International Journal of Tourism Cities: Volume 5 Issue 2

Future agendas in urban tourism research: special editorial

Tina Šegota, Marianna Sigala, Ulrike Gretzel, Jonathon Day, Jithendran Kokkranikal, Melanie Smith, Claudia Seabra, Philip Pearce, Rob Davidson, Cine van Zyl, David Newsome, James Hardcastle, Tijana Rakić

Editorial

Rami K. Isaac, Evi Eftychiou

The perception of corporate social responsibility of the city of Porto

Ana Pinto Borges, Elvira Pacheco Vieira, Paula Rodrigues

The purpose of this paper is to assess the perception of the city of Porto as a destination engaged with social responsibility practices. The authors intend to analyse if the…

Joint responsibility and understanding of resilience from a DMO perspective – an analysis of different situations in Bavarian tourism destinations

Harald Pechlaner, Daniel Zacher, Christian Eckert, Lukas Petersik

The purpose of this paper is to discuss responsibility in tourism destinations. On the basis of a resilience approach, central aspects of leadership and of responsibility in…

The impact of cultural values and economic constraints on tourism businesses’ ethical practices

Heather Skinner

Anecdotal evidence suggests that in times of economic constraints particularly in countries such as Greece that have long been stereotyped as corrupt, business practices amongst…

An ethical conundrum: the estimation of event attendance

Vern Biaett

The purpose of this paper is to examine issues of ethical corporate social responsibility related to the estimation of event attendance, scrutinize the philosophy of situational…

Touring for peace: the role of dual-narrative tours in creating transnational activists

Emily Maureen Schneider

Scholarship on the contact hypothesis and peacebuilding suggests that contact with marginalized ethnic and racial groups may reduce prejudice and improve opportunities for…

Hyper academia

Ana María Munar

What ought we morally to do in a tourism academia dominated by metrics, quantification and digital codification? The purpose of this paper is to address this question by…

Intention to travel internationally and domestically in unstable world

Svetlana Stepchenkova, Lijuan Su, Elena Shichkova

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether events such as acts of terrorism, political and social turmoil, military conflicts, epidemics, and similar influence preferences of…

Urban tourism hypertrophy: who should deal with it? The case of Krakow (Poland)

Piotr Zmyślony, Joanna Kowalczyk-Anioł

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to analyze the phenomenon of urban tourism hypertrophy (UTH) in the context of the process of tourism-related social conflicts…

A comparative study of outcome quality, perceived value, and loyalty in four-star and five-star hotels

Yousef Keshavarz, Yuhanis Abdul Aziz, Dariyoush Jamshidi, Zeinab Ansari

The purpose of this paper is to follow a comparative framework to investigate the effects of outcome quality on loyalty through the mediating role of perceived value in four-star…

African Union (AU) Agenda 2063 and tourism development in Africa: contribution, contradiction and implications

Vanessa Gowreesunkar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contributions of Agenda 2063 in tourism development in Africa while examining the inherent contradictions in its implementation…