Annals of Tourism Research

Tourism is a site where difference is consumed, celebrated, and marginalised. This paper examines how queer men of colour navigate tourism and Grindr as interlocking contexts in which desirability is continually recalibrated. Drawing on interviews with thirteen participants and auto-ethnographic reflections, we bring intersectionality into dialogue with sexual field theory to conceptualise racial…

Tourism is often seen as driver for equality and sustainable development, yet the differential scrutiny tourists face at the border directly challenge this narrative. Using a narrative inquiry, we examine how marginalised tourists with low-ranking passports navigate border-crossing predicaments, despite meeting pre-entry requirements. Findings reveal that marginalised tourists experience border-c…

This study examines how international economic sanctions reshape women's work and livelihoods in Iran's tourism sector through the theoretical lens of feminist political economy. Drawing on interviews conducted in two phases around 2018 and again in 2024, the study unveils how sanction pressures operate across macro, meso , and micro levels, giving rise to three interrelated processes: gendered e…

Tourism researchers rely heavily on self-report data. The validity of their insights depends on reliability of measures, yet conventional test–retest reliability (1) overlooks item-level stability by relying on aggregate scale coefficients that can mask unstable questions; and (2) ignores how response options affect stability. We introduce the Item-Level Stability Protocol, which evaluates item-l…

Following on Eriksson's (2025) critique of tourism scholarship's impulse to “transcend” host–guest binaries, this commentary uses Deleuzian concepts to shift analysis from taking binaries as starting points to examining how they arise in situated encounters through stabilisation. We distinguish the actual organisation of an encounter (roles, routines, rules, and material arrangements currently ho…

Climate change is increasing heat risk for tourists worldwide. This paper delineates factors that make tourists particularly vulnerable to extreme heat and argues for their recognition as an at-risk group in heat-prone destinations. A review of community Heat Action Plans reveals a lack of engagement with the tourism sector. To address this gap, a framework for integrating tourism considerations …

Tourism demand forecasting is vital for planning yet faces challenges like data misalignment and external shocks. Data misalignment—due to missing values, irregular reporting, and inconsistent frequencies—undermines data quality. Shocks such as pandemics or natural disasters disrupt patterns, reducing the reliability of historical data. Traditional models (e.g., ARIMA, ETS) assume clean, regular …