Pub Date : 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101355
Haiyang Su , Ying (Tracy) Lu , Tong Wen
This paper reviews causality research on information seeking and communication within the hospitality and tourism from 186 papers by a hybrid approach combining the bibliographic coupling, and the Information-Seeking and Communication Model. Five key thematic areas emerged: sustainability, eWOM, risk and crisis management, destination brand, experience and image, menu and promotion, revealing complex interrelations and intersections among topics. The research path demonstrates diversity, with the evaluation objectives extending beyond information content and providers to include media, products and services, initial information providers, self-evaluation, other users, and expected behavior. Attributes assessed include not just utility and credibility but also cognition, emotion, and attitude, which vary significantly across topics. Theoretical contributions and research agendas derived from these distinctions are discussed.
{"title":"Advancements in causality research on information seeking and communication in hospitality and tourism: A hybrid methodology","authors":"Haiyang Su , Ying (Tracy) Lu , Tong Wen","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101355","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101355","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper reviews causality research on information seeking and communication within the hospitality and tourism from 186 papers by a hybrid approach combining the bibliographic coupling, and the Information-Seeking and Communication Model. Five key thematic areas emerged: sustainability, eWOM, risk and crisis management, destination brand, experience and image, menu and promotion, revealing complex interrelations and intersections among topics. The research path demonstrates diversity, with the evaluation objectives extending beyond information content and providers to include media, products and services, initial information providers, self-evaluation, other users, and expected behavior. Attributes assessed include not just utility and credibility but also cognition, emotion, and attitude, which vary significantly across topics. Theoretical contributions and research agendas derived from these distinctions are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101355"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145363058","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 : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101343
Ningqiao Li , Fang Meng
Driven by advancements in digital technology in the social media era, photographs as research data have received increasing academic attention in different disciplines. This study undertakes a comprehensive review of photograph-related research across three distinct disciplines: marketing, computer science, and tourism and hospitality, spanning the past three decades. A total of 350 manuscripts published between 1990 and 2025 were retrieved from the Web of Science. The results highlight and compare the diverse research topics, methods, and theories applied in photograph-related research, and explore the potential integration of qualitative and quantitative methods for the analysis of extensive image datasets and theory development. Furthermore, by assessing the trajectory in photograph-related research, this study provides implications from other disciplines and outlines future research directions in tourism and hospitality in the era of generative AI and large language models.
在社交媒体时代数字技术进步的推动下,照片作为研究数据在不同学科中受到越来越多的学术关注。本研究全面回顾了过去三十年来在三个不同学科:市场营销、计算机科学、旅游和酒店管理方面与摄影相关的研究。从Web of Science检索了1990年至2025年间发表的350份手稿。结果突出并比较了摄影相关研究中应用的各种研究主题、方法和理论,并探索了定性和定量方法在广泛图像数据集分析和理论发展方面的潜在整合。此外,通过评估摄影相关研究的发展轨迹,本研究提供了其他学科的启示,并概述了在生成式人工智能和大型语言模型时代旅游和酒店业的未来研究方向。
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Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101352
Zhen Su , Zheng Kuang , Wei Wang , Ming-Hsiang Chen
This study explores service recovery in tourism livestreaming, focusing on recovery methods (humor vs. apology) and streamer types (human vs. virtual). Three experiments reveal that virtual streamers can use either method effectively, while human streamers succeed mainly with apology. Cognitive reappraisal mediates these effects, and streamer popularity moderates them. Grounded in cognitive dissonance and expectancy disconfirmation theories, the findings bridge service recovery and tourism livestreaming research. Practical implications include leveraging virtual streamers’ flexibility, applying culturally sensitive strategies for human streamers, and tailoring recovery approaches based on popularity to boost viewer engagement.
