International Journal of Tourism Cities
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Antecedents of memorable heritage tourism experiences: an application of stimuli–organism–response theory
Erose Sthapit, Brian Garrod, Dafnis N. Coudounaris, Siamak Seyfi, Ibrahim Cifci, Tan Vo-ThanhBased on stimulus-organism-response theory, this study aims to develop and tests a model of memorable heritage tourism experience (MHTE). The model proposes that experiencescape…
Nonlinear effects of climate change on tourism development: evidence from China
Tingwei Wang, Hui Zhang, Ya WangThe purpose of this paper is to have a deeper understanding of the nonlinear relationship between the impact of climate change on tourism development. Current studies on the…
Residents’ perceptions of negative tourism impacts and mitigation strategies: the case of Porto
Ivana Stevic, Vítor Rodrigues, Zélia Breda, Medéia Veríssimo, Ana Margarida Ferreira da Silva, Carlos Manuel Martins da CostaThis paper aims to analyse residents’ perceptions of tourism growth in Porto prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to determine the most appropriate strategies to mitigate…
Events and urban space: a challenging relationship?
Greg RichardsThis paper aims to consider the relationship between urban events and urban public space, asking whether cities have enough space for events and whether events have enough space…
TOURQUAL scale: psychometric properties and internal structure validation
Tiago Savi Mondo, Sandro Medeiros, Erose Sthapit, Lara Brunelle Almeida Freitas Almeida Freitas, Peter BjörkThis study aims to focus on assessing the psychometric properties necessary to validate the internal structure of the TOURQUAL scale.
Investigating the sustainability of the tourism industry through consumer intention to purchase electric three-wheelers: the case of Sri Lanka
Claudel Mombeuil, Hemantha P. DiunugalaIn the realm of tourism and sustainability, transportation and mobility hold a crucial position. Among the green product categories, three-wheeled electric vehicles have gained…
Promoting residents’ happiness through a human-centric approach to tourism city development
Robertico Croes, Valeriya Shapoval, Manuel Rivera, Monika Bąk, Piotr ZientaraThe study aims to delve into the influence of tourism on the happiness of city residents, grounded in the overarching concept of livability. It posits that prioritizing residents’…
Accessing vicarious nostalgia and memorable tourism experiences in the context of heritage tourism with the moderating influence of social return
Sachin Bhogal, Amit Mittal, Urvashi TandonHeritage tourism is an increasingly popular form of tourism that allows individuals to connect with the past and immerse themselves in cultural and historical narratives. Hence…
Assessment of hotels’ online complaints in domestic tourism: mixed analysis approach
Mustafa Çevrimkaya, Şenol Çavus, Ümit ŞengelThis study aims to test the complaints of tourists who visit five-star hotels in Antalya, Turkey, on those same hotels’ websites.
Multidimensional destination perception effects over medical tourists’ behavioural in emerging destinations: empirical evidence from China’s international medical tourism pilot area
Mengyin Jiang, Lindu Zhao, Yingji LiThis study aims to explore the consumer perceptions of cognition and intention to visit pilot zone of international medical tourism as emerging, developed medical tourism…
Harnessing appreciative inquiry in tourism planning: towards a strategy for poverty alleviation in marginalised communities
Tamer M. ElsawyThis study aims to apply the appreciative inquiry approach (AI) to develop a tourism strategy for poverty alleviation in marginalised communities. The focus is to provide…
Metaverse cannot be an extra marketing immersive tool to increase sales in tourism cities
Lázaro Florido-BenítezThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the metaverse platform in a social context to better understand the future of this tool in tourism cities and how this can help to improve…
Livable cities in the global south: Buenos Aires city in the new normal
Maximiliano Emanuel KorstanjeSocial sciences have discussed the host–guest relation from many theoretical lenses and perspectives. Violence as well as local crime has been studied as one of the major risks…
Antecedents of residents’ support for cruise tourism in the Bahamas during the era of COVID-19 pandemic
Ounjoung Park, Angie Yeonsook Im, Dae-Young KimThis study aims to disclose the antecedent factors for predicting support for cruise tourism in the Bahamas. It investigated the relationship between residents’ support for cruise…
Do destination personality and self-congruity matter for the pro-environmental behavioral intention? Nature-based pro-environmental behavior
Yingqi Long, Chung-Shing ChanThe study aims to draw on the self-congruity theory to investigate the relationship among destination personality (DP), self-congruity and tourists’ pro-environmental behavioral…
Transforming urban industrial landscapes through art tourism – a gentrification aesthetics model from Abu Dhabi’s case
Nataša Slak, Paolo MuraThis paper aims to explore the opinions of business owners in an industrial area of Abu Dhabi that could be potentially turned into an art tourism destination.
