Female travellers in hospitality and tourism industry: A systematic literature review.

Female tourism is gaining momentum in the world. Thus, a review of female tourism is essential to explore future research directions. The paper discusses the evolution of female tourism research from the early 1980s to 2022 through different analytical methods.

Consumer heterogeneity for shared accommodations at pre-and-post adoption stages: Insights from travelers in Shanghai, China.

As shared accommodation has become one of the most important market developments in the tourism industry, numerous contributions have emerged regarding travelers' motivations to choose shared accommodation. A debated question, however, resides in the heterogeneity of travelers based on motivations. This paper aims to reconcile opposing perspectives by comparing motivation segmentation at two distinct phases of the adoption of this accommodation option: (i) before the first travel-potential users showing interest (n = 420) and (ii) after the first travel-current users (n = 420).

The effects of online tourism information quality on conative destination image: The mediating role of resonance.

With the increasing popularity of mobile applications, people enjoy browsing online tourism information on social media. This information may cause psychological resonance, which in turn stimulates travel intentions. This study examined the relationship between online travel information quality (OTIQ), resonance, and conative destination image.

Corrigendum: The formation of multi-destination image: A study of China's Greater Bay Area.

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Influence of memorability on revisit intention in welcome back tourism: The mediating role of nostalgia and destination attachment.

"Welcome Back Tourism" is an important marketing strategy to help overseas Tourism destinations quickly recover from the crisis and enhance their core competitiveness. How to translate the memorability of tourists to revisit intention is the core key to open "Welcome Back Tourism." This study takes local residents in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Foshan as the research objects, and tries to explore the influence relationship between memorability of a previous travel experience, nostalgia, destination attachment and revisit intention.

The formation of multi-destination image: A study of China's Greater Bay Area.

Many governments promote the concept of multi-destination tourism to attract foreign visitors to stay longer in a region. This study constructs a higher-order multi-destination image model to examine how the unique cognitive images of Hong Kong, Macau, and Guangzhou collectively constitute the overall cognitive image of China's Greater Bay Area (GBA). Then, it further examines how this overall cognitive image builds affective, overall, and conative images of the GBA.

An Exploratory Study of Pandemic-Restricted Travel-A New Form of Travel Pattern on the during- and Post-COVID-19 Era.

This study introduces a new travel pattern "pandemic-restricted travel" that exists from COVID-19 based on prospect theory. The purpose of this study is to incorporate the motivation to travel and constraint to normal travel to predict tourists' intention to continue visiting other alternative destinations due to COVID-19 restrictions. This study first generated the items of motivation to travel and constraints to normal travel from a focus group interview with 15 travel industry professionals in December 2020 in Zhuhai.

The Effect of Place Attachment on Overseas Students' Tourism Ambassador Behavior: A Mediation Role of Life Satisfactionrdrd.

Life satisfaction is a research hotspot in positive psychology in recent years. This study uses overseas students as subjects and attempts to examine the effect of place attachment and student life satisfaction on Mainland Chinese students' word-of-mouth (WOM) recommendations and their Ambassador Behavioral (AB) intention. A survey was systematically conducted in six institutions in Macao.

Regional Travel as an Alternative Form of Tourism during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacts of a Low-Risk Perception and Perceived Benefits.

Previous COVID-19 tourism research has not considered the positive impact of a low-risk perception and a perception of the benefits of regional travel on taking alternative tourism. This study attempts to fill the research gap and examine the positive effect of these perceptions on tourists' attitudes to regional travel and intentions to undertake regional travel during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey of 278 respondents confirmed that the perceived benefit positively influences tourists' attitudes and travel intentions, but that a low-risk perception only positively affects their attitudes.

Actual Self-Image Versus Ideal Self-Image: An Exploratory Study of Self-Congruity Effects on Gambling Tourism.

This study aims to apply self-congruity theory to examine the relationship between self-congruity of tourists and their perceived image of a gambling destination. This study employs the Euclidean distance model and extends Malhotra's pars of adjectives with five new items about gambling motives. A face-to-face questionnaire survey was used, and a total of 152 samples were collected from tourists in Macau.

The impact of a 360° virtual tour on the reduction of psychological stress caused by COVID-19.

The continuous spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is causing people to feel anxiety and stress. This study constructs a four-layer research model to examine how a 360° virtual tour can reduce people's psychological stress through two types of presence (the sense of presence and telepresence) and affective-motivational states (enjoyment and involvement) in this extraordinary period of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to test the moderating effect of involvement, partial least squares (PLS) analysis is employed to analyse valid data collected from 235 individuals.