{"title":"Fast or slow? Exploring tourists' engagement inclination toward the pace of travel","authors":"Chunxiao Li, Yufan Yang, Hao Zhang, Zhihui Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103931","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103931","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, this study examines when and how tourists engage in slow-paced or fast-paced travel. Across six studies, the findings reveal that busyness (vs. less busyness) enhances willingness to engage in slow-paced (vs. fast-paced) travel, with the need for recovery mediating this relationship. Furthermore, the busyness effect is moderated by message framing and cultural background—but not by busyness valence. This research contributes novel insights into tourists' pace of travel and expands the theoretical understanding of busyness. The results offer market segmentation tools and actionable strategies for destination managers to align products with tourists' preferred pace.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103931"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143478707","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":"Relative deprivation in solving unfair customer reviews","authors":"Juan Liu , Runzhe Yu , Jing Li , Shijia Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103927","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103927","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although unfair negative customer reviews are gaining scholarly attention, research on addressing them to attract third-party customer support is in its infancy. This study assumes a social identity perspective in exploring how firms should respond to such reviews. Three experiments reveal several noteworthy findings: 1) perceived relative deprivation of third-party customers, arising from firms' responses to customer-generated unfair negative reviews, fosters support for firms; 2) group identification and empathy serially mediate this effect; and 3) emoji styles (aggressive vs. affiliative) represent a boundary condition of the impacts of perceived relative deprivation. These results enrich theories related to unfair customer reviews and emojis. This study also informs strategies to help tourism and hospitality firms manage unfair customer reviews.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103927"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143471573","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":"Hotels in contested spaces of America's gun culture","authors":"Leonardo (Don) A.N. Dioko , Frank Guo Juncheng , Rich Harrill","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103926","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103926","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study theorizes how America's hotel industry endures despite the country's divisive gun culture. Exactly how hotels flourish in contentious gun environments remains enigmatic because entrenched theories maintain that crime and gun violence inhibit tourism and hospitality industry performance. Using panel data spanning 11 years across 44 U.S. states, we examine levels of gun violence, mortality, firearm regulations, and their combined influence on hospitality organizations. Robust cross sectional time series estimation assessed their influence on nine hotel industry performance indicators. Findings reveal gun laws mitigate gun violence's impact on hotel industry performance but may, paradoxically, also diminish it. It appears America's discordant gun culture induces behavioural self-segmentation among travelers, compelling hotels to adapt and evolve as safe havens in contested spaces to thrive.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103926"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143454442","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 Lower Emissions Hotel Room: A consumer-driven and greenwashing-alert approach to making tourism more environmentally sustainable","authors":"Dorine von Briel, Sara Dolnicar","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103925","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103925"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143402740","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":"Reclaiming academia from the middle-ground illusion","authors":"Muhammad Sohaib Khaliq , Durre Shahwar","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103924","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103924","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103924"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143387315","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":"Role perception and role transition in tourist restoration","authors":"Yuxia Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103917","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103917","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Extensive research on restoring individuals' depleted physical and mental resources stemming from escalating societal pressures emphasizes the restoring and rejuvenating effects of away-ness, without elucidating the underlying mechanisms. Using semi-structured interviews, this study illustrates being away as a form of role transition, revealing that individuals are cognizant of their roles and the transitions they undergo when traveling. Central to tourist restoration is the transformation in role responses when individuals undertake tourism, encompassing shifts in social norms, interpersonal constraints, role obligations, and avenues for self-expression. Further, the study delves into the dynamic nature of the role-transition process, which is co-determined by two distinct categories of triggers operating in both the everyday and destination environments, as well as through rites of transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103917"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143351024","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":"Guest responses to anti-Airbnb graffiti","authors":"Dimitrios P. Stergiou , Anna Farmaki","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103919","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103919"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143169524","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":"To be or to write to be (cited): Is that the question?","authors":"Hakan Sezerel , Viachaslau Filimonau","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103916","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103916","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103916"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143169461","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}
Catheryn Khoo , Prachi Thakur , Mona Ji Hyun Yang , Jessica Mei Pung , Amanda Ting
{"title":"Body hair and booty calls: Conceptualising ‘empowered-ness’ in travel and tourism for solo female vanlifers","authors":"Catheryn Khoo , Prachi Thakur , Mona Ji Hyun Yang , Jessica Mei Pung , Amanda Ting","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103905","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103905","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study focuses on advancing the current discourse from women empowerment to ‘empowered-ness’ by conceptualising solo female vanlifers' bodies from travel reflections as a medium to redefine boundaries for socio-cultural norms. This study adopted a multi-faceted approach integrating social-networking-platform and ethnographic data to examine empowered-ness for women in prolonged mobility, and the role of empowered women's bodies in travel. 421 statements from 285 solo female vanlifers were collected through social-networking-platforms, and supplemented with synchronous longitudinal ethnographic data journalling solo female vanlife. The findings demonstrate that female empowered-ness through vanlife mobility manifests through independence from men, unconventional relationships, and risk-taking behaviour. This conceptual shift from empowerment to an ‘empowered’ framework is a contribution to solo female travel literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103905"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143169523","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}