Lin Li , Scott McCabe , Megan Burnett , Chunxiao Li
{"title":"Curating memories of a future past: Anticipated nostalgia, prospective memory and travel decisions","authors":"Lin Li , Scott McCabe , Megan Burnett , Chunxiao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourism often includes temporal dimensions due to time differences between booking and travel, leading to future imaginings and anticipations of both the journey and its positive outcomes upon returning home. Yet, we know little about the dynamic or bi-directional of these projection processes. This study introduces “anticipated nostalgia” to tourism research, revealing these bidirectional mental time-travel processes and their influence on tourist decision-making. Employing a constructivist cognitive framework and a grounded theory approach from psychology, our findings suggest that anticipated nostalgia acts as a cognitive heuristic, enhancing travel impulsivity, shaping prospective memories, and influencing proactive memory behaviors. We identify key factors influencing anticipated nostalgia, showing how prospective memory helps understand tourists' imaginative engagement with the future and therefore, decision-making processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104098"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145736364","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":"Social interaction and dark tourism in prison museums","authors":"Rachael Ironside , Brianna Wyatt , Craig Wight , Alona Roitershtein , Dirk vom Lehn","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104102","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104102","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores how prison tourism experiences are co-constructed through situated visitor interactions. Penal heritage sites are decommissioned prisons, transformed into immersive educational attractions, drawing upon multiple interpretative practices to engage visitors with historic and contemporary issues of crime and punishment. Using ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA), this research examines how gestures, talk, gaze and bodily position influence how visitors see, interpret, and emotionally negotiate difficult heritage. Findings reveal that visitors co-produce dark tourism experiences and negotiate the perceived darkness of sites through embodied practice. Situating visitors as active social agents, this study provides insights into the co-construction of dark tourism experiences, emphasising interpretation as an emergent process shaped by interaction rather than predetermined by site design or individual motivation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104102"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145736365","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":"A review of research into lifestyle mobilities and digital nomadism","authors":"Scott Cohen , Olga Hannonen","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lifestyle mobilities refers to ways of life oriented around ongoing geographic mobility. This article first provides a history of lifestyle mobilities and how it is analytically distinct. We turn to the state-of-the-art in lifestyle mobilities research through a focus on digital nomadism. Our emphasis is on lifestyle mobilities' relevance for tourism, its infrastructure and politicisation – via geopolitics, geoarbitrage and gentrification, and the need for greater research diversity. We map a future research agenda centred on tensions of transitioning out, precarity and emplacement. The article also launches the <em>Annals of Tourism Research</em> Curated Collection on lifestyle mobilities. The Collection contains all past articles published in <em>Annals of Tourism Research</em> on the topic, and continues to grow as new articles are added.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104067"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145570322","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}
Tin Doan , Luong Ta , Trong-Hop Cao , Mai Nguyen , Tom Baum
{"title":"Tour guides as climate change agents: Conceptualizing meaningful work through agency theory in precarious employment","authors":"Tin Doan , Luong Ta , Trong-Hop Cao , Mai Nguyen , Tom Baum","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper addresses the mediating role of tour guides in educating tourists in climate sensitive regions. This role can be crucial in educating tourists about climate change and promoting environmentally responsible behaviour. However, tour guides frequently work under precarious employment conditions, such as freelancers, casual workers, or task-based labourers, which offer limited job security, benefits, or formal employment rights. Climate sensitivity offers opportunity to add meaning to work that tour guides undertake. Employing agency theory, this study addresses the gap in understanding how tour guides find meaning in their work as climate change advocates through indepth interviews with 43 casual-work tour guides. Findings reveal tour guides in climate-sensitive regions find significant meaning in their work as climate change advocates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104101"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789624","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":"Does ‘the real’ matter? Technological affordances and Generation Z’s experience of authenticity in heritage games","authors":"Xin Huang , Yong Yang , Siming Liu , Jing Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104112","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital technologies are transforming heritage experiences, raising questions about how authenticity is dynamically experienced and constructed in virtual environments. Drawing on the emergent authenticity