Pub Date : 2025-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104072
Tong Yang , Xun Xu , Jie Wu
This study investigates the impact of prohibiting the provision of disposables on hotel consumers' perceptions through natural field experiments. The empirical evidence is from 129,105 online reviews of hotels from Ctrip.com. Results uncover that prohibiting the provision of disposables can significantly increase the presence of customers' green discourse (i.e., green presence) and the depth of green discussions (i.e., green depth) in their online reviews. Such a practice negatively affects customer overall sentiment but not their overall satisfaction. Green presence and depth negatively contribute to overall sentiment, whereas green sentiment positively influences overall sentiment. Our findings offer insights for hotels to prohibit the provision of disposables to reduce operational costs while also enhancing consumers' green awareness and overall sentiment.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104077
Shaohua Wang , Bas Verschuuren , Amran Hamzah , Dani Blasco
This study examines how nature-based tourism and everyday life intertwine to shape meaning and personal transformation. Drawing on constructivist grounded theory and evidence from observations in four protected areas alongside thirty-eight interviews with Chinese tourists, it identifies a four-stage process of becoming: departing, encountering, returning, and transforming. Informed by Deleuzian philosophy, tourism is reimagined as an immanent and open-ended force embedded within the rhythms of everyday life rather than a temporary escape or quest for authenticity. Findings challenge binaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary, showing how subtle affective encounters can profoundly reshape self and world. The study proposes a more inclusive and ontologically grounded understanding of tourism, while questioning modernist, class-based assumptions.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104074
Georgiana Grigore , Mike Molesworth , Paul Baines
The focus on supporting conservation and encouraging related behaviours is changing the emotional experiences of zoos and related moral positions towards animal tourism. Drawing on Haidt's moral emotions and theories of moral judgement, we interpret depth-interviews with zoo stakeholders to theorise four moral positions: the renunciation of captivity to protect animal rights; acts of propitiation that gesture towards a nature that has been harmed; the vindication of animal captivity through arguments about education and species preservation; and valediction through visits to endangered species and habitats as inspiration for conservation. These positions highlight the need for zoos to consider a moral emotion-behaviour gap as part of their conservation work.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104066
Dave Cook , Olga Hannonen
This ethnographic study explores how digital nomads' engagement with a destination reshapes the traditional tourist gaze. This study uses Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a research case, through ethnographic observations and interviews with digital nomads and locals. The results show that the digital nomads' way of gazing includes the perception and anticipation of a destination as work- and productivity-friendly with required infrastructure, likeminded community with an exotic locale as a background and potential for recreational cultural activities. The study uncovers the paradox of the digital nomad gaze—although digital nomads seek deeper cultural involvement, their focus on productivity often hinders genuine engagement with the local environment.
{"title":"The digital nomad gaze: Ethnographic insights from Chiang Mai","authors":"Dave Cook , Olga Hannonen","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104066","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This ethnographic study explores how digital nomads' engagement with a destination reshapes the traditional tourist gaze. This study uses Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a research case, through ethnographic observations and interviews with digital nomads and locals. The results show that the digital nomads' way of gazing includes the perception and anticipation of a destination as work- and productivity-friendly with required infrastructure, likeminded community with an exotic locale as a background and potential for recreational cultural activities. The study uncovers the paradox of the digital nomad gaze—although digital nomads seek deeper cultural involvement, their focus on productivity often hinders genuine engagement with the local environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104066"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145616052","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 : 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104070
Yujie Zeng , Kun Zhang , Jiahong Wang , Aodong Xia , Xiaoyang Li
This study investigates how sensory perception shapes memorable tourism experiences by analyzing 284,587 user-generated texts. We developed a nine-dimensional framework that incorporates interoception, proprioception, kinesthesia, and thermoception, beyond the traditional five senses, as well as a semantic analysis protocol for identifying memorable tourism experiences. The results revealed: (1) Nine senses exhibit varying magnitudes on memorable tourism experiences; (2) sensory intensity and diversity respectively demonstrate a saturation effect and inverted U-shaped influence with memorable tourism experiences; (3) visual-auditory-kinesthetic and visual-kinesthetic-thermoceptive combination significantly enhance memorable tourism experiences. This study advances the theoretical understanding of tourism experiences by quantifying extended sensory dimensions and memorable tourism experiences while providing novel empirical evidence for the relationships between nine senses and memorable tourism experiences.
