OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Information Technology & Tourism is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
When and why personalized tourism recommendations reduce purchase intention?	105
From museums to fantasyscapes: user responses to traditional and hyperreality VR in cultural tourism	90
Virtual reality’s promise for eco-friendly adventures: a study on its role in fostering sustainable tourism and reducing environmental footprint	86
Big data analytics of online news to explore destination image using a comprehensive deep-learning approach: a case from Mexico	73
Measuring tourism destination image from multimodal online reviews: a novel framework using deep learning approach	71
An enabling Framework for Blockchain in Tourism	66
Influencers and the choice of a travel destination: a customer journey and information processing perspective	48
Assessing pre-travel online destination experience values of destination websites: scale development and validation	48
Evaluation of generative artificial intelligence tools in tourism using the extended VIKOR method with probabilistic linguistic information incorporating regret theory	47
AI-powered smartphones and phygital tourism experiences: implications and future research directions	46
Driving tourism growth through AI adoption in G-7 economies: a quantile regression approach	40
Psychological recovery effects of 3D virtual tourism with real scenes -- a comparative study	39
Digital transformation: what are the smart cities today?	37
Challenges in smart tourism: a media content analysis of digital barriers for senior tourists in China	34
Metaverse and tourism development: issues and opportunities in stakeholders’ perception	34
A user experience perspective on heritage tourism in the metaverse: Empirical evidence and design dilemmas for VR	33
Optimising geotrail planning by leveraging least-cost path for sustainable geotourism development: a case study on a Tasmanian west coast post-mining landscape	32
The pandemic of loneliness: designing smart tourism for combating loneliness	32
Will a technology-featured authentic shopping environment motivate participants’ purchasing behavior in tourism live-streamed shopping?	30
Revisiting and exploring trust in the digital era: conceptualization and scale development of digital trust in hospitality and tourism	28
Does familiarity with the attraction matter? Antecedents of satisfaction with virtual reality for heritage tourism	26
Tourism in the digital frontier: a study on user continuance intention in the metaverse	24
A multi-criteria recommendation system for personalised tourism experiences with user query analysis	23
Exploring experience design features in the metaverse concerts: a mixed-method approach	22
Exploring the psychological effects of Metaverse on mental health and well-being	19

A systematic literature review on payment methods in hospitality and tourism	18
SHMIS: An integrated IoT context awareness framework for hotel management to enhance guest experience and operational efficiency	17
Enhancing destination marketing through artificial intelligence driven visual recognition	17
Urban tourists’ spatial distribution and subgroup identification in a metropolis --the examination applying mobile signaling data and latent profile analysis	17
Beta tourist world: a conceptual framework for organizing an event in the metaverse	15
Modeling sustainable city trips: integrating $$\text {CO}_{2}\text {e}$$ emissions, popularity, and seasonality into tourism recommender systems	15
Immersive technologies for tourism: a systematic review	15
Correction to: Mapping tourism and hospitality research on information and communication technology: a bibliometric and scientific approach	15
The influence of robot anthropomorphism and perceived intelligence on hotel guests’ continuance usage intention	14
Interactive webcam travel: supporting wildlife tourism and conservation during COVID-19 lockdowns	13
Can Google Trends data provide information on consumer’s perception regarding hotel brands?	13
Interpreting the perceptions of authenticity in virtual reality tourism through postmodernist approach	13
Reaching new heights: investigating adoption factors shaping the moon landing of metaverse tourism	13
Advancing tourism sentiment analysis: a comparative evaluation of traditional machine learning, deep learning, and transformer models on imbalanced datasets	12
Investigating the impact of autonomy on presence: a comparative analysis on sense of presence and telepresence	12
Applied data science in tourism (Interdisciplinary approaches, methodologies, and applications	12
From words to visuals: a transformer-based multi-modal framework for emotion-driven tourism analytics	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
Understanding the well-being of digital nomads from the perspective of self-determination theory – the case of China	10
Tourism demand forecasting of multi-attractions with spatiotemporal grid: a convolutional block attention module model	10
Improving trust in online reviews: a machine learning approach to detecting artificial intelligence-generated reviews	10
Book review “contemporary research methods in hospitality and tourism”	9
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
Spatio-Temporal Tourist Behavior (STTB) under digital footprints: a systematic literature review	8
Explicating affordances in travel information search: investigating device use in relation to goals and personal characteristics	8
Sources of restaurant recommendations: how consumers in Germany and Switzerland perceive their importance in known and unknown areas	8
A survey on point-of-interest recommendations leveraging heterogeneous data	8
Advancing reliability assessment of venue-reference social media data for enhanced domestic tourism development	8
Beyond love and breakup: integrating intervention letters for nuanced insights into consumer-robot relationships	8
Metaverse in the tourism sector for talent management: a technology in practice lens	8
Automatic generation of sailing holiday itineraries using vessel density data and semantic technologies	8
How Heidi helps: designing for inspiration in digital travel assistants	8
“Technology Advances and Innovation in Wine Tourism: New Managerial Approaches and Cases”	8
A six-phase AI-expert framework for evaluating policy coherence in sustainable tourism	7
Understanding the influence of data characteristics on the performance of point-of-interest recommendation algorithms	7
Attitudes towards machine translation and languages among travelers	7
Enabling active visitor management: local, short-term occupancy prediction at a touristic point of interest	7
Designing visitor journey for optimized visitor throughput: a case study of Rawdah al shareefah	7
Sequential framework for analyzing mobile click-through decision in online travel agency with user digital footprints	7
Daily tourism demand forecasting via card transactions: a multi-source, interpretable, framework for diverse destinations and markets	7
Live-streaming community interaction effects on travel intention: the mediation role of sense of community and swift-guanxi	6
How does celebrity involvement influence travel intention? The case of promoting Chengdu on TikTok	6
Instagram travel influencers coping with COVID-19 travel disruption	6