Journal of Travel Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Travel Research 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Antecedents of Social Performance in Tourism and Hospitality Firms: The Role of Employee Resilience, Transactive Memory Systems, and Dynamic Capabilities115
Which Public Attraction Gets (and Gets More) Government Funding? The Effects of Internal and External Factors111
What Has the Most Impact? An Exploration of Dual-Processing Systems in Hotel Booking Decisions100
Originality: The Holy Grail of Tourism Research100
Letter From the Co-Editor: Yes, “Shit’s Got to Change.” But How? A Call for a Deep Scholarship Social Movement76
Reconceptualizing Tourists’ Extraordinary Experiences66
An Attachment-Based Management Framework of Destination Attributes: Drawing on the Appraisal Theories of Emotion62
Animal Ethics and Tourism: Deepening a Stimulus–Organism–Response (S-O-R) Framework60
A Model for Brand Personality Word Embedding: Identifying UNESCO World Heritage Personality Categories59
Understanding Potential and Repeat Visitors’ Travel Intentions: The Roles of Travel Motivations, Destination Image, and Visitor Image Congruity56
Emotional Solidarity and Co-creation of Experience as Determinants of Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Stimulus-Organism-Response Theory Perspective56
“Airbnb Be Like…”: Examining the Impact of Memetic Doppelgängers on Meme Virality and Brand Image51
Travel Stress, Leisure Exploration, and Trip Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Travel Adjustment50
A Sequential Pattern Mining Approach to Tourist Movement: The Case of a Mega Event47
Engendering Pro-Sustainable Performance Through a Multi-Layered Gender Diversity Criterion: Evidence From the Hospitality and Tourism Sector47
Unlocking Nontransactional Value Co-creation: Insights From Online Travel Communities46
Power and Resistance: Digital-Free Tourism in a Connected World46
Framing Effects of Messages and Images on the Willingness to Pay for Pro-Poor Tourism Products44
Sojourning and Being Well Among Contemporary Chinese Gay Men in a Tourism Destination: An Extension of Dynamic Equilibrium Theory43
Benign (Malicious) Envy and Conspicuous Travel Consumption Intention: Mediating Effects of Self-Enhancement and Self-Control42
Extending the Conceptualization of Destination Brand Experiences41
Tourism as a Space of Possibilities: Reconciliation Tourism Enterprises in a Conflict-Ridden Destination40
An Interactive Family Tourism Decision Model39
Is Sex Tourism Intention Uncontrollable? The Moderating Effects of Ethics and Law39
Toward an Assessment of Quality of Life Indicators as Measures of Destination Performance39
Family Matters: Dual Network Embeddedness, Resource Acquisition, and Entrepreneurial Success of Small Tourism Firms in Rural China39
Value Co-Creation and Co-Destruction Through Adult Child–Parent Interactions During Family Vacations: Scale Development and Validation38
To Whom Does Destination Anthropomorphism Appeal? Power and Perceived Control37
Asymmetrical Influences of Service Robots’ Perceived Performance on Overall Customer Satisfaction: An Empirical Investigation Leveraging Online Reviews37
An Examination of the Influence of Emotional Solidarity on Value Cocreation with International Muslim Travelers37
Developing a Multi-Dimensional Measure of Hotel Brand Customers’ Online Engagement Behaviors to Capture Non-Transactional Value37
Will I Be the Same? Enhancing Academic Tourism Through Transformative Tourism Experiences36
Erratum to Measuring Experience Economy Concepts: Tourism Applications36
A Diffusion Perspective on the Discontinuance of Sustainable Tourism Quality Control Tools35
Unpacking the Plus-Size Travel Movement34
From Savoring Past Trips to Craving Future Journeys: The Role of Destination Cultural Capital and Enjoyable Reminiscence34
Mental Health on the Go: Navigating Travel and Travel Eligibility33
Residents’ Perceived Benefits of Host-Guest Interaction: Scale Development and Validation33
