International Journal of Tourism Cities: Volume 10 Issue 1

Editorial: Rethinking tourism in cities – alternative spaces and responsible practices

What makes Indian domestic tourists crowd-friendly in the post-COVID-19 phase?

This study aims to explore the good crowding effect among Indian domestic travellers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of the city destination. This study uses the…

“Playing tourist” in a divided city

This study aims to investigate the social and affective impacts of inviting residents of a socially divided, post-war city to “play tourist” for a day, exploring their own…

Framing the tourist spatial identity of a city as a tourist product

The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for shaping the tourist spatial identity of the city and to take advantage of it to discover alternative urban outdoor…

Chernobyl dreams: investigating visitors’ storytelling in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Little is known about the overall meaning of the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) from the visitors’ point of view. Conceptualizing the zone as a storyscape and its narratives as…

Genealogy tourism and city tourism in Coimbra. Proposal for a Jewish culture route

Tourism in Coimbra today is influenced by the fact that the Univer(s)city was distinguished as a World Heritage Site in 2013. The number of visits has grown very significantly in…

Tourist walkability and sustainable community-based tourism: conceptual framework and strategic model

This paper aims to determine the significance of tourist walkability on three community-based tourism sustainability indicators, namely, the economic, social and environmental…

AR and VR-based travel: a responsible practice towards sustainable tourism

Drawing on the UTAUT-2 model, the study attempts to accentuate the role of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) based tourism products and services in enhancing…

Street art and creative place-making: urban tourism regeneration in Toronto, Canada

This paper aims to discuss the place-making processes of street art within the context of Toronto, Canada, and potential for street art as alternative tourism to contribute to new…

Enhancing smart tourism and smart city development: evidence from Taoyuan smart aviation city in Taiwan

This study aims to investigate tourists’ impressions of the smart destinations model from the socio-technical systems and the technology–organization–environment (TOE…

Sustainable tourism concept: tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty

This study aims to look into and evaluate a sustainability-based destination loyalty model that takes into account how people perceive the urban destination in alignment with…

Reinforcing sustainable consumption practices through promoting gastronomic tourism: a cross-sectional study from India and Bangladesh

Food not only satisfies the need and nourishes positive experiences but also enhances involvement with the cultural, social and environmental attributes of a destination. As urban…

Mapping the landscape of tourism cities research: a bibliometric analysis of the International Journal of Tourism Cities

This research addresses the pressing need for comprehensive studies in the rapidly evolving field of city tourism. This study aims to understand the overall performance of the…

“I would like to visit a bone chapel, but …”: facilitators, constraints, motivators and death anxiety

The study aims to understand the relationship between facilitating, demoting, motivating factors and visit intention; and to clarify the role of death anxiety before visiting a…

Constructing Spanish smart destinations: a new guide for the tourism industry

The purpose of this study is to analyse Benidorm, San Sebastián, Gijón, Málaga, Tenerife Island and Santander smart tourist destinations (STDs) as a touristic model and example to…

Impact of memorable tourism experiences on tourists’ storytelling intentions: an empirical investigation

This study aims to examine the impact of the structural linkages between memorable tourism experiences, destination attachment, tourists’ satisfaction and customer-based…

Tourism representation and strategies on public signs: linguistic landscape of a Saudi southern tourist destination

This study aims to investigate multilingual representation on public signs in the High City tourist destination in Abha, Saudi Arabia. It also reveals the linguistic strategies…

How perceived crowding changes the interrelationships between perceived value, tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty: the empirical study at Hoi An

This paper seeks to revisit the interrelationship among tourists’ perceived value of the destination, tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty in the heritage tourism site of…

European historic cities and overtourism – conflicts and development paths in the light of systematic literature review

This paper aims to check if destinations with powerful similarities also show similar tourism/overtourism effects that differentiate them from other destinations. This paper…

“A Research Agenda for Urban Tourism” edited by Jan van der Borg, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022