OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Travel Research is 16. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Virtual Reality and Memory Retention: The Cognitive Architecture of Virtual Memorable Tourism Experiences	129
Impacts of Gender, Patriarchy, and Culture on Bruneian Women’s Travel Experiences	120
Which Public Attraction Gets (and Gets More) Government Funding? The Effects of Internal and External Factors	101
Animal Ethics and Tourism: Deepening a Stimulus–Organism–Response (S-O-R) Framework	93
An Attachment-Based Management Framework of Destination Attributes: Drawing on the Appraisal Theories of Emotion	92
A Model for Brand Personality Word Embedding: Identifying UNESCO World Heritage Personality Categories	91
Shaping Cultural Inheritance Intention through Heritage Anthropomorphic Interpretation: The Moderating Role of Situational Awe	89
What Tourism Forgot to Feel: A Foundational Realignment of Emotion Theory and Measurement in Tourism Marketing	84
Travel Live Streaming and Tourist Decision-Making: A Psychological and Behavioural Perspective on Bridging Virtual Engagement and Physical Travel	83
Letter From the Co-Editor: Yes, “Shit’s Got to Change.” But How? A Call for a Deep Scholarship Social Movement	79
What Has the Most Impact? An Exploration of Dual-Processing Systems in Hotel Booking Decisions	75
Antecedents of Social Performance in Tourism and Hospitality Firms: The Role of Employee Resilience, Transactive Memory Systems, and Dynamic Capabilities	71
Emotional Solidarity and Co-creation of Experience as Determinants of Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Stimulus-Organism-Response Theory Perspective	70
Unlocking Nontransactional Value Co-creation: Insights From Online Travel Communities	68
Travel Stress, Leisure Exploration, and Trip Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Travel Adjustment	65
“Airbnb Be Like…”: Examining the Impact of Memetic Doppelgängers on Meme Virality and Brand Image	63
Re-Enchanting Rural Sacred Sites: A Critical Realist Approach to Tourism Experience and Management in Post-Secularity	63
A Sequential Pattern Mining Approach to Tourist Movement: The Case of a Mega Event	60
Information Communication Technology as a Driver of Tourism Efficiency	60
Agentic AI in Hospitality and Tourism: Opportunities, Risks, and Research Pathways	58
Engendering Pro-Sustainable Performance Through a Multi-Layered Gender Diversity Criterion: Evidence From the Hospitality and Tourism Sector	54
The Female Alternative Experience in Music Festivals: Transformation as Ongoing Becoming	54
Travelling With Dazi: Exploring the Light Socialising Phenomenon for Youth	52
Tourism as a Space of Possibilities: Reconciliation Tourism Enterprises in a Conflict-Ridden Destination	50
Family Tourists’ Individual and Collective Emotions: An Integrated Framework	46

Extending the Conceptualization of Destination Brand Experiences	45
Lut Desert Mars Hike Tour as an Idea for Destination Dupe	45
Value Co-Creation and Co-Destruction Through Adult Child–Parent Interactions During Family Vacations: Scale Development and Validation	43
Benign (Malicious) Envy and Conspicuous Travel Consumption Intention: Mediating Effects of Self-Enhancement and Self-Control	43
Geopolitical Tensions and Market–Behavioral Responses: A Dual Perspective From Investors and Travelers on the Korean Peninsula	41
Asymmetrical Influences of Service Robots’ Perceived Performance on Overall Customer Satisfaction: An Empirical Investigation Leveraging Online Reviews	41
Sojourning and Being Well Among Contemporary Chinese Gay Men in a Tourism Destination: An Extension of Dynamic Equilibrium Theory	41
A Study on Perceptual Differences in Tourist User-Generated Content Based on Multimodal Deep Learning	41
The Effects of Psychological Ownership of Tourism Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) on Tourist Behavioral Outcomes	40
Transit Visa-Free and Inbound Tourism: City-Level Evidence from China	39
Will I Be the Same? Enhancing Academic Tourism Through Transformative Tourism Experiences	39
Role of Body in Travel: Wheelchair Users’ Experience from a Multi-Sensory Perspective	38
Residents’ Perceived Benefits of Host-Guest Interaction: Scale Development and Validation	38
Imperfect Perfection: Constructing a Complete Tourism Experience from the Perspective of Wheelchair Users	37
Effects of Cultural Ecosystem Services on Visitors’ Subjective Well-Being: Evidences From China’s National Park and Flower Expo	36
The Stereotype-Emotion-Interaction Relationship: A Tourist-Resident Dual Perspective	36
Unpacking the Plus-Size Travel Movement	35