The role of eco-attraction in the intention to conduct low-carbon actions: a study of visitor behavior in urban forests
Fitri Rahmafitria, Regan Leonardus KaswantoOne of the crucial elements of addressing global climate challenges through urban tourism is the continuing existence of urban forests. The reasoning is that the ecological…
The social construction of anti-tourism protest in tourist cities: a case study of Barcelona
Francesc González-Reverté, Anna Soliguer GuixFocusing on critical discourse analysis, this paper aims to propose a framework for analysing the way activist anti-tourism groups construct their social action of protest. The…
Emotions or numbers in tourism advertisements? A comprehensive analysis of two neighboring destinations in the pre- and post-COVID-19 period
M. Bahadır KalıpçıBy analyzing tourist choices in Side and Alanya, well-known destinations for tourists in Türkiye’s thriving urban tourism sector, this study aims to fill a crucial vacuum in the…
Synthesizing qualitative insights: a meta-ethnography of tourism disaster management literature
Muhammad Asif, Hesham FazelDisasters can affect the important sector of tourism across the world. This study aims to combine qualitative findings from 13 publications to enhance disaster management plans…
To return or not to return: an investigation of dilemma among medical students to revisit Ukraine for educational tourism
Samiha Siddiqui, Sujood , Naseem Bano, Sheeba HamidUkraine hosts thousands of international students for educational tourism, of which more than 18,000 Indian medical students were compelled to escape Ukraine under emergency…
Unveiling destination choices: uncovering the influence of missing visual information on tourists’ decision-making and visit intention
Fatemeh Khozaei, Claus-Christian Carbon, Mi Jeong Kim, Qamar Ul Islam, Wesam Beitelmal, Israr Ul HassanThis research aims to investigate the impact of missing visual information on tourists’ decision-making processes and visit intention. Drawing on perception completion law and…
Analysis of the competitiveness factors for MICE tourism: the case of Mazatlan, Sinaloa
Margarita Guadalupe Zazueta-Hernández, Mónica Velarde-ValdezMeetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) tourism has established as a tourism segment that is growing in popularity. It is less seasonality dependent, promotes the…
Perceptions of Airbnb’s impact beyond the tourist bubbles of Cusco, Peru: an exploration of resident irritability
Mildred Arevalo, Jonathon Day, Sandra Sotomayor, Nancy Karen GuillenSpecifically, this study aims to examine residents’ perceptions regarding the following: the sociocultural, environmental and economic impacts generated by the presence of Airbnb…
Individual factors impacting tourist satisfaction and revisit intention in slow tourism cities: an extended model
Fakhri Baghirov, Zehra Bozbay, Ye ZhangPostpandemic efforts to rebuild have steered the global economy toward a more sustainable trajectory. It is imperative to acknowledge the pressing need for further enhancements in…
Heritage tourism and peace interdependency: news content analysis on the destruction and the rebuilding drives of Jahanabad Buddha Statue, Swat, Pakistan
Farhad Nazir, Norberto Santos, Luís SilveiraThis paper aims to discern the potential dimensions amid the duality of heritage tourism and peace. Reflecting on the phases of destruction and rebuilding of Seated Buddha of…
Curating pasts: musealization and tourism in Chinese cities
Wenhong Luo, Nelson GraburnChina has been going through a “museum boom” paralleling the domestic tourism boom since 2000; such growth changed the cultural landscape; museums became a vital characteristic of…
The relationship between visitors’ motivations and satisfaction about a Brazilian sacred complex
Jaqueline de Souza Brogni, Luciano Torres Tricárico, Pablo Flores Limberger, Thamires Foletto FiuzaThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the motivation and satisfaction of visitors, both tourists and residents, of a sacred urban complex located in…
What does the media tell us about a destination? The Cancun case, seen from the USA, Canada, and Mexico
Elizabeth Olmos-Martínez, Miguel Á. Álvarez-Carmona, Ramón Aranda, Angel Díaz-PachecoThis study aims to present a framework for automatically collecting, cleaning and analyzing text (news articles, in this case) to provide valuable decision-making information to…
Heritage and tourism development in China's former international concessions. Tianjin as a place study
Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand, Yue Lu, Xinyu LiBetween 1840s and 1940s, 27 occidental concessions have been created in several cities in China which represented difficult signs and memories for Chinese. Nowadays, these…
Destination image and tourist motivations as antecedents of tourist engagement
Miguel Ángel Moliner-Tena, Lucio Hernández-Lobato, Juan Carlos Fandos-Roig, María Magdalena Solís-RadillaThis paper aims to establish the causal relationship between destination image and tourist motivation and engagement.
