Tourism ManagementPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105169
Manuel Alector Ribeiro , Issahaku Adam , Albert Nsom Kimbu , Frederick Dayour , Ogechi Adeola , Tembi M. Tichaawa
{"title":"Resilience in uncertainty: The impact of coping strategies on tourism entrepreneurs’ subjective well-being in sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Manuel Alector Ribeiro , Issahaku Adam , Albert Nsom Kimbu , Frederick Dayour , Ogechi Adeola , Tembi M. Tichaawa","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105169","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105169","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how tourism entrepreneurs of Micro, Small, and Medium enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa (SAA) coped with environmental uncertainties during COVID-19 and the impact on their resilience and subjective well-being (SWB). Using a mixed-methods approach, we combined quantitative survey data from 844 participants and 23 in-depth qualitative interviews in Ghana and Nigeria. Findings reveal that environmental uncertainty triggers problem-focused coping, which significantly enhances resilience and SWB. Conversely, emotion-focused coping shows no significant relationship with uncertainty, indicating a unique response pattern in these contexts. Entrepreneurial team efficacy plays a crucial moderating role in the relationship between coping strategies, resilience, and SWB. While COVID-19 served as the primary context, the findings offer a broader perspective on how entrepreneurs navigate diverse environmental uncertainties in volatile, resource-scarce environments. These findings contribute to a contextualised understanding of entrepreneurial behaviour in <span>SSA</span> and provide practical implications for enhancing entrepreneur support systems in turbulent times.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 105169"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535288","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}
Tourism ManagementPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105170
Hongwei Liu , Chongyang Wang , Henry Tsai
{"title":"Enhancing tourism carbon emission efficiency through industry agglomeration: Evidence from China","authors":"Hongwei Liu , Chongyang Wang , Henry Tsai","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105170","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105170","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the impact of tourism industry agglomeration (TIA) on regional tourism carbon emission efficiency (TCE) across 30 Chinese provinces from 2008 to 2019. A game cross-efficiency model is applied to measure TCE, while a spatial Durbin model and a geographically and temporally weighted regression model are used to analyze the spatial spillover effect and spatial-temporal heterogeneity of TIA on TCE, respectively. The results reveal the following: first, an inverted U-shaped non-linear relationship exists between TIA and TCE, with TIA levels in one region also affecting TCE in neighboring regions; second, locally TIA exhibits spatially heterogeneous effects on TCE across the 30 provinces. These findings provide valuable insights into the spatial dynamics and inter-regional impacts of TIA on TCE.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 105170"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535287","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}
Tourism ManagementPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105165
Xueying (Linda) Lin , IpKin Anthony Wong , Veronica Hoi In Fong
{"title":"Building ingenuity in tourism organizations during crises","authors":"Xueying (Linda) Lin , IpKin Anthony Wong , Veronica Hoi In Fong","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105165","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105165","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourism organizations inevitably encounter adversities, which impose numerous constraints that demand innovation. Building organizational ingenuity—the ability to develop innovative solutions within constraints using limited resources—has emerged as a core strategic issue in crisis management. This research employed a multi-case study design, using the COVID-19 crisis as the research context to examine the process of developing organizational ingenuity under severe environmental stress. Drawing on the dynamic capabilities view, we propose a processual ingenuity-building model that illustrates how travel agencies address crisis-induced constraints by leveraging dynamic capabilities of sensing, seizing, and transforming. This study sheds light on the development of organizational ingenuity during crises, offering a new perspective on the relationship between crisis and innovation. Moreover, it provides insights into how dynamic capabilities can facilitate innovation in crisis management. It also offers theoretical guidelines, along with specific ingenious practices, to help tourism organizations adapt to change and gain competitive advantages in extreme circumstances.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 105165"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535242","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}
Tourism ManagementPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105163
Youlin Huang , Lixian Qian , Huiying Tu
{"title":"When social media exposure backfires on travel: The role of social media–induced travel anxiety","authors":"Youlin Huang , Lixian Qian , Huiying Tu","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The tourism literature suggests that viewing others' tourism experiences on social media promotes one's travel intention. However, by introducing and validating social media–induced travel anxiety (i.e., feelings of worry, unease, or nervousness about one's travel experiences induced by seeing others' tourism experience on social media), we tell a different story. Drawing on cognitive appraisal theory, using a qualitative thematic analysis and a quantitative survey, we reveal that exposure to idealized tourism presentations (such as selective self-presentation and modified travel photos) and information overload trigger social media–induced travel anxiety, which reduces travel intention. Moreover, social comparison sensitivity strengthens the indirect negative influence of exposure to idealized tourism presentations on travel intention, and the direct positive effect of the exposure on social media–induced travel anxiety. We contribute to understanding and managing social media–induced travel anxiety, via which social media platforms and destination marketers could improve users' experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 105163"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143535241","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}
Tourism ManagementPub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105160
Shuang Geng, Rui Wang, Yuqin He, Nan Yang, Ben Niu, Yuanyue Feng, Xiaoyu Miao
{"title":"Exploring signal congruence: How marketer- and user-generated content congruence influences review sharing","authors":"Shuang Geng, Rui Wang, Yuqin He, Nan Yang, Ben Niu, Yuanyue Feng, Xiaoyu Miao","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Consumers' review sharing on review-hosting platforms provides crucial information for subsequent users. However, the content generated by marketers and users may convey incongruent information, potentially confusing readers. This study aims to operationalize the sub-dimensions of the signal congruence from two perspectives: semantic similarity and linguistic style matching, and investigate their heterogeneous effects on subsequent users' review sharing. Drawing on the signalling theory and heuristic-systematic model, we examine the impact of signal congruence on various characteristics of subsequent users' review, including review entropy, length, linguistic complexity, readability, and two-sidedness. Additionally, we investigate the moderating role of subsequent reviewer's platform activeness. Using a real-world dataset, our empirical analysis results indicate that semantic similarity positively affects subsequent review entropy, length, readability, while negatively impacting linguistic complexity. Conversely, linguistic style matching negatively influences review entropy, length, two-sidedness, and positively influences linguistic complexity. Their influences are amplified when the subsequent reviewer exhibits higher platform activeness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 105160"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508237","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}