How Do Voice Characteristics Affect Tourism Interpretation Purchases? An Empirical Study Based on Voice Mining	35
Mental Health on the Go: Navigating Travel and Travel Eligibility	35
Destination Curiosity Across Borders: How Geopolitical Outlook Shapes Travel Intentions	35
How do Tourism Souvenir Purchasing Channels Impact Tourists’ Intention to Purchase? The Moderating Role of Souvenir Authenticity	35
From Savoring Past Trips to Craving Future Journeys: The Role of Destination Cultural Capital and Enjoyable Reminiscence	34
Risk, Trust, and the Roles of Human Versus Virtual Influencers	33
Can I Trust GenAI to Plan My Next Trip? A Multi-Method Approach to Optimizing Media Mix	33
Measuring Tourist Festival Experience: Development and Validation of the PHF-TX Model	33
A Para-Social Perspective: The Influence of Idol Worship on Fans’ Tourism Decision-Making	32
Network Resource Mobilization in Community-Based Tourism Social Entrepreneurship	32
Communicating Green Innovation to Online Communities: Evidence from Sports Mega Events	31
Hourglasses in Hotel Showers: Could Self-Selected Real-Time Feedback Reduce Water Use?	31
Social Media Envy and Its Influence on Tourists’ Variety-seeking Behavior in Destination Choices	30
The Football Pilgrimage Ritual of the Village Super League	30
How Domestic Features Shape Guest Satisfaction Across Genders in Peer-to-Peer Accommodations: Validation of Gendered Domestic Affordance Perception	30
Is Scarcity Always Beneficial? Effects of Persuasive Cue Types in User-Generated Advertisements (UGAs) on Travelers’ Destination Interest	30
Winning the Sky Race: Analyzing the Competitiveness of Airline Guest experience Through Theory-Driven Impact Asymmetry Competitor Analysis	29
ESG for Sustainability in Hospitality and Tourism: A Theoretical and Practical Review With a Future Research Agenda	29
The “Green Persuasion Effect” of Negative Messages: How and When Message Framing Influences Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior	29
Transformative Outcomes of Workcation: Satisfaction, Place Attachment, and Behavioral Intentions	29
Workcation (Workation) Travel Experiences, Satisfaction and Revisit Intentions: Focusing on Conceptualization, Scale Development, and Nomological Network	29
Exploring Secondary Crisis Response Strategies for Airlines Experiencing Low-Responsibility Crises: An Extension of the Situational Crisis Communication Theory	28
CORRIGENDUM to “Local Leaders’ Promotion Pressure and Tourism Development: Evidence from China”	28
Taking Advantage of Their Seniority: How the Misbehavior of Senior Tourists Influence Young Adults’ Prosocial Behavior Towards Them	28
The Lasting Effects of Terrorism on Hotel Performance: Evidence from Jihadist Attacks in Europe	28
Exploring the Tongzhi Holiday Experience with Zaltman’s Metaphor Elicitation Technique: An Embodied Social Representational Perspective	27
Is Tourism Becoming More Globally Interconnected or Regionally Concentrated? A Network Analysis Approach	27
From Destination to Daily Life: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Flashback Nudging on Pro-environmental Behavior Spillover	27
Integrating Community Ambivalence into Resident Sentiment Research	27
Emotional and Hedonic Well-Being Experiences of Diaspora Festival Visitors: A Contemporary Migrants’ Perspective	26
Tourism and Emerging Infectious Diseases: More Connections Than First Meet the Eye	26
Relationship Norm Moderates Observers’ Reaction to Unearned Preferential Treatment	26
Can Mega Pilgrimages Increase Participants’ Well-Being? Evidence From the World Youth Day 2023	26

Are Tourists Happier When Traveling Together? The Interplay of Self-construal and Companion Presence on Hedonia and Eudaimonia	26
Good Match, Deep Love: Three Studies Examining the Celebrity Endorsement’s Influence on Destination Brand Love	26
Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach	25
Toward a Values-Driven Research Culture: Passion, Collaboration, and Decency	25
Sustainable Adaptation Planning for Cultural Heritage in Coastal Tourism Destinations Under Climate Change: A Mixed-Paradigm of Preservation and Conservation Optimization	25
Subcultural Praxis via Sparking Journeys: Self-Transformation and Embodied Experiences Among Hard Adventurers	25
Towards the Hyper-Personalisation of Travel Itineraries – AI-Supported Virtual Interlining	25
The Dimensions, Mechanism, and Role of Activation: A New Approach to the Evolution of Authenticity	25
Multi-Modal-based Emotional Contagion from Tourists to Hosts: The Dual-Process Mechanism	25
Cityscapes or Scenic Escapes? Exploring the Differential Impact of Urban Versus Nature Visuals in Tourism Marketing	24
