Mexican Americans are among the least active race/ethnic groups in the United States, most notably during leisure time. We sought to ascertain the effect of repeated participation in community-based walking challenges on average steps as a potential strategy for improving physical activity...

The digital age and the Millennial traveler are drivers of Smart Destinations. This leads traditional destinations to re-assess strategies, using tools such as the Spanish standard UNE 178501 toward diagnosing their current situation. This is a study of the destination of Cuenca destination in its...

This research article utilizes a bootstrap DEA approach for assessing the operational efficiency of a single southwestern downtown hotel during the COVID-19 pandemic. The hotel's performance is benchmarked throughout a 12-month period, which includes a two-month shutdown period due to COVID-19. The ...

This article is focused on gamification and the study of its strategic use in cultural and creative tourism experiences in Catalonia. From a qualitative perspective and based on ten semi-structured interviews, the objective of this research is to analyse the relationships between gamification and...

The present study was designed to analyse community participation in the co-management of the UNESCO Global Geopark of El Hierro (The Canary Islands, Spain) after its first revalidation process in 2018 (where this aspect figured as central, pending attention) and previous to the 2022 revalidation....

This article aims to find out how the terms tourism and culture have been treated throughout history and when they began to be of interest to the scientific community as a result of the change in the conceptual mentality of the tourism sector in general and the tourist in particular, as well as to...

Rural areas have gradually become sites for tourism ventures where local products are highlighted as one of the main attractions. The objective of this article was to examine the possibilities and limitations of connecting family farming and private business ventures in the shape of integrated...

Several studies have addressed the role played by the Spanish Wine Routes in boosting the competitiveness of a territory, increasing wine production, improving the quality of life of citizens and respecting the environment. However, to our knowledge, the impact of COVID-19 on these wine routes has...

This article sets out to analyse the perceptions and attitudes of the managers of the wine and viticultural companies of the Guadalupe Valley (Mexico) regarding wine tourism activities, that has experienced steady growth in the northwest of the country wth the wine routes in Baja California. To...

The article aims to analyse the factors that affect the travel intention of the tourism consumer during the Covid-19 pandemic for the year 2021 and 2022. The research is quantitative, with a conceptual scope built from research of the literature. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire...