Xinran Lehto
Biographic Data
| ID | 3473980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xinran Lehto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xinran |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehto |
| SIGNATURE | LEHTO X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4812-4315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 538 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Predictors of community support for heritage conservation policies – the case of the city of San Fernando, Pampanga
With the increased role of local authorities in creating policies, gathering information on how successful and sustainable local heritage conservation policies are established will be valuable in crafting future policies. Local government heritage conservation policies were investigated in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines, to determine predictors of community support for heritage conservation policy – why communities support the po…
Exploring the multifaceted role of food experiences in shaping tourist destination perceptions
The Impact of Home Environment Insecurity on Tourists’ Self-Protective Behavior in the Event of a Terrorist Attack
Terrorist attacks have a profound and lasting impact on tourism destinations and tourists’ safety. By applying protection motivation theory as the theoretical lens and adopting the threat of a terrorist attack in London as the study context, this study examines the impact of home environment insecurity on tourists’ risk evaluation (i.e., threat and coping appraisals) and self-protective behavioral intentions amid a terrorism incident while travel…
Transforming Hotel Lobbies via Community-Centered Design: Crafting a Vibrant Social Hub for Guests
Recent trends in hotel design shift lobbies from their traditional check-in and check-out functions towards a vision of lobbies as vibrant social hubs. This study explores guests’ preferred hotel lobby designs using choice-based conjoint analysis, focusing on elements that integrate local community characteristics through visual, functional, and activity design. Our findings demonstrate how these preferred design elements contribute to a sense of…
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…
Destination Relational Aesthetic Qualities: Implications for Experience Design
Aesthetics has long shaped the experiential dimension of tourism, yet conventional approaches have largely privileged visual or object-based beauty, leaving relational dimensions under-theorized. Drawing on relational aesthetics and relational ontology, this paper introduces the Destination Relational Aesthetic Qualities (DRAQ) framework, identifying five qualities—imperfection, incompleteness, non-authorialness, story-like quality, and serendipi…
Shaping digital luxury perception: The impact of curvature in website design
Convergence of Boundaries in Tourism, Hospitality, Events, and Leisure: Defining the Core and Knowledge Structure
This study aims to address the convergence of boundaries in Tourism, Hospitality, Events, and Leisure (THEL) fields. We offer a synthesized definition of THEL and discuss a set of meta-concepts that define the core and knowledge structure of THEL. We argue that hospitality, experience, and place are unifying constructs upon which all THEL scholarship activities and practice fields are established. The paper invites a system-wide conversation to s…
Immersive Digital Tourism: The Role of Multisensory Cues in Digital Museum Experiences
Facilitated by emerging technologies, the immersive digital museum reflects disruptive innovation in today’s tourism experience and offers a multidimensional experience different from traditional museums. To better understand how visitors respond to this innovative form of digital tourism, the current research investigates visitor experiences at the digital museum and achieves a threefold goal. First, this research delineates a three-dimensional …
Travelers’ Psychological Comfort with Local Food Experiences and Place Attachment
Travelers’ engagement with local food at a foreign destination could be overwhelming and affect their overall travel experience. This study investigates the role travelers’ psychological comfort with local food plays in influencing the development of their place attachment to a destination. The study utilized survey data sampled from Korean and American travelers who had visited China and found that travelers’ place attachment is positively and s…
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…
Moments to be Had’: Understanding The Experience of Memorable Tourism Moments
Can colored sidewalk nudge city tourists to walk? An experimental study of the effect of nudges
Travel and life: A developmental perspective on tourism consumption over the life course
Peer‐to‐peer accommodation: A meta‐analysis of factors affecting customer satisfaction and loyalty
The current research synthesizes a decade of peer‐to‐peer accommodation studies published in the hospitality and tourism field, and provides a meta‐analytic review of this topic since its emergence. Following the push versus pull motivation framework, this research investigates how the major factors affect customers' satisfaction and their loyalty in the P2P accommodation setting. Utilizing the Comprehensive Meta‐Analysis Program (CMA), a quantit…
Discourses, Bodies, and Questions of Sharedness in Kenya’s Wellness Communities
