Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
A joint analysis of the effects of climate change denial and problem awareness in predicting air travel behavioral intentions75
Tourist trust toward a tourism destination: scale development and validation60
Household livelihood adaptive strategies in gateway communities of new national parks41
Using Gini decomposition to explore the multidimensionality of spatial dispersal for tourism promotion – the case of outgoing passengers in Queensland, Australia37
From colonial company housing to dark tourism site: the complex legacy of the Mitsubishi Workers’ Housing in Samneung36
Nowruz as a cultural tourism asset in Central Asian states: the intersection between cultural policy and event management35
Developing a weighted model to measure knowledge diffusion in a tourism destination network34
Assessing the influence of social media feedback on travelers’ future trip-planning behavior: a multi-model machine learning approach33
Is tourism always detrimental to ecosystems? Insights from tradeoffs and synergies among ecosystem services in tourism destinations33
Between a rock and a hard place: how does the tourist crowding perception affect the decision of absolute displacement?31
Tourism demand forecasting using complex network theory28
Trouble in paradise: examining the unholy relationship between mental imagery and perceived terror27
Why do tourists use public transport in Korea? The roles of artificial intelligence knowledge, environmental, social, and governance, and sustainability27
Linking the internal mechanism of flow experience to exhibition intention: a comparison among diverse cultural tourists27
Metaverse and regenerative tourism: the role of avatars in promoting sustainable practices26
How hosting a mega-event changes the emotional connection of spectators with destination brands: brand personality of the Olympics and South Korea25
How to create sustainability of destination? Evidence from ecotourism community in Taiwan24
A study on enhancing culinary tourism: personalized menu recommendation using auto-tagging24
Self-discovery and subject construction of tourists with disabilities: a case study of the Wheelchair Huangshan Tour, China23
When city landmarks meet AI design: the impact of AI painting on the travel intentions of consumers23
Towards a harmonious welcome: mobilising collectivist values for Muslim-friendly policy in South Korea23
Government Tourism Attention (GTA): reevaluating governmental impact on tourism development in China23
COVID-19-induced discrimination toward tourists, emotional responses, and identity management strategies22
Jetlagged and overlooked: how social jetlag shapes the perceived helpfulness of tourist reviews?22
Fishing tourists’ green behaviors at coastal destinations: an optimum combination of perceived benefits, volitional/non-volitional factors, and emotions22
“I wish I were there” the effect of social comparison on social media on travel intention: a parallel mediation model22
Calligraphic landscapes and environments: perceived stimuli, emotion and commitment in heritage tourism21
How to promote film tourism more effectively? From a perspective of self-congruity and film tourism experience20
Health risks associated with group package tour: implications from a study on tour leaders in Taiwan20
A longitudinal study on how smart tourism technology influences tourists’ repeat visit intentions19
Exploring antecedents and consequences of tourists’ perceived relationship investment from new perspectives in the tour group context19
Understanding and measuring roots tourism: an evaluation framework19
The effects of the various properties of the metaverse tourism on the emotional benefits and behavioral intentions19
Tourism service failure, service recovery, and negative word-of-mouth: three-country comparison using a choice experiment18
Promoting sustainable events engagement: a cross-country analysis18
The evolution of Chinese border tourism policies: an intergovernmental perspective on border tourism in Xishuangbanna18
The perception over environmental issues: the impact on environmentally sustainable tourist behavior18
Neither more nor less: understanding positive emotion of posts and user engagement on tourism social media18
How to form rapport with information providers in the airport industry: service robots versus human staff17
Positive or honest? Antecedents and consequences of tourists’ self-presentation in social media16
How do tourism recovery experiences contribute to knowledge workers’ creativity? The moderating role of travel companion16
Human-robot trust dynamics: understanding tourist confidence in service robots in tourism & hospitality16
The role of social media engagement in the purchase intention of South Korea's popular media (Hallyu) tourism package: based on uses and gratifications theory16
Exploring the impact of destination image components on tourist satisfaction and perceived value in Kazakhstan16
