OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Information Technology & Tourism is 4. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
When and why personalized tourism recommendations reduce purchase intention?	87
Virtual reality’s promise for eco-friendly adventures: a study on its role in fostering sustainable tourism and reducing environmental footprint	87
Big data analytics of online news to explore destination image using a comprehensive deep-learning approach: a case from Mexico	68
An enabling Framework for Blockchain in Tourism	65
An affective approach to modelling intentions to use technologies for social distancing in hotels	63
AI-powered smartphones and phygital tourism experiences: implications and future research directions	62
Book Review "Digital and Social Media Marketing: Emerging Applications and Theoretical Development"	55
Influencers and the choice of a travel destination: a customer journey and information processing perspective	45
Psychological recovery effects of 3D virtual tourism with real scenes -- a comparative study	39
Assessing pre-travel online destination experience values of destination websites: scale development and validation	38
Digital transformation: what are the smart cities today?	37
A user experience perspective on heritage tourism in the metaverse: Empirical evidence and design dilemmas for VR	34
Challenges in smart tourism: a media content analysis of digital barriers for senior tourists in China	33
Metaverse and tourism development: issues and opportunities in stakeholders’ perception	26
The pandemic of loneliness: designing smart tourism for combating loneliness	25
Revisiting and exploring trust in the digital era: conceptualization and scale development of digital trust in hospitality and tourism	25
Will a technology-featured authentic shopping environment motivate participants’ purchasing behavior in tourism live-streamed shopping?	25
Optimising geotrail planning by leveraging least-cost path for sustainable geotourism development: a case study on a Tasmanian west coast post-mining landscape	25
Tourism in the digital frontier: a study on user continuance intention in the metaverse	23
Does familiarity with the attraction matter? Antecedents of satisfaction with virtual reality for heritage tourism	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	21
A systematic literature review on payment methods in hospitality and tourism	21
My heritage in my pocket: mobile device and app use by genealogy tourists	20
Urban tourists’ spatial distribution and subgroup identification in a metropolis --the examination applying mobile signaling data and latent profile analysis	19

SHMIS: An integrated IoT context awareness framework for hotel management to enhance guest experience and operational efficiency	18
Immersive technologies for tourism: a systematic review	17
Correction to: Mapping tourism and hospitality research on information and communication technology: a bibliometric and scientific approach	17
Beta tourist world: a conceptual framework for organizing an event in the metaverse	16
Reaching new heights: investigating adoption factors shaping the moon landing of metaverse tourism	14
Modeling sustainable city trips: integrating $$\text {CO}_{2}\text {e}$$ emissions, popularity, and seasonality into tourism recommender systems	14
Interactive webcam travel: supporting wildlife tourism and conservation during COVID-19 lockdowns	12
Interpreting the perceptions of authenticity in virtual reality tourism through postmodernist approach	12
The influence of robot anthropomorphism and perceived intelligence on hotel guests’ continuance usage intention	12
Can Google Trends data provide information on consumer’s perception regarding hotel brands?	12
Applied data science in tourism (Interdisciplinary approaches, methodologies, and applications	11
Attributes influencing guests’ experiences: a comparison of nonprofit and for-profit peer-to-peer accommodation platforms	10
Simulation of recommender systems driven tourism promotion campaigns	10
Tourism demand forecasting of multi-attractions with spatiotemporal grid: a convolutional block attention module model	10
Investigating the impact of autonomy on presence: a comparative analysis on sense of presence and telepresence	10
Improving trust in online reviews: a machine learning approach to detecting artificial intelligence-generated reviews	9
Quantifying differences between UGC and DMO’s image content on Instagram using deep learning	9
Book review “contemporary research methods in hospitality and tourism”	9
Deep resource allocation for a massively multiplayer online finance of tourism gamification in metaverse	9
Advancing reliability assessment of venue-reference social media data for enhanced domestic tourism development	8
“Technology Advances and Innovation in Wine Tourism: New Managerial Approaches and Cases”	8
Explicating affordances in travel information search: investigating device use in relation to goals and personal characteristics	8
Spatio-Temporal Tourist Behavior (STTB) under digital footprints: a systematic literature review	7
Sequential framework for analyzing mobile click-through decision in online travel agency with user digital footprints	7
Correction to: In search of a digital nomad: defining the phenomenon	7
Metaverse in the tourism sector for talent management: a technology in practice lens	7
A survey on point-of-interest recommendations leveraging heterogeneous data	7
Designing visitor journey for optimized visitor throughput: a case study of Rawdah al shareefah	7
Attitudes towards machine translation and languages among travelers	7
Automatic generation of sailing holiday itineraries using vessel density data and semantic technologies	7
Understanding the influence of data characteristics on the performance of point-of-interest recommendation algorithms	7
Enabling active visitor management: local, short-term occupancy prediction at a touristic point of interest	6
How does celebrity involvement influence travel intention? The case of promoting Chengdu on TikTok	6
Forecasting tourism demand with pre-holiday attribute	5
Live-streaming community interaction effects on travel intention: the mediation role of sense of community and swift-guanxi	5
A recommender-based web platform to boost tourism in marginal territories	5
A machine learning-based approach for classifying tourists and locals using geotagged photos: the case of Tokyo	4
Instagram travel influencers coping with COVID-19 travel disruption	4
Do deep learning models accurately measure visual destination image? A comparison of a fine-tuned model to past work	4
“Technology Application in Tourism Fairs, Festivals and Events in Asia”	4
Modelling barriers to metaverse adoption in the hospitality and tourism industry	4
ChatGPT for e-Tourism: a technological perspective	4
The perils of smart technology in museums	4
Systematic investigation of keywords selection and processing strategy on search engine forecasting: a case of tourist volume in Beijing	4
Does algorithmic filtering lead to filter bubbles in online tourist information searches?	4