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Liping A. Cai

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Established · publishing since 1993
Diverse Aspects of Tourism ResearchDigital Marketing and Social MediaConsumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationCustomer Service Quality and LoyaltyCruise Tourism Development and Management

Publications

250

Citations

11,256

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

33

Publishing since 1993

Research summary
AI-generated

This bibliographic record appears to mix several distinct research areas, including tourism and hospitality management (branding, visitor behavior, cultural ecosystem services), as well as unrelated topics like remote sensing of grasslands, medical imaging, and agricultural detection algorithms, which suggests the data may combine records from multiple researchers with the same or similar name. Based on the topics most consistently linked to the name, the tourism-focused work examines how travelers experience destinations, brands, and cultural attachments, and how these relate to well-being and pro-environmental behavior.

Tourism and hospitality researchConsumer and visitor behaviorBranding and marketing in tourismCultural ecosystem services and place attachment(Note: record also contains unrelated topics in remote sensing and medical imaging)

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with peaks around 2018 and 2021 and a lower but ongoing output in recent years (about 6 papers/year on average over the last 5 years).

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.0/year recently
2017: 5 publications172018: 15 publications15182019: 4 publications192020: 10 publications202021: 14 publications212022: 10 publications222023: 9 publications232024: 4 publications242025: 7 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Remote Sensing×5
  • Journal of China Tourism Research×5
  • Figshare×5
  • Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research×4
  • Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing×3
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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