International Journal of Tourism Cities
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Enhancing smart tourism and smart city development: evidence from Taoyuan smart aviation city in Taiwan
Kuang-Yu Chang, Chun-Der Chen, Edward C.S. KuThis study aims to investigate tourists’ impressions of the smart destinations model from the socio-technical systems and the technology–organization–environment (TOE…
Individual factors impacting tourist satisfaction and revisit intention in slow tourism cities: an extended model
Fakhri Baghirov, Zehra Bozbay, Ye ZhangPostpandemic efforts to rebuild have steered the global economy toward a more sustainable trajectory. It is imperative to acknowledge the pressing need for further enhancements in…
Sustainable tourism concept: tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty
Echo Perdana KusumahThis study aims to look into and evaluate a sustainability-based destination loyalty model that takes into account how people perceive the urban destination in alignment with…
Perceptions of Airbnb’s impact beyond the tourist bubbles of Cusco, Peru: an exploration of resident irritability
Mildred Arevalo, Jonathon Day, Sandra Sotomayor, Nancy Karen GuillenSpecifically, this study aims to examine residents’ perceptions regarding the following: the sociocultural, environmental and economic impacts generated by the presence of Airbnb…
Curating pasts: musealization and tourism in Chinese cities
Wenhong Luo, Nelson GraburnChina has been going through a “museum boom” paralleling the domestic tourism boom since 2000; such growth changed the cultural landscape; museums became a vital characteristic of…
To return or not to return: an investigation of dilemma among medical students to revisit Ukraine for educational tourism
Samiha Siddiqui, Sujood , Naseem Bano, Sheeba HamidUkraine hosts thousands of international students for educational tourism, of which more than 18,000 Indian medical students were compelled to escape Ukraine under emergency…
Unveiling destination choices: uncovering the influence of missing visual information on tourists’ decision-making and visit intention
Fatemeh Khozaei, Claus-Christian Carbon, Mi Jeong Kim, Qamar Ul Islam, Wesam Beitelmal, Israr Ul HassanThis research aims to investigate the impact of missing visual information on tourists’ decision-making processes and visit intention. Drawing on perception completion law and…
Analysis of the competitiveness factors for MICE tourism: the case of Mazatlan, Sinaloa
Margarita Guadalupe Zazueta-Hernández, Mónica Velarde-ValdezMeetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) tourism has established as a tourism segment that is growing in popularity. It is less seasonality dependent, promotes the…
Heritage tourism and peace interdependency: news content analysis on the destruction and the rebuilding drives of Jahanabad Buddha Statue, Swat, Pakistan
Farhad Nazir, Norberto Santos, Luís SilveiraThis paper aims to discern the potential dimensions amid the duality of heritage tourism and peace. Reflecting on the phases of destruction and rebuilding of Seated Buddha of…
The relationship between visitors’ motivations and satisfaction about a Brazilian sacred complex
Jaqueline de Souza Brogni, Luciano Torres Tricárico, Pablo Flores Limberger, Thamires Foletto FiuzaThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the motivation and satisfaction of visitors, both tourists and residents, of a sacred urban complex located in…
Destination image and tourist motivations as antecedents of tourist engagement
Miguel Ángel Moliner-Tena, Lucio Hernández-Lobato, Juan Carlos Fandos-Roig, María Magdalena Solís-RadillaThis paper aims to establish the causal relationship between destination image and tourist motivation and engagement.
Co-agglomeration of the culture and tourism industries in Chinese cities
Changyao Song, Qi Zhang, Xinjian Li, Anni ZhangThe interaction between the culture and tourism industries is naturally concentrated in cities. However, the effect of their co-agglomeration on urban tourism development depends…
What does the media tell us about a destination? The Cancun case, seen from the USA, Canada, and Mexico
Elizabeth Olmos-Martínez, Miguel Á. Álvarez-Carmona, Ramón Aranda, Angel Díaz-PachecoThis study aims to present a framework for automatically collecting, cleaning and analyzing text (news articles, in this case) to provide valuable decision-making information to…
Street art and creative place-making: urban tourism regeneration in Toronto, Canada
Kelley A. McClincheyThis paper aims to discuss the place-making processes of street art within the context of Toronto, Canada, and potential for street art as alternative tourism to contribute to new…
Heritage and tourism development in China's former international concessions. Tianjin as a place study
Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand, Yue Lu, Xinyu LiBetween 1840s and 1940s, 27 occidental concessions have been created in several cities in China which represented difficult signs and memories for Chinese. Nowadays, these…
AR and VR-based travel: a responsible practice towards sustainable tourism
Kaushik Samaddar, Sanjana MondalDrawing on the UTAUT-2 model, the study attempts to accentuate the role of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) based tourism products and services in enhancing…
Does Covid-19 reduce food waste in the hospitality sector in Dubai?
