Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights最新文献

In Zimbabwe, partnerships with tourism companies enable schools to raise funds for infrastructure in exchange for allowing tourists to enter their school. This paper reports on one school using semi-structured interviews with teachers, school staff and tourism personnel. To shed light on the school tour, it explores three configurations of tours and funding. This paper argues that little is known about this type of tourism and by exploring three configurations of the school tour, it highlights the issues concerned with these types of partnerships and contributes a deeper understanding of these partnerships to the research literature.

This study examined the consumption demands of short-, medium-, and long-haul tourists in Taiwan, considering the effects of tourism attractiveness, generational cohorts, and nationalities on tourism consumption demand. We employed an Almost Ideal Demand System model to estimate the expenditures and price elasticities based on tourism expenditure data of 3018 visitors to Taiwan. The results indicated that varying degrees of price elasticity were observed among short-, medium-, and long-haul tourists. Long-haul tourists exhibited the highest elasticity in terms of shopping prices and expenditure. The factors influencing tourists' attraction to Taiwan were identified as the geographical convenience of their travel and their nationalities, which, in turn, affected their consumption demands. Thus, based on tourists' relevant characteristics to implement targeted marketing strategies.

This paper addresses how strategic spatial planning is considering urban tourism, a phenomenon that has an increasing impact on the development of cities. A research approach interlinking urban tourism and spatial planning is conceptualised based on responsiveness theory and applied to a case study of ten medium-sized Central European cities. Descriptive statistical analysis of the presence of tourism in cities and policy analysis of strategic spatial planning documents enable a comparison analysis of the level of consideration of tourism alongside screening of proposed tourism-related measures. The paper reveals that strategic spatial planning documents are not responsive enough to tourism growth, and there is a lack of strategic measures steering towards sustainable tourism development in cities.

With over 40 million annual tourists visiting wineries, wine tourism is becoming an important source of revenue for wine businesses and local communities to preserve heritage in rural regions. It is perceived as a strategy to increase economic and social sustainability. Two cross-sectional surveys in France and Italy explored the interest of 1205 young adults and the influence of individual features on sustainable wine tourism intention. Two scenarios with differently framed environmental information were tested through a mock winery webpage. Wine involvement, environmental attitude, perceived behavioural control were identified as core traits prompting young adults to experience sustainable wine tourism. The adoption of co-compatible practices and winery commitment in preserving biodiversity emerged as more attractive than a sustainability certification.

During Covid-19 holiday travel became shorter in distance and more surface-based, presenting an unusual opportunity to explore people's experiences of less carbon-intensive holiday travel. In this paper, survey and interview data are used to investigate pandemic holiday practices, exploring how meanings and aspirations relate to travel distance and mode. The findings illustrate the complexity of modal shift and air travel reductions. Despite showing that many people gained experience in surface-based travelling during Covid-19, we also show that what is a satisfying holiday experience can be achieved to differing degrees with short-distance or flight-free travel. Therefore, changing travel demand requires exploring how ‘proper’ holiday experiences could be provided domestically, and how shared ideas about what a holiday entails can be altered.

Most hotel rooms contain a minifridge. Manufacturing, operating, and disposing of minifridges is environmentally unsustainable, and costs money. Given the potential to reduce carbon emissions by reducing the number of hotel minifridges, we ask whether it is necessary to provide minifridges in each room. We collect (1) electricity consumption and guest use data for 19 minifridges across four hotels using a newly developed automatic monitoring system, and (2) survey data to gain insights into hotel guests' stated preferences. Results indicate that electricity use is independent of minifridge use and that only a subset of hotel guests use the minifridge. Most guests prefer having a minifridge, but do not react negatively to it not being available. It may be worth reviewing the current default inclusion of minifridges and considering alternative minifridge provision systems.

This study explores the themes and actors that dominated tourism-related tweets over the first two years of the COVID-19 emergency (2020−2021) and examines Twitter (X)’s potential as a communication tool within tourism crisis management. A mixed-methods research design was adopted to analyse almost half a million Twitter (X) posts that included the keyword ‘tourism’ and pandemic-related terms. The outcomes suggest that a select number of actors and user categories generated most of this Twitter (X) content and many of these had no specific involvement in tourism or displayed bot-like patterns of interaction. Content relating to crisis management abounded but so did content about geek culture, cryptocurrency, and NFTs. This calls for further monitoring and moderation of content and profiles on social media platforms.

The study aims to develop a novel approach to assess Tourism Capital in resort areas, specifically Zermatt-Matterhorn, between 2014 and 2021. This approach integrates a two-tiered empirical model, where the first tier involves CNN-based image analysis, and the second tier employs mathematical techniques and time-series social media data to evaluate stakeholder engagement. The research emphasizes how fluctuations in tourism capital are influenced by stakeholder interactions and external events, highlighting the significance of empirical and quantitative approaches in understanding tourism dynamics. The findings underscore the substantial role of stakeholder engagement in shaping overall tourism capital, offering a practical and dynamic tool for tourism analysis and urban planning. This study innovatively assesses Tourism Capital by analyzing Instagram images, offering a more in-depth, data-driven view of tourism development in resorts.

This study examines the potential impact of the transition to battery operated electric vehicles (EVs) from internal combustion powered passenger vehicles (ICEs) on domestic drive tourism. It asks two core questions: whether EVs will hasten the move to a net zero domestic tourism sector and whether and how EVs will transform domestic tourism. The study, conducted in Queensland, Australia in mid-2023, concludes EVs will have a limited impact on drive tourism in the short to mid-term. Moreover, the substantial desire to continue to use traditional modes of transport or to substitute flying for driving suggests that transition to net zero tourism will remain an aspirational goal and not a realistic outcome of the shift to EVs.

This paper develops a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model to gauge on the detrimental effects of COVID-19 on the tourism sector and consequently on the macroeconomy of Mauritius. Findings demonstrate COVID-19-induced tourism export shock triggering subdued exports, imports, investments and tax revenues while government debt, inflation rate, transfer income experienced bullish momentum. Overall, results from the model bode well with the real macroeconomic conditions which prevailed post the pandemic. Policywise, findings advocate the development of a new sector to diversify the exporting arm of the Mauritian economy. Our model can be used not only by local authorities but also by foreign economies which exhibit similar features to those of the Mauritian economy in view of shaping out optimal policies.