Tourism ManagementPub Date : 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105162
Ayse Sengoz , Tarik Dogru (Dr True) , Makarand Mody , Cem Isik
{"title":"Guiding the path to sustainable tourism development: Investigating the role of tour guides within a social exchange theory paradigm","authors":"Ayse Sengoz , Tarik Dogru (Dr True) , Makarand Mody , Cem Isik","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tour guides are essential to the tourism industry, acting as leaders, mediators, and facilitators of socio-cultural, economic, and environmental exchanges. Beyond enhancing tourist experiences, they play a pivotal role in sustainability by educating tourists, promoting conservation, and encouraging industry adoption of sustainable practices. While existing research acknowledges these roles, it lacks a systematic understanding of how tour guides function within multi-stakeholder systems to drive sustainable tourism development. This study addresses this gap by applying Social Exchange Theory (SET) to examine how tour guides foster reciprocity, trust, mutual benefit, and power balance among tourists, local communities, industry actors, and policymakers. Through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 15 state-certified tour guides in Turkey, the study develops a novel conceptual framework that reconceptualizes tour guides as central agents of multilateral social exchanges in sustainable tourism. By extending SET beyond traditional dyadic interactions, this research advances theoretical discourse on tourism intermediation and provides practical insights for leveraging tour guides’ influence in sustainability efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 105162"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508288","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}
Tourism ManagementPub Date : 2025-02-25DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105164
Josip Mikulić , Regina M. Baumgärtner
{"title":"Google Trends and Baidu index data in tourism demand forecasting: A critical assessment of recent applications","authors":"Josip Mikulić , Regina M. Baumgärtner","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The application of search query (SQ) data in tourism demand forecasting is an intriguing area of ongoing research. The present research note aims to (i) critically examine recent studies from leading tourism journals using SQ data for demand forecasting, (ii) synthesize the prevailing key problems, limitations and challenges in the studies, and (iii) provide recommendations emerging from the critical assessment of literature to help improve the quality of future SQ-data-based tourism forecasting research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 105164"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143480496","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}
Tourism ManagementPub Date : 2025-02-25DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105159
Xiaoxian Ji , Chunhong Li , Rob Law , Xianwei Liu
{"title":"Profile image album management and users’ online sharing behavior","authors":"Xiaoxian Ji , Chunhong Li , Rob Law , Xianwei Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105159","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105159","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing importance of profile image highlights the development of a new platform feature—the profile image album—for consumers to conduct strategic visual impression management. Based on a dataset containing 3,296,295 reviews posted by 42,700 Yelpers and their profile image albums, this study illustrates a positive relationship between profile images and sharing efforts. Furthermore, as proxies of the tactics of human-centric information disclosure and facial self-presentation, human and face images positively moderate the effectiveness of the album in facilitating voluntary contributions. Particularly, consumers who predominantly feature themselves alone, or who often display large smiles, tend to put additional effort into sharing online. Theoretical and practical implications are drawn from the results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 105159"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143478810","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":"Transforming intangible cultural heritage in destinations: A fashion communication perspective","authors":"Chaowu Xie , Feifei Lai , Jiangchi Zhang , Songshan (Sam) Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105161","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a key attraction for the development of tourist destinations, but few studies have examined the popularization of ICH in destinations through the lens of fashion communication. This research pioneers the conceptualization of ICH fashion communication in tourist destinations. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, we identify and construct a theoretical framework of ICH fashion communication. Study 1 reveals that the fashion communication of ICH in tourist destinations follows a process framework of “fashion communication elements - fashion communication channels - fashion communication results,” involving six distinct constructs. Study 2 and Study 3 demonstrate that the fashion communication elements (fashion representation, fashion ontology, and fashion construction) significantly influence tourists’ fashion perception. Additionally, fashion communication channels (diffusion of exhibition spaces and participation of diverse groups) mediate the relationship between these elements and tourists’ fashion perception. This research enhances the theoretical understanding of ICH communication and marketing in tourism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 105161"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143480495","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}
Tourism ManagementPub Date : 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105157
Ping Sun , Mingxuan Lyu , Hongbo Liu
{"title":"Can talented tour guides truly not be retained? Exploring the development of tour guides’ career resilience under stressful conditions","authors":"Ping Sun , Mingxuan Lyu , Hongbo Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105157","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105157","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tour guide turnover challenges the tourism sector, highlighting the need to enhance tour guides' career resilience to retain talent. Drawing on theory of stress and coping, we investigated the formation mechanisms and associated boundary conditions of tour guides' career resilience during times of stress through two studies. Study 1 employed partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to detect linear relationships between antecedent variables and career resilience. Results showed that deliberate (intrusive) rumination positively (negatively) impacted career resilience with self-leadership serving as a mediator. Perceived environmental uncertainty moderated rumination's impact on self-leadership, and family support moderated self-leadership's effect on career resilience. Study 2 utilized fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to gain deeper insights into self-leadership and uncover how its various dimensions contribute to career resilience in a nonlinear manner. Results revealed three configurations critical to career resilience, with constructive cognition being essential. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed in closing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 105157"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143444272","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}