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A Conceptual Framework of Sustainable Hospitality Supply Chain Management [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-12)
In recent years, companies are under increasing pressure from consumers, grassroots and community organizations, governments, and shareholders to develop and practice sustainable business practices. While individual ...
Trapped as a Good Worker: The Influence of Coercive Acquaintance Advertising on Work Outcomes [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-12)
This article examines the organization phenomenon of coercive acquaintance advertising, which is born of social media context and emerging in tourism and hospitality industry. Empirical results analyzing the multisource ...
The strategic value of advertising expenditures in the tourism and hospitality industry [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-06)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the strategic value of advertising expenditures in the tourism and hospitality industry. Adopting a market-based valuation approach and longitudinal analysis, this study assesses ...
The role of the hotel industry in the response to emerging epidemics: a case study of SARS in 2003 and H1N1 swine flu in 2009 in Hong Kong [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-04-07)
The Metropole Hotel hastened the international spread of the 2003 SARS outbreak by the index case infecting visitors from Singapore, Vietnam, Canada as well as local people via close contact with the index case and the ...
Application of the Internet Market Research Methods in Hospitality [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-17)
This paper analyzes the role of Internet market research in hospitality due to its changing and complex environment. New aspects of consumer behavior and especially new technologies give rise to new or existing tourism ...
Governance, technology and citizen behavior in pandemic: Lessons from COVID-19 in East Asia
(Virginia Tech, 2020-04-15)
Corona Virus (CODID-19) was first reported in Wuhan in December 2019, then spread in different parts of China, and gradually became a global pandemic in March 2020. While the death toll is still increasing, the epicenter ...
Can we contain the COVID-19 outbreak with the same measures as for SARS? [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-03)
The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 resulted in more than 8000 cases and 800 deaths. SARS was eventually contained by means of syndromic surveillance, prompt isolation of patients, strict enforcement ...
The Hospitality Industry - Anamnesis, Diagnosis and Directions in Pandemic Context [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-03)
As a component with high sensitivity, tourism is a sector of consequence, sensitive to the imbalances of the socio-economic metasystem that includes it. In the context of establishing the state of emergency on the Romanian ...
Insurance uptake among small and medium-sized tourism and hospitality enterprises in a resource-scarce environment [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-04-15)
Small and medium-sized tourism and hospitality enterprises (SMTHEs) are often susceptible to various hazards, which result in risk concerns. Insurance is recognised as one of the risk management strategies, but evidence ...
Tourism in Crisis: Managing the Effects of Terrorism [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-11)
Accepting the permanence of terrorism and regional political problems is a requisite to managing them. This is pertinent not only for governments of nations afflicted with terrorism or political disturbances and ...