{"title":"Humour and comics for academic change and well-being","authors":"Giovanna Bertella , Lucia Tomassini","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103862","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103862","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Considering recent calls for change towards a more liveable tourism academia, we combined critical participatory action research with duoethnography to develop <em>The Academic Line</em>—a humorous comic project about academic life. We used traditional theories of humour to leverage the effectiveness of comics as communicative devices and explored how and to what extent our project promoted solidarity, reflexivity, well-being, and change. This study reveals our concrete commitment to fostering change within and potentially improving academia, and to experiment with a form of communication, which is still underexplored in the scholarly sphere but fruitfully applied in other contexts to raise awareness of and prompt discussion about crucially important issues.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103862"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528752","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}
Jihao Hu , GuoQiong Ivanka Huang , IpKin Anthony Wong , Lisa C. Wan
{"title":"AI trust divide: How recruiter-candidate roles shape tourism personnel decision-making","authors":"Jihao Hu , GuoQiong Ivanka Huang , IpKin Anthony Wong , Lisa C. Wan","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103860","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103860","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The artificial intelligence revolution has prompted tourism organizations to consider whether and how to use AI to improve efficiency and create value, particularly in areas such as personnel selection. Through five experimental studies (<em>N</em> = 2199), this paper first reveals that a trust divide exists between job candidates and recruiters in travel agencies. We then investigate how the consideration focus of personnel attributes mediates the impact of roles on trust through thought-listing (Study 1), mediation-by-moderation (Studies 2a & 2b), and self-reported measures (Study 3). To mitigate this misalignment, we examine the AI–human assemblage design and offer an optimal way to bridge the trust divide (Study 4). The current research extends motivated reasoning theory and provides novel insights into practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103860"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528825","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}
Brigitte Stangl, Yu Li (Kevin), Emily Ma, Shi Xu (Tracy), Mai Alsaied
{"title":"Transferable skills in tourism and hospitality","authors":"Brigitte Stangl, Yu Li (Kevin), Emily Ma, Shi Xu (Tracy), Mai Alsaied","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103854","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103854","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A multi-stage, multi-method approach using participatory research methodology that considers the perspectives of tourism and hospitality professionals, and academic experts is used to develop an integrated model of transferable skills gained by working in the industry. Grounded in career construction theory, this study is anticipated to provide a comprehensive understanding of essential skills in the tourism and hospitality industry. It also aims to reshape the image of working in the industry into a more positive one, emphasizing the opportunities of the sector not only as a career but also as a steppingstone to learn transferable skills needed in different sectors, and ultimately contribute to the long-term and sustainable development of the tourism and hospitality sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103854"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528823","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":"Conversational entanglements in new animistic tourism","authors":"Jane Lovell","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103855","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103855","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study makes an original contribution to tourism literature by providing a new animistic conceptualisation of light events as created through conversational entanglements with non-human persons, including flora, fauna, terrain, geos and stories. In doing so, the work highlights the potential for future ecological multivocality. The methodology combines semi-structured interviews with the creators of light events with mindful writing practice journaling. The findings identify an ecosystem of seven conversational entanglements that take place between human and non-human persons, including those that are: researcher-based; about non-human persons; with light forms; with stories; with non-human persons; between non-human persons; and pre-existing. It can be concluded that new animistic exchanges may be more prevalent in the tourism industry than previously assumed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103855"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528824","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 effect of tokenized rewards on customer loyalty programs","authors":"Achilleas Boukis","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103851","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103851","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This work investigates customer responses to the tokenization of hotel loyalty programs. Drawing on self-enhancement theory, Study 1 investigates the effect of reward type (i.e. control vs tokenized reward) on customers' perceptions of the reward (i.e. economic value, program attractiveness) and their behavioral intentions towards the hotel (i.e. switching intentions, recommendation intentions). Findings highlight reward novelty and psychological ownership as two mediators of the above relationships. Study 2 replicates these effects in a cryptocurrency owner context. Study 3 examines the effect of the hotel's type (i.e. luxury vs budget) on the reward type-customer responses relationship. We showcase that tokenized rewards generate a more favourable attitude towards loyalty programs and that they remain an effective customer acquisition strategy for high-end hotels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103851"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142445389","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}
