The COVID-19 pandemic enhanced social media communications at a time individuals were
unable to leave their homes due to the lockdown measures. A lack of research has been …

Social media, an open space for the public's opinion and expression, has become an
increasingly essential issue in crisis events, leading to secondary crisis communication …

This study aims to develop a destination personality scale utilizing a sample of mainland
Chinese travelers and examine the impact of this new scale on tourists' travel attitudes and …

The dramatic increase in the number of Chinese outbound tourists has sometimes
generated negative media reports about their 'uncivilised'behaviour. The academic literature …

Ecosystem service assessments have been conducted for coastal management with a
primary focus on tangible natural capital. Thus far, the explicit variation of cultural ecosystem …

This study presents discourse and semiotic analyses to understand tourists' identity
construction in the Min-tai-yuan Museum (hereafter, the Museum). To explore the extensive …

The number of cultural festivals organised globally has increased primarily due to their
significance in celebrating and promoting community values, ideologies, identity and …

Existing literature of festival tourism emphasises on heritage festival in rural place and
seldom addresses the effect of urban festival as a potent force that contributes to place …

This paper adopts collective memory theory to reveal processes through which heritage
tourism stakeholders (re) construct contested national identity. Theoretically sensitised to …

World tourism cities perform multiple functions and exhibit various characteristics that
influence tourism development within their boundaries. They are the main gateway for …