Purpose: This paper aims to provide a perspective on food waste by tourists and tourist households, now and in the future. Design/methodology/approach: This is a perspective article that summarizes contemporary thinking about food waste and conceptualizes food waste specifically for tourist...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of travel information search literature over the past 75 years to outline research needs for the upcoming decades. Design/methodology/approach: This paper conducts a literature review based on the descriptive textual analysis of...

Social media-based visual strategies are quintessential elements of tourism and social media marketing; yet, very little is known about how firms formulate and implement such strategies in a technologically advanced and consumer-driven communication context. Drawing on rhetorical structure...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to apply institutional theory to demonstrate if and how mimetic, coercive and normative pressures shape technology adoption in hotels and lead to institutional isomorphism. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a qualitative approach involving...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of dynamic pricing by Airbnb hosts. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses attribute and sales information from 39,837 Airbnb listings and hotel data from 1,025 hotels across five markets to test different...

Purpose: This paper aims to develop a taxonomy of value co-creation types occurring in firm-customer interactions on social media. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 570 destination marketing organization (DMO)-initiated posts on Weibo and 3,137 responses were collected to develop a...