This special article collection in the Journal of Destination Marketing & Management invites scholarly contributions that explore emerging frontiers and future directions in destination marketing and management. The collection seeks thought-provoking work that challenges conventional thinking and proposes innovative perspectives on how destinations evolve and compete in changing landscapes.

Appel publié par Journal of Destination Marketing & Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

This special issue examines negative aspects and challenges associated with food tourism, exploring how these issues can be better managed and mitigated. The call invites research that addresses the darker dimensions of food tourism experiences and their impacts.

Appel publié par Journal of Destination Marketing & Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Submission deadline

Boyu Lin, Macao University of Tourism

Jinwei Wang, Beijing International Studies University

Hongwen Chen, Nanchang University

Xin-Jean Lim, Universiti Putra Malaysia

This special issue examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping tourism planning and development across the Asia-Pacific region. Rather than focusing narrowly on technological efficiency, the call addresses broader transformations in destination governance, spatial flows, and how communities benefit from intelligent tourism systems. The collection seeks critical, theoretically informed research that explores the social, environmental, cultural, and economic implications of AI adoption in tourism contexts.

The Asia-Pacific region offers a particularly valuable setting for this inquiry due to its diversity: advanced smart cities coexist with rural destinations and climate-vulnerable communities, creating uneven experiences of AI-driven transformation. The region simultaneously faces urgent development challenges including overtourism, environmental pressures, and inequality, while becoming a global laboratory for experimental intelligent tourism systems. This context makes the region essential for understanding both opportunities and risks of AI-mediated tourism change.

Appel publié par Tourism Planning & Development. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Generative AI and Tourism Planning Future
• Agentic AI and Autonomous Tourism Management Systems
• Platformization and Algorithmic Governance
• AI-mediated Trip Planning and Tourist Mobility
• AI-mediated Labor and Socioeconomic Transformation
• AI Adoption and Sustainable Tourism Development
• AI-driven Reconfiguration of Tourism Planning
• AI-driven Tourism Business Innovation in Regional Development

Timeline

• May 30, 2027: Manuscript deadline

C. Michael Hall, Massey University

The ongoing Middle East conflict involving Israel, Iran, the United States, Lebanon, and Palestine represents the most significant disruption to international tourism since COVID-19. Its effects extend globally through disrupted aviation hubs in the Gulf, restricted airspace affecting Asia-Europe travel, and threats to shipping routes, alongside direct threats to tourism infrastructure worldwide.

Beyond direct military impacts, the crisis influences global tourism through elevated oil and energy costs, affecting aviation fuel prices and transport expenses. This energy crisis, reportedly exceeding previous major oil shocks combined, threatens airline viability and has implications for the sustainability and future trajectory of tourism infrastructure and carbon-dependent transport networks.

The journal invites research examining how the crisis affects tourist behavior, destination competitiveness, industry resilience, and government and business responses across international, regional, national, and local contexts, as well as its broader implications for tourism governance and energy futures.

Appel publié par Current Issues in Tourism. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• The effects of the Middle East crisis on international and domestic tourist attitudes, behaviour, decision-making, and flows
• The impacts of the Middle East crisis on destinations, attractions and businesses and policy and industry responses
• The Middle East crisis and destination image
• Resilience, adaptation, and vulnerability in tourism considering the Middle East crisis
• The geopolitics of tourism and the Middle East crisis
• The Middle East crisis and the aviation sector
• Energy futures for tourism
• Foreign policy and tourism
• The future of tourism in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean
• Substitute behaviour because of the Middle East crisis and the cost of energy
• Policy learning and the Middle East crisis
• The international and regional architecture of tourism governance and the Middle East crisis

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Manuscript deadline