Journal of Travel Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Travel Research is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Antecedents of Social Performance in Tourism and Hospitality Firms: The Role of Employee Resilience, Transactive Memory Systems, and Dynamic Capabilities113
Which Public Attraction Gets (and Gets More) Government Funding? The Effects of Internal and External Factors107
Reconceptualizing Tourists’ Extraordinary Experiences98
What Has the Most Impact? An Exploration of Dual-Processing Systems in Hotel Booking Decisions94
Originality: The Holy Grail of Tourism Research77
Understanding Potential and Repeat Visitors’ Travel Intentions: The Roles of Travel Motivations, Destination Image, and Visitor Image Congruity71
Animal Ethics and Tourism: Deepening a Stimulus–Organism–Response (S-O-R) Framework60
An Attachment-Based Management Framework of Destination Attributes: Drawing on the Appraisal Theories of Emotion59
Letter From the Co-Editor: Yes, “Shit’s Got to Change.” But How? A Call for a Deep Scholarship Social Movement59
A Model for Brand Personality Word Embedding: Identifying UNESCO World Heritage Personality Categories55
Emotional Solidarity and Co-creation of Experience as Determinants of Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Stimulus-Organism-Response Theory Perspective54
“Airbnb Be Like…”: Examining the Impact of Memetic Doppelgängers on Meme Virality and Brand Image52
Power and Resistance: Digital-Free Tourism in a Connected World50
Engendering Pro-Sustainable Performance Through a Multi-Layered Gender Diversity Criterion: Evidence From the Hospitality and Tourism Sector50
Spatial Effect of Crime on Peer-to-Peer Lodging Performance49
Framing Effects of Messages and Images on the Willingness to Pay for Pro-Poor Tourism Products48
Travel Stress, Leisure Exploration, and Trip Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Travel Adjustment46
Unlocking Nontransactional Value Co-creation: Insights From Online Travel Communities43
A Sequential Pattern Mining Approach to Tourist Movement: The Case of a Mega Event42
Sojourning and Being Well Among Contemporary Chinese Gay Men in a Tourism Destination: An Extension of Dynamic Equilibrium Theory42
To Whom Does Destination Anthropomorphism Appeal? Power and Perceived Control41
An Interactive Family Tourism Decision Model40
Extending the Conceptualization of Destination Brand Experiences39
Value Co-Creation and Co-Destruction Through Adult Child–Parent Interactions During Family Vacations: Scale Development and Validation39
Benign (Malicious) Envy and Conspicuous Travel Consumption Intention: Mediating Effects of Self-Enhancement and Self-Control38
Tourist Mental Health Drives Destination Choice, Marketing, and Matching37
Toward an Assessment of Quality of Life Indicators as Measures of Destination Performance36
An Examination of the Influence of Emotional Solidarity on Value Cocreation with International Muslim Travelers36
Tourism as a Space of Possibilities: Reconciliation Tourism Enterprises in a Conflict-Ridden Destination35
Asymmetrical Influences of Service Robots’ Perceived Performance on Overall Customer Satisfaction: An Empirical Investigation Leveraging Online Reviews35
Developing a Multi-Dimensional Measure of Hotel Brand Customers’ Online Engagement Behaviors to Capture Non-Transactional Value35
Family Matters: Dual Network Embeddedness, Resource Acquisition, and Entrepreneurial Success of Small Tourism Firms in Rural China35
Is Sex Tourism Intention Uncontrollable? The Moderating Effects of Ethics and Law35
Can I Trust GenAI to Plan My Next Trip? A Multi-Method Approach to Optimizing Media Mix34
Will I Be the Same? Enhancing Academic Tourism Through Transformative Tourism Experiences34
Erratum to Measuring Experience Economy Concepts: Tourism Applications33
A Diffusion Perspective on the Discontinuance of Sustainable Tourism Quality Control Tools32
Competitors or Complements: A Meta-analysis of the Effect of Airbnb on Hotel Performance31
COVID-19-Induced Redundancy and Socio-Psychological Well-Being of Tourism Employees: Implications for Organizational Recovery in a Resource-Scarce Context31
