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Virginia Tech Business, Spring 2020
(Virginia Tech. Pamplin College of Business, 2020)This is the Spring 2020 issue of Virginia Tech Business, the magazine for Pamplin College of Business. -
The joy of riding or walk of shame? The theme park experience of obese people
(2020)This exploratory study focuses on obese people's perceptions of their theme park experience. Given this study's objective and the gap in the literature on obese people's tourist experience, a qualitative research approach ... -
Preparedness and Lessons Learned from the Novel Coronavirus Disease [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)In a short span, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has captured global consciousness by significantly affecting the day-to-day life of humans and emerged as a public health emergency. Undoubtedly, it indicates that lessons ... -
The Hospitality Industry - Anamnesis, Diagnosis and Directions in Pandemic Context [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)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 ... -
The epidemiologist and the pandemic [Summary]
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Straining the System: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Preparedness for Concomitant Disasters [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)An editorial on the COVID-19 pandemic is presented. It mentions the work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in dealing with this epidemic as well as future events, the international collaboration on research ... -
Novel coronavirus epidemic: new dimension for disaster management and health resilience [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)The article offers information on the challenges faced by the coronavirus pandemic. It discusses that coronavirus epidemic as a new dimension for disaster management and health resilience. It mentions that coronavirus ... -
Preparedness and Lessons Learned from the Novel Coronavirus Disease [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)In a short span, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has captured global consciousness by significantly affecting the day-to-day life of humans and emerged as a public health emergency. Undoubtedly, it indicates that lessons ... -
Exploring the Covid-19 Pandemic As a Catalyst for Stimulating Future Research Agendas for Managing Crises and Disasters at International Sport Events [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)While the interdisciplinary study of crisis, disaster, and emergency management has become increasingly sophisticated, the identification of synergies, useful concepts, and future research agendas in relation to studies ... -
eMarketingEye digital insights for hospitality industry to overcome COVID-19 impact [Summary]
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COVID-19 in occupational settings: lessons from 100 years ago and addressing the disease today [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)COVID-19 is a disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). On January 30th, 2020 the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus 2019 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization. ... -
Comparison of Measures adopted to combat COVID 19 Pandemic by different countries in WHO regions [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-17)Since the emergence of Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID 19) in China in December 2019, a lot of significant decisions have been taken by the World Health Organization (WHO) and several countries across the globe. As the world ... -
Interorganizational cooperation and supplier performance in high-technology supply chains
(2020-03)Never in history have global supply-chain relationships in high-tech electronics firms been more sophisticated, complicated, and almost always tied in some major aspect to China. This research examines how interorganizational ... -
International Tourism and its Global Public Health Consequences [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-11)National, regional, and local tourism bodies need to encourage research by task forces and individuals that will develop more coordinated contingency programs and bolster public health readiness. The travel industry is ... -
What Disgusts Consumers in the Hospitality Industry: The Consumer Reaction to Environmental Contamination Model [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-11)Because consumers do not have access to microbiological assessments of their environment, they rely on their perceptions of cleanliness and the possibility of environmental contamination. Perceptions about what defines ... -
Tourists' risk perception of risky destinations: The case of Sabah's eastern coast [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-11)The findings have pointed to the likelihood of travel experience having an impact on risk perception. This probability hinges on the types of travel experience. For instance, it has been found that tourists with more marine ... -
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 ... -
Tourism: The Great Patient of Coronavirus COVID-2019 [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-11)An epidemic can become the ultimate driver of national tourism industry to the collapse, as it affects all human activities, like social, religious, athletic, artistic and cultural. The Corona Virus has convulsed the world ... -
Severe acute respiratory syndrome, tourism and the media [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-11)By late 2003, the SARS outbreak appeared to over and was actually declared over by the WHO in July 2003. The diagnosis of new cases in Singapore in September 2003 and in China in January and April 2004, however, called ... -
Tourism and HIV/AIDS: The Vicious Relationship and the Way Forward [Summary]
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-11)In spite of challenges facing different tourism operators on account of a long supply chain or personal moral values, ethical (or at least responsible) tourism should be adopted by the industry, not as an alternative “niche ...