Volatility effects of cryptocurrencies on foreign tourism in India15
Lethal attraction: crime as tourism externality- evidence from the Indian states15
From virtual faces to real places: anthropomorphism and video content strategies for cross-cultural destination branding15
Tourists’ perception of the human settlement in traditional village from the perspective of the integration of geography and semiology15
Resilience of the Almaty Mountain cluster ski resorts in Kazakhstan to climate change15
Revolutionizing the restaurant industry: exploring the implementation and impact of blockchain technology on the dining experience14
Understanding factors that drive destination brand hate in China: scale development and validation14
Spatial evolution and influence mechanism of tourism in historic quarters from the postmodern consumption perspective: a case study of Pingjiang road and Shantang Street, Suzhou, China14
The effect of destination social responsibility on tourists’ pro-environmental behavior14
“More visitors, less spending”? The impact of consumer confidence index on domestic tourism growth: evidence from China14
The state of dark tourism research: a systematic review and agenda for future studies13
Technology orientation, customer agility, customer performance: the moderating role of firm size in the Chinese tourism context13
A systematic literature review of film tourism research (2004–2023)13
Matching language with minds: a moderated mediation model of online review language style and destination attachment13
Understanding the relationship between tourists’ perceptions of the authenticity of traditional village cultural landscapes and behavioural intentions, mediated by memorable tourism experiences and pl13
Consumers’ moral judgment toward sustainable tourism: exploring the impacts of sustainable information disclosure on social media engagement13
The impact of purchase channel knowledge on perceived transaction value: an analysis of online hospitality reservation services13
Analysing the causes of tourists’ emotional experience related to tourist attractions from a binary emotions perspective utilising machine learning models13
The role of tourism targeted assistance in enhancing endogenous motivation among the economically disadvantaged: a quasi-natural experiment12
Research on the formation process and elements of the solo tourist’s well-being based on the grounded theory12
Difference in the relationship between tourism growth and gender inequality in East Asia Pacific and South Asian countries12
Is digital empowerment of tourists a “threat” or “treat” for the tourism industry? The changing role of tourists and its effect on tourism regulators and businesses in developing countries12
Digital cultural tourism: progress and a proposed framework for future research12
How awe affects value co-creation in virtual reality tourism experience11
Role of Artificial Intelligence in travel decision making and tourism product selling11
Examining relationships between precautionary measures taken for COVID-19 at the destination, service quality, brand equity and behavioral intention: a comparison market segments11
Digital transformation and tourism service innovation performance: the moderating effects of ICT readiness in tourism businesses’ innovation11
Exploring the effect of destination social responsibility on responsible tourist behavior: symmetric and asymmetric analysis11
Role of positive and negative tourism impacts in shaping residents’ support for sustainable religious tourism: a case study of Lumbini, Nepal11
Decoding cultural expressions in Hanfu design: a Kansei engineering approach to enhancing wearable heritage in tourism11
Strategies that resonate: the role of advertising content strategies and future time perspective in shaping travel intention among older wellness tourists11
Are you concerned about giving your private information to a hotel? Customer information privacy and its consequences11
Bridging personality and responsibility: how UGC & GGC influenced heritage destination personality shape tourists’ responsible intentions11
Psychological renewal for caregiving parents: the impact of restorative family vacations with young children11
Exploring servicescape in coastal and marine tourism: insights from text mining and application of Kano model11
The role of warmth and competence in medical tourism: examining patient evaluations and the moderating effect of health literacy10
Exploring tourists’ ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes towards green hotels: theory of planned behaviour and norm activation theory perspective10
Enhancing brand equity in popular culture tourism: testing the role of fandom in a serial mediation model10
Understanding the drivers of destination equity in the post-pandemic era: the case of Australia10
An overseas experience without traveling abroad. The effect of visual similarity on travel intention10
Luxury tourism: where we go from now?10
