Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights最新文献

This article examines how the Lonely Planet and Rough Guide to Egypt (2005-2015) depicted the sexual harassment of women tourists in a way that built consent for global counterterrorism practices. It examines guidebook tips for women travellers in the period surrounding the 2011 Egyptian revolution. These guidebooks represented poorer, more religious Muslim men as threatening to both Egyptian and Western women. Guidebooks suggested that, in response to harassment, women should alter their conduct to enhance their respectability and masculinised protections. This advice naturalised violent counterterrorism practices that protected ‘respectable’ women from poorer ‘bad’ Muslim men, positioning (white) masculinised subjects as saviours and reproducing the ‘savages-victims-saviours triad’. Guidebooks thereby functioned to obscure and legitimise Egypt's repressive crackdown on anti-government dissent and women's public activism.

Intensive tourism development in Croatia neither improved nor reduced overall life satisfaction; however, there was a modest but statistically significant negative effect on happiness. The residents were not entirely capable of managing emotional distress, with social psychological factors the main source of negative affections. While crowding stress negatively affected perceived quality of life, it was not an important predictor of support for tourism. Residents' support was not associated with the regional differences in perceived net benefits from tourism. The findings underline the importance of monitoring residents' psychological well-being, adaptation mechanisms, and the historical and social context in which preferences are formed. The risk of overtourism in Croatian destinations may be masked by the status quo bias and maladaptive coping mechanisms.

Economic analysis of the tourism industry is a critical tool for local industries and governments to estimate, understand, and forecast the tourism potential and economic performance of a destination, especially amidst a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we take Macao as a case study, perform an analysis using an input-output framework. By constructing a tourism satellite account and a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, we estimate the contribution of the tourism industry to the economy of Macao and assess the ramifications of several government policies to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. Our findings provide the Macao government and local industrial stakeholders with critical information for pandemic mitigation and recovery strategies.

This study proposes an approach using the Kuhn–Tucker model to determine the extent to which the number of visitors to a recreational site would decrease if a user fee were introduced. This approach is promising in terms of consistency with economic theory and computational feasibility, assuming alternative recreational sites exist. An empirical analysis of national parks in Japan shows that a 1000 JPY fee would hardly decrease the number of visitors to a national park, whereas it would decrease the number of visitors to another national park over 45%. The results show that recreational sites with relatively high price elasticities experience a significant decrease in the number of visitors even with low user fees.

An extension of the tourism area life cycle (TALC) model is proposed by considering two interacting tourism destinations. Three types of interaction dynamics are investigated: competition, mutualism (or cooperation) and predator–prey. Using dynamical systems theory, aqualitative analysis of the proposed model is performed and all possible tourist equilibria are identified. These three interaction dynamics are then discussed from the perspective of nation-branding and competitive identity in the context of the race for soft power, and further illustrated empirically with examples from Malaysia and the Middle East.

Public/private partnerships staging urban motor-racing events promise a range of dubious ‘benefits’ to the host destination. These high-octane events are notorious for creating controversy over the disruptions they create. This study employs an investigative research method to explore the political economy of the Supercars Newcastle 500 in New South Wales, Australia. Results revealed how strategic misrepresentation and information asymmetry are used as tactics to avoid public scrutiny. The term ‘magic of major events mathematics’ is coined to explain how public expenditure is ‘hidden’ from public view, how costs are transformed into benefits, and how attendance numbers are ghosted. The research examines links between major events and touted leisure and tourism benefits as it questions the ethics of neoliberal governance practices.

This study is the first of its kind – at least to the author's knowledge – that employs the knowledge creation theory to propose a new model of idea generation in short-term tourism innovation labs. This qualitative multi-case study explores six labs to reveal the elements of the idea generation techniques used in the labs. Furthermore, by modifying the existing knowledge creation process model, this study assembles the elements into a sequence. It shows that collaborative knowledge creation in tourism can potentially be enabled by employing techniques that include an informal introduction, individual thinking and presentations, group and plenary discussions, followed by a recapitulation at the end. The study offers a practical guide for designing idea generation techniques in tourism labs.

Tourism produces >35 m tons of solid waste annually. For waste reduction efforts to be effective, empirical baseline measures of waste production and waste production patterns are needed. This study analyses the waste profiles of hotels and restaurants using national waste data. Results indicate that waste patterns in hotels and restaurants differ significantly from those of other industries and that – within the hotels and restaurants sector – substantial heterogeneity exists in terms of the types of waste generated. These insights highlight the need for targeted improvement approaches to waste management. Data presented in this study also serves as a baseline for benchmarking studies and helps inform the design of segment-specific practical measures to reduce waste generated in hotels and restaurants.