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The destination marketing and media profile – travel motives nexus amid tourism crisis: the mediating effect of the nation brand
Tafadzwa Matiza, Elmarie SlabbertThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of destination marketing and media profiling to re-engage international tourists. However, potential crisis-induced nation…
Antecedents of labor shortage in the rural hospitality industry: a comparative study of employees and employers
Johanna Innerhofer, Luigi Nasta, Anita ZehrerAlthough the role of human capital in the hospitality sector is critical, the industry faces challenges in attracting workers with a poor industry image frequently mentioned…
Antecedents and outcomes of memorable volunteer tourism experiences
Erose Sthapit, Peter Bjork, Dafnis N. Coudounaris, Jano Jiménez-Barreto, Tan Vo-ThanhThis study proposed and tested a new conceptual model of memorable volunteer tourism experiences (MVTEs) by examining the effects of novelty, meaningfulness, experience…
A holistic approach to augmented reality-related research in tourism: through bibliometric analysis
Shafeeque M. Hanaa, Azees P. AbdulWith its potential to significantly improve the tourism sector, augmented reality (AR), an emerging technology, is a growing force in the field. It has attracted significant…
Re-visiting the causal relationship between tourism and economic growth in India: specific to general modelling approach
Arif Gulzar Hajam, Shahina Perween, Mushtaq Ahmad MalikTourism–economy relationship in India has been studied extensively in the past literature using a single equation approach. However, the present paper diverted from this trend and…
Green HRM and hospitality industry: challenges and barriers in adopting environmentally friendly practices
Muhammad Imran Tanveer, Mohd Yusoff Yusliza, Olawole FawehinmiThe recent decade has described the role of HR practitioners as more strategic to advance in environmental management (EM), technology and change management competencies. The…
Detection of readers' emotional aspects and thumbs-up empathy reactions towards reviews of online travel agency apps
Md Shamim Hossain, Mst Farjana RahmanThe main goal of this study is to employ unsupervised (lexicon-based) learning approaches to identify readers' emotional dimensions and thumbs-up empathy reactions to reviews of…
Effect of COVID-19 on hotel performance: role of government
Swechchha Subedi, Marketa KubickovaThe study has two objectives, first, to examine the effect of COVID-19 deaths and corruption on the government's policy responses, and second, to investigate the effect of…
Opportunities for the United States hotel industry to recover from COVID-19: a multi-period DEA analysis of key efficiency determinants
Szilvia Vanessza Schalk-Nador, Ida RašovskáThis study examines empirically the development of efficiency levels in the hotel industry and its key drivers, by juxtaposing pre- and post-COVID-19 results in the four most…
Defining attributes of boutique hotels: a systematic literature review
Kristina Buhagiar, Lisa A. Pace, Sandra M. DingliBoutique hotels reflect a nascent phenomenon in the literature and in the accommodation sector. As a result, they are void of governmental classification and regulation…
Trade-off between future travel avoidance and self-protectiveness post-COVID-19: the roles of adventurousness and safety-seeking tendency
Kareem M. Selem, Rupa Sinha, Rimsha Khalid, Mohsin Raza, Mohammad Shahidul IslamUnderpinned by sensation-seeking theory (SST) and regulatory focus theory (RFT), this paper highlights the crucial role of adventurousness in self-protective behavior and future…
Activities as the critical link between motivation and destination choice in cultural tourism
Anneli Douglas, Gijsbert Hoogendoorn, Greg RichardsThis study aimed to determine the motivations of a select group of South Africans in terms of their potential engagement with cultural tourism; more specifically, the study set…
Vacation vengeance: an interpretive phenomenological analysis of revenge travel in India
Snigdha Singh, Pallavi SrivastavaAfter each of the COVID-19-induced lockdowns, an unprecedented surge in leisure travel was observed, resulting in tourists flocking to places of tourist interest. This phenomenon…
Do sustainability motivations drive satisfaction and engagement in the sharing economy, or is it just price and convenience? Some answers in a collaborative housing context
María-del-Carmen Alarcón-del-Amo, Carlota Lorenzo-Romero, Miguel-Ángel Gómez-BorjaThis study aims to understand the motivations behind using Airbnb as a collaborative housing platform brand, their impact on satisfaction and engagement, and how the latter…
Place attachment in coffee shops: a customer perspective study in North Cyprus
Mine Haktanir, Ezgi GulluThis study aims to develop a better understanding of the key determinants of repetitive visits to coffee shops. The paper intends to answer a simple, yet crucial question, “Why do…
