Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2025.100202
Susanne Becken
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This study examines the dynamics of negative customer reviews in the hospitality industry. Drawing on a dataset of 80,521 negative hotel reviews from Booking.com, we identify eleven serially correlated aspects of customer experience where current customer complaints predict future ones. These patterns suggest the presence of emerging issues that impact multiple customers over time and show that the size of the time series effects in hospitality can be substantial and important in practice. We attribute these findings to capacity constraints and the relatively slow pace of managerial corrective actions. The empirical findings have implications for academic researchers, service organizations and online platforms, offering insights that can inform strategic decisions, enhance managerial performance evaluation and improve overall customer experience.
{"title":"Exploring serial patterns in negative hotel reviews","authors":"Rodion Skovoroda , Wei Yang , Bowei Chen , Trevor Buck","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100199","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100199","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the dynamics of negative customer reviews in the hospitality industry. Drawing on a dataset of 80,521 negative hotel reviews from <span><span>Booking.com</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>, we identify eleven serially correlated aspects of customer experience where current customer complaints predict future ones. These patterns suggest the presence of emerging issues that impact multiple customers over time and show that the size of the time series effects in hospitality can be substantial and important in practice. We attribute these findings to capacity constraints and the relatively slow pace of managerial corrective actions. The empirical findings have implications for academic researchers, service organizations and online platforms, offering insights that can inform strategic decisions, enhance managerial performance evaluation and improve overall customer experience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"6 2","pages":"Article 100199"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145415421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2025.100201
Connie Johnmeyer, Shuangyu Xu , Sonja Wilhelm Stanis , Mark Morgan
Despite growing research on pilgrimage tourism, a comprehensive understanding of factors driving transformation remains limited. This study used a qualitative approach to identify meaningful elements of the Camino that facilitate pilgrims' transformative experience. Employing a data triangulation strategy, a content analysis was conducted on Camino pilgrims' social media posts and their responses to an open-ended survey questionnaire distributed to 1505 American pilgrims. Results revealed eight elements: religion/spirituality, long-distance walking, community, challenge, simplicity, nature, art/history/culture, and multiculturalism. These align well with Self-Determination Theory and help explain positive personal changes. This research deepens understanding of pilgrims' transformative experiences and the meaningful factors that foster them on the Camino.
{"title":"The meaningful elements of the Camino: Toward understanding pilgrims' transformative experience","authors":"Connie Johnmeyer, Shuangyu Xu , Sonja Wilhelm Stanis , Mark Morgan","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100201","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite growing research on pilgrimage tourism, a comprehensive understanding of factors driving transformation remains limited. This study used a qualitative approach to identify meaningful elements of the Camino that facilitate pilgrims' transformative experience. Employing a data triangulation strategy, a content analysis was conducted on Camino pilgrims' social media posts and their responses to an open-ended survey questionnaire distributed to 1505 American pilgrims. Results revealed eight elements: religion/spirituality, long-distance walking, community, challenge, simplicity, nature, art/history/culture, and multiculturalism. These align well with Self-Determination Theory and help explain positive personal changes. This research deepens understanding of pilgrims' transformative experiences and the meaningful factors that foster them on the Camino.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"6 2","pages":"Article 100201"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145465329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2025.100197
Aziz Ullah , He Biao , Mahfuzur Rahman , Assad Ullah
This research investigates the impact of investor sentiment and macroeconomic shocks on the volatility of China's tourism stocks during the COVID-19 recovery period, specifically from March 2020 to December 2022. By analyzing daily data from 20 publicly listed tourism companies using GARCH family models, the study distinguishes between a Crisis Phase (from March 2020 to February 2022) and a Recovery Phase (from March to December 2022). The findings indicate that during the Crisis Phase, investor sentiment and anxiety related to the pandemic heightened volatility, resulting in a 6.2 % contraction in tourism GDP. After March 2022, the impact of pandemic-related fears began to diminish. The analysis also reveals bidirectional volatility spillovers among different tourism subsectors, indicating that market sentiment plays a significant role in contributing to this volatility. The study highlights the importance of investor education and institutional reforms in mitigating herd behavior and stabilizing a key sector of China's economy.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2025.100200
Maurício Ragagnin Pimentel , Melise de Lima Pereira
Due to the increasing global tourism, developing countries are recognizing the value of tourism for local economic growth. This study investigates Brazil's local tourism performance using six panel regression models on a dataset covering 1711 municipalities spanning the period from 2007 to 2019. The study formulates twelve hypotheses to test how economic growth, agglomeration, accommodation specialization, government investment, and the entrepreneurial environment influence local-level tourism in Brazil. Specialization emerges as the only significantly supported driver of Brazil's uneven local tourism development. Furthermore, the study highlights that municipal public spending has a negligible impact on tourism, raising concerns about its effectiveness. This research contributes by providing a subnational perspective on tourism growth in a predominantly domestically driven market.
