Tourism Management Perspectives最新文献

Many traditional villages promote cultural inheritance by developing tourism, and thus develop into tourism-oriented traditional villages (TOTVs). The key to their sustainable development lies in balancing cultural inheritance and tourism development. Based on memory theory, we constructed a comprehensive evaluation system to measure the cultural inheritance level (CIL). Moreover, taking 16 typical TOTVs in Beijing, China as examples, we evaluated their CIL by using the hierarchical-entropy weight model and the weighted TOPSIS model. The results show that the comprehensive evaluation method of CIL of TOTVs constructed in this paper has strong applicability. The comprehensive CIL values in the case villages vary considerably, and the scores of three dimensions show typical characteristics of great differentiation and imbalance. In addition, we summarized four paths for improving the CIL. This study will help promote the scientific inheritance and utilization of TOTVs, as well as their sustainable development, and will help realize rural revitalization.

Communication style has been well-researched for over four decades. However, the communication style in the tourism context and the role of time conditions are unknown. This research attempted to identify the effective communication styles in souvenir purchases based on different tourists' subjective time perceptions. Three studies were conducted using text and video respectively for different scenarios. Results suggest that a social-oriented (vs. task-oriented) communication style has a more positive effect on tourists' perceived persuasive effect through processing fluency. Surprisingly, this effect only exists when the tourist's perceived time adequacy is low. This study contributes to the socioemotional selectivity theory by discovering the effect of time scarcity in short-term service, while validating the effect of communication style in different time conditions. To managers, it will not go wrong by using social-orientated communication. However, using task-orientated communication, a more economical way, will be equally effective when a tourist's shopping time is adequate.

This paper proposes a new research agenda on resident consumption in tourism studies. Specifically, this paper breaks down the dual dichotomy of “rural-urban” and “destination-origin”, following the trend of shifting from production to consumption in rural studies focused on the Global South. This paper finds that rural residents pursue tastes that mismatch their relatively low status, reconceptualising destinations and residents. Furthermore, by bringing in the sociology of consumption, this paper unravels the intersection of tourism, social differentiation and consumption culture. Our qualitative study addresses these arguments by comparing three villages with the same socioeconomic conditions and different degrees of tourism development in Dali, China.

Grounded in the norm activation theory and the theory of planned behaviour, this study investigated antecedents of residents' active and passive opposition to tourism. Data were collected from 569 Fijian residents and analysed using covariance-based structural equation modelling. Results revealed that awareness of the problem was positively associated with ascribed responsibility for COVID-19 and residents' attitudes towards tourism opposition. Residents' responsibility for COVID-19 was positively associated with personal norms regarding tourism opposition. Personal norms, attitudes concerning tourism opposition and perceived behavioural control to oppose tourism were positively associated with residents' active and passive intention to oppose tourism. However, the association of these three factors were stronger for passive intention. Subjective norms regarding tourism opposition were positively associated with residents' passive intention to oppose tourism. Overall, these findings provide practitioners and policymakers with a more robust perspective to best plan for sustainable tourism in the throes of reviving the industry.

The degree to which many benefits of national parks are realized hinges on public access. Traditional methods in estimating park visitation can be time-consuming, costly, and labor-intensive. Fortunately, the growing availability of ‘big data’ offers new opportunities for rapid and large-scale estimation. This study investigated the spatiotemporal dynamics in visitation to all National Park Service (NPS) units in the contiguous U.S. and explored associated sociodemographic factors using fine-grained SafeGraph mobile device location data. We found that people tend to travel less frequently and in a shorter distance to visit NPS units in both 2020 and 2021 vs. 2019. During the pandemic, people preferred visiting national parks and nature-based NPS units over culture-oriented ones relative to pre-pandemic levels. Most importantly, this study highlights a long-standing social inequity – the groups of minorities (i.e., Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics) and lower-income were less likely to visit NPS units than Whites and higher-income, respectively.

Tourism marketing scholars have recently focused on the experiential development of services. As a sensory tool, music has not been exhaustively approached from a multidimensional perspective. The goal of this paper is to understand the role of music and audio in the development of emotional reaction studies in tourism marketing by integrating and summarizing academic contributions during the last 50 years (1970–2021). Qualitative Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis are used to show historical overview and academic tendencies, relevance, relations, and methodological developments. There is an increasing interest in the scope that relates music and emotions, with exponential growth in the last 10 years. Retailing, branding and environmental studies are the most common research areas of application, and SOR and causal models are the theoretical and methodological trends. This approach offers significant insights as it combines theoretical bases proceeding from complementary areas to tourism marketing, such as psychology or psychophysiology.

Winter sports tourism in the Alps remains competitive and challenges destinations to develop and offer new tourism products. Slope ski touring (SST) is an excellent example. In the Alps, this winter sport has been experiencing a tremendous boom. However, SST has been poorly examined in academia. Thus, we aimed to gain in-depth understanding of the SST phenomenon from both a supply and demand perspective by conducting two studies. In Study 1, we interviewed 26 experts to assess the relevance of SST and identify types of slope ski tourers as potential tourist segments. In Study 2, we questioned 6880 slope ski tourers and applied the motivation-opportunity-ability framework to understand why consumers engage in SST and what facilitators are important to them. This article contributes to existing knowledge by (1) analyzing potential SST target groups and their needs and (2) shedding light on the underlying typology and tourism potential of SST.

Technological advances continue to significantly change tourist information search behaviour. This paper revisits online tourist information search strategies by reconceptualising them as a combination of goals, approaches and online sources. Based on pre-trip and post-trip interviews and trip planning diaries, the paper investigates how tourists search for information online. An online tourist information search strategy framework is developed by considering how tourists integrate approaches and sources to meet their information search goals. The key contributions of the study are the redefinition of tourist information search strategy in an online context, a classification of sources that more suitably reflects online information-scapes, and the identification of interesting and often complex search patterns that suggest changes in information search strategies over the course of trip planning.

Although urbanization is a distinguishing element of the contemporary era, the current model of urban growth fundamentally modifies the perspective-competitive environment, frequently diminishing positive stakeholders' perceptions and, as a result, endangering heritage continuity and tourism. A more harmonic relationship should be considered in an innovative perspective-economic inter and intra-regional heritage site planning and design paradigm. This study, therefore, intends to identify important concepts and theories that could underpin this new paradigm through a rigorous literature assessment of 188 articles. Within the fields of growth, conservation, feedback, and neutrality hypotheses, theoretical and practical ramifications are examined. The integrated and holistic concluding research identifies notions of a required novel paradigm embodying the fundamental qualities encompassing stakeholder perception and competitiveness of heritage towns.