Fidel Martínez-Roget, Xosé A. Rodríguez, Maria L. Loureiro
{"title":"Crises and the Demand for Tourism: A Territorial Perspective","authors":"Fidel Martínez-Roget, Xosé A. Rodríguez, Maria L. Loureiro","doi":"10.1002/jtr.2751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2751","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyzes jointly the effects of various types of crises on tourism demand in the 17 territories within Spain and how they affect distinct strands of tourism. Three very different crises are considered: the Great Recession, the Arab Spring, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper proposes an objective classification of the Spanish provinces that considers the importance of tourism activity. The impacts of the crises are analyzed and compared with those obtained from a classification based on the geographical location of the provinces. We carry out the study by estimating dynamic panel data models that incorporate a generalized method of moments (GMM). The results report high significance levels for the persistence, price, and income variables. From a territorial perspective, and with the important exception of inland provinces, there are no significant differences in the variations in tourism demand. In light of these results, policy implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jtr.2751","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137812","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}
WooMi Jo, Yuxuan Lin, Pengsongze Xue, Marion Joppe
{"title":"Role of Deindividuation Between Perceived Crowding and Tourist Behaviors: Moderating Effect of Environmental Knowledge","authors":"WooMi Jo, Yuxuan Lin, Pengsongze Xue, Marion Joppe","doi":"10.1002/jtr.2748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2748","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Destination crowding has emerged as a serious issue for tourist sites and visitors alike. This research delves into the correlation between two-dimensional perceived (spatial and human) crowding and two tourist behaviors (pro-environmental and deviant behavior). Additionally, it explores the influence of deindividuation and environmental knowledge on these relationships. The study, based on 313 Chinese domestic tourists who recently visited the Great Wall, reveals that perceptions of spatial and human crowding significantly trigger deviant behavior. Conversely, pro-environmental behavior is indirectly impeded by both forms of perceived crowding, with deindividuation acting as a mediating factor. The presence of environmental knowledge proves crucial in empowering tourists to make well-informed behavioral decisions and mitigating the negative effects of deindividuation on their actions. This research contributes to the tourism literature by incorporating deindividuation to enhance the understanding of how perceived crowding affects tourist behaviors. It further advances the field by differentiating between pro-environmental and deviant.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jtr.2748","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130417","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 Senior Tourists' Technological Experiences: Based on Embodied Cognitive Theory","authors":"Chen Qiuxia, Ju Dongchen, Huang Xiaoting","doi":"10.1002/jtr.2750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2750","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The global aging population brings a growing senior tourist market. This study applies embodied cognitive theory and grounded theory to explore how senior tourists' technological experiences are formed in three travel stages. Twenty-five in-depth interviews were conducted with senior tourists aged 55–82. Three main components of embodied technological experiences were found, namely the characteristics of senior tourists, tourism contexts, and technological cognition. Characteristics affect technological cognition and how seniors react in specific tourism contexts. Tourism contexts play a stimulating role in motivating senior tourists to participate in different tourism activities. Technological cognition reflects personal characteristics and factors that influence technological usage. It proposes meaningful insights that can inspire tourism suppliers to enhance senior tourists' overall technological experience.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142100167","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":"Wellness and Wanderlust: How Social Wellness Impacts Travel Motivation","authors":"Hyeon Jo","doi":"10.1002/jtr.2745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2745","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>With the emergence of wellness as a significant lifestyle consideration, its influence on various life aspects, including travel, is gaining attention. This study aims to explore the intricate relationship between social wellness, physiological needs, safety-security needs, self-actualization needs, and travel intention. Utilizing partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), the research examined these connections within a sample of 317 respondents. Findings revealed that social wellness significantly influence physiological needs, which in turn, have a strong positive effect on safety-security needs, self-actualization needs, and travel intention. However, safety-security needs were not found to directly impact travel intention. Income was the only control variable affecting travel intention, with gender, age, and timing of last travel showing no significant influence. These insights carry valuable theoretical contributions, enriching the understanding of wellness-driven travel motivation and offering practical implications for service providers, marketers, and policymakers in the travel and tourism industry.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142100166","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}
Ziang Zhang, Kevin Kam Fung So, Jing Li, Hossein Olya, Zhenfang Huang
{"title":"Unpacking the complexity of cultural distance in inbound and outbound tourism: A case-oriented approach","authors":"Ziang Zhang, Kevin Kam Fung So, Jing Li, Hossein Olya, Zhenfang Huang","doi":"10.1002/jtr.2670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2670","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Due to limitations in mainstream symmetric methodologies, the linkages between cultural dimensions and tourism demand have yet to be fully understood. Drawing on Hofstede's theory of national culture and adopting the asymmetric and case-oriented fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis method, this investigation explored configuration models of cultural distance between 65 countries in relation to China's inbound and outbound tourism flows. Using a series of three studies, this research assessed the impact of grouping Hofstede's six cultural distance dimensions and the effect of cultural distance as a whole on Chinese inbound and outbound tourism flows within the cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic distance framework. Findings indicate that several paths respectively lead to high inbound and outbound tourism flows. Uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation are core conditions for high inbound and outbound tourism flows, respectively. Three testable propositions were additionally evaluated by comparing cultural distance configurations between high inbound and outbound tourism flows.