How do Tourism Souvenir Purchasing Channels Impact Tourists’ Intention to Purchase? The Moderating Role of Souvenir Authenticity33
Can I Trust GenAI to Plan My Next Trip? A Multi-Method Approach to Optimizing Media Mix32
COVID-19-Induced Redundancy and Socio-Psychological Well-Being of Tourism Employees: Implications for Organizational Recovery in a Resource-Scarce Context32
How Do Voice Characteristics Affect Tourism Interpretation Purchases? An Empirical Study Based on Voice Mining32
Competitors or Complements: A Meta-analysis of the Effect of Airbnb on Hotel Performance32
Does Positive Contact Between Residents and Tourists Stimulate Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior? The Role of Gratitude and Boundary Conditions31
Role of Body in Travel: Wheelchair Users’ Experience from a Multi-Sensory Perspective30
Effects of Cultural Ecosystem Services on Visitors’ Subjective Well-Being: Evidences From China’s National Park and Flower Expo30
Risk, Trust, and the Roles of Human Versus Virtual Influencers29
Network Resource Mobilization in Community-Based Tourism Social Entrepreneurship28
A Para-Social Perspective: The Influence of Idol Worship on Fans’ Tourism Decision-Making28
Measuring Tourist Festival Experience: Development and Validation of the PHF-TX Model28
Pandemic Severity, Policy Stringency, and Tourism Performance: A Global Analysis27
Communicating Green Innovation to Online Communities: Evidence from Sports Mega Events27
The “Green Persuasion Effect” of Negative Messages: How and When Message Framing Influences Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior26
Pattern Recognition of Travel Mobility in a City Destination: Application of Network Motif Analytics26
Transformative Outcomes of Workcation: Satisfaction, Place Attachment, and Behavioral Intentions26
Workcation (Workation) Travel Experiences, Satisfaction and Revisit Intentions: Focusing on Conceptualization, Scale Development, and Nomological Network26
Relationship Norm Moderates Observers’ Reaction to Unearned Preferential Treatment25
Is Scarcity Always Beneficial? Effects of Persuasive Cue Types in User-Generated Advertisements (UGAs) on Travelers’ Destination Interest25
Tourisation Theory and the Pandiscipline of Tourism25
Social Media Envy and Its Influence on Tourists’ Variety-seeking Behavior in Destination Choices25
Tourism and Emerging Infectious Diseases: More Connections Than First Meet the Eye25
Good Match, Deep Love: Three Studies Examining the Celebrity Endorsement’s Influence on Destination Brand Love24
Exploring Secondary Crisis Response Strategies for Airlines Experiencing Low-Responsibility Crises: An Extension of the Situational Crisis Communication Theory24
The Lasting Effects of Terrorism on Hotel Performance: Evidence from Jihadist Attacks in Europe24
Taking Advantage of Their Seniority: How the Misbehavior of Senior Tourists Influence Young Adults’ Prosocial Behavior Towards Them24
CORRIGENDUM to “Local Leaders’ Promotion Pressure and Tourism Development: Evidence from China”23
Would Travel Experiences or Possessions Make People Happier?23
Sustainable Adaptation Planning for Cultural Heritage in Coastal Tourism Destinations Under Climate Change: A Mixed-Paradigm of Preservation and Conservation Optimization23
Exploring the Tongzhi Holiday Experience With Zaltman’s Metaphor Elicitation Technique: An embodied social representational perspective23
Emotional and Hedonic Well-Being Experiences of Diaspora Festival Visitors: A Contemporary Migrants’ Perspective23
Exploring Needed Support as a Motivational Factor for Travelers with Mobility Impairments: A Sequential Mixed-Methods Exploration22
Examining Tourism Consumers’ Attitudes and the Role of Sensory Information in Virtual Reality Experiences of a Tourist Destination22
Perceiving Destination Through Animated GIFs: A Mixed Method Design for Multifaceted Image Assessment22
Diffusion and Future Influence of Tourism Research: Addressing the How and When Questions of Tourism Knowledge Structures22
