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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
When and why personalized tourism recommendations reduce purchase intention?	93
Virtual reality’s promise for eco-friendly adventures: a study on its role in fostering sustainable tourism and reducing environmental footprint	92
Big data analytics of online news to explore destination image using a comprehensive deep-learning approach: a case from Mexico	75
An enabling Framework for Blockchain in Tourism	67
Assessing pre-travel online destination experience values of destination websites: scale development and validation	64
Book Review "Digital and Social Media Marketing: Emerging Applications and Theoretical Development"	64
AI-powered smartphones and phygital tourism experiences: implications and future research directions	58
Influencers and the choice of a travel destination: a customer journey and information processing perspective	48
An affective approach to modelling intentions to use technologies for social distancing in hotels	42
Psychological recovery effects of 3D virtual tourism with real scenes -- a comparative study	40
Metaverse and tourism development: issues and opportunities in stakeholders’ perception	39
Digital transformation: what are the smart cities today?	39
A user experience perspective on heritage tourism in the metaverse: Empirical evidence and design dilemmas for VR	38
Challenges in smart tourism: a media content analysis of digital barriers for senior tourists in China	31
Revisiting and exploring trust in the digital era: conceptualization and scale development of digital trust in hospitality and tourism	28
The pandemic of loneliness: designing smart tourism for combating loneliness	27
Will a technology-featured authentic shopping environment motivate participants’ purchasing behavior in tourism live-streamed shopping?	26
Optimising geotrail planning by leveraging least-cost path for sustainable geotourism development: a case study on a Tasmanian west coast post-mining landscape	26
Does familiarity with the attraction matter? Antecedents of satisfaction with virtual reality for heritage tourism	25
Tourism in the digital frontier: a study on user continuance intention in the metaverse	25
Exploring experience design features in the metaverse concerts: a mixed-method approach	24
A systematic literature review on payment methods in hospitality and tourism	23
Exploring the psychological effects of Metaverse on mental health and well-being	22
Urban tourists’ spatial distribution and subgroup identification in a metropolis --the examination applying mobile signaling data and latent profile analysis	21
SHMIS: An integrated IoT context awareness framework for hotel management to enhance guest experience and operational efficiency	19

Enhancing destination marketing through artificial intelligence driven visual recognition	19
Modeling sustainable city trips: integrating $$\text {CO}_{2}\text {e}$$ emissions, popularity, and seasonality into tourism recommender systems	18
Correction to: Mapping tourism and hospitality research on information and communication technology: a bibliometric and scientific approach	18
Immersive technologies for tourism: a systematic review	17
Beta tourist world: a conceptual framework for organizing an event in the metaverse	16
Interactive webcam travel: supporting wildlife tourism and conservation during COVID-19 lockdowns	15
The influence of robot anthropomorphism and perceived intelligence on hotel guests’ continuance usage intention	14
Reaching new heights: investigating adoption factors shaping the moon landing of metaverse tourism	14
Interpreting the perceptions of authenticity in virtual reality tourism through postmodernist approach	13
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
Simulation of recommender systems driven tourism promotion campaigns	11
Investigating the impact of autonomy on presence: a comparative analysis on sense of presence and telepresence	11
Attributes influencing guests’ experiences: a comparison of nonprofit and for-profit peer-to-peer accommodation platforms	10
From words to visuals: a transformer-based multi-modal framework for emotion-driven tourism analytics	10
Tourism demand forecasting of multi-attractions with spatiotemporal grid: a convolutional block attention module model	10
Advancing tourism sentiment analysis: a comparative evaluation of traditional machine learning, deep learning, and transformer models on imbalanced datasets	10
Deep resource allocation for a massively multiplayer online finance of tourism gamification in metaverse	9
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
Understanding the well-being of digital nomads from the perspective of self-determination theory – the case of China	9
Explicating affordances in travel information search: investigating device use in relation to goals and personal characteristics	8
Book review “contemporary research methods in hospitality and tourism”	8
How Heidi helps: designing for inspiration in digital travel assistants	8
Advancing reliability assessment of venue-reference social media data for enhanced domestic tourism development	8
Sequential framework for analyzing mobile click-through decision in online travel agency with user digital footprints	7
Spatio-Temporal Tourist Behavior (STTB) under digital footprints: a systematic literature review	7
Attitudes towards machine translation and languages among travelers	7
Understanding the influence of data characteristics on the performance of point-of-interest recommendation algorithms	7
A survey on point-of-interest recommendations leveraging heterogeneous data	7
“Technology Advances and Innovation in Wine Tourism: New Managerial Approaches and Cases”	7
Metaverse in the tourism sector for talent management: a technology in practice lens	7
Automatic generation of sailing holiday itineraries using vessel density data and semantic technologies	7
Live-streaming community interaction effects on travel intention: the mediation role of sense of community and swift-guanxi	6
Designing visitor journey for optimized visitor throughput: a case study of Rawdah al shareefah	6
Enabling active visitor management: local, short-term occupancy prediction at a touristic point of interest	6
Does algorithmic filtering lead to filter bubbles in online tourist information searches?	5
Instagram travel influencers coping with COVID-19 travel disruption	5
How does celebrity involvement influence travel intention? The case of promoting Chengdu on TikTok	5
ChatGPT for e-Tourism: a technological perspective	4
“Technology Application in Tourism Fairs, Festivals and Events in Asia”	4
A recommender-based web platform to boost tourism in marginal territories	4
Forecasting tourism demand with pre-holiday attribute	4
Modelling barriers to metaverse adoption in the hospitality and tourism industry	4
Systematic investigation of keywords selection and processing strategy on search engine forecasting: a case of tourist volume in Beijing	4
Do deep learning models accurately measure visual destination image? A comparison of a fine-tuned model to past work	4