Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Is tourism always detrimental to ecosystems? Insights from tradeoffs and synergies among ecosystem services in tourism destinations60
Between a rock and a hard place: how does the tourist crowding perception affect the decision of absolute displacement?57
Trouble in paradise: examining the unholy relationship between mental imagery and perceived terror50
Acknowledgements to referees43
Developing a weighted model to measure knowledge diffusion in a tourism destination network41
Linking the internal mechanism of flow experience to exhibition intention: a comparison among diverse cultural tourists38
Why do tourists use public transport in Korea? The roles of artificial intelligence knowledge, environmental, social, and governance, and sustainability35
A joint analysis of the effects of climate change denial and problem awareness in predicting air travel behavioral intentions32
From colonial company housing to dark tourism site: the complex legacy of the Mitsubishi Workers’ Housing in Samneung32
Nowruz as a cultural tourism asset in Central Asian states: the intersection between cultural policy and event management31
Tourism demand forecasting using complex network theory30
Metaverse and regenerative tourism: the role of avatars in promoting sustainable practices30
How hosting a mega-event changes the emotional connection of spectators with destination brands: brand personality of the Olympics and South Korea30
Using Gini decomposition to explore the multidimensionality of spatial dispersal for tourism promotion – the case of outgoing passengers in Queensland, Australia29
Assessing the influence of social media feedback on travelers’ future trip-planning behavior: a multi-model machine learning approach29
Self-discovery and subject construction of tourists with disabilities: a case study of the Wheelchair Huangshan Tour, China29
Household livelihood adaptive strategies in gateway communities of new national parks29
Towards a harmonious welcome: mobilising collectivist values for Muslim-friendly policy in South Korea28
COVID-19-induced discrimination toward tourists, emotional responses, and identity management strategies28
Fishing tourists’ green behaviors at coastal destinations: an optimum combination of perceived benefits, volitional/non-volitional factors, and emotions25
Jetlagged and overlooked: how social jetlag shapes the perceived helpfulness of tourist reviews?25
A study on enhancing culinary tourism: personalized menu recommendation using auto-tagging24
How to create sustainability of destination? Evidence from ecotourism community in Taiwan24
When city landmarks meet AI design: the impact of AI painting on the travel intentions of consumers23
“I wish I were there” the effect of social comparison on social media on travel intention: a parallel mediation model23
Calligraphic landscapes and environments: perceived stimuli, emotion and commitment in heritage tourism22
Health risks associated with group package tour: implications from a study on tour leaders in Taiwan22
How to promote film tourism more effectively? From a perspective of self-congruity and film tourism experience22
Government Tourism Attention (GTA): reevaluating governmental impact on tourism development in China22
Technology-mediated authenticity in tourism and hospitality: a systematic review and conceptual framework22
Understanding and measuring roots tourism: an evaluation framework21
Exploring antecedents and consequences of tourists’ perceived relationship investment from new perspectives in the tour group context21
The effects of the various properties of the metaverse tourism on the emotional benefits and behavioral intentions21
The perception over environmental issues: the impact on environmentally sustainable tourist behavior21
A longitudinal study on how smart tourism technology influences tourists’ repeat visit intentions21
Health tourism potential of Kyrgyzstan and a model proposal for sustainable health tourism development20
Tourism service failure, service recovery, and negative word-of-mouth: three-country comparison using a choice experiment20
Promoting sustainable events engagement: a cross-country analysis20
How to form rapport with information providers in the airport industry: service robots versus human staff20
Can emotional AI better stimulate intention? The impact of virtual influencer types on tourists’ travel intention20
Neither more nor less: understanding positive emotion of posts and user engagement on tourism social media19
Negotiating authenticity in Uzbekistan’s community-based tourism: a thematic analysis of cultural performance and adaptation19
The role of social media engagement in the purchase intention of South Korea's popular media (Hallyu) tourism package: based on uses and gratifications theory19
Positive or honest? Antecedents and consequences of tourists’ self-presentation in social media19
“More visitors, less spending”? The impact of consumer confidence index on domestic tourism growth: evidence from China17
How do tourism recovery experiences contribute to knowledge workers’ creativity? The moderating role of travel companion17
Volatility effects of cryptocurrencies on foreign tourism in India17
