Florian Kock , Astrid Nørfelt , Alexander Josiassen
{"title":"Darwin in the classroom: Incorporating an evolutionary perspective into tourism and hospitality education","authors":"Florian Kock , Astrid Nørfelt , Alexander Josiassen","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103884","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103884","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Researchers are making increasing use of an evolutionary perspective to understand the behaviors of tourists and residents, yet the implications of our evolved psychological mechanisms for classrooms and education remain underexplored. The purpose of this research is therefore to highlight and analyze the vast untapped potential of evolutionary psychology for tourism and hospitality education. The authors provide researchers and educators with a guide to evolutionary psychology as well as demonstrate the utility of an evolutionary perspective through three education cases. These three applications are complemented by a process model that illustrates how to use and test evolutionary theory in tourism and hospitality education empirically. We conclude by providing future research avenues with the aim to advance tourism and hospitality education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103884"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744578","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}
María-Cristina Gálvez-García , Germán Jaraíz-Arroyo , Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros
{"title":"Homecoming tourism and community social capital","authors":"María-Cristina Gálvez-García , Germán Jaraíz-Arroyo , Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103886","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103886","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourism in rural contexts is often approached from a perspective that situates the tourist as a customer but not as an active part of the community. This generates the feeling that the loss of social cohesion, one of the great problems affecting the rural world, can only be tackled by those who reside permanently in the villages. Our research proposes a broader view of the issue through the concept of homecoming tourism, a phenomenon whereby emigrants return to visit their place of origin, becoming tourists while also being part of the community. Through an ethnographic case study in Extremadura (Spain) we analyse the implications of homecoming tourism for the rural crisis and its capacity to generate community social capital.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103886"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744577","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}
Gianluigi Narciso , Mireia Guix , Xavier Font , Yanfei Hu
{"title":"Decarbonising with a plan: The influence of post-growth configurations of hybridity","authors":"Gianluigi Narciso , Mireia Guix , Xavier Font , Yanfei Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103883","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103883","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hybridity is the combination of different belief systems (institutional logics) that guide organisational practice. We analyse 32 decarbonisation business plans of tour operators to study the interplay between the market logic (incumbent) that supports the pursuit of continuous economic expansion, and the post-growth logic (challenger) that rejects the idea of unbridled growth. Through a mixed-method approach that combines content analysis and regression modelling, we find that the configurations of hybridity (i.e., the exact ways in which logics are combined) influence organisations' abilities to adopt science-based decarbonisation. We identify eight distinct transition patterns in the embedding of post-growth thinking into business plans that support a new theorisation of post-growth as a process of hybridisation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103883"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142719884","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":"The unintended sustainable consequences of free upgrade: How unearned preferential treatment reduces sustainable behavior","authors":"Jihao Hu , Zhengzheng Xu , Lisa C. Wan , Wei Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103872","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103872","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The prior research on unearned preferential treatment has merely focused on its impact on consumer reactions or firms' performance (e.g., customer satisfaction, repurchase intention), with its sustainable consequences underexplored. In addition, holding the resource abundance account, past work on promotion tools (e.g., price discounts) has mainly examined positive social outcomes. Through a series of studies (<em>N</em> = 8402), combining field and experimental data with actual behavior measures (e.g., actual towel usage, click-through rate), this research demonstrates that, due to its unique exclusive nature, receiving unearned preferential treatment can situationally enhance consumers' psychological entitlement, which, in turn, renders consumers' decreased sustainable behavior. Intriguingly, marketers can reverse this negative effect by strategically harnessing a status-signaling appeal of sustainable behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103872"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706297","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":"From indigenous villages to World Heritage Sites: Structural violence in spatial transformation","authors":"Chengkun Huang , Hong Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103880","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103880","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Once indigenous villages are designated as World Heritage Sites, they no longer belong exclusively to local residents. The political, cultural, and tourism-related values of these sites are overemphasized, often undermining the subjectivity of local residents. This transformation in spatial attributes of the villages constitutes “structural violence” against local communities. Existing literature still lacks direct research attention on this issue. This study uses the Fujian Tulou villages in China as case sites, employing a “material-social-cultural” three-dimensional framework to summarize three forms of structural violence: resource deprivation, imbalanced interest structure, and discourse erosion, rooted in spatial transformation, and further explores their underlying causes. The findings deepen insight into the tensions between World Heritage practices, tourism, and sustainable community development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103880"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706295","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":"Virtual influencer and cultural heritage destination: Endorsement effectiveness of virtual versus human influencers","authors":"Ke Zhang , Xinru Sun , Gang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103873","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103873","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present research conducted four experiments and found that virtual influencers are less effective than human influencers in endorsing cultural heritage destinations. Drawing on social categorization theory, we suggest that this effect occurs because tourists perceive virtual (vs. human) influencers as outsiders of humankind with a limited understanding of human culture. Consistent with this mechanism, our findings further reveal that this low effectiveness would be mitigated when virtual influencers showcase the ability to comprehend human culture. This research makes theoretical contributions to the literature on social perceptions of virtual influencers and social media marketing in the tourism industry. Also, these findings provide managerial implications regarding the effective usage of virtual influencers in destination marketing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103873"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706294","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}
Lázaro Florido-Benítez , Alastair M. Morrison , J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak
{"title":"Aerotainment – Toward a research agenda merging airports and theme parks in the experience economy","authors":"Lázaro Florido-Benítez , Alastair M. Morrison , J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103881"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706299","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":"Publish and prosper: Mindfully embracing the middle ground","authors":"Weng Marc Lim","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103885","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103885","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103885"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706300","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 authentic indigenous tourism experiences","authors":"Roshis Krishna Shrestha , J.N. Patrick L'Espoir Decosta , Michelle Whitford","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103882","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103882","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As Indigenous tourism gains momentum worldwide, tourists are increasingly seeking authentic Indigenous experiences. Authenticity in Indigenous tourism stems from Indigenous people's unique worldview of the connection between humans and nature. However, little is known about what prompts Indigenous peoples to develop authentic and meaningful tourism experiences. This conceptual study explores the role played by the autonomous motivation of Indigenous tourism business owners in the creation, negotiation, and delivery of authentic experiences. Informed by self-determination theory, this paper discusses a continuum of motivation within an Indigenous tourism context and shows how various forms of motivation contribute to the creation of authentic tourism experiences. Place relatedness is identified as a pivotal determinant in Indigenous people's autonomous motivation to engage in tourism activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103882"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706296","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":"Spiritual practice as tourism experience: An application of cultural transmission theory","authors":"Rajesh Nautiyal , Julia N. Albrecht , Anna Carr","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103866","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103866","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This conceptual paper examines the transformation of yoga, an ancient spiritual and cultural practice, into cultural tourism experiences. Applying cultural transmission theory and the learning concept therein, it presents a revised perspective of yoga tourism. The paper elucidates three key aspects: a) the transmission of yoga in an environmental (both physical and social) entity, b) the incorporation of yoga as a learning process within the framework of cultural transmission theory, and c) the redefining of the diverse learning processes of yoga into cultural products, services, and experiences. In addressing these points, this paper explores the effect of consumerism in yoga tourism, integral to its complex contemporary manifestation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103866"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706293","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}