Pub Date : 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101410
Xingqin Qu, Jie Yin, Yensen Ni
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Pub Date : 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101409
{"title":"Review of Elephant Welfare in Global Tourism","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146134337","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 : 2026-02-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101411
Xiaohong Wu, Ivan Ka Wai Lai
{"title":"Exploring the impact of visual aesthetic elements in films on audiences’ attitudes towards travel to a destination: An aesthetic research framework","authors":"Xiaohong Wu, Ivan Ka Wai Lai","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135476","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}
{"title":"Is time important? Cultural memory retention path of museum tourists under time pressure","authors":"Xing-Mei Wu, Shu-Ning Zhang, Wen-Qi Ruan, Ai-Jing Zeng, Yu-Ting Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"21 1","pages":"101397"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146111039","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}
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IF 7.8 1区 管理学Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101408
Yifan Fan
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Tourists' risk assessments often diverge from objective conditions because risk perception is socially constructed rather than purely rational. Yet tourism risk research often frames this construction as a linear media-to-individual process, overlooking how meanings are reproduced through social feedback before travel. Drawing on social construction theory and the Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF), this grounded theory study analyzes 47 in-depth interviews with Chinese tourists in Thailand. The findings develop a two-way construction and feedback loop model that conceptualizes risk perception as a cyclical four-stage process: media, institutionalization, internalization, and externalization. Unlike unidirectional amplification accounts, the model shows that tourists’ interpretations also feed back into societal discourse through communication and behavior, shaping subsequent narratives and perceptions. This bidirectional mechanism extends SARF by theorizing risk perception as recursive meaning construction and offers actionable insights for destination risk governance and crisis communication.
{"title":"Why does tourist risk perception differ from actual risk? A social construction theory perspective","authors":"Wan-Qing Lv , Ju-Cheng Zhang , Wei Wang , Ming-Hsiang Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101405","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101405","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourists' risk assessments often diverge from objective conditions because risk perception is socially constructed rather than purely rational. Yet tourism risk research often frames this construction as a linear media-to-individual process, overlooking how meanings are reproduced through social feedback before travel. Drawing on social construction theory and the Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF), this grounded theory study analyzes 47 in-depth interviews with Chinese tourists in Thailand. The findings develop a two-way construction and feedback loop model that conceptualizes risk perception as a cyclical four-stage process: media, institutionalization, internalization, and externalization. Unlike unidirectional amplification accounts, the model shows that tourists’ interpretations also feed back into societal discourse through communication and behavior, shaping subsequent narratives and perceptions. This bidirectional mechanism extends SARF by theorizing risk perception as recursive meaning construction and offers actionable insights for destination risk governance and crisis communication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101405"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146071483","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 : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101406
Tatiana A. Iretskaia, Daniel C. McCole, Elizabeth E. Perry
Tour leaders play critical roles in shaping tourism experiences, yet research has largely emphasized professional challenges over their lived experiences. This qualitative study explores how experienced international tour leaders have benefited from encountering peak experiences – the intense moments of stress, awe, or connection.
Drawing on in-depth interviews, this study identifies three types of transformative experiences: successfully managing high-stress situations, going through profound moments of shared connection, and encountering nature-induced awe. Findings demonstrate that altogether navigating through these events enhanced tour leaders’ resilience and self-confidence, promoted environmental awareness, and reinforced their sense of fulfilment and professional belonging.
The study advances tour guiding and experience research by demonstrating that tour leaders are not only facilitators but also recipients of meaningful peak experiences; that emotionally demanding professional moments can foster growth rather than burnout; and that responsibility, crisis management, and relational intensity function as key mechanisms through which skills and professional identities are developed. Practically, the findings provide insights for tourism management aimed at supporting workforce development, well-being, and retention.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-29DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101402
Bo Meng Ph.D , Junye Zhao
This study employs a ritual interaction framework to explore the experiences and outcomes of hiking activities at a Buddhist mountain destination. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach that integrates qualitative and quantitative research, the study identifies four key interactive elements within the ritual interaction process at a Buddhist mountain: (1) Buddhist symbolism and (2) aesthetic landscapes as destination dimensions, and (3) hiking mindfulness and (4) hiking communitas as tourist dimensions. Empirical findings reveal that these elements dynamically interact with one another, collectively generating experiential benefits such as engagement and a sense of meaning. These outcomes are mediated by emotional energy, which serves as a central mechanism in the process. The study provides valuable insights into the mechanisms underlying hiking experiences in the context of Buddhist religious tourism, offering both theoretical contributions and practical implications for researchers and practitioners in the field.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101407
Ying Zeng , Xinyi Liu , Jiawang Zhang , Zhiyong Li
Drawing on the Cognitive-Affective-Conative framework, this study addresses the fragmented understanding of emotional cues in sports tourism. Using a two-stage methodological approach, we integrated a systematic literature review with bibliometric analysis of 1165 emotion-related publications with a meta-analysis of 66 empirical studies. The resulting meta-model categorises emotional antecedents into internal and external triggers and identifies their psychological and behavioural outcomes. Furthermore, the analysis establishes cultural background, participant type, and sports context as key boundary conditions that regulate participants’ emotional engagement. This research offers a consolidated theoretical foundation for understanding emotion-driven attitudes and behaviours in sports tourism and provides practical insights to support emotional management and sector development.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101400
Yaou Hu
Grounded in the theoretical perspective of information asymmetry, drawing on signaling theory and contrast effect theory, this research investigates how contrast-based menu design can reduce consumer over-purchasing and waste in restaurants. Two empirical studies were conducted targeting Canadian consumers. Study 1 used survey data to demonstrate that menu miscommunication contributes to portion size misperception, and over-purchasing and waste, effects amplified in unfamiliar restaurants. Study 2 employed an experiment to test the effectiveness of a contrast-based menu compared to text-only and image-based menus. Results show that contrast-based design significantly reduces portion size misperception and subsequent over-purchasing and waste. This research extends the signaling theory and contrast effect theory in the context of food waste management. It offers actionable insights for hospitality practitioners seeking to reduce consumer-generated food waste. By addressing a critical global sustainability issue, this work contributes evidence-based solutions with implications for both environmental and societal well-being.
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