From Destination to Daily Life: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Flashback Nudging on Pro-environmental Behavior Spillover22
Understanding the Factors Affecting Travel Avoidance behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From a Mixed Method Approach22
Why Individuals Do Not Visit a Destination? The Role of Familiarity and Novelty Seeking in Shaping Non-visitors’ Destination Image22
Can Mega Pilgrimages Increase Participants’ Well-Being? Evidence From the World Youth Day 202322
How Does Globalization Influence the Impact of Tourism on Carbon Emissions and Ecological Footprint? Evidence from African Countries21
Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach21
Combining Conventional Statistics and Big Data to Map Global Tourism Destinations Before COVID-1921
Understanding the Antecedents of Adolescent Family Tourism Motivation: The Role of Adolescents’ Self-Differentiation and Parent-Child Relationships21
An Evolutionary Perspective in Tourism: The Role of Socioeconomic Status on Extremeness Aversion in Travel Decision Making21
Multi-Modal-based Emotional Contagion from Tourists to Hosts: The Dual-Process Mechanism21
Slowing Down in “Little Shanghai”: A Nostalgia-induced Framework of Reciprocity between Psychological Ownership and Heritage Preservation20
Tourism and Mental Health: Foundations, Frameworks, and Futures20
Resource Mobilization and Power Redistribution: The Role of Local Governments in Shaping Residents’ Pro-Environmental Behavior in Rural Tourism Destinations19
ChatGPT for Trip Planning: The Effect of Narrowing Down Options19
These Were the Days of Our Lives! A Self-Enhancement Model of Revisit Intention for Warfare Heritage Tourism18
Spatial Authenticity and Extraordinary Experiences: Music Festivals and the Everyday Nature of Tourism Destinations18
Understanding the Travel Decision-Making Behaviors of Ethnic Minority Tourists: The Moderating Role of Psychological Empowerment18
Who Should You Market to in a Crisis? Examining Plog’s Model during the COVID-19 Pandemic18
Tax Havens and Tourism: The Impact of the Panama Papers and the Crowding Out of Tourism by Financial Services18
Investigating the Transformative Power of Brand Love in Destination Crisis Recovery18
Deconstructing Deception: Exploring Misleading Practices in Tourism Marketing18
High Expectations: How Tourists Cope With Disappointing Vacation Experiences18
Understanding AI-Generated Experiments in Tourism: Replications Using GPT Simulations18
Bridging the Affordance-Actualization Gap in User Preferences for AI-Assisted Trip Planning17
Quantifying Authenticity: Progress and Challenges17
Determinants of Consumers’ Intentions to Reduce Air Travel16
How Consumer Photo Reviews and Online Platform Types Influence Luxury Hotel Booking Intentions Through Envy16
Consumer Reaction to Decelerated Tourism: Pace, Inherent Virtue, and Environmental Concern16
Do Envy and Consumer-Generated Content Boost Travel Motivations?16
Vectorize Me! A Proposed Machine Learning Approach for Segmenting the Multi-optional Tourist16
Wildlife Equity Theory for Multispecies Tourism Justice16
Pleasure Through Pain: An Empirical Examination of Benign Masochism in Tourism16
Assessing the Effectiveness of Environmental Sustainability Performance Communication in Tourism: Mediation and Moderation Effects16
Exploring the Impacts of Residents’ Social Embeddedness on Heritage Responsibility at Cultural Heritage Sites16
Attraction Agglomeration and Destination Agglomeration: The Case of Chinese National Scenic Areas16
Environmental or Personal Benefit? The Role of Message Appeal and Information Type in Destination Social Media Advertisements16
Travel Writing as a Tool for Sustainable Initiatives: Proposing a Dialogue Journaling Process Model16
Reconfiguring Aviation for a Climate-Safe Future: Are Airlines Sending the Wrong Message?15
Assessing a Model of Customer Rage: Does Customer Entitlement Moderate Relationships Between Rage Emotions, Expressions and Behaviors?15
Leading for Resilience: Fostering Employee and Organizational Resilience in Tourism Firms15
