{"title":"Time and feature varying tourism demand forecasting","authors":"Huicai Gao , Hengyun Li , Chen Jason Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103959","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103959","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Choosing appropriate weights for individual models represents a major challenge in combination forecasting. Most research has used constant or time-varying weights during stable periods, ignoring dynamic weights that account for the latent features in multisource data during uncertain periods. We introduce an innovative approach that employs a time- and feature-varying ensemble learning–based meta-learner to consolidate individual model forecasts. The proposed model integrates statistical, machine learning, and deep learning models, along with economic and search engine data, to forecast visitor arrivals in Hong Kong and Sanya City, China. Results show that the proposed model surpasses most individual models and typical combination methods in stable and uncertain times. The findings highlight the proposed model's ability to yield consistent and reliable predictions across a variety of scenarios, particularly during volatile periods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103959"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143859137","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":"Traversing shrines: Pausing as place-making","authors":"Toni Eagar , Shona Bettany","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103960","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103960","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the traversing shrine Pooh Bear's Corner as a dynamic <em>place of power</em> arising from pauses in travel dedicated to the act of traversing. Using a boundary work lens we examine how modalities of pausing—taking pause, giving pause, and making pause—create significant orientation points within journeys. Through interviews and field research, the study captures the narratives of travellers, highlighting the site's role in enriching the travel experience and cultural landscape. The findings emphasize the importance of pausing as temporary cessations in motion along the journey. This research contributes to the field by introducing the concept of traversing shrines, offering insights into their creation and significance as communal memory sites along travel routes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103960"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843209","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":"Grieving the Arctic: From tourism to trauma","authors":"Alix Varnajot , Bailey Ashton Adie","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103958","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103958","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103958"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143828485","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":"Conceptualising audience immersion in tourism performing arts: Definition and characteristics","authors":"Minyan Feng , Yueying Hazel Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103956","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103956","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Immersion has recently become a buzzword in tourism literature; however, its application is often casual and context-blind, without an adequate delineation of what immersion truly entails. This study, focusing on tourism performing arts, establishes a precise and comprehensive conceptualisation of audience immersion to reflect tourists' distinctive experiences accurately. A two-stage qualitative method is employed, incorporating data from online comments and focus group discussions. Analysis via an inductive–deductive approach reveals six key characteristics of immersion, leading to a new and context-specific definition. An experiential model depicting three levels of immersion is established according to the human information processing framework. This study introduces a dual-component method to conceptualise immersion and provides practical insights for better understanding immersive experiences in a specific context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103956"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143816673","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":"Reframing tourism labour: Alterity and the global south","authors":"Kyrie Eleison (Kyle) Muñoz , Richard N.S. Robinson , Greg Marston","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103950","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103950","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Extant literature recognises that knowledge and conceptualisations of tourism labour vis-a-vis the Global South are deficient and inappropriately theoretically framed by hegemonic and incommensurate Western ontologies and epistemes. This article aims to generate a decolonial, authentic and indigenous theoretical basis to liberate tourism labour knowledge of the Global South from this epistemic subordination through a contemporary review and reflection. We thus appropriate, problematise and extend Levinas' theory of alterity to reframe the colonial and neoliberal literature on the Global South's tourism workforce by championing ‘<em>We</em>’ as the convergence and co-existence of the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ through thematic, epistemic, methodological, and representational alterities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103950"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging elevation to deter deviant tourist behaviours","authors":"Shanshi Li , Laurie Wu , Xinyan Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103953","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103953","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Deviant tourist behavior is a critical issue as it poses risks to the safety and well-being of tourists, destinations, and local communities. In the current research, we examine how elevation - a unique and powerful other-praising emotion - serves as a deterrent to tourist behaviors that deviate from socially accepted norms. The results from three scenario-based experiments and one field experiment show that when tourists feel elevated, they are less inclined to engage in deviant behaviors. Furthermore, this research elucidates role model influence and moral self-efficacy as the psychological mechanism underlying these effects. Moreover, the effect is moderated by tourists' sense of power. Altogether, the findings from this research provides significant theoretical and managerial implications for reducing deviant tourist behaviors through eliciting elevation among tourists.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103953"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143681112","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 hosts meet guests: Local residents' identity construction amidst rural tourism gentrification","authors":"Xiaolong Ma, Yiyuan Zhao, Weifeng Su","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103951","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103951","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amidst rural tourism gentrification, local residents' identity construction offers a window into how rapid local development transforms inter-subject power relations. Guided by embeddedness theory, a longitudinal case study in Ankang Village, China with 78 interviews and observations was conducted to explore the dynamics and mechanism of local residents' identity construction as hosts. Findings reveal that as tourism grows, local residents adopt interactive strategies of <em>withdrawal</em>, <em>negotiation</em>, and <em>advocacy</em>, constructing three identities: “nominal hosts”, “dubious hosts”, and “true hosts”. The reshuffling of identities results from the internal mechanism of “power disparity-interest consistency-identity subjectivity”. Successful demonstration by gentrifiers and equitable sharing of benefits would help the local community maintain its core status in dialogue with external entities, thereby achieving sustainable community-based tourism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103951"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143704106","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":"The bohemian imaginary in the society of the spectacle","authors":"Peter Varley , Kaya Barry","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103938","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103938","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The emancipatory promise of bohemia as a realm of free expression is inextricably woven into the desires and dreams of tourism. The bohemian drive for unmediated authentic experiences is ironically deeply interrelated with tourism's progress as an instrument of advanced capitalism, and hard to achieve. Contributing to the literature on touristic authenticity and alienation, tourism imaginaries of bohemia are posited as an elusive commodified spectacle, following Debord's central ideas. As such, we extend theoretical debate troubling tourism's strained relationship with authentic experience, and further underline its exploitative, denaturing and alienating character.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 103938"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143681111","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}