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New research published with Rhoslyn Davies and colleagues at the University of Surrey. Examines the psychological processes underpinning the transformative potential of tourism: https://lnkd.in/eAdMfZfr

Time for something new! Annals of Tourism Research is developing the first joint article collection with a journal from another discipline: Information Processing & Management. It's a pretty natural approach given that research on #LargeLanguageModels (#LLMs) in #tourism is relevant to both disciplines. Authors can choose which journal they would rather submit to. Accepted papers will all be included in the collection Here's the call for papers: https://lnkd.in/djYW9Aui

'Spatial distribution and challenges in European Union funding: A perspective from tourism projects' by Isabel Torres, María-Dolores Teruel-Serrano and María José VIÑALS, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), in 'Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights' refers to European Parliamentary Research Service publication on 'Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME)', available here: https://lnkd.in/echhqDrF https://lnkd.in/exTUufSM #EPRS

Reframing tourism labour: Alterity and the global south By authors Kyrie Eleison (Kyle) Muñoz Richard N.S. Robinson  Greg Marston Highlights A critical review of 144 studies on tourism labour in the Global South Reveals how much of this research still draws on Western ontological and epistemic traditions Extends Levinas’ theory of alterity, exploring the convergence of the Self and Other Calls for thematic, epistemic, methodological, and representational inclusion in future research Open Access link below; https://lnkd.in/gBKqAE9x See video below: https://lnkd.in/gW3CYdSX

Update - our Economic Impact Toolkit has been updated to include the latest tourism metrics at national and locality levels, along with volunteer impact metrics. The Toolkit helps museums estimate their economic contribution and impact (their overall, or gross, economic impact) for the purposes of advocacy. It supports you to make a case to economic and tourism stakeholders – such as local councillors, MPs, and funding bodies - by helping you calculate your net additional economic impact.  Use the updated Toolkit: https://lnkd.in/esYM3N9W Thanks to Stephen Connolly DC Research Ltd and Jonathan Durnin Durnin Research Ltd for the latest data.

A crucial update to a brilliant tool to help articulate the benefits of museums. While museums are far more than just contributors to a local economy (think civic renewal, health, care and education), it's very important to speak this language as well and paint the full picture.

🧠 Wider and Deeper: New Directions for Knowledge Management Research in Tourism. #Innovation and #competitiveness in #tourism depend on how organisations create, share, and apply knowledge — yet our understanding of these processes remains fragmented. In this week’s Academic Weekly Digest, Professors Allan Williams M. Williams and Gareth Shaw propose a renewed research agenda for #knowledgemanagement in tourism. Building on absorptive capacity models (ACAP), their study identifies five key directions for future research — from how organisations learn under uncertainty and external shocks, to the micro-foundations of trust, intuition, and “management amnesia.” Their message is clear: understanding how #knowledge and #uncertainty interact is vital for building more adaptive, innovative, and resilient tourism organisations. #COVE - Centre for Competitiveness of the Visitor Economy 📖 Read the article: http://bit.ly/473XHDt Have a great week!

💡 Check out the latest issue of Information Technology & Tourism! 💡 What a wonderful collection of papers on AI-based visual recognition, density clustering for tourist hot spots, emotion-driven tourism analytics, spatiotemporal big data, advances in sentiment analysis, digital travel assistants, AI synthetic voices for audio guides, data privacy in service robot interactions, consumer-robot relationships, touristic chatbots, travel influencers and digital nomads. Congrats to all the authors!!!! 🎉 https://lnkd.in/dgxGDbxP

How can coastal destinations respond to rising seas? Our recent publication by Giuseppe Aliperti & Ana Maria Cruz explores how collaborative governance between local governments and tourism firms at Zurriola Beach (Basque Country) can enhance resilience from a social science perspective. Universidad de Deusto Kyoto University Full paper: https://lnkd.in/dC99KRm4

Our recent publication by Wenshuai Wu, Xinyu Meng, Chang Xu, Meng Zhao, Qiang Ye, and Rob Law systematically reviews user-generated content–driven smart tourism and introduces future prospects. This study examines relevant literature within the field of UGC and smart tourism, and proposes a multi-dimensional analytical framework for UGC-driven smart tourism research based on systems theory. It uses bibliometric methods to extract the hotspots and centers of gravity of UGC-driven smart tourism research. Moreover, following the information systems life cycle theory of information system development, four research topics have been systematically identified. Finally, an overall view of future development of UGC-driven smart tourism is proposed at three major levels: micro, meso, and macro. This study attempts to theoretically enrich and improve the research framework of UGC-driven smart tourism as well as provide scientific decision support for researchers, practitioners and stakeholders to understand the development of research in this field. 中山大学 Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao 中国科学技术大学 澳门大学 Full paper: https://lnkd.in/dpxXpzZB