Marianna Sigala , Edmund Goh , Xi Leung , S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh , Ching-Hui (Joan) Su , Aaron Tham
{"title":"30 Years of contribution and future directions in tourism, hospitality, and events research: A Quo Vadis perspective from the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","authors":"Marianna Sigala , Edmund Goh , Xi Leung , S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh , Ching-Hui (Joan) Su , Aaron Tham","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The <em>Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management</em> (JHTM) recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, a significant milestone reflecting its enduring contribution to research in tourism, hospitality, and events. As part of the celebrations, the senior editorial board of JHTM has prepared this perspective paper, one of several initiatives marking this occasion. The paper critically examines research published in JHTM, focusing on seven key topics: Events & Festivals; Experience Design and Management; Destination Marketing & Management; Service Management; Information & Communication Technologies (ICT); Sociocultural Impacts of Tourism; and Climate Change & Environmental Concerns.</div><div>Our reflections analyse the primary areas of focus in existing research, the knowledge established so far, the methodologies that have shaped this understanding, and the gaps that persist. We also identify priorities for future research to foster a more sustainable and innovative tourism future, proposing novel approaches to advance knowledge in these fields.</div><div>Overall, the paper aims to provide valuable, actionable insights that ignite academic dialogue, inspire and guide future research directions, and drive meaningful innovation. By doing so, we aim to support both the evolution of the discipline and impactful contributions to the tourism, hospitality and events industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"62 ","pages":"Pages 258-265"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143388248","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":"Friends or foes? Understanding the effects of service robots on consumers’ patronage intentions in ethnic restaurants","authors":"Da Huo , Lu Zhang , Xiaoyun Zheng , Yefeng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the rise of ethnic dining, managers need to enhance their competitive edge and attract consumers in innovative ways. Integrating service robots in ethnic restaurants offers novel experiences but raises concerns about maintaining perceived authenticity. To address this under-explored gap, this study leverages the heuristic-systematic model to examine the roles of service robot types and the influence of consumers’ attributions and technology expertise on their ethnic dining experiences, with perceived authenticity as a mediator. Through three studies involving 802 participants, findings reveal that social service robots (vs. functional service robots) significantly boost patronage intentions, particularly when restaurant motives are seen as firm-serving (vs. customer-serving) operations. Perceived authenticity mediates the relationship between robot type and patronage intentions, while technology expertise amplifies the preference for social service robots among knowledgeable customers. This research enhances the understanding of implementing service robots in ethnic restaurants, providing managerial insights into optimizing robot deployment and integration to improve customer experience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"62 ","pages":"Pages 246-257"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143378040","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 many questions concerning technology: Implications for tourism, hospitality, events and leisure research","authors":"Ulrike Gretzel","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Heidegger offers a philosophical perspective on technology that challenges us to engage with the essence of technology instead of adopting instrumentalist views of technology as collections of technological artifacts or tools. He warns that such a view on technology enframes how we relate to technology, and colors what we see and value in potentially dangerous ways. In reflecting on information and communication technology-related research in tourism, hospitality, events and leisure, this paper reveals that existing research rarely engages with technology in deep and critical ways. As a result, many research questions concerning technology in the field remain unasked or inadequately formulated. Building on Heidegger's philosophy of technology and bringing in additional philosophical streams of thought, this paper seeks to re-orient and widen technology research. It does so by drafting a preliminary research agenda that provides examples of the kind of questioning from which technology-related research might benefit.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"62 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143144635","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":"Closing the Gap: Advancing service management in the hospitality and tourism industry amidst the AI revolution","authors":"Anna S. Mattila , Laurie Wu , Peihao Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Gaps Model of service quality has long been the keystone of the service management literature. This classic theoretical model offers valuable guidance for understanding the opportunities and challenges posed by the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in service management. Drawing on recent research and practical insights, this research examines the impact of AI on each one of the service quality gaps identified in the Gaps Model. In addition, we discuss the dual potential of AI to either bridge or widen these gaps, cautioning for digitally responsible implementations of AI. Towards the end of the paper, we discuss future research directions to advance service management with AI integrations in the hospitality and tourism industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"62 ","pages":"Pages 237-245"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143144634","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":"","authors":"Lenny Vance","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"62 ","pages":"Pages 205-206"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143144636","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}
Xavier Font , Luisa Andreu , Anna S. Mattila , Joaquín Aldas-Manzano
