International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research: Volume 2 Issue 4

Shipscape influence on the leisure cruise experience

Robert J. Kwortnik

The purpose of this paper is to examine the leisure cruise service environment – the shipscape – and its effects on cruisers' emotions, meaning‐making, and onboard behavior.

Cultural perspectives: Chinese perceptions of UK hotel service quality

Yi Wang, Marcelo Royo Vela, Katherine Tyler

The purpose of this paper is to assess Chinese tourists' perceptions of the UK hotel service quality, and to analyze the role of Chinese culture in influencing their expectations…

Decision‐making processes of Portuguese tourist travelling to South America and Africa

Antónia Correia, Adriano Pimpão

This paper aims to study the decision‐making processes of Portuguese tourists traveling to South America and Africa destinations by developing a conceptual framework that focuses…

Reading Australian colonial hospitality: a simple recipe

Richard N.S. Robinson, Charles Arcodia

This research paper aims to report on the findings of an innovative study to extract contemporaneous interpretations of Australian colonial domestic hospitality in Mrs. Lance…

Special interest tour preferences and voluntary simplicity lifestyle

Sheng Chieh‐Wen, Ming‐Jian Shen, Ming‐Chia Chen

This research aims to treat voluntary simplicity lifestyle (VSL) as general lifestyle and explore the correlation between VSL and selection preference of special interest tourism…

Note from the publisher

Vicky Williams