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Explorations of preferred and maximum booking windows among U.S. national park campers: Implications for improved fairness Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2024-03-04 William L. Rice, B. Derrick Taff, Sophie A. Morris, Bing Pan, Colby Parkinson, Peter Newman
The purpose of this research note is to inform national park management regarding the strategies in rationing campsites in popular U.S. national park campgrounds and provide data-driven guidance for the design of more fair and equitable methods for distributing limited, highly demanded campsites. To explore preferences in campsite rationing techniques and preferred and maximum campsite booking windows
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Nepalese tourism from the lens of residents: An assessment of impact perception, attitude, and action towards tourism development in Gandaki province, Nepal Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Rekha Baral, Vinod Kumar Saini
Residents’ perception, attitude, and support towards the tourism industry are the key determinants of tourism success. Therefore, understanding residents’ perceptions is critically important for the long-term sustainability of the tourism industry. However, such studies are meagre in the context of Nepalese tourism, one of the most popular nature and culture-based tourism destinations in the global
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Social networking, environmental awareness and sustainable tourism development in Da Nang, Vietnam Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Thi Quynh Trang Nguyen, Viet Thai Nguyen, Thi Thu Huong Hoang, Thi Huyen Trang Tran, Thi Phuong Thao Nguyen
Networking facilitates stakeholder collaboration and partnerships and a richer understanding between stakeholders, benefiting the achievement of sustainable tourism development. This research examines how a network contributes to the success of a shared goal related to environmental sustainability at a local destination. A case study based on social network theory is conducted in Da Nang City – a popular
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Determinants of residents’ support for urban tourism in times of uncertainty: Exploring the case of the city of Madrid Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Diana Gómez-Bruna, Clara Martín-Duque, Juan José Fernández-Muñoz
Residents are key actors in the management of tourist destinations, especially in times of uncertainty such as those that characterize the current context of multidimensional crisis (ecological, political, social or economic). The role of tourism in these crises, its contribution to their acceleration or its work in recovery, makes it necessary to deepen the support of residents for tourism in complex
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Status of homestay tourism in Indian Himalayan region: Analysis of customer review and policy support for sustainable tourism Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Smriti Thakur, Sagar Sood, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Ranjeet Singh
Homestays, which have emerged as a popular idea in the growing tourism industry, act as the most suitable alternative to encourage sustainable tourism activities in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR...
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Female solo travels to south Asian destinations and sustaining loneliness Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Malithi Neluhena, Lalith Chandralal, Thilinika Dahanayake
While there has been an increase in the number of tourists travelling solo, there is a steady growth in females travelling alone as tourists around the globe. This phenomenon has led to a growing s...
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“Smile for the camera”: Online warehouse tours as a form of dark tourism within the era of late capitalism Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Adam Lynes, Esme Wragg
Over the past 50 years dark tourism has also seen exponential growth in terms of both physical and digital contexts. Dark tourism is primarily a concentration around documented accounts of physical...
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Capturing eudaimonic feelings in tourism experience: A construct proposal and preliminary empirical evidence Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Sandro Alves de Medeiros, Ana Cláudia Campos, Lara Brunelle Almeida Freitas, Tiago Savi Mondo, Erose Sthapit
Despite the increasing interest in eudaimonic tourism experiences in recent years, research in tourism studies is fragmented. In addition, studies most often lack conceptualization, not clarifying ...
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Antecedents and consequences of behavioural intention to use virtual reality in tourism: Evidence from Gen-Y and Gen-Z consumers in Egypt Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Zakaria Elkhwesky, Abuelhassan Elshazly Abuelhassan, Esraa Fayez Youssif Elkhwesky, Sawsan Haider Abdullah Khreis
Virtual reality (VR) is an advanced technology that has a significant impact on tourism and travel worldwide. Drawing on the social cognitive theory (SCT) and theory of planned behaviour (TPB), the...
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Fred Harvey and the Santa Fe Railroad’s Brand extension strategy to develop Southwestern tourism in the USA in the early 1900s Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Robert Ford, David J Kwun, David Van Fleet
This study employed an abductive inference approach to review and assess the critical influences in a brand extension strategy execution based on a historical example. It reveals the drivers of and...