{"title":"Virtual vs. human streamers: Unlocking effective recovery strategies in livestreaming e-commerce","authors":"Zhen Su , Zheng Kuang , Wei Wang , Ming-Hsiang Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101352","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101352","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores service recovery in tourism livestreaming, focusing on recovery methods (humor vs. apology) and streamer types (human vs. virtual). Three experiments reveal that virtual streamers can use either method effectively, while human streamers succeed mainly with apology. Cognitive reappraisal mediates these effects, and streamer popularity moderates them. Grounded in cognitive dissonance and expectancy disconfirmation theories, the findings bridge service recovery and tourism livestreaming research. Practical implications include leveraging virtual streamers’ flexibility, applying culturally sensitive strategies for human streamers, and tailoring recovery approaches based on popularity to boost viewer engagement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101352"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145363059","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 : 2025-10-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101346
Liutian Luo , Xinyuan (Roy) Zhao , Yi Zhang , Kevin Kam Fung So , Nan Hua
This study aims to synthesize inconsistent findings on perceived crowding and further elaborate the moderators of the negative impacts of crowding perception on tourists. A meta-analytic investigation of 45 empirical studies revealed that perceived crowding had negative effects on tourists in terms of their satisfaction, behavioral intention, positive/negative emotion, experience quality, and perceived value, thus aligning with the arguments of stimulus-overload theory. Moreover, female tourists felt stronger negative emotions than males. Cultural context and festival activity moderated the relationship between perceived crowding and satisfaction, while destination type moderated the relationships of perceived crowding with behavioral intention and negative emotion. These findings clarify the inconsistencies reported in crowding research, confirm when and for whom crowding has a stronger or weaker impact, and point out the contextual issues and tourist characteristics that warrant attention in destination management.
{"title":"Crowding paradoxes in tourism: A meta-analysis of behavioral intentions, emotional responses, and boundary conditions","authors":"Liutian Luo , Xinyuan (Roy) Zhao , Yi Zhang , Kevin Kam Fung So , Nan Hua","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101346","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101346","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to synthesize inconsistent findings on perceived crowding and further elaborate the moderators of the negative impacts of crowding perception on tourists. A meta-analytic investigation of 45 empirical studies revealed that perceived crowding had negative effects on tourists in terms of their satisfaction, behavioral intention, positive/negative emotion, experience quality, and perceived value, thus aligning with the arguments of stimulus-overload theory. Moreover, female tourists felt stronger negative emotions than males. Cultural context and festival activity moderated the relationship between perceived crowding and satisfaction, while destination type moderated the relationships of perceived crowding with behavioral intention and negative emotion. These findings clarify the inconsistencies reported in crowding research, confirm when and for whom crowding has a stronger or weaker impact, and point out the contextual issues and tourist characteristics that warrant attention in destination management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101346"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145333474","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 : 2025-10-17DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101349
Furong Wan, Jianxin Li, Tianjing Hu
The underdog effect has been widely explored in marketing research; however, its underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions within destination branding contexts have yet to be systematically examined. Through four experimental studies, this research investigates the main effect of narrative style (underdog vs. top-dog), the mediating role of narrative transportation, and the moderating roles of destination type and tourist personality. Results show that underdog narratives are generally more effective than top-dog narratives in enhancing tourists’ attitudes toward destination brands. Moreover, tourists display more favorable brand attitudes when hedonic (vs. utilitarian) destinations adopt underdog (vs. top-dog) narratives. However, this matching effect applies only to mid-centric tourists. Psychocentric tourists prefer hedonic destinations associated with top-dog narratives, while allocentric tourists respond more positively to utilitarian destinations linked to underdog narratives. Narrative transportation mechanisms mediate these effects. The findings provide theoretical insights and practical guidance for destination marketing organizations aiming to formulate effective narrative strategies.