Human-robot trust dynamics: understanding tourist confidence in service robots in tourism & hospitality17
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, China17
Exploring the impact of destination image components on tourist satisfaction and perceived value in Kazakhstan17
Lethal attraction: crime as tourism externality- evidence from the Indian states16
From virtual faces to real places: anthropomorphism and video content strategies for cross-cultural destination branding16
Revolutionizing the restaurant industry: exploring the implementation and impact of blockchain technology on the dining experience16
The state of dark tourism research: a systematic review and agenda for future studies16
Local people’s attitude, avoidance, image, and knowledge about Muslim visitors at tourism destinations: a cumulative prospect theory16
Resilience of the Almaty Mountain cluster ski resorts in Kazakhstan to climate change16
The effect of destination social responsibility on tourists’ pro-environmental behavior16
Understanding factors that drive destination brand hate in China: scale development and validation15
Consumers’ moral judgment toward sustainable tourism: exploring the impacts of sustainable information disclosure on social media engagement15
Sustainable travel behavior: insights from consumption values, reasoned action, and responsible practices in food waste management15
Tourists’ perception of the human settlement in traditional village from the perspective of the integration of geography and semiology15
Are you concerned about giving your private information to a hotel? Customer information privacy and its consequences15
Self-directed inner recalibration: a grounded theory of inner tourism among solo travelers15
Bridging personality and responsibility: how UGC & GGC influenced heritage destination personality shape tourists’ responsible intentions15
Understanding the determinants of international bleisure travel satisfaction: a comparative SHAP analysis of inbound bleisure and leisure travelers in South Korea from cross-cultural and activity-base14
Role of Artificial Intelligence in travel decision making and tourism product selling14
A systematic literature review of film tourism research (2004–2023)14
Difference in the relationship between tourism growth and gender inequality in East Asia Pacific and South Asian countries14
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 countries14
Research on the formation process and elements of the solo tourist’s well-being based on the grounded theory14
Exploring the effect of destination social responsibility on responsible tourist behavior: symmetric and asymmetric analysis14
Development of a measurement scale for perceived value of painting landscapes14
The impact of purchase channel knowledge on perceived transaction value: an analysis of online hospitality reservation services14
Technology orientation, customer agility, customer performance: the moderating role of firm size in the Chinese tourism context14
Analysing the causes of tourists’ emotional experience related to tourist attractions from a binary emotions perspective utilising machine learning models14
Understanding the relationship between tourists’ perceptions of the authenticity of traditional village cultural landscapes and behavioural intentions, mediated by memorable tourism experiences and pl14
The role of tourism targeted assistance in enhancing endogenous motivation among the economically disadvantaged: a quasi-natural experiment14
How awe affects value co-creation in virtual reality tourism experience14
Matching language with minds: a moderated mediation model of online review language style and destination attachment13
Understanding the drivers of destination equity in the post-pandemic era: the case of Australia13
Psychological renewal for caregiving parents: the impact of restorative family vacations with young children13
A netnography approach to exploring the components of memorable faith destination experiences in Central Asia UNESCO world heritage sites13
Exploring servicescape in coastal and marine tourism: insights from text mining and application of Kano model13
Role of positive and negative tourism impacts in shaping residents’ support for sustainable religious tourism: a case study of Lumbini, Nepal13
Digital cultural tourism: progress and a proposed framework for future research13
Does the role of festival rituals matter in fostering cultural resonance and community citizenship?13
Examining relationships between precautionary measures taken for COVID-19 at the destination, service quality, brand equity and behavioral intention: a comparison market segments13
Decoding cultural expressions in Hanfu design: a Kansei engineering approach to enhancing wearable heritage in tourism12
Digital transformation and tourism service innovation performance: the moderating effects of ICT readiness in tourism businesses’ innovation12
The role of warmth and competence in medical tourism: examining patient evaluations and the moderating effect of health literacy12
Internal participants vs. external narrators? The differentiation effect of narrative perspectives in AI tour guide recommendations12
Enhancing brand equity in popular culture tourism: testing the role of fandom in a serial mediation model12
