Pub Date : 2025-10-14DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104040
Astrid Nørfelt , Florian Kock , Sebastian Filep
This narrative review identifies and critically discusses the key research streams which have shaped tourism psychology research. The review finds that cognitive, social, environmental, positive, and evolutionary psychology have significantly contributed to the current developments of tourism psychology. However, tourism research drawing on each of these branches of psychology has not met its full potential. The review identifies four current challenges in the field: (1) an overreliance on specific theories, (2) misrepresentations of modern psychology concepts and theories, (3) a lack of adaptation of psychology theories to tourism, and (4) a lack of research on non-tourist stakeholders. The paper offers suggestions on how these challenges can be addressed to further develop the field.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104044
Roman Egger , Joanne Yu
This paper examines the epistemological challenges arising from the integration of data-intensive methods in tourism research. By focusing on the tensions between traditional theory-driven approaches, and the incorporation of data-driven and model-driven methods, this conceptual study explores how the growing popularity of data influences theory development and the generalisability of findings. Furthermore, this paper outlines a conceptual framework that integrates data-driven and model-driven approaches with tourism research. Rather than presenting a fully elaborated model, it offers guiding dimensions to help researchers navigate data-intensive studies while maintaining scientific rigor and ethical integrity. Emphasising the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and the use of flexible theoretical constructs, this study advocates for a balanced approach that merges domain knowledge with data exploration to ensure robust applications in this rapidly evolving landscape.
{"title":"Epistemological challenges at data-theory intersection","authors":"Roman Egger , Joanne Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104044","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the epistemological challenges arising from the integration of data-intensive methods in tourism research. By focusing on the tensions between traditional theory-driven approaches, and the incorporation of data-driven and model-driven methods, this conceptual study explores how the growing popularity of data influences theory development and the generalisability of findings. Furthermore, this paper outlines a conceptual framework that integrates data-driven and model-driven approaches with tourism research. Rather than presenting a fully elaborated model, it offers guiding dimensions to help researchers navigate data-intensive studies while maintaining scientific rigor and ethical integrity. Emphasising the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and the use of flexible theoretical constructs, this study advocates for a balanced approach that merges domain knowledge with data exploration to ensure robust applications in this rapidly evolving landscape.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104044"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145267166","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 : 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104043
Soonchan Park
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Pub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104041
Xing (Stella) Liu , Xiaonan Li , Rob Law
Robot implementation in the workplace brings challenges for the employee management. This research explores how robots' involvement in organizational rituals shapes organizational culture dynamics. Five studies focusing on the employees in hospitality and tourism industries showed that a high level of robot involvement in organizational rituals cultivates organizational citizenship behavior and team cohesion. Because of the close psychological distance shaped by robot involvement in organizational rituals, human employees likely treat robots as in-group members and then show in-group favoritism to them, which is manifested by team cohesion and organizational citizenship behavior. These findings help illuminate how employees and robots work collaboratively in the hotel and tourism sectors and offer practical guidance for managing employee–robot relationships in the digital transformation.
{"title":"Leveraging rituals to boost unity of employee-robot team","authors":"Xing (Stella) Liu , Xiaonan Li , Rob Law","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Robot implementation in the workplace brings challenges for the employee management. This research explores how robots' involvement in organizational rituals shapes organizational culture dynamics. Five studies focusing on the employees in hospitality and tourism industries showed that a high level of robot involvement in organizational rituals cultivates organizational citizenship behavior and team cohesion. Because of the close psychological distance shaped by robot involvement in organizational rituals, human employees likely treat robots as in-group members and then show in-group favoritism to them, which is manifested by team cohesion and organizational citizenship behavior. These findings help illuminate how employees and robots work collaboratively in the hotel and tourism sectors and offer practical guidance for managing employee–robot relationships in the digital transformation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104041"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145267293","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}
The rise of mass tourism has led to overtourism, where visitor numbers surpass a destination's sustainable capacity, causing environmental degradation, resource overuse, and social tensions. This study introduces a novel tourism intensity index tailored for small littoral towns, using the Cinque Terre (Italy) as a case study. Employing the Peña Distance method (DP2), the research quantifies tourism pressure and provides a framework for assessing overtourism risks. The resulting index aids in identifying policy interventions and strategies to mitigate overtourism, fostering long-term sustainability for vulnerable destinations. This approach offers a quantitative tool to address the critical challenges posed by overtourism, with implications for sustainable tourism management in similar contexts globally.
{"title":"A proposal for an overtourism index","authors":"Claudia Burlando , Enrico Musso , Tiziano Pavanini , Susanna Traversa","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rise of mass tourism has led to overtourism, where visitor numbers surpass a destination's sustainable capacity, causing environmental degradation, resource overuse, and social tensions. This study introduces a novel tourism intensity index tailored for small littoral towns, using the Cinque Terre (Italy) as a case study. Employing the Peña Distance method (DP2), the research quantifies tourism pressure and provides a framework for assessing overtourism risks. The resulting index aids in identifying policy interventions and strategies to mitigate overtourism, fostering long-term sustainability for vulnerable destinations. This approach offers a quantitative tool to address the critical challenges posed by overtourism, with implications for sustainable tourism management in similar contexts globally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104042"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145227147","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 : 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104038
Jaume Rosselló-Nadal , Andreu Sansó-Rosselló
Tourist research heavily relies on quantitative approaches, particularly on-site surveys, to gather data on behaviour, preferences, motivations, and satisfaction. While on-site surveys offer immediate and context-specific responses, their location significantly impacts data accuracy. This study highlights the bias introduced when surveys are conducted at tourist attractions rather than border points, as selection probabilities vary based on tourists' lengths of stay. The research demonstrates how this bias distorts estimations of tourist behaviour. The findings challenge the validity of past studies using non-border surveys and propose correction methods. Ultimately, the study calls for a reconsideration of empirical tourism research methodologies to ensure unbiased and reliable data collection or to weigh properly the data when the sample is biased.
