Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Nadia Arfaoui, Sitara Karim, Weng Marc Lim
{"title":"Tourism market in turbulent times: evidence of asymmetric connectedness","authors":"Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Nadia Arfaoui, Sitara Karim, Weng Marc Lim","doi":"10.1080/13683500.2023.2274904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2274904","url":null,"abstract":"Tourism markets have faced significant challenges due to global geopolitical and economic events. This study aims to investigate the asymmetric connectedness across regional and country-level tourism markets. By employing a time–frequency-domain analysis informed by the efficient market hypothesis and modern portfolio theory, we construct connectedness networks for both regional and country-level markets. Our findings reveal a strong asymmetric connectedness in these markets, with negative return spillovers being particularly prominent during events such as the 9/11 attacks, London and Madrid bombings, the 2007–2009 global financial crisis, European debt crisis, Syrian and Libyan civil wars, the emergence of ISIS, and the COVID-19 outbreak. These insights offer valuable implications for stakeholders in regional and country-level tourism markets and suggest effective strategies for recovery and resilience.","PeriodicalId":51354,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Tourism","volume":"27 18","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135681291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting user engagement with textual, visual, and social media features for online travel agencies' Instagram post: evidence from machine learning","authors":"Hyunsang Son, Young Eun Park","doi":"10.1080/13683500.2023.2278087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2278087","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTBy utilizing supervised, unsupervised, and transfer learning techniques, the present article analyzes the entire three major online travel agencies’ Instagram posts (n = 6,083) to investigate which features contribute more to predicting the user engagement. Among 109 textual, visual, and social media post specific features that we initially extracted, we find the important features using the XGBoost algorithm and estimate the effects of each feature on user engagement (i.e. number of likes) using Negative Binomial regression. The results indicate that OTAs should emphasize the travel related emotion, luxurious, outdoorsy, and celebration in the post wordings in captions but should avoid the big words (words with more than six letters). In terms of images, it is recommended to use the image with fewer lines, fewer parallel lines, but more corners. For an Instagram message-delivering strategy, uploading a post during the evening is recommended.KEYWORDS: Transfer learningMachine learningInstagramOnline travel shoppingOnline travel agency (OTA) Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":51354,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Tourism","volume":"25 18","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135680903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retirement consumption puzzle in tourism: evidence from CHARLS","authors":"Yaoqi Li, Xinying Zeng, Mang He, Xinrui Wang","doi":"10.1080/13683500.2023.2278748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2278748","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTStudies have shown that tourism consumption is an effective way for active ageing by improving older adults’ well-being and quality of life. However, there is currently a literature gap on post-retirement tourism consumption. This study used the fuzzy regression discontinuity design to explore the changes in tourism consumption after retirement with a longitudinal database, China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. We found a retirement consumption puzzle in tourism consumption amongst older adults, as well as gender differences. Furthermore, the inhibition effect of retirement on tourism consumption of older people can be alleviated by strengthening family interaction, enhancing their participation in social activities and providing tourism products-based gender heterogeneity.KEYWORDS: Tourism consumptionretirement consumption puzzleactive ageingconstrainsregression discontinuityJEL: D1D12J26 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China: [grant no 72272158]; National Natural Science Foundation of China: [grant no 42371242]; National Social Science Fund of China: [grant no 22&ZD190]; Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province: [grant no 2021A1515012005].","PeriodicalId":51354,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Tourism","volume":"39 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135682720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crisis-driven shifts in resident pro-tourism behaviour","authors":"Fahimeh Hateftabar, S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh","doi":"10.1080/13683500.2023.2277905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2277905","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTEconomic crises significantly shape residents’ perceptions of tourism, impacting their pro- or anti-tourism behaviours. This study integrates social exchange theory and Weber's theory to explore how perceived economic crisis (PEC) influences residents’ prioritization of economic and non-economic values in tourism. Using multigroup analysis (MGA) in two historical Iranian destinations (Isfahan and Shiraz), we find that higher PEC levels correlate with more positive attitudes towards tourism and support for its