Unpacking the Plus-Size Travel Movement30
Does Positive Contact Between Residents and Tourists Stimulate Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior? The Role of Gratitude and Boundary Conditions30
How Do Voice Characteristics Affect Tourism Interpretation Purchases? An Empirical Study Based on Voice Mining30
How do Tourism Souvenir Purchasing Channels Impact Tourists’ Intention to Purchase? The Moderating Role of Souvenir Authenticity30
Residents’ Perceived Benefits of Host-Guest Interaction: Scale Development and Validation29
Effects of Cultural Ecosystem Services on Visitors’ Subjective Well-Being: Evidences From China’s National Park and Flower Expo29
Mental Health on the Go: Navigating Travel and Travel Eligibility29
Role of Body in Travel: Wheelchair Users’ Experience From a Multi-Sensory Perspective29
Network Resource Mobilization in Community-Based Tourism Social Entrepreneurship28
From Savoring Past Trips to Craving Future Journeys: The Role of Destination Cultural Capital and Enjoyable Reminiscence28
A Para-Social Perspective: The Influence of Idol Worship on Fans’ Tourism Decision-Making28
Risk, Trust, and the Roles of Human Versus Virtual Influencers28
Pandemic Severity, Policy Stringency, and Tourism Performance: A Global Analysis26
Communicating Green Innovation to Online Communities: Evidence from Sports Mega Events26
Measuring Tourist Festival Experience: Development and Validation of the PHF-TX Model26
The “Green Persuasion Effect” of Negative Messages: How and When Message Framing Influences Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior25
Social Media Envy and Its Influence on Tourists’ Variety-seeking Behavior in Destination Choices25
Pattern Recognition of Travel Mobility in a City Destination: Application of Network Motif Analytics25
Workcation (Workation) Travel Experiences, Satisfaction and Revisit Intentions: Focusing on Conceptualization, Scale Development, and Nomological Network24
Tourism and Emerging Infectious Diseases: More Connections Than First Meet the Eye24
Tourisation Theory and the Pandiscipline of Tourism24
Transformative Outcomes of Workcation: Satisfaction, Place Attachment, and Behavioral Intentions24
Emotional and Hedonic Well-Being Experiences of Diaspora Festival Visitors: A Contemporary Migrants’ Perspective23
Relationship Norm Moderates Observers’ Reaction to Unearned Preferential Treatment23
Exploring the Tongzhi Holiday Experience With Zaltman’s Metaphor Elicitation Technique: An embodied social representational perspective23
Sustainable Adaptation Planning for Cultural Heritage in Coastal Tourism Destinations Under Climate Change: A Mixed-Paradigm of Preservation and Conservation Optimization23
The Lasting Effects of Terrorism on Hotel Performance: Evidence from Jihadist Attacks in Europe23
Taking Advantage of Their Seniority: How the Misbehavior of Senior Tourists Influence Young Adults’ Prosocial Behavior Towards Them23
Exploring Secondary Crisis Response Strategies for Airlines Experiencing Low-Responsibility Crises: An Extension of the Situational Crisis Communication Theory22
Examining Tourism Consumers’ Attitudes and the Role of Sensory Information in Virtual Reality Experiences of a Tourist Destination22
Good Match, Deep Love: Three Studies Examining the Celebrity Endorsement’s Influence on Destination Brand Love22
Understanding the Antecedents of Adolescent Family Tourism Motivation: The Role of Adolescents’ Self-Differentiation and Parent-Child Relationships22
Would Travel Experiences or Possessions Make People Happier?22
Slowing Down in “Little Shanghai”: A Nostalgia-induced Framework of Reciprocity between Psychological Ownership and Heritage Preservation22
Exploring Needed Support as a Motivational Factor for Travelers with Mobility Impairments: A Sequential Mixed-Methods Exploration21
Combining Conventional Statistics and Big Data to Map Global Tourism Destinations Before COVID-1921
Diffusion and Future Influence of Tourism Research: Addressing the How and When Questions of Tourism Knowledge Structures21
Why Individuals Do Not Visit a Destination? The Role of Familiarity and Novelty Seeking in Shaping Non-visitors’ Destination Image21
