Zhang Zhao , Chunyu Fu , Ming-Hsiang Chen , Yang Yang
{"title":"Curiosity and hotel revenue management challenges: Dynamics of opaque and low-end products","authors":"Zhang Zhao , Chunyu Fu , Ming-Hsiang Chen , Yang Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103895","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103895","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the dynamics of opaque and low-end tourism products from the perspective of high-end product providers. We develop a comparative analytical model to understand the challenge of hotel revenue management, focusing on supply chains, including high-end hotels that offer both high-end and opaque products, low-end hotels that offer low-end products, and opaque travel agencies. By solving the model under specific constraints, we reveal that increased customer curiosity about opaque products does not necessarily lead to higher overall profits for high-end hotels. While curiosity can boost sales of opaque products, it may also reduce profits from transparent offerings. Importantly, when introducing opaque products, hotel managers should focus on enhancing customer satisfaction referred by opaque travel agencies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103895"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143169261","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":"Decoding linguistic complexity in tourism studies","authors":"Wilson Cheong Hin Hong , Joanne Yu , Roman Egger","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103899","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103899","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103899"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143169709","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":"Travel vlogging as an integrated practice: Foreign travel vloggers' practices in the Philippines","authors":"Richard S. Aquino , Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103897","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103897","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using an integrated practice approach, we examine how foreign travel vloggers document their experiences in the Philippines. By analysing 20 YouTube videos created by foreign vloggers, we reveal the interrelated practices of <em>exoticising</em>, <em>assimilating</em>, <em>sanitising</em>, and <em>monetising,</em> informed by vloggers' roles as tourists, locals, and entrepreneurs. Our findings demonstrate travel vlogging is shaped by inherent destination materials, structures, and technological terrain in which practices are organised. We highlight the market logic of these practices performed by foreign social media influencers who utilise their racial/ethnic capital in documenting their travel experiences in the Philippines. We contribute to the tourism practice literature by diving deep into the oscillating roles and practices of foreign travel vloggers in producing destination representations through vlogs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103897"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143169281","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":"Regenerative justice and tourism: How can tourism go beyond restoration?","authors":"Raymond Rastegar","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103896"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143169707","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":"How AI hallucinations threaten research integrity in tourism","authors":"Irem Onder , Scott McCabe","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103900","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103900","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103900"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143169460","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}
Rouven Doran , Ida Vikøren Andersen , Charles A. Ogunbode
{"title":"Perspectives and views on flight shame in pandemic times","authors":"Rouven Doran , Ida Vikøren Andersen , Charles A. Ogunbode","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103869","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103869","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study utilizes national survey data from Norway to explore public views on flight shame, measured between 2020 and 2022. Answers to open-ended and closed-ended questions are integrated to explore various perspectives on flight shame, including its function as a persuasive call to action and its normative underpinning. Most display ambiguous, vague, or neutral attitudes towards the concept, with favourable attitudes being more common when it is construed as relating to infection control. Perceived norms show stronger associations with self-reported flight shame than with an expressed willingness to accept increased travel time or higher financial costs. This supports assertions that changes in the availability and feasibility of alternatives to flying could be needed to break up entrenched travel habits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103869"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143139326","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":"Good deeds deserve good outcomes: Leveraging generative artificial intelligence to reduce tourists' avoidance of ethical brands embracing stigmatized groups","authors":"Linxiang Lv , Yongheng Liang , Siyun Chen , Gus Guanrong Liu , Jiancai Liao","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103889","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103889","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusivity often leads tourism brands to support stigmatized groups, yet tourists may perceive these groups negatively and avoid these brands. Drawing from one field study on the Facebook Ad platform and two experimental studies, we find that brand avoidance among tourists is reduced when tourism brands adopt AI-generated (vs. human-generated) moral content to support stigmatized dissociative out-groups. This effect is mediated by tourists' psychological proximity to these groups and is weakened for those with a strong sense of common fate with these out-groups. These insights contribute to tourism literature on generative AI and diversity, equity, and inclusivity while offering strategic guidance for brands seeking to embrace stigmatized groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103889"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143139324","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":"Tourists as commodities in below-cost tours","authors":"Shengrong Chen , Jiarui Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103890","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103890","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper focuses on the commodification of tourists in below-cost tours. With the audience commodity theory from the field of political economy of communication as the analytical framework, we reveal the process of tourists' prosumption. In below-cost tours, the relationship between tourists and travel agencies is collaborative coproduction: Travel agencies obtain profits through tourists' prosumption (primarily visiting and shopping) in designated stores. Tourists thereby become a type of commodity that enables capital to obtain exchange value – tourists as commodities. This study advances the explanatory research on below-cost tours, enriches the literature on prosumption by extending it to tourism research, and demonstrates the spread of commodification in social life through empirical studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103890"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143139325","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":"Rethinking embodiment in tourism research","authors":"Michelle I.C. Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103892","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103892","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper revisits the embodiment turn in tourism research, challenging dominant assumptions such as the universality of normative bodies and the neutrality of tourism spaces. Using a problematization approach, it critiques existing paradigms and integrates perspectives from embodied cognition, intersectionality, and socio-cultural theories. The paper proposes a conceptual framework comprising four dimensions—experiential, performative, ideological, and disciplinary—emphasizing the dynamic interplay between embodied agency and tourism spaces. By advancing a more comprehensive and inclusive definition of embodiment, the study highlights the relational, intersectional, and contextual dimensions that shape tourism experiences. In addressing existing conceptual limitations, this work contributes to a more critical understanding of embodiment in tourism. It offers directions for future research to foster more equitable and inclusive tourism systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103892"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143139323","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":"Ethnomethodology and the tourist experience","authors":"Rob Burton","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103891","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103891","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103891"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143139330","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}