Mingming Cheng
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3934812 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mingming Cheng |
| PRENOMES | Mingming |
| SOBRENOME | Cheng |
| ASSINATURA | CHENG M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-8484-4192 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 120 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
From face to hand
Shaping the energy transition
As renewable energy transitions gain momentum globally, regional communities face unique challenges and uncertainties shaped by their socio-economic context and stage of energy transition. This study investigates public discourse surrounding renewable energy in three regional Western Australian communities—Busselton (planned), Kojonup (ongoing), and Albany (completed)—to understand how local narratives evolve in response to policy, media, and com…
Travel influencers and their social identity
The role of travel influencers has become increasingly popular, having a significant impact on tourists and tourism businesses. Influencers negotiate and navigate challenges such as content quality and authenticity while fostering a sense of community and influencing industry standards. Little is known, however, about how travel influencers construct their social identities. Based on social identity theory, and by interviewing 19 Chinese travel i…
Decoding the Subtleties
Through a mixed-method approach, this research examines how speech voice cues influence in-consumption engagement in travel live streaming, underpinned by signaling theory. Study 1 examines the impacts of speech voice cues on in-consumption engagement using real-world travel live streaming data. Study 2 employs semi-structured interviews to reveal the underlying mechanisms of how speech voice cues influence viewer in-consumption engagement. Findi…
From autonomy to algorithm
Travel influencers in tourism and hospitality
Hot war, tourism and vlog
Drawing on the theoretical lens of liminality, this study employs Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) to examine how the hot war tourism is framed and how these framings intersect with, reproduce, or contest wider socio-cultural and ideological structures. A three-phase experiential structure was identified— crossing into liminality, dwelling in liminality, and retrospective liminality —alongside four interrelated dimensions: spatiality…
Opportunity or nonsense? Examining the role of CEOs’ social media usage in raising funds
Amid the ongoing digital transformation, social media has emerged as a novel avenue for business communication and growth, with investors increasingly engaging with these platforms as supplementary information sources. However, whether and how CEOs’ social media activity influences firms’ financing outcomes remains an open and pressing question. This study investigates this relationship by employing regression analysis and Latent Dirichlet Alloca…
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ rating on quality of death and dying
Understanding healthcare professionals’ perspectives on the quality of death and dying is essential for improving palliative care in China, especially as hospice and palliative services expand. This study examined how Chinese healthcare professionals’ assessments of death and dying quality vary by institutional setting, sociodemographic factors, professional background, and training experience. A cross-sectional design was conducted. Between Nove…
What holds engagement
This study aims to conceptualise in-consumption engagement in travel vlogs – a concept for which tourism literature has yet to establish clear theoretical boundaries, despite its growing importance in digital tourism. By combining naturalistic in-consumption data (i.e. live comments) and interviews, this study demonstrates that in-consumption engagement in travel vlogs is an episodic and transitory state characterised by heightened attention, emo…
Tourism recovery and sustainable development
Tourism recovery is crucial for the long-term sustainability of tourism destinations. This study aims to assess the contribution of tourism recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 8 (decent work and economic growth) and 12 (responsible consumption and production). By integrating the Multi-Regional Input–Output (MRIO) model and qualitative interview methods, we develop an integrated evaluation framework for eva…
Tourism-related department coordination during crisis
This study examines the characteristics and structural effects of policy network within tourism and other related national departments during public health crises in China. We explore the role of the tourism department in the inter-organisational policy coordination. Using social network analysis and exponential random graph models (ERGM), this study reveals that the policy network is decentralised and incompact, with certain departments acting a…
Social suffering among older adults with terminal cancer in hospice care wards in Shanghai
Othering” in Central Asia
Multimodality in tourism and hospitality
Although multimodal data offers valuable insights for tourism and hospitality research and practice, it also poses significant theoretical and methodological challenges. Through a narrative and critical literature review, this research develops the multimodal data analytics methodological framework as a novel guiding principle to theoretically engage with multimodal data. The research identifies a number of critical issues to consider when approa…
Multimodal destination image and user engagement
When East meets Southeast
Tourism, War, and Media
