Xinran Y Lehto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1609191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xinran Y Lehto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xinran Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehto |
| SIGNATURE | LEHTO X Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 264 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Exploring the multifaceted role of food experiences in shaping tourist destination perceptions
Emotional contagion and social dynamics: A study of communal dining for solo international travelers
Despite the increasing popularity of solo travel, little attention has been given to the social experiences of solo international travelers. This study examines how fellow diners’ emotional expressions influence solo travelers’ affect and rapport in communal dining settings. Using a scenario-based experiment, the study demonstrates that fellow diners’ emotional displays significantly affect solo travelers’ perceived rapport and emotional experien…
A supplier side view of digital nomadism: The case of destination Gran Canaria
Digital nomadism is a rapidly growing lifestyle for living and working. Despite its potential transformative effect on destinations, little attention has been paid to destination communities in which digital nomads reside. This paper aims to examine the interface between the destination communities and digital nomadism: how the stakeholders in a destination community perceive and accommodate digital nomads. The case study comes from a popular Eur…
Effect of a brand story structure on narrative transportation and perceived brand image of luxury hotels
Existential Authenticity and Anxiety as Outcomes: The Tourist in the Experience Economy: Existential Authenticity and Anxiety as Outcomes
The idea of meaning-making as embedded in the experience economy 3.0 implies that greater consumption does not lead to greater contentment, and thus, products that have the capacity to meaningfully transform a consumer are to constitute the ultimate economic offering. Conceptualizing transformation as changes in tourist existential authenticity and anxiety, this study investigates the effect of tourism on these existential dimensions. Utilizing t…
Student life stress and leisure participation
Stress is an inevitable part of university life. Understanding students' stress-coping behaviour is a topic of relevance to universities aiming to enhance student satisfaction with campus life and well-being in general. This research examined the dynamic relationships between student stress, anticipated leisure benefits, leisure participation and gender. The results have confirmed that anticipated leisure benefits are significantly related to stu…
Assessing the Perceived Restorative Qualities of Vacation Destinations
The objective of this study was to develop a tool for assessing how and why a destination can facilitate vacationers’ recovery from mental fatigue. Using attention restoration theory as a theoretical foundation, this research developed an initial instrument for assessing the perceived restorative qualities of vacation destinations (i.e., perceived destination restorative quality [PDRQ]). A 30-item, six-factor structure of destination restorativen…
Travel by families with children possessing disabilities: Motives and activities
Vacation and Well-Being: A Study of Chinese Tourists
Linking island tourist activity participation and satisfaction - evidence from Fiji
Island destinations enable distinctive vacation experience due to special geological features. This study explores the dimensions and contribution of different components of island experience to the overall tourist satisfaction. It reveals a typology of six island vacation activities. They are adventure and exploring, culture appreciation, water’s caress, wedding events, relaxation and indulgence, and sociable sports. It also examines the contrib…
Measuring Family Reunion Travel Motivations
A Missing Link in Understanding Revisit Intention—The Role of Motivation and Image
This study addresses two gaps in the research on tourist revisit intention: the impact of the pre-visit psychological factor of travel motivation and its relationship with destination image. Path analysis is adopted to examine the relationships among destination image, travel motivation, and revisit intention in a rural tourism context. A causal relationship is detected between three motivation dimensions, two image dimensions, and revisit intent…
Vacation and Family Functioning
Destination image representation on the web: Content analysis of Macau travel related websites
Gender differences in online travel information search: Implications for marketing communications on the internet
The relationship between daily and vacation activities
Yoga Tourism as a Niche Within the Wellness Tourism Market
Yoga tourism has emerged and grown with the 'travel to feel well' trend. This study explored this under-researched market by interviewing and surveying a group of yoga retreat participants in central Indiana, USA. This research, while exploratory in nature, delineated the socio-demographic and motivational characteristics of yoga tourists and provided empirical evidences that an individual's involvement level with yoga, physical health as well as…
The effect of prior experience on vacation behavior
Destination image representation on the web: Content analysis of Macau travel related websites
The effect of prior experience on vacation behavior
Vacation and Well-Being: A Study of Chinese Tourists
Vacation and Family Functioning
Gender differences in online travel information search: Implications for marketing communications on the internet
Yoga Tourism as a Niche Within the Wellness Tourism Market
Yoga tourism has emerged and grown with the 'travel to feel well' trend. This study explored this under-researched market by interviewing and surveying a group of yoga retreat participants in central Indiana, USA. This research, while exploratory in nature, delineated the socio-demographic and motivational characteristics of yoga tourists and provided empirical evidences that an individual's involvement level with yoga, physical health as well as…
A supplier side view of digital nomadism: The case of destination Gran Canaria
