Showing papers in "Journal of Sustainable Tourism in 2021"
TL;DR: Why COVID-19 is an analogue to the ongoing climate crisis, and why there is a need to question the volume growth tourism model advocated by UNWTO, ICAO, CLIA, WTTC and other tourism organizations are discussed.
Abstract: The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is challenging the world. With no vaccine and limited medical capacity to treat the disease, nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) are the main strategy to contain ...
2,508 citations
TL;DR: The COVID-19 challenge is widely recognised as a challenge or even a game changer for travel and tourism as discussed by the authors, and it has also been a catalyst to serious debate in the "tourism academy", as revealed by a discussion on TR...
Abstract: COVID-19 is widely recognised as a challenge or even a game-changer for travel and tourism. It has also been a catalyst to serious debate in the “tourism academy,” as revealed by a discussion on TR...
217 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, environmental sustainability is the foremost topic in the contemporary tourism and hospitality industry, and diverse forms of environmental problems pose a serious threat to the natural environment, which is why it is important to be aware of these issues.
Abstract: Diverse forms of environmental problems pose a serious threat to the natural environment. Environmental sustainability is the foremost topic in the contemporary tourism and hospitality industry. En...
159 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a methodology for the early detection of reactivation of tourist markets to help mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, using Skyscanner data on air passenger searches (>5,000 million) and picks (>600 million), for flights between November 2018 and December 2020, through ForwardKeys.
Abstract: This paper develops a methodology for the early detection of reactivation of tourist markets to help mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, using Skyscanner data on air passenger searches (>5,000 million) and picks (>600 million), for flights between November 2018 and December 2020, through ForwardKeys. For future travel during the May to September 2020 period, the desire to travel (based on the number of flight searches) has dropped by about 30% in Europe and the Americas, and by about 50% in Asia, while intention to travel (the number of flight picks, the final selections amongst flight searches) has dropped a further 10-20%. Most source markets remain optimistic about air travel during the last quarter of 2020, suggesting a U shape recovery. However, optimism has dwindled as time passes, suggesting a flatline L shape. A traffic light dashboard for domestic and inbound air travel demand to Spain shows how destination managers might use Big Data relating to the early recovery of key source markets to develop targeted marketing strategies. We show how Big Data provides timely granular data essential in highly volatile situations, and we argue that destination management organisations must improve their Big Data analytical and evidence-based, decision-making skills.
159 citations
TL;DR: In this article, academic research offering more nuanced insights about the drivers of green creativity contributes to green innovation and green sustainability in both the manufacturing and services sectors, however, academic research is limited.
Abstract: Green creativity contributes to green innovation and green sustainability in both the manufacturing and services sectors. However, academic research offering more nuanced insights about the drivers...
114 citations
TL;DR: Caribbean islands that are highly dependent on tourism are facing compounding crises from climate-related disasters to the Covid-19 pandemic travel disruption as mentioned in this paper, and the rebuilding of tourism infrastructures is critical.
Abstract: Caribbean islands that are highly dependent on tourism are facing compounding crises from climate-related disasters to the Covid-19 pandemic travel disruption. The rebuilding of tourism infrastruct...
101 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of hotel employees' satisfaction with their organization's COVID-19 responses in reducing their perceived job insecurity and maintaining their job performance in a hotel environment.
Abstract: This research examines the role of hotel employees’ satisfaction with their organization’s COVID-19 responses in reducing their perceived job insecurity (PJI) and maintaining their job performance ...
87 citations
TL;DR: In times of upheaval and uncertainty justice has come to the fore as a key principle to guide tourism development and policy as mentioned in this paper, and justice is being sought by individuals, groups and societies, as well as vulnerable...
Abstract: In times of upheaval and uncertainty justice has come to the fore as a key principle to guide tourism development and policy. Justice is being sought by individuals, groups and societies, as vulner...
83 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the granularity of green-oriented behavior can produce positive outcomes for sustainability in all sectors, however, the granular of how such behaviors can be promoted is limited in the literature.
Abstract: Employees’ green-oriented behavior can produce positive outcomes for sustainability in all sectors. However, the granularity of how such behaviors can be promoted is limited in the literature. Ther...
67 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the UNWTO's sustainable tourism agenda is contradicted by the logics of growth, competitiveness and profit-making that drive the continued expansion and development of tourism.
