Pub Date : 2020-10-13DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2020.1833363
M. Falk, S. Tveteraas, Jinghua Xie
ABSTRACT The number of economics-related articles in the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism (SJHT) has recently increased considerably. Despite this increase, the research efforts of Nordic economists on tourism issues have lagged behind in an international comparison. The recent increase in the number of economics-related publications in SJHT is due to better access to microdata (individual and firm data), the rapid development of statistical and econometric methods and the interest in the causes and effects of the tourism boom in the Nordic countries until recently. This article gives a brief review of the main topics of Nordic economic research that have been studied, as well as potential future research ideas (e.g. short term rentals, rising industry concentration, innovation and ICT) and data sources (big data, social media data, linked data at the micro level and register data) that can be developed and used for future studies. With the COVID-19 pandemic, general uncertainty and government intervention in the tourism sector will lead to a change in travel flows, calling for more quantitative studies. More research based on internationally comparable microdata for several Nordic countries will be particularly helpful.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-12DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2020.1830434
Cecilia Cassinger, Szilvia Gyimóthy, Andrea Lucarelli
ABSTRACT In the past 20 years, the Nordic region has fostered a distinct place branding scholarship and practice. This paper briefly revisits hallmark contributions that founded and shaped Nordic place branding and argues that by today, the Nordic approach earned widespread international acknowledgement. The Nordic region offers more than a regional context of place branding; its cultural and geo-political idiosyncrasies greatly affect the axiological position of place branding research. By positioning Nordic place branding research on the global scene, the paper outlines the contours of a hybrid scholarly approach (the Nordic wave), which bridges across managerial and critical schools of branding and promotes a more extroverted knowledge collaboration with branding practitioners. The paper concludes with discussing the potential the NordicWave for future place branding endeavours.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-03DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2020.1828163
Erose Sthapit, P. Bjork
ABSTRACT This study explores interactive value formation, particularly the underlying drivers of three value outcomes in the Airbnb context: co-creation, co-destruction and co-recovery. The study focuses on reviews posted online by Airbnb guests in English. These posts contained customers’ positive and negative experiences with Airbnb on Trustpilot. The data analysis uncovered two main themes that reflected the drivers of value co-creation, co-destruction and co-recovery (company’s customer service and hosts’ actions). First, after a service failure, many guests experienced value co-destruction because they felt that Airbnb’s customer service agents could not solve their problems in a timely and proper manner, while the use of successful recovery efforts by the service agents served as an antidote to value co-destruction, thereby contributing to value co-recovery. Second, host’s friendly behaviour, including prompt communication between the host and the guest, led to value co-creation. On the contrary, inadequate communication and unethical actions by the host generated value co-destruction among the guests and resulted in a decline in their well-being. The findings suggest that particular value dimensions can individually act as a source of either value co-creation or co-recovery, while their inadequate integration in the interactive value formation processes leads to value co-destruction.
{"title":"Interactive value formation: drivers and outcomes from Airbnb guests’ perspectives","authors":"Erose Sthapit, P. Bjork","doi":"10.1080/15022250.2020.1828163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15022250.2020.1828163","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explores interactive value formation, particularly the underlying drivers of three value outcomes in the Airbnb context: co-creation, co-destruction and co-recovery. The study focuses on reviews posted online by Airbnb guests in English. These posts contained customers’ positive and negative experiences with Airbnb on Trustpilot. The data analysis uncovered two main themes that reflected the drivers of value co-creation, co-destruction and co-recovery (company’s customer service and hosts’ actions). First, after a service failure, many guests experienced value co-destruction because they felt that Airbnb’s customer service agents could not solve their problems in a timely and proper manner, while the use of successful recovery efforts by the service agents served as an antidote to value co-destruction, thereby contributing to value co-recovery. Second, host’s friendly behaviour, including prompt communication between the host and the guest, led to value co-creation. On the contrary, inadequate communication and unethical actions by the host generated value co-destruction among the guests and resulted in a decline in their well-being. The findings suggest that particular value dimensions can individually act as a source of either value co-creation or co-recovery, while their inadequate integration in the interactive value formation processes leads to value co-destruction.","PeriodicalId":47630,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15022250.2020.1828163","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46830202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-09-26DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2020.1823247
P. Fredman, L. Margaryan
ABSTRACT This paper provides a review of research in nature-based tourism in the Nordic region, discuss it from an international viewpoint and provide an outlook for the future research agenda. To do this, we analyze the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism for papers focusing on nature-based tourism from 2010 to 2020, as well as 29 key textbooks representing international scholarship within the last decade. We argue there has been an increase in the number of studies looking at nature-based tourism from the supply side, especially about destination development, lifestyle entrepreneurship and the role of guides. We also notice that many research questions are raised from practical needs, while more theoretically oriented research is rather limited. The international call for new, bold theoretical outlooks, the need to reimagine and fundamentally transform human-nature relationships towards sustainability and co-existence remains relevant for the Nordic context in the future.
