Anna Kralj
Biographic Data
| ID | 4795166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Kralj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kralj |
| SIGNATURE | KRALJ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2383-9258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Psychology of the tourist experience: A synthesis of behavioural and cognitive theoretical approaches
While research on the tourist experience is interdisciplinary, it remains largely dominated by theories deeply embedded in the parent discipline of psychology. Despite this, few studies examine the evolution of theoretical perspectives across the psychological subfields that underpin this body of scholarship. This conceptual paper adopts a reflective approach to critically assess the progression of behavioural and cognitive theoretical approaches…
Inspiration and pro-environmental behaviour in virtual nature-based tourism
The natural environment is facing deterioration, yet little is known about how immersive nature-based VR tourism experiences cultivate pro-environmental behaviours. Grounded in the transmission model of inspiration, this research seeks to assess whether and how virtual nature-based tourism experiences can inspire tourists to engage in pro-environmental behaviours over time. Using a sequential mixed-methods approach, Study 1 developed a VR nature-…
Physiological measurement techniques in virtual tourism research: Three caveats for future studies
Heart-felt responses to virtual reality games: Investigating a polyvagal model of (re)connection to nature
The environmental crisis is deepening as we exceed critical planetary boundaries. Addressing this crisis requires innovative approaches for public engagement. Grounded in Porges’ [1995. Orienting in a defensive world: Mammalian modifications of our evolutionary heritage. A polyvagal theory. Psychophysiology, 32(4), 301–318] polyvagal theory and its links to social resilience, this research explores the potential of a virtual reality (VR) game to …
Virtual Tourism Microdosing: A New Prescription for Tourist Wellbeing
Research on the hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing benefits of virtual tourism is experiencing exponential growth. However, few studies have considered its potential as a positive psychological intervention to enhance wellbeing. Through the lens of the recently conceptualised DREAMA model of tourist wellbeing, this conceptual paper critically examines the nuanced role of virtual tourism in enabling wellbeing. This research contends that microdosing…
Perceived Destination Restorative Qualities in Wellness Tourism: The Role of Ontological Security and Psychological Resilience
Scholarship on wellness tourism has experienced exponential growth. Despite this, limited studies have explicitly examined how the perceived destination restorative qualities of a wellness tourism destination facilitate psychological recovery. Findings from a survey with 942 Chinese wellness tourists revealed perceived destination restorative qualities positively influenced psychological recovery, increasing ontological security, with the effect …
Cause-related marketing in tourism: How Goal Framing Promotes Consumer Prosocial Behaviours
Cause-related marketing is commonly regarded as an effective tool for tourism enterprises to bolster their commitment to sustainable practices, fostering environmental and social responsibility within their operations and offerings. However, despite this, there is limited research into the implementation of cause-related social marketing to achieve the sustainability goals of tourism enterprises. Consequently, this research leverages construal le…
Rethinking Travel Companionship: An Alternative Conceptual Model and Future Research Agenda
Travel companionship is commonplace across tourism industries, with existing discourse exclusively emphasizing positive downstream outcomes. However, limited studies have provided a potential counterpoint to the positive outcomes embedded in scholarly work associated with travel companionship. This research, building on interdisciplinary insights, aims to create a comprehensive perspective on travel companionship, elucidating the conditions where…
Towards a typology of virtual tourists: Efficacy of visual patterns and attentional cues
Virtual tourism is rapidly emerging in prominence in contemporary tourism research. Previous studies tend to consider the virtual tourism population as a homogeneous entity, resulting in unintended consequences. Despite the ocular-centric nature within virtual environments, existing eye tracking studies have rarely classified virtual tourists into benefit-based segments, discounting the critical role of pre-existing visual patterns and associated…
Future scholarship on cognitive and metacognitive attitudes in tourism
This study aims to assess the factors that influence consumer attitude towards a destination, and to present a new conceptual framework for further investigation of the role of cognition and metacognition in tourism attitudinal research. Existing research in social psychology has established that three factors influence consumer attitude; amount of thought, valence of thinking and thought confidence. While cognition, amount and valence of thinkin…