Yuan (William) Li , Yi Liu , Lisa C. Wan , Yingxin Lin
{"title":"Human psychology as a driver of tourism development: The effect of regional personality traits","authors":"Yuan (William) Li , Yi Liu , Lisa C. Wan , Yingxin Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103852","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103852","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Theories of tourism development have traditionally emphasized resource-based factors. However, could the local population's psychological characteristics (e.g., personality) influence tourism development? This study, through the lens of geographical psychology, investigates the impact of regional Big-Five personality traits on tourism development in the UK from 2009 to 2018. Findings reveal that a region's psychological makeup matters for tourism. Specifically, regional Openness traits boost local tourism development, while Neuroticism traits inhibit tourism performance. Regional Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness traits show no significant effects. We provide causal evidence for these results through instrumental variable tests. Our work introduces a novel micro-psychological perspective to tourism development literature and urges policymakers to consider the local population's psychological characteristics for achieving competitive and sustainable tourism development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103852"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528822","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":"Large-scale tourism transformations through regeneration: A living systems perspective on tourism developments in Ukraine during the war","authors":"Kristof Tomej , Iana Bilynets","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103856","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103856","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article investigates the complex changes in Ukraine's tourism system in the first year after Russia's full-scale military invasion from a living systems perspective. To capture the dynamic and multi-level changes that constitute a large-scale transformation, an interdisciplinary regeneration framework was used as a theoretical lens in a critical realist thematic analysis of Ukrainian online news media. The findings show how the Ukrainian tourism system transformed itself, in order to survive, changing both its structure and functions. The new functions extended beyond recreation to include humanitarian efforts, rehabilitation, community and nation building, which helped to establish tourism's essential and distinctive contribution to the country's larger social-ecological system. The empirical application of regeneration theory contributes to the knowledge of large-scale tourism transformations with patterns, such as scaling down for regrouping, strengthening of relationships with other systems, and the decentralised cumulative actions of small tourism actors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103856"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142445390","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 experience of migrant entrepreneurs in destinations: A cognitive dissonance perspective","authors":"Lan Xue, Haitao Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103849","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103849","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While the experience of migrant entrepreneurs has been a well-studied topic in the tourism field, less attention has been paid to their evolving feelings and perceptions. In this study, we employed the theory of cognitive dissonance to guide a qualitative examination of the perceptions of being a guesthouse owner in Lijiang, China. We found that migrant guesthouse owners experienced cognitive dissonance between their actual feelings and their expected or desired way of living as migrant entrepreneurs. Those who managed to keep their status utilized a variety of strategies to resolve their feelings of dissonance. This study contributes to a better understanding of the experience of migrant entrepreneurs in tourist destinations and provides implications for both migrants and destination managers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103849"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142445391","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":"‘Yanhuo Chi’: An everyday aesthetic tourism experience","authors":"Jingjing Hu , Li Miao , Ting Jiang , Chunlin Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103850","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103850","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><em>‘Yanhuo Chi’</em> (烟火气), rooted in Chinese culture, symbolizes the aesthetically rich atmosphere of everyday life. This study conceptualizes <em>Yanhuo Chi</em> as a unique everyday tourism experience, expanding the boundaries of the ‘everyday’ in <em>Everyday Aesthetics</em> to include non-routine settings like tourism. By integrating Eastern <em>Living Aesthetics</em> with Western <em>Everyday Aesthetics</em>, it enriches the discourse and challenges Western ideological frameworks in tourism aesthetics studies. The research also broadens borderline aesthetic experiences by identifying diverse aesthetic tensions within tourists' <em>Yanhuo Chi</em> experiences. This phenomenological exploration reveals how <em>Yanhuo Chi</em> offers a nuanced understanding of aesthetic experiences in tourism, contributing to a more inclusive and culturally diverse appreciation of everyday aesthetics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103850"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142432921","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}