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Segmentation and factors associated with the resilience of touristic SMEs: Results from Colombia Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Wilmer S Sepúlveda, Sandra Patricia Bustamante-Caballero
Organizational resilience refers to the ability of organizations to sustain and recover from adversity. The Covid-19 pandemic was an unexpected event of enormous magnitude that affected the stabili...
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Exploring international customers’ luxury service experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-03-23 EunPyo Hong, Jiseon Ahn
During the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated strain on consumption activities, demand for luxury hotels has risen steadily as a safe way to enjoy leisure services. This study aims to examine the...
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Regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP) and tourism: Four research propositions Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Sharon GM Koh, Grace HY Lee, Andrei OJ Kwok
The year 2022 marks the significance of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) as the agreement enters into force after nearly one decade of negotiations. While the pandemic exposed...
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The adoption of the UN sustainable development goals in hotels in Dubai Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Simarna Singh, Christopher S Dutt
Given the scope of tourism and hospitality, this economic sector has a significant role to play in the global effort to become more sustainable. As more initiatives are discussed and implemented to...
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Covid-19 pandemic effects and responses in the Maasai Mara conservancy Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Shreya Chakrabarti, Anneli Ekblom
Local comparisons of effects, responses and mitigations to the Covid-19 pandemic are of vital importance in building a sustainable tourism. This is particularly the case for conservancies in Africa...
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“Sanitary measures, social distancing, safety”: The evolution of Swiss hoteliers’ Covid-19 communication through three snapshots Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Laura Zizka, Meng-Mei Chen
Since the first reports of the Covid-19 virus in December 2019, the tourism industry has struggled to find solutions to this unprecedented crisis. During crises, organizational learning can develop...
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Small encounters, big experiences – on the significance of tourists’ passing encounters with residents Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Matias Thuen Jørgensen, Jonas Larsen
This research note introduces the concept of ‘small encounters’ and highlights its importance for the tourist experience. Defined as situations where tourists briefly encounter residents, small enc...
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Network behaviour for tourism business resilience Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Sulhaini, Akhmad Saufi, Lalu-Edy Herman, Noel Scott
This study applies a relationship perspective to study tourism crisis management and resilience. Despite the growing academic interest in crisis management, few studies have examined how tourism bu...
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Measuring the comparative advantage of camping businesses: A multicriteria sorting methodology Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Kevin Grande, Laurent Botti
The adoption of appropriate strategies is an obligation for firms to gain in competitiveness. This paper develops a camping comparative advantage measure methodology by composing an operational def...
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Robot-delivered tourism and hospitality services: How to evaluate the impact of health and safety considerations on visitors’ satisfaction and loyalty? Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Mohammad Soliman, Samskrati Gulvady, Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz, Maha Mosbah, Marwa S Wahba
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, visitors’ worries about health and safety in tourist destinations have become paramount. Consequently, this research aims to evaluate the impact of health and safety c...
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The mediation role of fear of COVID-19 in the relationship between ambiguity of death and intolerance of uncertainty related to holiday Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Süheyla Golcheshmeh, Selçuk Efe Küçükkambak, Melek Süler
The study examines the mediation role of fear of COVID-19 on the relationships between the ambiguity of death and intolerance of uncertainty related to the holiday. Data was obtained from a total o...
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Sustainability in the Mediterranean tourist ports: The role of certifications Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Riccardo Spinelli, Clara Benevolo
This study investigates the sustainability practices of tourist ports, a little explored research area despite the environmental and social impacts of these infrastructures. Our research evaluates ...
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Current obstacles, contemporary practices, and potential solutions for recovery in Vietnam tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic: Tour operators’ perspectives Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Thinh Gia Hoang, Anh Thi Van Nguyen, Vu Minh Ngo, Huan Huu Nguyen
This paper explores the current obstacles, contemporary practices, and potential solutions for recovery in Vietnam tourism, based on the views of tour operators after the COVID-19 pandemic. This re...
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Reconstructing the microbrewery taproom experiencescape through narratives in online travel reviews: A case from Houston, Texas USA Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Velvet Nelson
The number of craft breweries on the American landscape has grown exponentially over the past several decades. The literature on craft beer and beer tourism has grown accordingly. Yet, visitors’ ex...
