Tourism Journals Research Articles

Modelling information use, image, and perceived risk with intentions to travel to East Asia

This research empirically tested a tourism behaviour model explaining tourists' intentions to vacation for the first time in selected countries extending image research by Baloglu and McCleary [(1999). U.S. international pleasure travelers’ images of four Mediterranean destinations: A comparison of visitors and nonvisitors. Journal of Travel Research, 38(2), 144–152; A model of destination image formation. Annals of Tourism Research, 26(4), 868–897] and more recently Kaplanidou and Vogt [(2007). The interrelationship between sport event and destination image and sport tourists’ behaviors. Journal of Sport & Tourism, 12(3–4), 183–206]. Key factors that remain untested in modelling international travel propensity were identified as: information sources, cognitive and affective destination image, and perceived risk. On-site surveys were conducted in two US metropolitan areas with a purposive convenience sample. Data were analysed with structural equation modelling for three destination countries (China, Japan, and South Korea) so that positioning strategies were illustrated through empirical evidence. Modelling results supported previous research showing that stronger positive cognitive and affective destination images and lower perceived risks for vacationing in a destination positively influenced intentions to travel to the countries of interest. Of greater interest are findings on information usage influencing cognitively held images, particularly cultural experiences, but information use was found not to directly influence the affective component of image. Intent to travel to each of the three countries was heightened by different factors – for China it was affective image, for Japan cognitive image, and South Korea a reduction in perceived risks. Destination marketers can use this model to understand the use of information sources, in general or specific types, to influence cognitive images held and perceived risks associated with a foreign country, and to ultimately modify affective image and intent to visit a destination for the potential first-time visitors.

What makes an article citable?

To date, no research has been undertaken to examine what constitutes high citation counts. This study examined the quantifiable characteristics in publications and investigated their associations with citation per year. That is, this study empirically examined the relationships with length, authorship, and collaboration and citation counts in the 300 most cited publications in tourism and hospitality journals. The results reveal a negative relationship between the length of a title and citation per year.

Sport Tourism: Understanding the Concept, Recognizing the Value

The study of sport tourism has become very popular in the western countries. Therefore, it is aimed at grasping the knowledge of sport tourism from those studies: its nature, scope, significance, concepts, theories, approaches, models, perspectives and paradigms. This paper is intended to provide a broad understanding of sport tourism and its implications to the people who are involved in the tourism industry. It is believed that activities in sport and tourism build social capital by bringing people together and establishing their relationship. In this way they are making the world a smaller place contributing to greater understanding between different cultures, tolerance and ultimately, to world peace with a focus on adventure sport tourism. The study of sport tourism is equally important in the context of Nepal because it is one of the popular destinations for adventure sport tourists and tourism. This paper discusses on water sport in terms of whitewater river rafting tourism in the context of Nepal, which is still ignored and untouched in the field of academia.The Gaze: Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Vol.5 2013 pp.13-42

Nala and Countryside Tourism

The behaviour of tourists in modern time shows and urgent need to promote countryside tourism destinations in Nepal. Tourism supply needs to be integrated and well coordinated, including all necessary amenities for an enjoyable stay similar to the rural village tourism at Ghandruk, Sarankot, Chitwan etc. at different part of Nepal. More marketing efforts should be made to attract target markets of tourists.Rural tourism, including agritourism, can play an important role to change the fate of Nala in Kavrepalanchowk District. Nala at present is facing the problem of unemployment and deterioration of natural and cultural qualities. The social and ecological aspect is of great importance rather than economic one. Proper development of such areas should be multidirectional. The increasing interest of domestic as well as international tourist in the villages with countryside tour has created a possibility of establishing Nala as a new destination of Countryside Tourism. These new initiations not only saves one of the historically important village ecologically and culturally but also pave the way for the development of entire community of villages providing new employment opportunity and mobilization the local resources as well.The aim of this research work is to explore the opportunity of developing countryside tourism in Nala village with taming exclusive environmental and cultural values, as well as to present its role in the development of tourism in Nepal.The Gaze: Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Vol.5 2013 pp.43-68