Travel influencers in tourism and hospitality: a narrative review and future research agenda12
Virtual companions: the impact of AI travel companions’ language and gesture types on tourists’ stickiness12
Missing voices in tourism research12
The duality of Olympic legacy framing: public good entitlement and willingness to pay12
Trash in the bin, to a cleaner scene we cling: a mixed method approach on tourists’ binning behavior at two spiritual destinations12
Exploring tourists’ ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes towards green hotels: theory of planned behaviour and norm activation theory perspective12
Psychological power and goal framing effects on travel intention12
Strategies that resonate: the role of advertising content strategies and future time perspective in shaping travel intention among older wellness tourists12
An overseas experience without traveling abroad. The effect of visual similarity on travel intention12
Luxury tourism: where we go from now?12
Special issue: tourism in Central Asia12
Believe in the land: does gazing at agricultural production scene elicit higher emotional responses in visitors and visit intention?12
What is next for travel innovation? Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) in tourism product development from multi-perspectives11
VR and AR research in the hospitality and tourism industry: a systematic review utilizing the theory-context-characteristics-methodology (TCCM) framework11
AI in health tourism: developing a measurement scale11
Reconceptualizing women tourism entrepreneurs’ agency: a case from Urban Uzbekistan11
Dark tourism research: a bibliometric analysis and future research directions11
The influence of digital transformation on the resilience of tourism companies under the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic11
A conspiracy theory perspective on the influence of political events on tourism: a longitudinal study of Hong Kong11
Short videos and destination image reconstruction: a multidimensional comparative analysis on three Chinese wanghong tourism cities11
Single-sided or double-sided messages? Message sidedness and travel influencer marketing effectiveness11
How do online travel reviews facilitate informed purchase decisions?10
Correction10
Social media content strategy for DMOs: examining linguistic style in times of crisis10
How long do regional MICE events survive? the case of Busan, Korea10
The influence of technology-led event sustainability consumption values (TESCVs) on event attendees’ perceptions of green event image, sustainable event loyalty, and behavioral outcomes10
Conflict of interests? Negotiating superstructures for value co-creation at indigenous heritage sites – the case of Patan, Nepal10
Does role-playing enhance tourists’ cultural identity with a destination? The case of traditional costume travel photography10
Effect of interaction type and social playfulness on AI recommendation adoption10
Understanding exhibition image in digital exhibitions: an application of cognitive appraisal theory10
The value of craft souvenirs induces travel intention by shaping destination image: from the perspective of souvenir gift recipients10
Influences of the underlying dimensions of destination image on destination loyalty in a cultural heritage destination10
From Urban heritage resources: social media analytics of Johor Bahru tourists’ experience and motivation for exploring heritage buildings10
Does extremes lead to opposites? The influence mechanism of specific ambivalent emotions on tourists’ travel intention10
Visual attention attraction and tourism review helpfulness – a new enhancing mechanism with profile pictures10
Links between communication and tourist destination perception: a heterogeneity analysis during the early pandemic reopening stage in China10
Vividness, narrative transportation, and sense of presence in destination marketing: empirical evidence from augmented reality tourism9
Technology evaluation: a systematic review and implications for ethical technology management in tourism and hospitality9
“Feeling unsafe together”: emotional resonance, echo chambers, and Chinese tourists’ avoidance of Myanmar after a reputational crisis9
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?9
Understanding Hoteliers’ and Gen Z’s responses to RAISA integration in hospitality and tourism: integrating job demands-resources theory and the cognitive–affective-behavioural framework9
A study of the effects and mechanisms of the digital economy on high-quality tourism development: evidence from the Yangtze River Delta in China9
A meta-analysis of the relationship between value co-creation and the perceived trade exhibition performance of key stakeholders9
Softening the dark: the role of cute aggression in shaping travel intentions toward dark tourism destinations9
Examining the impact of media type and perceived Interactivity on Virtual Tour Intentions: empirical evidence using S-O-R framework9
Targeting cross-cultural explorers: incorporating tourism xenophilia and destination brand coolness into the customer-based brand equity model for Japan9
Social comparison orientation and religious commitment influence on outbound travel intentions9
Exploring tourism digital risk: research framework and future agenda9