{"title":"What drives local-level tourism in Brazil? Insights from panel regression models","authors":"Maurício Ragagnin Pimentel , Melise de Lima Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100200","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100200","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Due to the increasing global tourism, developing countries are recognizing the value of tourism for local economic growth. This study investigates Brazil's local tourism performance using six panel regression models on a dataset covering 1711 municipalities spanning the period from 2007 to 2019. The study formulates twelve hypotheses to test how economic growth, agglomeration, accommodation specialization, government investment, and the entrepreneurial environment influence local-level tourism in Brazil. Specialization emerges as the only significantly supported driver of Brazil's uneven local tourism development. Furthermore, the study highlights that municipal public spending has a negligible impact on tourism, raising concerns about its effectiveness. This research contributes by providing a subnational perspective on tourism growth in a predominantly domestically driven market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"6 2","pages":"Article 100200"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145465330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2025.100198
Isabel Torres, María-Dolores Teruel-Serrano, María José Viñals
Tourism is a key economic sector, yet its prominence within European Union funding remains limited. This paper presents the first multi-programme estimate of tourism-related EU funding between 2007 and 2020, covering eleven major programmes. An estimated €5.45 billion—2.23 % of total EU funding—was allocated, primarily through regional and structural funds. Support from other instruments was marginal, despite tourism's multisectoral relevance. The findings reveal spatial disparities linked to institutional capacity and governance structures, reflecting broader challenges associated with project-based funding. This study contributes to ongoing policy debates around the future Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034) and the EU Sustainable Tourism Strategy, calling for more coherent and inclusive support for tourism across Member States.
{"title":"Spatial distribution and challenges in European Union funding: A perspective from tourism projects","authors":"Isabel Torres, María-Dolores Teruel-Serrano, María José Viñals","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourism is a key economic sector, yet its prominence within European Union funding remains limited. This paper presents the first multi-programme estimate of tourism-related EU funding between 2007 and 2020, covering eleven major programmes. An estimated €5.45 billion—2.23 % of total EU funding—was allocated, primarily through regional and structural funds. Support from other instruments was marginal, despite tourism's multisectoral relevance. The findings reveal spatial disparities linked to institutional capacity and governance structures, reflecting broader challenges associated with project-based funding. This study contributes to ongoing policy debates around the future Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034) and the EU Sustainable Tourism Strategy, calling for more coherent and inclusive support for tourism across Member States.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"6 2","pages":"Article 100198"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145319774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-29DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2025.100196
Sara Dolnicar , Bettina Grün , Sarah MacInnes
Measuring pro-environmental beliefs is vital for knowledge development and decision-making to improve sustainable tourist behaviour. The primary empirical measure of pro-environmental beliefs is the New Environmental Paradigm. The current use of the New Environmental Paradigm is imperfect: (1) the 15-item version lengthens questionnaires, potentially reducing response rates and reducing data quality; (2) using varying subsets of items to reduce respondent burden undermines measurement validity and comparability across studies. We assess all possible 5-item combinations of the 15-item version (one per facet) to produce the NEP-5, a 5-item measure with high test-retest reliability (0.887 compared to 0.904 for the 15-item version), high convergent validity with the 15-item version (0.960 within-waves, 0.869 across), and equally good predictive validity as the 15-item version.
{"title":"An efficient five-item New Environmental Paradigm","authors":"Sara Dolnicar , Bettina Grün , Sarah MacInnes","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100196","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100196","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Measuring pro-environmental beliefs is vital for knowledge development and decision-making to improve sustainable tourist behaviour. The primary empirical measure of pro-environmental beliefs is the New Environmental Paradigm. The current use of the New Environmental Paradigm is imperfect: (1) the 15-item version lengthens questionnaires, potentially reducing response rates and reducing data quality; (2) using varying subsets of items to reduce respondent burden undermines measurement validity and comparability across studies. We assess all possible 5-item combinations of the 15-item version (one per facet) to produce the NEP-5, a 5-item measure with high test-retest reliability (0.887 compared to 0.904 for the 15-item version), high convergent validity with the 15-item version (0.960 within-waves, 0.869 across), and equally good predictive validity as the 15-item version.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"6 2","pages":"Article 100196"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145219281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-22DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2025.100195
Made Handijaya Dewantara , Xin Jin (Cathy) , Sarah Gardiner
This study employs an individual capital theoretical framework to analyse travel vlogs and identify ways to maximise vlog performance success. The first phase analyses the social media content of ten vlogs and their viewer comments (n = 816). This was followed by a second phase comprising in-depth interviews with ten viewers and ten destination marketers to validate and re-evaluate the initial findings. Thematic analysis of the vlogs reveals six attributes of individual capital. This study extends the theory of individual capital within the context of destination marketing and travel vlogging by detailing each attribute and identifying a new one.