Perceiving Destination Through Animated GIFs: A Mixed Method Design for Multifaceted Image Assessment20
ChatGPT for Trip Planning: The Effect of Narrowing Down Options20
Tourism and Mental Health: Foundations, Frameworks, and Futures20
An Evolutionary Perspective in Tourism: The Role of Socioeconomic Status on Extremeness Aversion in Travel Decision Making20
Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach20
How Does Globalization Influence the Impact of Tourism on Carbon Emissions and Ecological Footprint? Evidence from African Countries20
Understanding the Factors Affecting Travel Avoidance behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From a Mixed Method Approach20
Bridging the Affordance-Actualization Gap in User Preferences for AI-Assisted Trip Planning19
Resource Mobilization and Power Redistribution: The Role of Local Governments in Shaping Residents’ Pro-Environmental Behavior in Rural Tourism Destinations19
Multi-Modal-based Emotional Contagion from Tourists to Hosts: The Dual-Process Mechanism19
Deconstructing Deception: Exploring Misleading Practices in Tourism Marketing19
Determinants of Consumers’ Intentions to Reduce Air Travel19
Spatial Authenticity and Extraordinary Experiences: Music Festivals and the Everyday Nature of Tourism Destinations18
These Were the Days of Our Lives! A Self-Enhancement Model of Revisit Intention for Warfare Heritage Tourism18
Who Should You Market to in a Crisis? Examining Plog’s Model during the COVID-19 Pandemic17
Investigating the Transformative Power of Brand Love in Destination Crisis Recovery17
Understanding the Travel Decision-Making Behaviors of Ethnic Minority Tourists: The Moderating Role of Psychological Empowerment17
Vectorize Me! A Proposed Machine Learning Approach for Segmenting the Multi-optional Tourist16
Wildlife Equity Theory for Multispecies Tourism Justice16
Quantifying Authenticity: Progress and Challenges16
How Consumer Photo Reviews and Online Platform Types Influence Luxury Hotel Booking Intentions Through Envy16
High Expectations: How Tourists Cope With Disappointing Vacation Experiences16
Tax Havens and Tourism: The Impact of the Panama Papers and the Crowding Out of Tourism by Financial Services16
Understanding AI-Generated Experiments in Tourism: Replications Using GPT Simulations16
Attraction Agglomeration and Destination Agglomeration: The Case of Chinese National Scenic Areas16
Consumer Reaction to Decelerated Tourism: Pace, Inherent Virtue, and Environmental Concern15
Reconfiguring Aviation for a Climate-Safe Future: Are Airlines Sending the Wrong Message?15
Do Envy and Consumer-Generated Content Boost Travel Motivations?15
Animosity and Tourism: Resident Perspectives15
Travel Writing as a Tool for Sustainable Initiatives: Proposing a Dialogue Journaling Process Model15
Environmental or Personal Benefit? The Role of Message Appeal and Information Type in Destination Social Media Advertisements15
Pleasure Through Pain: An Empirical Examination of Benign Masochism in Tourism15
“Smoke on the Water”: Wildfire Smoke Impacts on Commercial River Recreation14
Redirecting Slack Resources to Social and Environmental Issues: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Tourism Firms Post-Crisis14
Leading for Resilience: Fostering Employee and Organizational Resilience in Tourism Firms14
Alleviating Travelers’ Privacy Concern in Personalized Recommendations Through Perceived Information Autonomy: Strategies via Hedge Words and Communication Styles14
Wonder Works Wonders: The Interactive Effects of Awe and Message Appeals on Donation Intentions Toward Heritage Sites Through Self Sizes14
Re-enactment in Lighter Dark Tourism: An Exploration of Re-enactor Tour Guides and Their Perspectives on Creating Visitor Experiences14
Assessing the Effectiveness of Environmental Sustainability Performance Communication in Tourism: Mediation and Moderation Effects14
Assessing a Model of Customer Rage: Does Customer Entitlement Moderate Relationships Between Rage Emotions, Expressions and Behaviors?14
When Guests Become Hosts: The Boomerang Effect of Tourists’ Negative Behaviors on Their Country of Origin14
