“…Specifically, our review of all studies using PLS-SEM in all tourism and hospitality journals indexed by Clarivate Analytics in its 2018 Journal Citations Reports in the "Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism" category, shows that only 9 of 375 studies (2.4%) estimated nonlinear effects, while 3 other papers mentioned nonlinearity as a limitation and/or future research direction. Those studies addressing nonlinearity do so by analyzing the nonlinear relationships between tourism resources and tourism competitiveness (Mazanec and Ring, 2011), hotel staff turnover and its antecedents (Mohsin et al, 2015), hotel customer-based brand equity and its drivers and consequences (Š erić et al, 2018), exhibitors' value co-creation activities and their satisfaction with exhibitions (Wong and Lai, 2018), residents' perceptions of tourism destination development effects and their support for this development (Rasoolimanesh et al, 2018), the operating/funding performance of museums and their creativity orientation (Camarero et al, 2019), perceived tourism experience value and tourists' experience intensity (Antón et al, 2018), mobile social tourism shopping and environmental stimuli (Hew et al, 2018), and hotel success and its critical factors (Yadegaridehkordi et al, 2018). Most of these studies have analyzed the nonlinear effects by means of interaction terms in their PLS path models (4 papers) or by using various techniques (impact-asymmetry analysis, artificial neural networks, and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems) as second stage analyses (5 papers).…”