Can the 2025 Nobel prizes in physics and economics inspire a “quantum” turn in tourism research?

Waqas Ali

Plymouth Business School

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Original language	English
Article number	104115
Journal	Annals of Tourism Research
Volume	117
Early online date	14 Jan 2026
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2025.104115
Publication status	Published - Mar 2026

Keywords

Quantum tourism
Tourist behaviour
Entanglement
Superposition
Creative destruction
systemic innovation

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