Ove Oklevik, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Nina M. Iversen, Leif E. Hem, Stefan Gøsling, Ya-Yen Sun
{"title":"Tourists' Sensitivity to Climate and Cost Changes in Fjord Norway","authors":"Ove Oklevik, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Nina M. Iversen, Leif E. Hem, Stefan Gøsling, Ya-Yen Sun","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.70254","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The tourism industry is likely to face significant challenges stemming from climate change and fluctuations in travel costs. This study investigates the potential impacts of these factors on tourism demand in Fjord Norway, and shows that both environmental conditions and travel expenses play a substantial role in influencing tourism demand. However, tourists exhibit a higher sensitivity to variations in travel costs compared to changes in climatic conditions. The findings also indicate that Norwegian tourists, who possess a strong awareness of environmental issues, are less affected by the ramifications of climate change than their domestic counterparts with lower levels of environmental consciousness. In contrast, domestic tourists with high environmental awareness do not demonstrate significant differences in their responsiveness to economic changes compared to those with lower awareness. These insights hold considerable implications for the effective management of tourism in the Fjord Norway region.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jtr.70254","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ove Oklevik, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Nina M. Iversen, Leif E. Hem, Stefan Gøsling, Ya-Yen Sun
{"title":"Tourists' Sensitivity to Climate and Cost Changes in Fjord Norway","authors":"Ove Oklevik, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Nina M. Iversen, Leif E. Hem, Stefan Gøsling, Ya-Yen Sun","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70254","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jtr.70254","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The tourism industry is likely to face significant challenges stemming from climate change and fluctuations in travel costs. This study investigates the potential impacts of these factors on tourism demand in Fjord Norway, and shows that both environmental conditions and travel expenses play a substantial role in influencing tourism demand. However, tourists exhibit a higher sensitivity to variations in travel costs compared to changes in climatic conditions. The findings also indicate that Norwegian tourists, who possess a strong awareness of environmental issues, are less affected by the ramifications of climate change than their domestic counterparts with lower levels of environmental consciousness. In contrast, domestic tourists with high environmental awareness do not demonstrate significant differences in their responsiveness to economic changes compared to those with lower awareness. These insights hold considerable implications for the effective management of tourism in the Fjord Norway region.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jtr.70254","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Culture Shock in Cultural Values and Perceived Values Evaluation","authors":"Chih-Hsing Liu, Quoc Phong La, Yen-Ling Ng","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.70240","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>With various travel purposes, cultural tourism has gained attention from academia and practice and has been reaffirmed by the UNWTO of the main part of accounting for over 39% of worldwide tourism arrivals. To address these critical issues, this study used 459 tourists who have experienced cultural tourism to investigate the relationships between cultural values, perceived values and culture shock. The results show the mediation roles of perceived values that link the relationship between cultural values and culture shock. The mutual relationship among subdimensions of perceived values (e.g., functional, social, emotional and epistemic values) are inspected. Additionally, the moderating roles of word of mouth (WOM) are conducted in the culture shock estimation process. The alternative models of the second factor transformed first order provide theoretical and managerial implications for tourism and hospitality studies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564046","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":"Exploring Culture Shock in Cultural Values and Perceived Values Evaluation","authors":"Chih-Hsing Liu, Quoc Phong La, Yen-Ling Ng","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70240","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jtr.70240","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>With various travel purposes, cultural tourism has gained attention from academia and practice and has been reaffirmed by the UNWTO of the main part of accounting for over 39% of worldwide tourism arrivals. To address these critical issues, this study used 459 tourists who have experienced cultural tourism to investigate the relationships between cultural values, perceived values and culture shock. The results show the mediation roles of perceived values that link the relationship between cultural values and culture shock. The mutual relationship among subdimensions of perceived values (e.g., functional, social, emotional and epistemic values) are inspected. Additionally, the moderating roles of word of mouth (WOM) are conducted in the culture shock estimation process. The alternative models of the second factor transformed first order provide theoretical and managerial implications for tourism and hospitality studies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564045","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":"Foreign Tourists Still Prefer to Travel to the Andalusian Destination After the COVID-19","authors":"Lázaro Florido-Benítez","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70236","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jtr.70236","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The primary goal of this case study is to examine the reasons behind foreign visitors' visits to the eight provinces of Andalusia between 2007 and 2022 to identify the primary markets with the greatest potential for overnight stays and to create more effective tourism campaigns. Findings revealed that holidays and leisure activities were the most important pull motives for foreign tourists visiting Andalusia. Furthermore, the main five tourist markets for overnight stays in Andalusia were English, German, French, Dutch and Belgian tourists. Although Belgian, Italian, American, Latin American, and Dutch, Portuguese and Swedish tourists also dynamize and encourage the economic development of the eight Andalusian destinations. Indeed, the interrelationship between the number of passenger arrivals and the evolution of the total Andalusia overnight stays has gone hand-in-hand throughout the period under consideration. This remarkable result emphasises the importance of air transport to Andalusian destinations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jtr.70236","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ji Youn Jeong, Jinwon Kim, Hye Suk Han, Wonji Chung