本文综述了北欧地区自然旅游的研究现状，从国际视角对其进行了探讨，并对未来的研究议程进行了展望。为此，我们分析了《斯堪的纳维亚酒店与旅游杂志》(Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism) 2010年至2020年期间关于自然旅游的论文，以及过去十年中代表国际学术的29本重要教科书。我们认为，越来越多的研究从供给侧关注以自然为基础的旅游，特别是关于目的地开发、生活方式创业和导游角色的研究。我们也注意到，许多研究问题是从实际需要出发提出的，而更多的理论导向的研究相当有限。国际上对新的、大胆的理论观点的呼吁，以及重新设想和从根本上改变人类与自然的关系，使其朝着可持续发展和共存的方向发展的需要，仍然与北欧未来的环境有关。
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Pub Date : 2020-09-26DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2020.1823246
G. Helgadottir, Katherine Dashper
ABSTRACT This review focuses on how the concepts rural and rurality have appeared in the context of Nordic tourism and hospitality research published in the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. All publications that contained the term rural or a synonym in one or more of these: title, keywords or abstract were considered. Content analysis was conducted based on the publications that have the term rural or a synonym in their title, keywords and abstract. Furthermore, the review considers the measurable impact of the publications on rural tourism and offers suggestions for fruitful future research directions. A brief theoretical framework is provided to analyse what rural and rurality refer to in the publications.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-22DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2020.1823248
C. Michael Hall, J. Saarinen
ABSTRACT Climate change poses an existential crisis for tourism and destinations. Nordic researchers have been at the forefront of research on climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation. The review provides a brief account of some of the main themes in Nordic climate change research from a regional and international perspective and potential future research directions. Key themes identified include the environmental, economic and social sensitivities of the Nordic region, the implications of climate change for winter-oriented tourism businesses, and the substantial international contribution of Nordic-based researchers to international research on the climate crisis and tourism.
{"title":"20 years of Nordic climate change crisis and tourism research: a review and future research agenda","authors":"C. Michael Hall, J. Saarinen","doi":"10.1080/15022250.2020.1823248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15022250.2020.1823248","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Climate change poses an existential crisis for tourism and destinations. Nordic researchers have been at the forefront of research on climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation. The review provides a brief account of some of the main themes in Nordic climate change research from a regional and international perspective and potential future research directions. Key themes identified include the environmental, economic and social sensitivities of the Nordic region, the implications of climate change for winter-oriented tourism businesses, and the substantial international contribution of Nordic-based researchers to international research on the climate crisis and tourism.","PeriodicalId":47630,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15022250.2020.1823248","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43803257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-09-22DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2020.1823244
D. Müller
ABSTRACT Second-home tourism is a prominent feature of Nordic tourism. This article reviews Nordic research on second-home tourism since 2000 and relates it to international trends within this field. Furthermore, it provides a short outline of future research needs and opportunities. The review indicates that Nordic second-home tourism research has been highly productive and influential. After being dominated by national overviews, research has more recently addressed issues such as environmental impacts, community tensions and displacement, internationalization, and planning. Indeed, with this, Nordic researchers have gained core positions in the international ecosystem of second-home research, and particularly Umeå University has developed into the epicenter of second-home research. Although the situation for Nordic second-home research has been strong, generational shifts imply a risk of discontinuation. However, a more nuanced view on the second-home phenomenon detects the varieties of second-home tourism and the multiple interconnections to other fields of research. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, second-home research can become a forerunner in understanding households’ new spatial–temporal arrangements, combining various homes and places.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2020.1802774
N. Galí, R. Camprubí
ABSTRACT Over the last few decades, researchers have shown a heightened interest in guiding related to tour guide performances, guided tours, and the relationship between guides and tourists, leading to a plethora of studies published in this field. The aim of this study is to summarise and analyse the development of this field of tourism research between 2000 and 2017. A systematic content analysis of 80 peer-reviewed academic papers in JCR journals was carried out in order to complement and extend the results reported in previous research. Several variables related to research approaches were examined. The results show that research on guiding takes a predominantly qualitative approach, and mainly focuses on the role and performance of local guides. This differs from previous research which has predominantly focused on the role of tour leader. The conclusions of the study suggest areas within guiding studies yet to be explored, and which could be examined in future studies.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2020.1807405
P. Štumpf, V. Vojtko, P. Janeček
ABSTRACT A high level of tourist satisfaction is one of the most common goals of sustainable tourist destinations. The general assumption is that a higher level of tourist satisfaction leads to higher tourist loyalty to destinations and, furthermore, increases revisits. This paper examines the relationships of how satisfaction, as well as the demographic, motivational, and behavioural characteristics of tourists, affect the intention to return for the main holiday to the same European Union (EU) country in the following year. We used the generalized linear model (GLM) with binomial logit link functions to reveal these relationships. The results show that satisfaction with the quality of accommodation plays an important role when EU citizens make decisions to revisit the same country. However, tourists’ motivation, age, travel distance, and country of origin influence the intention to revisit within the EU more significantly than the satisfaction attributes.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2020.1792339
J. Shepherd, D. Ioannides
ABSTRACT Cross-border tourism cooperation is a fruitful form of engagement between borderland destinations, helping them boost their profile and minimise problems arising from operating near a border. European cross-border tourism cooperation is often supported by a European Union project funding arm known as INTERREG. Our study explores the perceptions and experiences of stakeholders involved in three INTERREG projects between tourism destinations in the Scandinavian borderland region of Jämtland-Trøndelag. The aim of the study is to understand why tourism actors in the region decide to apply for INTERREG funds, what their perceptions are towards the project framework, and how their experiences of INTERREG influence their assessment of the programme as a tool for successful cross-border cooperation in tourism. Emerging from a qualitative approach based on in-depth semi-structured interviews, we reveal that the stakeholders involved in the projects see INTERREG as a valuable source of funding in an otherwise under-funded border region, but that they experience a number of problems within the INTERREG framework. The omnipresence of short-term, supranational funded projects is perceived as detrimental to the establishment of sustainable cross-border tourism development within the study region. We recommend that tourism practitioners be more cautious when thinking of (re)applying for INTERREG funding.
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