Pub Date : 2023-11-12DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2276788
Laura Rouch, Emmanuelle George
ABSTRACTIn the context of adapting to global changes, the diversification of the tourist offer seems to be a solution for the mid-mountain areas, which are structured around and dependent on ski tourism. However, it remains unclear how tourism diversification occurs, what forms it can take and what it produces at a territorial scale. In this study, we apply a theory of regional diversification to the case of tourism in order to examine tourism diversification paths. We base our analysis on qualitative data collected on two French study areas: the intercommunities of the massif du Sancy and of the Haut-Chablais. Our results show a pattern in tourism diversification paths, following three steps that can lead to the abandonment of the perimeter of the ski resort. However, among the different types of tourism diversification trajectories, only a saltation form of tourism diversification can lead to the establishment of a larger and more diversified tourism system. Our findings also show that several types of tourism diversification paths can coexist at a territorial scale.KEYWORDS: Diversification trajectorymountain tourismski tourism transformationterritorial approachevolutionary economic geography AcknowledgementsLaura Rouch authored the paper, produced the figures, collected and analyzed the data with the help of Emmanuelle George who designed the research. This article is derived from a more global thesis elaborated by Laura Rouch, Tourism diversification trajectories in mid-mountain territories: stakeholder networks and learning dynamics. We thank Laurent Rieutort for the co-supervision of this thesis.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in its Pack AMI Ambition Recherche.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2277900
Huihui Wu, Ke Xu, Tao Hu, Biao He, Dengming Xie
ABSTRACTLimited studies have examined tourist and public sentiments towards tourists’ environmentally irresponsible behaviour. This study used Python to mine and analyze online reviews from online travel agency websites and social networking sites to comprehend a specific event of tourists’ environmentally irresponsible behaviour, the Laojun Mountain ‘Instant Noodle Crisis’ in China, which has triggered widespread online discussion. The findings are as follows: (1) Based on the event system theory, it showed that the evolutionary mechanisms of ‘Instant Noodle Crisis’ differ between online travel agency websites and social networking sites. (2) The results from keywords, semantic co-occurrence, and visual semantic association networks revealed that reviews on online travel agency websites focused on travel experiences and sights, with tourists rarely mentioned their own behaviour. In contrast, reviews on social networking sites concentrated on blame-assigning and cause-seeking. (3) Latent Dirichlet Allocations model analysis demonstrated that tourists’ environmentally irresponsible behaviour decreased positive feelings and increased negative emotions among tourists and the public. This study explored the occurrence mechanisms, tourist and public attitudes and emotions, related to collective tourists’ environmentally irresponsible behaviour from a novel perspective. It offer insights for future academic research in the field and tourism destination management strategies.KEYWORDS: Tourist environmentally irresponsible behaviouronline travel agenciessocial networking sitessentiment analysisevent system theory Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis research is supported by the National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China (Grant Number: 19BGL139); the Education Department of Hainan Province (Grant Number: Hnjg2021ZD-4).
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2277907
Chunxiao Li, Mingjun Ji, Scott McCabe, Jian-Wu Bi
ABSTRACTCuriosity stands as a significant driving force in comprehending tourist behaviour. Nonetheless, within the realm of anime pilgrims, the objects of interest, the underlying mechanisms and the resulting behaviours stemming from their curiosity deviate notably from those exhibited by typical tourists. Through the utilization of in-depth case studies of anime pilgrims, this research unveils an innovative impetus for tourism known as ‘fantasy curiosity’ with four distinct attributes, differentiating it from prevailing conceptualizations of general curiosity. Moreover, by utilizing a Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, we pinpoint distinct characteristics of anime-related behaviours across different phases of anime tours. These findings serve to propel the progression of research within the realms of tourism motivations, while concurrently broadening the horizons of curiosity theory.KEYWORDS: Anime pilgrimagecuriosityinterpersonal relationshipfantasydata mining Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 72074126 and 72101124]; One Hundred Talents Program of Nankai University [grant numbers 63233170 and 63233169].
