OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Information Technology & Tourism 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
From museums to fantasyscapes: user responses to traditional and hyperreality VR in cultural tourism	115
Managing emerging risks and sustainability in blockchain adoption for tourism operations	109
Virtual reality’s promise for eco-friendly adventures: a study on its role in fostering sustainable tourism and reducing environmental footprint	108
When and why personalized tourism recommendations reduce purchase intention?	91
An enabling Framework for Blockchain in Tourism	57
Measuring tourism destination image from multimodal online reviews: a novel framework using deep learning approach	57
Big data analytics of online news to explore destination image using a comprehensive deep-learning approach: a case from Mexico	55
AI-powered smartphones and phygital tourism experiences: implications and future research directions	51
Driving tourism growth through AI adoption in G-7 economies: a quantile regression approach	47
Evaluation of generative artificial intelligence tools in tourism using the extended VIKOR method with probabilistic linguistic information incorporating regret theory	45
Assessing pre-travel online destination experience values of destination websites: scale development and validation	45
Influencers and the choice of a travel destination: a customer journey and information processing perspective	42
Psychological recovery effects of 3D virtual tourism with real scenes -- a comparative study	39
Digital transformation: what are the smart cities today?	38
Metaverse and tourism development: issues and opportunities in stakeholders’ perception	35
Challenges in smart tourism: a media content analysis of digital barriers for senior tourists in China	34
A user experience perspective on heritage tourism in the metaverse: Empirical evidence and design dilemmas for VR	31
The pandemic of loneliness: designing smart tourism for combating loneliness	28
Will a technology-featured authentic shopping environment motivate participants’ purchasing behavior in tourism live-streamed shopping?	27
Optimising geotrail planning by leveraging least-cost path for sustainable geotourism development: a case study on a Tasmanian west coast post-mining landscape	25
Revisiting and exploring trust in the digital era: conceptualization and scale development of digital trust in hospitality and tourism	23
Tourism in the digital frontier: a study on user continuance intention in the metaverse	22
Does familiarity with the attraction matter? Antecedents of satisfaction with virtual reality for heritage tourism	20
Exploring experience design features in the metaverse concerts: a mixed-method approach	19
Decoding technostress: impact on wellbeing and performance of employees in the hospitality industry	19

Exploring the psychological effects of Metaverse on mental health and well-being	19
A multi-criteria recommendation system for personalised tourism experiences with user query analysis	19
Urban tourists’ spatial distribution and subgroup identification in a metropolis --the examination applying mobile signaling data and latent profile analysis	18
A systematic literature review on payment methods in hospitality and tourism	18
Enhancing destination marketing through artificial intelligence driven visual recognition	18
SHMIS: An integrated IoT context awareness framework for hotel management to enhance guest experience and operational efficiency	17
Exploring asymmetric effects of service attributes of robots on customer satisfaction in hotels	17
Correction to: Mapping tourism and hospitality research on information and communication technology: a bibliometric and scientific approach	17
Modeling sustainable city trips: integrating $$\text {CO}_{2}\text {e}$$ emissions, popularity, and seasonality into tourism recommender systems	16
Beta tourist world: a conceptual framework for organizing an event in the metaverse	16
Interactive webcam travel: supporting wildlife tourism and conservation during COVID-19 lockdowns	14
Reaching new heights: investigating adoption factors shaping the moon landing of metaverse tourism	14
Immersive technologies for tourism: a systematic review	14
Simulation of recommender systems driven tourism promotion campaigns	13
Applied data science in tourism (Interdisciplinary approaches, methodologies, and applications	13
Does accent matter? Investigating the impact of virtual tourist assistants’ accents on tourists’ visit intentions	13
The influence of robot anthropomorphism and perceived intelligence on hotel guests’ continuance usage intention	13
A comprehensive framework for phygital tourism experiences: bridging academic insights and industry practices across sectors	13
Investigating the impact of autonomy on presence: a comparative analysis on sense of presence and telepresence	13
From words to visuals: a transformer-based multi-modal framework for emotion-driven tourism analytics	12
Advancing tourism sentiment analysis: a comparative evaluation of traditional machine learning, deep learning, and transformer models on imbalanced datasets	12
Tourism demand forecasting of multi-attractions with spatiotemporal grid: a convolutional block attention module model	12
Attributes influencing guests’ experiences: a comparison of nonprofit and for-profit peer-to-peer accommodation platforms	12
Improving trust in online reviews: a machine learning approach to detecting artificial intelligence-generated reviews	11
Understanding the well-being of digital nomads from the perspective of self-determination theory – the case of China	11
Deep resource allocation for a massively multiplayer online finance of tourism gamification in metaverse	11
Book review “contemporary research methods in hospitality and tourism”	10
How Heidi helps: designing for inspiration in digital travel assistants	10
Sources of restaurant recommendations: how consumers in Germany and Switzerland perceive their importance in known and unknown areas	10
Quantifying differences between UGC and DMO’s image content on Instagram using deep learning	10
One policy fits all? a Bayesian network analysis of digital nomad decision-making among Korean Millennials and Gen Z	10
Advancing reliability assessment of venue-reference social media data for enhanced domestic tourism development	10
Innovating data-driven tourism reputation management: methodological foundations of the tourism online reputation index (TORI)	10
“Technology Advances and Innovation in Wine Tourism: New Managerial Approaches and Cases”	9
A survey on point-of-interest recommendations leveraging heterogeneous data	9
Explicating affordances in travel information search: investigating device use in relation to goals and personal characteristics	9
Metaverse in the tourism sector for talent management: a technology in practice lens	9
Beyond love and breakup: integrating intervention letters for nuanced insights into consumer-robot relationships	9
Attitudes towards machine translation and languages among travelers	9
Spatio-Temporal Tourist Behavior (STTB) under digital footprints: a systematic literature review	8
Sequential framework for analyzing mobile click-through decision in online travel agency with user digital footprints	8
Daily tourism demand forecasting via card transactions: a multi-source, interpretable, framework for diverse destinations and markets	8
Enabling active visitor management: local, short-term occupancy prediction at a touristic point of interest	7
Understanding the influence of data characteristics on the performance of point-of-interest recommendation algorithms	7
Designing visitor journey for optimized visitor throughput: a case study of Rawdah al shareefah	7
A six-phase AI-expert framework for evaluating policy coherence in sustainable tourism	6
When residents speak: how smart tourism drives destination advocacy	6
Forecasting tourism demand with pre-holiday attribute	5
How does celebrity involvement influence travel intention? The case of promoting Chengdu on TikTok	5
Live-streaming community interaction effects on travel intention: the mediation role of sense of community and swift-guanxi	5

Beyond choice architecture: toward understanding the role of the decoy effect in sustainable tourism recommender systems