Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2230328
Şensev Payan İlkan, Ali Öztüren, Turgay Avcı, Foad Irani
ABSTRACT The study intends to detect the impacting factors of mApp (mobile application) engagement and the intention for continuing use. The study investigates the conceptual model using the Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DOI) and Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT). An online survey questionnaire was administered to European consumers. Outcomes show that DOI elements and UGT element playfulness significantly affect user satisfaction and perceived value. Furthermore, user satisfaction positively impacts mApp engagement and intention to continue using it. Exploring consumers’ mApp perceptions can have practical implications for tourism organizations and mApp developers seeking better comprehension of respective customer groups’ needs.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2228938
X. Wu, Yonghua Yang
ABSTRACT The digital divide in tourism consumption deserves attention. Based on the data from China Family Panel Studies in 2018, we built a Tobit model to explore the impact of the digital divide on elderly tourism consumption. It is found that the elders with low digital access and usage tend to spend lower on tourism. Further research finds that transaction barriers are an important channel for the impact of the digital divide on elderly tourism consumption. The inhibiting effect of the digital divide on senior travel consumption can be reduced when seniors receive more social support from spouses, children, and friends.
{"title":"Digital divide and senior travel consumption: an empirical study from China","authors":"X. Wu, Yonghua Yang","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2228938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2228938","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The digital divide in tourism consumption deserves attention. Based on the data from China Family Panel Studies in 2018, we built a Tobit model to explore the impact of the digital divide on elderly tourism consumption. It is found that the elders with low digital access and usage tend to spend lower on tourism. Further research finds that transaction barriers are an important channel for the impact of the digital divide on elderly tourism consumption. The inhibiting effect of the digital divide on senior travel consumption can be reduced when seniors receive more social support from spouses, children, and friends.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"306 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42665118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2229922
Miraç Yücel Başer, Tuba Büyükbeşe, M. Kizildag
ABSTRACT Blockchain technology, as a distributed digital ledger, enables users to control their credentials without being breached by third parties. From a tourism perspective, it allows tourists to pass through checkpoints and/or bookings without waiting and having to go through third-party transactions. Hence, this paper aims to discuss traditional identity management (IdM) system challenges and what blockchain might offer as a counterpoint to conventional travel experiences within the tourism domain. We have tried to identify challenges, issues, and implementation areas of IdM in the tourism industry domain.
{"title":"What if we could travel without passport? First sight to blockchain-based identity management in tourism","authors":"Miraç Yücel Başer, Tuba Büyükbeşe, M. Kizildag","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2229922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2229922","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Blockchain technology, as a distributed digital ledger, enables users to control their credentials without being breached by third parties. From a tourism perspective, it allows tourists to pass through checkpoints and/or bookings without waiting and having to go through third-party transactions. Hence, this paper aims to discuss traditional identity management (IdM) system challenges and what blockchain might offer as a counterpoint to conventional travel experiences within the tourism domain. We have tried to identify challenges, issues, and implementation areas of IdM in the tourism industry domain.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"341 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48125061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT Cryptocurrencies and tourism have gained traction worldwide in the last few years. However, no research has been conducted to understand the relationship between the two. This paper examines the impact of the volatility spillover effects (VSE) of cryptocurrencies on the tourism sector in India. Using monthly time-series data (from August 2015 to January 2021) of the selected cryptocurrencies and foreign tourist arrivals (FTA) and foreign exchange earnings (FEE) from foreign tourism, we assess the volatility (short and long-term) impacts of cryptocurrencies on tourism (through changes in the monthly number of FTAs in India and FEEs of India through foreign tourism). The study applies Multivariate GARCH models (BEKK-GARCH and mGJR-GARCH). The findings suggest that there is an existence of volatility connections between cryptocurrencies and foreign tourism in India. These findings have noticeable implications for policymakers to understand the importance of cryptocurrency and blockchain for tourism sector policies in India.
{"title":"Volatility effects of cryptocurrencies on foreign tourism in India","authors":"Jagjeevan Kanoujiya, Soumyadip Pal, Shailesh Rastogi","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2228936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2228936","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Cryptocurrencies and tourism have gained traction worldwide in the last few years. However, no research has been conducted to understand the relationship between the two. This paper examines the impact of the volatility spillover effects (VSE) of cryptocurrencies on the tourism sector in India. Using monthly time-series data (from August 2015 to January 2021) of the selected cryptocurrencies and foreign tourist arrivals (FTA) and foreign exchange earnings (FEE) from foreign tourism, we assess the volatility (short and long-term) impacts of cryptocurrencies on tourism (through changes in the monthly number of FTAs in India and FEEs of India through foreign tourism). The study applies Multivariate GARCH models (BEKK-GARCH and mGJR-GARCH). The findings suggest that there is an existence of volatility connections between cryptocurrencies and foreign tourism in India. These findings have noticeable implications for policymakers to understand the importance of cryptocurrency and blockchain for tourism sector policies in India.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"293 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46473956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2230313
Qingfeng Song, A. Wondirad
ABSTRACT Several destinations across the globe experience the challenge of overtourism. Literature identifies social media as one of the driving factors of overtourism. Although some prior studies have explored the relationship between social media and overtourism, the connection between the two still lacks a strong empirical validation. In light of this, we empirically established the relationship between social media usage (SMU) and overtourism, drawing upon Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT). Quantitative data were collected from 209 tourists who had visited Hangzhou and analysed using PLS-SEM. Research findings reveal that social media usage contributes to overtourism through the mediating effect of tourist flow concentration, even though the influence is weak. Consequently, only 10.2% of the variance in overtourism is explained by the model, suggesting a weak effect of social media usage on overtourism. Implications and limitations are discussed, and avenues for further research are suggested.
