Tourism rights are a critical issue in tourism ethics research. In recent years, the Chinese government has advanced core principles including “equality” “participation” and “sharing” to protect the rights of vulnerable groups from the perspective of promoting social equity and justice, advocating for the achievement of social fairness through “inclusive development”. In the tourism sector, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups encounter numerous barriers to participating in tourism activities, rendering their tourism rights susceptible to exclusion. Existing research on tourism rights for vulnerable groups predominantly focuses on legal frameworks and normative regulations, and rarely considers the ethical legitimacy underlying these rights. In response, this study elevates the discussion of tourism rights for vulnerable groups to the level of equity and justice within a normative analytical framework. It specifically elaborates the ethical dimensions, realization pathways, and policy recommendations for tourism rights of vulnerable groups from an inclusiveness perspective, encompassing both the negative dimension of “eliminating exclusion”and the positive dimension of “promoting participation”. The negative dimension requires eliminating or minimizing subjective and structural obstacles faced by vulnerable groups, while the positive dimension mandates that relevant stakeholders assume responsibilities in “promoting inclusive democratic decision-making” “cultivating spatial justice within tourism landscapes” and “integrating vulnerable groups into tourism production processes”.

The integration of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and tourism is the main driving force for high-quality tourism development. In view of the problems of unreasonable benefit distribution and low participation of ICH inheritors in the benefit maximization of ICH tourism, which restrict the integrated development and value co-creation, this study constructs an evolutionary game model of value co-creation between tourism enterprises and ICH inheritors and discusses the factors influencing value co-creation behavior. The study introduces cost-sharing and reward-and-punishment mechanisms to coordinate the value co-creation behavior of the two parties, which has important guiding significance for promoting high-quality tourism development in China. This study found that (1) value co-creation of ICH tourism integration is influenced by synergistic benefits, and the proportionate distribution, integration and development costs, spillover benefits, etc.; (2) when the integration cost, synergistic benefit, and spillover benefit of both parties meet certain conditions, the introduction of a cost-sharing mechanism can significantly improve the realization probability of value co-creation; (3) the introduction of a reward-and-punishment mechanism on the basis of cost-sharing can effectively promote the coordination of value co-creation between the two parties in the game. Both government subsidies and fines have a positive impact on the integrated development behavior of the two parties. When the synergistic benefits are greater than the sum of the spillover benefits of tourism enterprises and inheritors, liquidated damages can effectively promote the integrated value co-creation of ICH tourism.

With the rise in nostalgia-oriented consumption, rural homestays have become typical venues for experiencing rural life-emotional spaces where visitors retreat from urban bustle and seek psychological comfort. Against this backdrop, this study takes nostalgia-themed rural homestays as the research context and rigorously follows standardized procedures of scale development to construct and validate a measurement instrument for tourists’ nostalgic emotions. Study 1, grounded in a literature review and in-depth interviews, inductively and deductively clarified the connotation of nostalgic emotions and developed an initial pool of measurement items. Study 2 empirically explored and verified the scale’s dimensional structure through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Study 3 incorporated perceived authenticity and behavioral intention variables into a structural equation model, providing evidence of the scale’s satisfactory criterion-related validity. Through these three sequential studies, a four-dimensional, sixteen-item nostalgia emotion scale-comprising interpersonal nostalgia, personal nostalgia, imagery nostalgia, and historical nostalgia-was developed and validated empirically. This study contributes an objective and standardized tool for assessing nostalgic emotions among rural homestay tourists and offers practical implications for the development and marketing of nostalgia-themed rural accommodations.

The digital economy has played a pivotal role in driving China’s industrial transformation, upgrading, and high-quality development. Adopting both supply- and demand-side perspectives, this study employs innovation capability and market demand as mediating variables and utilizes panel data from 31 Chinese provinces and municipalities to empirically analyze the impact and mechanisms through which the digital economy influences the integrated development of cultural and tourism industries. The findings indicate the following: (1) The digital economy significantly promotes the integrated development of cultural and tourism industries. (2) Regional variations exist in the digital economy’s promotional effect on cultural and tourism integration. The Western region demonstrated the most significant promotional effect, followed by the Eastern region, whereas the effects in the Central and Northeastern regions remained statistically insignificant. (3) A mediating transmission pathway exists: digital economy → innovation capability or market demand → integrated development of cultural and tourism industries. Based on these findings, this study proposes the following policy recommendations: (a) Strengthen the construction and application of digital infrastructure within the cultural and tourism sectors. (b) Emphasize the role of digital marketing in stimulating consumer demand. (c) Encourage and support digital innovation to facilitate the development of innovative cultural and tourism products. (d) Accounting for regional variations in the digital economy’s impact on cultural and tourism integration. This study elucidates the role and mechanisms through which the digital economy promotes the integrated development of the cultural and tourism industries, thereby contributing to a fuller realization of digital economy dividends in this sector.

Enhancing tourism destination residents’ well-being is an important objective of tourism development and has become a significant topic in domestic and international tourism research in recent years. Building upon a conceptual analysis distinguishing happiness, quality of life, and well-being, this study employed the CiteSpace software to conduct a visualization analysis of 197 relevant articles on tourism destination resident well-being retrieved and screened from the CNKI and Web of Science Core Collection databases. The findings reveal that: (1) Tourism destination resident well-being, approached from both subjective and objective perspectives, has at its core two key variables-happiness and quality of life-and, through constructing a theoretical framework that encompasses both the individual domain and the social system, comprehensively measures people’s living conditions, thereby facilitating the realization of people’s aspirations for a better life; (2) The research trajectory of tourism destination resident well-being can be divided into three phases: initial emergence, progressive development, and rapid growth; (3) Existing research themes primarily focus on four aspects: measurement and evaluation indicator construction for tourism destination resident well-being, influencing factors of tourism destination resident well-being, the relationship between tourism development and resident well-being, and heterogeneity studies of tourism destination resident well-being. Currently, the research focus in this field has gradually shifted from the unidirectional relationships between tourism development and resident well-being to exploring their bidirectional interactive relationships. Future research should deepen research approaches by combining qualitative and quantitative methods, incorporate dynamic analysis, emphasize the multiple interactions between human and non-human factors in resident well-being, expand and refine research scenarios in the Chinese context, and elaborate research content, thereby providing support for further refinement of the theoretical framework for tourism destination resident well-being research.