Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

12/06/2024

🤼 study revisited & develop future research agenda on travel companionship 👯

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Biqiang Liu, Brent Moyle, Anna Kralj, Dr Sera Vada, Lu Chang and Emily Siqi Lu create a comprehensive perspective on travel companionship and elucidate the conditions where travel companionship can trigger negative evaluations of shared tourism experiences

According to the findings from a systematic narrative review:
📔 Three core research streams on travel companionship are identified and articulated

📚 Three theoretically informed caveats for research on travel companionship are developed

📑 An alternative model of travel companionship with testable research propositions is proposed

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241258084

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in travel companionship, self-construal, tie strength, social interaction, self-presentation, and psychological involvement

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06/06/2024

📢🆕 NEW issue is available online 🆕📢

The 5️⃣ issue of Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research's Volume 48 is available on our journal website now:
🔗 https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jhtd/48/5

You definitely cannot miss this issue if you are looking for papers about:
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Dear readers : The editorial team wish you enjoy reading this collection of high-quality papers 🙇‍♀️

Dear authors : Thank you for choosing to disseminate your fabulous works 🙇‍♂️

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Table of contents for Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 48, 5, Jun 01, 2024

05/06/2024

Identifying ways/tools to sustain customer loyalty has long been hospitality & tourism researchers' matter of prime interest over the past few decades

In Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, you will be able to find many good references on this topic & its associated issues like:

Role of brand authenticity in building brand loyalty
📕 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241244727
📕 https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020980058

Impact of restaurant innovativeness on brand loyalty
📓 https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020985586

Impact of brand equity on brand loyalty
📘 https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020947786
📘 https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020963663

How to enhance hospitality employees' loyalty & intention to stay
📙 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480221085510

How to optimize loyalty reward program design
📗 https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020985212
📗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480231226083

Should you have any good papers which fit this topic, please consider submitting them to our journal for publication consideration 😊

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31/05/2024

📢 Our new practice to make your work/knowledge emerge ASAP 📢

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research is happy to announce that we are now publishing author-accepted manuscripts as part of our commitment to fostering a positive author experience

✍ Author-accepted manuscripts are the final accepted version of a manuscript prior to typesetting and are featured on website under the heading :
🔗 https://journals.sagepub.com/home/JHT

This publication format includes a DOI and allows for accepted manuscripts to be downloaded & shared before the OnlineFirst version is available online

How do the articles look like?!? Take a look at the following reference article:
🔗 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10963480241259909

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... publishes some of the most frequently referenced articles in the fi eld of hospitality, including conceptual, empirical, and applied research articles, a...

29/05/2024

As a responsible journal, & our co-editors certainly understand the significance of quick review & fast turnaround to you😉

According to the publisher, in year 2023, our editors managed to:
⭐ make the first decision within 1️⃣6️⃣ days
⭐ make the final decision within 3️⃣1️⃣ days

With the support by our fantastic editorial board & review team, we will keep up & further improve our good work 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♂️

Please do consider our journal to disseminate your fabulous works:
🔗 https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jht #

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24/05/2024

This evening@ Seoul, Prof. Peter B Kim hosted the Board Meeting at conference

Apart from sharing updates & figures, Prof. Kim expressed our gratitude to all 18 editorial members who joined the meeting

We also discussed some key issues - which are all helpful to improve our operational procedures & keep our legacy

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22/05/2024

📣 Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research (JHTR) is pleased to announce a new submission category called JHTR Registered Research (commonly called Registered Reports in other fields)

Registered Reports have been published for over a decade in other fields, but this is an emerging practice in our field. This new submission category is part of JHTR’s commitment to incubating and nurturing rigorous research practices and reducing publication bias

More information about this new category can be found here:
🔗 https://journals.sagepub.com/page/jht/registered-research-policy

📣 JHTR is pleased to announce a new submission category called JHTR Registered Research (commonly called Registered Reports in other fields).

Registered Reports have been published for over a decade in other fields, but this is an emerging practice in our field. This new submission category is part of JHTR’s commitment to incubating and nurturing rigorous research practices and reducing publication bias.

