Pub Date : 2025-09-17DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104035
Jonathan Goodson, David Jarratt
This article employs autoethnography and the lieux d'imagination framework to critique the experience of walking a Media Tourism trail based on a historical novel, expanding beyond the usual focus on purely fictional works. The historical fiction of The Gallows Pole blurs with complementary West Yorkshire landscapes, physical markers and heritage to produce a historically-informed place of imagination. This distinctive variant of lieux d'imagination is characterised by a sense of rootedness and connection to the past, grounded in the belief that the narrative, or something similar, occurred. This belief shapes a meaningful imaginative experience, offering the lure of the real. A conceptual framework identifies elements of both historically-informed and fiction-based media that inform and distinguish corresponding tourist experiences.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-17DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104030
P.P. Anjusha , Prachi Thakur , Clifford Lewis , Toney K. Thomas
This study integrates travel constraints and stigma to understand how stigma informs travel constraints of LGBTQ+ Indians. In doing so, it contributes perspectives from a collectivist society helping to nuance literature on LGBTQ+ travel. Seventeen qualitative interviews were conducted with LGBTQ+ who had an interest in travel. The findings highlight one's lived experience in India, combined with previous travel experiences, informed unique notions of social, structural and internalised stigma. This in turn contributed to real and perceived travel constraints. Intrapersonal constraints included the need for heightened vigilance, self-blame, and compulsion to fit in. Interpersonal constraints comprised of concerns for safety, bringing dishonour to the travel group, and restrictions/exclusions from accessing services. Finally, structural constraints included gender identification documents and cost.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-13DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104034
Roshis Krishna Shrestha , Tara Lal Shrestha , Lisa Ruhanen , Abbie Gayle Johnson
This study explores how Indigenous tourism workers navigate precarious tourism work during a polycrisis by constructing meaning through identity work shaped by existential anxiety and spiritual resilience. Drawing on Butler's view of precarity, it employs a multi-modal qualitative approach across four mountainous regions in Nepal. Underpinned by interpretive phenomenological approach, insights from field visits conducted between February 2022 and December 2024 reveal a three-stage process, involving the pursuit of selfhood while navigating the burdens of freedom and responsibility. The findings demonstrate the salience of Indigenous spiritual resilience, enabling culturally empowered approaches to alternative organising during polycrisis and precarity. Practically, the findings underscore the need for tourism stakeholders to acknowledge the affective and psychological dimensions of precarity in Indigenous tourism work.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104020
Yi Liu , Jing Wang , Kaixuan Huang , Yuan (William) Li , Lisa C. Wan
High participation and empowerment have generally been regarded as a promising guarantee for sustainable community tourism. However, drawing on ten years of fieldwork at two cultural World Heritage Sites in China, Xidi and Hong, this paper presents a paradox of this case. A promising mode of community tourism failed in Xidi, while a seemingly exploitative model succeeded in the neighboring village of Hong. Through the analytical framework of embeddedness, this paper argues that the sustainability of community tourism development depends on whether industrial upgrading is achieved to meet the economic-growth imperative of the villagers. This paper provides a new explanation beyond the indigenous versus exogenous dichotomy. It contributes to tourism studies by offering a more balanced perspective on sustainability.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104021
Brana Jianu , Iis P. Tussyadiah , Graham Miller
This study proposes that the humanisation of algorithmic management systems can emerge through the organisational sociomaterial dynamics, co-created through practice. Drawing on 30 semi-structured interviews with hospitality and algorithmic management stakeholders, and public documents analysis, we propose a framework of algorithmic management in hospitality workplaces as a sociomaterial accomplishment. We show that managerial and employee practices are performatively co-constituted with algorithmic affordances through ongoing sociomaterial enactments, configured by strategic modalities of (in)visibility. These visibility regimes actively structure conditions of power, influencing the extent to which algorithmic management is enacted as (de)humanising.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104016
Chunxiao Li , Lin Li , Xiang (Robert) Li
Understanding the unique features of tourism is fundamental to establishing and developing the distinct theoretical foundation of tourism research. Drawing inspiration from the second law of thermodynamics, this paper introduces a novel perspective on tourism's significance by conceptualizing tourism as a unique process of “entropy reduction” through system switching. It explains how tourists volitionally and temporarily escape the routine disorder of everyday life through environmental change and need drift, clarifying the pathways through which this occurs. By framing entropy reduction as a core criterion for defining “good tourism,” this study highlights its potential to bridge diverse academic perspectives and guide interdisciplinary research. This approach also directs future studies on psychological and behavioral transitions between habitual and non-habitual environments.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104022
Dohyung Bang, SooCheong (Shawn) Jang
The study proposes a novel approach to reframing tourism carrying capacity, emphasizing visitor utility as an independent dimension for destination management. To investigate how overtourism affects visitor utility, the study focuses on Venice, Italy—a destination currently suffering from overtourism. Utilizing visitor-generated content along with city-provided visitor and amenity data, the study estimates district-level visitor densities relative to geographical area, resident population, and tourism amenities and examines their effects on visitor sentiment. The results reveal an inverted U-shaped relationship between visitor density and sentiment, clearly distinguishing moderate crowding from overcrowding effects. Additionally, the findings highlight that these effects are particularly pronounced in Venice's historic center and among visitors with higher levels of social orientation and perception sensitivity.
{"title":"Reframing carrying capacity: A visitor-oriented approach","authors":"Dohyung Bang, SooCheong (Shawn) Jang","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study proposes a novel approach to reframing tourism carrying capacity, emphasizing visitor utility as an independent dimension for destination management. To investigate how overtourism affects visitor utility, the study focuses on Venice, Italy—a destination currently suffering from overtourism. Utilizing visitor-generated content along with city-provided visitor and amenity data, the study estimates district-level visitor densities relative to geographical area, resident population, and tourism amenities and examines their effects on visitor sentiment. The results reveal an inverted U-shaped relationship between visitor density and sentiment, clearly distinguishing moderate crowding from overcrowding effects. Additionally, the findings highlight that these effects are particularly pronounced in Venice's historic center and among visitors with higher levels of social orientation and perception sensitivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 104022"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145020332","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 : 2025-08-30DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104019
Aiheng Zhang , Jia Xie
As an essential component of culture, the commodification of language is a prevalent yet underexplored topic in tourism studies. This article investigates the Dongba script of the Naxi ethnic group in Lijiang, Yunnan, China, illustrating how a religious script has been transformed into a “pseudo-language” from a critical heritage studies perspective. Employing multiple methods, it explores how ethnic languages become spectacles in tourism contexts, analyzes how World Heritage discourse influences local language policies and stakeholder practices, and discusses language's distinctive attributes as a tourism resource. The findings contribute to debates on authenticity in heritage tourism, enhance methodologies for examining linguistic landscapes, and advocate increased respect and safeguarding of minority languages in tourism research and practice.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-25DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.104017
Sanseol Jung , Hakseung Shin , Hoon Lee
Travel is widely regarded as a significant contributor to happiness. Although previous tourism research has examined the relationship between travel and happiness, most studies have primarily relied on subjective, post-travel evaluations to assess travelers' happiness. By contrast, this study adopts a longitudinal approach to capture the dynamic nature of happiness throughout the travel experience. The study uses a combination of methodologies, including a longitudinal questionnaire-based survey and heart rate variability measurements. It investigates the physiological and psychological states of happiness before, during, and after nature-based travel. By tracking changes across the travel continuum, this study develops an integrated model of travel happiness, emphasizing changes at each stage of the journey and providing insights into the link between travel and happiness.
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