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During the last few decades, a growing body of literature has been produced on various aspects of interorganizational relations (IOR) in tourism. This paper provides a review of that literature. The findings are based on a review of 269 empirical papers published in 37 tourism journals between 1989 and the first quarter of 2017. The review identifies six main research themes relating to relationship formation, structure and activities, governance, maintenance, outcomes, and evolution. Based on the insights from this review, an organizing framework for research on IOR in tourism is developed and four opportunities for advancing research on IOR in tourism are proposed relating to the pursuit of causal inference, supply networks as a unit of analysis, quantifying outcomes of IOR in tourism, and addressing marginalized topics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing (JTTM) is a leading international journal in “Marketing” and “Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.” JTTM published its first issue in 1992. In 2017, the journal has celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. For that reason, this study analyzes all the publications in the journal since its creation by using a bibliometric approach. The objective is to provide a complete overview of the main factors that affect the journal. This analysis includes key issues such as the distribution of annual publications and citations, the most cited papers, the h-index, citations per paper, the keywords that are mostly used, the influence on the publishing industry and authors, universities, and the countries that have the most publications. The paper uses the Scopus database to analyze the bibliometric data. Additionally, the paper also uses the visualization of similarities (VOS) viewer software to map graphically the bibliographic material. The graphical analysis uses bibliographic coupling, co-citation, citation, and co-occurrence of keywords. These results indicate that JTTM is one of the leading journals in the areas where the journal is indexed, with publications from a wide range of authors, institutions, and countries around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific publications contribute to the dissemination of technological innovations and research results. For such reasons, in the University of Matanzas a study was conducted, in order to analyze the editorial management of the Retos Turísticos journal, from the creation of the Editorial house UM. Bibligraphic review as empiric method and the analytical-synthetic theoretical method were used; benchmarking was also applied to define the best systems, processes, procedures and practices. In the Editorial UM three types of processes were established and the sub-processes of the key process Edition were identified. It was proven that academic editorials should assume new management modalities to provide feedback for the edition process and increase the visibility and impact of its publications; that Retos Turísticos fulfills criteria established by indexes, catalogues and international databases; as well as the need of process management in the Editorial UM to improve the effectiveness and satisfaction of the interested parties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A correction is presented to the article "Does repetition help? Impact of destination promotion videos on perceived destination image and intention-to-visit change" which was published in previous issue of the periodical.

Two-hundred and fifty-seven research articles on China tourism published between 1979 and 2015 in four leading international tourism journals (i.e. Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Travel Research and Tourism Management) were reviewed to delineate the status of China tourism research and indicate areas for future academic inquiry. The most common research themes within the body of literature reviewed were identified as tourist behavior, tourism governance and policy issues as well as tourism economics. Methodologically, a balanced distribution of research methods was identified. This review examines the relationship between authorship and fieldwork, and its impact on research interpretations. This review paper calls for more rigorous fieldwork reflecting genuine observations of tourism development and the relevant sociocultural and political developments in transitional China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ranking of academic journals continues to be a contentious issue in the tertiary education environment. Academics dependency on journal ranking for tenure and promotion, based on perceived quality and prestige of journals, ensures debate over what constitutes a "good" journal publication. This study utilises the vox populi MAG score established in previous research in order to continue the assessment of journal ranking and impact in the field of marketing. The current findings are consistent with the previous 2009 and 2011 study; the top six journals remain the same, there is little variation within the top 30 journal rankings, although regional differences are apparent. The ranking results from a broad range of academics continue to provide a comprehensive measure of journal impact from the perspective of academics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to profile the Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) theme issue ‘How can communities manage rapid tourism growth? The experience of Macao and other destinations?’ with reference to the experiences of the theme editor and writing team.Design/methodology/approach This paper uses structured questions to enable the theme editor to reflect on the rationale for the theme issue question, the starting point, the selection of the writing team and material and the editorial process.Findings The paper observes that involving authors with different academic and professional backgrounds in fields as diverse as urban planning, economics, transportation and heritage management is daunting but valuable. The outcomes of a broad-ranging collaboration yield fresh insights, a deeper understanding of the issues and an array of possible responses to the theme issue question.Practical implications The theme issue outcomes provide lines of enquiry for others to explore and reinforce the value of WHATT’s approach to collaborative working and writing.Originality/value The collaborative work reported in this theme issue offers a unified but contrarian response to the theme’s strategic question. Taken together, the collection of articles constitutes a provocative yet authorative call to action in response to the problems highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the article "Journeys of creation: Experiencing the unknown, the other and authenticity as an epiphany of the self" by Stephen Wearing, Matthew McDonald, and Jo Ankor, which appeared in the periodical "Tourism Recreation Research," is presented.