AI in health tourism: developing a measurement scale10
Psychological power and goal framing effects on travel intention10
Live streaming in tourism and hospitality: a literature review10
The duality of Olympic legacy framing: public good entitlement and willingness to pay10
Trash in the bin, to a cleaner scene we cling: a mixed method approach on tourists’ binning behavior at two spiritual destinations10
The effect of visual and interactive features of tourism live streaming on tourism consumers’ willingness to participate10
The effects of virtual reality tourism involvement on place attachment and behavioral intentions: virtual reality tourism of the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan10
Believe in the land: does gazing at agricultural production scene elicit higher emotional responses in visitors and visit intention?9
VR and AR research in the hospitality and tourism industry: a systematic review utilizing the theory-context-characteristics-methodology (TCCM) framework9
From Urban heritage resources: social media analytics of Johor Bahru tourists’ experience and motivation for exploring heritage buildings9
Visual attention attraction and tourism review helpfulness – a new enhancing mechanism with profile pictures9
A conspiracy theory perspective on the influence of political events on tourism: a longitudinal study of Hong Kong9
Dark tourism research: a bibliometric analysis and future research directions9
The influence of digital transformation on the resilience of tourism companies under the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic9
How do online travel reviews facilitate informed purchase decisions?9
Does extremes lead to opposites? The influence mechanism of specific ambivalent emotions on tourists’ travel intention9
What is next for travel innovation? Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) in tourism product development from multi-perspectives9
Single-sided or double-sided messages? Message sidedness and travel influencer marketing effectiveness9
“Tourists’ experience” in dark tourism: a systematic literature review and future research directions9
Conflict of interests? Negotiating superstructures for value co-creation at indigenous heritage sites – the case of Patan, Nepal9
Correction9
Softening the dark: the role of cute aggression in shaping travel intentions toward dark tourism destinations8
Influences of the underlying dimensions of destination image on destination loyalty in a cultural heritage destination8
Effect of interaction type and social playfulness on AI recommendation adoption8
Understanding exhibition image in digital exhibitions: an application of cognitive appraisal theory8
Links between communication and tourist destination perception: a heterogeneity analysis during the early pandemic reopening stage in China8
Social media content strategy for DMOs: examining linguistic style in times of crisis8
A meta-analysis of the relationship between value co-creation and the perceived trade exhibition performance of key stakeholders8
The influence of technology-led event sustainability consumption values (TESCVs) on event attendees’ perceptions of green event image, sustainable event loyalty, and behavioral outcomes8
A study of the effects and mechanisms of the digital economy on high-quality tourism development: evidence from the Yangtze River Delta in China8
The value of craft souvenirs induces travel intention by shaping destination image: from the perspective of souvenir gift recipients8
Footprints through time: examining the nexus between cultural preservation intentions and hiking tourism in ancient towns8
How long do regional MICE events survive? the case of Busan, Korea8
Ritual interaction in heritage tourism to cultural experience: an affective perspective8
Tapping generative AI capabilities: a study to examine continued intention to use ChatGPT in the travel planning7
Evolving tourism activities and driving mechanism in COVID-19 era: an integrated OPGD-GTWR analysis using social media big data in Chongqing7
Social comparison orientation and religious commitment influence on outbound travel intentions7
Coupling relationship of tourism urbanization and rural revitalization: A case study of Zhangjiajie, China7
Does high-speed railway promote hospitality and tourism entrepreneurship? New evidence from China7
Special issue: future of eTourism: technological innovations and transformation7
Unlocking the power of metaverse technology in tourism: enhancing experiences and perceptions about tourism destinations7
“Feeling unsafe together”: emotional resonance, echo chambers, and Chinese tourists’ avoidance of Myanmar after a reputational crisis7
Vividness, narrative transportation, and sense of presence in destination marketing: empirical evidence from augmented reality tourism7
Assessing asymmetric selection of responsible airlines based on CSR, normative, and emotional factors: a complexity approach with SEM, fsQCA, and NCA7
