Emotion is not peripheral, but rather foundational to tourism's appeal. It shapes imagination and transforms destinations into meaningful experiences. Yet, while the tourism industry increasingly leverages emotional storytelling to inspire action, academic research has not kept pace. This systematic literature review examines how emotion has been theorised, measured and modelled. Despite decades of critique, a limited emotional repertoire persists, with generalised constructs, such as satisfaction, continuing to dominate at the expense of tourism-relevant emotions, such as romance, awe, boredom, amusement and envy. Theoretical integration remains weak, and emotion is typically examined in post-travel contexts, overlooking the pre-travel, acquisition stage where industry campaigns concentrate their emotional appeals and investment. In response, the article advances six propositions that reposition emotion as a core construct in tourism marketing. Together with the Tourism Emotion Framework, these contributions offer a practical and theoretical foundation for designing, measuring and mobilising emotion across the travel journey.
The operational convergence between urban metabolism (UM) and urban landscape infrastructure planning (ULIP) can contribute to the informed visualization, spatialization, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of nature-based solutions, circular and climate-sensitive designs, and virtuous urban food-water-carbon nexuses. However, such integration remains underdeveloped and unstructured due to dissonances regarding spatial scales of analysis and intervention, unclear operational entry points of each party along the planning process, and divergent standpoints concerning the role of quali-quantitative landscape metabolism data. To bridge these gaps, we present a comprehensive yet open-ended workflow aiming to overcome critical shortcomings of UM and ULIP: lack of common data visualization cultures; arbitrariness implementing UM data into resource-aware planning decisions; and deficient sociometabolic scenario building capabilities. It does so by identifying shared interpretations of space, spatiality and spatialization; suitable spatial scales of interdisciplinary collaboration; and UM concepts, frameworks, models and instruments applicable to each stage of said process, emphasizing [geo]spatial and visually explicit, geographic information science-reliant approaches. This paper uses 52 records retrieved through a bias-aware, iterative bibliometric analysis using the Web of Science Core Collection (years 2015 to 2025), in accordance with the PRISMA Statement 2020.
Previous studies have shown that additional cognitive load from a secondary task can adversely affect movement performance. However, how externally provided auditory pacing influences motor and neural responses under dual-task conditions remains unclear. This study employed a repeated-measures experimental design, studying eighteen young adults (Mean age 23.5 ± 4 years) who underwent three conditions: (1) foot tapping only (single task), (2) foot tapping and a mental task (dual task), and (3) foot tapping, mental task, and auditory pacing biofeedback (dual task + biofeedback). Ankle joint movements using Xsens IMU’s (Inertial Motion Units) and brain activities using EEG (electroencephalography) were measured in these three conditions. Results showed that dual tasks significantly reduced (p < 0.01) the range of motion and increased (p < 0.05) the variability of ankle joint range of motion, suggesting a decline in foot tapping performance compared to the single-task condition. The decline was accompanied by significant increases (p < 0.05) in relative high-beta power in EEG, consistent with heightened cognitive-motor demand during dual-tasking. In the dual-task + biofeedback condition, kinematic measures returned to values statistically indistinguishable from the single-task condition and response times in the cognitive task were significantly reduced, without a loss of accuracy. The relative high-beta power was also significantly reduced, compared with the dual-task condition, which may reflect increased entrainment to external cues or a reduction in cognitive load. These results support the role of auditory pacing in facilitating movement performance under dual-tasking conditions, while highlighting the need for future studies to dissociate entrainment effects from changes in cognitive workload.
PurposeWhile there is some research on the effects of green spaces on children's health, there is limited literature on shifts in children's experiences when green access is reduced. This study, therefore, explored shifts in children's experiences of UGS from pre-to post-pandemic circumstances in central Melbourne, Australia.Design/methodology/approachFrom 23 semi-structured interviews with experts in children's outdoor play, nature-based education and well-being, several key insights are drawn regarding perceived shifts in children's attitudes and behaviours, and perceived influences on these attitudes and behaviours.FindingsThe findings of this research established that acknowledging four shifting attitudes and behaviours that shape Melbourne children's interactions with HDMA-UGSs is important to support service providers and policymakers to ensure local HDMA-UGS infrastructure is optimised in design and location.Originality/valueThe originality of the findings lies in the first-hand and evidence-based guidelines provided to policymakers and service providers, aimed at improving current approaches to Melbourne's HDMA-UGS location and design, further cultivating urban settings that support the growth and well-being of children.
Green hydrogen (H2), produced from standalone hybrid renewable energy systems, is increasingly recognized as a sustainable substitute for diesel in remote regions. Despite substantial progress, most existing studies are limited to site-specific analyses and lack systematic regional comparison, making it difficult to generalize techno-economic and environmental outcomes. To address this gap, this work develops a reliability-constrained techno-economic and environmental evaluation framework for off-grid renewable hydrogen production and applies it to twelve representative regions across Australia using hourly time-series simulations over a full annual horizon. The proposed framework integrates solar photovoltaic generation, wind energy, lithium-ion battery storage, proton-exchange-membrane electrolysers, hydrogen storage tanks and power conversion units within a unified modelling structure. System performance is assessed using standardized indicators, including levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH), net present cost, internal rate of return (IRR) and lifecycle emissions. The results reveal strong regional variability driven primarily by renewable resource quality and hydrogen demand scale. Among the assessed regions, Pilbara achieves the lowest LCOH of $2.92/kg and the highest IRR of 7.08%. From an environmental perspective, renewable hydrogen systems reduce lifecycle emissions by up to 95% compared with conventional grey hydrogen pathways. Sensitivity analysis further identifies electrolyser capital cost and solar capacity factor as the dominant drivers of economic competitiveness. Overall, the proposed framework enables transparent cross-regional comparison of off-grid renewable hydrogen systems and provides decision-relevant insights for policymakers and investors to prioritize cost-effective, low-carbon hydrogen deployment in remote applications.
