Carla Estefanía Samaniego-Chávez , Fangfang Shi , Takhir Khamidullin
{"title":"What makes online tours authentic? A semiotic analysis","authors":"Carla Estefanía Samaniego-Chávez , Fangfang Shi , Takhir Khamidullin","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While authenticity has been extensively examined in physical tourism, its construction in online spaces remains under-researched. This netnographic study analyzes the social construction of authenticity in live-streamed museum visits, covering 369 tours, 1935 video frames, and 61,000 viewer comments from Prado Museum's Instagram tours. The findings reveal that authenticity in virtual museum experiences emerges through distinct cues. Real-time interactions, material evidence, and human presence function as indexical cues validating museum reality. Prop objects and performative events serve as iconic cues, enhancing experiential authenticity. Language, institutional practices, and recognizable artifacts operate as symbolic cues fostering heritage connections and cultural resonance. This study advances our understanding of authenticity in technology-mediated experiences, offering insights into the online engagement of cultural institutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 104018"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144893849","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":"Knowledge transfer: The dynamics of intangible heritage","authors":"Shiqin Zhang , Musha Shi , Jinglin Liao","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The protection and transmission of intangible cultural heritage is essential yet contentious, particularly in the context of tourism. This study moved beyond the traditional debates on tourism's role in heritage protection and transmission by investigating the underlying dynamics through a knowledge transfer perspective. Based on longitudinal data collection and qualitative content analysis, the results indicated that the knowledge transfer process of Grand Song has shifted from an internal, culture-oriented three-stage process to an outward, business-oriented four-stage process following tourism development. This transformation was driven by a four-dimensional mechanism. The study broadens the theoretical scopes of knowledge transfer and tourism impact on intangible cultural heritage while offering practical insights for advancing its protection and transmission in a tourism context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 104015"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144878983","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":"Music films and videos as recolonizing media in tourism","authors":"Rich Harrill , Leonardo (Don) A.N. Dioko , Omid Oshriyeh","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is growing awareness within social science that colonization is neither permanent nor complete, with the forces of colonization, decolonization, and recolonization spatially and temporally overlapping. Selective recolonization is evidenced in cultural appropriations and colonial nostalgia as described by diasporic authors such as V.S. Naipaul. However, examples of oppositional gaze are also evident in music films and videos ranging from Billie Holliday's “Strange Fruit” to Childish Gambino's “This Is America.” Artificial intelligence, streaming technologies, and destination images offer a potent synthesis that can undermine decolonization. We assert that the critical pragmatism of Habermas and Dewey can be used to identify and evaluate manifestations of selective recolonization, the oppositional gaze they engender, and how both infuse contemporary travel and tourism discourses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 104010"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144878982","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}
Jungkeun Kim , Jeong Hyun Kim , Daniel Chaein Lee , Tae Hyun Baek , Changju Kim , Seongseop (Sam) Kim
{"title":"Political ideology and variety seeking in travel choices","authors":"Jungkeun Kim , Jeong Hyun Kim , Daniel Chaein Lee , Tae Hyun Baek , Changju Kim , Seongseop (Sam) Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the significance of political ideology in shaping consumer behavior, its impact on tourism studies remains unexplored. This study aimed to investigate how tourists' political orientation influences variety seeking in travel decisions, such as selecting destinations or activities at a destination. Four experimental studies revealed the significant moderating effect of decision type on the impact of political ideology on variety-seeking tendencies. Specifically, conservative travelers exhibited stronger variety-seeking (across various subcategories) when required to select a fixed number of options from multiple choices, as in <em>pick-N</em> decisions. Conversely, liberal travelers demonstrated greater variety-seeking when choosing options without a fixed total, as in <em>pick-any</em> decisions. These results provide new academic and managerial insights, contributing to a better understanding of the role of political tendencies in the context of travel decision-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 104011"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144866641","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":"Optimal tourism taxation with labor market distortions","authors":"Shinya Kawahara","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates optimal tourism taxation in the presence of labor market distortions. Constructing a general equilibrium model where the government imposes a labor income tax and a tourism tax to finance a fixed amount of public spending, we examine the welfare effect of a revenue-neutral increase in tourism tax starting from the first-best level with no labor market distortions. We show that if the foreign tourist’s demand is highly elastic, then the tourism tax reform exacerbates labor market distortions, and hence decreases overall welfare. We also show that if the reform starts from the situation in which no tourism tax is imposed initially, then it has no harmful spillover effect on the labor market, and hence improves welfare.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 104001"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144830139","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 impact of war on tourism: A synthetic control and causal configuration analysis","authors":"Peng Hu, Derek D. Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study scrutinizes the causal impacts of 115 armed conflicts on tourism demand in 16 countries using the synthetic control method. Results show differential impacts of conflicts across the countries. Nine countries experienced significant tourism disruptions, with an average loss of 45 % in tourist arrivals and 57 % in tourism receipts. Negative effects could persist for up to five years, or even longer, post-conflict. Conversely, seven countries showed no discernable tourism changes. We investigate the causal pathways behind the differential impacts of wars through fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. We find that negative effects ensued under the condition of a sufficient number of attraction sites in the affected country coupled with either short distances to conflict zones or high conflict frequency and intensity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 104014"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144830138","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":"Keeping it real? Authenticity and well-being at work","authors":"Joseph Mellors , Tania Gaspar","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 104012"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144809987","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 language models in tourism research: Support, substitution, or something else?","authors":"Josip Mikulić","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 104003"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144772439","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}