Loneliness is a pervasive problem recognised as a serious social issue, and the prevailing
COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated loneliness to greater prominence and concern. We …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how crises impact overall tourist behaviour
and travel preferences in times of crisis events, both man-made and natural disasters. In …

The mascot, acting as an ambassador for a destination, plays a significant role in promoting
tourism development. However, limited research has focused on the cute features of a …

Before the pandemic, loneliness was already a burden affecting the health and well-being of
students. The COVID-19 pandemic, with mandated isolations and closures of campuses …

This paper examines how social exclusion moderates the role of brand anthropomorphism
in advertisement effectiveness, its underlying mechanism, and its boundary conditions …

This paper investigates older consumers in-store shop** experiences and the barriers that
they face. The aim is to understand how new retail technologies (eg, interactive in-store …

Purpose Recent years have witnessed the increasingly fierce competition amongst
smartphone brands. Hence, smartphone firms urge to prevent current consumers from …

This special issue includes state-of-the-art papers that leverage various theories from
evolutionary psychology (EP) to shed light on important consumption-related phenomena …

This study explored the tourism experience cocreation process from the tourist-to-tourist
interaction (TTI) perspective using a mixed method approach. Two categories of TTIs (verbal …

Purpose On the basis of the approach-avoidance motivation theory, this study aims to
examine the role of information confusion in influencing consumer switching intention …