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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,997 Views
16 Pages

9 May 2023

This study investigated the structural relationship between tourist destination identification and environmental responsibility practices based on the social responsibility activities for visitors of marine sports tourist destinations where domestic...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,259 Views
24 Pages

Underlying Factors of Tourist Social Responsibility (TSR) within the COVID-19 Context: An Empirical Investigation of the Saudi Tourism Market

  • Ayman Kassem,
  • Ahmad Muhammad Ragab,
  • Abdullah Alomran,
  • Eid Alotaibi,
  • Tarek AbdelAzim Ahmed,
  • Eman Shaker and
  • Abdallah Alajloni

2 December 2021

The current literature on social responsibility in tourism is criticized for its bias in focusing on business ethics and responsibility while neglecting the tourist perspective. This paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the underlying factors of...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,794 Views
17 Pages

1 June 2022

Cultural heritage tourism, as a typical integration of culture and tourism, has attracted extensive attention in recent years. Although some scholars have already explored the influencing mechanism of tourists’ behavioral intention in cultural...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,483 Views
15 Pages

27 August 2018

The purpose of this study is to define destination social responsibility as a multidimensional construct and examine the relationships between destination social responsibility, tourists’ emotions and their satisfaction, through the lens of cor...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,919 Views
17 Pages

4 April 2019

Tourist loyalty is one of the most crucial aspects in determining the sustainable growth of a tourism destination. In attempting to find an aspect that boosts tourist loyalty for sustainable development of a tourism destination, the role of destinati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
10,921 Views
21 Pages

16 February 2020

A key strategic aim of tourism destinations within the smart tourism paradigm is to achieve efficient, responsible and sustainable use of tourism resources. This aim can be achieved by promoting the appropriate practices and making tourists co-manage...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,174 Views
13 Pages

29 June 2024

The aim of this research was to determine the scope of environmentally and socially responsible behavior related to tourist trips of women from Generation Z. The choice of this issue falls within the scientific discussion on the sustainable behavior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
14,597 Views
19 Pages

29 September 2024

Over the past three decades, global tourism has significantly contributed to the world economy, driven by factors such as globalization, technological advancements, and rising disposable incomes. However, alongside these economic benefits, tourism&rs...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,204 Views
15 Pages

18 March 2020

Crowding at destinations is becoming an important issue in sustainable tourism. This study examines the relationship between tourist perceptions of crowding, environmentally responsible behavior (ERB), and intention to recommend a destination, from a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,048 Views
22 Pages

27 December 2018

This study applied the relationship quality theory to examine how destination social responsibility (DSR) impacts revisit intentions through the mediation of destination preference and relationship quality (i.e., tourist satisfaction and identificati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
99 Citations
30,347 Views
22 Pages

Sustainable Tourism Policy, Destination Management and Sustainable Tourism Development: A Moderated-Mediation Model

  • Mustafa Rehman Khan,
  • Haseeb Ur Rehman Khan,
  • Chen Kim Lim,
  • Kian Lam Tan and
  • Minhaz Farid Ahmed

3 November 2021

In the recent years, the rapid growth of the tourism industry has risen to prominence as a global concern. Tourism empowers communities and uplifts the economy. However, it poses social and environmental challenges, which in turn draws attention to t...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,284 Views
20 Pages

8 March 2021

Ski resorts are important tourist resources in mountain areas. They have a high impact on the environment but also on the development of the territory. Corporate social responsibility management plays an important role in influencing consumer purchas...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,907 Views
22 Pages

29 September 2022

People’s increasing attention towards environmental issues and carbon emission level per capita of consumption has made the influencing factors of low-carbon consumption behavior a research hotspot. In this study, a random sample of tourists in...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,091 Views
21 Pages

Although Destination Sustainable Responsibility (DSR) has become a critical factor in upholding tourists’ satisfaction and positive behavioral outcomes, research on how tourists perceive different attributional dimensions (e.g., controllability...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,262 Views
13 Pages

10 November 2023

This study examined the direct and indirect relationships between perceptions of destination social responsibility and environmentally responsible behavior. This paper uses the Stimulus–Organism–Response theory to evaluate the mediating r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,563 Views
16 Pages

Social Distancing in Tourism Destination Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: A Moderated Mediation Model

  • Hui Zhang,
  • Min Zhuang,
  • Yihan Cao,
  • Jingxian Pan,
  • Xiaowan Zhang,
  • Jie Zhang and
  • Honglei Zhang

While protective measures in response to infectious diseases may reduce the freedom of tourists (regarding their behaviors), few studies have documented the effects of destination protective measures on the self-protective behaviors of tourists. By a...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,076 Views
22 Pages

29 May 2023

Smartphone usage affects the relationship between social loneliness in tourism and tourist happiness. This study discusses the effect of social loneliness on tourist happiness by considering three aspects of smartphone usage—habitual smartphone...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,375 Views
16 Pages

Academic Tourism and Transport Services: Student Perceptions from a Social Responsibility Perspective

  • Cláudia Miranda Veloso,
  • Cícero Eduardo Walter,
  • Bruno Sousa,
  • Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira,
  • Vasco Santos and
  • Marco Valeri

6 August 2021

Firms aim at achieving their economic interests without neglecting the needs of local and regional communities and the environment itself. The process involves defining and implementing Social Responsibility strategies that leverage organizational co...

