Pub Date : 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104106
Fenfen Jiang , Carol Xiaoyue Zhang , Scott McCabe
Ethical and responsible tourism have been widely examined, yet there is little research exploring emotional consequences of tourists' morally questionable actions. By focusing on regret experiences, this study aims to understand how tourists perceive and reflect on the morality of their behaviour. The research draws on naturalistic data from 82 travel blogs that reveal how regret experiences reflect moral consciousness and explains how regret is constructed as a moral emotional experience, developing from negative affect of moral judgement (i.e., empathy, unease, shock/surprise) to a negative sense of self through moral reflection (i.e., guilt, self-disappointment/shame). Tourists' regret experience goes beyond counterfactual thinking, highlighting its dynamic nature in response to different moral concerns in tourism interactions, offering insights for theory and practice.
{"title":"Tourists' regret as moral emotional experience","authors":"Fenfen Jiang , Carol Xiaoyue Zhang , Scott McCabe","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ethical and responsible tourism have been widely examined, yet there is little research exploring emotional consequences of tourists' morally questionable actions. By focusing on regret experiences, this study aims to understand how tourists perceive and reflect on the morality of their behaviour. The research draws on naturalistic data from 82 travel blogs that reveal how regret experiences reflect moral consciousness and explains how regret is constructed as a moral emotional experience, developing from negative affect of moral judgement (i.e., empathy, unease, shock/surprise) to a negative sense of self through moral reflection (i.e., guilt, self-disappointment/shame). Tourists' regret experience goes beyond counterfactual thinking, highlighting its dynamic nature in response to different moral concerns in tourism interactions, offering insights for theory and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104106"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104108
Jaume Guia , Natàlia Ferrer-Roca , Dani Blasco
This commentary reframes posthumanist theory's influence on tourism as impact-in-progress: a gradual reconditioning of practices, temporalities and institutional sensibilities rather than a set of measurable outcomes. Instead of expecting concepts to apply linearly to practice, we foreground theory–practice relays where concepts and practices co-compose one another. We draw on early work with regenerative living labs, situated industry collaborations and curriculum design to show how specific relational and temporal settings allow conceptual work to alter pacing, sequencing, attention and responsibility in situated ways across Global North and Global South contexts. Impact emerges not as discrete outputs but as the slow recomposition of tourism worlds from within.
{"title":"Posthumanist theory and tourism practice: From performance indicators to impact-in-progress","authors":"Jaume Guia , Natàlia Ferrer-Roca , Dani Blasco","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104108","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104108","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This commentary reframes posthumanist theory's influence on tourism as impact-in-progress: a gradual reconditioning of practices, temporalities and institutional sensibilities rather than a set of measurable outcomes. Instead of expecting concepts to apply linearly to practice, we foreground theory–practice relays where concepts and practices co-compose one another. We draw on early work with regenerative living labs, situated industry collaborations and curriculum design to show how specific relational and temporal settings allow conceptual work to alter pacing, sequencing, attention and responsibility in situated ways across Global North and Global South contexts. Impact emerges not as discrete outputs but as the slow recomposition of tourism worlds from within.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104108"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104099
Zhi Qin Tan , Yunpeng Li
Tourism forecasting plays a critical role in the tourism industry, enabling strategic planning for diverse stakeholders. However, it is a challenging task influenced by numerous factors. This study investigates the development of automated, data-driven approaches, by introducing an ensemble model that combines two forecasting methods of recurrent neural networks. It integrates COVID-19-related explanatory variables and automatically learns the spatial relationship across destinations. The model outperformed benchmark methods in forecasting China's outbound tourism to twenty destinations before and during COVID-19, using data from 1989 to 2022. Subsequently, our approach achieved 1.4723 mean absolute scaled error and third runner-up for the Point Forecasting Track in Tourism Forecasting Competition amid COVID-19 Round II, for the forecast period between August 2023 and July 2024.
{"title":"Post-pandemic tourism forecasting with ensemble RNN","authors":"Zhi Qin Tan , Yunpeng Li","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourism forecasting plays a critical role in the tourism industry, enabling strategic planning for diverse stakeholders. However, it is a challenging task influenced by numerous factors. This study investigates the development of automated, data-driven approaches, by introducing an ensemble model that combines two forecasting methods of recurrent neural networks. It integrates COVID-19-related explanatory variables and automatically learns the spatial relationship across destinations. The model outperformed benchmark methods in forecasting China's outbound tourism to twenty destinations before and during COVID-19, using data from 1989 to 2022. Subsequently, our approach achieved 1.4723 mean absolute scaled error and third runner-up for the Point Forecasting Track in Tourism Forecasting Competition amid COVID-19 Round II, for the forecast period between August 2023 and July 2024.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104099"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104089
Jingrui Li , Weihong Xie , Jianzhou Wang , Jialu Gao , Linyue Zhang , Jiyang Wang , Shoujiang Li
Given the suddenness and unpredictability of “Black Swan” events causing severe fluctuations in tourism, it is crucial to accurately predict tourist arrivals. This study developed a method combining multifactor modeling to solve this challenge. Because of the complex factors affecting tourism such as economy, policy, and behavioral preferences, particularly pandemics, an innovative tourism recovery coefficient was formulated. Furthermore, a combined prediction framework was built considering correlations and changes by screening variables and models. Empirical results revealed that this work considered systematic analysis and dynamic prediction of the influencing factors of tourism demand and improved the prediction accuracy. It provided policymakers with a flexible tool for predicting tourism, highlighting the importance of integrating variables and adjustment mechanisms in post-crisis tourism forecasting.