phase model and affordance theory, this study examines the <em>Digital Library Cave</em> game through in-depth interviews with 30 Generation Z players. The findings reveal that authenticity is not static but a fluid process, wherein objective, constructive, and existential dimensions are activated and negotiated through technological affordances across pre-experience, in-situ, and post-experience phases. This study contributes to theory by extending the emergent authenticity model to digital contexts, highlighting technological affordances as key mechanisms shaping authenticity, and revealing how Generation Z negotiates existential authenticity through social validation. These insights inform user-centered design and foster intergenerational engagement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104112"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145883700","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 moral positions taken towards zoos and conservation","authors":"Georgiana Grigore , Mike Molesworth , Paul Baines","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104074","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The focus on supporting conservation and encouraging related behaviours is changing the emotional experiences of zoos and related moral positions towards animal tourism. Drawing on Haidt's moral emotions and theories of moral judgement, we interpret depth-interviews with zoo stakeholders to theorise four moral positions: the renunciation of captivity to protect animal rights; acts of propitiation that gesture towards a nature that has been harmed; the vindication of animal captivity through arguments about education and species preservation; and valediction through visits to endangered species and habitats as inspiration for conservation. These positions highlight the need for zoos to consider a moral emotion-behaviour gap as part of their conservation work.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104074"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145616051","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 digital nomad gaze: Ethnographic insights from Chiang Mai","authors":"Dave Cook , Olga Hannonen","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104066","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This ethnographic study explores how digital nomads' engagement with a destination reshapes the traditional tourist gaze. This study uses Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a research case, through ethnographic observations and interviews with digital nomads and locals. The results show that the digital nomads' way of gazing includes the perception and anticipation of a destination as work- and productivity-friendly with required infrastructure, likeminded community with an exotic locale as a background and potential for recreational cultural activities. The study uncovers the paradox of the digital nomad gaze—although digital nomads seek deeper cultural involvement, their focus on productivity often hinders genuine engagement with the local environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104066"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145616052","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}
Sara Dolnicar , Giampaolo Viglia , Fidan Kurtaliqi
{"title":"Field experiments: Overcoming the limitations of survey experiments for actionable behavioural insights","authors":"Sara Dolnicar , Giampaolo Viglia , Fidan Kurtaliqi","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Historically, one-off cross-sectional survey studies have dominated empirical research in tourism and hospitality. The inability to draw causal conclusions from such data has led to an increased uptake of survey experiments, which are easy and affordable to conduct and can identify causal relationships between constructs under controlled conditions. Survey experiments, however, have a severe limitation: they do not provide insights into real behaviour, restricting researchers' ability to generate actionable insights and reliable practical recommendations. This article offers a systematic comparison of three approaches (one-off cross-sectional survey studies, survey experiments, and field experiments) and provides step-by-step guidance on the design and implementation of field experiments and quasi-experimental field studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104080"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145684181","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":"Collective actions for sustainable tourism innovation","authors":"Jose Melenez-Roman , Xavier Font","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study shows how stakeholder interactions, and formal and informal rules drive sustainability innovation through collective action. We use the Institutional Analysis and Development framework to assess the capacity of tourism stakeholders to engage in sustainability innovations. Drawing on a multistage qualitative data collection process, including interviews and workshops, we comparatively analyze an existing sustainability innovation and a stakeholder-led, co-created innovation, testing ten design principles for management systems rooted in collective action and self-governance theories. We find that (i) incentives to free-ride accumulate over time, (ii) legitimacy enables institutional change in destinations, (iii) shared responsibility helps unveil interactions between stakeholders in managing tourism sustainability, and (iv) self-governing rules can help engage opposing stakeholders more democratically in sustainable destination management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104090"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145684260","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}