{"title":"When should destinations bet on the underdog? Matching narrative style with destination type and tourist personality in destination advertising","authors":"Furong Wan, Jianxin Li, Tianjing Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The underdog effect has been widely explored in marketing research; however, its underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions within destination branding contexts have yet to be systematically examined. Through four experimental studies, this research investigates the main effect of narrative style (underdog vs. top-dog), the mediating role of narrative transportation, and the moderating roles of destination type and tourist personality. Results show that underdog narratives are generally more effective than top-dog narratives in enhancing tourists’ attitudes toward destination brands. Moreover, tourists display more favorable brand attitudes when hedonic (vs. utilitarian) destinations adopt underdog (vs. top-dog) narratives. However, this matching effect applies only to mid-centric tourists. Psychocentric tourists prefer hedonic destinations associated with top-dog narratives, while allocentric tourists respond more positively to utilitarian destinations linked to underdog narratives. Narrative transportation mechanisms mediate these effects. The findings provide theoretical insights and practical guidance for destination marketing organizations aiming to formulate effective narrative strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101349"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145333473","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 : 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101350
Yi Wang , Mao-Ying Wu , Qiucheng Li
Community social responsibility (CoSR) undertaken by small tourism enterprises (STEs) is crucial for the sustainable development of rural communities, yet its antecedents remain understudied. This study investigates the mechanisms through which community embeddedness shapes STEs' CoSR. Guided by network embeddedness theory and Weber's theory of formal and substantive rationality, this study proposes a conceptual model in which community embeddedness influences CoSR through community satisfaction and community identification. The model was empirically tested using structural equation modeling based on survey data from 237 STE owners in rural communities in China. Results confirm the dual mediating roles of community satisfaction and community identification in linking community embeddedness to CoSR. These findings provide insights into the mechanisms linking community embeddedness and CoSR. Given the resource constraints and dependence on local legitimacy that characterize small enterprises, understanding how community networks support CoSR is crucial, especially as these businesses navigate post-pandemic challenges and increasing demands for social responsibility.
{"title":"Unpacking small tourism enterprises’ role in community social responsibility: The dual pathways of community embeddedness","authors":"Yi Wang , Mao-Ying Wu , Qiucheng Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101350","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101350","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Community social responsibility (CoSR) undertaken by small tourism enterprises (STEs) is crucial for the sustainable development of rural communities, yet its antecedents remain understudied. This study investigates the mechanisms through which community embeddedness shapes STEs' CoSR. Guided by network embeddedness theory and Weber's theory of formal and substantive rationality, this study proposes a conceptual model in which community embeddedness influences CoSR through community satisfaction and community identification. The model was empirically tested using structural equation modeling based on survey data from 237 STE owners in rural communities in China. Results confirm the dual mediating roles of community satisfaction and community identification in linking community embeddedness to CoSR. These findings provide insights into the mechanisms linking community embeddedness and CoSR. Given the resource constraints and dependence on local legitimacy that characterize small enterprises, understanding how community networks support CoSR is crucial, especially as these businesses navigate post-pandemic challenges and increasing demands for social responsibility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101350"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145333471","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 : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101347
Lin Pan, Renqi Zhu, Bo Li, Feng Yao, Wenxuan Fu
Tourism destinations increasingly employ corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives during crises, yet the optimal timing of such interventions remains unclear. This study examines the impact of CSR timing on tourists' trust, perceptions of hypocrite, and boycott intention. Additionally, it explores the moderating effects of crisis history and CSR history. The findings from Study 1 indicate that pre-crisis CSR efforts lead to greater perceptions of hypocrite and reduced trust compared to post-crisis CSR. Furthermore, subsequent analysis shows that hypocrite and trust serve as mediators, while crisis history and CSR history serve as moderators. By incorporating the theory of expectation violation, this study shifts the focus from a traditional motivation-oriented approach to a timing-oriented perspective, and also marks the first time that both CSR history and crisis history are integrated into the situational crisis communication theory framework. Our findings provide actionable insights for destination managers to strategically time CSR initiatives during crises.