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Chinese outbound tourism has been developing at a phenomenal pace, attracting the interest of both academics and industry practitioners. This article employs a hybrid review method that combines the narrative and systematic quantitative review methods to delineate the status of research on Chinese outbound tourism and to indicate areas that lack academic inquiry. It evaluates the scope, method, and themes of 161 articles published in 16 top tourism and hospitality journals between 2000 and 2014. The review calls for future research to shift from an advocacy stance to the sustainable and ethics platforms under research paradigms that are more fertile for cross-cultural research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A substantial body of literature has been built up in experience marketing. In spite of that there is no cohesive framework that has systematically examined antecedents, formation and implications of customer experience, or has classified different aspects of customer experiences. The purpose of this article is to derive an integrative review of published articles on consumer experience and its related topics. The study synthesizes the research on customer experience through two different but interrelated streams: (1) experience as a product attribute or a complete product and (2) consumer experience created due to customer interaction with the physical environment or people. This article develops a framework that corroborates literature related to (1) definitional aspects of customer experience, (2) formation of customer experience, (3) asserting consumer psychology in engaging in the creation of experience and its consumption and (4) the effects of customer experience. We first review available prior research and present the salient features of these articles and their findings. The research gaps are then identified and a set of propositions provided, followed by directions for future research. This article also identifies some methodological issues that are relevant in the context of individual level effect on customer experience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Purpose This paper aims to facilitate an immediate immersion of academic literature in the timeshare/vacation ownership industry. Through a synthesis of 92 articles published in academic journals over the past 40 years, the authors demonstrate the breadth of the current research. Topical areas, methodologies and findings are presented, as well as opportunities for further investigation. This paper also provides the reader with a robust consolidation of literature in a tabular form to include authors, publication dates, sources and titles.Design/methodology/approach Through a comprehensive search of multiple academic research databases, university catalogues and references of existing literature and conference proceedings, the authors compiled a review of timeshare research with the aim of classifying the various components and issues that have been examined to date.Findings The timeshare segment of the greater lodging industry is unique due to its real estate ownership component, complex management characteristics and regulatory environment. The unique nature appeals to researchers and provides an opportunity for investigation of generally accepted theories and principles. The literature follows industry advances in the segment, with the majority of research focused on sales and marketing practices, and resort services and operations. An abundance of future research opportunities is identified in the literature, to which only a few have been addressed.Originality/value A synthesis of timeshare literature has not been published to date, either in hospitality literature or in other fields of study, i.e. real estate. Therefore, the authors provide a foundation for researchers, academics and students to utilize in further study and investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This short Opinion Piece reflects on the construction of volunteers in theJournal of Sustainable Tourism's recent Special Issue on Volunteer Tourism, Volume 22, Issue 6, 2014. The Issue indicates directions for future research and presents some productive cases of applied modes of knowledge production. This Opinion Piece notes that, despite the good work in the Special Issue, more research on the impacts of volunteer tourism on host communities is still overdue. But most importantly, however, running through the papers in the Issue, there is a problematic construction of volunteers as passive subjects of capitalism. As “consumers” or “clients”, it is argued that the Special Issue papers perceive volunteers through the very same logic of commodification that much of the research intends to push against. Drawing attention to the performativity of language and research outputs, the case is made for more careful attention to the ways researchers in volunteer tourism address subjects so that critical attention might be better aligned with our practices of representation. We should seek to preserve the potential of volunteers to bring about change, and resist the temptation to reproduce the very deleterious discursive realities we seek to bring to account: volunteers, before all else, volunteer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary travel magazine feature writing has received little attention in the academic literature to date, despite the fact that these writers have a persuasive power to mediate foreign cultures and destinations and could potentially act as agents of positive social change. In this article, 12 internationally published and distributed contemporary travel magazine articles have been subjected to a critical discourse analysis contributing to the theory of the mediating power of texts with respect to the conceptualization of tourism identities. Two prominent tourism discourses emerge, the tourist-versus-traveller dichotomy and the promise of authentic cultural experiences, which portray both the writer and the imagined reader as an anti-tourist (perhaps denying their contribution to the tourism industry). The findings suggest that these writers have an imagined archetypal anti-tourist reader