International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management: Volume 25 Issue 7

Personality, social comparison, consumption emotions, satisfaction, and behavioral intentions: How do these and other factors relate in a hotel setting?

Dev Jani, Heesup Han

This study attempts to answer the following questions: can the Big Five factors (BFF) of personality facilitate a social comparison (SC) of hotel guests? Can the BFF explain the…

Constructing career competency model of hospitality industry employees for career success

Yao-Fen Wang

This study aimed to focus on developing a career competency model by examining the relationships among career competencies and career success from a career development viewpoint…

Gap analysis of green hotel marketing

Eric S.W. Chan

The green marketing concept emerged in the late 1980s, and many hotels have since implemented a variety of green marketing strategies, such as the use of the “green hotel” label…

Attitudes and orientation toward vegetarian food in the restaurant industry: An operator's perspective

Manuel Rivera, Amir Shani

The current paper aims to explore the attitudes of decision makers in restaurants in Puerto Rico toward vegetarian food, and examine the restaurants' orientation toward…

Determinants of involuntary cross-listing: US restaurant companies' perspective

Yoon Koh, Seoki Lee, Sudipta Basu, Wesley S. Roehl

– The purpose of this study is to identify determinants of involuntary cross-listing (CL) of US restaurant companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE).

Investigating the wellness tourism factors in hot spring hotel customer service

Kaung-Hwa Chen, Feng-Hsiang Chang, Chihkang Wu (Kenny)

This study aims to establish customer service factors for wellness tourism from both service providers and customer perspectives, and to determine whether gender and age factors…

Wine tourism phenomena in China: an emerging market

Hanqin Zhang Qiu, Jingxue (Jessica) Yuan, Ben Haobin Ye, Kam Hung

The aims of this study were to investigate the influencing factors of wine tourism development in China, assess the marketing efforts made by the wine-tourism stakeholders, and…

Is the gaming industry still recession-proof?: A time series with intervention analysis of gaming volume in Iowa

Tianshu Zheng, John Farrish, Ming-Lun Lee, Hui Yu

– The purpose of this study is to examine how the recent recession affected Iowa's gaming industry by analyzing gaming volumes before and through the recession.

Editorial

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