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  • Open Access
75 Citations
18,267 Views
19 Pages

18 September 2020

Due to the emergence of Web 2.0 and consequently the increased use of social media, this study aims to explore the role of social media in changing the behavior of tourists and the choice of a destination. Despite the massive popularity of social med...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,400 Views
17 Pages

Post-COVID-19 Tourists’ Preferences, Attitudes and Travel Expectations: A Study in Guayaquil, Ecuador

  • Miguel Orden-Mejía,
  • Mauricio Carvache-Franco,
  • Assumpció Huertas,
  • Wilmer Carvache-Franco,
  • Nathalie Landeta-Bejarano and
  • Orly Carvache-Franco

Expectations about a destination influence the tourist experience during the travel process stages. In the post-COVID-19 normalcy, people are adjusting their priorities and social values. Therefore, it becomes crucial to identify tourists’ expe...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,552 Views
17 Pages

6 May 2024

This study explores the influence of host–guest interaction on tourists’ pro-environment behavior. On the one hand, the experience attribute of host–guest interaction’s influence on tourists’ experiential value is sorted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
12,347 Views
24 Pages

Social Media in Sustainable Tourism Recovery

  • Beata Hysa,
  • Iwona Zdonek and
  • Aneta Karasek

11 January 2022

In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial to manage tourist destinations to allow the recovery of tourism on the one hand and reduce its negative impact on the environment and the local community on the other. Information provided via soci...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,290 Views
18 Pages

24 April 2024

In the era of social media, online reviews have become a crucial factor influencing the exposure of tourist destinations and the decision-making of potential tourists, exerting a profound impact on the sustainable development of these destinations. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,027 Views
16 Pages

17 October 2019

This study assumes that green technologies at tourist destinations are a part of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It investigates how technology-based eco-innovation is related to sustainable development goals (SDGs) and how eco-innovative CSR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,031 Views
14 Pages

International volunteer tourism is an emerging and sustainable trend of the global tourism industry. In this study, we attempted to provide a clear comprehension of volunteer tourists’ mental health increase and pro-social intention formation. A surv...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,228 Views
17 Pages

3 October 2022

Despite their ecological value, wetland parks can be expensive to preserve and maintain, so local governments endeavor to design financially sustainable models by exploiting the ecotourism value of wetland parks. This trend has been facilitated by te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,777 Views
16 Pages

28 March 2022

The current study was conducted to examine the consumption process of tourists through the SIPS model as they experienced tourism-related information and products on social networking sites. Data was collected online from Koreans who have experience...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
17,958 Views
19 Pages

24 April 2024

This study presents a comparative assessment of emerging sustainability trends in tourist facilities, focusing on multiple hotels and resorts. By analyzing various aspects, such as energy efficiency, waste management, water conservation, and communit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
130 Citations
23,390 Views
18 Pages

Barcelona, Housing Rent Bubble in a Tourist City. Social Responses and Local Policies

  • Asunción Blanco-Romero,
  • Macià Blázquez-Salom and
  • Gemma Cànoves

15 June 2018

Ten years after the housing bubble burst, Barcelona has experienced an increase in rental prices. This increase in prices is due to a combination of factors such as household debt, urban entrepreneurialism and the marketing of the city, evictions, in...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,391 Views
20 Pages

27 June 2019

The aim of the paper was to create a configuration model of an inter-organizational network for post-industrial tourist organizations. Nowadays, establishing organized and structured cooperation is necessary not only from a single organization’...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,127 Views
19 Pages

13 May 2025

As social media platforms become integral to information dissemination, they play a crucial role in shaping tourist decision-making and travel behavior. However, while previous studies have examined the general influence of social media on tourism, l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,545 Views
26 Pages

16 June 2025

This study examines how Chinese tourists perceive the value of sustainable practices implemented in five-star hotels in Phuket, Thailand, through the lens of the perceived value theory and the service experience framework. While luxury hotels increas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,161 Views
17 Pages

Tourist Route Optimization in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic

  • Cristina Maria Păcurar,
  • Ruxandra-Gabriela Albu and
  • Victor Dan Păcurar

14 May 2021

The paper presents an innovative method for tourist route planning inside a destination. The necessity of reorganizing the tourist routes within a destination comes as an immediate response to the Covid-19 crisis. The implementation of the method ins...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,682 Views
14 Pages

