All Outputs (26)

Should I Travel? Moral Motivation During Crises (2024)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The influence of consumers' implicit self-theories on homestay accommodation selection (2021)
Journal Article

In this study we aim to investigate whether entity and incremental theorists’ decision to choose/not choose homestay accommodation can be explained by their implicit self-theories. Drawing on data solicited from in-depth interviews with 44 travellers... Read More about The influence of consumers' implicit self-theories on homestay accommodation selection.

Non-Interaction and identity change through Covid-19 tourism (2021)
Journal Article

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the fundamental desire for social interaction in international tourism. It is vital to understand how the loss of meaningful social interaction will impact on tourists' identity change. As the pandemic fir... Read More about Non-Interaction and identity change through Covid-19 tourism.

Acupuncture as a new cultural tourism product in Greater Bay Area – Stakeholders’ perspectives (2021)
Journal Article

Qi is a body network other than blood, nerve and lymph network being recognized by western medication and is identified by Chinese in thousand years ago. However, Qi network still remains relatively vague in the eyes of many scientists and people now... Read More about Acupuncture as a new cultural tourism product in Greater Bay Area – Stakeholders’ perspectives.

Signals of Hotel Effort on Enhancing IAQ and Booking Intention: Effect of Customer's Body Mass Index Associated with Sustainable Marketing in Tourism (2021)
Journal Article

Since outdoor air pollutants may penetrate into hotels, indoor air quality (IAQ) has recently developed as an important criterion for tourists' decision to choose traveling destinations and for business travelers to select accommodation. Thus, some h... Read More about Signals of Hotel Effort on Enhancing IAQ and Booking Intention: Effect of Customer's Body Mass Index Associated with Sustainable Marketing in Tourism.

Investigating the motivations and constraints of Chinese peer-to-peer accommodation hosts (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose – This research aims to identify peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation hosts’ perceived motivations and constraints, to examine the prediction of the motivation and constraint factors on hosts’ intention to continue business based on hosts’ attitu... Read More about Investigating the motivations and constraints of Chinese peer-to-peer accommodation hosts.

“(S)he’s so hearty”: Gender cues, stereotypes, and expectations of warmth in peer-to-peer accommodation services (2020)
Journal Article

The hospitality industry is witnessing continuous growth in the number of female travellers and female hosts available to accommodate travellers in their properties using peer-to-peer (P2P) service platforms. Cues that convey information about the ho... Read More about “(S)he’s so hearty”: Gender cues, stereotypes, and expectations of warmth in peer-to-peer accommodation services.

Luxury shopping tourism: views from Chinese post-1990s female tourists (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The study explores how the concept of the extended self influences luxury shopping tourism consumption among Chinese tourists. It explores why luxury shopping is important for Chinese tourists. Specifically, this study focuses on a strategic... Read More about Luxury shopping tourism: views from Chinese post-1990s female tourists.

Guanxi influences on women intrapreneurship (2020)
Journal Article

Drawing on the literature examining women intrapreneurship, Chinese guanxi and tourism, this article critically explores a theoretical framework for understanding guanxi influences on women intrapreneurship in a non-western and highly patriarchal des... Read More about Guanxi influences on women intrapreneurship.

Ontological mingling and mapping: Chinese tourism researchers’ experiences at international conferences (2020)
Journal Article

Within tourism studies, the 'critical turn' has evoked growing reflective and critical perspectives on the role of the researcher in producing knowledge. This has also led to calls for building an inclusive research community, particularly through in... Read More about Ontological mingling and mapping: Chinese tourism researchers’ experiences at international conferences.

Existentially Understanding Tourism In Locale: A Dwelling Perspective (2019)
Journal Article

This study draws heavily on Heidegger's post turn thinking of dwelling to provide a philosophically informed approach to comprehend host perceptions of tourism. The philosophical premise of dwelling, including (to) poetically dwell and the fourfold,... Read More about Existentially Understanding Tourism In Locale: A Dwelling Perspective.

Feeling superior? National identity and humour in British castles (2019)
Journal Article

This study explores how humour in tourism can communicate facets of national identity. In particular, the paper focuses on the presentation by guides of two English and two Scottish castles. Drawing on multiple sources, including an analysis of promo... Read More about Feeling superior? National identity and humour in British castles.