Best paper award

The editorial team of the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (JHTM) makes annual awards to the authors of a best paper and two highly commended papers. The awards are presented at the annual CAUTHE conference the following February. The award is based on usage statistics and Scopus citation counts of the published papers and an assessment of the papers’ contribution to the research field.

2024 Digital destination storytelling: Narrative persuasion effects induced by story satisfaction in a VR context. Nao Li , Leyan Li, Xiaoming Chen and IpKin Anthony Wong

2023 A model of luxury lodge experience quality. Anita Manfreda, Frans Melissen, Rajka Presbury, Scott Richardson, Justin King

2022 What is holding customers back? Assessing the moderating roles of personal and social norms on CSR’S routes to Airbnb repurchase intention in the COVID-19 era. Chuah, S. H. W., Sujanto, R. Y., Sulistiawan, J., & Aw, E. C. X.

2021 Effects of rural revitalization on rural tourism. Jun Yang, Ruxin Yang, Ming-Hsiang Chen, Ching-Hui (Joan) Su, Yin Zhi and Jianchao Xi.

2020 Sleeping in a stranger’s home: A trust formation model for Airbnb. Zhenxing (Eddie) Mao, Margie F. Jones, Mimi Li, Wei Wei, Jiaying Lyum,

2019 ‘Friend or Foe? The complex relationship between indigenous people and policymakers regarding rural tourism in Indonesia’. Ringkar Situmorang, Teddy Trilaksono and Arnold Japutra

2018 Developing a measurement scale for cultural values and norms of Chinese mass travelers. Lianping Ren and Hanqin Qiu

2017 Power in tourism stakeholder collaborations: Power types and power holders. Hiroaki Saito and Lisa Ruhanen

2016 Motivating frontline employees: Role of job characteristics in work and life satisfaction. Xinyuan Zhao, Richard Ghiselli, Rob Law and Jing Ma

Highly commended paper award

2024

• Unraveling the power of social media influencers: Qualitative insights into the role of Instagram influencers in the hospitality and tourism industry. Tatyana Bastrygina, Weng Marc Lim, Ryan Jopp and Marc Arul Weissmann
• Building resilience and sustainable HRM in the visitor economy: An uneasy relationship. Ancy Gamage, Joanne Pyke, Terry de Lacy

2023

• The more the better? Strategizing visual elements in social media marketing Irene Cheng Chu Chan, Zhaoyu Chen, Daniel Leung
• The role of tourism in healthy aging: An interdisciplinary literature review and conceptual model Fangli Hu, Jun Wen, Ian Ph, Tianyu Ying, Joshua Aston, Wei Wang

2022

• Wan, Y. K. P., Li, X., Lau, V. M. C., & Dioko, L. D. Destination governance in times of crisis and the role of public-private partnerships in tourism recovery from Covid-19: The case of Macao.
• Horng, J. S., Liu, C. H., Chou, S. F., Yu, T. Y., & Hu, D. C. (2022). Role of big data capabilities in enhancing competitive advantage and performance in the hospitality sector: Knowledge-based dynamic capabilities view.

2021

• Yu, J., Lee, K., and Hyun, S. S. Understanding the influence of the perceived risk of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the post-traumatic stress disorder and revisit intention of hotel guests.
• Kwangji Kim, Mark A. Bonn, Meehee Cho and Kyung Hee. Clean safety message framing as survival strategies for small independent restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020

• Kim, J., Kim, J., Lee, S. K., & Tang, L. R. Effects of epidemic disease outbreaks on financial performance of restaurants: Event study method approach.
• Dhirasasna, N., Becken, S., & Sahin, O. A systems approach to examining the drivers and barriers of renewable energy technology adoption in the hotel sector in Queensland, Australia.

2019

• Girish Prayag, Isabella Soscia and Ozlem Hesapci. Advertising guilt-laden vacations: The cross-cultural efficacy of a guilt decreasing appeal.
• Hung-Che Wu, Ya-Yuan Chang and Tsung-Pao Wu. Pilgrimage: What drives pilgrim experiential supportive intentions?