Digital-free tourism (DFT) has recently attracted tourism service providers’ attention for its benefits in terms of enhancing tourists’ experiences and well-being at destinations. DFT refers to tourists who are likely to voluntarily avoid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,240 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2024

There is a limited understanding on the information-seeking behavior of international tourists during disaster response scenarios due to the lack of empirical studies on crisis communication in Japan. This study clarifies the topics generated from bo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,680 Views
21 Pages

In response to growing concerns about overtourism and the need for sustainable heritage tourism, this study investigates how external environmental stimuli affect tourists’ perceived value and behavioral intentions in historic urban environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,020 Views
28 Pages

21 June 2024

This study is a feature perception study of traditional village landscapes, refines the research method of traditional village landscape features using tourists online comment data, combs the landscape perception features of Xijiang Thousand Househol...

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  • Open Access
1,486 Views
16 Pages

2 December 2024

This study considers Jinniu Lake (JNL), the biggest artificial lake and National Water Conservancy Scenic Spot (WCSS) in Nanjing, as an example to analyze the determinants of tourists’ willingness to pay (WTP) and satisfaction, as well as their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,134 Views
22 Pages

Corporate Community Involvement and Chinese Rural Tourist Destination Sustainability

  • Xueru Yang,
  • Haoming Li,
  • Wenhong (Miranda) Chen and
  • Hui Fu

15 March 2019

Although rural tourism enterprises have played crucial roles in the prosperity of tourist destinations, environmental contamination due to corporate behaviour is also an important issue to consider. In this study, we introduce corporate community inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
9,929 Views
15 Pages

Sustainable Tourism as a Source of Healthy Tourism

  • Luna Santos-Roldán,
  • Ana Mª Castillo Canalejo,
  • Juan Manuel Berbel-Pineda and
  • Beatriz Palacios-Florencio

Even though the World Tourism Organization described Sustainable Tourism as a tourism form that could contribute to the future survival of the industry, the current reality is quite different, since it has not been firmly established in society at ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,777 Views
17 Pages

31 May 2023

In recent decades, the impositions of environmental sustainability have resulted in severe challenges for the tourism sector. It is not enough to make tourist destinations greener and more circular. It is necessary to encourage pro-sustainable behavi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,741 Views
11 Pages

27 January 2020

This study set a model to predict the effect of corporate social responsibility and green image on visit intention in small and medium-size towns (SMST). At present, there is a keen social awareness towards environmental problems, and cities are requ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
11,382 Views
23 Pages

The Importance of Sustainability in the Loyalty to a Tourist Destination through the Management of Expectations and Experiences

  • María Magdalena Solís-Radilla,
  • Lucio Hernández-Lobato,
  • Luis Jose Callarisa-Fiol and
  • Héctor T. Pastor-Durán

31 July 2019

Sustainability has become one of the key factors for the development of tourism both nowadays and in the future. The need to integrate environmental, socio-cultural and economic factors is a consequence of the evolution of society itself, the introdu...

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  • Open Access
858 Views
22 Pages

11 November 2025

Countries encounter significant challenges in the context of the climate crisis, prompting the implementation of environmentally sustainable measures in vulnerable sectors such as tourism. Nevertheless, inadequate levels of public awareness often del...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,182 Views
17 Pages

High-quality biosecurity practices are critical to restarting international tourism. Effective market segmentation improves the communication and efficacy of health advice. Travel frequency is an important basis for health-related consumer segmentati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,379 Views
23 Pages

Social media platforms are widely used nowadays by various businesses to promote their products and services through multimedia content. Instagram is one of those platforms, which is used not only by companies to promote their products but also by lo...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,540 Views
16 Pages

This study selected the TaiAn rural community in Taiwan as the study site. TaiAn collaborated with local universities to implement the University Social Responsibility (USR) practice through community-based agritourism (CBA). The social exchange theo...

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  • Open Access
350 Views
23 Pages

Grounded in the Stimulus–Organism–Response (SOR) framework, this study examines how tourists’ in-trip use of ChatGPT shapes satisfaction during leisure travel. Survey data from 502 Indonesian travellers were analysed using PLS-SEM....

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,415 Views
16 Pages

3 March 2025

Conceptualized in this paper is the integration of sustainability into the strategic balanced scorecard for event tourism (SBSC-ET), emphasizing a holistic approach to managing event tourism. The community perspective focuses on cultural preservation...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,338 Views
17 Pages

21 January 2025

As rational economic beings, economic gains in behavior influence consumers. Consequently, rewards influence consumer behavior, which leads to altruism and warm traits. This motivates consumers to enhance their willingness to behave in a pro-social w...

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