OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
How hosting a mega-event changes the emotional connection of spectators with destination brands: brand personality of the Olympics and South Korea	64
Why do tourists use public transport in Korea? The roles of artificial intelligence knowledge, environmental, social, and governance, and sustainability	56
Trouble in paradise: examining the unholy relationship between mental imagery and perceived terror	49
Developing a weighted model to measure knowledge diffusion in a tourism destination network	31
From colonial company housing to dark tourism site: the complex legacy of the Mitsubishi Workers’ Housing in Samneung	30
Using Gini decomposition to explore the multidimensionality of spatial dispersal for tourism promotion – the case of outgoing passengers in Queensland, Australia	29
A joint analysis of the effects of climate change denial and problem awareness in predicting air travel behavioral intentions	27
Tourist trust toward a tourism destination: scale development and validation	27
Household livelihood adaptive strategies in gateway communities of new national parks	27
An investigation of developing smart tourism from the perspective of stakeholders	27
Metaverse and regenerative tourism: the role of avatars in promoting sustainable practices	25
Linking the internal mechanism of flow experience to exhibition intention: a comparison among diverse cultural tourists	24
Between a rock and a hard place: how does the tourist crowding perception affect the decision of absolute displacement?	24
Tourism demand forecasting using complex network theory	23
Voluntourism sustainability: a case of Malaysian east coast island destinations	23
Towards a harmonious welcome: mobilising collectivist values for Muslim-friendly policy in South Korea	22
Calligraphic landscapes and environments: perceived stimuli, emotion and commitment in heritage tourism	22
How to promote film tourism more effectively? From a perspective of self-congruity and film tourism experience	21
“I wish I were there” the effect of social comparison on social media on travel intention: a parallel mediation model	21
Self-discovery and subject construction of tourists with disabilities: a case study of the Wheelchair Huangshan Tour, China	21
COVID-19-induced discrimination toward tourists, emotional responses, and identity management strategies	21
Fishing tourists’ green behaviors at coastal destinations: an optimum combination of perceived benefits, volitional/non-volitional factors, and emotions	21
When city landmarks meet AI design: the impact of AI painting on the travel intentions of consumers	21
A study on enhancing culinary tourism: personalized menu recommendation using auto-tagging	21
Exploring antecedents and consequences of tourists’ perceived relationship investment from new perspectives in the tour group context	21

How to create sustainability of destination? Evidence from ecotourism community in Taiwan	21
Tourism service failure, service recovery, and negative word-of-mouth: three-country comparison using a choice experiment	20
The perception over environmental issues: the impact on environmentally sustainable tourist behavior	19
Health risks associated with group package tour: implications from a study on tour leaders in Taiwan	19
A longitudinal study on how smart tourism technology influences tourists’ repeat visit intentions	18
The evolution of Chinese border tourism policies: an intergovernmental perspective on border tourism in Xishuangbanna	18
The effects of the various properties of the metaverse tourism on the emotional benefits and behavioral intentions	17
The role of social media engagement in the purchase intention of South Korea's popular media (Hallyu) tourism package: based on uses and gratifications theory	17
How do tourism recovery experiences contribute to knowledge workers’ creativity? The moderating role of travel companion	17
Neither more nor less: understanding positive emotion of posts and user engagement on tourism social media	17
How to form rapport with information providers in the airport industry: service robots versus human staff	16
Lethal attraction: crime as tourism externality- evidence from the Indian states	16
Human-robot trust dynamics: understanding tourist confidence in service robots in tourism & hospitality	16
Positive or honest? Antecedents and consequences of tourists’ self-presentation in social media	16
Promoting sustainable events engagement: a cross-country analysis	16
Understanding factors that drive destination brand hate in China: scale development and validation	15
Revolutionizing the restaurant industry: exploring the implementation and impact of blockchain technology on the dining experience	15
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, China	15
Volatility effects of cryptocurrencies on foreign tourism in India	15
Resilience of the Almaty Mountain cluster ski resorts in Kazakhstan to climate change	14
The effect of destination social responsibility on tourists’ pro-environmental behavior	14
The state of dark tourism research: a systematic review and agenda for future studies	14
Difference in the relationship between tourism growth and gender inequality in East Asia Pacific and South Asian countries	14
Exploring jaystaycationer behaviors: cause, typology, and hotel workers’ responses	14
Research on the formation process and elements of the solo tourist’s well-being based on the grounded theory	14
A systematic literature review of film tourism research (2004–2023)	13
Analysing the causes of tourists’ emotional experience related to tourist attractions from a binary emotions perspective utilising machine learning models	13
