Residents and tourists within destinations are often portrayed as being separate from each
other, possessing little in common. Such an approach can undermine the potential for a�…

In the context of resident and tourist relationships in a destination, perspectives of the former
are rarely considered. This is likely a function of the continued attention paid to studies�…

While it can prove easy to conceptualize of the relationship between residents and tourists
as “us versus them,” it devalues the potential for intimate relationships to exist, whereby�…

The purpose of this study was to test the theoretical framework of emotional solidarity in
seeking to better explain the dynamic, complex relationships existing between residents and�…

This study is the first of its kind to examine residents' and tourists' degree of emotional
solidarity experienced with one another in a destination—Galveston County, Texas. Two�…

Although tourists' affective bonds with one another are essential to their travel experiences
as well as their pretrip anticipations, it nevertheless remains as an underexplored topic in�…

This study proposes a theoretical model integrating two lines of tourism research: emotional
solidarity and destination loyalty. In order to test the proposed model, a survey of visitors to�…

Despite the fact that emotional solidarity, social distance, and contact theory have been
widely used to explain resident tourist interaction, these three concepts were never�…

Although social emotions can serve as an effective analytic lens through which to study
residents' reactions to tourists and tourism, limited theoretical discussion exists examining�…

The purpose of this study is to examine how tourists' self-congruity and emotional solidarity
are related and how this thereby influences travel satisfaction and destination loyalty�…