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142100237","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 the Post-Pandemic Travel Intentions Among Chinese Residents: Impact of Sociodemographic Factors, COVID Experiences, Travel Planned Behaviours, Health Beliefs, and Resilience","authors":"Chunlan Guo, Xiaocao Lu, Shuyue Huang, Ying Zhao, Duoping Zhao","doi":"10.1002/jtr.2752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2752","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate the shift of travel intentions among Chinese residents following the end of China's Zero-COVID policy in December 2022. Focusing on the 2023 Spring Festival, the first major holiday after the pandemic, we examine the factors influencing travel intentions, including travel experiences during COVID-19, sociodemographics, infection and vaccination experiences, travel planned behaviours, health beliefs, and resilience. Using a cohort study approach, we conducted online surveys in two phases. Initial findings from 1, 263 respondents pre-holiday indicated a moderate intention to travel (average 3.3 out of 5). The results reveal diminishing effects of COVID-19 vaccination, infection experiences and health beliefs (perceived susceptibility, severity and benefits) over time. Past travel experiences, planned behaviours (attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control), perceived barriers and resilience significantly elevate travel intentions in the post-COVID period. Additionally, a post-holiday survey found that 44.3% of 79 participants had travelled, providing insight into the evolving travel tendencies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jtr.2752","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142089851","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":"Repositioning Work and Leisure: Digital Nomads Versus Tourists","authors":"Metin Kozak, Gurel Cetin, Zaid Alrawadieh","doi":"10.1002/jtr.2732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2732","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A growing yet fragmented debate addressing digital nomadism has recently emerged across different disciplines, including management, organizational behavior, and mobility studies. However, the intersection between digital nomadism and leisure and tourism activities remains blurred. Integrating existing theoretical assessments, this conceptual paper scrutinize digital nomadism from a tourism and leisure perspective, and attempts to provide a broader understanding of this phenomenon. The paper repositions digital nomads in the center of tourism and travel discourse by describing their key characteristics, mobility motives, destination selection process, and critical features, singling them out from conventional business/leisure tourists. This paper significantly contributes to an emerging stream of tourism research addressing digital nomadism as an emerging lifestyle market and provides timely practical implications for policymakers and industry practitioners.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jtr.2732","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077962","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":"Strategies for coping with business travel stressors: Enhancing business travel satisfaction through leisure activities","authors":"Soona Park","doi":"10.1002/jtr.2683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2683","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Business travel often introduces stressors due to heavy workloads and the disruption of personal routines. As a stress-coping strategy, different types of leisure can be integrated into business travel to promote travelers' overall travel satisfaction. However, the traditional belief that more physically active leisure is always better may not hold true for business travelers; their constrained schedules and potential conflicts with employers may limit the feasibility of such activities. Using an exploratory sequential design, this study first employed semi-structured interviews to identify four preferred leisure types among business travelers. Subsequently, an online survey showed the effectiveness of cultural/natural attractions and social leisure activities in reducing travel stress while boosting satisfaction, aligning with business travelers' primary motives. This finding supports the arousal theory, emphasizing varying desires for arousal based on the specific circumstances of travelers. This study can also contribute to the enhancement of business travelers' travel competency.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142041730","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":"Assessing Bed and Breakfast Customers' Behavioral Intention Based on Self-Congruity Theory","authors":"Shuting Tao, Mengke Jia, Xiaoyu Jin","doi":"10.1002/jtr.2741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2741","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Customers' self-congruity has been verified to be an important antecedent of their satisfaction or loyalty in terms of brand consumption. In the era of the experience economy, effects of customers' self-congruity as well as subject norm on their attitude and behavioral intention concerning the special form of accommodation, that is, B&Bs have been seldomly studied. Therefore, this study applied self-congruity theory with subjective norm to explain the phenomenon of increasing interests of B&Bs. As a result, first, self-image congruity was insignificantly associated with B&B customer attitude. Second, B&B customers' functional congruity positively impacts customers' attitude and subsequential their behavioral intention. Third, customers' behavioral intention was influenced by subjective norm, that is, others' recommendation or suggestion could affect customers' behavioral intention. Collectively, the business operators and investors could develop and establish relative marketing strategies from the angles of subjective norm and functional congruity between customers and B&Bs.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142041729","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 Effects of Service Recovery Actions on Customers' Post-Recovery Responses to Online Travel Agencies (OTAs): The Moderating Role of Price","authors":"Jungjin Hwang","doi":"10.1002/jtr.2742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2742","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The main purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of service recovery actions on customers' post-recovery responses to initial service failure and a double deviation and to investigate the moderating effect of price on the relationship between recovery actions and these responses. The findings show that active recovery actions led to more favorable post-recovery responses than passive actions in both initial and double deviation situations. No moderating effect of price was found between recovery actions and customers' post-recovery responses. From an academic perspective, this study helps researchers understand how customers positively perceive recovery actions that reflect procedural and interactional justice in service failure situations. The findings also suggest that practitioners of OTAs should engage in active recovery actions that include prompt communication on the progress of the incident (i.e., procedural justice) and a sincere apology (interactional justice) to alleviate customers' negative responses due to service failures.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jtr.2742","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142021760","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}