This article contemplates the construction of sharedness that underlies the success of alternative lifestyle communities in Eastern Africa. In Kenya, a new tourism niche market that focuses on yoga, mindfulness, and alternative medicine is flourishing. Tourists travel to East Africa to practice yoga, but also to introduce local communities to ‘alternative lifestyles’. By considering Western and Kenyan practitioners’ discourses about the benefits …
Years of Family Tourism Research: Bibliometric Analysis and Remaining Issues
Based on a bibliometric analysis of research on family tourism, this editorial intends to reflect on the knowledge development in the topic area in the past 40 years. Eight themes or subject clusters were unveiled: foundations, family roles, place, family structure and function, psychological factors, behavior, experience, and methodology and theory. The trend and patterns of knowledge formation alongside the eight themes are described, visualize…
Beyond “culture”: A comparative study of forces structuring tourism consumption
Effect of a brand story structure on narrative transportation and perceived brand image of luxury hotels
Reliving self-presentational concerns in rural tourism
The sociogenesis of leisure travel
The accommodation experiencescape: A comparative assessment of hotels and Airbnb
Purpose Accommodations providers in the sharing economy are increasingly competing with the hotel industry vis-à-vis the guest experience. Additionally, experience-related research remains underrepresented in the hospitality and tourism literature. This paper aims to develop and test a model of experiential consumption to provide a better understanding of an emerging phenomenon in the hospitality industry. In so doing, the authors also expand Pin…
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…
What do Parents Look for in an Overseas Youth Summer Camp? Perspectives of Chinese Parents
Sending children to overseas summer camps has quickly become a popular practice for Chinese parents. The sizable market as a result of the potency of the Chinese economy and the current lack of understanding of parental decision-making factors are the primary motivating factors for this research. Specifically, this research attempts to shed light on the perspectives of Chinese parents concerning the specific traits and characteristics of overseas…
Reconciling unsatisfying tourism experiences: Message type effectiveness and the role of counterfactual thinking
Tourism and Existential Transformation: An Empirical Investigation
Couched in the context of the experience economy 3.0, this research conceptualized transformations as changes in existential authenticity and anxiety, and phenomenologically explored the essence of a transformative tourist experience and subsequent long-term changes. This research uncovered nine chronologically ordered themes in which existentially oriented concerns were prevalent. It found that tourists did not reflect on existential givens in s…
Destination image representation on the web: Content analysis of Macau travel related websites
What triggers transformative tourism experiences
This research investigates triggers of transformative tourism experiences and their circumstances through the lenses of existential philosophy. Drawing on descriptive phenomenological method, 10 narratives were gathered and analyzed for this purpose. We found that triggering episodes tend to occur at the end of travel, to evoke intense mixed emotions and heightened cognition, to engender the sense of transiency, demarcation, and connection to som…
The effect of prior experience on vacation behavior
Vacation and Well-Being: A Study of Chinese Tourists
What makes a destination beautiful? Dimensions of tourist aesthetic judgment
An existential conceptualization of the vacation cycle
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…
Years of Family Tourism Research: Bibliometric Analysis and Remaining Issues
Based on a bibliometric analysis of research on family tourism, this editorial intends to reflect on the knowledge development in the topic area in the past 40 years. Eight themes or subject clusters were unveiled: foundations, family roles, place, family structure and function, psychological factors, behavior, experience, and methodology and theory. The trend and patterns of knowledge formation alongside the eight themes are described, visualize…
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
A cross-cultural validation of the perceived destination restorative qualities scale: The Chinese perspective
Leisure travel entails a necessary tourist–environment exchange, understanding of which becomes critical when considering the role of tourism in providing rest and relaxation. The aim of this study was to understand the restorative functions of tourism destinations in the Chinese context. We attempted to confirm the cross-cultural stability of the measurement scale of perceived destination restorative qualities (PDRQ) and the relation to its nomo…
Measuring Family Reunion Travel Motivations
Moments to be Had’: Understanding The Experience of Memorable Tourism Moments
Travel and life: A developmental perspective on tourism consumption over the life course
Beyond “culture”: A comparative study of forces structuring tourism consumption
Reconciling unsatisfying tourism experiences: Message type effectiveness and the role of counterfactual thinking