{"title":"Sampling in tourism: The length of stay bias","authors":"Jaume Rosselló-Nadal , Andreu Sansó-Rosselló","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104038","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourist research heavily relies on quantitative approaches, particularly on-site surveys, to gather data on behaviour, preferences, motivations, and satisfaction. While on-site surveys offer immediate and context-specific responses, their location significantly impacts data accuracy. This study highlights the bias introduced when surveys are conducted at tourist attractions rather than border points, as selection probabilities vary based on tourists' lengths of stay. The research demonstrates how this bias distorts estimations of tourist behaviour. The findings challenge the validity of past studies using non-border surveys and propose correction methods. Ultimately, the study calls for a reconsideration of empirical tourism research methodologies to ensure unbiased and reliable data collection or to weigh properly the data when the sample is biased.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104038"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145227047","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 : 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104039
Kelen Cristina Duarte , Christine N. Buzinde , Marlusa de Sevilha Gosling
This study examines how Global South female solo travelers discursively (dis)engage colonial structures through online travel narratives. Although there is a substantial body of research on tourism and coloniality, few scholars have examined these concepts through a gendered perspective, using a decolonial framework. This interpretive study draws on a decolonial lens and textual analysis to examine blogs created by three solo female travelers, with roots in the Global South. The findings indicate that the three solo travelers discursively re-signify their Identity, express their Agency, and advocate for Inclusive Tourism. A key contribution of this study is its demonstration of how decolonial practices manifest in everyday life and touristic spaces.
{"title":"The contestation of colonial structures: The case of female solo travelers","authors":"Kelen Cristina Duarte , Christine N. Buzinde , Marlusa de Sevilha Gosling","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how Global South female solo travelers discursively (dis)engage colonial structures through online travel narratives. Although there is a substantial body of research on tourism and coloniality, few scholars have examined these concepts through a gendered perspective, using a decolonial framework. This interpretive study draws on a decolonial lens and textual analysis to examine blogs created by three solo female travelers, with roots in the Global South. The findings indicate that the three solo travelers discursively re-signify their <em>Identity</em>, express their <em>Agency</em>, and advocate for <em>Inclusive Tourism</em>. A key contribution of this study is its demonstration of how decolonial practices manifest in everyday life and touristic spaces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104039"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145227146","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 : 2025-09-29DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104032
Macaicuo Bai , Songshan (Sam) Huang , Zhiyong Li , Zhilong Si , Rui Cui
Tourism can offer restorative and transformative experiences that enhance people's well-being. However, the process of translating travel-related restoration into transformation is unclear. This study employed a grounded theory approach to explore the socio-psychological mechanisms of tourists experiencing a transition from restoration to transformation. We analyzed 35 in-depth interviews with domestic tourists visiting Tibet, a destination with rich natural and cultural endowments. Both nature-based and culture-based restorative qualities were identified; authenticity and awe represent novel additions to the literature. Tourists' motivations and reflection played critical roles in the restoration–transformation transition: while motivations primarily determined restorative perceptions, reflection served as a gateway to transformation.
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This review of research into Arctic Tourism launches the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on Arctic Tourism. Instead of dwelling on the question of what Arctic tourism is, the review proceeds to inquire how the Arctic comes to matter for tourism research and what we, as scholars and practitioners of tourism, can learn from a focus on the Arctic. By discussing what the authors believe are the most relevant and dominant research traits—climate change, the wilderness, posthumanism, Arctic adventures, indigenous tourism and different selling strategies—the review illustrates that despite the historical images of the Arctic, it nowadays matters to tourism research increasingly as a relational, dynamic, fluid and negotiated topic of interest.
{"title":"A review of research into Arctic tourism","authors":"Outi Rantala , Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson , Carina Ren , Kaarina Tervo-Kankare","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This review of research into Arctic Tourism launches the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on Arctic Tourism. Instead of dwelling on the question of what Arctic tourism is, the review proceeds to inquire how the Arctic comes to matter for tourism research and what we, as scholars and practitioners of tourism, can learn from a focus on the Arctic. By discussing what the authors believe are the most relevant and dominant research traits—climate change, the wilderness, posthumanism, Arctic adventures, indigenous tourism and different selling strategies—the review illustrates that despite the historical images of the Arctic, it nowadays matters to tourism research increasingly as a relational, dynamic, fluid and negotiated topic of interest.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104031"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145118223","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 : 2025-09-23DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104036
Sonia Messori , Alessandro Fedele , Paolo Figini
Destination cards have been recognized as effective tools for promoting tourism destinations. However, their role as mechanisms for coordinating tourism service providers within the destination remains underexplored. We address this gap by developing an enriched version of the Hotelling price competition model to investigate the welfare effect of destination cards. We assume that a destination with two price-setting attractions and one complementary good (transportation) introduces a card offering discounts on attractions and free access to local transportation. We find that the card is welfare-improving, although it also alters the pricing strategy of the attractions and, under certain conditions, might reduce tourist surplus.
{"title":"The economics of destination cards","authors":"Sonia Messori , Alessandro Fedele , Paolo Figini","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Destination cards have been recognized as effective tools for promoting tourism destinations. However, their role as mechanisms for coordinating tourism service providers within the destination remains underexplored. We address this gap by developing an enriched version of the Hotelling price competition model to investigate the welfare effect of destination cards. We assume that a destination with two price-setting attractions and one complementary good (transportation) introduces a card offering discounts on attractions and free access to local transportation. We find that the card is welfare-improving, although it also alters the pricing strategy of the attractions and, under certain conditions, might reduce tourist surplus.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104036"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145118225","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}