With the rapid development of tourism, tourists have prioritized their internal emotional experiences. The relationship between tourism involvement and place attachment has become an important issue in the development of local tourism as it is an important indicator for analyzing and predicting tourists’needs. Therefore, it has been widely studied by the tourism industry and academia. This study takes Changsha City as an example and introduces tourists’perceived value as an intermediary variable based on the city’s tourism situation and relevant achievements. Additionally, it discusses the relationship between tourism involvement and place attachment. Studying the mechanism of tourist attachment and its promotion strategy is of great significance for sustainable destination development. The results show that: (1) The three dimensions of involvement significantly affect perceived value and place dependence, self-expression/centrality significantly affects place identity, and perceived value significantly affects place dependence and place identity. (2) Perceived value plays an important mediating role in the formation of tourists’place attachment. Perceived value partially mediates the relationship between attraction/self-presentation/centrality, place dependence and place identity. It is also a complete mediator between attraction and place identity. (3) Tourism involvement and perceived value are important drivers of place attachment.

Based on the virtual tourism community context, this study adopts the S-O-R theory, social exchange theory and service scenario theory to construct a theoretical model of “customer-to-customer interactions—customer engagement—value co-creation interactive behavior” from the perspective of C2C interaction. An empirical study was conducted using 495 valid questionnaires collected by online and offline methods, and the data were processed and hypotheses were tested using SPSS26.0 and AMOS28.0 software. The study found that direct and indirect interactions between customers have significant positive effects on the cognitive, emotional, and intentional dimensions of customer engagement. However, differences exist in the effects of the sub-dimensions. Emotional and intentional dimensions of customer engagement have significant positive effects on users’value co-creation interactive behaviors, and mediate the effects of direct and indirect interactions on value co-creation interactive behaviors, respectively. Contrarily, cognitive engagement does not have a direct effect on value co-creation interactive behavior. This study provides a new perspective on value co-creation in virtual tourism communities, which will promote its sustainable development.

Solo travel is becoming a trend in travel and is attracting considerable attention from domestic and international travel markets. The suitability of destinations for solo travel is important to travelers; however, current research lacks a focus on solo travelers’ destination preferences and their underlying mechanisms. This study adopts a qualitative research approach, based on the “means-ends” model, to explore the destination preferences of solo travelers and their underlying mechanisms at the destination and value levels. The results showed that: (1) Several key destination attributes, including features, landscape imagery, cultural imagery, local people, and local daily life affect destination preference. (2) Solo travelers’ value seeking includes freedom, escape, fun and enjoyment, self-reflection and self-growth. However, the value of “freedom” does not appear in the chain of destination perception and value seeking. (3) The attribute-outcome-value chain reflects the mechanisms inherent in the formation of destination preferences by solo travelers. This chain provides a clearer understanding of solo travelers’destination preferences, such as concrete attributes and abstract values. The findings of the study will help advance the study of solo travelers’destination preferences and the underlying mechanisms, and provide inspiration for the marketing and management in solo travel markets.

High-quality development is crucial for achieving Common Prosperity for all individuals. In this study, first, the level of high-quality development of tourism and level of Common Prosperity are evaluated based on the modified entropy method. Second, the threshold effect of high-quality tourism development on Common Prosperity is investigated via the threshold regression model. The results show that: (1) There is a double threshold effect of tourism quality development on Common Prosperity with a consistently positive influence when the urban development level is used as the threshold variable. However, the influence in eastern China is always negative and exhibits an inverted N-type change trend. Moreover, the central and western regions did not pass the threshold effect test. (2) A single threshold value of tourism quality development on Common Prosperity when the level of tourism development is used as the threshold variable in the entire country as well as in the eastern region. (3) When the level of economic development is used as the threshold variable, the influence of high-quality tourism development on Common Prosperity exhibits a U-shaped trend. In the central and eastern regions, high-quality tourism development has a positive effect on Common Prosperity, whereas the western regions show a significant negative effect.

Food festivals are important components and manifestation of festival and food tourism. However, compared with the booming food festival industry, theoretical research on food festivals is relatively scattered and lacks a cohesive system. To address this gap, this study analyzed 112 research articles on food festivals indexed in the WoS database from 1997 to 2023, and used bibliometric and content analysis methods to systematically review relevant domestic and foreign research results. The findings indicate that research on food festivals can be divided into three clusters: motivations and types of food festival participants, satisfaction of food festival participants, and the roles and impacts of food festivals. The results also present a development trajectory of different time periods. Using a framework-based systematic review, an innovative integration of research results on food festivals was conducted. Based on the theories, contexts, and methods framework, as well as the antecedents, decisions, and outcomes framework, existing research results were explained, and a structured view was outlined.