{"title":"Forecasting tourism recovery with multifactor insights – A case of post-pandemic Chinese outbound tourism","authors":"Jingrui Li , Weihong Xie , Jianzhou Wang , Jialu Gao , Linyue Zhang , Jiyang Wang , Shoujiang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the suddenness and unpredictability of “Black Swan” events causing severe fluctuations in tourism, it is crucial to accurately predict tourist arrivals. This study developed a method combining multifactor modeling to solve this challenge. Because of the complex factors affecting tourism such as economy, policy, and behavioral preferences, particularly pandemics, an innovative tourism recovery coefficient was formulated. Furthermore, a combined prediction framework was built considering correlations and changes by screening variables and models. Empirical results revealed that this work considered systematic analysis and dynamic prediction of the influencing factors of tourism demand and improved the prediction accuracy. It provided policymakers with a flexible tool for predicting tourism, highlighting the importance of integrating variables and adjustment mechanisms in post-crisis tourism forecasting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104089"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104100
Zixi (Lavi) Peng , Anna Mattila
As conversational AI integrates into tourism services, understanding its impact on prosocial behaviors is crucial. This research examines how AI modality (voice vs. text) influences tourists' prosocial decisions. Across four studies, voice-based AI evoked greater anticipated guilt, leading to increased prosocial behavior. Moreover, priming tourists' self-focused attention during text-based interactions amplifies anticipated guilt and prosocial responses, making them comparable to those elicited by voice-based AI. Additionally, modality effects emerge only when AI uses a human-like conversational style, not a machine-like one. These findings extend tourism AI literature by revealing how AI's communication modality shapes tourists' self-conscious emotions and prosocial behaviors. This study also provides actionable insights for tourism providers to design AI that effectively promotes sustainable and socially responsible behavior.
{"title":"How AI modality shapes tourists' prosocial behaviors","authors":"Zixi (Lavi) Peng , Anna Mattila","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104100","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104100","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As conversational AI integrates into tourism services, understanding its impact on prosocial behaviors is crucial. This research examines how AI modality (voice vs. text) influences tourists' prosocial decisions. Across four studies, voice-based AI evoked greater anticipated guilt, leading to increased prosocial behavior. Moreover, priming tourists' self-focused attention during text-based interactions amplifies anticipated guilt and prosocial responses, making them comparable to those elicited by voice-based AI. Additionally, modality effects emerge only when AI uses a human-like conversational style, not a machine-like one. These findings extend tourism AI literature by revealing how AI's communication modality shapes tourists' self-conscious emotions and prosocial behaviors. This study also provides actionable insights for tourism providers to design AI that effectively promotes sustainable and socially responsible behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104100"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-16DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104104
Yaoqi Li
{"title":"Practical Relevance: The Path to Impact the Real World","authors":"Yaoqi Li","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104104","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104104"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-16DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104101
Tin Doan , Luong Ta , Trong-Hop Cao , Mai Nguyen , Tom Baum
This paper addresses the mediating role of tour guides in educating tourists in climate sensitive regions. This role can be crucial in educating tourists about climate change and promoting environmentally responsible behaviour. However, tour guides frequently work under precarious employment conditions, such as freelancers, casual workers, or task-based labourers, which offer limited job security, benefits, or formal employment rights. Climate sensitivity offers opportunity to add meaning to work that tour guides undertake. Employing agency theory, this study addresses the gap in understanding how tour guides find meaning in their work as climate change advocates through indepth interviews with 43 casual-work tour guides. Findings reveal tour guides in climate-sensitive regions find significant meaning in their work as climate change advocates.