{"title":"Sustainability information overload: Its effect on customers’ greenwashing perceptions, perceived value, and behavioral intentions","authors":"Xavier Font , Luisa Andreu , Anna S. Mattila , Joaquín Aldas-Manzano","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Little is known about the effect of perceived sustainability information overload on customers' perceptions of greenwashing, perceived value, and behavioral intentions, nor how this effect is contingent on the customers' expectations of sustainability practices. To address the impact of information overload, we integrate the Stimuli-Organism-Response (S-O-R) model with the media richness theory, and the expectation-confirmation theory. An online survey measured 808 British and German travelers' expectations of hotels’ sustainability practices and exposed them to a sustainability scorecard. The results show that perceived information overload increases perceived greenwashing and has a negative impact (via greenwashing) on ethical-expressive and altruistic values. This is a challenge for hotel managers, as perceived value positively affects self-reported booking intentions and electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) recommendations. Furthermore, customer expectations of sustainability practices moderate i) the positive relationship between information overload and greenwashing, and ii) the relationship between greenwashing and perceived value. Higher customer expectations of sustainability practices strengthen the effect of perceived information overload on perceived greenwashing. However, unexpectedly, the higher expectations of sustainability practices weaken the impact of perceived greenwashing on ethical-expressive and altruistic values, suggesting that customers with high sustainability expectations may be more forgiving of a certain amount of greenwashing than others.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"62 ","pages":"Pages 196-204"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077776","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}
Yaobin Wang , Meiling Xiong , Haoyang Miao , Yuxiao Wang , Xiaofeng Yang , Jing Zhou
{"title":"Impact of perceived rural destinations restorativeness on revisit intentions: The neglected post-travel negative emotions","authors":"Yaobin Wang , Meiling Xiong , Haoyang Miao , Yuxiao Wang , Xiaofeng Yang , Jing Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural tourism destinations have their own distinct characteristics. This research, under the guidance of Attention Restoration Theory and place attachment, constructs an integrated model to explore the structural relationships between perceived rural destination restoration, positive emotions, place attachment, post-travel negative emotions, and revisit intentions. The research targets 452 Chinese tourists who have participated in rural tourism in Hongcun during the previous month. The results of the PLS-SEM analysis indicate that the living atmosphere plays a pivotal role in fostering tourists' positive emotions (β = 0.175) and place attachment (β = 0.223) during their visit. Place attachment has a dual impact, as it both promotes tourists' revisit intention (β = 0.173) and induces post-travel negative emotions (β = 0.449). Although place attachment (β = 0.173) and post-travel negative emotions (β = 0.162) contribute to tourists' revisit intention, positive emotions (β = 0.334) play a crucial role. This research highlights the need to focus on the life atmosphere of rural tourism destinations and post-travel negative emotions, offering guidance for a more comprehensive approach to tourists’ mental health in destination management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"62 ","pages":"Pages 219-231"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143584","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":"Why and when customers participate in service recovery: From the perspective of perceived group emotional intelligence","authors":"Xing'an Xu , Guangxiu Jiang , Li Pan","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Customer participation contributes to tourism service recovery effectiveness. However, few studies pinpoint specific group characteristics of employees that involve customers into recovery process. This study intends to unlock why and when perceived group emotional intelligence influence customers’ service recovery participation via four scenario-based experiments. Results indicate that (1) High (vs. low) perceived group emotional intelligence enhances customer participation in service recovery, rapport and customer trust sequentially mediate this relationship; (2) customer fatigue and customer inoculation exert moderating impacts on the effect of perceived group emotional intelligence on rapport. This research enriches out-group action mechanisms of group emotional intelligence and antecedents of customer participation in service recovery. Managerially, tourism firms are suggested to cultivate group emotional intelligence to facilitate favorable service recovery outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"62 ","pages":"Pages 207-218"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143143583","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":"Do virtual tours really enhance customer satisfaction with physical experiences? A quasi-experimental study on Airbnb","authors":"Huimin Liu , Wesley S. Roehl","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the digitalization of the tourism and hospitality sectors, more attractions are introducing their virtual tours to the market. However, the impact of virtual tours on traditional physical experiences has yet to be fully explored. With the case of Airbnb rentals, this research employs a quasi-experimental design, using a propensity score matching approach to investigate the impact of integrating online virtual tours with physical experiences on customer satisfaction of the physical experiences. The findings indicate that adding an online virtual tour to the physical experience significantly increases customer satisfaction of the physical experience regarding advertising accuracy. Beyond this, virtual tours do not have a significant impact on other aspects of customer satisfaction of physical experiences. This research is among the first to explore the impact of virtual tours on post-trip behavioral outcomes rather than pre-trip intentions. It provides real-world evidence of how virtual tours align guest expectations, enhance marketing accuracy, and improve the customer experience journey across online and offline channels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"62 ","pages":"Pages 188-195"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143049695","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":"Beyond exchange: Decoding reciprocal hospitableness in luxury lodge experiences","authors":"Anita Manfreda , Tracy Harkison","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.01.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hospitableness in luxury hospitality is key for guest experience differentiation. Despite increasing attention, limited research has investigated how hospitableness is reciprocated and how such reciprocation extends beyond the guest-host relationship. By employing a multiple-case study design, this study proposes a model of reciprocal hospitableness underpinning the luxury lodges experience from a multi-stakeholder perspective. The findings reveal how hospitableness, which includes aspects like altruism/generosity, sense of belonging/fictive kinship, meaningful connection, comfort/homely atmosphere, and inclusivity, is reciprocated among guests, hosts, and other stakeholders, uncovering the practices and behaviours that promote this mutual exchange. The model contributes to theory and practice on hospitableness, social exchange and reciprocity, transformative luxury research, and sustainable luxury. It emphasises hospitableness as essential for the luxury lodging industry's sustainability, impacting economic, environmental, and social aspects. It advocates for reciprocal hospitableness, involving guests, staff, local communities, and environments in reshaping luxury tourism's impact.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"62 ","pages":"Pages 173-187"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143049694","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}