In the 1970s and 1980s of the West, there was a clear reciprocal relationship between the rising of tourism anthropology and the evolution of Annals of Tourism Research. The founding of the Annals of Tourism Research is one of the most important symbols of the birth of tourism social science in the West. The early development of this journal was mainly based on the involvement of various social science disciplines, among which cultural anthropology was one of the five important disciplines that shaped its early trajectory; similarly, Annals of Tourism Research was also an important platform for the construction of the various tourism sub-disciplines (such as tourism anthropology). Taking academic journals as the object of study, we can peep into the changes of knowledge production and the fate of related disciplines. This article analyzes the “pre-paradigmatic” nature of Western tourism anthropology in the context of the founding practices of Annals of Tourism Research, laying the foundation for understanding its dynamic development process and setting up a mirror for its reflection.

Against the realistic context of homogenization and fierce competition among destination brands, emotional differentiation determines the competitive advantage of destination brands to a large extent. Destination brand love reflects the deep reliance of tourists on destinations. How to make tourists fall in love with the destination has become the ultimate pursuit of destination marketers. Based on Environmental Psychology, Social Exchange Theory and Hierarchy-of-Effects Model, this study constructs a model of tourscape on destination brand love through enticing benefits, enabling benefits and enriching benefits. The study finds that the physical elements in tourscape have a directly positive impact on the destination brand love, and there is no statistical difference between the total impacts of physical elements and social elements on the destination brand love, that enticing benefits and enriching benefits mediate the influences of physical and social elements on destination brand love. This study also puts forward management suggestions for destination management organizations to adopt destination brand love strategy.

It is of great significance to clarify the mechanism of users’ value co-creation behavior for the sustainable development of virtual travel community. Based on S-O-R framework, and starting from users’ perceived features of virtual travel community, this paper introduced the attachment theory to explore the mechanism of users’ value co-creation behavior. A hybrid method based on Structural Equation Model (SEM) and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) was adopted in this paper. This study found that: (1)Users’ perceived features of virtual travel community have a significantly positive influence on both group attachment and interpersonal attachment, but it cannot directly trigger users’ value co-creation behavior unless emotional attachment plays its mediating role, and the mediating effect of group attachment is more significant than interpersonal attachment; (2)according to the results of qualitative comparative analysis, two types of configurations leading to users’ value co-creation behavior are obtained, of which entertainment is an essential condition for the outcome, and aggregation, influence power of information source, group attachment and interpersonal attachment play core roles in part.

As an emerging tourism development style, dark tourism provides a fresh research perspective for the construction and improvement of the tourism discipline system. Therefore, it has gradually become one of the most appealing areas for academic community in recent years. Using CiteSpace software and journals and dissertations from CNKI as the target database, this paper analyzed the literature on China’s dark tourism from 1999 to 2021 and found that: (1) The number of literature shows a fluctuating growth yearly, which can be divided into 3 stages: the embryonic stage (1999-2007), the rapid growth stage (2008-2014) and the steady progress stage (2015-2021); (2) Close academic groups has not been formed in this field, with little cooperation and communication among scholars and loose academic nexus of research institutions; (3) 10 articles are essential and the foundation in the development progress of domestic dark tourism. (4) The hot topics of domestic dark tourism research focus on dark tourism resources, dark tourists and dark tourism development. Thus, innovative research ideas, improved quantity and quality of research and enhanced communication among scholars and academic groups are needed in the field of future dark tourism. In addition, improved systematic discipline system of dark tourism, multiple perspectives and expanded perspectives from other disciplines are also necessary in prospective studies.