{"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":null,"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":10.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Tourism Management","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261517725000275","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
Can talented tour guides truly not be retained? Exploring the development of tour guides’ career resilience under stressful conditions
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.
期刊介绍:
Tourism Management, the preeminent scholarly journal, concentrates on the comprehensive management aspects, encompassing planning and policy, within the realm of travel and tourism. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the journal delves into international, national, and regional tourism, addressing various management challenges. Its content mirrors this integrative approach, featuring primary research articles, progress in tourism research, case studies, research notes, discussions on current issues, and book reviews. Emphasizing scholarly rigor, all published papers are expected to contribute to theoretical and/or methodological advancements while offering specific insights relevant to tourism management and policy.