Outputs (27)

Optimal-fit model of risk perception and travel-related behaviors during a global pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Liu-Lastres, B., Yang, Y., & Zhang, C. X. (2024). Optimal-fit model of risk perception and travel-related behaviors during a global pandemic. Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, 34, Article 100958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100958

Risk perception research plays a critical role in tourism studies, given its ability to shape the appeal and viability of destinations. There has been a surge in research on tourism risk perception and travel-related behaviors due to the pandemic. Th... Read More about Optimal-fit model of risk perception and travel-related behaviors during a global pandemic.

Should I Travel? Moral Motivation During Crises (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, C. X., Fong, L., & Li, S. (2025). Should I Travel? Moral Motivation During Crises. Journal of China Tourism Research, 21(1), 271-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2024.2329652

While our travel decisions involve many decisions related to the right or wrong way to behave, our understanding of morality in tourism is largely underdeveloped. Currently, we are hoping for a more responsible and sustainable future after the pandem... Read More about Should I Travel? Moral Motivation During Crises.

National identity and attachment among overseas Chinese children: Diaspora tourism experiences (2024)
Journal Article
Li, M., Liu, W., Zhang, C. X., & Dai, Z. (2025). National identity and attachment among overseas Chinese children: Diaspora tourism experiences. Journal of Travel Research, 64(3), 632-648. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231221673

Immigrants’ national identities in relation to their homelands have received considerable academic attention. Although childhood plays a substantial part in national identity, studies on diaspora tourism and immigrants have often overlooked children’... Read More about National identity and attachment among overseas Chinese children: Diaspora tourism experiences.

Intergroup Identity Conflict in Tourism: The Voice of the Tourist (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, C. X., Fong, L., & McCabe, S. (2025). Intergroup Identity Conflict in Tourism: The Voice of the Tourist. Journal of Travel Research, 64(2), 322-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231217898

Over the last decade, political tensions between Hong Kong and mainland China over the territory’s status, culminating with the 2019/20 pro-democracy demonstrations, spilled over into tourism, with rising antagonism among “HongKongers” toward Chinese... Read More about Intergroup Identity Conflict in Tourism: The Voice of the Tourist.

Exploring tourists’ social identities in a similar-others destination: the case of Chinese tourists in North Korea (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, G., Bie, S., Zhang, C., & Li, Z. (2024). Exploring tourists’ social identities in a similar-others destination: the case of Chinese tourists in North Korea. Tourism Review, 79(4), 825-839. https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-11-2022-0593

Purpose: This study aims to contribute to social identity theory in tourism by exploring the reflections of Chinese tourists visiting North Korea and how they negotiate their intergroup identity in this similar-others destination.

Design/methodol... Read More about Exploring tourists’ social identities in a similar-others destination: the case of Chinese tourists in North Korea.

Tourist–Host Identity Risk: Scale Development and Consequences (2022)
Journal Article
Fong, L. H. N., Zhang, C. X., & Wang, Z. (2023). Tourist–Host Identity Risk: Scale Development and Consequences. Journal of Travel Research, 62(7), 1588-1604. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875221127680

Risk perception has been an important construct in understanding tourists’ trip planning. Surprisingly, while tourists’ perceived tourist–host identity risk (THIR) plays an essential role in this process, its effects have been overlooked. Against thi... Read More about Tourist–Host Identity Risk: Scale Development and Consequences.

How to Benefit from Balancing External Knowledge Acquisition? A Chinese EIT Industry Case (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, J. M., Sun, Y. T., & Zhang, C. (2022). How to Benefit from Balancing External Knowledge Acquisition? A Chinese EIT Industry Case. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 178, Article 121587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121587

This paper develops an integrated framework and examines how the implicit property-knowledge heterogeneity, acquisition costs and interactivity embedded in external knowledge acquisition (EKA) affect firms’ innovation performance. This is done by dis... Read More about How to Benefit from Balancing External Knowledge Acquisition? A Chinese EIT Industry Case.

Promoting postcolonial destinations: Paradoxical relations between decolonization and 'East meets West' (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, C., Yankholmes, A., & Morgan, N. (2022). Promoting postcolonial destinations: Paradoxical relations between decolonization and 'East meets West'. Tourism Management, 90, Article 104458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104458

The ‘East meets West’ concept has been widely used by tourism promotion agencies and destination management organizations engaged in marketing postcolonial tourism destinations in Asia. However, the decolonized identity-making process behind this tou... Read More about Promoting postcolonial destinations: Paradoxical relations between decolonization and 'East meets West'.

A review of early COVID-19 research in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research's Curated Collection on coronavirus and tourism (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, Y., Zhang, C. X., & Rickly, J. M. (2021). A review of early COVID-19 research in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research's Curated Collection on coronavirus and tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 91, Article 103313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2021.103313

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unparalleled impacts to the global tourism industry, thus inspiring a wave of academic research. This paper presents a review of the early literature on COVID-19 and tourism, representing 249 papers. The analysis rev... Read More about A review of early COVID-19 research in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research's Curated Collection on coronavirus and tourism.

When Hosts Trust Guests and Sharing Platforms: Trust in Sharing Economy (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, C. X., Isaeva, N., & Li, S. (2022). When Hosts Trust Guests and Sharing Platforms: Trust in Sharing Economy. Journal of China Tourism Research, 18(3), 630-650. https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2021.1952124

The peer-to-peer accommodation business has become an important topic in tourism. While the sharing economy relies heavily on peer-to-peer interactions, understanding of this new form of business from the host perspective is still developing. Further... Read More about When Hosts Trust Guests and Sharing Platforms: Trust in Sharing Economy.