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New entrants for attractions network evolution Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Daniel P Vieira, Edgar R Júnior, Gabriel de Lacerda Rangel
Social network analysis has been widely used in tourism studies. Few studies, however, adopted the tourist perspective as a source of analysis or analyze how interactions in the network evolve. The...
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Understanding Tourists’ Attitude Toward Online Travel Health Information During and Post-COVID-19: A Health Belief Model Application Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Arej Alhemimah
Due to people’s anxieties about COVID-19, it may take years before international tourism returns to pre-pandemic levels. Thus, it is crucial to understand how tourists’ health beliefs influence the...
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Destination loyalty and pandemic risks: Revisiting the study of tourist loyalty during the covid-19 pandemic Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Ángel Herrero-Crespo, Héctor San Martín-Gutiérrez, Jesús Collado-Agudo, María-del-Mar García-de-los-Salmones-Sánchez
This paper examines how tourist behaviour is conditioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, developing a theoretical framework that considers not only traditional variables such as image, satisfaction, and ...
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Webcam travel: A preliminary examination of psychological well-being Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Stephanie Man Fung Lee, Sebastian Filep, Sera Vada, Brian King
Travel has been identified as a significant contributor to psychological well-being. The recent COVID-19 global pandemic disrupted travel patterns and behaviours, thereby negatively affecting the p...
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Researching the image of Singapore with the drawing technique Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Bianca Köstinger, Xavier Matteucci
The need to embrace unstructured approaches to explore holistically the way in which people conceive places has been underscored by many researchers. Yet, few attempts have drawn from an arts-based...
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Political animosity: A novel theoretical framework Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Villy Abraham, Ohad Shaked
A growing body of research points to the influence of animosity in general and political animosity in particular (henceforth referred to as PA) on tourism behavior. However, past research overlooke...
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Nutritional richness of traditional foods in Uganda’s tourism industry: An investigation of luwombo Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Celestine Katongole, Innocent T Mukama
International tourists often seek to have traditional food experience in the destinations they visit. The experience ranges from food harvesting to preparation and dining. While this experience is ...
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Hotel service quality dimensions and attributes: An analysis of online hotel customer reviews Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Kanapot Kalnaovakul, Pornpisanu Promsivapallop
This study examines service quality dimensions and attributes of the hotel industry in a famous beach resort destination of Phuket based on 25,267 online reviews from the TripAdvisor website collec...
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What hinders residents’ prosocial behavior toward tourists? A social cognition perspective Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Xiaojing Dong
Drawing on a social cognition perspective, this research challenges the existing comprehension of the fundamental characteristics of resident-tourist relations by proposing that residents have a pr...
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The role of perceived value in shaping luxury service customers’ self-brand connection Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Shiwen Lu, Jiseon Ahn
Building on the literature on luxury consumption behavior, this study investigates customers’ perceived values on their patronage behavior toward luxury service brands. Partial least squares-struct...
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Retaining talented employees during COVID-19 pandemic: The leverage of hotel pandemic response strategies Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Islam Elbayoumi Salem, Hassan Aideed, Nasser A Alkathiri, Karam Mansour Ghazi
This study aims to examine the impact of hotels' pandemic response strategies (service automation, downsizing, restructuring, health protection, and training) on talent retention intentions with th...
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Analysing the business model canvas of the camping industry using cluster analysis Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Kevin Grande, Raquel Camprubi
Private and public camping businesses are struggling with the strategic and operational management of their establishments. Current research on the camping sector is scarce, whether related to camp...
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COVID or VOID: A systematic literature review of technology adoption and acceptance in hospitality and tourism since the breakout of COVID-19 Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Ali Iskender, Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, David Cardenas, Rich Harrill
The purpose of this study was twofold. The first goal was to review and synthesize research pertaining to ‘technology acceptance and COVID-19’ from the years 2020, 2021, and early August 2022 in th...
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Understanding restaurant users’ attitudes towards self-service ordering via kiosks during the COVID-19 pandemic: An application of the theory of anxiety Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Gyunghoon Kim, Seo Ah Park
This study aims to prepare a comprehensive self-service technology model that incorporates the hygiene and health issues throughout the restaurant industry amid pandemics. To this end, this study e...