Alleviating Travelers’ Privacy Concern in Personalized Recommendations Through Perceived Information Autonomy: Strategies via Hedge Words and Communication Styles15
Redirecting Slack Resources to Social and Environmental Issues: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Tourism Firms Post-Crisis15
Animosity and Tourism: Resident Perspectives15
Identifying Tourist Spatial and Temporal Patterns Using GPS and Sequence Alignment Method15
“Smoke on the Water”: Wildfire Smoke Impacts on Commercial River Recreation14
Wonder Works Wonders: The Interactive Effects of Awe and Message Appeals on Donation Intentions Toward Heritage Sites Through Self Sizes14
Batten Down the Hatches! Conceptualizing Conflict Zone Tourism14
Virtual Reality in Destination Marketing: Telepresence, Social Presence, and Tourists’ Visit Intentions14
Information Asymmetry in Tourism Market: The Bilateral Effects of ESG Practices on Firm Profitability14
Perceived Affordances and Regret in Online Travel Agencies14
Tourist–Host Identity Risk: Scale Development and Consequences14
Re-enactment in Lighter Dark Tourism: An Exploration of Re-enactor Tour Guides and Their Perspectives on Creating Visitor Experiences14
Exploring the Influence of Touch Points on Tourist Experiences at Crisis Impacted Destinations14
Does the Order of Visiting Destinations Affect Their Recall and Evaluation?14
When Guests Become Hosts: The Boomerang Effect of Tourists’ Negative Behaviors on Their Country of Origin14
What Triggers Travel Spending? The Impact of Prior Spending on Additional Unplanned Purchases14
The Contribution of Animal-Based Cultural Ecosystem Services to Tourist Well-Being at Cultural Heritage Sites14
Interaction Rituals and Social Relationships in a Rural Tourism Destination14
Drifting Home: The Quests of Chinese Tourist-Migrants in Tibet14
Conceptualization and Measurement of Happy Travel Experiences Using Hedonic, Eudaimonic, and Engagement Aspects13
Leveraging Evolutionary Psychology for Tourism Research: Identifying and Addressing Key Challenges13
The Influence of Source Credibility and Inspiration on Tourists’ Travel Planning Through Travel Vlogs13
“Souvenir Shopping is for Schmucks!”: Exploring Tourists’ Deviant Behavior Through the Items They Bring Back13
A Dynamic Tax Model Based on Destination Lifecycle for Sustainable Tourism Development13
Exploring Ontology of Tourism: A New-Realist Approach13
Personalized Persuasion for Visitors’ Data-Sharing Activities in Amusement Parks: Matching Visitors’ Social Value Orientation13
Tourist Perception of the Value of Time on Holidays: Implications for the Time Use Rebound Effect and Sustainable Travel Practice13
How Do Repeat Domestic Tourists Cope with Evolving Railway Stationscapes? A Marketing-Based Exploration Using Servicescape and Onboarding Concepts13
Theme Park Storytelling: Deconstructing Immersion in Chinese Theme Parks13
Living the Experience Before You Go . . . but Did It Meet Expectations? The Role of Virtual Reality during Hotel Bookings13
Does Vivid Imagination Deter Visitation? The Role of Mental Imagery Processing in Virtual Tourism on Tourists’ Behavior13
Concept and Evidence of Tourist Risk Gaze12
Travelers’ Coping Strategies in the Backdrop of Revenge Tourism12
More People Would Visit Yellowstone if it Weren’t So Crowded: Optimal Congestion Pricing for High Demand Protected Areas12
A Socio-Cognitive Approach to Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Indigenous Tourism Development: The Case of Nepal’s Newars12
Delineating the Effects of Social Media Marketing Activities on Generation Z Travel Behaviors12
Assessing the Economic Impacts of Tourism Markets and Activities Diversification: Evidence From a New Dynamic Regression Approach12
Duality of Tourists’ Value Co-Creation Behaviors in the Sharing Economy: Longitudinal Insight from Airbnb via Social Media Analytics12
Travel Dining Experiencescape: A Comparative Evaluation of Dining Experiences in Restaurants and P2P Dining12