Unlocking the power of metaverse technology in tourism: enhancing experiences and perceptions about tourism destinations9
Footprints through time: examining the nexus between cultural preservation intentions and hiking tourism in ancient towns9
Assessing asymmetric selection of responsible airlines based on CSR, normative, and emotional factors: a complexity approach with SEM, fsQCA, and NCA9
Tapping generative AI capabilities: a study to examine continued intention to use ChatGPT in the travel planning9
Special issue: future of eTourism: technological innovations and transformation9
Evolving tourism activities and driving mechanism in COVID-19 era: an integrated OPGD-GTWR analysis using social media big data in Chongqing9
Ritual interaction in heritage tourism to cultural experience: an affective perspective9
Balancing nature-based tourism and sustainable well-being: exploring aesthetic quality, environmental benefits, and pro-environmental behaviour9
Stimulating tourists’ psychological restoration and subjective vitality via religious tourism: combining stimulus-organism-response model and attention restoration theory8
Catching the flowing consumers: media representation effects of tourism livestreaming8
Empowering the traveler: the impact of algorithm transparency and customer control on customer experience8
“Preview to positive”: field visit intention as consequences of presence in tourism short videos – the role of optimism bias8
Understanding the effect of smart tourism technologies on behavioral intention with the stimulus-organism-response model: a study in Guilin, China8
Impact of experiential value on behavioral outcomes in flagship stores: the moderating role of visitor type8
A value co-creation perspective on cultural entrepreneurship within small Central Asian Ethnic restaurants8
Does high-speed railway promote hospitality and tourism entrepreneurship? New evidence from China8
A meta-analysis of anthropomorphism of artificial intelligence in tourism8
The influence of ending temporal landmark on consumers’ tourism activity preference8
Comparing the impact of ritual interaction on word-of-mouth under different types of ritual activities in tourism8
Investigating roles of place image dimensions, and perceived tourism impacts in locals’ support for sustainable tourism development8
Cold tones for sincerity and warm tones for excitement: interactive effects of color tone and brand personality on brand evaluation8
Local community reactions to foreign language signage in tourist destinations through the lens of place attachment: the case study of Seochon, South Korea8
The impact of destination brand experience on arousal, memorable tourism experience, and revisit intention: Gyeongbok palace night tour8
Organisational culture and effectiveness in ecotourism: the case of World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms Australia (WWOOF Australia)8
Post-pandemic crisis communication strategy for the domestic market of Thai urban beach city8
Mobile payment services in hospitality and tourism sector: technology determinism, social constructivism, and technology ecosystem8
What drives long-stay tourists to revisit destinations? A case study of Jeju Island8
Examining the drivers of virtual experiential tourism: from the uses and gratifications theory and stimulus–organism–response theory lens7
Understanding travelers’ masstige consumption values: an application of masstige theory and S-O-R model paradigm7
The mediating roles of travel motives and social capital on the relationship between cultural intelligence and general life satisfaction7
Is the more like a real person the better? The effect of virtual endorsers type on tourists’ travel inspiration7
Can companions share anxiety? The effect of travel companions on tourist anxiety during crisis situations7
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 China7
Exploring the role of information technology in tourism informatics: state of the art7
Demystifying tourists’ intentional readiness for net zero transformation through environmental knowledge, conspicuous altruism, and greenwashing perceptions7
Mapping the evolution and future directions of creative tourism: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis7
How can online tour guide platforms achieve value co-creation? – An analysis based on grounded theory across different stages7
Progress in creative tourism research: a review for the period 2002–20236
The psychological distance effect in impact between online review-based tourism destination image and recommendation intention: a data mining approach6
What is the most profitable targeting strategy from mass marketing to personalization? Results from a simulation in tourism6
“Double authenticity” in digital heritage communication: examining the interaction effects of virtual cultural ambassadors on tourist behavioral intentions6
Exploring the antecedents of trust and users’ continuance intention in hybrid online travel platforms: the role of network externalities and platform quality6
Unveiling the dynamics of open innovation and collaborative network tourism in ASEAN nations6
Museums as living history: a journey to cultural identity formation6
