Nour El Alam , Arie Stoffelen , Leonieke Bolderman , Peter Groote
{"title":"Tourism metagovernance and the role of the state: Insights from post-blast Beirut","authors":"Nour El Alam , Arie Stoffelen , Leonieke Bolderman , Peter Groote","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103848","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103848","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the institutionalised interests and values that underpin tourism governance (i.e., tourism metagovernance), to explain why certain governance arrangements appear and how they function. We examined the redevelopment of Beirut's tourism-dependent Mar Mikhael and Gemmayze neighbourhoods in the aftermath of the 2020 port blast. The chaotic post-disaster setting reflected and amplified the ineffectiveness of the already existing, strongly intertwined, metagovernance of urban development and urban tourism in Beirut. The state's absence resulted in enhanced community vulnerability, uncoordinated donor-led disaster responses, and limited strategic rebuilding of tourism and cultural activities. Even when the state as a key governance intermediary is absent, its relational and institutional roles affect tourism metagovernance and, therefore, influence the resilience of tourism governance and development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103848"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142432922","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":"Tourism-industrial atmosphere and executive change: How can they impact firms? - A mixed context analysis study","authors":"Hui Li, Xi-Zhuo Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103847","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103847","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current context-turnover paradigm offers a theoretical understanding related to the influence of executive turnover, emphasizing the significance of the internal and physical factors. However, there is a lack of well-theorized and empirical evidence regarding the role of industrial atmosphere. We argue that tourism firms can time executive turnover to optimize its influence by referring to event-atmosphere context. We propose a context analytic approach to comprehensively investigate the aforementioned impacts, shaping an industrial context-turnover theory. Tourism firm performance after executive turnover is significantly moderated by the competitive and seasonal context of the tourism industry. Involuntary executive turnovers are particularly affected, compared to voluntary ones. Tourism-industrial atmosphere contributes significantly to foresee the consequence, and event-driven context forecasting accurately estimates the outcome.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103847"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142425845","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":"Online travel agency or blockchain-based platform?","authors":"Guang-Xin Gao , Jian-Wu Bi","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103846","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103846","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Online travel agency has been used by most hotels to attract customers. However, hefty commissions and unverified reviews reduce hotels' cooperation intentions. Armed with unique advantages, blockchain-based platforms with higher blockchain-adoption costs can alternatively offer peer-to-peer booking service. This paper investigates the hotels' choice strategies on online travel platforms, blockchain-adoption conditions, and effects of blockchain-based platform. The results show that marginal blockchain cost, commission rate and customers' perceived distrust value of online reviews have great influence on the hotels' decisions. Although blockchain-based platforms can create win-win situations for hotel(s) and customers, they are not widely available as it is considered imperfect and costly. Alarmingly, there exists an invalidation effect of online travel platforms in a competitive market, resulting in non-equilibrium.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103846"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142425844","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}
Jinah Park , Richard T.R. Qiu , Xiaoying Jiao , Haiyan Song
{"title":"Reference-dependence in multi-destination choice: A heterogeneous reference point perspective","authors":"Jinah Park , Richard T.R. Qiu , Xiaoying Jiao , Haiyan Song","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103845","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103845","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Destination choice in multi-destination trips is crucial for understanding tourists' preferences, predicting tourism demand and flow, and fostering collaborative opportunities between destinations. This study utilises prospect theory to examine how tourists select a stop within a multi-destination trip and to explore the role of other chosen stops' attributes as a reference point when tourists plan their itinerary. The results reveal dynamic perceptions of gains and losses relative to reference points that vary across individual characteristics and destination attributes. Additionally, heterogeneity is revealed in tourists' reference-dependent patterns, which can be categorised as immediate- and delayed-gratification reference dependencies. These findings contribute to the destination choice discourse by proposing new directions for comprehending tourists' heterogeneous reference dependencies and attitudes in sequential destination choices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103845"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142425843","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 emergence of authenticity: Phases of tourist experience","authors":"Jillian Rickly, Brendan Canavan","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103844","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103844","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using the philosophy of critical realism, this article conceptualizes authenticity as a process of emergence to address the question: What makes authenticity possible? This envisions distinct authenticity phases, which are episodic, non-linear, and porous, accompanied by external triggers and internal processes that manifest before, during, and after travel, as perceived in relation to