The Contribution of Animal-Based Cultural Ecosystem Services to Tourist Well-Being at Cultural Heritage Sites14
Perceived Affordances and Regret in Online Travel Agencies14
Identifying Tourist Spatial and Temporal Patterns Using GPS and Sequence Alignment Method14
Tourist–Host Identity Risk: Scale Development and Consequences13
Interaction Rituals and Social Relationships in a Rural Tourism Destination13
Assessing the Economic Impacts of Tourism Markets and Activities Diversification: Evidence From a New Dynamic Regression Approach13
How Do Repeat Domestic Tourists Cope with Evolving Railway Stationscapes? A Marketing-Based Exploration Using Servicescape and Onboarding Concepts13
More People Would Visit Yellowstone If It Weren’t So Crowded: Optimal Congestion Pricing for High Demand Protected Areas13
What Triggers Travel Spending? The Impact of Prior Spending on Additional Unplanned Purchases13
Information Asymmetry in Tourism Market: The Bilateral Effects of ESG Practices on Firm Profitability13
Does the Order of Visiting Destinations Affect Their Recall and Evaluation?13
Conceptualization and Measurement of Happy Travel Experiences Using Hedonic, Eudaimonic, and Engagement Aspects13
Leveraging Evolutionary Psychology for Tourism Research: Identifying and Addressing Key Challenges13
Exploring the Influence of Touch Points on Tourist Experiences at Crisis Impacted Destinations13
Virtual Reality in Destination Marketing: Telepresence, Social Presence, and Tourists’ Visit Intentions13
Exploring Ontology of Tourism: A New-Realist Approach13
Personalized Persuasion for Visitors’ Data-Sharing Activities in Amusement Parks: Matching Visitors’ Social Value Orientation13
Drifting Home: The Quests of Chinese Tourist-Migrants in Tibet13
Living the Experience Before You Go . . . but Did It Meet Expectations? The Role of Virtual Reality during Hotel Bookings12
Concept and Evidence of Tourist Risk Gaze12
A Socio-Cognitive Approach to Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Indigenous Tourism Development: The Case of Nepal’s Newars12
Theme Park Storytelling: Deconstructing Immersion in Chinese Theme Parks12
“Souvenir Shopping is for Schmucks!”: Exploring Tourists’ Deviant Behavior Through the Items They Bring Back12
Duality of Tourists’ Value Co-Creation Behaviors in the Sharing Economy: Longitudinal Insight from Airbnb via Social Media Analytics12
Travelers’ Coping Strategies in the Backdrop of Revenge Tourism12
Does Vivid Imagination Deter Visitation? The Role of Mental Imagery Processing in Virtual Tourism on Tourists’ Behavior12
The Influence of Source Credibility and Inspiration on Tourists’ Travel Planning Through Travel Vlogs12
Paradoxes of Authenticity in Liminal Consumption: The Case of Casablanca’s Rick’s Café12
A Dynamic Tax Model Based on Destination Lifecycle for Sustainable Tourism Development12
Tourist Perception of the Value of Time on Holidays: Implications for the Time Use Rebound Effect and Sustainable Travel Practice12
Travel Dining Experiencescape: A Comparative Evaluation of Dining Experiences in Restaurants and P2P Dining11
Beyond Visual Appeal: The Impact of Multisensory Experience of Hotel Marketing and Review Images on Sales11
Perceived Intelligence of Artificially Intelligent Assistants for Travel: Scale Development and Validation11
The Impact of Cue-Interaction Stimulation on Impulse Buying Intention on Virtual Reality Tourism E-commerce Platforms11
Delineating the Effects of Social Media Marketing Activities on Generation Z Travel Behaviors11
Only Time Will Tell: Unraveling the Temporal Effect of Negative Affective Encounters in Diaspora Tourism11
Unveiling the Complexity of Tourists’ Visual Attention and Emotions Toward Destination Pictures11
Airlines: Standardize Your International Advertising!11
Combatting Climate Change Through Message Framing? A Real Behavior Experiment on Voluntary Carbon Offsetting10
Fostering Employee Customer-Oriented Boundary Spanning Behaviors: The Role of Inclusive Leadership10
Probabilistic Forecasts Using Expert Judgment: The Road to Recovery From COVID-1910
A Magic Leap in Tourism: Intended and Realized Experience of Head-Mounted Augmented Reality in a Museum Context10