{"title":"From Fear of Death to Travel Intention: Do Residential Tourism Clusters Matter?","authors":"Ji Youn Jeong, Jinwon Kim, Hye Suk Han, Wonji Chung","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.70243","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study integrates Terror Management Theory with the Social Ecological Model to explain how mortality awareness (MA) shapes travel intention through two pathways: an adaptive meaning-making route and a maladaptive strain-based route. Using a survey experiment with US adults and hierarchical regression, structural equation modeling, and multi-group analysis, we show that MA increases travel intention by strengthening worldview affirmation and self-transcendence, whereas maladaptive coping suppresses intention. These effects are context-dependent. Residential tourism clusters—operationalized using the Location Quotient (LQ<sub>7</sub>) index—moderate the translation of psychological motives into behavioral intention. Transcendence has a stronger positive effect in highly clustered areas, adaptive coping is more influential in low-cluster contexts, and maladaptive coping is more deterrent in high-cluster environments. By embedding existential motivation within spatial context, this study extends Terror Management Theory and identifies transcendence as a key mechanism of travel behavior.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563986","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":"Foreign Tourists Still Prefer to Travel to the Andalusian Destination After the COVID-19","authors":"Lázaro Florido-Benítez","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.70236","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The primary goal of this case study is to examine the reasons behind foreign visitors' visits to the eight provinces of Andalusia between 2007 and 2022 to identify the primary markets with the greatest potential for overnight stays and to create more effective tourism campaigns. Findings revealed that holidays and leisure activities were the most important pull motives for foreign tourists visiting Andalusia. Furthermore, the main five tourist markets for overnight stays in Andalusia were English, German, French, Dutch and Belgian tourists. Although Belgian, Italian, American, Latin American, and Dutch, Portuguese and Swedish tourists also dynamize and encourage the economic development of the eight Andalusian destinations. Indeed, the interrelationship between the number of passenger arrivals and the evolution of the total Andalusia overnight stays has gone hand-in-hand throughout the period under consideration. This remarkable result emphasises the importance of air transport to Andalusian destinations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jtr.70236","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin Yongho Hyun, Soyeon Jung, Ouidade Sabri, Seoki Lee, Hyeon-Cheol Kim
{"title":"From COVID-19 Recurrence Risk to Destination Citizenship Behavior: Three-Path Benefit–Concern Mediation and the Boundary Role of Employment Status","authors":"Martin Yongho Hyun, Soyeon Jung, Ouidade Sabri, Seoki Lee, Hyeon-Cheol Kim","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.70255","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>By conceptualizing the relationships between antagonistic residents and deviant holidayers regarding perceived benefits and concerns, and residents' destination citizenship behavior (RDCB) based on integrated threat theory, deonance theory, and a belief in a just world theory, we tested the three-path mediation effects of the link between residents' risk perceptions of a COVID-19 recurrence and RDCB, and the moderation effect of employment status. We found significant direct, single indirect, and serial mediation effects of the perceived benefits and concerns along with a significant joint effect of employment status. Although prior research has examined the negative relationship between benefits and concerns, their serial mediation has not been tested in the context of COVID-19 recurrence; this study addresses this gap by investigating their sequential mediating roles. In addition, given the heterogeneous employment conditions among residents, we test employment status as a boundary condition. We discussed the theoretical contributions and practical implications of findings.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563987","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}
Ji Youn Jeong, Jinwon Kim, Hye Suk Han, Wonji Chung
{"title":"From Fear of Death to Travel Intention: Do Residential Tourism Clusters Matter?","authors":"Ji Youn Jeong, Jinwon Kim, Hye Suk Han, Wonji Chung","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70243","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jtr.70243","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study integrates Terror Management Theory with the Social Ecological Model to explain how mortality awareness (MA) shapes travel intention through two pathways: an adaptive meaning-making route and a maladaptive strain-based route. Using a survey experiment with US adults and hierarchical regression, structural equation modeling, and multi-group analysis, we show that MA increases travel intention by strengthening worldview affirmation and self-transcendence, whereas maladaptive coping suppresses intention. These effects are context-dependent. Residential tourism clusters—operationalized using the Location Quotient (LQ<sub>7</sub>) index—moderate the translation of psychological motives into behavioral intention. Transcendence has a stronger positive effect in highly clustered areas, adaptive coping is more influential in low-cluster contexts, and maladaptive coping is more deterrent in high-cluster environments. By embedding existential motivation within spatial context, this study extends Terror Management Theory and identifies transcendence as a key mechanism of travel behavior.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563978","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}
Martin Yongho Hyun, Soyeon Jung, Ouidade Sabri, Seoki Lee, Hyeon-Cheol Kim
{"title":"From COVID-19 Recurrence Risk to Destination Citizenship Behavior: Three-Path Benefit–Concern Mediation and the Boundary Role of Employment Status","authors":"Martin Yongho Hyun, Soyeon Jung, Ouidade Sabri, Seoki Lee, Hyeon-Cheol Kim","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70255","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jtr.70255","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>By conceptualizing the relationships between antagonistic residents and deviant holidayers regarding perceived benefits and concerns, and residents' destination citizenship behavior (RDCB) based on integrated threat theory, deonance theory, and a belief in a just world theory, we tested the three-path mediation effects of the link between residents' risk perceptions of a COVID-19 recurrence and RDCB, and the moderation effect of employment status. We found significant direct, single indirect, and serial mediation effects of the perceived benefits and concerns along with a significant joint effect of employment status. Although prior research has examined the negative relationship between benefits and concerns, their serial mediation has not been tested in the context of COVID-19 recurrence; this study addresses this gap by investigating their sequential mediating roles. In addition, given the heterogeneous employment conditions among residents, we test employment status as a boundary condition. We discussed the theoretical contributions and practical implications of findings.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563979","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}