International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research: Volume 16 Issue 1

Subjects:

Table of contents

Promoting awareness of sex trafficking in tourism and hospitality

Joshua Aston, Jun Wen, Edmund Goh, Oswin Maurer

This cutting-edge short commentary is intended to raise awareness of sex trafficking in the tourism and hospitality industry. The purpose of this paper is to also advocate for…

4779

Understanding students as hosts: moving beyond sightseeing

Tanja Petry, Birgit Pikkemaat, Chung-Shing Chan, Ursula Scholl-Grissemann

Neither visitors of visiting friends and relatives (VFR) travel nor hosts are homogeneous segments (Griffin & Guttenberg, 2020). For this reason, this study aims to address…

1613

New avenues for business competitiveness: the case of a community of practice in the hotel sector

Sofia Almeida, Ana Cláudia Campos

This paper aims to better understand community of practice (CoP)’s dynamics with a focus on the hotel sector and perceived benefits to members and business performance.

How leadership affects organisational citizenship behaviour – a study of independent hotels

Alireza Nazarian, Peter Atkinson, Pantea Foroudi, Rezvan Velayati, Dilini Edirisinghe, Asieh Hosseini Tabaghdehi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that managers in independent hotels can influence to improve organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) by examining the…

1026

Residents’ attitudes toward tourism development at Al-Juhfa, Saudi Arabia

Ali Ahmad Algassim, Akhmad Saufi, Diswandi Diswandi, Noel Scott

Al-Juhfa is a small village located near Rabigh City, between Makkah and Madinah, Saudi Arabia, with significant archaeological and religious resources. The purpose of this paper…

A new conceptual framework for memorable Airbnb experiences: guests’ perspectives

Erose Sthapit, Peter Björk, Dafnis N. Coudounaris, Matthew J. Stone

This qualitative study aims to explore the activities that guests perform while staying in Airbnbs, emotions associated with these experiences and the components of memorable…

5473

The culture of gifting with the emergence of online tourism experiential gift-giving

Sarah Gardiner, Alexandra Bec

This study aims to explore the evolution of the culture agapic (personal) gift-giving with the advent of new online gifting platforms that provide the opportunity to gift tourism…

The use of migration matrices to test the sustainability of the top ranked restaurants: a methodological note

J. François Outreville

The purpose of this paper is to present a new methodology to estimate the migration of grades of top rated restaurant and the default rate over time.

220

Cooperation for the implementation of digital applications in rural cultural tourism marketing

Sarah Lisa Schuhbauer, Andrea Hausmann

This study aims to identify pitfalls in the use of cooperation for the implementation of digital applications in rural cultural tourism marketing and derive practical implications…

Early adopters’ responses to a virtual tourism product: Airbnb’s online experiences

Irene Cenni, Camilla Vásquez

In April 2020, Airbnb launched “Online Experiences,” (OE) a virtual tourism product responding to pandemic-related restrictions on physical travel. The purpose of this study is to…

Hedonic experiences at heritage attractions: the visitor’s perspective

Ana Carolina Bender, Manuela Guerreiro, Bernardete Dias Sequeira, Júlio Mendes

The purpose of this study is to explore the hedonic experience and its formation at heritage attractions.

How to manage and minimize food waste in the hotel industry: an exploratory research

Vera Amicarelli, Alina-Cerasela Aluculesei, Giovanni Lagioia, Rodica Pamfilie, Christian Bux

The hospitality industry is responsible for significant amounts of waste, more than one-third of which is food waste. Through the comparison between an Italian and a Romanian…

25873

Airbnb and hotels during COVID-19: different strategies to survive

Kristóf Gyódi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the traditional hotel industry and Airbnb in nine major European cities. The author examines…

3035

Anticipated positive evaluation of social media posts: social return, revisit intention, recommend intention and mediating role of memorable tourism experience

Amit Mittal, Harveen Bhandari, Pawan Kumar Chand

The purpose of this study is to examine how the anticipated positive evaluation of a tourist’s social media posts by significant others, known as social return (SR), impacts the…

1450

Exploring the role of personal and job resources in professional satisfaction: the case of the hotel sector in Algarve

João Viseu, Patrícia Pinto, Sérgio da Borralha, Saúl Neves de Jesus

This study aims to follow the Job Demands-Resources model to understand how: job resources (organisational health and organisational support) were related to work engagement…

Humour: coping with travel bans during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sari Lenggogeni, Ann Suwaree Ashton, Noel Scott

This study aims to extend the use of psychology in the field of tourism crisis and disaster management using coping theory. It examines how resident emotions change in the…

The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on tourists’ personal prestige – an experimental study

Friedericke Kuhn, Florian Kock, Martin Lohmann

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has drastically affected the public discourse on tourism in news reporting and on social media…

Comparing shopping experiences in department stores and street markets: a big data analysis of TripAdvisor reviews

Chayanon Phucharoen, Tatiyaporn Jarumaneerat, Nichapat Sangkaew

Based on big data analytical and statistical techniques, this study aims to examine tourists’ shopping experiences at department stores and street markets in Phuket.

The connection between VFR experience based and sociocultural dimensions of international students and mainland Chinese students

Chung Shing Chan, Birgit Pikkemaat, Dora Agapito, Qinrou Zhou

This paper aims to present the host experience of student hosts in Hong Kong, a popular educational destination for international students from mainland China and other countries…

Activating an artisanal saltpan: tourism crowding in or waterbirds crowding out?

Jorge Ramos, Patrícia Pinto, Pedro Pintassilgo, Anabela Resende, Luís Cancela da Fonseca

There is an increasing interest in visiting protected areas in the Algarve (Portugal). Tourists are interested in contact with nature activities. However, protected areas are…

The impact of organizational culture on supply chain integration in the hotel sector

Mahmoud Gebril Taha, Tomás F. Espino-Rodríguez, Antonia M. Gil-Padilla

Supply chain integration (SCI) has become a key strategy for hotels in facing their environment. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of the organizational culture…

Insights from sentiment analysis to leverage local tourism business in restaurants

Ting Yu, Paulo Rita, Sérgio Moro, Cristina Oliveira

Social media has become the main venue for users to express their opinions and feelings, generating a vast number of available and valuable data to be scrutinized by researchers…

Interconnections between the cultural and creative industries and tourism: challenges in four Ibero-American capital cities

Claudia Helena Henriques, Silvina Renee Elias

This paper aims to investigate the European and Latin America urban cultural policies that could enhance cultural and creative sustainable tourism products development.

The relationship between employer image and employee commitment in family-run hospitality firms

Katrin Schwaiger, Anita Zehrer

Among all forms of commitment, affective commitment has been shown to be the most desirable for enterprises. However, research on commitment among employees in family-run…

3638

The challenges of presenting traditional music in gastronomic establishments – the case of Slovenian Istria

Gorazd Sedmak

Through investigation and comparisons between tourists and restaurant managers regarding their understanding of traditional music and their attitudes, expectations and assigned…

ISSN:

1750-6182

Online date, start – end:

2007 – 2022

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Editor:

  • Dr Serena Volo