Cold tones for sincerity and warm tones for excitement: interactive effects of color tone and brand personality on brand evaluation7
Balancing nature-based tourism and sustainable well-being: exploring aesthetic quality, environmental benefits, and pro-environmental behaviour7
Exploring tourism digital risk: research framework and future agenda7
Post COVID-19: cautious or courageous travel behaviour?7
Examining the impact of media type and perceived Interactivity on Virtual Tour Intentions: empirical evidence using S-O-R framework7
Technology evaluation: a systematic review and implications for ethical technology management in tourism and hospitality7
Digital devotion: how do social media content on religious occasion (Prayagraj Kumbh Fair at India, 2025) drive event attachment to shape the spiritual well-being of young tourist?7
Post-pandemic crisis communication strategy for the domestic market of Thai urban beach city6
Understanding travelers’ masstige consumption values: an application of masstige theory and S-O-R model paradigm6
A meta-analysis of anthropomorphism of artificial intelligence in tourism6
Examining the drivers of virtual experiential tourism: from the uses and gratifications theory and stimulus–organism–response theory lens6
Towards the arousal mechanism of fundamental motives in dark tourism context6
Unveiling the dynamics of open innovation and collaborative network tourism in ASEAN nations6
Can companions share anxiety? The effect of travel companions on tourist anxiety during crisis situations6
The mediating roles of travel motives and social capital on the relationship between cultural intelligence and general life satisfaction6
How can online tour guide platforms achieve value co-creation? – An analysis based on grounded theory across different stages6
Catching the flowing consumers: media representation effects of tourism livestreaming6
Organisational culture and effectiveness in ecotourism: the case of World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms Australia (WWOOF Australia)6
When tourism marketing meets “gender color”: exploring the congruity effect of destination gender and advertising language style6
The impact of destination brand experience on arousal, memorable tourism experience, and revisit intention: Gyeongbok palace night tour6
Demystifying tourists’ intentional readiness for net zero transformation through environmental knowledge, conspicuous altruism, and greenwashing perceptions6
Mobile payment services in hospitality and tourism sector: technology determinism, social constructivism, and technology ecosystem6
Impact of experiential value on behavioral outcomes in flagship stores: the moderating role of visitor type6
What drives long-stay tourists to revisit destinations? A case study of Jeju Island6
Empowering the traveler: the impact of algorithm transparency and customer control on customer experience6
The influence of ending temporal landmark on consumers’ tourism activity preference6
Targeting cross-cultural explorers: incorporating tourism xenophilia and destination brand coolness into the customer-based brand equity model for Japan6
Investigating roles of place image dimensions, and perceived tourism impacts in locals’ support for sustainable tourism development6
Localization or globalization? A psychophysiological approach to understanding tourists’ emotional experiences toward symbolic linguistic landscape6
Exploring the role of information technology in tourism informatics: state of the art6
Impacts of UAM on tourism: the roles of innovative characteristics, motivated consumer innovativeness, attitude, problem awareness, and cultural differences6
Understanding the effect of smart tourism technologies on behavioral intention with the stimulus-organism-response model: a study in Guilin, China5
“Preview to positive”: field visit intention as consequences of presence in tourism short videos – the role of optimism bias5
Determinants of improving small tourism business performance and entrepreneurs’ quality of life: evidence from a three-year longitudinal study5
Little-known leisure places: Chinese tourists’ preferences for visiting niche tourism destinations5
Tourism-Led growth hypothesis: a global perspective bibliographic analysis5
Museums as living history: a journey to cultural identity formation5
The predictive role of tourist-generated content on travel intentions: emotional mechanisms as mediators5
Roles of authenticity and nostalgia in cultural heritage tourists’ travel experience sharing behavior on social media5
Research on the spatial-temporal pattern and spatial spillover effect of tourism based on mobile signaling and POIs data: a case study of Xiamen city, southeast China5
The psychological distance effect in impact between online review-based tourism destination image and recommendation intention: a data mining approach5
International anime tourists’ experiences: a netnography of popular Japanese anime tourism destinations5
