{"title":"Symbiotic multistage structures in Tibetan communities","authors":"Chunliu Gao , Li Cheng , Qingxia Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although staged authenticity remains crucial in tourism research, traditional related studies are primarily based on the “front stage-back stage” dichotomy. This study extends the authenticity framework by examining the symbiotic multistage structures of multiple heritage communities. Employing interviews, remote sensing, and geographic information systems (GIS), we reveal how uneven spatial distributions fuel distinct tourism phases and intensify vulnerability under heavy tourism dependence. Furthermore, income inequalities drive communities to strive for front-stage status, risking homogenization. Important manifestations of symbiotic relationships within heritage communities are multistage structures, which represent an adaptive community-developed system to address tourism impacts. Thus, emphasizing balanced economic, cultural, and spatial approaches across community stages is crucial for the resilience, equity, and preservation of local identity in heritage destinations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 104133"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146193021","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":"Can the 2025 Nobel prizes in physics and economics inspire a “quantum” turn in tourism research?","authors":"Waqas Ali","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104115"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145980621","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":"Becoming famous: Producing platform-mediated destination visibility","authors":"Yaxin Zheng , Qiuju Luo , Junyi Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the attention economy, visibility is increasingly important to destination competitiveness, yet its production during the value reconfiguration driven by platforms remains underexplored. This study draws on visibility theory and applies multi-sited ethnography in Changsha, China, to demonstrate that the interplay of power and perception among platforms and diverse actors co-produced destination visibility as a dynamic, multi-layered field. Institutionalization, platformization, and negotiation together shape how destinations become visible, highlighting the strategic role of visibility in shaping destination attractiveness through actors' media capabilities and creative practices. By framing visibility production within a platform-mediated context, the study extends visibility theory and advances understanding of the evolving dynamics of destination value and competitiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104136"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146188762","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":"Being there as artist-researcher in creative tourism","authors":"Vanessa Ágata de Abreu Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper advances the critical turn in tourism studies by examining creative tourism through an embodied, reflexive approach informed by Heidegger's notion of “being there in the world.” Using the researcher's body as a tool of inquiry, it shows how identity and intersectionality shape tourism encounters and knowledge production, urging attention to lived complexity and critical engagement. A multi-case study of five UNESCO Creative Cities in Portugal combines critical discourse analysis with a design-based autoethnographic method, User Experience in Real Life. Findings reveal a gap between branding and lived reality, exposing postcolonial entanglements, gender inequalities, tokenization of artists, precarity of creative labor, and tensions between heritage preservation and commercialization, while embodied participation identifies concrete service design gaps.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104111"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146189500","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":"Gradual change or metamorphosis in red tourism","authors":"Xingyang Lv , Nan Jiang , Jiaojiao Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104118","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Promoting the “red spirit” among adolescences through red tourism is a political and educational practice that the Chinese government implement. However, the gradual learning process in general educational contexts struggles to explain the abrupt transformative processes triggered by red tourism. Based on experiential learning theory, through two experimental studies, this study constructs a model for adolescents' internalization of red spirit using the Laval nozzle structure from fluid mechanics and validates the mechanism and effects of red spirit internalization. Taking Red flag Canal and Luding Bridge as the experimental scenario respectively, Study 1 examines the distribution characteristics of metamorphosis, internalization mechanisms, and the psychological result of internalization. Study 2 further revalidates the distribution characteristics and mechanisms of metamorphosis and examines the behavioral results of internalization. Results show that red tourism is more effective than formal education in facilitating metamorphosis among adolescents, which is not continuous but abrupt. Adolescents achieve metamorphosis through resonance and understanding during red activities, which are key mechanisms for internalization. The outcomes of internalization manifest at both psychological and behavioral levels, namely, the assimilation and practice of red spirit. This study empirically validates the mechanism of adolescents' internalization of red spirit and constructs a structural model of transformative internalization, providing practical insights for the inheritance of red spirit.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104118"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146189499","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}
Jundan Jasmine Zhang , Roger Norum , René van der Wal
{"title":"Arctic science and tourism in Svalbard - two sides of the same coin?","authors":"Jundan Jasmine Zhang , Roger Norum , René van der Wal","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How independent is science from tourism? How come that they are often found alongside each other in many parts of the world, and what does this mean? We look at this in High Arctic Svalbard, a clear hotspot for science and tourism. We find that what drives both enterprises to the archipelago is the desire for exploration and experience. By presenting how science and tourism co-evolve throughout time, and how large-scale factors keep them together, we argue that science and tourism are deeply intertwined and can potentially be seen as two sides of the same coin. We therefore call for recognition of their interdependence when working towards sustainable Arctic futures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104137"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146188764","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}
Jing Zhang , Jun Li , Jie Mu , Jian Xu , Hengyun Li
{"title":"Tourist expression heterogeneity in multimodal sentiment","authors":"Jing Zhang , Jun Li , Jie Mu , Jian Xu , Hengyun Li","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multimodal sentiment analysis has captivated substantial interest in tourism and hospitality. However, extant research overlooks that travelers exhibit diverse preferences in sentiment expression across image, text, and rating modalities. To surmount the limitation, we innovatively present an indicator-based multimodal interactive fusion network. It extracts indicators from online reviews to precisely gauge heterogeneity in sentiment expression. Moreover, we formulate an indicator-based attention mechanism that dynamically assigns weights to modalities in sentiment prediction according to the relative contributions of different modalities to sentiment expression. Additionally, we explore sentiment expression differences across tourism scenarios by integrating travel type heterogeneity and destination category heterogeneity. Experimental findings show that the proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods, offering deeper insights into multimodal sentiment analysis in tourism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104117"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146090564","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":"Portals and pixels: The embodied enchantment of virtual reality","authors":"Chloe Preece , Pilar Rojas-Gaviria , Laryssa Whittaker","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2026.104131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourist experiences of fictional places and the role of imaginaries in mediatised travel have received significant attention. This paper examines how virtual reality stimulates imagination through agentic creativity, as users shape, interpret and co-construct virtual space and time through their bodies. Using magical realism as a lens, where the ordinary is infused with the extraordinary, we show how virtual reality transports users from domestic routines into imaginative elsewheres that both disorient and enchant. Unlike prior studies framing virtual reality as a sustainable substitute for visiting destinations, we argue that it expands what counts as tourism and what it means to travel. We conceptualise <em>virtual lieux d'imagination</em> as portals to elsewhere-ness, realised through a widened, decentred tourist gaze and fostering reflexivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104131"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146189498","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":"Inflation expectations and international travel demand","authors":"Puneet Vatsa","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This note incorporates household inflation expectations, which are central to consumption theory but overlooked in tourism economics, into models of international travel demand. Using monthly data on U.S. visitor arrivals to Canada, I find that a 1 % increase in household inflation expectations is associated with a 0.42 % rise in tourist arrivals by air. Land-based tourist arrivals also exhibit a positive association, although the evidence is weaker. No significant effects are detected for same-day travel. Gasoline prices, income, and exchange rates are statistically insignificant. The findings highlight the importance of considering inflation expectations for understanding international travel behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 104116"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145908852","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}