Tourism Review: Volume 71 Issue 3

Evaluating the value proposition of developing a vacation ownership resort: the case of Florida and Hawaii

Albert Barreda, Kevin Murphy, Amy Gregory, Dipendra Singh

This paper aims to examine the value proposition of developing a vacation ownership project in Florida and Hawaii by analyzing actual company data.

Leisure boat tourism: residents’ attitudes towards nautical tourism development

Marika Gon, Linda Osti, Harald Pechlaner

This paper aims to analyse how leisure boat tourism impacts are perceived by local communities in coastal areas. For this purpose, a review of the literature on nautical and…

Hotel’s grid group structure and risk management practices

Vilas Govind Waikar, Purva G. Hegde Desai, Nilesh Borde

Risk management is an emerging research area in tourism and hospitality. This paper classifies hotels based on grid (control) and group (inter dependencies) structure given by the…

Brand personality, brand equity and revisit intention: an empirical study of a tourist destination in Iran

Reza Salehzadeh, Javad Khazaei Pool, Samaneh Soleimani

The purpose of this paper is to examine how brand personality and brand equity affect intentions to revisit a city tourism destination.

Kuwaiti consumers’ willingness to pay for environmental protection in Failaka island: a contingent valuation analysis

Mohamed M. Mostafa, Mohaned Al-Hamdi

Evidence suggests that a growing number of consumers across the world are becoming more environmentally responsible in terms of their personal habits and lifestyles. In this…

Who owns the past? The politics of religious heritage in contemporary India

Ranjan Bandyopadhyay

This conceptual paper aims to contribute to the growing literature around the “politics of heritage” by focusing on India which has a multifaceted society with several layers of…