Co-agglomeration of the culture and tourism industries in Chinese cities
Changyao Song, Qi Zhang, Xinjian Li, Anni ZhangThe interaction between the culture and tourism industries is naturally concentrated in cities. However, the effect of their co-agglomeration on urban tourism development depends…
Does Covid-19 reduce food waste in the hospitality sector in Dubai?
Rihab Grassa, Anca Bocanet, Ayesha Adulla, Hanene Ben Abdullah, Nourchene Ben AyedFood waste (FW) is a significant problem in the hospitality sector worldwide. The Covid-19 pandemic has imposed a health protocol on the hospitality sector to protect the…
Tourists’ perceived destination image and heritage conservation intention: a comparative study of heritage and film-induced images
Su Zhang, Yin-Hsi LoKaiping Diaolou in Guangdong Province, China, is a UNESCO World Heritage site that is often used as a film location. This study aims to investigate the antecedents of film-induced…
Stakeholder perceptions of volunteer tourism community impact
Jessica Aquino, Kathleen L. AndereckThis paper aims to examine volunteer tourism (VT) experiences of three stakeholder groups in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The guiding research question is: how does VT influence…
Quality, expenditure, and loyalty in a cultural event: a longitudinal study
Nora L. Bringas-Rábago, Djamel ToudertThe impact of event quality on expenditure and visitors’ loyalty has been an issue seldom analyzed by festival literature. These same incidental relations were not assessed from a…
Beyond the certification of smart tourism destination: insights from the city of Medellín in Colombia
Naïma Aïdi, Nathalie FabryThis paper aims to give meaning to the smart tourism destination (STD) certification, highlighting its main advantages and limitations. The case of Medellín (Colombia) presents…
Changes in the size of domestic tourists in mainland China under the impact of COVID-19
Lina Zhong, Yingchao DongThe purpose of this paper is to explore the changes of the scale of urban tourists in mainland China under the impact of COVID-19 and, specifically, the following questions: how…
Tourism and COVID-19 in China: recovery and resilience strategies of main Chinese tourism cities
Luqi Yang, Xiaoni Li, Ana Beatriz Hernández-LaraThe purpose of this study is to investigate the recovery and resilience tourism strategies and possible future development of four main Chinese tourism cities.
How does a hotel’s hygiene protocol quality trigger guests’ revisit intention during the pandemic? Evidence from Chinese guests
Md. Tariqul Islam, Uma Pandey, Satyajit Sinha, Siti Rahayu HussinBased on the Stimulus-Organism-Response Model, this study aims to investigate how the intention of Chinese guests to revisit a hotel (response) is triggered by the quality of the…
Tourism and public insecurity: what are its roots?
Ana Catarina Coutinho, Wilker Ricardo NóbregaStudies examining public insecurity and tourism tend to develop their research from the tourist's perspective, thereby focusing on its consequences, which insufficiently and…
Potentials, opportunities and challenges of ecotourism development in selected historical and sacred sites of North Shewa Zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia
Habtamu Mekonnen, Sefi MekonenEcotourism has emerged as a new hope of the tourism sector and is expected to overcome past pitfalls of mass tourism. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to assess the…
Executing a destination branding strategy: Louisville Tourism’s Urban Bourbon Trail
Robert C. Ford, John T. Bowen, Stacey YatesThe purpose of this study is to add new insights into the discussion of how a city’s destination marketing organization (DMO) can apply operand resources to act upon its operant…
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hybridEditors:
- Prof Andres Coca-Stefaniak
- Prof Alastair Morrison