Eclectic Paradigm and the analysis of FDI in tourism in Nepal

This paper analyzes the factors that determine the inflows of FDI in tourism sector of Nepal using Eclectic Theory (Paradigm) propounded by John Dunning. It was observed that the first and second conditions (ownership specific advantages and internalization advantages) are firm specific determinants of FDI, whereas, the third is location-specific and, therefore, has a crucial influence on the host country Nepal’s inflows of FDI in tourism. It was further observed that the development impact of FDI on the tourism industry of Nepal may be determined by various combinations of three main important factors – policy environment, including policy reforms that trigger further inflows of FDI; the level of development (and maturity) of the tourism industry; and, the geography of Nepal. The paper suggests that MNC’s can help Nepal by, among other things, diversifying the supply of tourism products and improving the local service standards.The Gaze: Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Vol.5 2013 pp.69-82

Near Field Communication in Tourism: A Conceptual Paper

Modern society is virtually inconceivable without mobile devices and the consequent use of mobile services. The multitude of technologies incorporated in the tiniest space has turned mobile phones, and smart phones in particular, into the Swiss knives of our times. What is currently perceived to be one of the most promising technologies for the future is Near Field Communication (NFC), which will most likely become the standard in mobile devices in the years to come. Due to the novel nature of this technology, the assessment of its importance for the tourism industry is still relatively unclear. The author is one of the first to focus on NFC in tourism, with the aim of introducing NFC technology and drafting first responses to the following questions: What benefit can NFC technology have for tourism and what functionalities can it trigger? What are the possible future applications in tourism and what challenges will tourism be faced with in this respect?The Gaze: Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Vol.5 2013 pp.1-12

Discovering Implicit Criteria Preferences Reflected in Tourism Journal Ranking Lists using the Choquet Integral

Variations between journal rankings may cause confusion. As such, prior attempts were made to compare and evaluate journal ranking criteria for obtaining insightful knowledge on how different research communities have ranked journals. However, existing approaches are unable to model the journal ranking process closely enough as they are incapable of considering the relationship between multiple criteria simultaneously. In this paper, we address the challenges by introducing the Choquet Integral (CI) for evaluating journal ranking criteria. The new approach is able to account for interactions between criteria in relation to overall ranking score, using a fuzzy measure in its computation. Its properties, the Shapley value and the Interaction index, allow for good representations of importance and interactions between criteria. We demonstrate the efficiency of the CI through a case study of journal ranking lists in tourism and service journals.

Information and communications technology and market segmentation in tourism: a review

PurposeInformation and communication technologies (ICT) have had a profound impact on tourism marketing. For several decades one of the cornerstones of marketing has been market segmentation. The purpose of this paper is to examine how ICTs have affected market segmentation literature in tourism by the means of literature review.Design/methodology/approachAll segmentation articles published in Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management and Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing since the year 2000 are reviewed by examining how ICTs have affected them. Content analysis is used to categorize the connection between ICTs and segmentation to seven categories.FindingsOnly three papers focusing on both ICT and segmentation were found among the 188 segmentation‐related studies reviewed. Altogether 58 market segmentation studies found were affected by ICTs but in most cases the effects are very limited.Research limitations/implicationsOnly three tourism journals were reviewed making it possible that some studies connected to the topic are not examined in this review.Practical implicationsThis study provides practitioners with a review of central findings regarding ICT use in market segmentation process published in recent academic literature.Originality/valueThis is the first study to review how ICTs have affected market segmentation in tourism. It provides a review of central papers discussing the topic and directions for future research. Overall, this research highlights the lack of research on the topic, as well as its importance for the future of tourism marketing.

Marketing e gestão estratégica de hotelaria: Um estudo bibliométrico

Apesar das dúvidas e dos questionamentos quanto à sua consistência teórica, a tendência é que os estudos em turismo se consolidem como campo científico. A produção de estudos sobre hotelaria, como atividade essencial do turismo ainda é recente, mas se destaca nos espaços epistemológicos organizacionais. Este artigo analisa a produção do conhecimento e as contribuições para o avanço científico dos estudos de marketing e de gestão estratégica de hotelaria dos artigos publicados pelos principais periódicos acadêmicos de turismo do Brasil. O método foi a investigação bibliométrica. Entre os 552 artigos publicados no período de abril de 2008 a agosto de 2012, identificaram-se 64 sobre hotelaria, dezesseis dos quais se fundamentam na disciplina de marketing e nove na disciplina de estratégia. Os estudos mostram a complexidade da gestão estratégica e mercadológica das organizações hoteleiras e proporcionam, aos pesquisadores acadêmicos, aos gestores e aos profissionais da hotelaria, reflexões sobre a importância do conhecimento na área.

