International Journal of Tourism Cities: Volume 10 Issue 2

Guest editorial: IJTC regional review series: People’s Republic of China and Latin America

Tourism and COVID-19 in China: recovery and resilience strategies of main Chinese tourism cities

The purpose of this study is to investigate the recovery and resilience tourism strategies and possible future development of four main Chinese tourism cities.

How does a hotel’s hygiene protocol quality trigger guests’ revisit intention during the pandemic? Evidence from Chinese guests

Based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response Model, this study aims to investigate how the intention of Chinese guests to revisit a hotel (response) is triggered by the quality of the…

Changes in the size of domestic tourists in mainland China under the impact of COVID-19

The purpose of this paper is to explore the changes of the scale of urban tourists in mainland China under the impact of COVID-19 and, specifically, the following questions: how…

Heritage and tourism development in China's former international concessions. Tianjin as a place study

Between 1840s and 1940s, 27 occidental concessions have been created in several cities in China which represented difficult signs and memories for Chinese. Nowadays, these…

Tourists’ perceived destination image and heritage conservation intention: a comparative study of heritage and film-induced images

Kaiping Diaolou in Guangdong Province, China, is a UNESCO World Heritage site that is often used as a film location. This study aims to investigate the antecedents of film-induced…

Co-agglomeration of the culture and tourism industries in Chinese cities

The interaction between the culture and tourism industries is naturally concentrated in cities. However, the effect of their co-agglomeration on urban tourism development depends…

Curating pasts: musealization and tourism in Chinese cities

China has been going through a “museum boom” paralleling the domestic tourism boom since 2000; such growth changed the cultural landscape; museums became a vital characteristic of…

Do destination personality and self-congruity matter for the pro-environmental behavioral intention? Nature-based pro-environmental behavior

The study aims to draw on the self-congruity theory to investigate the relationship among destination personality (DP), self-congruity and tourists’ pro-environmental behavioral…

Multidimensional destination perception effects over medical tourists’ behavioural in emerging destinations: empirical evidence from China’s international medical tourism pilot area

This study aims to explore the consumer perceptions of cognition and intention to visit pilot zone of international medical tourism as emerging, developed medical tourism…

Stakeholder perceptions of volunteer tourism community impact

This paper aims to examine volunteer tourism (VT) experiences of three stakeholder groups in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The guiding research question is: how does VT influence…

Beyond the certification of smart tourism destination: insights from the city of Medellín in Colombia

This paper aims to give meaning to the smart tourism destination (STD) certification, highlighting its main advantages and limitations. The case of Medellín (Colombia) presents…

Quality, expenditure, and loyalty in a cultural event: a longitudinal study

The impact of event quality on expenditure and visitors’ loyalty has been an issue seldom analyzed by festival literature. These same incidental relations were not assessed from a…

Tourism and public insecurity: what are its roots?

Studies examining public insecurity and tourism tend to develop their research from the tourist's perspective, thereby focusing on its consequences, which insufficiently and…

What does the media tell us about a destination? The Cancun case, seen from the USA, Canada, and Mexico

This study aims to present a framework for automatically collecting, cleaning and analyzing text (news articles, in this case) to provide valuable decision-making information to…

Destination image and tourist motivations as antecedents of tourist engagement

This paper aims to establish the causal relationship between destination image and tourist motivation and engagement.

The relationship between visitors’ motivations and satisfaction about a Brazilian sacred complex

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the motivation and satisfaction of visitors, both tourists and residents, of a sacred urban complex located in…

Analysis of the competitiveness factors for MICE tourism: the case of Mazatlan, Sinaloa

Meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) tourism has established as a tourism segment that is growing in popularity. It is less seasonality dependent, promotes the…

Perceptions of Airbnb’s impact beyond the tourist bubbles of Cusco, Peru: an exploration of resident irritability

Specifically, this study aims to examine residents’ perceptions regarding the following: the sociocultural, environmental and economic impacts generated by the presence of Airbnb…

Tourism in European Cities: The Visitor Experience of Architecture, Urban Spaces and City Attractions