Communicating Destination Social Responsibility Through Social Media: The Roles of Tourists’ Social Engagement, Citizenship Behaviors, and Emotions10
Economic Value of Tourism Through Human Capital Gains10
Cross-Border Tourism and Community Solidarity at a Militarized Border: A Photo Elicitation Approach10
Live-Streaming Tourism: Model Development and Validations10
Configuring Creativity: Promoting Cultural Inheritance-Based Innovation in Heritage Tourism Destinations10
Enhancing Consumers’ Repurchase Intention in Peer-to-Peer Accommodation Following a Dual Processing Model: A Principal–Agent Perspective10
Tourism in a Semantic Mirror: Retheorizing Tourism from the Linguistic Turn10
Building Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Resilience in Tourism Firms During COVID-19: A Staged Approach9
Getting Away From It All: Development of a Scale to Measure Escapism9
Imagination Versus Telepresence: Consumer Patronage Intention Toward Peer-to-Peer Accommodations in Photo-Enhanced Imaginative Conditions and Virtual Reality Contexts9
Spillover Effects of Sanctions on Airlines9
Name Heuristic Bias: How Can the Names of Accommodations Influence Individual Judgments?9
Enhancing Consumer Confidence and Response Efficacy in Tourism: Typology and Effectiveness of the Hotel Industry’s Responses to COVID-199
Spread the Word: Secondary Crisis Communication of Unethical Destination Incidents via Social Media9
Travel While Working Remotely: A Topological Data Analysis of Well-Being in Remote Work Trip Experiences9
Characterizing Ex situ Value: A Customer-Dominant Perspective on Value9
Projected Destination Image of Beijing on Instagram: A Sequential Research Design9
Why Have Package Tour Itineraries Been Homogeneous? Insights From Industry Subgroup Relations8
The Distorted Gaze? Travel Photo Editing in the Social Media Era8
Effectiveness of Travel Social Media Influencers: A Case of Eco-Friendly Hotels8
Bad Intentions: Customers’ Negative Reactions to Intentional Failures and Mitigating Conditions8
Understanding Disrespectful Tourist Behavior Through Tourists’ Stereotyped Perceptions8
The Paradox of Positivity: How Overly Positive Responses by Hosts Can Backfire on Peer-to-Peer Rental Platforms8
The Impact of Loss Aversion and Diminishing Sensitivity on Airline Revenue: Price Sensitivity in Cabin Classes8
Advantaging Tourism Through Influencers: Applying Transaction Cost Theory to Recognize Top Hero, Hub, and Hygiene Content Tactics for Tourism Marketing8
Evolution of the Memorable Tourism Experience and Future Research Prospects8
I Bond, I Engage, I Visit: Investigating the Effects of Vloggers Tourist Engagement and Its Outcome on Tourist Attitudes8
The Rich Kids of Instagram: Luxury Travel, Transport Modes, and Desire8
Decomposition Methods for Tourism Demand Forecasting: A Comparative Study7
Tourism Firms’ Vulnerability to Risk: The Role of Organizational Slack in Performance and Failure7
Tourism Disaster Management: A Social Network Analysis of Nature-based Destinations in Aotearoa New Zealand7
Exploring the Unknown together: Companionship Traveling Increases Preference for Mystery Offerings7
The Impact of Price Preciseness, Price Reduction, and Lay Rationalism on Travelers’ Perceptions of Deal Attractiveness, Purchase Intention, and Choice7
Power of Sentiment Expressions on Peer-to-Peer Rental Platforms: A Mixed-Method Approach7
Psychological Determinants of Tourist Satisfaction and Destination Loyalty: The Influence of Perceived Overcrowding and Overtourism7
A Time-lagged Examination of Voluntary and Task-related Green Behavior in the Travel Industry7
Applying an Extended Protection Motivation Theory Model to Predict Resident Hospitality During the COVID-19 Crisis7
Disaster Planning Intentions of Tourism Accommodation Managers: Understanding the Influence of Past Disaster Experience and Disaster Management Training7
Invisible Power of Culture: Mapping Tourist Information Flow of National DMO websites7
Exploring Tourists’ Virtual Reality-Based Brand Engagement: A Uses-and-Gratifications Perspective7
The Matching Effect of Destinations’ Crisis Communication7
Do Tourists Stand by the Tourism Industry? Examining Solidarity During and After a Pandemic7
