OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Information Technology & Tourism 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
When and why personalized tourism recommendations reduce purchase intention?	93
Virtual reality’s promise for eco-friendly adventures: a study on its role in fostering sustainable tourism and reducing environmental footprint	88
Big data analytics of online news to explore destination image using a comprehensive deep-learning approach: a case from Mexico	71
An enabling Framework for Blockchain in Tourism	66
Book Review "Digital and Social Media Marketing: Emerging Applications and Theoretical Development"	64
Influencers and the choice of a travel destination: a customer journey and information processing perspective	62
AI-powered smartphones and phygital tourism experiences: implications and future research directions	56
Assessing pre-travel online destination experience values of destination websites: scale development and validation	48
Psychological recovery effects of 3D virtual tourism with real scenes -- a comparative study	41
Digital transformation: what are the smart cities today?	38
An affective approach to modelling intentions to use technologies for social distancing in hotels	38
Challenges in smart tourism: a media content analysis of digital barriers for senior tourists in China	37
A user experience perspective on heritage tourism in the metaverse: Empirical evidence and design dilemmas for VR	36
Metaverse and tourism development: issues and opportunities in stakeholders’ perception	28
Does familiarity with the attraction matter? Antecedents of satisfaction with virtual reality for heritage tourism	27
Will a technology-featured authentic shopping environment motivate participants’ purchasing behavior in tourism live-streamed shopping?	27
The pandemic of loneliness: designing smart tourism for combating loneliness	25
Revisiting and exploring trust in the digital era: conceptualization and scale development of digital trust in hospitality and tourism	25
Tourism in the digital frontier: a study on user continuance intention in the metaverse	24
Optimising geotrail planning by leveraging least-cost path for sustainable geotourism development: a case study on a Tasmanian west coast post-mining landscape	23
Exploring the psychological effects of Metaverse on mental health and well-being	23
Exploring experience design features in the metaverse concerts: a mixed-method approach	22
A systematic literature review on payment methods in hospitality and tourism	21
My heritage in my pocket: mobile device and app use by genealogy tourists	21
SHMIS: An integrated IoT context awareness framework for hotel management to enhance guest experience and operational efficiency	18

Correction to: Mapping tourism and hospitality research on information and communication technology: a bibliometric and scientific approach	18
Urban tourists’ spatial distribution and subgroup identification in a metropolis --the examination applying mobile signaling data and latent profile analysis	18
Modeling sustainable city trips: integrating $$\text {CO}_{2}\text {e}$$ emissions, popularity, and seasonality into tourism recommender systems	16
Immersive technologies for tourism: a systematic review	16
Beta tourist world: a conceptual framework for organizing an event in the metaverse	15
Reaching new heights: investigating adoption factors shaping the moon landing of metaverse tourism	14
Interactive webcam travel: supporting wildlife tourism and conservation during COVID-19 lockdowns	13
The influence of robot anthropomorphism and perceived intelligence on hotel guests’ continuance usage intention	12
Interpreting the perceptions of authenticity in virtual reality tourism through postmodernist approach	12
Applied data science in tourism (Interdisciplinary approaches, methodologies, and applications	12
Can Google Trends data provide information on consumer’s perception regarding hotel brands?	12
Investigating the impact of autonomy on presence: a comparative analysis on sense of presence and telepresence	11
Simulation of recommender systems driven tourism promotion campaigns	11
Attributes influencing guests’ experiences: a comparison of nonprofit and for-profit peer-to-peer accommodation platforms	10
From words to visuals: a transformer-based multi-modal framework for emotion-driven tourism analytics	10
Understanding the well-being of digital nomads from the perspective of self-determination theory – the case of China	9
Tourism demand forecasting of multi-attractions with spatiotemporal grid: a convolutional block attention module model	9
Quantifying differences between UGC and DMO’s image content on Instagram using deep learning	9
Improving trust in online reviews: a machine learning approach to detecting artificial intelligence-generated reviews	9
Deep resource allocation for a massively multiplayer online finance of tourism gamification in metaverse	9
Book review “contemporary research methods in hospitality and tourism”	8
How Heidi helps: designing for inspiration in digital travel assistants	8
Advancing reliability assessment of venue-reference social media data for enhanced domestic tourism development	8
“Technology Advances and Innovation in Wine Tourism: New Managerial Approaches and Cases”	7
A survey on point-of-interest recommendations leveraging heterogeneous data	7
Attitudes towards machine translation and languages among travelers	7
Automatic generation of sailing holiday itineraries using vessel density data and semantic technologies	7
Metaverse in the tourism sector for talent management: a technology in practice lens	7
Explicating affordances in travel information search: investigating device use in relation to goals and personal characteristics	7
Spatio-Temporal Tourist Behavior (STTB) under digital footprints: a systematic literature review	7
Sequential framework for analyzing mobile click-through decision in online travel agency with user digital footprints	7
How does celebrity involvement influence travel intention? The case of promoting Chengdu on TikTok	6
Designing visitor journey for optimized visitor throughput: a case study of Rawdah al shareefah	6
Enabling active visitor management: local, short-term occupancy prediction at a touristic point of interest	6
Live-streaming community interaction effects on travel intention: the mediation role of sense of community and swift-guanxi	6
Understanding the influence of data characteristics on the performance of point-of-interest recommendation algorithms	6
Instagram travel influencers coping with COVID-19 travel disruption	5
Forecasting tourism demand with pre-holiday attribute	5
A recommender-based web platform to boost tourism in marginal territories	5
Does algorithmic filtering lead to filter bubbles in online tourist information searches?	4
Do deep learning models accurately measure visual destination image? A comparison of a fine-tuned model to past work	4
ChatGPT for e-Tourism: a technological perspective	4
“Technology Application in Tourism Fairs, Festivals and Events in Asia”	4
Modelling barriers to metaverse adoption in the hospitality and tourism industry	4
Systematic investigation of keywords selection and processing strategy on search engine forecasting: a case of tourist volume in Beijing	4