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Tourism Supply chain (TSC) refers to techniques aimed at facilitating the sustainable development of tourist destinations through purchasing policies and practices. Sustainability is of particular ...

Retirees’ mobility patterns from origin cities to tourist destinations in pursuit of a “good life” have become a worldwide research topic as studies originating in Western countries spread to emerg...

Framed within the context of contemporary place making and the urban tourism destination, a novel trans-disciplinary approach to mapping and interpreting gentrification and cityscape change is pres...

Tourist destinations across the globe have been hit by the worst of the crisis that ensued the Covid-19 pandemic, and this concern is exponentially worse in developing countries. Sustainable planni...

In an increasingly competitive market for tourist destinations, visitorattractions play a key role in enticing visitors to the destination, and assuch must continually develop new extraordinary experiential offeringsto keep visitors coming. The Renaissance castle of Kronborg, a Danishheritage visitor attraction and the setting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, hasshown the way by staging Hamlet Live, an interactive theatricalexperience. Its success is due to the professional actors’ co-creativeperformances and improvisations. In this study, based on observations,semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis of TripAdvisor reviews,we identify and describe seven interconnected elements that havemade Hamlet Live successful in terms of revenue and visitor satisfaction.These elements form an experiential strategy framework that otherheritage visitor attractions could use to create extraordinaryexperiences. We provide recommendations on which types of heritagevisitor attractions could replicate the achievements of Kronborg’sHamlet Live.

Animation is a prime way to promote tourism destination marketing, but how animated content affects the image of tourism destinations has not been fully discussed. Based on the grounded theory, thi...

This paper presents a project involving the design, application, and monitoring of tourism indicators for the sustainable management of local destinations. The aim is to assess the tourism manageme...

This study aims to apply the concept of brand love in tourist destinations in order to identify the core-elements that could have influential impacts on generating destination brand love. This stud...

Identifying the influence factors lie behind the livelihood choices of rural households are of crucial significance for improving the sustainable livelihoods of rural households in tourism regions....

Environmentally responsible behavior (ERB) of residents contributes to sustainable tourism in a given tourist destination, and it is therefore important to explore the mechanisms that shape this be...

Empowering local residents is important for the sustainability of tourist destinations. This study assessed the reactions of residents in tourist destinations towards tourism during and after the C...

Landmark check-in behaviour, the ritualistic uploading of a picture or video from a photogenic spot by tourists to social media, is common at tourist destinations. This study considers the effect o...

The study investigates the relationship between market orientation and behavioural intentions in Ghana’s tourism industry using tourist satisfaction as a mediator. A sample of 226 respondents of 18...

The paper is based on territorial intelligence (TI) and its application to the sustainability of tourist destinations. The TI focus is viewed as being suited to dealing with the problems of tourist...

With the development of social networks, user-generated data now have a substantial impact on the visual representation of tourist destinations. As ‘the Belt and Road’ has become China’s long-term ...

Driverless cars, often viewed as low-carbon tourism mobility and can contribute to sustainable tourism, have generated much discussion. This study adds to ongoing but uncommon discussion about driv...

In many tourist destinations, innovation network development is complicated because relevant actors have divergent interests with respect to destination development. This article reports a longitud...

This research theorizes and empirically investigates the concept of brand anthropomorphism in the context of tourist destinations, namely, destination anthropomorphism. First, we demonstrate that a...

This paper analyzes the international expansion of five hotel companies based in the Balearic Islands that expanded their operations to the Caribbean and other tourist destinations throughout the l...

Tourist loyalty became a vital purpose for tourist destinations management. This study aimed to investigate and analyze the tourist loyalty defining factor visiting the beach in Maluku, Indonesia. ...

Child labor and child work conditions are analyzed in Cozumel and Valle de Bravo, both major tourist destinations in Mexico, where critical situations of minors employed in tourism-related activiti...

A high level of tourist satisfaction is one of the most common goals of sustainable tourist destinations. The general assumption is that a higher level of tourist satisfaction leads to higher tourist loyalty to destinations and, furthermore, increases revisits. This paper examines the relationships of how satisfaction, as well as the demographic, motivational, and behavioural characteristics of tourists, affect the intention to return for the main holiday to the same European Union (EU) country in the following year. We used the generalized linear model (GLM) with binomial logit link functions to reveal these relationships. The results show that satisfaction with the quality of accommodation plays an important role when EU citizens make decisions to revisit the same country. However, tourists’ motivation, age, travel distance, and country of origin influence the intention to revisit within the EU more significantly than the satisfaction attributes.

The nexus of migration and tourism is well explored, and both phenomena possess push- and pull factors. Their influence and connections can be seen in one of the top tourist destinations in Europe,...

The study investigates the travel motivations, satisfaction and loyalty of tourists visiting a destination (under distress). Furthermore, the current study examines the challenges faced by tourists...

When tourists buy souvenirs, their perception of generated value often draws the souvenir supplier’s attention. However, little is known about the reasons that drive tourists’ perceived value. With...

Gastronomy and its relationship with tourism has become a key aspect in the analysis of tourist destinations. One of the aims of this research is to show evidence of the presence of tourists with d...

Due to the increasing concern with physical and mental wellbeing, people realize the need to get away from the routines of domestic life and travel to tourist destinations. We propose the notion of...

The mitigation of spatiotemporal pressure is directly related to improvements for the competitive positions of coastal tourist destinations. Extensive diversification initiatives have been undertak...