{"title":"Beyond five senses: Shaping memorable tourism experiences","authors":"Yujie Zeng , Kun Zhang , Jiahong Wang , Aodong Xia , Xiaoyang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104070","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how sensory perception shapes memorable tourism experiences by analyzing 284,587 user-generated texts. We developed a nine-dimensional framework that incorporates interoception, proprioception, kinesthesia, and thermoception, beyond the traditional five senses, as well as a semantic analysis protocol for identifying memorable tourism experiences. The results revealed: (1) Nine senses exhibit varying magnitudes on memorable tourism experiences; (2) sensory intensity and diversity respectively demonstrate a saturation effect and inverted U-shaped influence with memorable tourism experiences; (3) visual-auditory-kinesthetic and visual-kinesthetic-thermoceptive combination significantly enhance memorable tourism experiences. This study advances the theoretical understanding of tourism experiences by quantifying extended sensory dimensions and memorable tourism experiences while providing novel empirical evidence for the relationships between nine senses and memorable tourism experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104070"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145570320","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 : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104068
Madalyn A. Scerri , Anita Manfreda , Rajka Presbury , Andrea Comastri
This study advances theoretical understanding of social innovation in tourism and hospitality by conceptualising inclusive social innovation as a dynamic, embedded process. Drawing on 23 multi-stakeholder interviews and participatory observations within a disability-inclusive social enterprise employing people with disability, Hotel Etico, the study applies embeddedness as a theoretical lens to examine how inclusive social innovation is initiated and sustained for equitable and inclusive distribution of social value. Findings identify six mechanisms and four pathways through which actors co-create inclusive social value. By theorising embeddedness as processual and multi-dimensional, this research extends current frameworks of social innovation and offers a novel perspective on how inclusive social innovation can be embedded in hospitality social enterprise to drive systemic change.
{"title":"Inclusive social innovation for hospitality employment","authors":"Madalyn A. Scerri , Anita Manfreda , Rajka Presbury , Andrea Comastri","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study advances theoretical understanding of social innovation in tourism and hospitality by conceptualising inclusive social innovation as a dynamic, embedded process. Drawing on 23 multi-stakeholder interviews and participatory observations within a disability-inclusive social enterprise employing people with disability, Hotel Etico, the study applies embeddedness as a theoretical lens to examine how inclusive social innovation is initiated and sustained for equitable and inclusive distribution of social value. Findings identify six mechanisms and four pathways through which actors co-create inclusive social value. By theorising embeddedness as processual and multi-dimensional, this research extends current frameworks of social innovation and offers a novel perspective on how inclusive social innovation can be embedded in hospitality social enterprise to drive systemic change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"116 ","pages":"Article 104068"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145570321","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 : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104062
Jing (Jasper) Yu , Jose Weng Chou Wong
Eco-gamified donation provides a bottom-up alternative to traditional environmental philanthropy and supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in public-goods provision. However, the prevalence of its utilitarian designs may exacerbate the gap between environmental intention and actual behavior. Drawing on psychological ownership theory, five experiments (including eye-tracking) test two non-utilitarian elements: challenge and moral cues. Presenting a challenge or increasing its difficulty enhances psychological ownership of the environmental project and increases donation amounts; this effect is stronger when moralization activates both internal and external ethical drivers. This research extends psychological ownership theory to the public-goods domain and offers actionable digital incentive strategies for environmental philanthropy.
For a video summary of this paper, please visit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vHKIsTfn3W65T_fZpe-FfzU8Nq8nrnWm/view?usp=sharing
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Pub Date : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104067
Scott Cohen , Olga Hannonen
Lifestyle mobilities refers to ways of life oriented around ongoing geographic mobility. This article first provides a history of lifestyle mobilities and how it is analytically distinct. We turn to the state-of-the-art in lifestyle mobilities research through a focus on digital nomadism. Our emphasis is on lifestyle mobilities' relevance for tourism, its infrastructure and politicisation – via geopolitics, geoarbitrage and gentrification, and the need for greater research diversity. We map a future research agenda centred on tensions of transitioning out, precarity and emplacement. The article also launches the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on lifestyle mobilities. The Collection contains all past articles published in Annals of Tourism Research on the topic, and continues to grow as new articles are added.
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