers set out to understand how organizational change can improve the visitor journey through values and actions that create an accessible visitor experience for people suffering from dementia. The findings show that while the current practice of providing events and tailored sessions for the local community is a good start, further development is needed; this paper offers selected pathways to becoming a dementia-friendly business, including the importance of an organizational champion and an accessible site and a nature-based experience or event that appeals to a wide audience. Theoretically, this work operationalizes transformative tourism and provides a framework for future work.","PeriodicalId":48435,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Travel Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139146818","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}