🔗 For author guidelines and more info, visit >>> https://ow.ly/kVVo50RPQ3m

22/05/2024

✍ study exposes “what makes a good story”✍

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, António Carrizo Moreira, Rui Augusto da Costa and Manuel Jorge Nunes de Sousa attempted to find out 🏮what makes a good story🏮 via analyzing 66 papers that focus on the storytelling of the visitor/tourist as the main subject

According to their findings reported by the team:

✍ Storytelling needs to shift from a destination-based strategy to a tourist-based one

✍ Storytelling needs to make the tourist experience the real destination identity

✍ A good story needs to use tourists as active players as co-creators of emotions

✍ Tourists should be active advocates transforming positive experiences in vivid stories

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241251450

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in storytelling, storytellers, destination-based storytelling, tourist-based storytelling, Hoshin Kanri matrix, and systematic literature review

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17/05/2024

🍽💆‍♀️🛏 study shows how different degrees of product diversification influence hotel performance 🛏💆‍♀️🍽

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Tsai, Chenchen Gao and Hongwei Liu examine the performance of hotels in the Greater Bay Area by employing data envelopment analysis with a nonhomogeneous decision making units model

According to their findings reported by the team:
🏩 Hotels with high product diversification are closer to achieving optimal efficiency levels

🏩 Food and beverage exerted a more pronounced influence on overall hotel performance

🏩 Hotels in the Greater Bay Area could benchmark Zhongshan for rooms, Macau for F&B, Hong Kong for meeting services, and Shenzhen for spa services

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241245929

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in hotel efficiency evaluation, product diversification, data envelopment analysis, greater bay area and hotel development

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15/05/2024

Besides 🏨hotels and 🛏lodging in general, 🍽 is another area of hospitality & tourism researchers' prime interest

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research certainly recognizes the significance of restaurant sector. Over the past few years, we accepted & published many high-quality papers relating to restaurant sector like:

🍴Theory in Dining
https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020988338

📲How to determine the optimal level of overbooking in restaurants
https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480211064356

🤓Impact of restaurant innovation on customers' brand attachment
https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480211042065

✍Factors affecting restaurat customers' eWOM posting behavior
https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480221092704

📑Re-evaluation tendencies of repeat restaurant customers
https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480221141613

😂Restaurant employees' workplace humor and job embeddedness
https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480211027927

🍲Role of food aesthetics in restaurant marketing
https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480211067275

Are you working on something about restaurants?!? Are you looking for ideas/issues worth investigating ?!?

If YES, you are highly recommended to read the papers presented above and many others from our journal

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09/05/2024

💕 study shows the nature, meanings, and dynamics of visiting relatives' host–guest interactions💕

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Xi Wang, Jenny Cave and Mary Simpson examine the role of visiting relatives travel in enabling the interdependencies between transnational sojourners and their stay-behind family members

Based on the insights shared by 40+ informants, the team found that:
👨‍👩‍👦 Visiting relatives travel facilitates cross-border social exchange and shapes family wellbeing

👨‍👩‍👧 Sociocultural nuances improve use of social exchange theory in VRs travel research

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Family life cycle acts as a theoretical lens in exploring the dynamics of VRs travel

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Elderly parents and non-parent visitors have different expectations of VRs travel

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241246563

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in transnational sojourners, family ties, visiting relatives travel, family life cycle and social exchange theory

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07/05/2024

📑🆕 NEW issue is available online 🆕📑

The special issue themed "Responsible Tourism & Hospitality" is available on Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research's official website now:
🔗 https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jhtd/48/4

The 15 papers included in this issue discussed a wide range of topics like:
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The editorial team would like to thank Prof Anna S. Mattila, Dr Lisa Gao & Dr Luisa Andreu for their dedication to the curation of this special issue 🙇‍♂️

The editorial team also wants to thank all authors for choosing to disseminate your fabulous works 🙇‍♀️

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Table of contents for Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 48, 4, May 01, 2024

02/05/2024

🎊 study was catalogued in prestigous research collection 🎊

In the latest collection of Kudos Sustainable Development Knowledge Cooperative, the article titled “How Sustainable Are Tourist Destinations Worldwide? An Environmental, Economic and Social Analysis” (Vol. 48 . Iss. 4) was catelogued

The Knowledge Cooperative is a collection of highly recognized papers relating to sustainability and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Only impactful research with insightful findings are eligible to be featured in this collection

Congratulations to Dinh Tam Nguyen (Van Lang University), Kuo-Cheng Kuo (Chinese Culture University), Wen-Min Lu (Chinese Culture University) and Dinh Thanh Nhan (College Commerce) - the team who co-authored that article

♻Link to the featued post :
🔗 https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1177%25252F10963480231168286/reader

♻Link to the article:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480231168286

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Tourism helps to create jobs and employment in a region. Over time, the value created by tourism adds to a place's economy, environment, and society. Sustainable tourism helps to manage the negative effects of tourism. But achieving sustainability driven tourism faces some challenges. The authors of...