From Play to Purpose: How Gamification and Goal Priming Enhance Virtual Reality Tourism Experiences	24
Slowing Down in “Little Shanghai”: A Nostalgia-induced Framework of Reciprocity between Psychological Ownership and Heritage Preservation	24
Diffusion and Future Influence of Tourism Research: Addressing the How and When Questions of Tourism Knowledge Structures	24
Understanding the Antecedents of Adolescent Family Tourism Motivation: The Role of Adolescents’ Self-Differentiation and Parent-Child Relationships	23
Network Resource Mobilisation Process in Tourism Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystems	23
A New Perspective on Sustainable Tourism Practice using Systematically Co-Created Customized “Toolkits”: A Design Science Approach	23
Exploring Needed Support as a Motivational Factor for Travelers with Mobility Impairments: A Sequential Mixed-Methods Exploration	23
The Emotional Paradox of Travel: Exploring Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping in Post-Crisis Tourism	23
Understanding the Factors Affecting Travel Avoidance behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From a Mixed Method Approach	22
Why Individuals Do Not Visit a Destination? The Role of Familiarity and Novelty Seeking in Shaping Non-visitors’ Destination Image	22
How Does Globalization Influence the Impact of Tourism on Carbon Emissions and Ecological Footprint? Evidence from African Countries	22
The Interaction Effect of Service Robot Affordances and Contexts on Customer Engagement Behaviors	22
Deconstructing Deception: Exploring Misleading Practices in Tourism Marketing	21
Understanding the Travel Decision-Making Behaviors of Ethnic Minority Tourists: The Moderating Role of Psychological Empowerment	21
Resource Mobilization and Power Redistribution: The Role of Local Governments in Shaping Residents’ Pro-Environmental Behavior in Rural Tourism Destinations	21
Bridging the Affordance-Actualization Gap in User Preferences for AI-Assisted Trip Planning	21
Investigating the Transformative Power of Brand Love in Destination Crisis Recovery	21
Understanding AI-Generated Experiments in Tourism: Replications Using GPT Simulations	21
How Consumer Photo Reviews and Online Platform Types Influence Luxury Hotel Booking Intentions Through Envy	21
ChatGPT for Trip Planning: The Effect of Narrowing Down Options	21
Navigating Life-Course Transitions Through Tourism: A Dual Pathway Framework of Senior Wellbeing and Resilience	20
These Were the Days of Our Lives! A Self-Enhancement Model of Revisit Intention for Warfare Heritage Tourism	20
Partnering on Social Advocacy: Indigenous Communities and Tourism Enterprises	20
Exploring the Impacts of Residents’ Social Embeddedness on Heritage Responsibility at Cultural Heritage Sites	20
Creating Spiritual Values in Tourism: Insights From Buddhist Monks and Tour Operators	20
Sustainable Service of Young Tour Guides for Senior Tourists: An Exploration Based on Intergenerational Relationships and Intergroup Contact	19
Wildlife Equity Theory for Multispecies Tourism Justice	18
Determinants of Consumers’ Intentions to Reduce Air Travel	18
An Empirical Examination of Tourists’ Decision-Making-Based Regret	18
Tax Havens and Tourism: The Impact of the Panama Papers and the Crowding Out of Tourism by Financial Services	18
Vectorize Me! A Proposed Machine Learning Approach for Segmenting the Multi-optional Tourist	18
How Content Richness and Sentiment Tendency Affect the Effectiveness of Official Tourism Emergency Response Information on Social Media	18
Show Me All or Nothing: When and Why Human Presence in Nature Destination Marketing Videos Backfires	17
High Expectations: How Tourists Cope With Disappointing Vacation Experiences	17
The Asymmetric and Nonlinear Effects of Multi-Dimensional Distance on International Tourism Demand	17
Attraction Agglomeration and Destination Agglomeration: The Case of Chinese National Scenic Areas	17
Quantifying Authenticity: Progress and Challenges	17
Environmental or Personal Benefit? The Role of Message Appeal and Information Type in Destination Social Media Advertisements	17
Spatial Authenticity and Extraordinary Experiences: Music Festivals and the Everyday Nature of Tourism Destinations	17
Settler Colonialism in Authorized Heritage Discourses	16
Flying on a Magic Carpet: A Storytelling Perspective with IT Mindfulness in Dubai’s Air Taxi Tours	16
Do Envy and Consumer-Generated Content Boost Travel Motivations?	16
Platformized Tourism Circuits and Urban Space: Xiaohongshu, Wanghong Places, and Dongshankou’s Transformation	16
Travel as Transformation: Parental Coping and Adaptation with Autistic Children	16