Digital nomadism is a rapidly growing lifestyle for living and working. Despite its potential transformative effect on destinations, little attention has been paid to destination communities in which digital nomads reside. This paper aims to examine the interface between the destination communities and digital nomadism: how the stakeholders in a destination community perceive and accommodate digital nomads. The case study comes from a popular Eur…
Travel by families with children possessing disabilities: Motives and activities
The relationship between daily and vacation activities
Effect of a brand story structure on narrative transportation and perceived brand image of luxury hotels
Measuring Family Reunion Travel Motivations
Student life stress and leisure participation
Stress is an inevitable part of university life. Understanding students' stress-coping behaviour is a topic of relevance to universities aiming to enhance student satisfaction with campus life and well-being in general. This research examined the dynamic relationships between student stress, anticipated leisure benefits, leisure participation and gender. The results have confirmed that anticipated leisure benefits are significantly related to stu…
The effect of prior experience on vacation behavior
Yoga Tourism as a Niche Within the Wellness Tourism Market
Yoga tourism has emerged and grown with the 'travel to feel well' trend. This study explored this under-researched market by interviewing and surveying a group of yoga retreat participants in central Indiana, USA. This research, while exploratory in nature, delineated the socio-demographic and motivational characteristics of yoga tourists and provided empirical evidences that an individual's involvement level with yoga, physical health as well as…
Destination image representation on the web: Content analysis of Macau travel related websites
Gender differences in online travel information search: Implications for marketing communications on the internet
The relationship between daily and vacation activities
Vacation and Family Functioning
A Missing Link in Understanding Revisit Intention—The Role of Motivation and Image
This study addresses two gaps in the research on tourist revisit intention: the impact of the pre-visit psychological factor of travel motivation and its relationship with destination image. Path analysis is adopted to examine the relationships among destination image, travel motivation, and revisit intention in a rural tourism context. A causal relationship is detected between three motivation dimensions, two image dimensions, and revisit intent…
Measuring Family Reunion Travel Motivations
Assessing the Perceived Restorative Qualities of Vacation Destinations
The objective of this study was to develop a tool for assessing how and why a destination can facilitate vacationers’ recovery from mental fatigue. Using attention restoration theory as a theoretical foundation, this research developed an initial instrument for assessing the perceived restorative qualities of vacation destinations (i.e., perceived destination restorative quality [PDRQ]). A 30-item, six-factor structure of destination restorativen…
Travel by families with children possessing disabilities: Motives and activities
Vacation and Well-Being: A Study of Chinese Tourists
Linking island tourist activity participation and satisfaction - evidence from Fiji
Island destinations enable distinctive vacation experience due to special geological features. This study explores the dimensions and contribution of different components of island experience to the overall tourist satisfaction. It reveals a typology of six island vacation activities. They are adventure and exploring, culture appreciation, water’s caress, wedding events, relaxation and indulgence, and sociable sports. It also examines the contrib…
Student life stress and leisure participation
Stress is an inevitable part of university life. Understanding students' stress-coping behaviour is a topic of relevance to universities aiming to enhance student satisfaction with campus life and well-being in general. This research examined the dynamic relationships between student stress, anticipated leisure benefits, leisure participation and gender. The results have confirmed that anticipated leisure benefits are significantly related to stu…
Existential Authenticity and Anxiety as Outcomes: The Tourist in the Experience Economy: Existential Authenticity and Anxiety as Outcomes
The idea of meaning-making as embedded in the experience economy 3.0 implies that greater consumption does not lead to greater contentment, and thus, products that have the capacity to meaningfully transform a consumer are to constitute the ultimate economic offering. Conceptualizing transformation as changes in tourist existential authenticity and anxiety, this study investigates the effect of tourism on these existential dimensions. Utilizing t…
Effect of a brand story structure on narrative transportation and perceived brand image of luxury hotels
A supplier side view of digital nomadism: The case of destination Gran Canaria
Digital nomadism is a rapidly growing lifestyle for living and working. Despite its potential transformative effect on destinations, little attention has been paid to destination communities in which digital nomads reside. This paper aims to examine the interface between the destination communities and digital nomadism: how the stakeholders in a destination community perceive and accommodate digital nomads. The case study comes from a popular Eur…
Emotional contagion and social dynamics: A study of communal dining for solo international travelers
Despite the increasing popularity of solo travel, little attention has been given to the social experiences of solo international travelers. This study examines how fellow diners’ emotional expressions influence solo travelers’ affect and rapport in communal dining settings. Using a scenario-based experiment, the study demonstrates that fellow diners’ emotional displays significantly affect solo travelers’ perceived rapport and emotional experien…
Exploring the multifaceted role of food experiences in shaping tourist destination perceptions
Psychology (14 works) · Tourism (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Advertising (8 works) · Marketing (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Destinations (7 works)