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 countries	13
Technology orientation, customer agility, customer performance: the moderating role of firm size in the Chinese tourism context	12
Consumers’ moral judgment toward sustainable tourism: exploring the impacts of sustainable information disclosure on social media engagement	12
The role of tourism targeted assistance in enhancing endogenous motivation among the economically disadvantaged: a quasi-natural experiment	12
Digital cultural tourism: progress and a proposed framework for future research	12
Exploring the effect of destination social responsibility on responsible tourist behavior: symmetric and asymmetric analysis	12
How awe affects value co-creation in virtual reality tourism experience	12
Live streaming in tourism and hospitality: a literature review	11
Understanding the drivers of destination equity in the post-pandemic era: the case of Australia	11
Understanding the relationship between tourists’ perceptions of the authenticity of traditional village cultural landscapes and behavioural intentions, mediated by memorable tourism experiences and pl	11
Decoding cultural expressions in Hanfu design: a Kansei engineering approach to enhancing wearable heritage in tourism	11
Examining relationships between precautionary measures taken for COVID-19 at the destination, service quality, brand equity and behavioral intention: a comparison market segments	11
Role of Artificial Intelligence in travel decision making and tourism product selling	11
The effects of virtual reality tourism involvement on place attachment and behavioral intentions: virtual reality tourism of the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan	11
Post-COVID destination competitiveness	11
Exploring servicescape in coastal and marine tourism: insights from text mining and application of Kano model	11
An overseas experience without traveling abroad. The effect of visual similarity on travel intention	10
International tourism on the media: case study of the news coverage of Republic of Korea	10
Trash in the bin, to a cleaner scene we cling: a mixed method approach on tourists’ binning behavior at two spiritual destinations	10
A conspiracy theory perspective on the influence of political events on tourism: a longitudinal study of Hong Kong	10
Exploring tourists’ ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes towards green hotels: theory of planned behaviour and norm activation theory perspective	10
Luxury tourism: where we go from now?	10
Dark tourism research: a bibliometric analysis and future research directions	9

Enhancing brand equity in popular culture tourism: testing the role of fandom in a serial mediation model	9
Believe in the land: does gazing at agricultural production scene elicit higher emotional responses in visitors and visit intention?	9
Visual attention attraction and tourism review helpfulness – a new enhancing mechanism with profile pictures	9
Psychological power and goal framing effects on travel intention	9
AI in health tourism: developing a measurement scale	9
The effect of visual and interactive features of tourism live streaming on tourism consumers’ willingness to participate	9
“Tourists’ experience” in dark tourism: a systematic literature review and future research directions	9
VR and AR research in the hospitality and tourism industry: a systematic review utilizing the theory-context-characteristics-methodology (TCCM) framework	9
Single-sided or double-sided messages? Message sidedness and travel influencer marketing effectiveness	9
The influence of digital transformation on the resilience of tourism companies under the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Technological capabilities that enhance tourism supply chain agility: role of E-marketplace systems	8
The value of craft souvenirs induces travel intention by shaping destination image: from the perspective of souvenir gift recipients	8
From Urban heritage resources: social media analytics of Johor Bahru tourists’ experience and motivation for exploring heritage buildings	8
Influences of the underlying dimensions of destination image on destination loyalty in a cultural heritage destination	8
The influence of technology-led event sustainability consumption values (TESCVs) on event attendees’ perceptions of green event image, sustainable event loyalty, and behavioral outcomes	8
Links between communication and tourist destination perception: a heterogeneity analysis during the early pandemic reopening stage in China	8
Social media content strategy for DMOs: examining linguistic style in times of crisis	8
Correction	8
How do online travel reviews facilitate informed purchase decisions?	8
Reliving past experience: memory and rural tourism destination image as predictors of place attachment	8
Effect of interaction type and social playfulness on AI recommendation adoption	8
Conflict of interests? Negotiating superstructures for value co-creation at indigenous heritage sites – the case of Patan, Nepal	8
Impact of tourists’ psychological ownership of an eco-friendly trail on their behavior intention: an empirical investigation of Jeju Olle Trail in South Korea	8
Special Issue on “Where to from here? COVID 19 and the future of tourism”	8
Footprints through time: examining the nexus between cultural preservation intentions and hiking tourism in ancient towns	8
Unlocking the power of metaverse technology in tourism: enhancing experiences and perceptions about tourism destinations	8
Does extremes lead to opposites? The influence mechanism of specific ambivalent emotions on tourists’ travel intention	8