Metatheorizing tourist flow at macro-level: Universal forces theory and herding among tourists

Seonjin Lee and Lori Pennington-Gray

Annals of Tourism Research, 2025, vol. 113, issue C

Abstract: •Develops a new metatheory of tourism that explains tourist flow at macro-level•Universal Forces Theory promotes development of tourism-specific theories.•The theory identifies generalizable interactions among elements of tourism system.•Discusses push, pull, competition, and friction as previously identified forces•Proposes and validates herding as generalizable macro-level interaction in tourism

Keywords: Theory development; Tourism theory; Metatheory; Tourist flow; Herding effect; Spatial big data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.103961

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