The burgeoning tourism and hospitality industry is plagued by numerous challenges that pose significant hurdles to its long-term success and sustainability. These challenges encompass a range of factors, including fierce competitive convergence, rapid obsolescence of innovative strategies, and...

Aim/purpose - Cultural differences play an influential role in driving tourism development and varying outcomes of technology acceptance. The impact of ChatGPT on tourism is yet to be explored. Therefore, this study discussed how ChatGPT may influence tourism development and management in...

Purpose: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been grabbing the attention of tourism and hospitality academicians. However, the fragmented and scattered research makes it difficult for upcoming researchers to identify the major thematic areas. Thus, this study maps the evolution of SME...

Ethiopia holds all the necessary ingredients for tourism development, given the multitude and uniqueness of attractions. Among them stands Lake Tana, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve which is an extremely important resource for Ethiopia, locking up half of its freshwater. The target of the current...

Following the publication of the 2011 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Green Economy Report, the UNWTO published the Tourism in the Green Economy report as clear evidence of the tourism sector's growing influence on green economy. This paper provides the first narrative review on...

Recently, digital entrepreneurship and creative industries in tourism have been emerging strongly, possibly as a result of the global pandemic of the last two years. Their growth in the last decade has been due to the penetration of technology into the daily life of the tourist and the desire...

The tourism area life cycle is used to map the changes within the tourism destination on a temporal basis. The paper reviews the literature on the tourism area life cycle from 2003-2020. Articles appearing in journals having a cite score of 1.0 or higher were considered for the review process....

In this paper we aim to classify digital data sources for the measurement of tourist mobility, to establish a set of assessment indicators, and to compare two Big Data sources to gain empirical insights into how we can measure tourism with Big Data. For three holiday destinations in Germany,...

Flamenco is a popular art, symbol of the culture of southern Spain, has a growing number of fans both from this country and from the rest of the world. This paper tried to find out if flamenco can be a determinant motivational element when choosing a destination and if there is a specific...

Over the past two decades, slum tourism in the global South has evolved promptly and become a highly professionalized business. The growing popularity of slum tourism has drawn international scholarly attention. Scholarship has surged around this issue over the past decade. This study aims to...

This article offers a systematic review of research trends and methodology, with a focus on the state and order of knowledge regarding service orientation in hospitality and tourism research. A search algorithm was created through Web of Science and Scopus using search words related to service...

Tourism was booming until 2019 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Since then, tourism and related industries have suffered from negative economic impacts. This book examines current challenges and opportunities in the tourism industry using case studies from different parts of the world. It also...

Vrancea County has an extremely varied relief that is suitable for practicing tourist activities. The paper aims at an analysis of the tourist and agrotourism potential in Vrancea county using the following indicators: the evolution of agrotourism pensions, tourist reception structures,...

Purpose: Sentiment analysis is built from the information provided through text (reviews) to help understand the social sentiment toward their brand, product, or service. The main purpose of this paper is to draw an overview of the topics and the use of the sentiment analysis approach in tourism...

Nepal has been all set to embark upon a decade of tourism development with a national target to bring in 2 million tourists, branding Nepal as “Naturally Nepal, Once is not Enough.” The campaign carries requisite creditability and impact, because “heaven is a myth, Nepal is real,” as...

Hotel business is considered a major part of the tourism industry globally, and it is currently within the wing of dynamic advancement and development. The study focused on the current trends in the hotel industry with regard to lifestyles, brand, food supply chain, technology and rules and...

The Initial Impact of Technology Enabled Relationship Creation in Rural Lebanon -- Meaning of fun in hotel gamified applications -- Riding against the algorithm: Algorithmic management in on-demand food delivery -- “Domestic or International?” The Impact of Cognitive Absorption of Short-Form...

Chapter 1 Communities and pilgrimage in tourism research- Chapter 2 Sacred Spaces and the ‘Other’: Social Distance, Functional Distance, and Two Pilgrimage Sites in Asia -- Chapter 3 Development of Tourism Governance for Religious Tourism: A New Form of Local Community in Najaf, Iraq --...

Youth tourists are often defined as money poor and time rich but there are significant differences in social status, interests, and consumption behaviour within the various segments of this sector. In The Youth Tourist: Motives, Experiences and Travel Behaviour, author Anna Irimiás maps out the...

The growth and evolution of global wine tourism / Manoj Kumar Yadav and Saurabh Kumar Dixit -- Nature and significance of wine tourism: an Australian perspective -- Genevieve d'Ament, Anthony J. Saliba and Tahmid Nayeem -- Conceptualization of a winescape framework / Vander Valduga, Sarah...