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Hotel Guests' Perceptions of Green Technology Applications, and Practices in the Hotel Industry
Although sustainability and technology are two major concerns in the lodging industry, sustainability applications and practices are quite new and in need of more research. This study was conducted to examine and understand...
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La Barranca del Rio Santiago as Tourist and Eco Touristic Attraction for the Brand Guadalajara Guadalajara, Focused on a National Tourism
The main purpose of this research is to show if the Barranca del Rio Santiago is a tourist attraction and ecotourism should be included in the Guadalajara brand, focused on national tourism. The research is exploratory and...
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A TAM-Based Model of Technological Factors Affecting Use of E-Tourism
In tourism, ICT provides new channels anywhere/anytime for tourism services that impacted how customers access and consume those services, hence the emergence of the concept of e-tourism. Internet can be used to attract...
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Value Chain Mapping of Tourism in Birbhum
Tourism is one of the most enhancing and continuous developing economic sectors throughout the world. The main objective of the study is to develop a proper value chain mapping on Birbhum tourism, along with generation of...
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Communicating and Building Destination Brands With New Media
Anita Goyal
Feb 19, 2021
The chapter aims to discuss building destination brands with the use of brand placements, like in movies and in songs, brand communities, and storytelling through new media options. The objective is to share how these three...
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Pattern Mining on How Organizational Tenure Affects the Psychological Capital of Employees Within the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
Psychological capital (PsyCap) is a measure of the positive capabilities of an individual which consists of four components: hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism. In this study, the pattern of the effect of organizational...
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Airbnb or Hotel?
Advances in information technology have hugely influenced the tourism industry. Many tourists can generate and share their travel tips through social media, and people consult online reviews before making travel arrangements...
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Local Food as a Tool of Tourism Development in Regions
This study aims to identify the importance of local food for both the demand and supply sides and to show how local food can be bounded with tourism development in the region. The data presented are based on secondary and...
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Local Perspectives on Cultural Tourism and Cultural Sustainability
The objective of the chapter is to explore cultural tourism perceptions, practices, concerns, and prospects among local residents and business representatives in the Cyclades, specifically three sites (Andros, Syros, and...
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Customer Satisfaction Model
In the service industry, one of the main challenges is to provide customer satisfaction. Though the number of budget hotel in Bangladesh is increasing, but customer satisfaction of these hotels are still ignored. The aim of the...
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Looking at the Future of Medical Tourism in Asia
Somjit Barat
Jan 01, 2021
Despite the popularity of ‘medical tourism' (which involves travel to a foreign destination for primarily medical reasons) as a thriving global industry in recent times, a comprehensive model that emphasizes the decision-making...
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Portuguese Mediterranean Diet as a Future Trend for Healthy and Sustainable Restaurant Consumption
Helena Real
Mar 04, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges to the way the world thinks about the sustainability of the planet and also brought new opportunities to emphasize conviviality, familiar links, cultural heritage, and exchange of...
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Information Source Before Travelling and Choice of Traveling Mode
The ability to attract tourists is crucial for the success of tourism firms in Malaysia. This has therefore raised a major concern on which information sources tourists use when making choices on their traveling mode as well as...
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Leveraging on Digital Technologies to Up-Scale Tourism for Economic Growth in Africa
The application of digital technologies in various human endeavours today is unabated. This article presents information and communications technologies (ICTs) as a driving force for promoting tourism in Africa for accelerated...
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Recommendation System for Sightseeing Tours
This research proposes a model of a recommendation system (RS) for tourist itineraries. The RS suggests tips of what to visit in a city, based on the available time, personal preferences, current geo-location, and the user's...
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The Influence of Perceived Value Towards Customer Satisfaction in Hostel Business
Perceived value is one of the elements that can influence customer satisfaction in the hotel and hospitality industry. In order to re-create the effective strategies, hostel business needs to understand more about factors that...
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Exploring the Technological Impacts
Aside from educating the public, museums are adapting to the changing world as they have become one of the popular sites for cultural heritage tourism. Thus, from tourists and educational activities, they generate an increase in...
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Effect of Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction in Selected Cafeterias
The study was conducted using 20 cafeterias in Greater Accra Region on the effect of service quality dimensions on customer satisfaction in the hospitality industry. Purposive sampling technique was employed for the collection...
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Impact of Leadership on the Relationship Between Innovation and Performance
Leadership, innovation, and performance are essential factors to achieve the desired sustainable profitability of companies. The relationship between these variables is one of the keys to the organizational success, although...
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