Celebrity endorsement in tourism: Attention, emotional arousal and familiarity
Proposing a systematic approach for integrating traditional research methods into machine learning in text analytics in tourism and hospitality
This paper argues that the analysis of vast amounts of user-generated content, which are currently dominated by text analytics and machine learning, need more methodical incorporation of reliable traditional methodologies to facilitate deeper understanding of concepts and theory building. Specifically, a systematic approach that integrates machine learning and traditional research methods is needed to overcome inherent drawbacks of both approache…
Exploring the multi-dimensionality of authenticity in dining experiences using online reviews
Future research on visitors’ attitudes to tourism destinations
Producing authenticity in restaurant experiences: Interrelationships between the consumer , the provider , and the experience
In the context of the advent of the experience economy, conceptualisations of authenticity are often both perplexing and uncertain. This paper argues for a nuanced understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of authenticity of restaurant experiences from the production perspective. It does this by proposing a framework to produce authenticity using the interrelationships of three fundamental elements of a restaurant experience, the Consumer, th…
Residents’ attitudes to tourism: A review
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore recent trends in the theories and methods applied to studies on residents’ attitudes. Design/methodology/approach To achieve the objective of this research, this paper provides a review of 90 journal articles on residents’ attitudes towards tourism published between 2011 and 2017. The relevant articles were then analysed using content analysis. Findings Key findings revealed that although social exc…
What we know and do not know about authenticity in dining experiences: A systematic literature review
Emotional responses to tourism advertisements: The application of FaceReaderTM
Traditionally, tourists’ emotional responses to advertising and associated stimuli have been assessed using self-report questionnaires. Image recognition software, such as FaceReaderTM provides a means to analyse emotional responses to stimuli, specifically the type of emotion, valence (positive/negative) and arousal (intensity) via facial expressions. This research note reports on the benefits and drawbacks of FaceReaderTM. Respondents from Iran…
Physiological and self-report methods to the measurement of emotion in tourism
There is strong growth in research on tourist emotion, with a substantial scholarly debate emerging, surrounding approaches to measurement. Recently objective physiological methods for measurement of emotion have been applied in the tourism field. However, there are few studies which explore the benefits and limitations of applying physiological and self-report methods to measure emotions. This research aims to compare and contrast physiological …
Tourism workforce research: A review, taxonomy and agenda
Tourism workforce research: A review, taxonomy and agenda
Celebrity endorsement in tourism: Attention, emotional arousal and familiarity
What we know and do not know about authenticity in dining experiences: A systematic literature review
Producing authenticity in restaurant experiences: Interrelationships between the consumer , the provider , and the experience
In the context of the advent of the experience economy, conceptualisations of authenticity are often both perplexing and uncertain. This paper argues for a nuanced understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of authenticity of restaurant experiences from the production perspective. It does this by proposing a framework to produce authenticity using the interrelationships of three fundamental elements of a restaurant experience, the Consumer, th…
Emotional responses to tourism advertisements: The application of FaceReaderTM
Traditionally, tourists’ emotional responses to advertising and associated stimuli have been assessed using self-report questionnaires. Image recognition software, such as FaceReaderTM provides a means to analyse emotional responses to stimuli, specifically the type of emotion, valence (positive/negative) and arousal (intensity) via facial expressions. This research note reports on the benefits and drawbacks of FaceReaderTM. Respondents from Iran…
Physiological and self-report methods to the measurement of emotion in tourism
There is strong growth in research on tourist emotion, with a substantial scholarly debate emerging, surrounding approaches to measurement. Recently objective physiological methods for measurement of emotion have been applied in the tourism field. However, there are few studies which explore the benefits and limitations of applying physiological and self-report methods to measure emotions. This research aims to compare and contrast physiological …
Towards a typology of virtual tourists: Efficacy of visual patterns and attentional cues