Comunicação científica em turismo no Brasil: Análises descritivas de periódicos nacionais entre 1990 e 2012

Este trabalho apresenta análises descritivas sobre 2.126 artigos publicados em 20 periódicos científicos brasileiros de turismo entre 1990 e 2012. Essas informações oferecem um amplo e objetivo retrato dos periódicos científicos de turismo no Brasil, auxiliam no debate sobre os critérios editoriais dessas revistas e contribuem para uma melhor compreensão da produção acadêmica brasileira realizada nesse período. Analisa-se a evolução do número de trabalhos publicados, bem como estatísticas descritivas dos tamanhos dos artigos, títulos e resumos. Os autores mais profícuos são identificados, bem como as palavras-chave mais recorrentes. Além disso, é analisado o nível de integração entre os periódicos, apontando quais estão mais ao centro da rede de publicações científicas de turismo do Brasil.

Measuring hotel performance: Using a balanced scorecard perspectives’ approach

This paper provides an examination of hotel performance research published in the seven leading hospitality and tourism journals from 1992 to 2011, through the lens of the balanced scorecard (BSC). The review seeks to answer three questions. What BSC perspectives are included in hotel performance research published in major hospitality and tourism journals? What are the trends and implications for future hotel performance research? What are the main geographical areas of publication outputs?Eleven hypotheses were tested using a database of 138 articles that fully met the key word selection criteria of hotel, BSC and performance. The results suggest hotel performance attracts widespread attention from hospitality scholars, but significant gaps remain. Researchers have recognised the benefits of including financial and non-financial indicators. Yet, more research is required in this area to offer hotel organisations better approaches to the management of their performance. We conclude by identifying three research gaps.

Use of Structural Equation Modeling in Tourism Research

This study reviewed use of covariance-based structural equation modeling (SEM) in 209 articles published in nine tourism journals between 2000 and 2011. Time-series analysis suggested that the number of SEM publications is explained by linear and quadratic time effects. Results indicated that although SEM practices have improved in some areas, tourism researchers do not always engage in the recommended best practices. Problematic areas were related to testing of alternative a priori models, reporting of multivariate normality, estimating effect size, and assessing reliability and validity. Some of the recommended fit indices were also underutilized. The review also found few differences in SEM practices between top-tier journals and other publications in the tourism field. On the basis of these results, suggestions to improve use of SEM in tourism studies are discussed in the light of recent developments in this technique.

6ª CONFERÊNCIA MUNDIAL DE PESQUISA E PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM TURISMO, HOSPITALIDADE E LAZER E 2ª CONFERÊNCIA INTERDISCIPLINAR DE PESQUISA EM TURISMO

No período de 24 a 29 de abril, foram realizados os eventos 6ª Conferência Mundial de Pesquisa de Pós-Graduação em Hotelaria, Turismo e Lazer e 2ª Conferência de Pesquisa Interdisciplinar Turismo, organizados pelo Anatolia – An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, em Fethiye, Turquia. Este texto é um breve relato dos eventos e suas contribuições para o turismo.

Tourist expenditures: the state of the art

This article explores the spending literature in the field of hospitality and tourism management to achieve a better understanding of the evolution of this stream. The paper uses a bibliometric approach and is based on 124 papers published in seven leading hospitality and tourism journals from 1990 to 2011. The findings have revealed that the weight of spending literature appeared less than expected. The amount of spending research was primarily published in tourism journals, and in particular in the Journal of Tourism Research, followed by Annals of Tourism Research. In contrast, hospitality journals contributed marginally to the debate. Two fields of analysis emerge as primary research areas: determinants of tourist expenditures and measurement of economic impacts. The former stream contains a large number of research studies. The sample is primarily composed of empirical papers, while theoretical work remains at a consistently low level. Empirical evidences are primarily related to North America.

