All Outputs (8)

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'.

“My place is your place” - Understanding how psychological ownership influences peer-to-peer service experiences (2021)
Journal Article
Pino, G., Nieto-Garcia, M., & Zhang, C. X. (2022). “My place is your place” - Understanding how psychological ownership influences peer-to-peer service experiences. Psychology and Marketing, 39(2), 390-401. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21603

This study aims to contribute to the growing literature on peer-to-peer services by investigating the relationships among three relevant aspects of such services, namely customers' identification with service providers, customers' feelings of psychol... Read More about “My place is your place” - Understanding how psychological ownership influences peer-to-peer service experiences.

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.

The influence of consumers' implicit self-theories on homestay accommodation selection (2021)
Journal Article
Leung, D., Phong, L. T., Fong, L. H. N., & Zhang, C. X. (2021). The influence of consumers' implicit self-theories on homestay accommodation selection. International Journal of Tourism Research, 23(6), 1059-1072. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2462

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
Zhang, C., Wang, L., & Rickly, J. (2021). Non-Interaction and identity change through Covid-19 tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 89,

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
Wilco, C. W. H., Luo, J., Zhang, C., & Kuo, A. (2022). Acupuncture as a new cultural tourism product in Greater Bay Area – Stakeholders’ perspectives. Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science, 32(1), 114-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/21639159.2020.1808842

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
Sun, B., Liu, L. Y., Chan, W. W., Zhang, C. X., & Chen, X. (2021). Signals of Hotel Effort on Enhancing IAQ and Booking Intention: Effect of Customer's Body Mass Index Associated with Sustainable Marketing in Tourism. Sustainability, 13(3), Article 1279. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031279

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.