Abstract: This paper interrogates the ideas of ‘sustained’ and ‘inclusive’ growth that are intrinsic to one of three UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 8 - Decent Work and Growth) adopted by the UN World Tourism Organisation’s (UNWTO) 2030 sustainable tourism agenda. It provides a Marxian-inspired political economy critique of the UNWTO’s embrace of SDG8 and highlights the blind spot within the UNWTO’s inclusive growth-led SDG agenda with respect to questions of equity and social justice. The paper contends that the UNWTO’s SDG-led agenda is contradicted by the logics of growth, competitiveness and profit-making that drive the continued expansion and development of tourism. Rather than addressing the structural injustices that entrench inequalities and reproduce exploitative labour practices, the notion of sustained and inclusive growth reinforces the primacy of capital and market notions of justice and continues to perpetuate a growth driven tourism development model. The paper contributes to a critical theorization of sustainable tourism and offers an informed critique of the current political agenda for sustainable tourism and its potential outcomes.
67 citations
TL;DR: The digital information age has changed global tourism in profound ways as mentioned in this paper, and it has become pervasive, and they have become inextricably linked with contemporary contemporary c.t.
Abstract: The digital information age has changed global tourism in profound ways. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are pervasive, and they have become inextricably linked with contemporary c...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that the impact of tourism and transnational gentrification on socio-spatial justice in cities should be taken into account, and they suggest that travel flows across the planet have drawn attention to socio spatial justice.
Abstract: Increasing international travel flows across the planet have drawn attention to socio-spatial justice concerning the impact of tourism and transnational gentrification in cities. We suggest that th...
TL;DR: The COVID-19 public health emergency as discussed by the authors has shown that travel has long been resorted to as a pursuit for tourists' well-being, but this purpose has been brought into question by the sudden public health outbreak of COVID19, when many tourists found...
Abstract: While travel has long been resorted to as a pursuit for tourists’ well-being, this purpose has been brought into question by the sudden public health emergency of COVID-19, when many tourists found...
TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global economic recession, but little is known about the impact it has had on the informal economy, including the peer-to-peer rental market as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global economic recession, but little is known about the impact it has had on the informal economy, including the peer-to-peer rental market....
TL;DR: In this article, the tourists will perceive the post-pandemic travel particularly when planning to travel to the most affected global destinations, and a study was designed in response to this question.
Abstract: Little is known regarding how the tourists will perceive the post-pandemic travel particularly when planning to travel to the most affected global destinations. This study was designed in response ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the past years have seen an unprecedented growth in the ICT economy that has fundamentally altered business models and consumer cultures and many of the changes this has implied are specifically relev...
Abstract: The past years have seen an unprecedented growth in the ICT economy that has fundamentally altered business models and consumer cultures. Many of the changes this has implied are specifically relev...
TL;DR: A few scientific studies have been devoted to analyzing and understanding the pro-environmental beha... as discussed by the authors, but only a few studies have focused on what drives proenvironmental behavior.
Abstract: Scholars have been interested in examining what drives pro-environmental behavior. However, only a few scientific studies have been devoted to analyzing and understanding the pro-environmental beha...
TL;DR: In this article, a bibliometric analysis of 839 sustainable tourism-related papers extracted from a selection of the top ranked tourism journals confirmed a lack of reticulation and integration among individual contributions, in part due to an exponential increase in output, but parallel evidence of subdomain maturation.
Abstract: Periodic assessment of the ‘state of play’ in research outputs is an essential process for gauging academic progress and latent trends within a field of study. Bibliometric analysis of 839 sustainable tourism-related papers over a thirty-year period (1987–2017), extracted from a selection of the top ranked tourism journals confirmed a lack of reticulation and integration among individual contributions, in part due to an exponential increase in output, but parallel evidence of subdomain maturation. This includes reduced emphasis on definitional issues and increased focus on empirical applications as well as a broader ‘pragmatic turn’ indicated by the dominance of ‘stakeholder’ contributions related to industry and community. These moreover are qualified by recognition of the need to adopt and develop higher standards of methodological and theoretical engagement. We innovate by analysing engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and reveal these to constitute a major latent theme, albeit to widely variable extents. It is recommended that these be mobilised as a pragmatic and universally embraced framework for engaging with sustainable tourism and salient external threats such as climate change.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the COVID-19 pandemic will influence people's pro-environmental travel behavior and potentially prompt more ecological/sustainable future travel, and present a comprehensive mode...
