Pub Date : 2025-04-14DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101363
Gi-Young Chae , Chul-Yong Lee
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Pub Date : 2025-04-08DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101360
Xiaoting Chi , Bin Zhang , Chengcai Tang , Heng Zhou , Heesup Han
With the ski tourism in continual recovery, ski destination performance and ski tourists' experience quality have become significant concerns for ski tourism attractiveness and competitiveness. This study employed qualitative and quantitative methods to identify the comprehensive ski destination attractiveness indicators (SDAIs), including psychometric semi-structured interviews, the Delphi technique, and three types of importance-performance analyses (IPAs). Considering the differences in tourist perceptions and behaviors before and after the pandemic, two separate IPAs were conducted for a comparative evaluation. The survey respondents were ski tourists in China and South Korea. The SDAIs included 13 dimensions, and the results of IPAs revealed compelling differences in ski tourists' perceptions concerning the importance and performance of SDAIs. This study provided significant theoretical and managerial guidance for improving both ski destination attractiveness and ski travel experience.
{"title":"Ski tourism and destination attractiveness: Two separate importance-performance analyses before and after the pandemic in Korean and Chinese markets","authors":"Xiaoting Chi , Bin Zhang , Chengcai Tang , Heng Zhou , Heesup Han","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101360","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101360","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the ski tourism in continual recovery, ski destination performance and ski tourists' experience quality have become significant concerns for ski tourism attractiveness and competitiveness. This study employed qualitative and quantitative methods to identify the comprehensive ski destination attractiveness indicators (SDAIs), including psychometric semi-structured interviews, the Delphi technique, and three types of importance-performance analyses (IPAs). Considering the differences in tourist perceptions and behaviors before and after the pandemic, two separate IPAs were conducted for a comparative evaluation. The survey respondents were ski tourists in China and South Korea. The SDAIs included 13 dimensions, and the results of IPAs revealed compelling differences in ski tourists' perceptions concerning the importance and performance of SDAIs. This study provided significant theoretical and managerial guidance for improving both ski destination attractiveness and ski travel experience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101360"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143791634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101359
Ningqiao Li , Fang Meng , Xiaonan Zhang , Bi Yang
Tourists' photo editing behavior has increasingly become an integral part in their travel activities, yet it has received limited research attention. This study aims to examine the impact of photo editing on tourists' experience evaluation and memorability, as well as the underlying mechanism of emotional arousal and the moderating effect of photo sharing on social media. This study employed one pre-study survey and four empirical experiments across different tourism settings (e.g., beach town, restaurant). The findings reveal that photo editing significantly improves tourists' overall evaluation and perceived memorability of the experience through heightened emotional arousal. Moreover, the effect of photo editing via emotional arousal is attenuated when people share photos on social media. This study enriches the theoretical understanding of tourist experiences mediated by photo editing technologies and updates the tourist gaze framework, while also offering valuable practical insights for hospitality businesses and destination marketers.
{"title":"Do virtual makeovers achieve a better trip? The role of tourists' photo editing and sharing behavior in experience evaluation and memorability","authors":"Ningqiao Li , Fang Meng , Xiaonan Zhang , Bi Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101359","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101359","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourists' photo editing behavior has increasingly become an integral part in their travel activities, yet it has received limited research attention. This study aims to examine the impact of photo editing on tourists' experience evaluation and memorability, as well as the underlying mechanism of emotional arousal and the moderating effect of photo sharing on social media. This study employed one pre-study survey and four empirical experiments across different tourism settings (e.g., beach town, restaurant). The findings reveal that photo editing significantly improves tourists' overall evaluation and perceived memorability of the experience through heightened emotional arousal. Moreover, the effect of photo editing via emotional arousal is attenuated when people share photos on social media. This study enriches the theoretical understanding of tourist experiences mediated by photo editing technologies and updates the tourist gaze framework, while also offering valuable practical insights for hospitality businesses and destination marketers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101359"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143738076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-12DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101351
Richard S. Aquino , Karla A. Boluk
While tourism social entrepreneurship (TSE) has been gaining the interest of tourism scholars, little is known about the extent of knowledge on TSE and how understanding this phenomenon may be advanced. To address these gaps, we conducted a framework-based scoping review of academic publications (N = 190) on this topic published from 2006 to 2023. We operationalised Gartner's (1985) framework for new venture creation comprising four dimensions namely individuals, organisations, environment, and processes, which we have extended to include a fifth dimension on impacts to further reflect the societal value of TSE. We found that knowledge of TSE is centred on processes, indicating a strong focus on the supply side of this tourism development approach and signalling critical knowledge gaps especially on individuals and impacts of TSE. We propose a conceptual model that shows the complexity and multidimensionality of TSE. Finally, we contribute a research agenda to advance knowledge of TSE.