Virtual tourism is rapidly emerging in prominence in contemporary tourism research. Previous studies tend to consider the virtual tourism population as a homogeneous entity, resulting in unintended consequences. Despite the ocular-centric nature within virtual environments, existing eye tracking studies have rarely classified virtual tourists into benefit-based segments, discounting the critical role of pre-existing visual patterns and associated…
Exploring the multi-dimensionality of authenticity in dining experiences using online reviews
Rethinking Travel Companionship: An Alternative Conceptual Model and Future Research Agenda
Travel companionship is commonplace across tourism industries, with existing discourse exclusively emphasizing positive downstream outcomes. However, limited studies have provided a potential counterpoint to the positive outcomes embedded in scholarly work associated with travel companionship. This research, building on interdisciplinary insights, aims to create a comprehensive perspective on travel companionship, elucidating the conditions where…
Perceived Destination Restorative Qualities in Wellness Tourism: The Role of Ontological Security and Psychological Resilience
Scholarship on wellness tourism has experienced exponential growth. Despite this, limited studies have explicitly examined how the perceived destination restorative qualities of a wellness tourism destination facilitate psychological recovery. Findings from a survey with 942 Chinese wellness tourists revealed perceived destination restorative qualities positively influenced psychological recovery, increasing ontological security, with the effect …
Future scholarship on cognitive and metacognitive attitudes in tourism
This study aims to assess the factors that influence consumer attitude towards a destination, and to present a new conceptual framework for further investigation of the role of cognition and metacognition in tourism attitudinal research. Existing research in social psychology has established that three factors influence consumer attitude; amount of thought, valence of thinking and thought confidence. While cognition, amount and valence of thinkin…
Future research on visitors’ attitudes to tourism destinations
Tourism workforce research: A review, taxonomy and agenda
Residents’ attitudes to tourism: A review
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore recent trends in the theories and methods applied to studies on residents’ attitudes. Design/methodology/approach To achieve the objective of this research, this paper provides a review of 90 journal articles on residents’ attitudes towards tourism published between 2011 and 2017. The relevant articles were then analysed using content analysis. Findings Key findings revealed that although social exc…
What we know and do not know about authenticity in dining experiences: A systematic literature review
Emotional responses to tourism advertisements: The application of FaceReaderTM
Traditionally, tourists’ emotional responses to advertising and associated stimuli have been assessed using self-report questionnaires. Image recognition software, such as FaceReaderTM provides a means to analyse emotional responses to stimuli, specifically the type of emotion, valence (positive/negative) and arousal (intensity) via facial expressions. This research note reports on the benefits and drawbacks of FaceReaderTM. Respondents from Iran…
Physiological and self-report methods to the measurement of emotion in tourism
There is strong growth in research on tourist emotion, with a substantial scholarly debate emerging, surrounding approaches to measurement. Recently objective physiological methods for measurement of emotion have been applied in the tourism field. However, there are few studies which explore the benefits and limitations of applying physiological and self-report methods to measure emotions. This research aims to compare and contrast physiological …
Proposing a systematic approach for integrating traditional research methods into machine learning in text analytics in tourism and hospitality
This paper argues that the analysis of vast amounts of user-generated content, which are currently dominated by text analytics and machine learning, need more methodical incorporation of reliable traditional methodologies to facilitate deeper understanding of concepts and theory building. Specifically, a systematic approach that integrates machine learning and traditional research methods is needed to overcome inherent drawbacks of both approache…
Exploring the multi-dimensionality of authenticity in dining experiences using online reviews
Future research on visitors’ attitudes to tourism destinations
Producing authenticity in restaurant experiences: Interrelationships between the consumer , the provider , and the experience
In the context of the advent of the experience economy, conceptualisations of authenticity are often both perplexing and uncertain. This paper argues for a nuanced understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of authenticity of restaurant experiences from the production perspective. It does this by proposing a framework to produce authenticity using the interrelationships of three fundamental elements of a restaurant experience, the Consumer, th…
