Showing papers in "Annals of Tourism Research in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the effect of review ratings on usefulness and enjoyment and find that people perceive extreme ratings (positive or negative) as more useful and enjoyable than moderate ratings, giving rise to a U-shaped line with asymmetric effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored residents' perceived value of tourism development, life domain satisfaction (material/non-material), and overall quality of life in their community using a sample of residents from five different tourism destinations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the multiple ways in which local tourism businesses respond to crises and the resources these businesses employ to build resilience in an unpredictable business environment, and they revealed that tourism businesses show remarkable resilience during the decade of crisis that affected the Indonesian tourism industry.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a gender-aware bibliometric analysis of 466 journal papers published during 1985-2012, which categorised the sub-field's prevailing themes and methodologies and identified its most prolific authors and popular journals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore decolonial theory and its relevance for tourism studies and suggest that while postcolonial and related critical theoretical perspectives furthered understandings of the consequences of colonisation, such critical theorising has not provided an epistemological perspective of tourism which legitimises the cosmologies of, and actively empowers, traditionally marginalised groupings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the economic impact of tourism to seven small island developing countries (SIDS) and found that the transportation sector remains a key sector and that tourism generates a large amount of economic activity but the income that remains in the destinations is often very small.

TL;DR: A study of travel blogs by nineteen British bloggers reveals how elements of the narrative relating to self-reflection and emotions are central to the process of transforming their travel experiences into personally meaningful experiences as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, crisis resistant tourists are defined and theoretically conceptualized, and an initial profile of crisis-resistant tourists is provided, offering guidance to the tourism industry on how to identify and communicate with this highly attractive market segment.

TL;DR: It is suggested that social media and photography facilitate social comparison, thus the tourist gaze is being redefined even more rapidly nowadays.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate if local residents' senses of place identity could affect their attitudes toward tourism and find that place-based self-esteem and selfefficacy affect residents' perceptions of tourism impacts and support for tourism.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of key conceptual principles which guide emergent soft science thinking are reviewed for tourism studies through a probative "tableau" of qualitative approach exemplars.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the physiological, psychological, social and spiritual impacts of social tourism on older people's wellbeing and revealed that social tourism presents older individuals with occasions for escape, respite, companionship, and reminiscence and for renegotiation of self-identity following spousal bereavement.

TL;DR: This paper identified hypothetical relationships among motivation, nostalgia, and memorable tourism experiences in a restaurant reconstructed from an old railway station and provided suggestions for enhancing memorable experiences and guidance regarding reused buildings at heritage sites.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a two-stage interactive model based on innovative capability, environment and other contextual factors of firms, in order to explain first, the innovative outcomes in products and processes and, subsequently, the influence of these outcomes on the profitability of SMEs in the Andalusian hospitality industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a recursive-dynamic CGE model is developed to assess the possibility that tourism can trigger the Dutch Disease, which may jeopardize productivity gains, generate a persistent appreciation of the real exchange rate and thus affect the economic growth in the long term.

TL;DR: This paper examined how different research strategies in recent articles on sustainable tourism have advanced theoretical understanding in this research field and evaluated them using a typology of research strategies associated with theoretical work, using a broad perspective on this work.

TL;DR: In this paper, tourists often start the destination choice process with various combinations of destination types but act similarly when choosing the final destination, and tourist and destination characteristics are investigated using a combination of data on destinations and on tourists' individual destination choices.

TL;DR: This article explored the ways in which the employment of women in the tourism industry has challenged or reinforced the traditional machismo-marianismo gender ideology in the Dominican Republic and found that women gain economic and social independence, but also conflict as women and men negotiate new gender roles and identities.

TL;DR: The authors argue that tourists seek experiences that counter the emptiness of everyday life in modern societies and provide them an opportunity to be more authentic, based on a partial reading of Heidegger.

TL;DR: In this article, a new theoretical model for the international meetings industry is proposed, based on a review of the literature and a study of absorptive capacity in the international meeting industry, which provides the means by which policy-makers might, for the first time, assess levels of absorbent capacity in destinations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed a model that explains the process of hosts' authentication through structural analysis of the antecedents and consequences of hosts’ authentic experiences, with personal emotional benefits being the key factor mediating the conflict between economic benefits and authenticity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the perceptions residents of developing island countries have of imperialism and tourism; and consequently their support for its development, and found that both the positive and negative impacts of tourism influence residents' support.

TL;DR: The psychoanalytical concept of the death drive as discussed by the authors refers to a constant force at the junction between life and death, which is not understood in a biological sense of physical demise of the body, nor in opposition to life.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that both impacts felt by and attitudes to tourism are a function of place change and that attitudes are generally positive when stasis exists among the three types, but deteriorate during periods of rapid place change.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed meanings and practices of responsibility represented in qualitative and visual texts derived from 28 tourists of the Thelon River in Arctic Canada and found that responsibility is primarily constructed around an ethic of leaving no trace, which is contingent upon nature as peripheral and anachronistic space, deference to scientific and experiential knowledge, and cycles of representation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a five-phase model of vacation cycle and elucidate mechanisms behind vacation and fade-out effects, arguing that existential authenticity is a relative, dynamic, and four-dimensional concept.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the latest version of the well-known protected area management compendium by Graeme Worboys and his colleagues, which is intended principally as a practitioner handbook for parks staff worldwide.

TL;DR: In this article, a Traffic Light Routes (TLR) framework is proposed with the Green Route forming the most desirable strategy for adoption by managers, and the Amber Route and the Red Route completing the construct.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the methods upon which tourism researchers have long relied require pushing or merging in previously underutilised ways that support these emerging areas of study, and they introduce the concept of thermalscapes, giving attention to the relatively neglected role of temperatures in tourism experiences.