Rihab Grassa, Anca Bocanet, Ayesha Adulla, Hanene Ben Abdullah, Nourchene Ben AyedFood waste (FW) is a significant problem in the hospitality sector worldwide. The Covid-19 pandemic has imposed a health protocol on the hospitality sector to protect the…
Tourists’ perceived destination image and heritage conservation intention: a comparative study of heritage and film-induced images
Su Zhang, Yin-Hsi LoKaiping Diaolou in Guangdong Province, China, is a UNESCO World Heritage site that is often used as a film location. This study aims to investigate the antecedents of film-induced…
Quality, expenditure, and loyalty in a cultural event: a longitudinal study
Nora L. Bringas-Rábago, Djamel ToudertThe impact of event quality on expenditure and visitors’ loyalty has been an issue seldom analyzed by festival literature. These same incidental relations were not assessed from a…
Changes in the size of domestic tourists in mainland China under the impact of COVID-19
Lina Zhong, Yingchao DongThe purpose of this paper is to explore the changes of the scale of urban tourists in mainland China under the impact of COVID-19 and, specifically, the following questions: how…
Tourism and COVID-19 in China: recovery and resilience strategies of main Chinese tourism cities
Luqi Yang, Xiaoni Li, Ana Beatriz Hernández-LaraThe purpose of this study is to investigate the recovery and resilience tourism strategies and possible future development of four main Chinese tourism cities.
How does a hotel’s hygiene protocol quality trigger guests’ revisit intention during the pandemic? Evidence from Chinese guests
Md. Tariqul Islam, Uma Pandey, Satyajit Sinha, Siti Rahayu HussinBased on the Stimulus-Organism-Response Model, this study aims to investigate how the intention of Chinese guests to revisit a hotel (response) is triggered by the quality of the…
Chernobyl dreams: investigating visitors’ storytelling in the Chernobyl exclusion zone
Veera OjalaLittle is known about the overall meaning of the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) from the visitors’ point of view. Conceptualizing the zone as a storyscape and its narratives as…
Tourism and public insecurity: what are its roots?
Ana Catarina Coutinho, Wilker Ricardo NóbregaStudies examining public insecurity and tourism tend to develop their research from the tourist's perspective, thereby focusing on its consequences, which insufficiently and…
Tourist walkability and sustainable community-based tourism: conceptual framework and strategic model
Peik-Foong Yeap, Melissa Li Sa LiowThis paper aims to determine the significance of tourist walkability on three community-based tourism sustainability indicators, namely, the economic, social and environmental…
Genealogy tourism and city tourism in Coimbra. Proposal for a Jewish culture route
Norberto Santos, Claudete Oliveira Moreira, Luís SilveiraTourism in Coimbra today is influenced by the fact that the Univer(s)city was distinguished as a World Heritage Site in 2013. The number of visits has grown very significantly in…
Potentials, opportunities and challenges of ecotourism development in selected historical and sacred sites of North Shewa Zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia
Habtamu Mekonnen, Sefi MekonenEcotourism has emerged as a new hope of the tourism sector and is expected to overcome past pitfalls of mass tourism. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to assess the…
Executing a destination branding strategy: Louisville Tourism’s Urban Bourbon Trail
Robert C. Ford, John T. Bowen, Stacey YatesThe purpose of this study is to add new insights into the discussion of how a city’s destination marketing organization (DMO) can apply operand resources to act upon its operant…
Stakeholder perceptions of volunteer tourism community impact
Jessica Aquino, Kathleen L. AndereckThis paper aims to examine volunteer tourism (VT) experiences of three stakeholder groups in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The guiding research question is: how does VT influence…
Beyond the certification of smart tourism destination: insights from the city of Medellín in Colombia
Naïma Aïdi, Nathalie FabryThis paper aims to give meaning to the smart tourism destination (STD) certification, highlighting its main advantages and limitations. The case of Medellín (Colombia) presents…
Framing the tourist spatial identity of a city as a tourist product
Melita Rozman CafutaThe purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for shaping the tourist spatial identity of the city and to take advantage of it to discover alternative urban outdoor…
“Playing tourist” in a divided city
Jada Lindblom, Christine VogtThis study aims to investigate the social and affective impacts of inviting residents of a socially divided, post-war city to “play tourist” for a day, exploring their own…
What makes Indian domestic tourists crowd-friendly in the post-COVID-19 phase?
Pinaz Tiwari, Nimit ChowdharyThis study aims to explore the good crowding effect among Indian domestic travellers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of the city destination. This study uses the…
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hybridEditors:
- Prof Andres Coca-Stefaniak
- Prof Alastair Morrison
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