Culture-Based Interpretation of Vacation Consumption: 度假旅游消费的文化释义
Drawing on typologies of consumption values, this study identifies and interprets the cultural divergence reflected in vacation experience. Through analysis of reviews by tourists from China and the United States, three salient themes of vacation experience emerged: scenery, food, and social interaction. Although all three aspects were addressed by both Chinese and American tourists, a closer look revealed that they had been assessed from quite d…
Can colored sidewalk nudge city tourists to walk? An experimental study of the effect of nudges
The sociogenesis of leisure travel
Reliving self-presentational concerns in rural tourism
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…
Culture-Based Interpretation of Vacation Consumption: 度假旅游消费的文化释义
Drawing on typologies of consumption values, this study identifies and interprets the cultural divergence reflected in vacation experience. Through analysis of reviews by tourists from China and the United States, three salient themes of vacation experience emerged: scenery, food, and social interaction. Although all three aspects were addressed by both Chinese and American tourists, a closer look revealed that they had been assessed from quite d…
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…
Investigating Resort Attribute Preferences of Chinese Consumers: A Study of the Post-1980s and their Predecessors
Chinese travelers have become a priority market source and segment, particularly for resort vacationing, the rising star of the hospitality industry. Using survey data collected from recent resort visitors, the results show that the overall Chinese resort market is relatively homogeneous. The Post-1980s share similar resort preferences with prior generations, such as short stays, limited interest and engagement in onsite activities, and a strong …
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…
What makes a destination beautiful? Dimensions of tourist aesthetic judgment
Competitiveness of Macau in Developing the Exhibition Sector: Can Gaming Industry Contribute
It is getting popular for gaming destinations to develop their MICE (meeting, incentive, convention, and exhibition) business, but little research has connected gaming and exhibition. Macau has become a world leading gaming destination and is now devoting itself to exhibition development. This development has attracted some research attention, but the competitiveness of Macau in the perceptive of attendees is still to be revealed. Meanwhile, the …
An existential conceptualization of the vacation cycle
A cross-cultural validation of the perceived destination restorative qualities scale: The Chinese perspective
Leisure travel entails a necessary tourist–environment exchange, understanding of which becomes critical when considering the role of tourism in providing rest and relaxation. The aim of this study was to understand the restorative functions of tourism destinations in the Chinese context. We attempted to confirm the cross-cultural stability of the measurement scale of perceived destination restorative qualities (PDRQ) and the relation to its nomo…
Tourism and Existential Transformation: An Empirical Investigation
Couched in the context of the experience economy 3.0, this research conceptualized transformations as changes in existential authenticity and anxiety, and phenomenologically explored the essence of a transformative tourist experience and subsequent long-term changes. This research uncovered nine chronologically ordered themes in which existentially oriented concerns were prevalent. It found that tourists did not reflect on existential givens in s…
The accommodation experiencescape: A comparative assessment of hotels and Airbnb
Purpose Accommodations providers in the sharing economy are increasingly competing with the hotel industry vis-à-vis the guest experience. Additionally, experience-related research remains underrepresented in the hospitality and tourism literature. This paper aims to develop and test a model of experiential consumption to provide a better understanding of an emerging phenomenon in the hospitality industry. In so doing, the authors also expand Pin…
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…
What do Parents Look for in an Overseas Youth Summer Camp? Perspectives of Chinese Parents
Sending children to overseas summer camps has quickly become a popular practice for Chinese parents. The sizable market as a result of the potency of the Chinese economy and the current lack of understanding of parental decision-making factors are the primary motivating factors for this research. Specifically, this research attempts to shed light on the perspectives of Chinese parents concerning the specific traits and characteristics of overseas…
Reconciling unsatisfying tourism experiences: Message type effectiveness and the role of counterfactual thinking
What triggers transformative tourism experiences
This research investigates triggers of transformative tourism experiences and their circumstances through the lenses of existential philosophy. Drawing on descriptive phenomenological method, 10 narratives were gathered and analyzed for this purpose. We found that triggering episodes tend to occur at the end of travel, to evoke intense mixed emotions and heightened cognition, to engender the sense of transiency, demarcation, and connection to som…
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