29/04/2024

💑 study reveals how sexual minority guests interpret brand authenticity toward LGBT-friendly hotels👩‍❤️‍👩

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Juhee Kang and Heejung Ro investigated different types of authenticity and their relationships with sexual minority guests’ brand loyalty toward LGBT-friendly hotels

In this study, the research team found that:
💕Sexual minority guests perceive brand authenticity and build brand loyalty when LGBT-friendly offerings and services are aligned with brand promises

💕The serial mediation effects of intrapersonal authenticity and interpersonal authenticity in the relationship between brand authenticity and brand loyalty are confirmed

To increase brand loyalty among sexual minority guests, hotels should help them express their identity and enjoy social gatherings

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241244727

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in brand authenticity, brand loyalty, existential authenticity, LGBT, rainbow marketing, serial mediation and signaling theory

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23/04/2024

😢 study offers evidence-based recommendations to address the detrimental effects of abusive supervision😢

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Zichan Qin, Libo Yan and Timothy Lee explored victims’ strategies for coping with intermittent supervisory abuse in aircrew workplaces and their selection sequence of those coping choices

In this study, the research team found that:
💡Victims can employ prevention-focused strategies to anticipate or eliminate abusive stressors

💡Transient leader-member exchanges can impact victim appraisals and coping choices

💡Victims’ coping mechanisms within temporary work settings differ from those in permanent working structures

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241237114

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in abusive supervision, coping strategies, coping responses, leader-member exchange and stress management

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17/04/2024

🍵 study reveal tourists’ embodied metaphors in lifestyle cultural spaces 🍵

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Zichao Wang, Juan Tang, Lingxu Zhou and Beng Kok Goh enhanced the understanding of the embodiment and cognitive effects of being immersive in lifestyle cultural spaces using biosemiotics approaches

In this study, the research team:
🏯 Established tourists’ formation mechanism of embodied metaphors in the spatial environment by taking teahouses in Chengdu as typical cases

🏰 Examined tourists’ embodied cognition and metaphors of lifestyle cultural space through analyzing tourists’ online photographs, reviews and authors’ participatory notes

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241237089

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in cultural revitalization, lifestyle cultural space, embodied experience, embodied metaphors, and biosemiotics modeling system

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15/04/2024

💑 study shows how prestige and intelligent chatbots affect luxury tourism consumption 👩‍❤️‍👩

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Edward Ku, Shu-Hua Wu and Tzu-Ching Lai from National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism proposed and tested a model which shows how the prestige sensitivity, uniqueness, and vividness of tourism products affect brand love through luxury tourism consumption

According to the research findings:
💕 Prestige sensitivity and perceived uniqueness affect brand love, and tourism businesses use chatbots to help consumers identify products

💕 Brand advertising of travel agencies will provide consumers with information, making advertising an effective means to link luxury products with brands and create prestige and likeability

💕 Tourism businesses can use AI innovations to provide consumers with accurate data through interactive agents and personalized technology

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241234618

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in luxury tourism consumption, prestige sensitivity, product fit diagnosticity, peer influence and brand love

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03/04/2024

Being one of the leading journals in the hospitality & tourism fields, Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research has long acknowledged the significance of green topics like 💚ESG💚 | 🌲Sustainability🌲 | ♻Sustainable management♻

In the 3rd issue of our Volume 46, we curated a collection of studies showing how nature-based solutions can tackle the societal and ecological problems in the tourism and hospitality fields

Don't miss this collection if you are looking for references about:

🧠 Accumulated knowledge on nature-based solutions
https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348019890052

🌀 Strategies for adaptation to climate change
https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348019889112

🏝 Impact of ecosystem-based adaptation on destination well-being
https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020944438

🕷 Consumer trust-risk-benefit assessment on edible insect consumption
https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020914375

🤝 Community participation & Quality-of-life in nature-based tourism
https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020980094

🐎 Enhancing physhological well-being via human-equine touristic experience
https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020978555

Link to the full catalogue of this special issue can be found here:
🔗 https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jhtd/46/3

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29/03/2024

🆓FREE ACCESS🆓 | study presents a comprehensive synthesis of Kano model categorization methods

