{"title":"Tourism- versus non-tourism-led growth: Which is superior?","authors":"Anda Nugroho , George Verikios","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104000","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104000","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study reveals the underlying mechanism by which tourism expansion drives long-term economic growth and compares it to non-tourism-led growth. We perform long-run simulations (up to 30 years) using a general equilibrium model with dynamic macroeconomic properties that considers the economy's transition between steady states on a balanced growth path. We find that whether or not tourism can drive growth depends on its relative capital intensity compared to the rest of the economy. In our case, the expansion of tourism alters sectoral rates of return, leading to inter-sectoral shifts that encourage a higher capital stock. As output per worker increases, the economy becomes more productive. In the absence of mining, tourism is among the leading drivers of growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 104000"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144696588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When inclusion efforts backfire: How organizational social inclusion statements exacerbate frontline employees' negative meta-stereotypes","authors":"Yuchen Xu , Hanyuan Zhang , Yun Zhang , Catherine Cheung","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103999","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103999","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social inclusion statements, which serve as stigmatized-identity safety cues, have been shown to effectively combat stigmatization against employees with stigmatized identities. However, through six controlled experiments, we present counterintuitive evidence that organizational social inclusion statements not only fail to thwart frontline employees' negative meta-stereotypes, defined as their beliefs about how customers negatively stereotype them, but instead exacerbate these beliefs. This effect was partly driven by an increase in frontline employees' stigma consciousness, yet it disappeared when they were informed that customers understood them. This study contributes to the nascent literature on diversity, equity, and inclusion in hospitality and tourism, offering insights into why social inclusion statements can backfire and suggesting potential countermeasures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103999"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144662206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital anthropomorphism of accommodation: The influence of contextual and content-based femininity imagery of hotels on tourist satisfaction","authors":"Hui Li , Chenjin Chu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103996","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103996","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper establishes the theory of accommodation anthropomorphism by differentiating the contextual and content-based elements of digital hotel imagery on customer satisfaction. Utilizing a dataset consisting of online photos from high-star hotels, we performed expectation-confirmation data mining to analyze the emotional imagery of expected and on-site experiences. The findings indicate that: 1) Both expected imagery and onsite experiences of femininity in accommodation content increases satisfaction; conversely, masculinity decreases it. 2) Expected context-femininity imagery of accommodation alone decreases satisfaction; however, it strengthens the impact of expected digital content-femininity of accommodation. 3) Incomplete confirmation of accommodation anthropomorphism suppresses the influence of travelers' expected femininity imagery on satisfaction. 4) Compared with hedonic tourism, contextual and content-based digital anthropomorphism enhances more utilitarian tourists' satisfaction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103996"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeling good - bodies in destination brand love","authors":"Kaisa Aro , Jaana Tähtinen","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103998","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103998","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study extends the conceptualization of destination brand love with a bodily dimension. Although tourism research and affective and cognitive science acknowledge that we sense the world through our bodies, the human body seldom appears in brand-love studies. This study shifts the focus from the antecedents and consequences of brand love to consumers' multidimensional brand-love relationships. We distinguish two ontological approaches to brand love by studying an outdoor destination brand. The first conceptualizes destination brand love as a four-dimensional entity of bodily, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions. The second is a processual conceptualization considering destination brand-loving as an ongoing process. The study offers two alternative and connected conceptualizations for tourism marketing scholars: destination brand love and destination brand-loving.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103998"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144623832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anticipated emotional volatility in tour bookings","authors":"Shanshi Li , Luqing Wang , Shasha Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103997","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103997","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tour products often present sequential experiences, leading tourists to picture themselves in each event and foresee their emotional responses. However, research has largely overlooked how anticipated emotional volatility influences booking intentions. Using cognitive appraisal theory, this study examines how high versus low anticipated emotional volatility affects tourist responses through a mixed-method approach involving choice tasks, semi-structured interviews, and five experiments. Results show that tours with high (vs. low) anticipated emotional volatility enhance booking intentions, with perceived novelty and interest as sequential mediators. The effect of perceived novelty on interest is more pronounced among high variety-seeking tourists. Findings underscore the significance of anticipated emotional volatility in tour design and provide valuable insights for creating and marketing more engaging tour itineraries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103997"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144587415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rui Cui , Haitao Zhai , Ruonan Wang , Shan Hua , Jun Zhang , Shuaishuai Li
