2026 August - 46 articles
Responsible tourism practices are essential for sustainable tourism development, yet evidence on their implementation across different types of tourism enterprises remains limited. This study examines reported responsible tourism practices, together...
Understanding the financial characteristics associated with hotel performance is important for competitiveness and managerial decision-making. However, empirical evidence based on objective company-level financial indicators remains limited, particul...
Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT) and service-dominant logic (SDL), this study examines how stress-relief-oriented escape, self-fulfillment, and digital information environments are associated with emotion value co-creation among Generation...
The participating municipality plays a central role in coordinating strategic planning, resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, monitoring, and digital governance to promote sustainable tourism development. However, limited empirical evidence ex...
The rural tourism industry has seen growth on a global scale [...]
‘Wellness-at-sea’ is an integral part of the cruise holiday service bundle. Marketed within an image of experiential diversity within a safe, controlled environment, it features medical centers, spa facilities and restoration-focused itin...
As religious tourism expands across Asia, it remains unclear who benefits from its growth and who is overlooked in policy and industry accounts. Drawing on fieldwork in the temple-towns of Jejuri and Tuljapur in Maharashtra, India, this paper aims to...
Flower-focused destinations are visually intensive and temporally concentrated, yet the tourism literature treats them through dispersed discussions of gardens, festivals, rural landscapes, destination imagery, and agricultural diversification. This...
This study investigates how quality tourism supply contributes to destination competitiveness through the sequential mediating roles of local resource integration and perceived authenticity within a sustainability-oriented tourism framework. Building...
Cultural Routes have become important instruments for promoting shared heritage and sustainable tourism across Europe, yet the potential of travel literature to inform their development remains underexplored, particularly in the case of Via Egnatia....
Transformation in the hospitality industry increasingly requires graduates who possess not only technical knowledge and operational skills, but also behavioural and interpersonal competencies for sustainability in the industry. This demand from highe...
Island destinations combine natural settings, local culture, and participatory activities that may support recovery, social connection, and personal meaning. Evidence remains limited on the relative contribution of different island experience dimensi...
Hotel capacity in emerging destinations is often described through room counts or conventional classifications, even when these say little about how accommodation systems operate. This study investigates the accommodation sector in Villavicencio, Col...
The proliferation of solo female travel as a cultural and social practice has been accompanied by a narrow representational default: the solo female traveller of tourism marketing, and of much scholarship, remains implicitly white, Western, middle-cl...
Cruise tourism is one of the fastest-growing segments of the global tourism industry, generating significant economic benefits while also creating challenges related to overtourism, congestion, environmental pressure, and residents’ quality of...
This study examines how smart hotel technologies shape guests’ pro-environmental behavioral intention (PEBI) and sustainable tourism advocacy (STA) in Thailand’s Deep South. Drawing on stimulus–organism–response (SOR), value&n...
Tourism scholarship has long treated technological innovation as an accelerant bolted onto a stable practice: people move through physical space to consume experiences, then return home. This conceptual paper asks what happens to the field’s th...
In the last twenty years, as global uncertainties increased, tourism demand has become more fragile and harder to predict. This study aims to examine the impact of global uncertainty on tourism demand in G20 countries from 2001 to 2023 and to compare...
Stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) at Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan, requires selective attribute prioritisation under operational and environmental constraints. This study develops a five-stage theoretical–procedural framework that organises participant ne...
Despite the growing popularity of solo female travel, few studies have examined how empowerment-related factors combine to influence solo travel intention or the mediating role of perceived behavioural control in these relationships. Accordingly, thi...
Traditional food products are essential for gastronomic tourism, yet their integration into hospitality is limited by supply chain challenges and a significant attitude-behavior gap. This study identifies perceptual factors, operational barriers, and...
Botanical tourism is a growing niche within nature-based travel, yet little is known about tourists who travel specifically to observe plants in their natural habitats. This study addresses this gap by examining the travel motivations of internationa...
Gastronomy is a factor in destination competitiveness; however, studies addressing the integrated role of gastronomic identity and perceived authenticity as determinants of tourist satisfaction remain insufficiently explored. This systematic review e...