Social leveraging of the 2010 Olympic Games: ‘sustainability’ in a City of Vancouver initiative

Heightened inter-city competition for hosting sport mega-events has increased the involvement of levels of government. Governments are seeking to achieve public policy objectives using the sport mega-event as a vehicle to do so. The emergence of the concept of social leveraging is important to understand the involvement of host governments in attempts to amend, fast-track, or generate new public policy, curriculum, community programmes, and demonstration projects. This article presents a case study of the City of Vancouver's newly emerging post-Olympic Greenest City initiative. The purpose of this case study of social leveraging is to better understand this concept in the context of hosting the 2010 Olympic Games and the City of Vancouver's development of a sustainability business brand. This case study is explored according to Chalip [Chalip, L. (2006). Towards social leverage of sport events. Journal of Sport & Tourism, 11, 109–127. doi:10.1080/14775080601155126] and O'Brien and Chalip's [O'Brien, D., & Chalip, L. (2007a). Executive training exercise in sport event leverage. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 1, 296–304. doi:10.1108/17506180710824181; O'Brien, D., & Chalip, L. (2007b). Sport events and strategic leveraging: Pushing towards the triple bottom line. In A.G. Woodside & D. Martin (Eds.), Tourism management: Analysis, behavior, and strategy (pp. 318–338). Cambridge: CABI] framework of social leveraging. Case study analysis offers evidence that suggests that social leveraging does conceptualize the efforts by government hosts to maximize benefits from their intensive investments in sport mega-events. Findings also extend the exploratory framework of social leveraging by considering additional leverageable resources that government officials utilize, especially as these resources might fast-track policy objectives. Our research also suggests amending the sequence of and the parts of this framework in order to elaborate on social leveraging as an iterative rather than linear process.

Analysis of the leading tourism journals 1999-2008

This article aims to examine trends in research themes and outcomes published in the three leading tourism journals from 1999 to 2008. It builds upon previous research relating to tourism publications throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and includes analysis of the practical and/or theoretical implications highlighted by the authors. In order to achieve this aim, a content analysis of 1584 articles published in the three leading tourism journals was undertaken. It was found that during the first decade of the 21st century a consistency in research themes published in the leading tourism journals had emerged, and there was a marked increase in the number of articles providing theoretical contributions to the field. This research supports the contention that tourism continues to develop as an academic field of study.

The usefulness of impact factors to tourism journals

The usefulness of impact factors to tourism journals

Similar exercises, different consequences: An examination of tourism research in national research assessment frameworks

This paper examines the status quo of tourism research as embodied in the Excellence of Research in Australia (ERA) 2010 report and the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 report in the UK. It was found that while the two national research assessment exercises, ERA in Australia and RAE in the UK, share similar purpose, rating scale and indicators, and review and evaluation process, the tourism research profiles in the two exercises are significantly different. As indicated in the two national research assessment reports, tourism research in Australia is more visible and enjoys a much higher profile than that in the UK. Such a stark contrast is mainly due to the structure, or the metric frames used in the two exercises. However, when applying an alternative measure to compare contributions of Australian tourism researchers to three leading tourism journals with those of UK tourism researchers, no significant differences could be found.

Do We Need Yet Another Tourism and Hospitality Journal?

Do We Need Yet Another Tourism and Hospitality Journal?

Influence ratio: An alternate means to assess the relative influence of hospitality and tourism journals on research

This paper proposes an alternative metric to assess the relative influence journals have on research by using an influence ratio measure. Hospitality and tourism journals are used as a case study. Influence ratio enables a suite of journals to be evaluated through the calculation of a score for each journal that reflects the share of citations and the share of papers it produces against all citations and all papers in the set. A higher influence ratio score signifies that a journal is proportionately more influential, for it generates a greater share of citations than the share of papers published would suggest. The study evaluated three sets of hospitality and tourism journals (17 hospitality, 41 tourism and a combined set of 54 hospitality and tourism journals). The study illustrates the efficacy of using the influence ratio metric. A small number of journals in each field play a disproportionately strong influence in informing scholarship, with a long tail of relatively less influential journals observed.