Underpinned by framing theory, this study examines how the mainstream news media constructs the war and tourism narratives. Using frame analysis and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), this paper systematically unpacks the intertwined relationship between war and tourism in constructing its narratives during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Three main frames were identified, including “impact,” “response” and “status,” which encompass eight sp…
Viewer In-Consumption Engagement in Pro-Environmental Tourism Videos
Underpinned by Media Richness Theory and the Elaboration Likelihood Model, this study examines the impacts of the content features (i.e., informativeness and visual variation) of pro-environmental tourism videos on viewers’ in-consumption engagement. Pro-environmental tourism videos were analyzed at the scene level using advanced video analytics. The findings of this study show that there are inverted U-shape effects of pro-environmental tourism …
Projected Destination Image of Beijing on Instagram
Using a sequential research design combining image analytics and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), this research examines Beijing’s projected destination image and its impacts on social media engagement on Instagram. Deep learning algorithms and convolutional neural networks were used to analyze the images. The image analytic findings show that Beijing’s projected destination image includes: (1) multiple urban and country landscapes; (2) a …
Social media and tourism geographies
The fast-changing social media landscape have seen a paradigm shift in how we interact with and research space, place and environment in tourism. Social media presents both challenges and opportunities for tourism geographies due to the vast amount of and various data types. This research provides a concise state of the art and critical review of the history of social media research in tourism geographies by identifying the current status quo and…
Exploring good death in China
What makes people recommend Airbnb Online Experiences
Underpinned by the Experience Economy framework, this study investigates the increasingly popular online peer-to-peer tourism experience and its impacts on participants’ post-experience recommendations. Using Airbnb Online Experiences reviews, a mixed method design including text-mining, sentiment analysis, and regression was performed. Findings show that participants’ sentiments toward educational, escapist, and entertainment aspects positively …
Economic sustainability of parks
This research explored visitor satisfaction and loyalty, vital to securing the economic sustainability of parks, in the proposed Park Visitor ECSI model. Self-administered surveys with online consumer panels were adopted for the data collection. The research model was tested with PLS-SEM in parks across Australia (N = 430), USA (N = 348) and China (N = 319). In the main, the findings suggested that the perceived image of park management shaped vi…
Automatic video analytics in tourism
While there has been a growing interest in adopting videos as a data source, the use of video analytics, as a method, in gaining deep insights into tourism and hospitality theories and practices is still in its infancy. This study provides a critical review of the progress of automatic video analytics in tourism and hospitality and a guiding framework by detailing theoretical and methodological issues with this new form of knowledge production. T…
The agenda setting power of news media in framing the future role of tourism in protected areas
This exploratory paper examines the agenda-setting and framing role of news media in the ongoing development of the Draft Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Master Plan. The paper will argue that the publication of the Masterplan and ensuing public commentary has drawn into stark focus future challenges in juxtaposing the frames of public use, commercial tourism and scientific/cultural values in the sustainable management of protected …
The construction of home feeling by Airbnb guests in the sharing economy
When Western hosts meet Eastern guests
Progress on image analytics
Despite the increased recognition of the importance of images as a rich data source, the full potential of images to advance tourism and hospitality knowledge, both conceptually and theoretically, has yet to be fully tapped. This study provides a critical review of image analytics, examining its broad implications for tourism and hospitality research. This paper offers the progress of image definitions, features and related theories, as well as p…
Current sharing economy media discourse in tourism
The interaction effect of emoji and social media content on consumer engagement
Viewer In-Consumption Engagement in Pro-Environmental Tourism Videos
Underpinned by Media Richness Theory and the Elaboration Likelihood Model, this study examines the impacts of the content features (i.e., informativeness and visual variation) of pro-environmental tourism videos on viewers’ in-consumption engagement. Pro-environmental tourism videos were analyzed at the scene level using advanced video analytics. The findings of this study show that there are inverted U-shape effects of pro-environmental tourism …
Social media and tourism geographies
The fast-changing social media landscape have seen a paradigm shift in how we interact with and research space, place and environment in tourism. Social media presents both challenges and opportunities for tourism geographies due to the vast amount of and various data types. This research provides a concise state of the art and critical review of the history of social media research in tourism geographies by identifying the current status quo and…
Tourism and Chinese popular nationalism