When and who will take the “escape from haze trip”? An empirical study based on large-scale hotel check-in records5
The effect of awe in wildlife tourists on animal-friendly behavioural intentions: a serial mediation model of connectedness to nature and empathy5
Improving tourists’ green electronic word-of-mouth: a mediation and moderation analysis5
Is the more like a real person the better? The effect of virtual endorsers type on tourists’ travel inspiration5
“Wait” to promote high sighting rates of wildlife in tourism: evidence from a wildlife disturbance experiment5
Exploring the antecedents of trust and users’ continuance intention in hybrid online travel platforms: the role of network externalities and platform quality5
Information privacy in tourism and hospitality: technology-specific issues, theoretical fundamentals and future research avenues5
Progress in creative tourism research: a review for the period 2002–20235
“Othering” in Central Asia: a netnographic approach5
From inner needs to external actions: the impact of face consciousness on tourists’ pro-environmental behavior5
Mapping the evolution and future directions of creative tourism: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis5
Exploring emotion differences in tourist attractions based on online travel notes: a case study in Nanjing, China4
#Dolphins: communication and engagement in marine mammal tourism attractions4
How museum posters arouse curiosity and impulse to visit among young visitors: interactive effect of visual appeal and textual introduction4
Navigating negative experiences: how do they influence tourists’ psychological and behavioral responses to tourism service failures on social media4
Rethinking informal tourism: sustainable transitions under climate change in the Mekong delta4
Mortality salience and travel4
Navigating emotional and physical well-being: how organizational structure and climate influence travel agency employees’ musculoskeletal discomfort through emotional exhaustion4
ChatGPT use in hospitality and tourism: a multi-analytic approach4
Can tourists be educated? The effect of tourist environmental education on environmentally responsible behavior4
Exploring rural resident attitudes toward tourism live stream in rural destinations: an integrated model4
Impact of incomplete planned experiences on tourist satisfaction: a case of Tokyo Disneyland4
Natural disaster is a wakeup call before it becomes social disaster and tourophobia of eco-destinations4
Tourist tales uncovered: navigating satisfaction through psychographics and destination impressions – a systematic literature review4
What is the most profitable targeting strategy from mass marketing to personalization? Results from a simulation in tourism4
Managing legitimacy in tourism: a novel perspective on how destination social responsibility influences residents’ environmentally responsible behavior4
Mediating role of community participation and benefit on factors influencing community-based tourism (CBT) development4
Investigation on airline passengers’ behaviors for biometric boarding technology: a combined application of TAM, AST, and BRT4
The behavior dynamic of venture capitalists in hospitality and tourism equity financing: a study based on leader–follower partnerships4
Comparative study of the spatial behavior of Chinese and foreign tourists based on landmark recognition in short tourism videos: a case study of Beijing4
Smart technology and happy tourists: a meta-analysis4
Perceived authenticity and the heritage tourism experience: the case of Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum4
Pandemic travel fear, travel intention, and self-protection intention of Chinese residents: an application of protection motivation theory4
From “shock” to “growth”: how to stimulate the cultural resilience of heritage sites4
The effect of decent work on employee boundary spanning behaviour: a moderated mediation model of promotion focus and supportive organizational climate4
“Double authenticity” in digital heritage communication: examining the interaction effects of virtual cultural ambassadors on tourist behavioral intentions4
Research on the spatial distribution and driving mechanism of the integrated development of the health tourism industry4
A comparison of the early impact of government restriction and risk perception on tourist attraction demand during the COVID-19 pandemic4
The influence of individual authenticity experience on tourists’ behavioral intentions: the chain mediating role of place dependence and place identity4
“To go or not to go?”: business travel decision with the risk of COVID-194
The effect of virtual tourism experience on tourist responses: the lens from cognitive appraisal theory4
What if we could travel without passport? First sight to blockchain-based identity management in tourism4
Resident reactions to a pandemic: the impact on community-based tourism from social representation perspective4
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