growth. More importantly, the structural relationships among economic benefit, psychological empowerment, social empowerment, resident perception, and pro-tourism behaviour, differed across residents due to varying levels of PEC. These findings shed light on the nuanced interplay between PEC, residents’ perceptions, and pro-tourism behaviours.KEYWORDS: Pro-tourism development behavioureconomic crisissocial exchange theoryWeber’s theory of formal and substantive rationalitysustainable development Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":51354,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Tourism","volume":"17 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135684524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The trip from home to work: exploring how commuting stress impacts on tourism and hospitality employees’ work engagement","authors":"Xin Liu, Lijun Wu, Zhixi Huo, Yushuai Chen","doi":"10.1080/13683500.2023.2272019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2272019","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTExisting studies mainly discussed the various effects of family and work-related stress on tourism and hospitality employees, but the mechanism of a newly stress connecting home and work (i.e. commuting stress) on them is unknown. Drawing on affective events theory, this study aims to investigate how commuting stress impacts on tourism and hospitality employees’ work engagement. Further, the mediating role of unpleasant feelings and the moderating role of micro-break activities are also examined. A survey was completed by 379 employees in tourism and hospitality companies in China. The results showed that commuting stress was negatively related to work engagement, and unpleasant feelings played a partial mediating role. Micro-break activities significantly mitigated the relationship between unpleasant feelings and work engagement, such that the effect was weaker as micro-break activities increased. The mediating effect of unpleasant feelings was also moderated by micro-break activities. This research provides a new explanatory framework for the relationship between employee commuting stress and work engagement while also identifying a boundary condition among them. Our conclusions offer new directions for alleviating employee commuting stress.KEYWORDS: Commuting stresswork engagementunpleasant feelingsmicro-break activitiesaffective events theory Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThis research was supported by a grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72002050) awarded to Yushuai Chen, a grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72302099) awarded to Xin Liu and the grants from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 23JNQMX42) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2023M731312).","PeriodicalId":51354,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Tourism","volume":"56 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Souvenirs and place: suppliers’ perspectives","authors":"Linsi He, Dallen J. Timothy","doi":"10.1080/13683500.2023.2277391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2277391","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTCultural and creative products (CC products) are popular souvenirs in China. Most of them are mass-produced but are somewhat connected to place and represent certain elements of local culture. Tourism scholars usually ignore mass-produced souvenirs, which are often considered ‘banal’, ‘generic’, ‘inauthentic’ or ‘trashy’. Likewise, most souvenir studies are done from the perspective of consumers, yet suppliers’ perceptions of CC products can provide insight into souvenirs sold in the marketplace. Thus, this study explores suppliers’ perceptions of the role of place in souvenir production. Most study participants stressed the importance of place when designing CC products. Micro-innovation and homogenization emerged as important new themes. Micro-innovation is considered a good way to reduce homogenization – a common problem with mass-produced souvenirs.KEYWORDS: Souvenirsrepresentations of placemicro-innovationshomogenizationcultural and creative products AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to take this opportunity to thank all interviewees, for without their support and help, generously sharing their perceptions and understanding of this research topic, the study could not have been completed. A special thank you to Jack, Jim and Fiona, without whose help the lead author would not have been able to conduct fieldwork in company J, which deepened our understanding of the whole process of making CC products.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Interviewees from museums will be noted as (M), whereas interviewees from production companies will be noted as (PC).","PeriodicalId":51354,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Tourism","volume":"20 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135819372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between the everyday and the extraordinary: encounters in the wet market study tour","authors":"Jie Wu, Guojun Zeng, Shuru Zhong","doi":"10.1080/13683500.2023.2277906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2277906","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWith the blurring of boundaries between tourism and everyday life, research has increasingly focused on tourism activities occurring within daily life spaces. This paper explores various encounters in proximity tourism through a wet market study tour. It investigates how the mundane practice of ‘roaming through a wet market’ has evolved into tourism