OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Destination Marketing & Management 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Country branding in post-truth Era: A configural narrative	123
Has COVID-19 changed the factors explaining the occupancy of Airbnb accommodation? Madrid as a case study	89
GSTC certification and local communities. Evidence from the perspective of successful first mover DMOs	78
How specialized are coastal tourism destinations in Europe?	68
From body to mind: Decoding emotional experiences at music festivals	60
Exploring strategic multi-leveraging of sport tourism events: An action-research study	59
Measuring tourism markets vulnerability across destinations using composite indexes	52
Tourism transitions, complex challenges and robust destination development in peri-urban areas: A case study of Zealand, Denmark	49
Corrigendum to ‘An analysis of the consumer profile and the willingness to pay in immersive virtual tourism’ [J. Destin. Market. Manag., Volume 33 (2024) 100929]	44
Rural tourism as a catalyst for labor return? A rethinking of return migration from a mixed embeddedness perspective	43
Dimensions of spirituality in tourism: Developing the spiritual tourism experience scale (STES)	43
The impact of anticipated feelings and artist fame on customers' decisions to attend live flamenco shows	42
How do cartoon destination pictures inspire cartoon-induced tourism? Based on the associative network model and dual-coding theory	42
Sustainable practices, mindfulness, tranquility, and well-being: A mixed-method approach	41
Tourscape role in tourist destination sustainability: A path towards revisit	40
Immersive experiences as a resource for promoting museum tourism in the Z and millennials generations	39
Virtual streamer and destination visitation: An attractiveness transfer perspective	39
From booking to rating activities: A holistic analysis of online review behavior in a destination	38
Does linguistic diversity make destinations more sophisticated? Exploring the effects on destination personality	36
The impact of haptic blocking on tourists’ variety-seeking consumption behavior	35
How COVID-19 impacts travel-health information seeking and tourists’ travel intentions: A protection motivation theory-based model	35
Tourism development and residents’ well-being: Analysis of top ten tourist destinations using quantile-on-quantile approach	35
Capturing differences between culturally dissimilar audiences in the authentication of SMIs who organically promote destinations: The large language model approach	34
What drives tourists’ sustainable mobility at city destinations? Insights from ten European capital cities	33
From Baby Boomers to Z: Gastronomic preferences and the generational framework of experience and branding	32

Are you troubled? Tourists' psychological fatigue and intentional avoidance caused by perceived homogeneity in tourism live streaming	32
Better together? Stakeholder collaboration as a driver for ecological innovation in community model destinations	32
Exploring behaviors of social media-induced tourists and the use of behavioral interventions as salient destination response strategy	31
How deep is your lab? Understanding the possibilities and limitations of living labs in tourism	31
Exploring direct and indirect effects of sustainability communication on destination reputation	31
Decoding digital nomadism: A descriptive audit of landscape representations on Nomad List using generative AI	30
An analysis of the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg's destination marketing strategy with picture postcards from 1914 to 2020	30
How should cities communicate? The interaction effect of city stereotypes and advertising language on travel intention	29
How do event zones influence visitor behaviour and engagement with host destinations? A longitudinal study of the Cambridge half marathon (2017–2020)	28
How do different ski resort attributes affect skiers' positive sentiments? Evidence from China	28
Visual representation of tourism landscapes: A comparative analysis of DMOs in a cross-border destination	28
Beyond awareness: A behavioral study of travel pledges and the moderating role of environmental attitudes	27
The impact of resilience on community variations in the relationships between tourism and quality of life	26
Managing visitor experience at religious heritage sites	26
Evaluating the effects of smart tourism cities policy on tourism demand: Evidence from South Korea using difference-in-differences analysis	26
Leveraging emojis as visual semiotics for enhanced engagement in destination marketing	26
Editorial Board	25
Does customer-based destination brand equity help customers forgive firm service failure in a tourist ecosystem? An investigation through explanatory sequential mixed-method design	25