Abstract: This study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic will influence people’s pro-environmental travel behavior (PETB) and potentially prompt more ecological/sustainable future travel. A comprehensive mode...
TL;DR: Under the lens of conservation of resources and social exchange theories and job demands-resources model, this article aimed at advancing the knowledge regarding the role of trade union support (TUS) in improving the performance of workers.
Abstract: Under the lens of conservation of resources and social exchange theories and job demands-resources model, this research aimed at advancing the knowledge regarding the role of trade union support (T...
TL;DR: We are in the midst of a transition into a new age of travel and tourism based on the convergence of several key disruptive influences in the form of new technologies, periodic chaos in markets and...
Abstract: We are in the midst of a transition into a new age of travel and tourism based on the convergence of several key disruptive influences in the form of new technologies, periodic chaos in markets and...
TL;DR: Despite the declaration of the end of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS) outbreak in December 2015 in South Korea that the epidemic lasted for 2 months, the depressed domestic...
Abstract: Despite the declaration of the end of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS) outbreak in December 2015 in South Korea that the epidemic lasted for 2 months, the depressed domestic ...
TL;DR: In this article, the mechanisms underlying individual-level green creativity have not yet been fully understood in tour company eco-initiative from employees, but they have been identified and analyzed.
Abstract: Environmental sustainability of tour companies may commence with eco-initiatives from employees. Nonetheless, mechanisms underlying individual-level green creativity have not been fully understood....
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the Proactive Environ-tective Environment (PE) in the hotel industry and explore the role of environmental regulations and consumer awareness around environmental protection and sustainability.
Abstract: Increasingly stringent environmental regulations and consumer awareness around environmental protection and sustainability are driving forces in the hotel industry. We explore the Proactive Environ...
TL;DR: Despite an influx of ecotourism research since the term was first coined, it is still not entirely clear why tourists choose eco-tourism over other tourism experiences as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Despite an influx of ecotourism research since the term was first coined, it is still not entirely clear why tourists choose ecotourism over other tourism experiences. While most of the previous li...
TL;DR: The past two decades of tourism research have seen a growing interest in the relationship between tourism and justice as discussed by the authors and some of this attention has focused on the just or unjust outcomes of mainstrea...
Abstract: The past two decades of tourism research have seen a growing interest in the relationship between tourism and justice. Some of this attention has focused on the just or unjust outcomes of mainstrea...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the perceptions of millennials towards digital-free travel (DFT) and applied the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) qualitatively to uncover deep insights into their perceptions.
Abstract: The blurred boundaries between home and away facilitated by the ubiquitous connectivity have resulted in restlessness in private life, even on holiday. Disconnecting from technology on holiday could potentially contribute to travellers’ psychological sustainability. This article aims to theorise the perceptions of millennials towards digital-free travel (DFT). We interviewed 17 millennials and applied the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) qualitatively to uncover deep insights into their perceptions. Millennials in the research believe that DFT is beneficial for their well-being, but also have concerns regarding social expectations, technology dependence and environmental support. This article firstly contributes towards the psychological sustainability from the perspective of digital well-being in tourism. Second, the qualitative use of UTAUT in a technology disconnection setting is novel. Finally, the study contributes to the empirical understanding of DFT from the aspect of millennials’ perceptions. The study proposes that mental “away” should be aligned with physical “away” by reducing technology use to achieve psychological sustainability on holiday.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness with reference to the European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS), a scheme funded by the European Comm...
Abstract: We aimed to evaluate the impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination competitiveness with reference to the European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS), a scheme funded by the European Comm...
TL;DR: In this paper, a better understanding of visitor perceptions and satisfaction is developed to gain insights into the pressures that lead to both overtourism and the under-utilisation of tourist attra...
Abstract: Developing a better understanding of visitor perceptions and satisfaction is integral to gaining insights into the pressures that lead to both overtourism and the under-utilisation of tourist attra...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new methodology for smart tourism planning, which is supported by the Spanish National R&D&I Plan and financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad) under grant CSO2017-82592-R.
Abstract: This work was supported by the Spanish National R&D&I Plan financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad) under grant CSO2017-82592-R (“Analysis of planning processes applied to smart cities and tourist destinations. Balance and proposal of a new methodology: Smart Tourism Planning”).