{"title":"How does CSR timing impact tourist responses in crises: Moderated effect of CSR history and crisis history","authors":"Lin Pan, Renqi Zhu, Bo Li, Feng Yao, Wenxuan Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourism destinations increasingly employ corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives during crises, yet the optimal timing of such interventions remains unclear. This study examines the impact of CSR timing on tourists' trust, perceptions of hypocrite, and boycott intention. Additionally, it explores the moderating effects of crisis history and CSR history. The findings from Study 1 indicate that pre-crisis CSR efforts lead to greater perceptions of hypocrite and reduced trust compared to post-crisis CSR. Furthermore, subsequent analysis shows that hypocrite and trust serve as mediators, while crisis history and CSR history serve as moderators. By incorporating the theory of expectation violation, this study shifts the focus from a traditional motivation-oriented approach to a timing-oriented perspective, and also marks the first time that both CSR history and crisis history are integrated into the situational crisis communication theory framework. Our findings provide actionable insights for destination managers to strategically time CSR initiatives during crises.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101347"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145333472","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 : 2025-10-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101345
Xiaorong He, Yang Cui, Jing Wang, Yu Wu
Travel blind boxes, emerging tourism products featuring undisclosed destination, are revolutionizing travelers' planning. Based on the cognitive dissonance theory and the value-attitude-behavior (VAB) framework, this study examined how the hedonic and social values associated with travel blind boxes affect tourists' positive and negative travel intentions. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) methods were used to analyze 447 questionnaires. Our findings show that both hedonic and social values amplify both positive fantasy and fear of missing out (FOMO), fostering travel impulse while mitigating travel hesitation. Destination congruence weakens positive fantasy's effect but enhances FOMO's drive for travel impulse. It also directly affects both impulse and hesitation of traveling. Furthermore, the configuration of mystery, sharing and destination congruence demonstrates the highest consistency and is most effective in triggering travel impulse. Among them, sharing serves as the core condition, while destination congruence is secondary. This study offers a fresh perspective on understanding tourists' decision-making processes concerning blind boxes and provides practical guidance for integrating blind boxes into tourism marketing strategies.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101348
Mengmeng Song , Rui Guo , Yuchen Wang
Environmental vandalism by travel influencers is prevalent and has caused severe negative impacts, yet this phenomenon has received little academic attention. This study, grounded in the theory of moral responsibility and the CAD triad hypothesis, first examines how travel influencers' environmental vandalism provokes tourists’ boycott participation, with a particular emphasis on moral contempt as a negative moral emotion. Through a mixed research approach combining focus group interviews and scenario experiments, this study finds that: (1) Environmental vandalism by travel influencers leads to boycott participation by tourists. (2) Moral contempt serves as a mediating mechanism in this process. (3) Travel influencer type (micro vs. macro) plays a moderating role; compared to micro travel influencers, environmental vandalism by macro travel influencers results in stronger moral contempt and increased boycott participation. Moreover, this study ruled out the potential influence of relationship strength and examined moral anger and moral disgust as alternative explanations for moral contempt. This research suggests that tourism companies, when engaging in influencer marketing, should not only focus on the economic benefits but also be aware of the potential environmental vandalism caused by influencers, which can aid in the sustainable development of the tourism industry. Furthermore, this study introduces concepts related to business ethics into the field of influencer marketing and integrates them with the literature on environmental vandalism, advancing theoretical development in these related fields.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101344
Junwei Chen , Ivan Ka Wai Lai , Xiaohong Wu
Among the visual elements of photographs, colour creates the most effective and direct visual clue to a destination. This study uses a between-subjects 2 (warm colour temperature vs cold colour temperature) ∗ 2 (high saturation vs low saturation) experimental method to investigate the influence of colour combination effects (temperature x saturation) of heritage destination photographs on the viewer's emotional response and their visit intention. Study 1 confirmed that warm colours elicit higher emotional responses and visit intentions than cool ones. Study 2 found that when the colour temperature is cold-tone, low colour saturation makes an advantage in getting the emotional response, but as the colour temperature gradually warms up, high colour saturation can be effective in achieving the highest emotional response. This study contributes to tourism research in visual marketing by applying colour context theory to understand how to utilise the best composition of colour elements for heritage destination photographs.
{"title":"Using colour in photographs to tell the past of cultural heritage sites and attract tourists to future visits: The mediating effect of emotional response","authors":"Junwei Chen , Ivan Ka Wai Lai , Xiaohong Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101344","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.101344","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Among the visual elements of photographs, colour creates the most effective and direct visual clue to a destination. This study uses a between-subjects 2 (warm colour temperature vs cold colour temperature) ∗ 2 (high saturation vs low saturation) experimental method to investigate the influence of colour combination effects (temperature x saturation) of heritage destination photographs on the viewer's emotional response and their visit intention. Study 1 confirmed that warm colours elicit higher emotional responses and visit intentions than cool ones. Study 2 found that when the colour temperature is cold-tone, low colour saturation makes an advantage in getting the emotional response, but as the colour temperature gradually warms up, high colour saturation can be effective in achieving the highest emotional response. This study contributes to tourism research in visual marketing by applying colour context theory to understand how to utilise the best composition of colour elements for heritage destination photographs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101344"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145268663","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}