{"title":"Demystifying the nexus between social media usage and overtourism: evidence from Hangzhou, China","authors":"Qingfeng Song, A. Wondirad","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2230313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2230313","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Several destinations across the globe experience the challenge of overtourism. Literature identifies social media as one of the driving factors of overtourism. Although some prior studies have explored the relationship between social media and overtourism, the connection between the two still lacks a strong empirical validation. In light of this, we empirically established the relationship between social media usage (SMU) and overtourism, drawing upon Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT). Quantitative data were collected from 209 tourists who had visited Hangzhou and analysed using PLS-SEM. Research findings reveal that social media usage contributes to overtourism through the mediating effect of tourist flow concentration, even though the influence is weak. Consequently, only 10.2% of the variance in overtourism is explained by the model, suggesting a weak effect of social media usage on overtourism. Implications and limitations are discussed, and avenues for further research are suggested.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"364 - 385"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42214982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2228939
Chung-Ming Chuang, C. Wu, Robin Stanley Snell
ABSTRACT We analysed the attributes of online travel reviews that facilitate online travel purchasing decisions. In Study 1, we developed and validated a scale for measuring the perceived value of online travel reviews (PVOTR). The PVOTR scale has six dimentions and was based on a literature review and Fuzzy Delphi Method. It was validated with data from 69 undergraduate students and 485 travelers in Taiwan. In Study 2, we examined the impact of PVOTR on the online travel purchasing attitudes of another 469 travelers in Taiwan. PVOTR significantly affected online travel purchasing attitudes through the mediation of reduced perceived complexity.
{"title":"How do online travel reviews facilitate informed purchase decisions?","authors":"Chung-Ming Chuang, C. Wu, Robin Stanley Snell","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2228939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2228939","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We analysed the attributes of online travel reviews that facilitate online travel purchasing decisions. In Study 1, we developed and validated a scale for measuring the perceived value of online travel reviews (PVOTR). The PVOTR scale has six dimentions and was based on a literature review and Fuzzy Delphi Method. It was validated with data from 69 undergraduate students and 485 travelers in Taiwan. In Study 2, we examined the impact of PVOTR on the online travel purchasing attitudes of another 469 travelers in Taiwan. PVOTR significantly affected online travel purchasing attitudes through the mediation of reduced perceived complexity.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"323 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42030404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2217958
Danni Zheng, C. Huang, Balgen Oraltay
ABSTRACT While digitalization is a critical topic in cultural tourism research, the concept of digital cultural tourism requires greater clarity and coherence. This review paper systematically analyzes the intellectual structure of digital cultural tourism research via multidisciplinary lenses. Two hundred and eleven related academic articles from 1996 to 2021 were retrieved and analyzed using a bibliometric visualization approach. Five research themes were identified, including changing the discourses of cultural tourism, historical site reconstruction, travel route information, smartphone-medicated cultural tourism, and virtual cultural tourism. The study further analyzed the research progress and proposed a future research agenda.
{"title":"Digital cultural tourism: progress and a proposed framework for future research","authors":"Danni Zheng, C. Huang, Balgen Oraltay","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2217958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2217958","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While digitalization is a critical topic in cultural tourism research, the concept of digital cultural tourism requires greater clarity and coherence. This review paper systematically analyzes the intellectual structure of digital cultural tourism research via multidisciplinary lenses. Two hundred and eleven related academic articles from 1996 to 2021 were retrieved and analyzed using a bibliometric visualization approach. Five research themes were identified, including changing the discourses of cultural tourism, historical site reconstruction, travel route information, smartphone-medicated cultural tourism, and virtual cultural tourism. The study further analyzed the research progress and proposed a future research agenda.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"234 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46363209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2217959
Xiaoying Li, Chen Wang
ABSTRACT Traditional village tourism development is influenced by cultural landscape authenticity and tourists’ behavioural intentions. Data was collected from 347 tourists through field surveying. Structural equation modelling was used to explore interactions between traditional village cultural landscape (TVCL) authenticity, memorable tourism experiences (MTE) and place attachment (PA) in driving tourist behavioural intentions. TVCL authenticity, MTE and PA significantly affect behavioural intentions; MTE and PA have significant partial mediating effects on TVCL authenticity and behavioural intentions. The study emphasises the role of cultural landscape authenticity in traditional village tourism, enriches authenticity theory, and promotes rural tourism development and sustainable protection forms.