{"title":"Tour guides as climate change agents: Conceptualizing meaningful work through agency theory in precarious employment","authors":"Tin Doan , Luong Ta , Trong-Hop Cao , Mai Nguyen , Tom Baum","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper addresses the mediating role of tour guides in educating tourists in climate sensitive regions. This role can be crucial in educating tourists about climate change and promoting environmentally responsible behaviour. However, tour guides frequently work under precarious employment conditions, such as freelancers, casual workers, or task-based labourers, which offer limited job security, benefits, or formal employment rights. Climate sensitivity offers opportunity to add meaning to work that tour guides undertake. Employing agency theory, this study addresses the gap in understanding how tour guides find meaning in their work as climate change advocates through indepth interviews with 43 casual-work tour guides. Findings reveal tour guides in climate-sensitive regions find significant meaning in their work as climate change advocates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104101"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104103
XuDong (Oliver) Qiu , Scott Cohen , Jonathan Skinner
This study advances the theorisation of sex in tourism by conceptualising extradyadic sex as a form of touristic leisure amongst queer men using Grindr during travel. Drawing on 26 in-depth interviews, it identifies two types of sexual non-monogamy – monogamish and open – to examine how mobility, anonymity, and digital mediation enables situational disinhibition and the negotiation of intimacy, pleasure, and relational ethics beyond monogamous norms. Grindr functions as a socio-sexual infrastructure through which extradyadic encounters generate emotional (un)availability and resistance as well as risk, escapism, and validation. Framing extradyadic sex in tourism as a digital-situational assemblage of intimacy moves tourism scholarship beyond the monogamy-promiscuity binary, revealing how queer tourists reconfigure intimacy, desire, and wellbeing through travel.
{"title":"Sexual non-monogamy in tourism","authors":"XuDong (Oliver) Qiu , Scott Cohen , Jonathan Skinner","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104103","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104103","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study advances the theorisation of sex in tourism by conceptualising extradyadic sex as a form of touristic leisure amongst queer men using Grindr during travel. Drawing on 26 in-depth interviews, it identifies two types of sexual non-monogamy – monogamish and open – to examine how mobility, anonymity, and digital mediation enables situational disinhibition and the negotiation of intimacy, pleasure, and relational ethics beyond monogamous norms. Grindr functions as a socio-sexual infrastructure through which extradyadic encounters generate emotional (un)availability and resistance as well as risk, escapism, and validation. Framing extradyadic sex in tourism as a digital-situational assemblage of intimacy moves tourism scholarship beyond the monogamy-promiscuity binary, revealing how queer tourists reconfigure intimacy, desire, and wellbeing through travel.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104103"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104097
Yilin Luo , Jiuxia Sun
We investigate couple businesses in rural tourism and their implications for family functioning. Through in-depth interviews across five communities in Yangshuo and reflexive thematic analysis, we identify three structural characteristics of couple businesses: 1) task diversification to manage seasonal fluctuations; 2) collaborative patterns based on family roles; and 3) self-replicating domestic-workplace dynamics. We propose a frame in which the interaction of these characteristics enhances family cohesion, adaptability, and connectivity. We introduce “connectivity,” a crucial dimension of family functioning that sustains multigenerational family unity and fosters place-based cohesion. Our insights advance theoretical frameworks on work–family integration in rural tourism employment and underscore how tourism sustains rural familial structures, ultimately contributing to the discourse on family entrepreneurship and family functioning.
{"title":"Constructing the “we”: Rural tourism couple businesses","authors":"Yilin Luo , Jiuxia Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate couple businesses in rural tourism and their implications for family functioning. Through in-depth interviews across five communities in Yangshuo and reflexive thematic analysis, we identify three structural characteristics of couple businesses: 1) task diversification to manage seasonal fluctuations; 2) collaborative patterns based on family roles; and 3) self-replicating domestic-workplace dynamics. We propose a frame in which the interaction of these characteristics enhances family cohesion, adaptability, and connectivity. We introduce “connectivity,” a crucial dimension of family functioning that sustains multigenerational family unity and fosters place-based cohesion. Our insights advance theoretical frameworks on work–family integration in rural tourism employment and underscore how tourism sustains rural familial structures, ultimately contributing to the discourse on family entrepreneurship and family functioning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104097"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-13DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104098
Lin Li , Scott McCabe , Megan Burnett , Chunxiao Li
Tourism often includes temporal dimensions due to time differences between booking and travel, leading to future imaginings and anticipations of both the journey and its positive outcomes upon returning home. Yet, we know little about the dynamic or bi-directional of these projection processes. This study introduces “anticipated nostalgia” to tourism research, revealing these bidirectional mental time-travel processes and their influence on tourist decision-making. Employing a constructivist cognitive framework and a grounded theory approach from psychology, our findings suggest that anticipated nostalgia acts as a cognitive heuristic, enhancing travel impulsivity, shaping prospective memories, and influencing proactive memory behaviors. We identify key factors influencing anticipated nostalgia, showing how prospective memory helps understand tourists' imaginative engagement with the future and therefore, decision-making processes.
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