in mind, who seeks authentic experiences that are immersed in traditional customs. These discourses lead these authors to write sensitively and thoughtfully about foreign cultures, although some still reflect harmful cultural stereotyping and commodification. In general, however, it appears that these contemporary travel writers are heeding the scholarly call for more globally conscious and socially responsible travel writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study develops an updated ranking of hospitality and tourism journals by assessing the influence assigned to those journals by researchers in each field. Journals are evaluated utilizing data collected from two groups, 62 of the top 100 researchers and 463 other researchers in the fields of hospitality and tourism. Results suggest that journals that are considered “top tier” in tourism and hospitality have remained relatively constant over the years. However, there is little consistency among the rankings of journals beyond the top journals in both fields. Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, and Journal of Travel Research are found to be top journals in the field of tourism while International Journal of Hospitality Management and Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research are identified as the top journals in the field of hospitality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to provide a progress review of published Internet marketing research within the top eight hospitality and tourism journals and to provide suggestions on future research directions. Design/methodology/approach – The study collected 331 Internet marketing-related articles published in the top eight hospitality and tourism journals during the period of 1996-2013. Using content analysis, the study analyzed and discussed research topics, research methods and industry sectors of selected articles. The study period was broken into three sub-periods and used correspondence analysis (CA) to examine the significant changes of topical areas over time. A follow-up CA was conducted to compare the topical and methodological preferences of the selected eight journals. Findings – In all, 5-category and 27-subcategory classifications of research topics were identified in the study. The two-dimensional perceptual map indicates that Internet marketing research in the hospitality and tourism fields experienced introduction, growth and maturity stages. The research focus changed from business perspective to customer perspective and then to both business and customer perspectives. The eight top hospitality and tourism journals were grouped into four journal sets that share similar article characteristics and preferences. Research limitations/implications – Due to the sample size, the classifications and trends generated in this study may not be generalized to all Internet marketing research in hospitality and tourism disciplines. The process of identifying topic and method categories might be biased, especially in identifying new topics. Future research may apply CA method in literature review studies on other research topics. Practical implications – The study analyzed published research in Internet marketing in the hospitality and tourism fields and provided topical and methodological recommendations to academia for future research. This study may also give hospitality managers new insights into Internet marketing applications in the industry. Originality/value – This study is one of the few attempts to provide a comprehensive review of Internet marketing research in the hospitality and tourism fields. This study uses CA in literature review study, opening up a new way to easily analyze and visually display the literature trends. This study also creatively compared the publication preferences among eight top-tier hospitality and tourism journals using correspondence analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper uses bibliometric analysis to investigate how scholarship in the realm of tourism and hospitality (T/H) has progressed in Turkey. A total of 135 articles published in 14 leading international T/H journals indexed by Social Sciences Citations Index between 1984 and 2013 were analysed. The analysis presented herein provides a broad view of the trends and patterns. This intellectual structure permits researchers and professionals to identify leading authors, institutions, and publications, and identifies the most influential sources and changes in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Research into tourism phenomena is regarded as a multidisciplinary quest, but to date no work has endeavored to quantify or characterize the extent to which various scholarly disciplines and research fields inform our scholarly discourse. The purpose of this analysis was to assess the multidisciplinary character of tourism research between 1980 and 2010. Previous efforts to analyze the use of the literature from other disciplines have been significantly limited. In this study, we sought to address this need by analyzing a sample comprising nearly 3,000 citations from tourism research articles published in a range of tourism journals stratified by journal ranking and time period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims at identifying recent subject areas and citation patterns of tourism research by applying a bibliometric tool to analyze over 2000 publications since 2008 from 10 tourism journals. Twelve subject areas were identified, and interesting citation patterns were revealed. From this analysis, the tourism research was found to be quite dynamic but at the same time very much focused on marketing and management aspects. This article contributes to ongoing efforts to reveal the nature of tourism research and its knowledge bases by applying the methodology of bibliographic coupling. