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Handbook of research methods for tourism and hospitality management
No full textAs research in tourism and hospitality reaches maturity, a growing number of methodological approaches are being utilized and, in addition, this knowledge is dispersed across a wide range of journals. Consequently there is a broad and multidisciplinary community of tourism and hospitality researchers whom, at present, need to look widely for support on methods. In this volume, researchers fulfil a pressing need by clearly presenting methodological issues within tourism and hospitality research alongside particular methods and share their experiences of what works, what does not work and where challenges and innovations lie.No Full Tex
The Routledge handbook of tourism impacts: Theoretical and applied perspectives
No full textThis handbook explores and critically examines both positive and negative impacts of tourism development focusing on the past, present and future issues, challenges and trends from a multidisciplinary global perspective. Through a comparative approach involving international case studies, this book explores our understanding of tourism impacts and contributes to the theoretical development on relationships between tourism impacts and community support for tourism development.
This handbook focuses on a variety of geographical locations, drawing from the knowledge and expertise of highly regarded academics from around the world. Specifically, it explores the adoption and implementation of various tourism development and impact management approaches in a wide range of global contexts, while identifying their trends, issues and challenges. It addresses strategies relating to innovation, sustainability and social responsibility, and critically reviews the economic, sociocultural, environmental, political and technological impacts of tourism. The text also identifies future trends and issues, as well as exploring the methods used to study tourism impacts.
Conveying the latest thinking and research, this handbook will be a key reference for students, researchers and academics of tourism, as well as development studies, geography, cultural studies, sustainability and business, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study.No Full Tex
Festival and event tourism impacts
No full textFestival and Event Tourism Impacts provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the multi-faceted impacts that festival and events have on a host community, whether positive or negative, and offers recommendations for communities for the successful management of this kind of tourism.
Opening chapters define festival and event tourism impact concepts utilized in the field and their evolution throughout the years, followed by an exploration of the current issues facing communities. The second part discusses sustainability and environmental issues that affect destinations and communities as a result of festival and event impacts. Subsequent chapters outline further impacts and finally address cutting-edge event tourism development and impact management strategies and considerations such as innovative management approaches, sustainability, and social responsibility, for example, and identify future trends and issues within a multidisciplinary global perspective. A variety of geographical locations are exemplified throughout as well as a range of diverse event types including the Formula One Grand Prix in Monaco, Pope Francis’ visit to Mauritius in 2019, and the 29th Summer Universiade in Taiwan, among many others.
Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of highly regarded academics from around the world, this will be of great interest to all upper-level students and researchers in Tourism, Hospitality, Events, and related fields.No Full Tex
Mauritius: A successful small island developing state
No full textThe economic upturn and performance of Mauritius is a far cry from predictions made in the 1960s. The island’s remarkable economic performance since the 1980s can been attributed to a multitude of factors instrumental to the success of the economy, including structural reforms, outward looking export orientated strategies, diversification in the manufacturing, tourism and financial services sectors amongst others, sound economic governance and institutions, and significant investment in human capital.
This book attempts to provide a detailed analysis of the various key ingredients which have helped to propel Mauritius to its current status. The various chapters provide important readings for both academics and policymakers, with the final chapter providing key policy strategies which the government needs to implement to help Mauritius graduate to the next level of development: namely to that of a high-income economy and, in moving out of the middle-income trap, laying the foundations for future growth and shared prosperity in the light of both domestic challenges and global constraints.No Full Tex
Developing a consumer loyalty model
No full textLoyalty in the tourism literature is borrowed from the consumer behaviour literature, but adapted to the specific characteristics of the tourism and hospitality industry. This chapter identifies key constructs that relate to loyalty behaviours in the tourism industry. Whilst research in the tourism literature focuses on antecedents of tourist loyalty such as satisfaction, value, motivation and service quality, there is a dearth of research on the impacts of new-fangled technologies such as social media and their impacts on the loyalty model. The chapter considers a new loyalty integrated model with antecedents of tourist loyalty such as trust in social media, destination image, consumption emotion and satisfaction. It reviews precursors of tourist loyalty such as the relationship between trust in social media and destination image. The chapter depicts new constructs that revamp a new loyalty integrated model. Since loyalty is beneficial to both tourists and service providers, monitoring its evolution is important.No Full Tex
Innovative approach to destination marketing: The smoke-free support hotel concept
No full textThis chapter aims at sensitizing hospitality and tourism stakeholders on the need for a paradigm shift from partial smoke-free to comprehensive smoke-free hotels in light of the latest evidence on the dangers of smoking and the harms of tobacco smoke to non-smokers. This chapter will highlight the innovative approach to adopt to become real smoke-free hotels, discuss the means to become smoke-free support hotels and identify the criteria to be fulfilled by destinations wishing to implement the Smoke-Free Support Hotel Concept as an innovative approach to destination marketing.No Full Tex
The State of Qualitative Research Methods in Tourism and Hospitality: Research Design Issues and The Way Forward
No full textWithin the field of tourism and hospitality, qualitative research as a method gained recognition only in the early 1990s. Qualitative research in tourism and hospitality research has primarily taken inspiration from the anthropology, sociology, and geography disciplines. Prior to the 1990, the field was largely dominated by research based on positivistic philosophies. Since then, researchers have started to question the fundamental nature of quantitative research, as it couldn't address the questions of meanings and understandings. Qualitative research was, therefore, considered as an alternative method offering richer interpretations and understanding of lived realities. While there has been a surge in qualitative methods over the years, quantification is still a dominant paradigm in much of the tourism and hospitality scholarship. Qualitative research is still portrayed as less methodologically robust, lacking rigor and credibility. Hence various attempts have been made to overcome the weaknesses. To understand how qualitative studies can be further developed to generate robust theoretical advancement, it is important to first understand the historical development of qualitative research within the field. We also provide insight on some of the most common types of qualitative inquiries used in tourism and hospitality research as well as their inherent challenges.No Full Tex
Fifty Years of Information Management Research: A Conceptual Structure Analysis using Structural Topic Modeling
Full text linkYesInformation management is the management of organizational processes, technologies, and people which collectively create, acquire, integrate, organize, process, store, disseminate, access, and dispose of the information. Information management is a vast, multi-disciplinary domain that syndicates various subdomains and perfectly intermingles with other domains. This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the information management domain from 1970 to 2019. Drawing upon the methodology from statistical text analysis research, this study summarizes the evolution of knowledge in this domain by examining the publication trends as per authors, institutions, countries, etc. Further, this study proposes a probabilistic generative model based on structural topic modeling to understand and extract the latent themes from the research articles related to information management. Furthermore, this study graphically visualizes the variations in the topic prevalences over the period of 1970 to 2019. The results highlight that the most common themes are data management, knowledge management, environmental management, project management, service management, and mobile and web management. The findings also identify themes such as knowledge management, environmental management, project management, and social communication as academic hotspots for future research
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