Purpose: Taking stock of extant hospitality and tourism research using social network analysis approaches, this study highlights why using either quantitative or qualitative approaches to examine social networks can be misleading and generate potentially biased findings. Indeed, purely...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of creativity and innovation as important attributes of smartness in cities/destination branding. Design/methodology/approach: A conceptual support to the notion of smart destination branding is provided by discussing the relationship...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the complexity science approach to the tourism domain. Design/methodology/approach: This study is a personal perspective Findings: The study is an analysis of past and future applications. Originality/value: Historical considerations

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of past perspectives and future trends in tourism and hospitality research. Design/methodology/approach: The study grounds the discussion on the timeline evolution of quantitative research methods. Findings: Although still...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the question of whether commercial, peer-to-peer accommodation platforms (Airbnb, in particular) and hotels are in fierce competition with each other with the possible presence of substitution threats, and compares the time series of the occupancy values...

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to survey the body of research revolving around big data (BD) and analytics in hospitality and tourism, by detecting macro topical areas, research streams and gaps and to develop an agenda for future research. Design/methodology/approach: This research is...

Purpose: This paper aims to provide a review of hotel performance within the hospitality and tourism research domain. The authors use network analysis to examine two research questions. The first relates to ascertaining general trends within the hotel performance literature, and the second...