International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management: Volume 30 Issue 11

Lost in translation? Cross-language thematic analysis in tourism and hospitality research

Minoo H. Esfehani, Trudie Walters

Tourism and hospitality research is frequently cross language in nature; yet, English is the most used language to disseminate research findings. The use of thematic analysis is…

Online focus groups: a valuable alternative for hospitality research?

Brendan Richard, Stephen Sivo, Marissa Orlowski, Robert Ford, Jamie Murphy, David Boote, Eleanor Witta

This paper aims to test the idea generation capabilities of online text-based focus groups as compared to the traditional in-person focus groups using sustainability in the…

Convergent validity assessment of formatively measured constructs in PLS-SEM: On using single-item versus multi-item measures in redundancy analyses

Jun-Hwa Cheah, Marko Sarstedt, Christian M. Ringle, T. Ramayah, Hiram Ting

Researchers often use partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to estimate path models that include formatively specified constructs. Their validation requires…

A proposition-based theorizing approach to hotel cancellation practices research

Arash Riasi, Zvi Schwartz, Chih-Chien Chen

This paper aims to demonstrate how hospitality management research could benefit from the propositional style of theorizing, and how this approach could expand the scope of…

Modelling productivity shocks and economic growth using the Bayesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach

Anyu Liu, Haiyan Song, Adam Blake

Most existing studies on the impact of tourism on economic growth adopt an econometric approach that is insufficient to confirm that tourism actually leads to economic growth…

Proposing a missing data method for hospitality research on online customer reviews: An application of imputation approach

Jewoo Kim, Jongho Im

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new multiple imputation method that can effectively manage missing values in online review data, thereby allowing the online review…

Applications of latent growth curve modeling: a research agenda for hospitality management

Shi Xu, Larry Martinez

This paper aims to introduce latent growth curve modeling (LGCM) as a statistical technique to analyze repeated measures of longitudinal data to researchers in hospitality…

Sentiment analysis – a review and agenda for future research in hospitality contexts

Emily Ma, Mingming Cheng, Aaron Hsiao

The study aims to provide a critical review of the origin, development and process of sentiment analysis (SA) and a demonstration for hospitality researchers and students on how…

Discovering lived experiences through descriptive phenomenology

Caroline Jackson, David Roger Vaughan, Lorraine Brown

This paper aims to explore the reasons why descriptive phenomenology (DP) can provide an improved understanding of hospitality, tourism and event experiences. This is achieved…

Phenomenology for hospitality: theoretical premises and practical applications

Ksenia Kirillova

This paper aims to illuminate the possibilities of phenomenology in hospitality, enriching methodological rigor necessary to study holistic experiences, which are increasingly…

Scale purification: state-of-the-art review and guidelines

Andreas Wieland, Florian Kock, Alexander Josiassen

This paper aims to identify scale purification criteria for both uni- and multidimensional reflective scales and apply these criteria to an evaluation of the methodological status…

Electrodermal activity measurement within a qualitative methodology: Exploring emotion in leisure experiences

Raphaela Stadler, Allan Stewart Jepson, Emma Harriet Wood

Reflecting, reliving and reforming experiences enhance longer-term effects of travel and tourism, and have been highlighted as an important aspect in determining loyalty…

Toward understanding the topical structure of hospitality literature: Applying machine learning and traditional statistics

Eunhye (Olivia) Park, Bongsug Chae, Junehee Kwon

This paper aims to identify the intellectual structure of four leading hospitality journals over 40 years by applying mixed-method approach, using both machine learning and…

A reflection on survey research in hospitality

Sara Dolnicar

Survey research has developed to become the default empirical approach to answering research questions in the field of hospitality (and many other fields of research within the…

Understanding a shifting methodology: A content analysis of the use of netnography in hospitality and tourism research

Elizabeth A. Whalen

While netnography was established to study virtual communities from the traditional ethnography methodology, over time it has evolved and moved away from standard ethnographic…

Explaining the embodied hospitality experience with ZMET

Mingjie Ji, Brian King

Scholars have rarely applied an embodied perspective when studying hospitality experiences. They have given even less attention to methodological considerations. This paper aims…

Using partial least squares structural equation modeling in hospitality and tourism: Do researchers follow practical guidelines?

Ahmet Usakli, Kemal Gurkan Kucukergin

The purpose of this study is to review the use of partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in the field of hospitality and tourism and thereby to assess…