Ariel Zoltán Mitev , Lívia Pintér-Szabó , Anna Irimiás
{"title":"Overcoming energy barriers in hotels' green programs","authors":"Ariel Zoltán Mitev , Lívia Pintér-Szabó , Anna Irimiás","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104061","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104061","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy barriers -organisational inertia, staff resistance, employees' disengagement and lack of environmental awareness- often hinder hotels' green and prosocial initiatives. This paper explores the ways that can reinvigorate hotels' green programs and the managerial impulses that are essential for the long-term implementation. Using mixed methodology approach in our 18-month evidence-based action research, we investigate hotel guests' actual behaviour, explore how green programs can be maintained, and identify the actions affecting the uptake of the program to forgo daily room cleaning. Drawing upon warm glow and transition state theories, we determine when and how long-term green programs should be given ‘energy boosts’. We contribute to tourism research in showcasing how committed leadership and employees can take specific actions to overcome the energy barriers that can cause a green program to fail, and it also underscores the implications for situations in which management goals regularly face ‘energy barriers’ that must be overcome.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104061"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145527959","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 employment and evolving gender norms in Peru","authors":"Rosa Codina","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104045","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104045","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study draws on ethnographic research in the town of Pisac, Peru, to interrogate how tourism employment may enable Mestiza women to contest traditional gender norms around work and family. Adopting a decolonial feminist lens, it analyses how Iberian Catholic, colonially imposed gender and ethnic norms shape women's tourism labour experiences. Findings reveal that, while tourism often reinforces patriarchal norms, it also creates openings for resistance through women's financial authority in the household, redefinitions of domestic responsibility, and collective practices of mutual support. Women's roles remain ambivalent, as they both reproduce and contest patriarchal structures. This study contributes to understanding how colonially shaped gender and ethnic constructs influence women's capacities to challenge patriarchy through tourism work.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104045"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145332261","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 economics of destination cards","authors":"Sonia Messori , Alessandro Fedele , Paolo Figini","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Destination cards have been recognized as effective tools for promoting tourism destinations. However, their role as mechanisms for coordinating tourism service providers within the destination remains underexplored. We address this gap by developing an enriched version of the Hotelling price competition model to investigate the welfare effect of destination cards. We assume that a destination with two price-setting attractions and one complementary good (transportation) introduces a card offering discounts on attractions and free access to local transportation. We find that the card is welfare-improving, although it also alters the pricing strategy of the attractions and, under certain conditions, might reduce tourist surplus.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104036"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145118225","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":"Humanising algorithmic management systems","authors":"Brana Jianu , Iis P. Tussyadiah , Graham Miller","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study proposes that the humanisation of algorithmic management systems can emerge through the organisational sociomaterial dynamics, co-created through practice. Drawing on 30 semi-structured interviews with hospitality and algorithmic management stakeholders, and public documents analysis, we propose a framework of algorithmic management in hospitality workplaces as a sociomaterial accomplishment. We show that managerial and employee practices are performatively co-constituted with algorithmic affordances through ongoing sociomaterial enactments, configured by strategic modalities of (in)visibility. These visibility regimes actively structure conditions of power, influencing the extent to which algorithmic management is enacted as (de)humanising.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104021"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145027010","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":"Creation of a pseudo-language as spectacle: A critical study on the linguistic landscape of heritage tourism","authors":"Aiheng Zhang , Jia Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As an essential component of culture, the commodification of language is a prevalent yet underexplored topic in tourism studies. This article investigates the Dongba script of the Naxi ethnic group in Lijiang, Yunnan, China, illustrating how a religious script has been transformed into a “pseudo-language” from a critical heritage studies perspective. Employing multiple methods, it explores how ethnic languages become spectacles in tourism contexts, analyzes how World Heritage discourse influences local language policies and stakeholder practices, and discusses language's distinctive attributes as a tourism resource. The findings contribute to debates on authenticity in heritage tourism, enhance methodologies for examining linguistic landscapes, and advocate increased respect and safeguarding of minority languages in tourism research and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104019"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144917467","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":"Authenticity, ethnic restaurants and the wider impact of tourism research","authors":"Elena Chatzopoulou , Matthew Gorton","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104046"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145332259","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":"Reframing carrying capacity: A visitor-oriented approach","authors":"Dohyung Bang, SooCheong (Shawn) Jang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study proposes a novel approach to reframing tourism carrying capacity, emphasizing visitor utility as an independent dimension for destination management. To investigate how overtourism affects visitor utility, the study focuses on Venice, Italy—a destination currently suffering from overtourism. Utilizing visitor-generated content along with city-provided visitor and amenity data, the study estimates district-level visitor densities relative to geographical area, resident population, and tourism amenities and examines their effects on visitor sentiment. The results reveal an inverted U-shaped relationship between visitor density and sentiment, clearly distinguishing moderate crowding from overcrowding effects. Additionally, the findings highlight that these effects are particularly pronounced in Venice's historic center and among visitors with higher levels of social orientation and perception sensitivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104022"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145020332","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":"Markets in step, places out of breath: A temporal view of overtourism","authors":"Natàlia Ferrer-Roca , Jaume Guia","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104057","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104057"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145473974","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}