Celebrity endorsement in tourism: Attention, emotional arousal and familiarity
Towards a typology of virtual tourists: Efficacy of visual patterns and attentional cues
Virtual tourism is rapidly emerging in prominence in contemporary tourism research. Previous studies tend to consider the virtual tourism population as a homogeneous entity, resulting in unintended consequences. Despite the ocular-centric nature within virtual environments, existing eye tracking studies have rarely classified virtual tourists into benefit-based segments, discounting the critical role of pre-existing visual patterns and associated…
Future scholarship on cognitive and metacognitive attitudes in tourism
This study aims to assess the factors that influence consumer attitude towards a destination, and to present a new conceptual framework for further investigation of the role of cognition and metacognition in tourism attitudinal research. Existing research in social psychology has established that three factors influence consumer attitude; amount of thought, valence of thinking and thought confidence. While cognition, amount and valence of thinkin…
Heart-felt responses to virtual reality games: Investigating a polyvagal model of (re)connection to nature
The environmental crisis is deepening as we exceed critical planetary boundaries. Addressing this crisis requires innovative approaches for public engagement. Grounded in Porges’ [1995. Orienting in a defensive world: Mammalian modifications of our evolutionary heritage. A polyvagal theory. Psychophysiology, 32(4), 301–318] polyvagal theory and its links to social resilience, this research explores the potential of a virtual reality (VR) game to …
Virtual Tourism Microdosing: A New Prescription for Tourist Wellbeing
Research on the hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing benefits of virtual tourism is experiencing exponential growth. However, few studies have considered its potential as a positive psychological intervention to enhance wellbeing. Through the lens of the recently conceptualised DREAMA model of tourist wellbeing, this conceptual paper critically examines the nuanced role of virtual tourism in enabling wellbeing. This research contends that microdosing…
Perceived Destination Restorative Qualities in Wellness Tourism: The Role of Ontological Security and Psychological Resilience
Scholarship on wellness tourism has experienced exponential growth. Despite this, limited studies have explicitly examined how the perceived destination restorative qualities of a wellness tourism destination facilitate psychological recovery. Findings from a survey with 942 Chinese wellness tourists revealed perceived destination restorative qualities positively influenced psychological recovery, increasing ontological security, with the effect …
Cause-related marketing in tourism: How Goal Framing Promotes Consumer Prosocial Behaviours
Cause-related marketing is commonly regarded as an effective tool for tourism enterprises to bolster their commitment to sustainable practices, fostering environmental and social responsibility within their operations and offerings. However, despite this, there is limited research into the implementation of cause-related social marketing to achieve the sustainability goals of tourism enterprises. Consequently, this research leverages construal le…
Rethinking Travel Companionship: An Alternative Conceptual Model and Future Research Agenda
Travel companionship is commonplace across tourism industries, with existing discourse exclusively emphasizing positive downstream outcomes. However, limited studies have provided a potential counterpoint to the positive outcomes embedded in scholarly work associated with travel companionship. This research, building on interdisciplinary insights, aims to create a comprehensive perspective on travel companionship, elucidating the conditions where…
Psychology of the tourist experience: A synthesis of behavioural and cognitive theoretical approaches
While research on the tourist experience is interdisciplinary, it remains largely dominated by theories deeply embedded in the parent discipline of psychology. Despite this, few studies examine the evolution of theoretical perspectives across the psychological subfields that underpin this body of scholarship. This conceptual paper adopts a reflective approach to critically assess the progression of behavioural and cognitive theoretical approaches…
Inspiration and pro-environmental behaviour in virtual nature-based tourism
The natural environment is facing deterioration, yet little is known about how immersive nature-based VR tourism experiences cultivate pro-environmental behaviours. Grounded in the transmission model of inspiration, this research seeks to assess whether and how virtual nature-based tourism experiences can inspire tourists to engage in pro-environmental behaviours over time. Using a sequential mixed-methods approach, Study 1 developed a VR nature-…
Physiological measurement techniques in virtual tourism research: Three caveats for future studies
Tourism (17 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)