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Hostelquality: A methodology for assessing the quality of hostels Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Daniela de Moura Pavão Farias, Marilia Nunes Valença, Marcos Felipe Falcão Sobral, Ana Regina Bezerra Ribeiro
Hostels are an important part of the tourism industry but despite this, many of the metrics used to measure conventional hotels do not apply to the hostel sector. Therefore, this study developed a ...
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Destination brand image and destination brand choice in the context of health crisis: Scale development Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Salman Majeed, Zhimin Zhou, Woo Gon Kim
Several recent destination crises have brought difficult challenges to the world’s travel, hospitality, and tourism activities. We explore how the brand image of a tourist destination is influenced...
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Role of destination attachment in accommodation experiences of historical guesthouses Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Yi-Chin Lin, Hsin-Yu Melissa Tsai, Austin Rong-Da Liang, Hui-Yu Chang
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between destination attachment, tourists’ experiences of historical guesthouses, satisfaction and revisit intention. Historical guesthouses...
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The impacts of colonialism on residents’ perceptions of tourism in Southeastern Nigeria Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Afamefuna P Eyisi, Nneoma G Ololo, Maureen O Aruomah
Whilst colonialism remains under-researched as a variable that influences residents’ perceptions of tourism, few researchers have commented on its impacts. This observation explains the need to exp...
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What influences the purchase intention of online travel consumers? Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Carlos Tam, Francisca Caetano Pereira, Tiago Oliveira
Despite its increase in recent years, e-commerce is far from surpassing traditional trade, and the online purchase of travel arrangements is no exception. Using an integrated model founded in theor...
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Driving hospitality and tourism to foster sustainable innovation: A systematic review of COVID-19-related studies and practical implications in the digital era Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Zakaria Elkhwesky, Younès El Manzani, Islam Elbayoumi Salem
Sustainable innovation is a solution for the hospitality and tourism (H&T) industries to cope with the COVID-19 crisis, build resilience, and ensure survival post-pandemic. The primary aim of our r...
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The tour guide role in the United Arab Emirates: Emiratisation, satisfaction and retention Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Emilie J Rutledge
This paper examines the job satisfaction levels of national tour guides in the United Arab Emirates. In-depth interviews (n = 34) and a questionnaire (n = 63), incorporating Job Satisfaction Survey...
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Fear of COVID-19, hotel employee outcomes and workplace health and safety management practices: Evidence from Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Kareem M Selem, Muhammad S Ahmad, Rakesh Belwal, Kholoud AlKayid
This paper investigates the effect of fear of COVID-19 on employee turnover intention and depression, hypothesizing the mediating effect of psychological well-being and the moderating effect of wor...
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Can destination image be ascertained from social media? An examination of Twitter hashtags Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Rajesh Nautiyal, Julia N Albrecht, Anna Carr
The role of Twitter hashtags in creating destination images is under-researched, and there is limited understanding of their usefulness in destination promotion. This paper examines the destination...
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One model, one construct, different psychographic measures: A comparison of three scales of allocentrism-psychocentrism Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Oliver Cruz-Milán
The venturesomeness concept developed by Stanley Plog almost five decades ago has been influential, amply cited and used in tourism investigations. However, a close review of the published literatu...
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Circular economy and sustainable strategies in the hospitality industry: Current trends and empirical implications Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Christian Bux, Vera Amicarelli
The European Union has enacted several strategies to reach sustainability and tackle climate change. Among them, the New circular economy action plan and the Farm to Fork Strategy could represent f...