Impacts of UAM on tourism: the roles of innovative characteristics, motivated consumer innovativeness, attitude, problem awareness, and cultural differences6
The effect of awe in wildlife tourists on animal-friendly behavioural intentions: a serial mediation model of connectedness to nature and empathy6
How museum posters arouse curiosity and impulse to visit among young visitors: interactive effect of visual appeal and textual introduction6
Tourist tales uncovered: navigating satisfaction through psychographics and destination impressions – a systematic literature review6
An analysis of branded merchandise consumption behavior in cafés and theme parks: insights from the Korean market context6
Navigating impulsivity: the dual role of emotional arousal and privacy concerns in AI travel recommendations6
From inner needs to external actions: the impact of face consciousness on tourists’ pro-environmental behavior6
Towards the arousal mechanism of fundamental motives in dark tourism context6
Tourism-Led growth hypothesis: a global perspective bibliographic analysis6
“Wait” to promote high sighting rates of wildlife in tourism: evidence from a wildlife disturbance experiment6
Determinants of improving small tourism business performance and entrepreneurs’ quality of life: evidence from a three-year longitudinal study6
A personalized purchase decision-support model integrating individual expectations and group preferences for hotel selection6
“Othering” in Central Asia: a netnographic approach6
AI-mediated cultural tourism experiences: balancing utility and authenticity in shaping cultural attachment and tourist engagement6
When and who will take the “escape from haze trip”? An empirical study based on large-scale hotel check-in records6
When tourism marketing meets “gender color”: exploring the congruity effect of destination gender and advertising language style6
Little-known leisure places: Chinese tourists’ preferences for visiting niche tourism destinations6
Pandemic travel fear, travel intention, and self-protection intention of Chinese residents: an application of protection motivation theory5
Can tourists be educated? The effect of tourist environmental education on environmentally responsible behavior5
The role of filial piety in filial tourism: an intergenerational analysis of decision-making5
Does the website credibility of online travel agencies (OTAs) affect customers’ evaluation and future intentions?5
The behavior dynamic of venture capitalists in hospitality and tourism equity financing: a study based on leader–follower partnerships5
The effect of virtual tourism experience on tourist responses: the lens from cognitive appraisal theory5
ChatGPT use in hospitality and tourism: a multi-analytic approach5
Rethinking informal tourism: sustainable transitions under climate change in the Mekong delta5
From “shock” to “growth”: how to stimulate the cultural resilience of heritage sites5
Navigating negative experiences: how do they influence tourists’ psychological and behavioral responses to tourism service failures on social media5
The effect of decent work on employee boundary spanning behaviour: a moderated mediation model of promotion focus and supportive organizational climate5
Resident reactions to a pandemic: the impact on community-based tourism from social representation perspective5
Managing legitimacy in tourism: a novel perspective on how destination social responsibility influences residents’ environmentally responsible behavior5
Investigation on airline passengers’ behaviors for biometric boarding technology: a combined application of TAM, AST, and BRT5
“To go or not to go?”: business travel decision with the risk of COVID-195
Comparative study of the spatial behavior of Chinese and foreign tourists based on landmark recognition in short tourism videos: a case study of Beijing5
Smart technology and happy tourists: a meta-analysis5
What if we could travel without passport? First sight to blockchain-based identity management in tourism5
#Dolphins: communication and engagement in marine mammal tourism attractions5
Research on the spatial distribution and driving mechanism of the integrated development of the health tourism industry5
Information privacy in tourism and hospitality: technology-specific issues, theoretical fundamentals and future research avenues5
Exploring rural resident attitudes toward tourism live stream in rural destinations: an integrated model5
Perceived authenticity and the heritage tourism experience: the case of Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum5
Fifty years of evolutionary trajectory of tourism industry regulations: a systematic literature review5
Staycation or holiday? Exploring camping’s contribution to subjective well-being during COVID-195
A comparison of the early impact of government restriction and risk perception on tourist attraction demand during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Data-driven analysis of cultural tourism experience: emotional journey mapping of museum visitors in China5
Natural disaster is a wakeup call before it becomes social disaster and tourophobia of eco-destinations5
Tourism diversification and income inequality in a developed economy: evidence from a dynamic regression approach5
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