This study examines the role of digital transformation in strengthening organizational resilience in Moroccan tourism accommodation firms operating in crisis-prone environments. Successive economic, health, and environmental disruptions have highligh...
Historic urban districts face growing challenges in balancing visitor activity with the needs of residents, local businesses, accessibility, and mobility. This study investigates whether short-term visitor forecasts can support destination management...
Overtourism management increasingly uses public communication to frame how visitors are expected to move, behave, and understand their responsibilities in pressured destination spaces. Yet, in heritage cities, such communication is often examined thr...
Studying sustainability in marine and coastal tourism within national parks is essential to balance visitor use with the conservation of fragile ecosystems and biodiversity. In this context, the Galápagos Archipelago is a major coastal and mar...
Tourism seasonality remains one of the most persistent structural challenges of Mediterranean destinations, intensifying environmental, economic and social pressures during peak months while leaving tourism capacity underused in the remainder of the...
The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted tourism globally, with considerable variation in impact and recovery across regions. This study examines how tourism demand, revenue, employment, and transport evolved in the Visegrád Four (V4) countrie...
Mosquito control is a critical operational requirement for tropical resort islands, where guest comfort, staff wellbeing, and public health depend on effective management of biting insects. In many island tourism destinations, including the Maldives,...
I-driven recommendation systems are widely assumed to ease decision-making in online hotel booking, yet little is known about whether two of their defining characteristics—perceived serendipity (unexpected but relevant suggestions) and perceive...
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, widely associated with the landscapes depicted in Avatar, attracts tourists from around the world and has become an important film tourism destination. Film tourism destinations are not only physical places but also...
Despite the growing adoption of AI-enabled green hospitality services, limited research has examined how these services influence customer loyalty through the sequential mediating roles of service quality and green trust. This research investigates t...
Tourism is a key driver of regional development, particularly in emerging destinations around the globe. Despite its critical role, aligning tourism services with tourists’ needs requires effective planning and management that reflect key stake...
Brands increasingly rely on digital peer communication to promote environmentally friendly products. Whether electronic word-of-mouth (EWOM) actually shifts green purchase intention (GPI), though, is far from settled. Some studies have found no relia...
Although recreational experience segmentation is widely used in coastal tourism research, existing motivational frameworks have been developed primarily in island and protected-area destinations, leaving urban, open-access, developing-country context...
Safety perceptions are central to destination choice and visitor satisfaction at tourist venues, yet research on crime and public safety in theme park settings remains sparse. This study examines visitor perceptions of public safety at the two most-a...
The continuous expansion of digital tourism has increased the need to understand tourists’ intentions to book hotels online in competitive digital marketplaces. Previous studies have generally relied on symmetric analytical approaches, which ha...
Since its founding in 2007, Airbnb has articulated its corporate identity around the mission “Belong Anywhere”, anchoring its brand promise in peer-to-peer hospitality, host empowerment, and authentic local experience. While this declared...
In the current era, the tourism sector faces interconnected challenges that require a rapid transition toward sustainable and smart management models. Within the framework of the project ‘Tourism as a Service’ (TAAS), this paper examines...
This paper examines how the travel intention of students is correlated with their mental health, in terms of stress reduction and psychological wellbeing. The study employs a combined model that integrates the Theory of Planned Behavior and Stress Re...
In the context of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and current regional development strategies, tourism is increasingly viewed as a potential driver of economic and infrastructural transformation across regions. While the li...
Heritage tourism is central to Spain’s cultural and territorial development, but its spatial distribution and intensity are still unevenly understood. This study analyzes heritage tourism in Spain as a territorially differentiated phenomenon by...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming tourism management by improving operational efficiency, enhancing visitor experiences, and supporting sustainability objectives. However, existing studies primarily focus on individual AI tech...
Employee empowerment is critical in today’s globalised era because it helps employees make rapid decisions and adapt swiftly to workplace changes and boosts both employee and organisational performance. However, it remains a commonly misunderst...
This original empirical study examines how online discourse on fair tourism in Korea was structured and transformed during the post-pandemic tourism transition. Using unstructured online text data collected from Korean digital platforms, the study co...