encounters that resonate with everyday life experiences. It found that firstly, the wet market, which is typically associated with everyday life, appears unfamiliar and alienating to young parents and children. This unfamiliarity serves as a prerequisite for its transformation from a commonplace activity to a tourist attraction. Secondly, tourism encounters can be created. Organizers intentionally create encounters through interactive activities, fostering difference-based interactions. Thirdly, the proximity tourism encounter can be understood as a process of (re)discovering the everyday and the nearby. Its impacts extend beyond the tourism space, influencing attitudes, practices, and reflections on self, family relationships, and the local environment. The study highlights the group dimension of encounters in family tourism and suggests a shift in encounter studies to focus on relational aspects. It calls for recognizing the interconnected relationship between tourism and everyday life.KEYWORDS: Wet marketstudy toureveryday lifeencounterproximity tourism Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Authorship contribution statementJie Wu: Conceptualization; Methodology; Formal Analysis; Writing – original draft; Writing – review & editing.Guojun Zeng: Conceptualization; Funding acquisition; Writing – original draft; Writing – review & editing; Supervision.Shuru Zhong: Conceptualization; Methodology; Data curation; Writing – original draft; Writing – review & editing.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant Nos. 41901164, 42071174].","PeriodicalId":51354,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Tourism","volume":"22 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135973127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resurgence in paradise: decoding the patterns of arrivals with different trip purposes in Hawaii’s post-pandemic tourism recovery","authors":"Xialu Liu, Kaveh Abhari, Wenjin Wang","doi":"10.1080/13683500.2023.2277903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2277903","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study provides a comprehensive investigation into the resurgence of Hawaii’s tourism industry following the COVID-19 pandemic, utilizing Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average models with intervention analysis. We conducted an in-depth analysis of Hawaii’s tourism data, encompassing the volume of domestic arrivals and diverse travel purposes before and after the pandemic, subsequently estimating the recovery timeframe for each travel purpose. Enriching theoretical discourse and practical applications, this study furnishes a nuanced understanding of Hawaii’s tourism resurgence while concurrently establishing a framework for modelling, predicting, and planning tourism recovery in the face of future global crises akin to the recent pandemic.KEYWORDS: Tourism recoveryarrivalstrip purposeCOVID-19 pandemicseasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA)Hawaii Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Data source: https://dbedt.hawaii.gov/visitor/.","PeriodicalId":51354,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Tourism","volume":"25 23","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135973562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding residents’ environmental responsible behaviour: a cognition – affection – attitude – behaviour model perspective","authors":"Vikas Gautam, Saubhagya Bhalla","doi":"10.1080/13683500.2023.2273909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2273909","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTCurrent research examined the interplay between cognition (environmental knowledge), affection (environmental sensitivity), attitude (place attachment and sustainable attitude) and behaviour (environmental responsible behaviour and support for sustainable tourism development). Three hundred and eighty-eight residents were surveyed. Structural equation modelling was employed to test direct and indirect relationships among study constructs. Structural model results found environmental knowledge as significant predictor of sustainable attitude than environmental sensitivity. Whereas, effect of environmental knowledge on environmental sensitivity was found significant. Further, empirical findings discovered sustainable attitude as more important predictor of place attachment than environmental sensitivity. Subsequently, the effect of place attachment on environmental responsible behaviour was found positive and significant. Finally, study model confirmed residents’ environmental responsible behaviour as more important predictor of support for sustainable tourism development than place attachment. It is suggested that sustainable tourism be promoted and implemented, and its managerial implications are discussed.KEYWORDS: Sustainable attitudeenvironmental responsible behaviourresidentsplace attachment Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":51354,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Tourism","volume":"292 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Portion perception and waste awareness: investigating the effects of Augmented Reality menus on over-ordering intentions in various dining settings","authors":"Shavneet Sharma, Gurmeet Singh, Biman Prasad","doi":"10.1080/13683500.2023.2273913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2273913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51354,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Tourism","volume":"59 23","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135871531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}