Well-being Through Transformation: An Integrative Framework of Transformative Tourism Experiences and Hedonic Versus Eudaimonic Well-being7
Revisiting and Extending: “Who Should You Market to in a Crisis? Examining Plog’s Model During the COVID-19 Pandemic”6
Building Community Resilience and Adaptive Capacity Through Investments in Tourism and Conservation6
Can I do My Job in Peace? Hotel Employees’ Wellbeing in the Face of Sexual Harassment Awareness and Organizational Commitment6
When the Future is Now: An Experimental Study on the Role of Future Thinking and Affective Forecasting in Accommodation Decision-Making6
Expanding Travel Constraint Negotiation Theory: An Exploration of Cognitive and Behavioral Constraint Negotiation Relationships6
No Story Without a Storyteller: The Impact of the Storyteller as a Narrative Element in Online Destination Marketing6
Representation Matters: Measuring Black Travelers’ Legitimacy Judgments of DMOs6
Kindness for Kindness: A Dual Appraisal of International Support in Response to COVID-196
Eliciting Mortality Salience in Dark Tourism and its Influence6
Cultural Mindsets Matter: Reexamining the End Effect in Tourism Experiences6
Differences in Destination Attachment Representations of First-Time and Repeat Tourists6
To Compete or Cooperate? Intermunicipal Management of Overtourism6
The Art of Post Captions: Readability and User Engagement on Social Media6
There is No Place Like Home for the Holidays: Who Travels in the Midst of a Deadly Pandemic?6
International Tourism and Infectious Disease Transmission Nexus: A Cross-Country and Regional Study6
Storytelling in Travel Vlogs: Scale Development, Validation, and Application6
Changes in Authenticity and Alienation Following a Holiday6
Planning Horizon in International Travel Decision-Making: The Role of Individual and Cultural Determinants6
Exploring the Interplay of Psychological Need Satisfaction, Well-Being, and Behavioral Intentions in Tourism: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective6
How Does Mobile Social Media Sharing Benefit Travel Experiences?5
National Identity and Attachment Among Overseas Chinese Children: Diaspora Tourism Experiences5
Effects of Value-Belief-Norm Theory, ESG, and AI on Space Tourist Behavior for Sustainability With Three Types of Space Tourism5
Online Platform Use and Performance Among Listed Tourism Companies in China5
Dyadic Friendship Travel: The Role of Personal and Friendship Characteristics on Conflict Management Styles5
Collaboration and Learning Processes in Value Co-Creation: A Destination Perspective5
Tourism and Troubles: Effects of Security Threats on the Global Travel and Tourism Industry Performance5
Place Branding: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda5
Animosity, Social Return, and Intent to Travel: Social Return’s Dissipating Influence Over Animosity5
How Destination Social Responsibility Shapes Resident Emotional Solidarity and Quality of Life: Moderating Roles of Disclosure Tone and Visual Messaging5
Make the Effort Visible: The Effect of Process Transparency on Public Forgiveness in Tourism Crisis Communication5
Does Social Globalization Affect the Relationship Between International Tourism and Economic Growth?5
Enhancing Quality of Life through Travel, Happiness, and Psychological Resilience: The Influences of Coping and Vulnerability5
Wellness Tourism Attributes and Tourist Outcomes: An Analysis of Configurational Effects5
Viewer In-Consumption Engagement in Pro-Environmental Tourism Videos: A Video Analytics Approach5
Deploying Cultural Knowledge of Nature to Construct the Nature Sports Experience5
Cross-Category Add-On Bundling: Impact of the Consumption Nature of Bundled Products on Discount Framing Effectiveness5
Shared Festival Tourism Experiences: The Power and Purpose of Remembering Together5
Tourism, War, and Media: The Russia-Ukraine War Narrative5
Falling for Tourist Scams: An Examination of Scam Compliance Factors5
Shit Has to Change, Right? A Call for “Good Trouble” in Tourism5
Reflections on the Six Motives That Drive Tourists’ Pleasure Vacation Behavior5
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