Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2026.100207
Philippe Askenazy , Alexandre Bourgeois
The development of peer-to-peer short-stay accommodation, mediated by online platforms, is a major phenomenon in the tourism and hospitality industry. This paper explores how it is traced in national accounts, especially for France, the largest European tourist market. The current methodology fails to fully embrace this activity and its associated production. A generic, more comprehensive approach to considering property owners as notional unincorporated enterprises is proposed. This is applied to France by exploiting a variety of sources. Compared to current methods, the output and productivity of the accommodation industry can accordingly be significantly revised upward. A unified approach can also enhance the comparability of this industry across countries.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2026.100205
Laurent Gomez, Nicolas Peridy
This article contributes to bridging the gap in the literature related to the determinants of park attendance using spatial econometrics. The key results are as follows: First, park attendance depends on internal and external components of the park such as satisfaction, reputation, and purchasing power of inhabitants. Second, there are many spatial spillover effects. The satisfaction, the ticket price, the relation to a chain, the international openness, and the thematic orientation of the park’s neighbors significantly impact the attendance of a given park. These spatial interactions are most important in a neighborhood of 150 km. In addition to their internal and external components, managers should consider the characteristics of neighboring parks.
{"title":"Drivers of theme park attendance: A spatial analysis","authors":"Laurent Gomez, Nicolas Peridy","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2026.100205","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2026.100205","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article contributes to bridging the gap in the literature related to the determinants of park attendance using spatial econometrics. The key results are as follows: First, park attendance depends on internal and external components of the park such as satisfaction, reputation, and purchasing power of inhabitants. Second, there are many spatial spillover effects. The satisfaction, the ticket price, the relation to a chain, the international openness, and the thematic orientation of the park’s neighbors significantly impact the attendance of a given park. These spatial interactions are most important in a neighborhood of 150 km. In addition to their internal and external components, managers should consider the characteristics of neighboring parks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"7 1","pages":"Article 100205"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146078654","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 : 2026-01-15DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2026.100204
Shaohua Wang, Janne Liburd
{"title":"Evolving pathways for spiritual tourism in protected areas","authors":"Shaohua Wang, Janne Liburd","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2026.100204","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2026.100204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"7 1","pages":"Article 100204"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145979285","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 : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2025.100203
Khadija Mehrez
This study investigates how tourists perceive the compatibility between luxury and sustainability in Saudi Arabia's emerging high-end tourism sector. Adopting a constructivist grounded theory approach, 39 semi-structured interviews with local and international travellers revealed five interrelated value categories: hedonic, uniqueness, trade-off, fairness, and religious value. While many participants embraced sustainability in luxury experiences, concerns about greenwashing and fair pricing were also raised. Religious value, particularly salient among Muslim tourists, reflects a culturally grounded extension of moral consumption. The findings extend value-based theorizing by introducing trade-off value as a distinct evaluative lens in the context of sustainable luxury. The study offers context-sensitive insights to inform experience design and marketing strategies that resonate with ethically and culturally diverse tourist segments.
{"title":"Balancing luxury and sustainability in Saudi tourism","authors":"Khadija Mehrez","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100203","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100203","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how tourists perceive the compatibility between luxury and sustainability in Saudi Arabia's emerging high-end tourism sector. Adopting a constructivist grounded theory approach, 39 semi-structured interviews with local and international travellers revealed five interrelated value categories: hedonic, uniqueness, trade-off, fairness, and religious value. While many participants embraced sustainability in luxury experiences, concerns about greenwashing and fair pricing were also raised. Religious value, particularly salient among Muslim tourists, reflects a culturally grounded extension of moral consumption. The findings extend value-based theorizing by introducing trade-off value as a distinct evaluative lens in the context of sustainable luxury. The study offers context-sensitive insights to inform experience design and marketing strategies that resonate with ethically and culturally diverse tourist segments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"7 1","pages":"Article 100203"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145897884","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.2025.100202
Susanne Becken
{"title":"Science-policy-practice gap – Tourism emissions in Queensland","authors":"Susanne Becken","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"6 2","pages":"Article 100202"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614582","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}
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.
{"title":"From fear to recovery: Investor sentiment, macroeconomic shocks, and tourism stock volatility in China","authors":"Aziz Ullah , He Biao , Mahfuzur Rahman , Assad Ullah","doi":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100197","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annale.2025.100197","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34520,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights","volume":"6 2","pages":"Article 100197"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145568270","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.2025.100200
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}
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