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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
When and why personalized tourism recommendations reduce purchase intention?	81
An enabling Framework for Blockchain in Tourism	75
Big data analytics of online news to explore destination image using a comprehensive deep-learning approach: a case from Mexico	62
An affective approach to modelling intentions to use technologies for social distancing in hotels	60
AI-powered smartphones and phygital tourism experiences: implications and future research directions	59
Psychological recovery effects of 3D virtual tourism with real scenes -- a comparative study	56
Assessing pre-travel online destination experience values of destination websites: scale development and validation	52
Book Review "Digital and Social Media Marketing: Emerging Applications and Theoretical Development"	37
Digital transformation: what are the smart cities today?	34
Challenges in smart tourism: a media content analysis of digital barriers for senior tourists in China	31
A user experience perspective on heritage tourism in the metaverse: Empirical evidence and design dilemmas for VR	31
Metaverse and tourism development: issues and opportunities in stakeholders’ perception	31
Optimising geotrail planning by leveraging least-cost path for sustainable geotourism development: a case study on a Tasmanian west coast post-mining landscape	26
Does familiarity with the attraction matter? Antecedents of satisfaction with virtual reality for heritage tourism	24
Tourism in the digital frontier: a study on user continuance intention in the metaverse	23
Revisiting and exploring trust in the digital era: conceptualization and scale development of digital trust in hospitality and tourism	22
The pandemic of loneliness: designing smart tourism for combating loneliness	21
Will a technology-featured authentic shopping environment motivate participants’ purchasing behavior in tourism live-streamed shopping?	20
My heritage in my pocket: mobile device and app use by genealogy tourists	19
Exploring the psychological effects of Metaverse on mental health and well-being	18
A systematic literature review on payment methods in hospitality and tourism	17
Urban tourists’ spatial distribution and subgroup identification in a metropolis --the examination applying mobile signaling data and latent profile analysis	17
Modeling sustainable city trips: integrating $$\text {CO}_{2}\text {e}$$ emissions, popularity, and seasonality into tourism recommender systems	16
Correction to: Mapping tourism and hospitality research on information and communication technology: a bibliometric and scientific approach	16
Immersive technologies for tourism: a systematic review	16

SHMIS: An integrated IoT context awareness framework for hotel management to enhance guest experience and operational efficiency	16
Beta tourist world: a conceptual framework for organizing an event in the metaverse	16
Reaching new heights: investigating adoption factors shaping the moon landing of metaverse tourism	15
The influence of robot anthropomorphism and perceived intelligence on hotel guests’ continuance usage intention	15
Can Google Trends data provide information on consumer’s perception regarding hotel brands?	13
Interactive webcam travel: supporting wildlife tourism and conservation during COVID-19 lockdowns	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
Interpreting the perceptions of authenticity in virtual reality tourism through postmodernist approach	11
Applied data science in tourism (Interdisciplinary approaches, methodologies, and applications	11
Attributes influencing guests’ experiences: a comparison of nonprofit and for-profit peer-to-peer accommodation platforms	10
Quantifying differences between UGC and DMO’s image content on Instagram using deep learning	9
Deep resource allocation for a massively multiplayer online finance of tourism gamification in metaverse	9
Tourism demand forecasting of multi-attractions with spatiotemporal grid: a convolutional block attention module model	9
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”	8
Book review “contemporary research methods in hospitality and tourism”	8
Explicating affordances in travel information search: investigating device use in relation to goals and personal characteristics	8
Attitudes towards machine translation and languages among travelers	7
Metaverse in the tourism sector for talent management: a technology in practice lens	7
Enabling active visitor management: local, short-term occupancy prediction at a touristic point of interest	6
Correction to: In search of a digital nomad: defining the phenomenon	6
Understanding the influence of data characteristics on the performance of point-of-interest recommendation algorithms	6
A survey on point-of-interest recommendations leveraging heterogeneous data	6
Live-streaming community interaction effects on travel intention: the mediation role of sense of community and swift-guanxi	6
Sequential framework for analyzing mobile click-through decision in online travel agency with user digital footprints	6
Automatic generation of sailing holiday itineraries using vessel density data and semantic technologies	6
Forecasting tourism demand with pre-holiday attribute	5
How does celebrity involvement influence travel intention? The case of promoting Chengdu on TikTok	5
Instagram travel influencers coping with COVID-19 travel disruption	5
Does algorithmic filtering lead to filter bubbles in online tourist information searches?	5
Modelling barriers to metaverse adoption in the hospitality and tourism industry	4
“Technology Application in Tourism Fairs, Festivals and Events in Asia”	4
Systematic investigation of keywords selection and processing strategy on search engine forecasting: a case of tourist volume in Beijing	4
ChatGPT for e-Tourism: a technological perspective	4