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Participative leadership and its impact on employee innovative behavior through employee voice in tourism SMEs: The moderating role of job autonomy Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Ahmed M Elsetouhi, Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz, Mohammad Soliman
This paper investigates how participative leadership and employee voice behavior stimulate innovative behavior, through the moderating role of job autonomy within the SMEs context. Responses from 547 frontline employees at Egyptian travel agents were collected. Using variance-based structural equation modeling (VB-SEM), the results revealed that participative leadership significantly influenced both
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Can attending farmers’ markets lead to unplanned deviant visitor behavior? Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Emma Joenpolvi, Gary Mortimer, Frank Mathmann
Farmers’ markets can enhance local food tourism experiences, as well as benefit regions and businesses that operate within these markets. With the impact of COVID-19 reducing international travel, domestic and local tourism is predicted to increase due to a desire to support local economies. While it has been established that visitors who shop at farmers’ markets do so for pro-social reasons, the current
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Climate change planning in a coastal tourism destination, A participatory approach Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Lydia Horne, Asha DiMatteo-LePape, Gabriela Wolf-Gonzalez, Valeria Briones, Alyssa Soucy, Sandra De Urioste-Stone
Participatory planning is one strategy to increase tourism suppliers’ capacity to jointly anticipate climate change impacts and implement locally feasible and acceptable solutions; however, participatory planning is uncommon. In this study, we co-created a series of planning workshops with tourism partners to examine and address climate change impacts (challenges and opportunities) on Mount Desert
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A review of ecological impacts from recreational SCUBA diving: Current evidence and future practice Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Daminda Sumanapala, Kay Dimmock, Isabelle D Wolf
Global demand for SCUBA diving activities in coastal areas continues to grow. Academic research has acknowledged that SCUBA diving can have ecological impacts. To understand the current state of knowledge this study applied the systematic quantitative literature review method (SQLR) to determine what evidence is available on ecological impacts from recreational SCUBA diving. In total 69 research articles
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Identifying and ranking employer brand improvement strategies in post-COVID 19 tourism and hospitality Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Moslem Bagheri, Tom Baum, Ali Asghar Mobasheri, Amin Nikbakht
This study aims to identified and ranked employer brand strategies in post-COVID-19 tourism and hospitality, considering the significance of employer branding as one of the most important elements for attracting and retaining key employees.In this study, we initially develop a model by systematically reviewing the literature. And in the subsequent quantitative analysis, the strategies identified are
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An attempt to clarify what deserves to remain dark: A long look back Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Jorge Tarifa-Fernández, Eva Carmona-Moreno, Raquel Sánchez-Fernández
This paper aims at developing a bibliometric analysis of previous studies focused on dark tourism and thanatourism in order to map the structure and development of scientific production in this field. Moreover, this paper intends to identify which are the main research topics that require further investigation, contributing to shape a future research agenda. This research follows a mixed-method based
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Sustainability paralysis in travel consumption: A Reddit study Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Mucha Mkono, Karen Hughes
Sustainability remains at the centre of debates around the impacts of travel and tourism. This study uses Reddit travel forums to understand the complexities of negotiating the meaning and practice of sustainability in travel contexts. Specifically, we focus on the emergence of “sustainability paralysis”, a form of “analysis paralysis” where travel consumers struggle to (i) articulate what sustainability
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A systematic and critical review of restaurants’ business performance: Future directions for theory and practice Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Zakaria Elkhwesky, José-Alberto Castañeda-García, Abuelhassan Elshazly Abuelhassan, Ashraf Tag-Eldeen
In contrast to prior reviews, this study provides a review of research contexts, research designs, and theories used in restaurants’ business performance research. It also identifies measures and antecedents of restaurants’ business performance. Additionally, this systematic review highlights gaps for future research on restaurants’ business performance. A total of 148 articles were obtained from the
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Advancing a framework for social impact assessment of tourism research Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Alba Viana-Lora, Marta G Nel-lo-Andreu, Salvador Anton-Clavé
This article aims to advance the methodology for assessing the social impact of tourism research. An evaluation framework was designed to measure social impact in three stages—ex-ante, in-itinere and ex-post—and the ex-post evaluation was applied to a tourism research project, the POLITUR project, to test its validity. The collected information originated from interviews and documentary material. The
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Negative health impact of tourists through pandemic: hospitality sector perspective Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Seyedeh Fatemeh Ghasempour Ganji, Lester W Johnson, Ali Kazemi
Although the impact of tourism development on residents has received a lot of attention in the literature, the health impact of tourism has not been sufficiently addressed. Due to outbreaks of COVID-19, the importance of recognition of the negative health impact of tourism is relevant. Thus, the present study aims to identify the health impact of tourism through COVID-19 outbreaks considering residents’
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Homestay businesses’ strategies for adapting to and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic: A study in Vietnam Tourism and Hospitality Research Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Tin Doan, Richard Aquino, Hongxia Qi
Adaptation and recovery are essential for businesses to survive crises and disasters. Drawing on the concepts of business resilience and hospitality service delivery practices, this study explored strategies employed by owners of Vietnamese homestay businesses for adapting to and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews with 17 purposefully selected homestay owners were conducted