Journal of Tourism Futures

The experience economy: micro trends

This trends paper is based upon a literature review and access to a series of databases; thus, with the help of these the purpose of this paper is to provide insight into…

Marketing National Parks for Sustainable Tourism

Tourism Research in China: Themes and Issues

Cities in the experience economy: the rise and the future of urban leisure formats

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the rise and the future of urban leisure format (ULF), i.e. local seasonal short-lived and repeatable small-scale place-time-based…

Historic buildings and the creation of experiencescapes: looking to the past for future success

The purpose of this paper is to identify the role that the creative re-use of historic buildings can play in the future development of the experiences economy. The…

Transformative experiences via Airbnb: Is it the guests or the host communities that will be transformed?

The purpose of this paper is to describe how the growing presence of Airbnb rentals, resulting partly from tourists’ increasing desire for transformative travel…

Exploring Chinese millennials’ experiential and transformative travel: a case study of mountain bikers in Tibet

The purpose of this paper is to explore domestic experiential travel by Chinese millennials, a group of consumers who will increasingly influence the global travel and…

Learning to face global food challenges through tourism experiences

The purpose of this paper is to provoke reflections on the potential contribution of food tourism experiences to achieving the sustainable development goals for…

Technological mediation in the future of experiential tourism

The purpose of this paper is to consider the role that technology may play in the future of experiential tourism. This viewpoint paper begins to question future…

Structural analysis of the tourism impacts in the form of future study in developing countries (case study: Iran)

The purpose of this paper is to identify and prioritize the positive and negative impacts of tourism on the process of tourism growth at a national scale in Iran, by…

A tourism inflex: Generation Z travel experiences

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it highlights the emergence of Generation Z and the interface of its members with the tourism system. Second, by way of a…

Requirements for future digital visitor flow management

The purpose of this paper is to examine visitor management in the German-Swiss border area of the Lake Constance region. Taking a customer perspective, it determines the…

ICT and the future of tourist management

The purpose of this paper is to speculate how recent and emerging trends in information and communication technology (ICT) could change the way tourism businesses and…