College of Tourism

A Multi‐Objective Optimization Framework for Locating Metro Stations by Integrating Travel Demand, Accessibility, and Land Use Intensity

ABSTRACT Transit‐Oriented Development (TOD) strategies help to achieve sustainable transportation and vibrant communities. The selection of suitable locations for metro stations plays a fundamental role in implementing TOD planning. However, current research predominantly focuses...

Towards sustainable coastal and marine tourism: Policy learnings from field projects in the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Western Indian Ocean

This policy brief was developed within the Blue Tourism Initiative, drawing on four years of project implementation and lessons from locally led pilot actions across the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Western Indian Ocean. It translates the project's field experience into six enabl...

Towards sustainable coastal and marine tourism: Policy learnings from field projects in the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Western Indian Ocean

This policy brief was developed within the Blue Tourism Initiative, drawing on four years of project implementation and lessons from locally led pilot actions across the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Western Indian Ocean. It translates the project's field experience into six enabl...

CoNewsReader: Supporting Comprehensive Understanding and Raising Critical Thoughts on Social Media News Through Comments

Critical news reading (CNR), which requires grasping the holistic ideas of and raising critical thoughts on the news, is beneficial yet challenging for general people who usually get information on daily social media. Comments under the news can aid CNR by providing complementary...

The “wow” effect in metaverse luxury consumption: an appraisal-based explanation of emotional arousal and exploratory motivation

Purpose This study examines how key experiential elements, telepresence, social interaction, immersion, realism and augmented reality elicit the “wow” effect (a strong emotional response) and, in turn, shape willingness to purchase luxury goods. Design/methodology/approach A ques...

Beyond commodification: a framework for governing indigenous arts for sustainable tourism development

Purpose This study develops a conceptual framework for indigenous arts-based cultural tourism by positioning indigenous arts as cultural commons and providing guidance on operationalizing collective governance and sustainability within tourism systems. Design/methodology/approach...

Digital maturity as a driver of innovation and competitiveness in adventure tourism operators: evidence from Portugal

The digital maturity of companies has emerged as a key determinant for competitiveness, operational efficiency and enhanced customer experience. However, research remains scarce on this topic within the adventure tourism sector. This study examines the digital maturity of adventu...

Tourism as soft power: a configurational analysis of nation branding in constrained geopolitical contexts

Purpose This study investigates how tourism functions as a soft power mechanism amid geopolitical constraints, examining the configurational conditions under which tourism practices enhance nation branding effectiveness (NBET). Focusing on Iran as an illustrative transitional cas...

Green entrepreneurial leadership as a catalyst for environmental performance in hospitality SMEs: the role of green commitment and innovation

Purpose This study investigates the role of green entrepreneurial leadership in relation to environmental performance within tourism and hospitality SMEs, with a specific focus on the mediating mechanisms of green commitment and green innovation. Grounded in stakeholder theory an...

Triangulated Autoethnography in Tourism Leadership Research: Findings from Crisis Governance in Malaysia

Tourism governance research has increasingly recognised the importance of leadership during periods of crisis and uncertainty. However, tourism leadership scholarship remains dominated by managerial and operational perspectives that often overlook the lived realities of governanc...

Multimodal machine learning-supported comprehensive evaluation of tourism experience

Tourism experiences are multidimensional as they are influenced by the environmental, cultural and emotional factors. The current tourism analytics methods are based on unimodal data sources (surveys or textual reviews), which creates unimodal bias, cross-modal interaction, and l...

From fragmentation to system leverage: an analysis of the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in emerging tourism destinations

Purpose This study aims to identify and analyze the factors influencing social entrepreneurship in emerging destinations and to examine the relationships among these factors based on Isenberg's entrepreneurial ecosystem framework. Design/methodology/approach The research adopts a...

Sensory Framework for Studying Tourist practicess in the Heat

This research note introduces a sensory framework that highlights heat as a key embodied and ethical aspect of tourist practicestravel and points to new directions in studying experiences of and practices in the heat. The framework is introduced in response to an era of global he...

From Traditional Fishing to Ecotourism the Driving Mechanisms of Capital Endowment and Policy Perception on the Participation Intention of Retired Fishermen at Poyang Lake

HRMARS - Against the backdrop of the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River Basin, guiding retired fishermen to participate in ecotourism is critical for community livelihood reconstruction. However, existing research often overlooks the psychological mechanisms translating ob...

Evaluating the Short-Form Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale in a Japanese university EFL context: internal-structure evidence and score-interpretation boundaries

Abstract Foreign language classroom anxiety remains a central construct in applied linguistics, but brief instruments require context-specific evidence before their scores are used for substantive interpretation. This study examined the eight-item Short-Form Foreign Language Clas...

Navigating turbulence: building resilient workforce with dynamic capabilities

Purpose Drawing on the dynamic capabilities perspective, the study aims to move beyond context-dominant explanations by focusing on microfoundational mechanisms through which employees interpret and respond to dynamic work environments. In doing so, it seeks to clarify whether or...