Examining the ritualized experiences of intangible cultural heritage tourism	25
Corrigendum to “Animal endorsement in destination marketing: Evidence and insights from giant pandas” [Journal of Destination Marketing & Management Volume 39, March 2026, 101069]	25
Stronger family ties vs. less social contact: Use intention of autonomous vehicles in family tourism	24
Typical or novel? The influence mechanism of tourism cultural and creative products’ appearance style on tourists’ willingness to pay a premium	24
The future of destinations: Rethinking smartness, resisting algorithmic flattening, and reclaiming tourism place	24
Formation of a tourist destination image: Co-occurrence analysis of destination promotion videos	24
Responding to an unprecedented shock — Elucidating how 113 DMOs changed the marketing communications on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis	22
Halo effects of a Country in film-induced tourism: A case study of the Ha Long Bay, Vietnam in ‘Kong: Skull Island’	22
Examining residents’ support for night tourism: An application of the social exchange theory and emotional solidarity	22
Spatial pattern and micro-location rules of tourism businesses in historic towns: A case study of Pingyao, China	21
The Trifecta of Popular Culture Tourism: Pursuing eternal life among the living and un-dead	21
The effect of the wine tourism experience	20
Impact of psychic distance stimuli on international tourist flows: A cross-country analysis	20
Rethinking perceived destination aesthetic quality: Formative measurement development and validation in the rural tourism context	19
Sport destination competitiveness and attractiveness: Scale development and validation	19
Converting viewers to tourists: Gratifications from food-hunting short videos and their impacts on destination visit intentions	19
Destination brand personality self-congruity and crime perceptions: Effects on travel intentions	18
Does innovative city construction promote tourist destination competitiveness? An analysis of a quasi-natural experiment	18
Impact of tour guide humor on tourist pro-environmental behavior: Utilizing the conservation of resources theory	18
Destination image and the myth of uniqueness: A profile analysis of leading Italian ski resorts	17
Revisiting medical tourism research: Critical reviews and implications for destination management and marketing	17
Does destination brand experience help build trust? Disentangling the effects on trust and trustworthiness	17
Consumers' concerns and the role of blockchain technology in mobile food delivery applications	16
Exploring the impact of sensescapes on tourists’ meaning in life: evidence from an urban food market	16
Listen to your destination: The use of podcasts in destination marketing	16
Do residents really care to be empowered? Prioritizing empowerment through importance performance analysis	16
Sustainable rural development through slow tourism images: A case study of Gaochun International Cittàslow in China	16
A longitudinal study of the impact of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Japanese residents' support: The mediating role of social well-being	16
The influence of special dietary needs on tourist satisfaction and behavioral intention: Satisfiers or dissatisfiers?	15
Editorial Board	15
Parasitic events and host destination resource dependence: Evidence from the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games	15
Influence of celebrity, destination and tourist personality on destination attachment and revisit intention: Moderating roles of endorsement embeddedness, destination crowding and gender	15

Service attributes for sustainable rural tourism from online comments: Tourist satisfaction perspective	15
Metaverse engagement and Korea travel intentions: Understanding affordances, presence, and place attachment among Brazilian ZEPETO users	15
Embarking on the trail of sustainable harmony: Exploring the nexus of visitor environmental engagement, awareness, and destination social responsibility in natural parks	15
Weather adaptation strategies in tourism	15
Multifaceted examination of bicycle-tourism experiences: Theoretical integration, non-linear dynamics, and segment heterogeneity	14
Exploring Chinese tourists’ preference to attributes of cruise itinerary products: A choice experiment approach	14
Impact of destination advertising on tourists’ visit intention: The influence of self-congruence, self-confidence, and destination reputation	14
Sustainable tourism policies: From crisis-related awareness to agendas towards measures	14
Perceived authenticity of hallmark event brands: Conceptualization, measurement, and an integrative framework	14
Editorial Board	14
How other customers influence customer citizenship behavior in theme parks: The role of customer-customer rapport	13