Mapping tourism strategy patterns on tourism area life cycle
Surabhi Gore, Nilesh Borde, Purva Hegde DesaiTourist destinations are constantly changing products, evolving as per the controls exerted by the stakeholders. The study aims to map the pattern of tourism development and…
Examining the role of personality traits in guestroom technologies
Tevfik Demirciftci, Anil Bilgihan, Mehmet Erdem, Seyhmus BalogluThis study aimed to identify distinctive characteristics of hotel guests and understand their perception of guestroom technologies (GRTs) in hotels by utilizing the theory of…
From empowering leadership to proactive work behavior in hospitality: a study of multiple cross-level mediation processes
Chung-Jen WangOn the basis of the hierarchical organizational structure, this study investigated how empowering leadership influences hotel employees' proactive work behavior through multiple…
Testing the relationship between employment and tourism: a fresh evidence from the ARDL bounds test with sharp and smooth breaks
Veli Yılancı, Mustafa KırcaThis study aims to investigate the effect of the tourism sector on employment in 13 Mediterranean countries. In addition, the impact of economic growth and inflation rate, which…
Worker exploitation in the gig economy: the case of dark kitchens
Charalampos Giousmpasoglou, Adele Ladkin, Evangelia MarinakouThe emergence of dark kitchens in the restaurant industry is a contemporary phenomenon, arising most recently in the context of the so-called gig economy. This new business model…
Looking at the tourism industry through the lenses of industry 4.0: a bibliometric review of concerns and challenges
Sofia Gomes, João M. Lopes, Luís FerreiraThe technological and digital revolution has introduced important changes in the tourism industry. However, capturing the extent of the new tourism 4.0 paradigm is still…
Leisure time posts on WhatsApp status drive travel and tourism consumption
Shiv Ratan Agrawal, Divya MittalThe present study aims to examine whether leisure time posts shared on WhatsApp status drive to travel and tourism consumption among users.
Is satisfaction a moderator? The effect of sensory experience on perceived environmental sustainability and WOM: a study on the world's first organic state – Sikkim, India
Rhulia Nukhu, Sapna SinghThe study seeks to analyze the influence of sensory experience on perceived environmental sustainability and word-of-mouth (WOM) of tourists and residents. The study also tests…
The role of health and safety protocols and brand awareness for the recovery of hotel activity following a health crisis
Ana Isabel Polo-Peña, Hazel Andrews, Javier Torrico-JódarThis paper examines whether following a health crisis the use of health and safety protocols and hotel brand awareness influences hotel perceived value and intention to visit.
A research on the relationship between tourism and migration
Ömer Sarı, Selma Meydan UygurAlthough it is assumed that migration and tourism directly affect each other, neither has received enough attention in the literature. Moreover, the relationship between them…
Green meets food delivery services: consumers' intention to reuse food delivery containers in the post-pandemic era
Joseph Kee-Ming Sia, Jie Min Ho, Ivy S.H. HiiThe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has increased food delivery service demand, which generates massive amounts of solid waste, specifically plastic material. Therefore, this study…
An investigation of the selected antecedents and consequences of work engagement among hospitality and tourism academicians
Erhan Boğan, Caner Çalışkan, Osman M. Karatepe, Hamed RezapouraghdamThe purpose of this paper is to explore the selected antecedents (i.e. supervisor support and organizational justice) and outcomes (i.e. voice behavior and career satisfaction) of…
Technological capabilities and global value chains: insights from Spanish SMEs in the hotel industry
Isidoro Romero, José Fernández-Serrano, Rafael Cáceres-CarrascoThis study explores the role of international tour operators as the agents assuming the governance and the upgrading of the tourism global value chains (TGVCs), with a special…
A buzzword, a phase or the next chapter for the Internet? The status and possibilities of the metaverse for tourism
Wei WeiGrowing recognition of the metaverse has implied its far-reaching impacts on the tourism and hospitality industry. This paper sets out to detail the status of metaverse-related…
The COVID-19 pandemic and repurchase intention in building brand engagement in the airline industry
Mohammadjavad Shabankareh, Jagangir Hamzavi, Alireza Ranjbaran, Somayeh Jelvehgaran Esfahani, Gissa IzadiGripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, the airline industry has faced many restrictions. Based on the determining factor of repurchase intention, this research paper addresses the…
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