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Slevitch Lisa uses a systematic literature review approach to provide a comprehensive synthesis & analysis of the existing Kano model categorization methods

🤔 Why you cannot miss this 🤔
✨ The author does not only structure the methods in groups based on categorization procedures, but also point to the strengths, weaknesses, and fit of each method

✨ The article provides the most current systematic roadmap of the existing methods. It also points to the existing knowledge gaps and directions for future research

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s website and and it will be 🆓🆓🆓 to download for a short period of time:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241230957

Don’t miss out this Free Access article if you interested in Kano model, categorization methods, customer satisfaction and attribute performance

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25/03/2024

🤖 How would involuntary adoption of service robots impact consumer experiences in hospitality 🤖

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Hailey Shin, Vincent Tung and Miyoung Jeong proposed and tested an interconnected research model of service failure, attribution, and (in)voluntary robot adoption in order to identify an answer to the abovementioned question

According to their research findings:

😡 The negative impacts of service failures on brand experience were much stronger when consumers were required to adopt service robots

😡 Consumers’ (in)voluntary adoption of service robots influenced brand experience, robot experience, and intention to adopt service robots

😡 Hotel consumers who voluntarily adopted service robots had higher brand experience, robot experience, and intention to adopt hotel service robots than those who did not want to adopt service robots

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241231469

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in service robot, automation technologies, service failure, attribution, technology adoption, and brand experience

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22/03/2024

🚨How to Regulate Automation Technologies in Hospitality🚨

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Craig Webster and Lisa Cain, Ph.D. present a conceptual paper that aims to examine the interplay between Porter’s Diamond, the role of government, and varying political ideologies on automated technology regulation in the hospitality industry

In this conceptual paper:
🤖 The way in which different factors influence a global hospitality firm’s ability to achieve competitive advantage through the use of technology are examined

🤖 Mercantilist, liberal, social democratic, and communist ideologies are explored in relation to how they support or dissuade regulation, and their respective and collective impacts on competition

🤖 The sources of government regulation, including global, bloc, country-level, and sub-country levels are discussed in relation to automated technology regulations

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241229233

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in strategic decision making, Porter’s Diamond, political ideologies, automation technologies and competitive advantage

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14/03/2024

🐶 study finds the formation of ethical animal-related tourism behaviors🐰

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Pipatpong Fakfare, Noppadol Manosuthi, Jinsoo Lee, Sang-Mook Lee and Heesup Han integrate self-interest motives and pro-social motives to identify the effective conditions that influence tourists’ ethical behaviors when participating in animal-related tourism activities

The findings provided by the research team:

🐇 Identify necessary conditions that contribute to tourists’ behavioral intentions for ethical animal tourism

🐕 Verify that a sense of moral obligation to engage in ethical animal-related tourism was a necessary and sufficient condition for behavioral intentions among tourists

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now: 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241229237

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in animal tourism, responsible travel, pro-social behavior, ethical behavioral, and theory of planned behavior

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12/03/2024

😁 Happy people spend more on products that promote happiness ??? 😁

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Jing Ma, Xinjing Wang and Lihui Tian investigate how happiness influences people’s tourism consumption based on the theory of consumption function

According to the analysis on data assembled from the China Household Finance Survey:

😃 Happy people were inclined to travel more and to spend more on tourism

😄 Exceptionally happy people tend to spend more time and money maintaining social relationships

😆 The level of one’s social network mediates the positive impact of happiness on tourism consumption

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now: 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241229236

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in happiness, tourism consumption, consumption function, China Household Finance Survey, and place of residence

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08/03/2024

🤑 study finds clues to enhance customers’ reward gradient behaviors🤑

In a recent article published in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Woo Li Ko and Tae Ho Song conducted a simulation + experiment study in order to answer the question of “what can explain the sunk cost effect on reward gradient behavior over the progress of gaining rewards”

Their findings show a stronger acceleration in the expected value after reaching a middle point of the reward achievement, which is due to a larger deviation in the loss value than the gain value. These results are expected to help restaurants and tourism companies implement a dynamic perspective in reward programs for enhancing customers’ reward gradient behaviors

The eCopy of this article is available in ’s OnlineFirst column now: 🔗https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480231226083

DOWNLOAD and READ the paper if you interested in hospitality reward program, hospitality loyalty program, customer reward gradient, customer loyalty, and prospect theory

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