旅游业社会企业家精神（tourism social entrepreneurship， TSE）一直受到旅游学者的关注，但人们对旅游业社会企业家精神的认识程度以及如何加深对这一现象的理解却知之甚少。为了解决这些差距，我们对2006年至2023年发表的关于该主题的学术出版物（N = 190）进行了基于框架的范围审查。我们将Gartner（1985）的新企业创建框架付诸实践，该框架由四个维度组成，即个人、组织、环境和流程，我们将其扩展到第五个维度，即影响，以进一步反映TSE的社会价值。我们发现，TSE的知识集中在过程上，表明了对这种旅游发展方法的供应方的强烈关注，并表明了关键的知识差距，特别是在个人和TSE的影响方面。我们提出了一个概念模型来显示TSE的复杂性和多维性。最后，我们提出了一个研究议程，以促进对TSE的认识。
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101349
Umut Uzar, Mucahid Samet Yılmaz
Tourism, vital for global economic recovery post-pandemic, receives extensive attention. While economic and socio-cultural factors dominate inbound tourism studies, the political dimension remains elusive. Limited research delves into the political economy of tourism, primarily focusing on institutions, neglecting freedom of expression's potential impact on international tourists' destination preferences. This study addresses this gap by examining the drivers of inbound tourism across 137 countries from 2002 to 2020 using the Two-way Fixed Effects estimator, focusing on freedom of expression. Political instability and economic indicators such as per capita income, trade, exchange rates, and foreign direct investment (FDI) are control variables. Results underscore freedom of expression's pivotal role in bolstering tourist arrivals, especially in low-income nations, while political instability impedes tourism. Income and trade openness are positively associated with tourist arrivals, contrasting with FDI and exchange rate findings. Policymakers should prioritize freedom of expression and stability to boost tourism.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101348
Hui Wang , Honggang Xu
Informal tour guides, particularly female ones, constitute a significant segment of informal employment in the tourism industry, yet they receive scant research attention. Butler's theory of gender performativity offers valuable insights into understanding how rural women become informal tour guides. Through interviews conducted in the rural tourism destination of Yangshuo, China, we discover that informal female guides undergo simultaneous transformations of two identities: to be an informal tour guide through taking on professional roles (pathfinders, information providers, and brokers) and further to become an informal female guide by assuming gender roles (fashion icons, persuaders, tourists' followers, and emotional providers). As these rural women ageing, both their professional and gender roles evolve. By exploring the identity formation process of informal female tour guides, our study not only enriches the existing body of literature on tour guide research but also develop gender performativity theory within the context of tourism.
{"title":"Becoming an informal female guide? From a gender performativity perspective","authors":"Hui Wang , Honggang Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101348","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101348","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Informal tour guides, particularly female ones, constitute a significant segment of informal employment in the tourism industry, yet they receive scant research attention. Butler's theory of gender performativity offers valuable insights into understanding how rural women become informal tour guides. Through interviews conducted in the rural tourism destination of Yangshuo, China, we discover that informal female guides undergo simultaneous transformations of two identities: to be an informal tour guide through taking on professional roles (pathfinders, information providers, and brokers) and further to become an informal female guide by assuming gender roles (fashion icons, persuaders, tourists' followers, and emotional providers). As these rural women ageing, both their professional and gender roles evolve. By exploring the identity formation process of informal female tour guides, our study not only enriches the existing body of literature on tour guide research but also develop gender performativity theory within the context of tourism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101348"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143511055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101350
Chenyue Zhao , Xiaojie Lin , Ganghua Chen
This research explores how celebrity endorsement informs fans' travel behavior, specifically how affection for celebrities (“love me”) compels fans to visit destinations these famous figures endorse (“love my destination”). Leveraging affect transfer theory and the match-up hypothesis, we executed a survey and an experiment to investigate this phenomenon. Results indicate that celebrity involvement and celebrity worship significantly shaped fans' travel intentions. Factors such as the destination's cognitive and affective images influenced these impacts, as did fans' place attachment. The conditional process analysis also revealed celebrity–destination congruence to moderate the link between celebrity involvement (or celebrity worship) and travel intention, which place attachment mediated. This research enriches affect transfer theory and the match-up hypothesis by enhancing understanding of the integrative emotional transfer process of fan tourists. It also offers implications for DMOs to leverage fan affection by creating emotionally engaging experiences and carefully aligning celebrity endorsements with destination image.