Exploring the influence of short video platforms on tourist attitudes and travel intention: A social–technical perspective	13
Blend the wine tourism into the local tourism system to cultivate youthful tastes	13
From bystanders to actioners: A tri-theoretical exploration of residents’ roles in tourist PEBs	13
Can agrifood products generate tourist desire to visit a place? An empirical study of image transfer and self-congruity	13
South Korean DMZ tourists’ experience co-creation explained by motivation, interaction, and emotional solidarity	13
The more you visit, the less you experience: Exploring the decline of destination brand experience with increasing number of visits	12
Can destination marketing capitalise on health management?	12
What accounts for the charm of collective tourism attraction? An explanation from the interaction ritual chains theory perspective	12
Can emotions be contagious during role transition? Evidence from Huangshan, China	12
Online networking behaviour of tourism stakeholders in a multi-destination region: A hyperlink network analysis	12
The (negative) impact of violent and gore TV crime series on destination image and travel motivation	12
‘Málaga for living, not surviving’: Resident perceptions of overtourism, social injustice and urban governance	12
Achieving resident value co-creation in night-time leisure activities: Modelling and evaluating outcomes from a multi-sensory perspective	11
Editorial Board	11
Attracting digital nomads: Smart destination strategies, innovation and competitiveness	11
The effects of perceived destination restorative qualities on tourists’ self-identity: A tale of two destinations	11
Editorial Board	11
Customer engagement in domestic wine tourism: The role of motivations	11
The impact of smartphone usage on domestic travelers' existential authenticity and behavioral perception toward island destinations: A cross-country comparison of Hainan Island and Jeju Island	11
Unlocking sustainable tourism: Exploring the drivers and barriers of social innovation in community model destinations	11
Physical evidence, branding, and behavior intention: Differential policy in integrated resorts marketing	10
What shapes tourists’ visit intention in different stages of public health crises? The influence of destination image, information-literacy self-efficacy, and motivations	10
Leveraging minority language in destination online marketing: Evidence from Alta Badia, Italy	10
Co-designing tourism experience systems: A living lab experiment in reflexivity	10
Wish you were here? Tourists’ perceptions of nature-based destination photographs	10
This country is Loveable: A model of destination brand love considering consumption authenticity and social experience	10
Understanding engagement with Instagram posts about tourism destinations	10
Estimating marine tourism environment value using choice experiment	10
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Destination image recovery with tourism mascots	9
Tourism in the Pluriverse: Bridging theory and practice for regenerative futures in the Pacific	9
What can emotion regulation theory offer in understanding how tourists can react positively to tourist destinations hit by natural disasters?	9
Ecotourists' intentions, worldviews, environmental values: Does climate change matter?	9
Music-induced tourism: Korean pop (K-pop) music consumption values and their consequences	9
Hitting it out of the park with park personality: Scale development and validation	9
Does rural tourism revitalize the countryside? An exploration of the spatial reconstruction through the lens of cultural connotations of rurality	8
Editorial Board	8
Creating luxury brand names in the hospitality and tourism sector: The role of sound symbolism in destination branding	8
Local Government Tourism Officer satisfaction with the Smart Destination model: A case study with the Kano method	8
Standing with our hometowns? The relationship between residents' perceived threat from COVID-19 and intention to support tourism recovery in their hometown	8
Eliciting small island tourists’ ecological protection, water conservation, and waste reduction behaviours	8
When the tourist home environment is so similar to a distant foreign destination: Evidence of constant vicarious experience effect on college students	8
The adoption of a smart destination model by tourism companies: An ecosystem approach	8
Tourism motivation: A complex adaptive system	8
Sense of confinement and preferences of virtually-delivered tourism offerings: A tale of two stories	8
Addressing common method variance in country- and destination-image research: Two practical approaches	8
Tourism and host education: Hosts' parental consumption on Children's education in China	8
Video games drive Chinese otakus to travel: Cognitive appraisal theory and affective transfer theory	8