For years, sustainable tourism has commanded the attention of academics and practitioners given its achievement through participatory planning. However, much research in the area has neglected to consider all voices of those (i.e., children) affected by tourism. This study, employing a post-test only experimental design, addresses this gap by including the voices of 498 children from six diverse European destinations concerning perceptions of tourism. Results show that children are willing to express their opinions given the opportunity. Moreover, their attitude towards tourists is negative, while they perceive locals to hold a subordinate position to tourists. In general, this study offers insight into children's attitudes to tourism from the host perspective, demonstrating that there is a unique insider's perspective that needs further research.

Hospitality companies often face economic crises, which stress their financial structure. In 2008, Spanish hotels were jeopardized when the travelers’ flows became stagnated, in either domestic and foreign markets. Most of them overcame the crisis, but not all, in part depending on their capital structure at the moment the downturn loomed upon them. This study analyzes the financial ratios registered in 2008 by 3.341 Spanish lodging enterprises, to find out the most relevant ratios that were associated with an eventual breakdown. The analyzed ratios have been largely suggested by previous literature for anticipating financial distress; however, using survival tables and Kaplan–Meier estimates we could also find new insights about several promising variates for future research. In the end, by performing a Cox regression, we could isolate the return on capital employed (ROCE) ratio as a long-term predictor for small hotels’ bankruptcy after a market downturn. Moreover, the legal status seems to be a key predictor concerning medium-sized hotels.

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La utilidad del análisis de redes sociales en las publicaciones académicas: un estudio de las revistas de turismo del primer cuartil Antonio Peláez-VerdetUniversidad de Málaga, Facultad de Turismo, C/ Leon Tolstoi, 4, Despacho 12, 29071, Málaga, Spain, apv@uma.es Manuel Ferrera-BlascoUniversidad de Málaga, Facultad de Turismo, C/ Leon Tolstoi, 4, Despacho 12, 29071, Málaga, Spain, manuelferrera@uma.es AbstractThe introduction of social network techniques in scholarly research analysis has driven a better understanding of the main authors and their debates. These tools have improved the traditional bibliographic models considerably. The present analysis applied the centrality indicators from social network analysis to first-tier journal articles (index: Journal Citation Reports (SSE)). The results revealed that journal specialization within the tourism theme is consistently in line with their editorial line, with minor issues detected. When it comes to academic debate, however, the topics are not concentrated homogenously. The authors at the center of the debate are not always the most prolific, yet it turns out that co-authoring helps them to gain central positions within the debate.Keywords: Social media, tourism, first-tier journals, author networks, literature review. ResumenEn el análisis de la literatura científica, los principales autores y sus debates han podido analizarse mejor desde que se han importado las técnicas de análisis de redes sociales, que mejoran las herramientas de bibliometría tradicionales. Este análisis ha aplicado los indicadores de centralidad del análisis de redes sociales a los artículos de investigación publicados en revistas de turismo de primer cuartil del Journal Citation Reports (SSE). Los resultados revelan que la especialización de las revistas, aún dentro de la temática del turismo, responde a sus líneas editoriales con algunos matices, aunque las inclinaciones en cuanto al análisis de las materias turísticas no se distribuyen de manera tan homogénea. Los autores que ocupan el centro del debate académico no siempre coinciden con los más prolíficos, aunque podría decirse que la coautoría ayuda a los autores a posicionarse en el centro de la discusión.Palabras clave: Redes sociales, turismo, revistas de primer cuartil, redes de autores, revisión de la literatura.

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