Airlines: Standardize Your International Advertising!11
Only Time Will Tell: Unraveling the Temporal Effect of Negative Affective Encounters in Diaspora Tourism11
Live-Streaming Tourism: Model Development and Validations11
Paradoxes of Authenticity in Liminal Consumption: The Case of Casablanca’s Rick’s Café11
Fostering Employee Customer-Oriented Boundary Spanning Behaviors: The Role of Inclusive Leadership11
Beyond Visual Appeal: The Impact of Multisensory Experience of Hotel Marketing and Review Images on Sales11
The Impact of Cue-Interaction Stimulation on Impulse Buying Intention on Virtual Reality Tourism E-commerce Platforms11
Unveiling the Complexity of Tourists’ Visual Attention and Emotions Toward Destination Pictures11
A Magic Leap in Tourism: Intended and Realized Experience of Head-Mounted Augmented Reality in a Museum Context11
Perceived Intelligence of Artificially Intelligent Assistants for Travel: Scale Development and Validation10
Probabilistic Forecasts Using Expert Judgment: The Road to Recovery From COVID-1910
Configuring Creativity: Promoting Cultural Inheritance-Based Innovation in Heritage Tourism Destinations10
Communicating Destination Social Responsibility Through Social Media: The Roles of Tourists’ Social Engagement, Citizenship Behaviors, and Emotions10
Tourism in a Semantic Mirror: Retheorizing Tourism from the Linguistic Turn10
Combatting Climate Change Through Message Framing? A Real Behavior Experiment on Voluntary Carbon Offsetting10
Name Heuristic Bias: How Can the Names of Accommodations Influence Individual Judgments?10
Enhancing Consumers’ Repurchase Intention in Peer-to-Peer Accommodation Following a Dual Processing Model: A Principal–Agent Perspective10
Economic Value of Tourism Through Human Capital Gains10
Enhancing Consumer Confidence and Response Efficacy in Tourism: Typology and Effectiveness of the Hotel Industry’s Responses to COVID-1910
Spillover Effects of Sanctions on Airlines10
Why Have Package Tour Itineraries Been Homogeneous? Insights From Industry Subgroup Relations9
Cross-Border Tourism and Community Solidarity at a Militarized Border: A Photo Elicitation Approach9
Building Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Resilience in Tourism Firms During COVID-19: A Staged Approach9
Spread the Word: Secondary Crisis Communication of Unethical Destination Incidents via Social Media9
The Distorted Gaze? Travel Photo Editing in the Social Media Era9
Travel While Working Remotely: A Topological Data Analysis of Well-Being in Remote Work Trip Experiences9
Characterizing Ex situ Value: A Customer-Dominant Perspective on Value9
Getting Away From It All: Development of a Scale to Measure Escapism9
Advantaging Tourism Through Influencers: Applying Transaction Cost Theory to Recognize Top Hero, Hub, and Hygiene Content Tactics for Tourism Marketing9
Imagination Versus Telepresence: Consumer Patronage Intention Toward Peer-to-Peer Accommodations in Photo-Enhanced Imaginative Conditions and Virtual Reality Contexts9
Projected Destination Image of Beijing on Instagram: A Sequential Research Design9
Understanding Disrespectful Tourist Behavior Through Tourists’ Stereotyped Perceptions9
I Bond, I Engage, I Visit: Investigating the Effects of Vloggers Tourist Engagement and Its Outcome on Tourist Attitudes8
Evolution of the Memorable Tourism Experience and Future Research Prospects8
Exploring the Unknown together: Companionship Traveling Increases Preference for Mystery Offerings8
The Paradox of Positivity: How Overly Positive Responses by Hosts Can Backfire on Peer-to-Peer Rental Platforms8
Invisible Power of Culture: Mapping Tourist Information Flow of National DMO websites8
The Impact of Price Preciseness, Price Reduction, and Lay Rationalism on Travelers’ Perceptions of Deal Attractiveness, Purchase Intention, and Choice8
Effectiveness of Travel Social Media Influencers: A Case of Eco-Friendly Hotels8
Bad Intentions: Customers’ Negative Reactions to Intentional Failures and Mitigating Conditions8