or activated by tourist experiences. Thus, pre-, proto-, in-situ, and post-authenticity phases are outlined and supported by current literature. In doing so, this article situates our current thinking about authenticity, which often foregrounds in-situ experience, within a broader understanding of its relationality to our social worlds beyond destinations. Finally, this approach offers new research avenues that emphasise the on-going emergent nature of authenticity over time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103844"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357416","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":"Destruction of heritage, community and anthropomorphism","authors":"Damien Chaney , Pascal Brassier","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103839","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103839","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The article investigates the community effects of the destruction of heritage. Drawing on the literature on anthropomorphism, we define heritage anthropomorphism as the tendency of attributing a heritage site not only human-like physical features, qualities and behaviors, but also superhuman characteristics. Through a social network and thematic analysis on the Notre-Dame cathedral fire which is perceived as the death of a human, we show that its destruction gave rise to an active virtual community of mourners, bringing together tourists, locals, officials and managers like a funeral procession. The findings also reveal different forms of grief in the conversations which include shock and denial, anger and sadness, questioning life, memory sharing and recovery.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103839"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323535","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":"Nudging with colors to promote electric vehicle rentals","authors":"Wai Ching Wilson AU , Pearl M.C. LIN , Fiona CHI","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103843","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103843","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The symbolic meaning of colors plays a crucial role in individual decision-making. Two experiments were conducted to explore how color influences tourists' rental decisions of electric vehicles. The first study employs a 3 (color hue) × 3 (color lightness) experimental design and analyses 300 responses to reveal that light-green and light-blue vehicles were perceived as most environmentally friendly. The second study conducts a single-factor scenario-based experiment with 600 participants. Light-green vehicles enhance perceived environmental friendliness and encourage rentals, while light-blue vehicles reduce decision-making time by evoking mental imagery. This research is innovative in applying color-based nudges into the context of sustainable self-driving tourism, contributing to nudging theory and color psychology. The findings help tourism businesses make electric vehicles more appealing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103843"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323536","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}
Chee Seng Cheong, Shangyi Gao, Pide Lun, George Mihaylov, Ralf Zurbruegg
{"title":"Biodiversity and the performance of tourism firms","authors":"Chee Seng Cheong, Shangyi Gao, Pide Lun, George Mihaylov, Ralf Zurbruegg","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103842","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103842","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103842"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323537","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}
Mengyao Ren , Yang Xu , Sangwon Park , Xiao Huang , Mengqi Sun , Jizhe Xia , Sun-Young Koh
{"title":"Consumer spending during COVID-19 in a tourism city","authors":"Mengyao Ren , Yang Xu , Sangwon Park , Xiao Huang , Mengqi Sun , Jizhe Xia , Sun-Young Koh","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103830","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103830","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Leveraging large-scale transaction data, this study quantifies the impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on the spending behavior of both residents and domestic inbound travelers in Jeju, Korea. Findings reveal that both local and national COVID-19 situations significantly affected the spending behavior of both groups. Residents were more sensitive to local cases, while travelers were equally affected by local and national cases. Social distancing minimally impacted resident spending but caused over 20 % reductions in traveler spending. Stimulus payments boosted spending by over 10 % for residents without diminishing the effects of social distancing. Despite the overall benefit of these combined policies, certain economic sectors benefited notably while others suffered, thus leaving them with varying fates during and after the pandemic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103830"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142314870","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":"Tourism demand forecasting using short video information","authors":"Mingming Hu , Na Dong , Fang Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103838","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103838","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Based on short video information, this study extracted two explanatory variables, popularity and publicity, to empirically forecast weekly tourism demand for a destination (Macao) and a tourist attraction (Mount Siguniang, China). Results indicated that 1) models integrating the popularity or publicity of short videos outperform models without these attributes in tourism demand forecasting; 2) compared with popularity, models featuring publicity from short videos can generate more accurate forecasts; 3) models combining publicity and popularity do not necessarily exceed the performance of models including only publicity; and 4) when models account for search queries as well as publicity, search queries help improve forecasting accuracy for tourist attractions (this positive impact does not apply to destinations).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 103838"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270905","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}