Digital Inclusivity: Advancing Accessible Tourism via Sustainable E-Commerce and Marketing Strategies

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 16(4), С. 1680 - 1680

Опубликована: Фев. 19, 2024

In the fast-paced digital economy, stakeholders across regions, industries and organisational typologies are recognising growing significance of adopting customer-centric strategies. Inexorably, this necessitates comprehension consumer behaviours a diverse customer spectrum, including individuals with disabilities (PwD). context, present expert-driven conceptual research examines tourism sustainability inclusion elucidates role e-commerce platforms in promoting barrier-free environment for PwD creating more inclusive sustainable online marketing landscape. The findings highlight need ongoing evaluation improvement user experience to achieve satisfaction, loyalty stakeholder engagement, as well factors consideration towards environment. Further could explore assessment framework presented here practical context implementation uncover its strengths limitations.

Язык: Английский

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The Principle of Entropy Increase: A Novel View of How Tourism Influences Human Health

Journal of Travel Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Авг. 8, 2024

The principle of “entropy increase” is a universal law describing natural progression from order to disorder. This paper innovatively the first take as theoretical basis for assessing how tourism influences human health sociomateriality perspective. Despite growing emphasis on intersection and health, there remains need further development in this evolving field—particularly tourism’s positive negative impacts physical, mental, social based physiological measures. From an entropy point view, travel experiences could help maintain low-entropy state (i.e., bodily health) by influencing four key systems. Conversely, increase lead issues. An innovative conceptual framework proposed illustrate nexus between health. interdisciplinary investigation illustrates transition research paradigm “health tourism” tourism.”

Язык: Английский

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Promoting Youth Mental Health in Spiritual Tourism Through Service Design

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 17(2), С. 498 - 498

Опубликована: Янв. 10, 2025

Youth are society’s vital asset, and their mental health is a priority for global public health. Spiritual tourism, through the integration of cultural spiritual elements, promotes travelers’ has emerged as new model service that complements traditional treatments; however, this lacks focus on specific characteristics needs youth demographic, well design perspective, which may contribute to inability provide long-term support due insufficient social support. Therefore, paper explores ways in can foster tourism services. The begins with theoretical analysis identify key limitations current services while also addressing principles rationale incorporating suburban experiential lodging case. Subsequently, qualitative methods, including ethnographic observations, demographic surveys, in-depth interviews, were employed eleven participants three staff members gather insights into experiences needs. findings indicate hindered by issues such low accessibility, inadequate follow-up support, shortcomings. Furthermore, be designed systematically integrate natural environments, psychological identification, interaction, enhancing youth.

Язык: Английский

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Risk perception, travel intentions and self-protective behavior of chronically ill tourists under the protection motivation perspective

Scientific Reports, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 15(1)

Опубликована: Фев. 15, 2025

Tourist risk perception is a theoretical topic of great interest, but few studies have specifically investigated vulnerable groups people with chronic illnesses, illnesses may be part their daily lives, affecting individuals' health awareness and complicating travel decisions. This study one the first in tourism field to explore decision-making among chronically ill tourists. Adopting protection motivation theory as guiding framework, 504 tourists different stages types illness were assess patients' perceived risks actual intentions quantitative method. It was found that behavior self-protective depended on strength perception, which mainly influenced by threat, response cost self-efficacy. Further confirmed role mediator between PMT factors moderating effect Plog psychological type. The reveals logic shapes behaviors tourists' expands accessible from creating enjoyable experiences facilitating positive travel, findings can provide guidance for design destination encourage exploration illnesses.