The Impact of Loss Aversion and Diminishing Sensitivity on Airline Revenue: Price Sensitivity in Cabin Classes8
The Rich Kids of Instagram: Luxury Travel, Transport Modes, and Desire8
Revisiting and Extending: “Who Should You Market to in a Crisis? Examining Plog’s Model During the COVID-19 Pandemic”7
Building Community Resilience and Adaptive Capacity Through Investments in Tourism and Conservation7
Eliciting Mortality Salience in Dark Tourism and its Influence7
Well-being Through Transformation: An Integrative Framework of Transformative Tourism Experiences and Hedonic Versus Eudaimonic Well-being7
Tourism Firms’ Vulnerability to Risk: The Role of Organizational Slack in Performance and Failure7
Exploring Tourists’ Virtual Reality-Based Brand Engagement: A Uses-and-Gratifications Perspective7
Power of Sentiment Expressions on Peer-to-Peer Rental Platforms: A Mixed-Method Approach7
Kindness for Kindness: A Dual Appraisal of International Support in Response to COVID-197
Disaster Planning Intentions of Tourism Accommodation Managers: Understanding the Influence of Past Disaster Experience and Disaster Management Training7
Tourism Disaster Management: A Social Network Analysis of Nature-based Destinations in Aotearoa New Zealand7
Do Tourists Stand by the Tourism Industry? Examining Solidarity During and After a Pandemic7
Psychological Determinants of Tourist Satisfaction and Destination Loyalty: The Influence of Perceived Overcrowding and Overtourism7
Representation Matters: Measuring Black Travelers’ Legitimacy Judgments of DMOs7
Can I do My Job in Peace? Hotel Employees’ Wellbeing in the Face of Sexual Harassment Awareness and Organizational Commitment7
A Time-lagged Examination of Voluntary and Task-related Green Behavior in the Travel Industry7
Applying an Extended Protection Motivation Theory Model to Predict Resident Hospitality During the COVID-19 Crisis7
No Story Without a Storyteller: The Impact of the Storyteller as a Narrative Element in Online Destination Marketing6
Storytelling in Travel Vlogs: Scale Development, Validation, and Application6
Differences in Destination Attachment Representations of First-Time and Repeat Tourists6
International Tourism and Infectious Disease Transmission Nexus: A Cross-Country and Regional Study6
Does Social Globalization Affect the Relationship Between International Tourism and Economic Growth?6
Dyadic Friendship Travel: The Role of Personal and Friendship Characteristics on Conflict Management Styles6
Falling for Tourist Scams: An Examination of Scam Compliance Factors6
Decomposition Methods for Tourism Demand Forecasting: A Comparative Study6
Changes in Authenticity and Alienation Following a Holiday6
Cultural Mindsets Matter: Reexamining the End Effect in Tourism Experiences6
Enhancing Quality of Life through Travel, Happiness, and Psychological Resilience: The Influences of Coping and Vulnerability6
Effects of Value-Belief-Norm Theory, ESG, and AI on Space Tourist Behavior for Sustainability With Three Types of Space Tourism6
Collaboration and Learning Processes in Value Co-Creation: A Destination Perspective6
To Compete or Cooperate? Intermunicipal Management of Overtourism6
The Matching Effect of Destinations’ Crisis Communication6
Planning Horizon in International Travel Decision-Making: The Role of Individual and Cultural Determinants6
When the Future is Now: An Experimental Study on the Role of Future Thinking and Affective Forecasting in Accommodation Decision-Making6
There is No Place Like Home for the Holidays: Who Travels in the Midst of a Deadly Pandemic?6
The Art of Post Captions: Readability and User Engagement on Social Media6
Exploring the Interplay of Psychological Need Satisfaction, Well-Being, and Behavioral Intentions in Tourism: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective6
Social Networking Site Users’ Behavioral Responses Toward Travel Destinations Promoted by Virtual Influencers: A Multiple-Model Comparison Approach6
Shit Has to Change, Right? A Call for “Good Trouble” in Tourism6
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