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transformational education is emerging as a key area of study in travel and tourism research. Determining how to facilitatetheory-driventransformational education is vital to the success of this emergent academic agenda. The purpose of this article is to: (a) recommend John Mezirow’s transformative learning theory (TLT) as a framework to guide this agenda, and (b) systematically review travel and tourism research, using TLT as the screening criteria, to identify strategies for successfully implementing this framework as educators. Fifty-three articles were identified, with only 14 published in tourism journals, indicating that research utilizing TLT in travel and tourism is in its infancy. Results suggest that a greater understanding of the theoretical basis of TLT, as well as scholarship highlighting intentional, creative, and effective uses of TLT in the tourism classroom is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Purpose – The purpose of this study was to examine hospitality revenue management (RM) research in the recent decade, to identify emergent issues/topics and suggest directions for future research. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic process of literature review involving content analysis was adopted. The process involved searching for published articles in three major online databases for hospitality and tourism journals, evaluating and selecting the relevant articles, analyzing and synthesizing the findings of the selected papers and organizing the findings to determine what is known and what is yet to be known. Findings – The paper established a broad range of topics that have engaged the attention of hospitality and tourism researchers in contemporary times. These topics were structured into seven major themes constituting the core activities of hospitality RM process and another eight themes covering the factors influencing the practice of RM. Practical implications – The classification of the literature into core activities of RM process and factors influencing RM serves as a useful guide for practitioners and academics to trace relevant literature on various aspects of RM and to visibly notice the gaps in the existing literature. Originality/value – By developing an RM framework and using it to evaluate existing literature, this study brings cohesion into the hospitality and tourism RM literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the quarter of a century since the release of the 1987 Brundtland Report, sustainable tourism has emerged as the dominant paradigm in tourism development. However, the debate, discourse, and criticism of this subfield of tourism research continues. To address such concerns the purpose of this paper is to explore trends and patterns in sustainable tourism research over the past 25 years. A 25-year bibliometric analysis was conducted for the four highest ranked journals in the tourism field. Results indicate that the growth in sustainable tourism research has been remarkable, with 492 papers published in these four journals and almost half of these in the last two years of the analysis. The largest proportion of papers published on sustainable tourism was case studies, empirical studies, and critical reviews. This study found that while the theoretical and methodological approaches appear to have matured over time, the subjects and themes in sustainable tourism research, with some exceptions, have remained constant. However, the field is clearly maturing with a move away from definitional and conceptual papers to papers focused on testing and applying theory through empirical research. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The formal study of tourism as a distinct subject in the academy is about 40 years old, the same age as Tourism Recreation Research. Over these 40 years, it has shown remarkable growth and development and in the process has changed and adapted. This paper, drawing inter alia on the author's own 40 years in the tourism academy and on his writings over the period, plots the past, present and future of tourism studies. The paper begins with the vocational origins and the rapid changes that brought tourism to a kind of maturity to take its place alongside other social sciences as a subject for research and teaching. It then explores the tensions and challenges that it has faced in more recent years as global competition has forced universities to focus more on their finances and reputations. In this environment, influenced by performance against various metrics, the position of tourism in the academy has been challenging. The paper then turns to consider the current problems created by a metrics driven agenda and how there is an opportunity for tourism to meet the needs of a post-industrial world by focusing not on immediate metrics but on the characteristics that tourism offers as a complex area of study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explaining human behavior is a primary concern for tourism research and a substantial body of research concludes that highly satisfied tourists are more likely to return to a particular destination. In this article, we provide an analysis of this body of work, arriving at three concerns relating to the strength of association between satisfaction and behavioral intention: (1) the link between constructs is complex, resulting in the frequent omission of causal factors; (2) inconsistency with construct operationalization impedes cumulative knowledge development; and (3) explainable variance is impeded by between-study heterogeneity. We illustrate these problems by analyzing empirical guest survey data and conducting a meta-analysis of published papers in the three top tourism journals between 2002 and 2011. We offer four recommendations for future research investigating the link between satisfaction and behavioral intention. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents an analysis of the publication records of PhD students of tourism when they joined the e-list Trinet (Tourism Research Information Network) during the mid-March 2007 and mid-July 2015 period. Topics discussed include the lead authorship of a research by students, the publication of students' research in periodicals including peer reviewed journals, and the types of journals that published the research.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses the issues which are to be discussed in the future edition of the journal "Tourism Geographies" and information on changing of the members in the editorial board of the journal.