{"title":"“Love me, love my destination”: How fans' affection for a celebrity influences their intentions to visit an endorsed destination","authors":"Chenyue Zhao , Xiaojie Lin , Ganghua Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101350","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101350","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research explores how celebrity endorsement informs fans' travel behavior, specifically how affection for celebrities (“love me”) compels fans to visit destinations these famous figures endorse (“love my destination”). Leveraging affect transfer theory and the match-up hypothesis, we executed a survey and an experiment to investigate this phenomenon. Results indicate that celebrity involvement and celebrity worship significantly shaped fans' travel intentions. Factors such as the destination's cognitive and affective images influenced these impacts, as did fans' place attachment. The conditional process analysis also revealed celebrity–destination congruence to moderate the link between celebrity involvement (or celebrity worship) and travel intention, which place attachment mediated. This research enriches affect transfer theory and the match-up hypothesis by enhancing understanding of the integrative emotional transfer process of fan tourists. It also offers implications for DMOs to leverage fan affection by creating emotionally engaging experiences and carefully aligning celebrity endorsements with destination image.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101350"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143534348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study examines the process and politics of heritage-based authentication from the perspective of supply-side stakeholders in the context of traditional food in Suzhou, a heritage city in China. Research data were collected through semi-structured interviews with food and tourism stakeholders and participant observation at food production and consumption sites. Analysis of interview data and field notes reveals how the stakeholders establish the legitimacy of traditional food attractions and experiences and engage in negotiating authenticity through certification (“Time-honoured Brand”) and performativity, i.e., the veneration of iconic geographical settings, the amplification of culinary traditions, and the interaction between suppliers and visitors. In this negotiation, restaurateurs and tourism providers emerge as more influential stakeholders compared to other stakeholders, while food producers tend to occupy a less privileged position, primarily because of a gap in traditional food knowledge and their restricted access to tourism markets. By recognising the voices of different producers and suppliers, this study provides insights into the role of power and privilege in the authentication of food experiences.
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Debates regarding the silencing of minorities and the marginalisation of those colonised is not new. The process of perpetuating colonialism is seen in the narratives regarding immigration of those from the global North who occupied places and spaces in the global South. To critically analyse the discursive reality of tourist routes in the three states forming the Southern region of Brazil, we conducted documentary research on the 50 tourism routes in Southern Brazil. The Critical Discourse Analysis reveals that colonial narratives used in the promotion of tourism routes are contributing to silencing non-European voices and perpetuating a systemic marginalisation of Indigenous and Quilombola groups.
{"title":"Settler colonialism and tourism routes in Southern Brazil","authors":"Sandro Carnicelli , Sarah Marroni Minasi , Vander Valduga , Alessandro Manzoni","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Debates regarding the silencing of minorities and the marginalisation of those colonised is not new. The process of perpetuating colonialism is seen in the narratives regarding immigration of those from the global North who occupied places and spaces in the global South. To critically analyse the discursive reality of tourist routes in the three states forming the Southern region of Brazil, we conducted documentary research on the 50 tourism routes in Southern Brazil. The Critical Discourse Analysis reveals that colonial narratives used in the promotion of tourism routes are contributing to silencing non-European voices and perpetuating a systemic marginalisation of Indigenous and Quilombola groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101347"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143427981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural tourism has the potential to foster significant tourist transformation, yet the concept of transformative value in cultural tourism and its relationship with tourist eudaimonic well-being remain underexplored. Through in-depth interviews with 29 tourists who experienced transformation after a cultural tourism experience, this study clarified the key components of transformative value. Following a rigorous scale development process, this study adopted a survey methodology to develop a reliable measurement scale for transformative value. Applying structural equation modeling, the study also investigated how transformative value affects tourist eudaimonic well-being. The findings revealed that transformative value in cultural tourism is a multidimensional construct, comprising personal self-enhancement, transpersonal self-expansiveness, cultural identification, and cultural knowledge acquisition. Self-reflection promoted transformative value. With the exception of transpersonal self-expansiveness, these dimensions significantly impacted upon eudaimonic well-being. The findings underscore the significance of creating transformative value in cultural tourism. This study also provides a robust tool for the measurement of tourists perceived transformative value, which can be used to explore antecedents and consequences. Practical insights for destination managers and service providers are also offered. By applying the scale, managers can assess and enhance offerings to enhance transformative values such as personal growth and cultural immersion, ultimately fostering eudaimonic well-being.
{"title":"Transformative value in cultural tourism: Scale development and its impact on tourist eudaimonic well-being","authors":"Yundan Zheng , Xiaoyun Han , Jialin (Snow) Wu , Limin Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101346","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101346","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cultural tourism has the potential to foster significant tourist transformation, yet the concept of transformative value in cultural tourism and its relationship with tourist eudaimonic well-being remain underexplored. Through in-depth interviews with 29 tourists who experienced transformation after a cultural tourism experience, this study clarified the key components of transformative value. Following a rigorous scale development process, this study adopted a survey methodology to develop a reliable measurement scale for transformative value. Applying structural equation modeling, the study also investigated how transformative value affects tourist eudaimonic well-being. The findings revealed that transformative value in cultural tourism is a multidimensional construct, comprising personal self-enhancement, transpersonal self-expansiveness, cultural identification, and cultural knowledge acquisition. Self-reflection promoted transformative value. With the exception of transpersonal self-expansiveness, these dimensions significantly impacted upon eudaimonic well-being. The findings underscore the significance of creating transformative value in cultural tourism. This study also provides a robust tool for the measurement of tourists perceived transformative value, which can be used to explore antecedents and consequences. Practical insights for destination managers and service providers are also offered. By applying the scale, managers can assess and enhance offerings to enhance transformative values such as personal growth and cultural immersion, ultimately fostering eudaimonic well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101346"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143403640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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