Solving the mystery of storytelling in destination marketing: A systematic review

X Zhang, T Ramayah - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Storytelling has been prevailing in the tourism industry and considered as an effective
communication tool. However, the knowledge of what and how stories connected to …

Tourism and hospitality forecasting with big data: A systematic review of the literature

DC Wu, S Zhong, J Wu, H Song - Journal of Hospitality & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Empirical research has shown that incorporating big data into tourism and hospitality
forecasting significantly improves prediction accuracy. This study presents a comprehensive …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial intelligence-generated virtual influencer: Examining the effects of emotional display on user engagement

J Yu, A Dickinger, KKF So, R Egger - Journal of Retailing and Consumer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Focusing on the application of artificial intelligence, this study investigates the impact of
emotional display on user engagement with computer-generated imagery influencers …

Do topic and sentiment matter? Predictive power of online reviews for hotel demand forecasting

DC Wu, S Zhong, H Song, J Wu - International Journal of Hospitality …, 2024 - Elsevier
Studies integrating textual data for forecasting have mainly focused on the overall sentiment
reflected in text. Yet textual data convey various types of information, such as review topics …

Tourism demand forecasting based on user-generated images on OTA platforms

S Ma, H Li, M Hu, H Yang, R Gan - Current Issues in Tourism, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Tourists' images of destinations posted on online travel agency (OTA) platforms are
important information sources for potential tourists to perceive and construct destination …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic videos analytics in tourism: A methodological review

J Zhu, M Cheng - Annals of Tourism Research, 2024 - Elsevier
While there has been a growing interest in adopting videos as a data source, the use of
video analytics, as a method, in gaining deep insights into tourism and hospitality theories …

[HTML][HTML] How authenticity in events fosters social sustainability: Towards an authenticity ecosystem and implications for destination management

TH Le, MA Novais, C Arcodia, R Berchtenbreiter… - Tourism Management …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study systematically and critically synthesises how the notion of authenticity has been
addressed in the extant events literature to foster social sustainability in host destinations …

AI-generated imagery in sustainable gastronomy tourism: A study from bottom-up to top-down processing

J Chan - Tourism Management, 2025 - Elsevier
This study utilized image-based experimental methods to explore the intersection of
sustainability, gastronomy tourism, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a focus on promoting …

Harms of inconsistency: The impact of user-generated and marketing-generated photos on hotel booking intentions

S Zhang, W Liu, T Zhang, W Han, Y Zhu - Tourism Management …, 2024 - Elsevier
User-generated photos (UGPs) and marketer-generated photos (MGPs) play a crucial role in
reducing uncertainty during hotel booking. However, inconsistencies between these two …

Social media and tourism geographies: Map** future research agenda

M Cheng - Tourism Geographies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The fast-changing social media landscape have seen a paradigm shift in how we interact
with and research space, place and environment in tourism. Social media presents both …