Pub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105085
Mohan Li , Zongxun Han , Ping Zhou , Siyu Yang , Ziang Zhang
This qualitative study scrutinises the role of depression in mediating air travellers' in-flight experiences. Depression can turn a travelling body into a docile object subject to others’ judgment. As a consequence, the vulnerable body may become less connected with its surroundings. Nevertheless, atmospheres are everywhere. Thus, depressed bodies may receive the atmospheric influence in aircraft cabins. This is not a comfortable experience. The depressed bodies are thus found to actively retreat from the atmospheres by appropriating an assemblage of habit, skills, movement and materials. By conceptualising this dynamic tension (between receiving and preventing atmospheric effects), this study makes a theoretical contribution to expand atmospheric studies and the psychologic and psychiatric literature on depressive experiences. We also provide practical recommendations on cabin crew improvement, turbulence management, seating arrangements, public campaigns and technological innovation, which may make depressed passengers more comfortable on board.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105084
Mireia Guix , Maryam Lotfi
Little is known about the hotel's response to increased legislation on the unethical practice of modern slavery in their operations and supply chains. We examine i) the extent, and quality, of the content of their disclosures and the managerial actions, ii) the communication efforts, through moral legitimacy appeals, and iii) the managerial and disclosure gaps influenced by the UK Modern Slavery Act. Substantive actions dominate. Hotels focus on their direct operations and Tier 1 suppliers, and on isolated risk assessments and due diligence. They omit the victims' perspectives and remedies. By disclosing procedures and structures, hotels demonstrate ‘reasonable effort’ as a proxy for effectiveness in eliminating modern slavery. We advance legitimacy theory, identifying different disclosure behaviors based on either symbolic or substantive actions. We propose two new appeals—Value-based and Personal—relevant to human rights. Reporting turns into a discursive device for moral legitimacy, with implications for policy and practice.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-02DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105080
Jinha Lee , Heejin Lim , Woo Gon Kim
This study investigates the effect of gestalt food presentation on photo sharing intention by synthesizing a conceptual framework primarily based on the gestalt and dual coding theories. Study 1 found that gestalt grouping of food (gestalt vs. non-gestalt) influences visual appeal, and Study 2 revealed gestalt shape variation to impact photo sharing intention: females perceived a triangular grouping as more visually appealing than a rectangular grouping. Study 3 demonstrated that color variation in a gestalt is more effective on males, with Instagram caption length moderating the mediating effect of engagement. Study 4, conducted in a tourism-themed Instagram context, determined the interaction between gestalt presentation with human elements (hand-in-frame) and Instagram caption to improve both engagement toward a tourism agency and destination visit intention. This paper provides extensive and novel insights for marketers and academics interested in optimizing visual effects on social media.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-19DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105072
Francesco Di Paolo, Debora Bettiga, Lucio Lamberti
This study examines the challenges of metaverse-driven community innovation in the context of rural tourism. Through an in-depth case study, we analyse the social capital dynamics within an Italian winery consortium that ventured into the metaverse through a project called Enoverse to promote local wine and rural territory. The results show that the complexity and novelty inherent in the implementation of a presence in the metaverse to provide a consistent and authentic territorial and product experience requires and fosters stakeholder cohesion and participation. This promotes tourism by enhancing stakeholder engagement, inclusion, and satisfaction. Drawing on social capital theory, the establishment of network mechanisms and actor connectivity facilitates innovative promotion of rural destinations. This study contributes to the growing body of literature on the role of virtual environments in promoting tourism, specifically in the wine industry.
{"title":"Leveraging social capital for destination promotion in the metaverse: The Enoverse case","authors":"Francesco Di Paolo, Debora Bettiga, Lucio Lamberti","doi":"10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105072","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the challenges of metaverse-driven community innovation in the context of rural tourism. Through an in-depth case study, we analyse the social capital dynamics within an Italian winery consortium that ventured into the metaverse through a project called Enoverse to promote local wine and rural territory. The results show that the complexity and novelty inherent in the implementation of a presence in the metaverse to provide a consistent and authentic territorial and product experience requires and fosters stakeholder cohesion and participation. This promotes tourism by enhancing stakeholder engagement, inclusion, and satisfaction. Drawing on social capital theory, the establishment of network mechanisms and actor connectivity facilitates innovative promotion of rural destinations. This study contributes to the growing body of literature on the role of virtual environments in promoting tourism, specifically in the wine industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48469,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 105072"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142526787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105075
GuoQiong Ivanka Huang , IpKin Anthony Wong , Wanyi Christina Zhou Torres , Dori Davari , Haoxiang Xie
Extant research remains relatively silent on the polarizing attitudes stemming from large-scale conflict events, such as trade wars. Information cocoons, which highlight unilateral information, have been shown to amplify polarized opinions and behaviors. This paper aims to integrate mixed methods with social identity, system justification, and cognitive dissonance theories across four interrelated studies to understand the impact of conflict events and subsequent information cocoons on tourist decision-making. Study 1 leverages the elastic net synthetic control method to compare the actual Chinese tourist travel to the US with a predicted counterfactual scenario without the trade war. Studies 2 through 5, with 300, 423, 517, and 201 respondents respectively, examined tourists’ competing reasonings and approach-avoidance tendencies regarding information cocoons about destinations involved in the trade war. The findings deepen our understanding of how information cocoons amplify polarized thinking and behaviors, which can be partially mitigated by travel experiences to conflicting countries.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-13DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105074
Tina Tessitore, Mario Pandelaere, Anneleen Van Kerckhove
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Pub Date : 2024-10-13DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105073
Haibo Wu , Haibo Wang
While most prior research has demonstrated the wide-ranging beneficial outcomes of intrinsic motivation, some studies have shown that it may lead to deleterious consequences. These conflicting findings indicate that the question of whether employees' intrinsic motivation helps improve their functioning remains open. Drawing on effort-recovery theory and employing a multilevel daily diary design, we aimed to explore how, when, and why employees' daily intrinsic motivation might impact their functioning. Utilizing a sample of tour guides from China, the results suggested that daily intrinsic motivation simultaneously increased next-day state depletion and task performance via nighttime problem-solving pondering (PSP). Moreover, recovery self-efficacy was found to weaken the positive association between nighttime PSP and next-day state depletion and strengthen the positive association between nighttime PSP and next-day task performance. Our research advances knowledge about the differential effects of employees’ daily intrinsic motivation on their next-day performance and well-being.
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