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2280145
Kowoon Kim, Hong-Youl Ha
The consequences of perceived justice are dynamic. The way in which perceived justice is evolutionarily dynamic in customers’ emotional states and loyalty intentions remains unclear, particularly in studies distinguishing between initial and final recovery phases. Using two time-lag intervals targeting the same respondents, our findings show that perceived justice–recovery satisfaction increases over time; however, the other two direct linkages, perceived justice–customer forgiveness and perceived justice–loyalty intentions, remain unchanged. Interestingly, the recovery satisfaction–loyalty intention linkage is stable, whereas the customer forgiveness–loyalty intention linkage decreases incrementally. Additionally, only the carryover effect of perceived justice is significant, but the other three carryover effects do not exist. Our results suggest that from the initial to the final recovery stage, managers must redesign their overall recovery strategy based on customer responses and behaviors.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2280161
Jesús Navarro-Navarro, Francisco Juárez-Tárraga, Ana B. Ramón-Rodríguez, José F. Perles-Ribes
ABSTRACTThe competitiveness of tourism destinations depends on their degree of development or maturity. This article uses cluster analysis methods to establish the position in the life cycle of destinations in a pool of 154 countries. The article also explores their evolution between 2007 and 2017 doing a static comparative exercise. The position in the life cycle is determined by using confidence intervals for the means of the main variables. Following a recent and innovative methodology, thresholds are proposed that could potentially allow for a change of phase in the life cycle. Moreover, the article examines the main determinants of the competitiveness of the different destination groups as a function of their life-cycle position.KEYWORDS: LifecycleTALCtourism destinationshierarchical cluster analysiscompetitiveness AcknowledgmentThe authors would like to thank the Segittur project for their collaboration in the elaboration of this research.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2280150
Faruk Seyitoğlu, Ozan Atsız, Ayşegül Acar
ABSTRACTThis study contributes to the literature by delving into the perspectives of restaurant employees and managers in the USA about the future of restaurant labour. Through a qualitative research approach, we conducted 25 semi-structured interviews with employees and managers. The findings reveal the challenges of restaurant labour, including high turnover rates due to long hours and working during holidays and weekends, lack of work-life balance, and high levels of stress and pressure on employees. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the future of restaurant labour are extracted as restaurant operations-related, management-related, employee-related, and patron-related impacts. Finally, this research highlights the requirements for the future of restaurant labour, which are requirements to enhance the quality of working conditions and decrease the turnover rate and requirements to sustain in the restaurant industry as an employee.KEYWORDS: Restaurant labourhospitality industryAmerican restaurantsfuture of labourworking conditions Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2271632
Yun Tong, Li Pang
ABSTRACTDestination residents’ environmental concern (REC) is a pivotal force in promoting sustainable destination development. However, empirical evidence on how ecotourism development affects REC is scarce within the framework of tourism economics. Based on a quasi-natural experiment of China’s National Ecotourism Demonstration Area (CNEDA) designation, we fill this gap using multi-source data of 282 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2011 to 2019. The evidence indicates that CNEDA designation significantly promotes destination REC and passes the robustness tests, but this effect is short-term. The positive impact is amplified in tourism-dependent cities. The impact of ecotourism development on REC is structurally different, favouring promote residents’ ecological values and environmental cognitions over environmental behavioural intention. Relevant policy implications are also provided.KEYWORDS: China’s National Ecotourism Demonstration Areaecotourismenvironment concernquasi-natural experimentresident Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe datasets are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China [grant number 21BJY194].
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ABSTRACTThe phenomenon of religion, as a crucial element of human behaviour, is one of the main motives for travelling. Although religious tourism movements are increasing, the behaviour patterns of religious tourists on various communication platforms such as social media have been mostly neglected. The objective of this study is to examine the antecedents of religious tourists’ intention to share tourism experiences on social media, based on the Technology Acceptance Model. The data were collected from 325 international tourists visiting Vatican City. Findings indicated that user experience level with social media influences perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, which are significant determinants of intention to share tourism experiences on social media. Results also highlighted the negative moderating role of religiosity level on the relationship between these variables. Hereby, the study contributed to the literature by showing that religious tourists represent a heterogeneous market segment having different religiosity levels and social media usage patterns.KEYWORDS: Religious tourismsocial mediatechnology acceptance modelreligiosity leveluser experience levelVatican City Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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ABSTRACTThis study examines the relationship between openness to external collaborations and innovation outcomes in tourism micro-firms, considering the variety of partners, the geographical outreach of the relationships, and the number of implemented innovation types. A quantitative analysis of tourism micro-firms located in the Italian Alps is complemented with rich qualitative evidence gathered through follow-up interviews. Our findings show that higher openness to external collaborations leads to a higher probability of introducing an innovation and to higher innovation performances. However, above a certain threshold, the returns from open innovation decrease as a firm’s openness increases. This assumption does not hold when considering openness to national and international partners, which is positively and significantly related to innovation performance. The results suggest that the purposive management of external collaborations is a central issue for tourism entrepreneurs and highlight the positive role that intermediaries can play in facilitating such dynamics.KEYWORDS: Tourism micro-firmsopen innovationopennesstourism innovationrural tourism AcknowledgmentsValentina Biconne thanks CNA Torino (the Italian Confederation of Craft Trades and Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises) and Regione Piemonte (Piedmont Regional Government) for funding the Ph.D. programme in apprenticeship (Apprendistato di Alta Formazione e di Ricerca 2016-2018 di cui alla Determinazione n. 537 del 03/08/2016 e successivo aggiornamento approvato con D.D. n. 1486 del 17/12/2018). The authors also thank Interreg Alcotra Italy-France European cross-border programme 2014–2020 for funding the survey activity.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Micro-firms are defined as enterprises with fewer than ten employees and an annual turnover of two million euros at most (European Commission, Citation2015).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Interreg Alcotra Italy-France European cross-border program 2014–2020: [Grant Number 5031].
摘要本研究考察了旅游微型企业对外合作的开放性与创新成果之间的关系，考虑了合作伙伴的多样性、合作关系的地理外延以及实施创新类型的数量。对位于意大利阿尔卑斯山的旅游微型公司进行定量分析，并通过后续访谈收集了丰富的定性证据。我们的研究结果表明，对外部合作的开放程度越高，引入创新的可能性越大，创新绩效也越高。然而，在一定阈值以上，开放式创新的收益随着企业开放度的增加而降低。当考虑到对国内和国际合作伙伴的开放程度时，这一假设就不成立了，因为开放程度与创新绩效呈正相关。研究结果表明，有目的的外部合作管理是旅游企业家的一个核心问题，并强调了中介机构在促进这种动态方面可以发挥的积极作用。致谢valentina Biconne感谢CNA Torino(意大利工艺贸易和中小企业联合会)和Piemonte地区(皮埃蒙特地区政府)为学徒博士项目提供资金(2016年3月8日第537号di cui alla Determinazione, 2016年12月17日第1486号)。作者还感谢Interreg Alcotra意大利-法国欧洲跨境项目2014-2020为调查活动提供资金。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1微型企业被定义为员工少于10人，年营业额不超过200万欧元的企业(European Commission, Citation2015)。本研究由Interreg Alcotra意大利-法国欧洲跨境项目2014-2020支持:[批准号5031]。
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