Abstract
Though the effects of air quality and weather conditions on tourism have been examined from different perspectives, their effects on tourists' emotional experience have not been investigated. Due to lack of effective measurements, tourists' real-time on-site emotional experience have not been duly examined. This study used tourists' geo-tagged check-in user-generated content (UGC) to extract the sentiments underlying tourists' real-time on-site emotional experience, and modelled the effects of air quality and weather conditions on tourists' emotional experience. The empirical results confirmed a negative and non-linear impact of air pollution, and an inverted-U effect of temperature on tourists' emotional experience. By developing a new and effective measure of tourists' emotional experience, this study provides hard evidence on the effects of air quality and weather conditions on tourists’ emotional experience, and thus advances the knowledge of environmental psychology and tourist experience studies. Results have practical implications for sustainable destination development and tourist experience management.
RAS ID
35911
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
9-30-2021
Volume
48
Funding Information
National Natural Science Foundation of China Sichuan University Ministry of Education of China Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
School
School of Business and Law
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Publisher
Elsevier
Comments
This is an author's accepted manuscript of: Wang, Y., Yang, Y., Huang, S. S., Huang, L., & Sun, W. (2021). Effects of air quality and weather conditions on Chinese tourists’ emotional experience. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 48, 1-9.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.05.012