© 2014, Taylor & Francis. As a complex and emerging phenomenon, nationalism presents a serious challenge to international marketers, with no exception to the field of tourism. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence in understanding the role of nationalism in tourist travel intention. A qualitative research approach with in-depth interview and on-site observation was adopted to bridge this gap during the Diaoyu/Senkaku Island Incident betw…
Hotel guest satisfaction during Covid-19 outbreak
Multimodality in tourism and hospitality
Although multimodal data offers valuable insights for tourism and hospitality research and practice, it also poses significant theoretical and methodological challenges. Through a narrative and critical literature review, this research develops the multimodal data analytics methodological framework as a novel guiding principle to theoretically engage with multimodal data. The research identifies a number of critical issues to consider when approa…
Projected Destination Image of Beijing on Instagram
Using a sequential research design combining image analytics and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), this research examines Beijing’s projected destination image and its impacts on social media engagement on Instagram. Deep learning algorithms and convolutional neural networks were used to analyze the images. The image analytic findings show that Beijing’s projected destination image includes: (1) multiple urban and country landscapes; (2) a …
Multimodal destination image and user engagement
When East meets Southeast
Tourism, War, and Media
Underpinned by framing theory, this study examines how the mainstream news media constructs the war and tourism narratives. Using frame analysis and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), this paper systematically unpacks the intertwined relationship between war and tourism in constructing its narratives during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Three main frames were identified, including “impact,” “response” and “status,” which encompass eight sp…
A cross-cultural comparison of East and Western academic literature on adventure tourism
In the past two decades, adventure tourism enjoyed great popularity in China with rapid growth of participants. Parallel to this is an increasing number of research publications on Chinese adventure tourism, which cover similar topics to that of Western adventure tourism literature but are largely based on a Chinese perspective. In order to bridge the Western and Chinese academic literature on adventure tourism, a text-driven review approach is u…
Tourism and Chinese popular nationalism
© 2014, Taylor & Francis. As a complex and emerging phenomenon, nationalism presents a serious challenge to international marketers, with no exception to the field of tourism. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence in understanding the role of nationalism in tourist travel intention. A qualitative research approach with in-depth interview and on-site observation was adopted to bridge this gap during the Diaoyu/Senkaku Island Incident betw…
The Effectiveness of a Meaning-Centered Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Chinese College Students
Using a sample of 66 Chinese college students, we measured the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a meaning-centered psychoeducational group intervention in increasing the level of their psychological well-being. The students were assigned to either a control or an intervention group, and those in the intervention group attended 9 weekly meaning-centered psychoeducational sessions. All participants completed baseline, posttest, and …
Sharing economy
Current sharing economy media discourse in tourism
A cross-cultural comparison of East and Western academic literature on adventure tourism
In the past two decades, adventure tourism enjoyed great popularity in China with rapid growth of participants. Parallel to this is an increasing number of research publications on Chinese adventure tourism, which cover similar topics to that of Western adventure tourism literature but are largely based on a Chinese perspective. In order to bridge the Western and Chinese academic literature on adventure tourism, a text-driven review approach is u…
The agenda setting power of news media in framing the future role of tourism in protected areas
This exploratory paper examines the agenda-setting and framing role of news media in the ongoing development of the Draft Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Master Plan. The paper will argue that the publication of the Masterplan and ensuing public commentary has drawn into stark focus future challenges in juxtaposing the frames of public use, commercial tourism and scientific/cultural values in the sustainable management of protected …
Research note
The Role of Hopelessness in the Health of Low-Class Rural Chinese Residents
What do Airbnb users care about? An analysis of online review comments
The construction of home feeling by Airbnb guests in the sharing economy
When Western hosts meet Eastern guests
The sharing economy and sustainability – assessing Airbnb’s direct, indirect and induced carbon footprint in Sydney
A peer-to-peer sharing approach for the accommodation sector such as Airbnb has been suggested as a more environmentally sustainable alternative to conventional forms of accommodation services. This study evaluates the carbon footprint of Airbnb hosts in Sydney. The Airbnb platform and its hosts together generate direct and indirect carbon footprints in the range of 7.27 to 9.39 kg CO2e per room and night. The extra income of Airbnb hosts leads t…
Big-five personality traits in P2P accommodation platforms
