Machiel Lamers , Nathalie A. Steins , Linde van Bets
{"title":"Combining polar cruise tourism and science practices","authors":"Machiel Lamers , Nathalie A. Steins , Linde van Bets","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103794","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Polar tourism is continuously diversifying in order to provide unique experiences to travellers. One of the ways in which this currently happens is by increasingly integrating scientific activities into tourism expedition cruises. While there are mutual benefits of combining science and tourism, this does not mean that the production of joint expeditions is seamless and unproblematic. We apply a practice theory approach to analyse the practical and organisational implications of combining tourism and science practices during two enactments, with a seven-year's interval, of the unique Scientific Expedition Edgeøya Svalbard (SEES), organised by The Netherlands. Our results demonstrate that irregularly organised combinations of different sets of practices require higher levels of adaptivity, communicability and reflectivity to be reproduced successfully.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103794"},"PeriodicalIF":13.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738324000719/pdfft?md5=939366eb7c2e8c1e7fbd39784d63e70d&pid=1-s2.0-S0160738324000719-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141240710","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":"Enhancing tourism demand forecasting with a transformer-based framework","authors":"Xin Li , Yechi Xu , Rob Law , Shouyang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103791","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study introduces an innovative framework that harnesses the most recent transformer architecture to enhance tourism demand forecasting. The proposed transformer-based model integrates the tree-structured parzen estimator for hyperparameter optimization, a robust time series decomposition approach, and a temporal fusion transformer for multivariate time series prediction. Our novel approach initially employs the decomposition method to decompose the data series to effectively mitigate the influence of outliers. The temporal fusion transformer is subsequently utilized for forecasting, and its hyperparameters are meticulously fine-tuned by a Bayesian-based algorithm, culminating in a more efficient and precise model for tourism demand forecasting. Our model surpasses existing state-of-the-art methodologies in terms of forecasting accuracy and robustness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103791"},"PeriodicalIF":13.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141242964","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}
Shanshi Li , Huiling Huang , Xinyu Liu , Zhenyu Chen
{"title":"The power of visuals in destination advertising","authors":"Shanshi Li , Huiling Huang , Xinyu Liu , Zhenyu Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103790","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Tourism ads that feature human images have a significant impact on consumers' attitudes and decision-making processes. However, little is known about the relative effectiveness of tourism ads that portray models in candid versus posed stances. To address this gap, this study applies the narrative transportation theory and utilizes a mixed-method approach to examine the influence of modeling style (posed vs. candid) on destination advertising effectiveness. The findings from an eye-tracking experiment, a semi-structured interview, and three online experiments reveal that candid models outperform posed models in generating favorable consumer responses within the context of destination advertising. Furthermore, this study elucidates narrative transportation as the psychological mechanism underlying such effects. However, the superiority of candid models over posed models is observed specifically in nature-based destinations rather than urban destinations. This research provides important theoretical and managerial implications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103790"},"PeriodicalIF":13.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141094951","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":"Influence of awe on tourism activity preferences","authors":"Fangxuan (Sam) Li , Qianqian Su","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103793","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims to explore the influence of awe on decision-making regarding tourism activities based on construal level theory. We conducted four scenario-based online experiments with potential tourists in August and December 2023 and a field experiment involving actual tourists in November 2023. Our findings revealed that awe elicits tourists' preferences for challenging rather than relaxing tourism activities (i.e., the main effect) and that construal level is a potential mediator. Additionally, this research examined the moderating role of message appeal and found that the main effect was stronger when combined with an abstract rather than a concrete message appeal. Practically, these findings suggest that matching tourists' awe with message appeal is an effective strategy for promoting challenging tourism activities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103793"},"PeriodicalIF":13.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141094952","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}
Giulia Rossetti , Allan Jepson , Valentina E. Albanese
{"title":"Food festivals and well-being: Extending the PERMA model","authors":"Giulia Rossetti , Allan Jepson , Valentina E. Albanese","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103772","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scholars are calling for more studies on short and long-term well-being outcomes of festival tourism, especially in different cultural settings. This interdisciplinary study applies Seligman's PERMA model to two food festivals in Italy and England. Findings illustrate how food festivals foster visitors' well-being and reveal which PERMA domains provide the greatest impact for participants. The theoretical contribution is the creation of a new conceptual framework of festival tourism well-being outcomes. The framework expands the PERMA model and shows the different pathways and factors that can help promote well-being. This is informed by the empirical contribution, which is the application of PERMA in a relatively new context of study: food festival tourism.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103772"},"PeriodicalIF":13.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738324000495/pdfft?md5=68342e3f56d036155f4ea51ae713b602&pid=1-s2.0-S0160738324000495-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140950580","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":"Temporal variation in children's reactions to tourism advertisement","authors":"Mimi Li , Ningning Xing , Guyang Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103766","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study adopts a neuroscientific approach to explore children's real-time emotional experiences in responses to tourism advertisements with different valences. Sixty children were exposed to three high-positive valence and three low-positive valence tourism advertisements while their brain waves were collected via an electroencephalogram (EEG). Dynamic emotional trajectories of frontal alpha asymmetry, a neural indicator representing a person's positive emotions, were extracted from EEG data using time-frequency analysis. Children's emotions on five key moments (i.e., peak, end, beginning, trough, and middle) were analyzed. Results show that the high-positive valence videos resulted in higher asymmetry scores in middle moments rather in other moments. Moreover, gender and age could partially moderate the impact of video valence on asymmetry scores in middle moments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103766"},"PeriodicalIF":13.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140950743","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":"Stablecoins: New perspectives for travel and tourism","authors":"Viktor Manahov , Mingnan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103789","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103789"},"PeriodicalIF":13.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738324000665/pdfft?md5=e160b57a38a6cbd2bbe80ab1265be96e&pid=1-s2.0-S0160738324000665-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140950755","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 rhythm-making of an island destination community","authors":"Senyao Sang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103775","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Taking Baisha as a typical island tourism destination, the study explored how island tourism development affected islanders' lives and livelihood rhythms. The study also examined how islanders coped with the rhythmic changes. Findings showed the interrelations of rhythms on the island (tourism rhythm, islanders' life rhythms, traditional livelihood rhythms, and tourism livelihood rhythms). Findings confirm that tourism is embedded in the “old” rhythms of the island community. Further, islanders pursue the resonance of rhythms through rhythmic negotiations influenced by natural rhythm, top-down power discipline, and livelihood capacity. Study findings point to the influence of tourism seasonality on islanders' rhythmic sensations. Thus, the study suggests that island managers can enhance islanders' tourism participation by managing island rhythms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103775"},"PeriodicalIF":13.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844294","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}
Mang He , Jinghua Tu , Yaoqi Li , Jiachun Fang , Xinying Zeng
{"title":"Tourist preference for tourism product brand biographies","authors":"Mang He , Jinghua Tu , Yaoqi Li , Jiachun Fang , Xinying Zeng","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103773","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Tourism product brand biographies are crucial for establishing meaningful emotional connections between tourists and destinations through tourism products. Using three experiments conducted in China, including one field experiment and two laboratory experiments, this study aims to investigate the impact of brand biographies of tourism products on tourist preference and uncover the underlying mechanisms. The findings indicated underdog brand biographies, as opposed to top-dog, exerted a more positive effect on tourists' purchase intention and actual choices. Furthermore, tourist empathy and identification functioned as dual parallel mediators. By examining the effectiveness of brand strategy marketing through the lens of brand biography, this study enriches the literature on tourism product branding. Additionally, practitioners are encouraged to improve tourist preference through underdog brand biographies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103773"},"PeriodicalIF":13.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140815236","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}