The phenomenon of tourist revisiting has attracted attention because of its economic benefits to tourist destinations. Under the guidance of the Stimuli–Organism–Response framework, this research c...

Home, as a site of daily dwelling and a set of meanings, offers a way into studying the relationship between lifestyle and profit in tourist destinations. Situated in the context of lifestyle entre...

Tourism gentrification, or the transformation of residential areas into tourist destinations, is an important issue worldwide. It generally affects only the original residents, who often ch...

Local residents play an indispensable role in environmental conservation at tourist destinations. To facilitate the sustainable development of tourism, it is of great significance to identi...

In this digital age, online reviews of tourist destinations travel fast and far, and word of mouth information can affect the reputation of the sites and their perceived sociocultural significance....

This article provides a comparative analysis of localised contests over the reclamation of new islands for resort-style development projects in waters near tourist destinations in Bali and Western ...

The purpose of this study is to analyse the new processes of tourism growth and its conflicts from the perspective of social movements. First, the urban growth machine analysis model is app...

Overtourism is a contemporary phenomenon, rapidly evolving and underlined by what is evidently excessive visitation to tourist destinations. This is obvious in the seemingly uncontrolled and unplan...

This work focuses on studying how secondary information sources that tourists have encountered before visiting a destination influence the gap in the image formed pre and post visit. For this purpo...

Small-scale events represent an important asset for the development of tourist destinations. As local stakeholders play a major role in conceptualizing and developing small-scale events, this study...

Available empirical evidence on the effect of Airbnb’s expansion on hotels in tourist destinations is mixed. With monthly data from the city of Barcelona between August 2010 and October 201...

Optimism bias in the environmental field and its effects on environmental behaviors have not been well investigated to date. This study examines if temporal and spatial biases exist when to...

Recent years have witnessed growing numbers of residents exploring their own cities as tourist destinations. This phenomenon challenges academic understandings and definitions of who is defined as a tourist, and what differentiates tourists from residents when both display the same behaviours linked with spectacle and consumption. Of particular interest in these developments are situations where the emergence of ‘resident tourists’ involves residents transgressing boundaries of territorial stigma and fear to visit previously-avoided urban areas. Safety and security concerns and continued territorial stigma towards the Johannesburg inner city has isolated a generation of suburbanites from this urban space. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of various – often online – social media-driven (particularly Instagram) initiatives to bring these suburbanites into the inner city as resident tourists. Drawing survey data from 200 such visitors to Johannesburg’s inner city, this paper reflects on the implications for defining (proximate) tourism in terms of social or psychological rather than spatial (Euclidian) distance/proximity. In so doing, we reflect upon the role of new touristic gaze practices, inspired not only by curiosity but by a concern with self-promotion and social media self-branding. Our argument is that by rethinking emergent practices of collective consumption (facilitated in this instance by social media), we can understand how new forms of tourism occur within the locale of residence. These challenge trends towards the enclaving of daily life and mediated tourist consumption.

Reopen major tourist destinations is one of the significant recovery initiatives for the tourism industry after the outbreak of crises. However, few studies have focused on management measures duri...

We conjecture that attribute satisfaction, push motives and pull motives will be positively related to return visitation of tourist destinations. We also hypothesize that push factors will be stron...

This paper empirically investigates the pricing of hotel rooms in the US market, at popular touristdestinations (PTD) such as Las Vegas, Hawaii, relative to other locations. Regression analysis yieldsthe following insights: (i) The hotel room rent on weekends is higher than the rent on the weekdays.Interestingly, the relative increase in rent on weekends at PTD is greater than that at other locations;(ii) The rent decreases with an increase in the hotel capacity. Interestingly, the decline in rent withincreasing capacity at PTD is greater than that at other locations; (iii) The increase in rent because ofsuperior hotel reputation is greater at PTD, compared to other destinations; (iv) The discountsoffered at the PTD are deeper than the corresponding discounts offered at other locations

With more tourists researching and booking their travel entirely online, the use of social networking sites (SNSs) has gained popularity amongst both tourists and destination marketing orga...

This empirical study analyzes the relationship between the sentiments in online media with regard to travel destinations and corresponding tourist arrivals. We expect the media reports on political...

This study took Beijing as a case to examine the potential impact of smog on the domestic demand of tourist destinations in China. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was employed to explore and co...

A subprime mortgage crisis erupted in the United States in 2007 and resulted in an economic crisis spread worldwide. This study focused on seven major Asian tourist destinations and investigated th...

Social media have become an indispensable tool for promoting events and tourist destinations, but some tourism organizations are still unable to exploit their full potential. The present research a...

Slow travel (ST), which emphasizes deeper experiences via slower transportation modes, has been promoted as an alternative to current practice and a more sustainable form of tourism. With lower GHG emissions being a national environmental goal in Taiwan, ST concepts have been garnering attention. The relationship between the environments of destinations and pro-environmental behavior of tourists has attracted relatively little academic attention. To remedy this, the current research establishes a fairly complete model for incorporating factors at the contextual level into the individual determinants useful in encouraging ST. The goal of this research is to understand how certain predictors directly and interactively influence the choices of tourists toward ST. This study collected 508 validly filled surveys addressing 13 industrial tourist destinations, and applied Hierarchical Linear and Nonlinear Modeling (HLM) analyses. In addition to the individual-level factors, including perceived benefits o...