This study uses an intrinsic lens to assess the brand personality of leading peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation platforms and hotel brands through brand generated content. Using a word embedding technique, gaussian process model, and cosine similarity, fourteen brands’ personality traits were analyzed and compared through brands’ tweets. Findings reveal that P2P accommodation platforms have high scores in Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Agreea…
Dining with distance during the pandemic
Building on proxemics theory and social exchange theory, this study investigated how different levels of psychological social distancing, protective wears, and social interactions influence customers’ perceived risk, social exchange with service employees and their intention to avoid dining in restaurants under the ‘new normal’ of COVID-19. Using an experimental design with a total of 404 participants in US, this study shows that regardless of so…
Investigating Airbnb listings’ amenities relative to hotels
The purpose of this study is to investigate Airbnb listings’ amenities relative to hotels. Social network and Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) analyses were used to cluster Airbnb amenities. Seven clusters were identified and compared with hotels including safety, check-in service, public area, pet-friendly, home benefit, accessibility, and other amenities. The key differences in amenities are influenced by the different legal and safety regimes t…
The rise of a new form of virtual tour
The COVID-19 pandemic has fostered a new form of virtual tour, the Airbnb peer-to-peer online experiences, allowing individuals to register as hosts and provide live, interactive video sessions to a small group of global audiences online. This study aims to unpack this innovative business model and examine its potential impacts on the tourist experience and tourism destination. Our research shows that the online offerings of the Airbnb experience…
Airbnb impacts on host communities in a tourism destination
Airbnb’s disruptive impacts on tourism destinations have been well acknowledged but systematic examination is still lacking. This study investigates these impacts on host communities from the perspectives of tourism destination stakeholders including Airbnb hosts, traditional accommodation providers, local residents and policy makers in Queenstown, New Zealand. Underpinned by social representation theory, the results of fourteen semi-structured i…
Covid-19 pandemic exposes the vulnerability of the sharing economy
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global economic recession, but little is known about the impact it has had on the informal economy, including the peer-to-peer rental market. This study assessed the financial loss of Airbnb listings for its hosts in Greater Sydney, Australia. Findings show that comparing August 2020 to January 2020, the pandemic resulted in 89.5 per cent income loss for Airbnb hosts (about 14 million) with …
Information Diffusion or Deviation? An Exponential Random Graph Model of Activism Against Discrimination on Airbnb
This study examines the information diffusion of “Airbnb discrimination” and related digital activism on Twitter. The model-based inferential network analysis shows a hub-and-spoke network that is loosely connected, indicating that the diffusion network of Airbnb discrimination includes various issues (e.g., antisemitism). The retweet network mirrors the existing offline relationship of users (e.g., those who support opinion leaders of antisemiti…
Hotel guest satisfaction during Covid-19 outbreak
Mobilize Airbnb support in times of humanitarian crisis
Tourism has widely been discussed as a powerful means to provide positive support for those in crisis. Yet, to date, how social media can be utilized for mobilizing tourism support in times of crisis, particularly during the war is largely unknown. Underpinned by the ‘social movement’ success framework, this present research employed a social media analytics approach to investigate how online communities are mobilized through social media in supp…
The interaction effect of emoji and social media content on consumer engagement
What makes people recommend Airbnb Online Experiences
Underpinned by the Experience Economy framework, this study investigates the increasingly popular online peer-to-peer tourism experience and its impacts on participants’ post-experience recommendations. Using Airbnb Online Experiences reviews, a mixed method design including text-mining, sentiment analysis, and regression was performed. Findings show that participants’ sentiments toward educational, escapist, and entertainment aspects positively …
Economic sustainability of parks
This research explored visitor satisfaction and loyalty, vital to securing the economic sustainability of parks, in the proposed Park Visitor ECSI model. Self-administered surveys with online consumer panels were adopted for the data collection. The research model was tested with PLS-SEM in parks across Australia (N = 430), USA (N = 348) and China (N = 319). In the main, the findings suggested that the perceived image of park management shaped vi…
Automatic video analytics in tourism
While there has been a growing interest in adopting videos as a data source, the use of video analytics, as a method, in gaining deep insights into tourism and hospitality theories and practices is still in its infancy. This study provides a critical review of the progress of automatic video analytics in tourism and hospitality and a guiding framework by detailing theoretical and methodological issues with this new form of knowledge production. T…
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