Язык: Английский

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Health Benefits of Airborne Terpenoids and Aeroanions: Insights from Thematic Review of Chinese-Language Research on Forest Sensory Experiences

Environments, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 11(4), С. 79 - 79

Опубликована: Апрель 11, 2024

Most research on air chemistry and human health has focused negative consequences of pollution from cities, rural dust, mining, or industrial sites. Research nature tourism therapy, in contrast, focuses positive benefits quality for physical mental health, e.g., via “clean clean water” holidays. Aeroanions terpenoids forests have received particular attention, especially China, Japan, Korea. We review analyse several hundred articles published English Chinese. With a few recent exceptions, English-language tested indoor ion generators, concluded that they no measurable benefit. It aroma marketing. Chinese-language research, analysed fine-scale components outdoor environments affect concentrations aeroanions terpenoids: ecosystem, latitude, altitude, temperature, proximity to water, individual plant species. Historically, outcomes been taken granted, with little rigorous testing. Air shown can become attached fine water droplets, after rain forests, mists produced locally by waterfalls. hypothesise the natural may arise through scavenging airborne particulates negatively charged mists, creating clean, dust-free air. propose this particularly clean-tasting air, contrasting strongly polluted urban creates effects perhaps, also pulmonary health. Mechanisms remain be tested. testing psychological terpenoid scents forest trees.

Язык: Английский

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Mental health and well-being in tourism: a Horizon 2050 paper

Tourism Review, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 16, 2024

Purpose This paper aims to review research on mental health and well-being (MHW) in tourism, which the United Nations addresses Sustainable Development Goal No. 3 (SDG 3). The authors also pinpoint future directions regarding how tourism can contribute this goal from theoretical practical standpoints. Design/methodology/approach literature MHW perspectives of tourists, residents workers. Findings Researchers have predominantly analysed tourists’ outcomes through lenses positive psychology therapy; only a small number studies focused MHW-related benefits challenges terms development for Investigations require interdisciplinary approaches reveal promotes diverse stakeholders’ health. Practically, there is an urgent need incorporate products services into care, design experience with principles. Originality/value study offers insights fostering tourism. It specifically proposes ways might enhance various industry stakeholders, contributing SDG 3.

Язык: Английский

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Rethinking perceived constraints for people with chronic diseases: Developing and validating a scale for tourists with mild dementia

Tourism Management, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 107, С. 105082 - 105082

Опубликована: Ноя. 7, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Tourism Research

Elsevier eBooks, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Mental health research in tourism and hospitality: a horizon 2050 paper

Tourism Review, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Июль 25, 2024

Purpose This paper aims to cover mental health research related tourism and hospitality, starting in 1984, track its development until 2020. Relevant published between 2020 2023 during the COVID-19 pandemic is also reviewed determine how this stream evolving. Design/methodology/approach A detailed search of Scopus Google Scholar yielded 4,790 studies hospitality; 102 were ultimately retained for systematic review. VOSviewer was used visualize cluster analysis results. Findings Research on context hospitality limited can be classified into four themes. The most prominent involves relation COVID-19. Thematic differences before after onset are specified. findings inform a critical reflection conceptual framework linking health, as well potential avenues, covering populations, topics, methods, data sources outcome measures. Practical implications in-depth extant literature provides foundation stakeholders better understand, address promote hospitality. Such insights steer future enlighten industry practitioners, thus contributing sustainable development. Originality/value represents pioneering effort systematically review It offers holistic perspective unique insights, bridging substantial knowledge gaps. meant prompt academics practitioners contemplate health-related practice.

Язык: Английский

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Exploring perceptions of travel-eligible individuals with dementia and hotel operators

Anatolia, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 35(3), С. 553 - 565

Опубликована: Ноя. 18, 2023

Although people with dementia have leisure travel needs, no scholars appear to empirically explored how meet this group's needs as hotel guests. To bridge research gap in tourism literature, the current study employed in-depth interviews collect first-hand data from 15 travel-eligible tourists early-stage and senior luxury managers China. Specifically, six key themes were extracted Chinese guests dementia. Hotel managers' commentary on meeting dementia' during led three themes. Innovatively, further sheds light possible contributions hospitality industry makes global health field using context of a vulnerable group – an ageing society.

Язык: Английский

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