Owing to the importance of customer relationship management (CRM) and relationship marketing (RM) in hospitality, there is a need to do a comprehensive review of academic research in this domain. This article attempts to synthesize CRM and RM research in the area of hospitality and tourism from 2001 to 2013. The purpose of this study is to identify major focus areas and research methodologies adopted in CRM and RM research from 2001 to 2013 followed by implications for future research. The study includes 78 research articles from 19 leading hospitality and tourism journals. An analysis of methodologies/types of research study and themes of studies was done. The study shows how CRM and RM have advanced in terms of focus areas, paradigm shifts, and data analysis techniques applied and also explores what could be future research areas. This article will give insights to future researchers in CRM and RM areas. The objective of this study is to explore the state of the art of CRM/RM-based research published in leading tourism and hospitality journals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

We generated a visual trend analysis of the titles and keywords of highly ranked tourism journals in the years 1982, 1992, 2002, and 2012 by using word clouds. This approach provides a fascinating snapshot into shifts in the priorities of tourism researchers over the last four decades, thus tracing the history of theoretical development in the field of tourism. Comparisons were made between (1) the titles of articles in all journals in different years; (2) titles in each journal in a recent year; and (3) titles and keywords of articles in the same journal in the same years. Not only do themes and concepts visibly shift in prominence over time and between journals, but also variance between keywords and titles of articles in the same journal for a particular year is observable. The practical applications for article titling, placement, and keyword designation are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Heritage tourism is a very important research field of tourism studies. Using the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) as data source, this paper analyzes articles from Chinese Core Journals with subject heading of "heritage" and "tourism" in the period of 1979-2011. 832 papers were found to be related with heritage tourism. The analysis suggests that heritage tourism studies in China began in the 1990s and experienced a boom in the past decade. According to theories of bibliometrics, about 30.05% papers were published in 10 journals among all journals investigated and 74 authors focusing on heritage tourism studies published about 41.1% papers. Further analysis indicates that institutions focusing on heritage tourism studies were located at big cities such as Guangzhou, Beijing and in regions with rich heritage resources, e.g., southwest and northeast part of China. As one of the most important symbols for academic publications, keyword indicates the main theme and findings of a research paper. In order to find out the current research interest and progress of heritage tourism studies in China, this study established a database with 3613 keywords extracted from 832 above mentioned papers and analyzed them from the aspects of research object, study place, research method and research topic. The results suggest that heritage types being studied in the discourse of tourism studies in China were diverse and included a range of new and emerging fields such as agricultural heritage, industrial heritage and cultural landscape etc. Intangible heritage has been the hottest topic in heritage tourism studies, which is remarkably different from previous ideas. Among all these 3613 keywords, 451 of them indicate study areas. Further analysis shows that most of studies were limited in studying domestic regions, especially focusing on the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River and northeast part of China such as the province of Sichuan, Anhui, Yunnan, etc. Thus studies focusing on overseas regions are mainly literature reviews and introductions of conservation experience with limited number of original studies. In terms of research methods, social studies can be divided into two categories, the normative research and empirical research. Heritage tourism studies in China tend to use empirical analysis and 14.5% of them have used statistical analysis. But it should be mentioned that only 35 keywords, 1% of 3613, related to research methods, indicating that current studies of heritage tourism focused extremely on general analysis of problems and corresponding countermeasures, while neglecting the application of new methods and techniques. About 68.5% keywords related to research topics, covering a wide range of topics. These keywords were categorized into more than ten sets according to their relationship with heritage and tourism. Statistical analysis shows that the number of keywords in the first five sets constitutes the majority. These five sets, namely value and property, tourism development, industrial economy, tourist and community, heritage conservation, indicate the key issues of heritage tourism studies in China. Finally, this study proposes that future studies should pay more attention to subtypes of heritage and do research in a broader study area; researchers should adopt new approaches and technologies such as GIS, social network analysis, etc. Specially-targeted research funds and symposiums can be set up to encourage research on issues such as low-carbon, legislative construction, and heritage discourse in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents information about the origin, evolution and current status of tourism research in Mexico in reference to some of the most relevant studies on this subject. The outlook is general, nonspecific, and looks to identify the milestones that have marked the academic and scientific development on tourism research in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To date, no research has been undertaken to examine what constitutes high citation counts. This study examined the quantifiable characteristics in publications and investigated their associations with citation per year. That is, this study empirically examined the relationships with length, authorship, and collaboration and citation counts in the 300 most cited publications in tourism and hospitality journals. The results reveal a negative relationship between the length of a title and citation per year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The authors discusses their plans as they assume the editorship of the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research (JHTR).