{"title":"A framework for analysing the individual capital of travel vloggers","authors":"Made Handijaya Dewantara , Xin Jin (Cathy) , Sarah Gardiner","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study employs an individual capital theoretical framework to analyse travel vlogs and identify ways to maximise vlog performance success. The first phase analyses the social media content of ten vlogs and their viewer comments (<em>n</em> = 816). This was followed by a second phase comprising in-depth interviews with ten viewers and ten destination marketers to validate and re-evaluate the initial findings. Thematic analysis of the vlogs reveals six attributes of individual capital. This study extends the theory of individual capital within the context of destination marketing and travel vlogging by detailing each attribute and identifying a new one.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"6 2","pages":"Article 100195"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145117722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-08-28DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2025.100194
Chanakan Thongma , Chia-Lin Chang
This study examines the economic and policy factors shaping multi-destination tourism flows in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation region, focusing on Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand from 2008 to 2023. Using gravity model and vector autoregression analysis, it identifies GDP, exchange rates, visa policies, government efficiency, and travel distance as key determinants. Results show Japan attracts high-income tourists, Taiwan acts as a transit hub, and Thailand appeals to budget-conscious travelers. The analysis highlights both competitive and complementary dynamics, underscoring the need for regional tourism coordination. The proposed “Sustainable Asia Tourism Trail” supports the United Nations SDGs by encouraging environmentally friendly travel and cross-border cooperation. Policy recommendations include streamlining visas, investing in infrastructure, and implementing coordinated strategies to strengthen regional competitiveness and sustainability.
{"title":"Drivers of multi-destination tourism in APEC (2008–2023)","authors":"Chanakan Thongma , Chia-Lin Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100194","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the economic and policy factors shaping multi-destination tourism flows in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation region, focusing on Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand from 2008 to 2023. Using gravity model and vector autoregression analysis, it identifies GDP, exchange rates, visa policies, government efficiency, and travel distance as key determinants. Results show Japan attracts high-income tourists, Taiwan acts as a transit hub, and Thailand appeals to budget-conscious travelers. The analysis highlights both competitive and complementary dynamics, underscoring the need for regional tourism coordination. The proposed “Sustainable Asia Tourism Trail” supports the United Nations SDGs by encouraging environmentally friendly travel and cross-border cooperation. Policy recommendations include streamlining visas, investing in infrastructure, and implementing coordinated strategies to strengthen regional competitiveness and sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"6 2","pages":"Article 100194"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144913316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2025.100191
Pascal Troxler , Monika Bandi Tanner , Marcus Roller
In recent years, ski area operators in Switzerland have faced decreasing demand while ski lift and snowmaking capabilities have increased – partly using financial aid from public funds. It is therefore crucial to determine to what extent ski area investment supports demand and affects the competition for the remaining guests. Exploiting firm-level and natural snowpack data, we find that ski areas with above-median snowmaking capabilities decrease their natural snow dependency and that ski lift investments induce a positive, albeit small, effect on outcomes in the winter following their construction. Additionally, we document adverse effects on demand for nearby neighboring ski area expansions. The results imply that investments in high-capacity lifts are relatively ineffective at retaining demand and sustaining revenue.
{"title":"Investment competition among Swiss ski areas","authors":"Pascal Troxler , Monika Bandi Tanner , Marcus Roller","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, ski area operators in Switzerland have faced decreasing demand while ski lift and snowmaking capabilities have increased – partly using financial aid from public funds. It is therefore crucial to determine to what extent ski area investment supports demand and affects the competition for the remaining guests. Exploiting firm-level and natural snowpack data, we find that ski areas with above-median snowmaking capabilities decrease their natural snow dependency and that ski lift investments induce a positive, albeit small, effect on outcomes in the winter following their construction. Additionally, we document adverse effects on demand for nearby neighboring ski area expansions. The results imply that investments in high-capacity lifts are relatively ineffective at retaining demand and sustaining revenue.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"6 2","pages":"Article 100191"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144750761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}