With growth in the volume of tourism academic research, the Chinese tourism academic community has expanded since 1979. Tourism scholars and research groups, tourism colleges and research institutions, and high-quality tourism academic articles and journals together constitute China's tourism...

Guided by the affect valuation theory, this study examined the relationships among tourism ideal affect (i.e. how people want to feel at tourism destinations), tourism actual affect (i.e. how people really feel at tourism destinations), and tourism satisfaction. Online surveys were conducted before ...

What is the essence of tourism? There are many ways to study its essence, and different ways of thinking lead to different essences. Tourism is a meaningful human activity; thus, examining the essence of tourism leads to the meaning of human existence and existence itself. To examine tourism and...

Tourism discipline construction and tourism industry development are in urgent need of a number of high-quality research talents and teams. However, there has been growth in new tourism forms, and knowledge about tourism is continuously being updated, which pose a great challenge to tourism...

Tourism impacts the quality of life of host community residents in myriad ways. Most research seeking to understand those impacts has either focused on tourism in general or a single specific type of tourism. Little is understood about how residents attribute perceived impacts to different forms of ...

Perceived as an alternative to mass tourism, alternative tourism is characterized through: the emphasis on travel as an experience of host cultures and the maintenance of traditional values and societies, individual, independent or small group activity, slow, controlled and regulated development...

Together with the mass and daily development of tourism, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many tourism products to meet the escalating aesthetic needs of tourists; the phenomenon of aesthetic fatigue in tourism is becoming progressively apparent. From the tourists' perspective, as the...

The administrative governance of tourism safety is an important part of the national safety governance system. It is the concrete embodiment of the government's will in safety management and its mode of management under the premise of highlighting the characteristics and particularities of the ...

At present, China has become a big country in both tourism and tourism research. However, its tourism research is relatively backward in terms of ideological and theoretical innovation, mostly because the researchers do not put much emphasis on tourism philosophy or tourism research methodology....

Accounting for tourism eco-efficiency is an important prerequisite for promoting ecological environmental protection and sustainable tourism development. Using the life-cycle approach and the single indicator approach, the article conducts horizontal and vertical analyses of the carbon footprint...