Advances in Hospitality and Leisure

Joseph S. Chen
Emerald
Emerald

This book can be opened with

Glassboxx eBooks and audiobooks can be opened on phones, tablets, iOS and Android devices

Hardback
9781787693043
05 December 2018
$134.99
eBook (PDF)
9781787693036
05 December 2018
$134.99
eBook (ePub)
9781787693050
05 December 2018
$134.99

Note on our eBooks and Audiobooks: you can read our eBooks (ePUB or PDF) and listen to audiobooks on the free Emerald Books app on iOS, Android, and desktop. Or read and listen on Emerald's online reader (ePUB eBooks and audiobooks only). To purchase a digital book you will need to create an account if you don’t already have one. After purchasing you will receive instructions on how to get started.

  • Description
  • Contents
  • Reviews
  • About
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a peer-reviewed research journal, has been published annually since 2004. AHL is indexed in Scopus and included in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal quality list. Its editors, editorial board members and ad-hoc reviewers include scholars from North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. AHL utilizes this international focus to participate in innovative methods of inquiry and inspire new research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected in the context of hospitality, tourism, and leisure. It strives to address the needs of the populace willing to disseminate seminal ideas, concepts, and theories derived from scholarly inquiries. This volume includes full papers and research notes which discuss conceptual models and empirical investigations using inductive and deductive methods. Potential readers may retrieve useful articles to outline new research agendas, suggest viable topics for a dissertation work, and augment the knowledge of the new subjects of learning.

FULL PAPERS Chapter 1. CEDING TO THEIR APPETITES - A TAXONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISTS TO SOUTH AFRICA; Lisa-Mari Coughlan and Melville Saayman  Chapter 2. HONG KONG’S TOURISM QUALITY SERVICE SCHEME – GOOD IN THEORY BUT NO LONGER RELEVANT AS A CONSUMER PROTECTION STRATEGY; Bruce Prideaux, Nelson Kee Fu Tsang, and Ophelia Wong  Chapter 3. THE EFFECT OF ACTIVITY INVOLVEMENT ON PLACE ATTACHMENT WITH CO-CREATION AS A MEDIATOR; Yao-Chung Liu, Bor-Hon Lee, Yu-Chih Lo, and Shih-Shuo Yeh  Chapter 4. CUSTOMER RETENTION AMONG HOTELS IN AN EMERGING MARKET: AN EMPLOYEE–BASED PERSPECTIVE; Paulina Nillie Adzoyi, Robert Jan Blomme, and Ben Quarshie Honyenuga  Chapter 5. COMPETITIVENESS ANALYSIS OF CRUISE PORTS: A CASE IN CHINA; Danying Song, Joseph S. Chen, and Ke Dong  Chapter 6. EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES ASSOCIATED WITH TOURIST ARRIVALS TO FOREST PARKS THROUGH LINEAR AND CURVE ESTIMATIONS; Wan-Yu Liu  Chapter 7. A STUDY ON BRAND EQUITY OF ONLINE TOURISM ENTERPRISES BASED ON USER VALUE CO-CREATION; Han Shen, Xinge Li, and Yangfan Zhang  Chapter 8. MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT AND MARKET ORIENTATION PRACTICES IN GHANA’S HOTEL INDUSTRY; Edward Kwame Ayimey, Robert Jan Blomme, and Ben Quarshie Honyenuga  RESEARCH NOTES  Chapter 9. HUMOR IN LEADERSHIP: PERSPECTIVE OF THE HOTEL INDUSTRY; Dong-Woo Koo, Min-Seong Kim, and Young-Wook Kang  Chapter 10. TOURISM GROWTH UNDER INDIA’S NEW CSR REGIME; Tanmay Sharma  Chapter 11. TOWARDS A RESPONSIBLE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY: ETHICS THROUGH AESTHETICS IN TOURISM; Willy Legrand and Robert Schønrock Nielsen

    Contributed by management, hospitality and tourism, and other researchers from around the world, the 11 articles in this volume discuss topics in hospitality and leisure. They address the culinary preferences of international tourists to South Africa; Hong Kong's Quality Tourism Services scheme; the relationship between activity involvement, place attachment, and co-creation in a festival setting; customer retention among hotels in Ghana; the competitiveness of Chinese cities in the cruise market; attributes associated with tourist arrivals to forest parks in Taiwan; the impact of customer value co-creation behavior on the brand equity of online travel enterprises; the influence of management commitment on market orientation practices in Ghana's hotel industry; the structural relationships among humor leadership, psychological empowerment, innovative behavior, and job performance in the Korean hotel industry; tourism growth under India's new corporate social responsibility regime; and the connection between ethics and aesthetics in tourism.

    - Annotation ©2019
    Dr Joseph S. Chen is Professor of Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management at Indiana University (Bloomington), USA. His research centers on tourist behaviors, tourism impacts and sustainable development. He has published articles in top tourism and hospitality journals for decades and been named as a leading tourism/hospitality scholar by peer-viewed journals.