Destination Resilience and Innovation for Advanced Sustainable Tourism Management
A special issue of Tourism and Hospitality (ISSN 2673-5768).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 116
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tourist engagement; consumer behavior in hospitality and tourism; desti-nation management and marketing; tourism planning and policy; cultural tourism and scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, the tourism sector has faced numerous disruptions, including natural disasters, health crises, and socio-political challenges, underscoring the critical need for destination resilience and innovative management practices. Destination resilience emphasizes a destination's ability to adapt to external disturbances, as well as learn from and reorganize after disasters and crises. It is crucial to focus on developing both planned resilience—preparing in advance for unexpected events such as crises, disasters, and security threats—as well as adaptive resilience, which concerns post-event recovery. Both require leadership, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and robust internal and external communication, with these laying the foundation for sustainable development.
This Special Issue, titled “Destination Resilience and Innovation for Advanced Sustainable Tourism Management,” aims to explore comprehensive and multidisciplinary approaches that leverage innovation to enhance the resilience and sustainable development of tourism destinations. It invites contributions that examine the resilience of destinations with varied structures and resources, including city destinations, rural areas, heritage sites, and small islands. We encourage submissions that address resilience at various levels—micro (e.g., tourists, local communities), meso (e.g., destination management organizations, business operators, supply chain management), and macro (e.g., socio-ecological systems)—in order to illuminate the dynamic interplay among these scales.
We welcome submissions employing diverse approaches, such as empirical research, case studies, conceptual analysis, critical analysis, meta-analysis, big-data analysis, text mining, bibliometric analysis, and exploratory content analysis, with the ultimate aim of identifying factors contributing to destination resilience and innovation. Furthermore, as innovative practices and technologies play a pivotal role in enhancing destination resilience, solutions such as automation through robotics, mobile applications for health and safety monitoring, artificial intelligence, and big data for predictive analytics are welcome. These advancements are instrumental in developing absorptive, innovative, and adaptive capabilities essential for tackling long-term challenges such as over-tourism and climate change.
To conclude, this Special Issue seeks to catalyze cross-disciplinary dialogue and inspire a diverse range of contributions that not only enhance destination attractiveness and competitiveness but also prioritize environmental and social justice. In doing so, we aim to build a comprehensive understanding of how education, inclusivity, and innovation can drive the agenda of sustainable tourism forward. Encouraging a holistic view, we invite studies that offer fresh insights into policies, strategies, and practices that are vital for fostering resilient, innovative, and sustainable tourism ecosystems.
Dr. Shuyue Huang
Dr. Dagnachew Leta Senbeto
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- destination resilience policy and planning
- sustainable tourism management
- technology and innovation in tourism
- smart tourism destinations
- social equity and inclusion in tourism
- tourism supply chain sustainability
- crisis management and risk reduction
- stakeholder collaboration in tourism
- climate change adaptation for tourism
- education and capacity building in sustainable tourism
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Reviving from the Pandemic: Harnessing the Power Of Social Media Reviews in Sustainable Tourism Management
Author: Dr. Brian Liang
Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism sector encountered multiple challenges. Numerous governments chose to lock down their cities and countries. Despite this, many companies found their online businesses making the greatest leaps in their portfolios and social media platforms became one of the most valuable sources of information for purchase decisions.
There have been numerous studies on the effects of social media reviews - a form of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), on consumer behavior. Few were found related to their impact on group package tour (GPT) while considering mixed eWOM, that is, both positive and negative present in the word-of-mouth communication. As the tourism sector gradually revives, the need to further explore how tourism and hospitality service providers can adapt to changes in post-pandemic consumer behavior has become imperative.
The influence of social media reviews on consumers’ value perceptions of a GPT to Japan, allowing for the influence of the marketing mix element of advertised price, was examined through online experiments in this study. Positive, negative and mixed eWOM were examined. It was found that eWOM was more influential on consumers’ value perceptions than the advertised price for all price acceptability levels. Mixed eWOM was found to negatively affect consumers’ final price perceptions which override the impact of quality perceptions in value formations. The value perceptions of the GPT became less acceptable when eWOM was mixed compared to when eWOM was absent or was positive. Mixed eWOM had a negative effect on value perceptions, but not as great as when negative eWOM was present and this was consistently found to apply for all price acceptability levels of the GPT.
The study’s contribution to eWOM research and implications on post-pandemic recovery of tourism and hospitality service providers are made, together with suggested strategies using innovative technologies and communications to enhance their adaptive resilience in the new normal.
