Against the backdrop of integrated cultural and tourism development, children’s choir concerts—an art form that combines artistic appeal with music healing properties—have gradually been integrated into tourism healing scenarios. However, the internal mechanisms through which they enhance subjective well-being remain unclear. To address this, this study adopted a field questionnaire survey method to collect data from on-site audiences of children’s choir concerts, examining the time perspective-based enhancement path of such concerts on individuals’ subjective well-being. The results show that children’s choir concert experiences can directly improve subjective well-being and indirectly promote it through two time perspectives: positive past and future orientation. Meanwhile, it weakens negative past and present fatalistic perspectives and strengthens the present hedonistic perspective. This study enriches the literature on tourism healing, music healing, and time perspective, providing references for the government to promote social healing, relevant institutions to develop healing products, and individuals to enhance their well-being.

Phygital Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) tourism, which creates immersive experiences by integrating physical sites with digital interactions, offers an innovative pathway for addressing the core challenges in ICH’s living transmission, public engagement, and sustainable dissemination. Grounded in the Cognitive-Affective-Conative (CAC) theory, this study introduces cultural empathy and flow experience as mediating variables to explore the impact mechanism of phygital ICH tourism experiences on tourists’ cultural inheritance intention. The results indicate the following. First, the phygital ICH tourism experience has a significant positive impact on tourists’ cultural inheritance intention. Second, cultural empathy and flow experience exert significant positive effects on cultural inheritance intention. Third, flow experience and cultural empathy serve as mediators in the relationship between the phygital ICH experience and cultural inheritance intention, forming a significant chain-mediating effect. This study enriches the literature on phygital tourism and provides practical insights into the development and design of digital ICH tourism projects.

The development of rural red tourism provides new opportunities for rural revitalization. However, the influence of ritual activities on residents’ socially responsible behaviors remains unclear. Drawing on moral emotion and interaction ritual chains theories, this study investigates how rural red tourism rituals affect residents’ socially responsible behavior based on questionnaire data. The results show that the perceived ritualization of rural red tourism significantly enhances residents’ socially responsible behaviors. Red identity fusion and place attachment mediate this relationship. Moreover, red cultural awe moderates the relationship between red identity fusion and socially responsible behavior, not that between place attachment and socially responsible behavior. This study enriches the literature on rural red tourism and socially responsible behavior by revealing the role and underlying mechanisms of rituals in shaping responsible behavior. It also provides practical implications for the development of red tourism and the cultivation of socially responsible behavior among rural residents.

In the context of traffic surges, the local and external cultures of Internet celebrity destinations collide, exhibiting characteristics of short-term, high-intensity evolution and reshaping the emotional trajectories of tourists. Taking Harbin as a case study, this study systematically explores the dynamic evolution of destinations and tourists’ emotional experiences under the influencer effect based on semi-structured in-depth interviews and grounded coding analysis. The study finds that the following. First, Internet celebrity destinations display a ternary collaborative evolution of “service design-social response-spatial reconstruction,” reflecting the destinations’ rapid adaptation and structural adjustment in response to traffic surges. Second, tourists’ emotional experiences undergo three stages—expectation construction, immersive interaction, and identity generation—with positive emotional experiences consistently dominating throughout the process. Third, the evolution of destinations and tourists’ emotional experiences form a coupling relationship, where the destination acts as an emotional trigger providing symbolic promises, and tourists’ emotions serve as a validation benchmark and feedback driver, jointly constructing a dynamically interwoven, closed-loop system of meaning. The “Coupling model of Internet celebrity destination evolution and tourists’ emotional experience” constructed in this paper expands the theoretical perspective on tourist destinations and emotional experiences in the digital age, providing practical insights for optimizing tourist experiences and the sustainable development of destinations.

Tourist interaction refers to the interplay and mutual influence between tourists and diverse elements or entities, serving as a crucial means of enhancing experience quality, constructing social relationships, and maintaining destination brand reputation. This study systematically reviews the subject types, measurement tools, influencing factors, and effects of tourist interaction, constructs a comprehensive research framework, and proposes three major research approaches: digitalization, micro-orientation, and dialectics. Accordingly, it outlines future research directions, including establishing measurement and theoretical frameworks that integrate virtual and real contexts, analyzing dynamic psychological processes and group heterogeneity, and integrating multiple perspectives to unpack complex system effects, aiming to provide references for the theoretical development and practical advancement of tourist interaction research.