{"title":"Travel as adjunct therapy in major depressive disorder: Analyzing cases with positive outcomes by ZMET","authors":"Rui Cui , Haitao Zhai , Ruonan Wang , Shan Hua , Jun Zhang , Shuaishuai Li","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103995","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103995","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103995"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144522948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating marginality, building resilience: Tourism and everyday life in a Chinese surfing village","authors":"Shize Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103994","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103994","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the dual reality of Houhai Village, China, as it transforms from a traditional rural community into a burgeoning tourist destination. Driven primarily by external forces with capitalist characteristics, this shift has marginalised locals from and within tourism, altering the dynamics of everyday life. In the process, the parameters of resilience have been continually reshaped as they adapt to the power dynamics imposed by tourism in a rural setting. The transformation reflects the complex coexistence and interplay between external influences and local agency. The study proposes a conceptual framework to better understand the interplay of marginality with resilience, challenging neoliberal narratives of rural tourism and calling for broader investigations of local communities facing rapid change from rural tourism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103994"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring resilience of the tourism sector: Reflective Resilience Index (REFLEX) approach","authors":"Seonjin Lee , Lori Pennington-Gray","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103983","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103983","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Resilience has emerged as a critical focus in tourism studies, but the literature on tourism resilience is still embryonic and largely conceptual. This study presents a novel approach that is designed for pre-event assessment of tourism sector resilience. We tested the index by predicting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on South Korean and US domestic tourism. Tourism sectors with diversified and balanced demand experienced a greater disruption. Nonetheless, these destinations were able to recover quickly and attract more tourists after recovery. The findings demonstrate that the index captures the responsiveness of the tourism sector. With high versatility and low data requirements, our resilience assessment tool offers opportunity to advance our understanding of tourism resilience and inform policy decisions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103983"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144471797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affective authentication: Transforming strangers into family","authors":"Oren T. Segal, Carol A. Kidron","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103980","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103980","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present a qualitative study of amateur genealogists' first encounters with newly-discovered co-descendants as tourist objects on the move in Israel, Hungary and the United States. Interviewees' intersubjective interaction and heritage ‘doing’ disclose ancestral mutuality of being transforming strangers into affectively authenticated family. Data depicts a dialectical process between cool and hot authentication unique to the tourist context of distance/proximity and home/away together activating family-relatedness. Reconceptualizing the binary of cool-hot authentication, we propose a gradational authentication process whereby the “warming effect” of affect fuels transitions between cold, warm and hot authentication constituting intersubjective tourist moments and dyadic existential identities. Findings problematize disciplinary framing of family tourism and genealogical tourism while contributing to research on non-familial local-tourist relations and hospitality/experiential tourism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103980"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 new rurality: gentrified space versus co-created place","authors":"Yi Wang , Zhuowei Huang , Aihan Fan","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103979","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103979","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study develops a conceptual framework of rural tourism placemaking based on gentrified space in China's desakota villages. It indicates three types of rural tourism placemaking and uncover the underlying power relationships between tourists, local villagers and owners of gentrified premises that shape the varied placemaking. In particular, the present study pinpoints the importance of co-creation in rural tourism placemaking with three stages: <em>physical reconstructing</em>, <em>local participation in tourism</em>, and <em>relational integration between multiple parties.</em> This study indicates that the rural tourism placemaking through co-creation involves a balanced power relationship between multiple parties and transforms the space to a meaningful place that each party can claim and benefit from.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103979"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}