Launch of the JHTR Featured Section “Insight & Foresight”: Inspire “Homegrown” Theorizing in Hospitality and Tourism Research

entails: (1) the emergent theory gleaning phase when interpretations of meanings (conceptual) are attributed to observations (descriptive); and (2) the construction theory developing phase when relationships among elements are identified through deduction and induction to refine the theory. The outcome of this process is that the observed concrete events are reconstructed to be represented at higher-order and more abstract construal level for a conceptual understanding of the concrete phenomena. In the pursuit of kernel theorizing, we encourage researchers to be paradigmatic and intentional in connecting dots with potential theoretical perspectives as well as connecting studies through a synthesis of knowledge that is beyond a defined context (Young et al., 2021). We are looking for articles that are willing to step away from the narrow empiricism to take a creative leap that produces larger scale insights.