{"title":"Understanding the relationship between tourists’ perceptions of the authenticity of traditional village cultural landscapes and behavioural intentions, mediated by memorable tourism experiences and place attachment","authors":"Xiaoying Li, Chen Wang","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2217959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2217959","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Traditional village tourism development is influenced by cultural landscape authenticity and tourists’ behavioural intentions. Data was collected from 347 tourists through field surveying. Structural equation modelling was used to explore interactions between traditional village cultural landscape (TVCL) authenticity, memorable tourism experiences (MTE) and place attachment (PA) in driving tourist behavioural intentions. TVCL authenticity, MTE and PA significantly affect behavioural intentions; MTE and PA have significant partial mediating effects on TVCL authenticity and behavioural intentions. The study emphasises the role of cultural landscape authenticity in traditional village tourism, enriches authenticity theory, and promotes rural tourism development and sustainable protection forms.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"254 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47188210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2217956
Zilu Yang, Wenqi Ruan, Shu-Ning Zhang, Fang Deng
ABSTRACT Improving users’ intention to share rumor-correcting information is crucial for the tourism rumor correction. Based on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theoretical framework, this study explored the heterogeneous effects of emoji use on users’ sharing intention during tourism rumor correction using the experimental method. The results indicate that emoji use while correcting rumors can increase the persuasive effect, but the emoji meaning’s multipleness will reduce users’ intention to share. Furthermore, perceived information authenticity and processing fluency are mediating factors. Moreover, information sources is an effective moderator. For individual sources, the multiple meanings of emojis increase the negative effect on users’ sharing intention, whereas organizational sources can decrease this negative effect.
{"title":"The charm of emojis: the heterogeneous effects of emoji use on users’ intention to share in online tourism rumor correction","authors":"Zilu Yang, Wenqi Ruan, Shu-Ning Zhang, Fang Deng","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2217956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2217956","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Improving users’ intention to share rumor-correcting information is crucial for the tourism rumor correction. Based on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theoretical framework, this study explored the heterogeneous effects of emoji use on users’ sharing intention during tourism rumor correction using the experimental method. The results indicate that emoji use while correcting rumors can increase the persuasive effect, but the emoji meaning’s multipleness will reduce users’ intention to share. Furthermore, perceived information authenticity and processing fluency are mediating factors. Moreover, information sources is an effective moderator. For individual sources, the multiple meanings of emojis increase the negative effect on users’ sharing intention, whereas organizational sources can decrease this negative effect.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"212 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42676990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2023.2217954
Wenyuan Sang, Siyu Ji, Bo Pu, I. Phau
ABSTRACT Tourism live streaming has gradually come into the public's sight and become an important channel to entertain and obtain information. However, how to retain users is the focus of tourism live streaming stakeholders. Based on the elaboration likelihood model, this article developed an integrated relationship model between information quality, source credibility and users’ continuous viewing intention, with social and spatial presence as mediators and perceived stress as moderator. This research used empirical analysis through the questionnaire survey and structural equation model. The data showed that information quality and source credibility positively affect continuous viewing intention of tourism live streaming users. Social and spatial presence mediated the impact of information quality and source credibility on continuous viewing intention. Perceived stress negatively moderated the impact of information quality on continuous viewing intention. These findings provided theoretical and practical insights that can promote the development of live streaming in the modern tourism field.
{"title":"The effect of tourism live streaming information quality and source credibility on users’ continuous viewing intention: an application of elaboration likelihood model","authors":"Wenyuan Sang, Siyu Ji, Bo Pu, I. Phau","doi":"10.1080/10941665.2023.2217954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2023.2217954","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Tourism live streaming has gradually come into the public's sight and become an important channel to entertain and obtain information. However, how to retain users is the focus of tourism live streaming stakeholders. Based on the elaboration likelihood model, this article developed an integrated relationship model between information quality, source credibility and users’ continuous viewing intention, with social and spatial presence as mediators and perceived stress as moderator. This research used empirical analysis through the questionnaire survey and structural equation model. The data showed that information quality and source credibility positively affect continuous viewing intention of tourism live streaming users. Social and spatial presence mediated the impact of information quality and source credibility on continuous viewing intention. Perceived stress negatively moderated the impact of information quality on continuous viewing intention. These findings provided theoretical and practical insights that can promote the development of live streaming in the modern tourism field.","PeriodicalId":47998,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"177 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42617587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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