The article discusses changes to the editorial board of the "Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research" in 2021.

Abstract: This paper provides an examination of hotel performance research published in the seven leading hospitality and tourism journals from 1992 to 2011, through the lens of the balanced scorecard (BSC). The review seeks to answer three questions. What BSC perspectives are included in hotel performance research published in major hospitality and tourism journals? What are the trends and implications for future hotel performance research? What are the main geographical areas of publication outputs? Eleven hypotheses were tested using a database of 138 articles that fully met the key word selection criteria of hotel, BSC and performance. The results suggest hotel performance attracts widespread attention from hospitality scholars, but significant gaps remain. Researchers have recognised the benefits of including financial and non-financial indicators. Yet, more research is required in this area to offer hotel organisations better approaches to the management of their performance. We conclude by identifying three research gaps. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article features several publications describing tourism and traveling experiences. Topics discussed are the release of the magazine "Touring Topics" by the Automobile Club of Southern California, the book "Rambles on Overland Trails" by Thomas J.H. O'Shaughnessy and the book "From Minnesota to California by Motor" by John F.D. Meighen. It also focuses on the release of the publication "Picturesque Southwest" to promote tourism in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Two main streams of research performance evaluation rely on quantitative measurement of research output and citation count. Although research output counting has achieved a certain degree of success, such an approach cannot assess the impact of a publication on knowledge development. A citation count, in contrast, measures the influence of a publication on subsequent research efforts. Citation count has thus become an important way to represent research performance. This study analyzes the uncited articles published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research and the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing in the period 1996–2005. Findings would be of use to academic researchers in planning for the type of article to write. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourism is a key industry in Cuba, representing this country an important role in the international market. Thus, there is a need to analyze the tourism research developed by authors and institutions of this country. This paper analyzes the contribution in tourism academic journals (national and international) of those researchers of Cuban institutions. Considering the dynamic evolution in the period 2006-2011 and due the wide extension of the analysis, the paper will be published in two parts. This paper is the second part and shows a ranking of authors, but also the geographic application of the studies, number of co-authors, and the citations of their papers. Finally, the paper highlights some conclusions and recommendations about the current situation of tourism research in Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study presents the perceived and projected image of Taiwan as a travel destination from perspectives from Mainland China. The perceived image of Taiwan was examined by interviewing 28 Mainland Chinese; the projected image of Taiwan was investigated by analyzing articles in China's most popular travel magazines. The different types of images of Taiwan among visitors, nonvisitors, and travel magazines were compared. The projected image changed notably after the opening of Taiwan's tourism to travelers from Mainland China. The results of this study could help destination marketing organizations to assess their marketing strategies for the Mainland Chinese travel market. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Since 2000, the journal TURIZAM has been published in the English language under the title TOURISM - An International Interdisciplinary Journal. This paper presents the content analysis of 308 scientific articles published in the twelve volumes of this journal (in the period from 2000 to 2011). The analysis includes data on the authors, key words, and categories of the CST assigned to each article during expert analysis. The objectives of the study were twofold: 1) to examine the connotations of the term "international" in the journal's title and 2) to examine the topical areas that attracted the authors of the scientific papers; the connotations of the term "interdisciplinary" in the journal's title. The results of this analysis will be used to extend the classification scheme CST. For the purpose of identifying trends, this analysis is divided into four periods: 2000 - 2002; 2003 - 2005; 2006 - 2008 and 2009 - 2011. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This paper proposes an alternative metric to assess the relative influence journals have on research by using an influence ratio measure. Hospitality and tourism journals are used as a case study. Influence ratio enables a suite of journals to be evaluated through the calculation of a score for each journal that reflects the share of citations and the share of papers it produces against all citations and all papers in the set. A higher influence ratio score signifies that a journal is proportionately more influential, for it generates a greater share of citations than the share of papers published would suggest. The study evaluated three sets of hospitality and tourism journals (17 hospitality, 41 tourism and a combined set of 54 hospitality and tourism journals). The study illustrates the efficacy of using the influence ratio metric. A small number of journals in each field play a disproportionately strong influence in informing scholarship, with a long tail of relatively less influential journals observed. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]