2018

• Pierre Benckendorff and Mengya (Lavender) Shu. Research impact benchmarks for tourism, hospitality and events scholars in Australia and New Zealand.
• Mariana de Freitas Coelho, Marlusa de Sevilha Gosling and António Sérgio Araújo de Almeida. Tourism experiences: Core processes of memorable trips.

2017

• Paul V. Mathrew and S. Sreesanth. Impact of responsible tourism on destination sustainability and quality of life of community in tourism destinations.
• Steven Pike. Destination positioning and temporality: Tracking relative strengths and weaknesses over time.

2016

• Yetta Gurtner. Returning to paradise: Investigating issues of tourism crisis and disaster recovery on the island of Bali.
• Jay Kandampully, Anil Bilgihan, Tingting Zhang. Developing a people-technology hybrids model to unleash innovation and creativity: The new hospitality frontier. 

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Best PhD Paper awards

Current doctoral researchers or recent graduates were invited to submit manuscripts to JHTM based on research undertaken during their doctoral study. Award winning papers received a cash prize, certificate and opportunities of public recognition at the CAUTHE Annual Conference and promotion. Awards are based on PhD Scholar papers published in the previous year and are awarded at the following year’s conference.

Best PhD Paper Award

2024 Chenggang Hua, Indiana University, Travel participation as an outlet for social integration of people with spinal cord injury: An explanatory sequential mixed methods study

2023 Roshis Krishna Shrestha, Australian National University, A Place where I belong’ – The ambiguous role of the outsider-within dichotomy among Indigenous Gurung women tourism entrepreneurs in Nepal

2022 Bruce Wan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Journaling memorable and meaningful tourism experience: a strengths based approach to technology-mediated reflection

2021 Ding Xu, James Cook University, Australia for his paper Differentiating Tourist Scam Cases: Towards a Taxonomy of Deceptive Schemes

2020 Alexandra Cehan, University of Iasi, A multilayer network approach to tourism collaboration

Highly recommended PhD paper

2024 Dr Li Xie Carson, The University of Melbourne, Insta-fame or insta-flop? The pitfalls of using virtual influencers in tourism marketing 

2023 Zhiwei (CJ) Lin, Sun Yat-sen University, The rising environmentalists: Fostering xenvironmental goal attainment through volunteer tourism

2022 Ziang Zhang, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Scale theory and tourism destination development towards a new theoretical tool

2021 Montira Intason, University of Otago, New Zealand for her paper Examining the interplay between a hallmark cultural event, tourism, and commercial activities. A case study of the Songkran Festival

2020 Ryan Yung, Griffith University, VR the World: Experimenting with emotion and presence for tourism marketing

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Best reviewer awards

The JHTM makes awards each year for reviewers based on both the number and speed of the reviews, as well as the quality of the reviews provided by these individuals. The best reviewer award recipients are:

2024 Al-Ansi Amr (Macau University of Science and Technology) | Dimitrios Stylidis (University of Crete, Greece) | Jie Sun (USA) | Jun Wen (Edith Cowan University, Australia) | Shaohua Yang (Anhui University of Technology, China)

2023 Al-Ansi Amr (Sejong University, South Korea) | Jun Wen (Edith Cowan University, Australia) | Shaohua Yang (Anhui University of Technology, China)

2022 Anna Farmaki (Cyprus University of Technology) | Jun Wen (Edith Cowan University, Australia) | Raymond Rastegar (The University of Queensland, Australia)

2021 Dr Kyle Woosnam (Clemson University, USA) | Professor Girish Prayag (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) | Dr Yao-Chin Wang (University of Florida) | Dr Rawan Nimri (Griffith University, Australia)

2020 Aaron Hsiao (Griffith University, Australia)

2019 Mingming Cheng (University of Otago, New Zealand) | Sebastian Filep (University of Otago, New Zealand)

2018 Joan Henderson (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) | Noel Scott (Griffith University, Australia)

2017 Sebastian Filep (University of Otago, New Zealand) | Nuno Gustavo (Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Portugal) | Metin Kozak (Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Turkey) | Surej John (Waikato University, New Zealand)

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Marianna Sigala
University of South Australia