Giancarlo Fedeli

IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems · Department of Business

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.02.002 In the wake of recent evidence from various contexts, ‘fake news’ has the potential, for instance, to impact opinions, expectations and behaviour of tourism consumers. Furthermore, the manipulation of information could shape differently to the benefit or detriment of tourism destinations and operators...

Doctoral thesis

Restarting the mass tourism industry relies on the success of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign which requires individuals' voluntary participation to reduce health risks to hosts and visitors. This study identifies segments of Italian residents based on vaccine confidence at the early stage of a voluntary mass vaccination program. Using a survey h...

Abstract: Although influencer marketing is deemed as the panacea to marketing issues and the solution to success for many tourism businesses, this research highlights some of the challenges and threats associated with its practice. Based on the literature available on the topic and some of the latest evidence from a variety of locations, we examine...

Research highlights: • We challenge the construct of Travel Intention that was critically complicated by the context of COVID-19 ; • We highlight the relevance of cognitive-emotional travel constructs amid Covid-19 ; • We empirically validate Travel Intention, Desire (Craving) and Vaccine Confidence ; • Travel Intention, unlike Travel Craving,...

Social Media has become an important marketing tool for destinations due to its easy access, ability to reach broad audiences and capacity to act as a form of eWOM. Instagram in particular is one of the most popular channels for the visual marketing of a destination as well as for influencer marketing. Through Instagram, DMOs can create travel insp...

The present study applies Game Theory to study public investment at tourist destinations to determine the ‘best action’ for tourist destinations in competitive scenarios. This study proves that the higher the probability that the public sector of the destination will invest in tourism promotion, the greater the expected financial benefits for the d...

This research is to examine consumers' perceptions and responses to the exchange between social media micro-influencers and hospitality businesses in “collaboration” scenarios. Two studies are designed in series with qualitative and quantitative research methods. Study I uses YouTube comments to identify four dimensions of people's ethical percepti...

The development of recreational trails has gained popularity in recent years and therefore many scholars have studied various aspects of them. However, the recreational trail theoretical framework lacks an understanding of the relationship between the stage of trail development and income multiplier value. This research aims to examine this relatio...

War tourism is a scarcely researched topic, although the presence of spectators in war zones is attested throughout history. In addition to visiting sites of past conflict, “hot” war tourism in active war zones is on the rise. This study looks at how “war tourism” is represented within an online community of (aspiring) war tourists, taking the cas...

With the release of several COVID-19 vaccines, hopes for ending the pandemic have emerged. However, the uptake of the vaccines is largely voluntary and depends on the intentions of the public. From a social marketing perspective, this study takes the case of Italy to identify and test factors that are likely to increase COVID-19-vaccine intentio...

Recruitment and selection are important factors in the development and preservation of the tourism volunteer workforce. In the visitor attraction (VA) sector, in particular, it is estimated that volunteers constitute up to 51% of the total workforce. However, time constraints and lack of resources often limit organisations’ ability to prioritise re...

Vaccination campaigns worldwide have been implemented to fight the persisting threats associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. However, some segments of the population are far from being even partially shielded by vaccine immunisation. This is the case of younger individuals that represent one of the least protected population segments. As the reason...

FULL ARTICLE ACCEPTED IN ANNALS OF TOURISM The proposed conceptual paper considers the phenomenon of 'fake news' in the context of travel and tourism. ‘Fake news’ are described as fictitious information which is produced to appear as credible evidence, therefore designed with a deceiving purpose (Brennen, 2017). The term has gained momentum and gre...

The Night Time Economy (NTE) of Glasgow in Scotland contributed £2.19 billion (13.5% of city centre GDP), and over 16,200 full-time equivalent jobs (10.8% of city employment). This represented the first quantification of this element of Glasgow’s economy. In 2016, the City Council’s new urban strategy positioned Glasgow as the most innovative and p...

Abstract Visitor Attractions (VAs) represent a fundamental element of the tourism landscape. The emergence and integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in VAs have not only impacted the modus operandi of individual operators but also transformed how the entire sector is distributed and its product consumed. However, the ICT...

Despite the ever-increasing integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the tourism industry, recent research has suggested that the visitor attraction (VA) sector lags behind other tourism sectors in terms of technological adoption. The proposed study intends to review the role played by ICT by assessing the propensity, and...

Since the advent of the information technologies in the 1990s, developments in the field have increasingly advanced and revolutionised both economies and people’s lives. With the growing integration of this technological progress in travel and tourism, deeply connected to information, mobility and human experience, the industry has undergone tremen...

DREAM®trip: making data bigger - modelling and monitoring local tourism For half a century tourism statistics in the UK have been founded in the International Passenger Survey, IPS and the Great Britain Tourism Survey (formerly UKTS). . Face-face interviews with 250 000 and 120 000 people annually provide a base for many national policy purposes, f...

The primary intent of this qualitative study is to investigate the motivation of travelling and luxury consumption of Mainland China tourists in Sydney and study the implication with the national social values of China, in order to enhance the knowledge of the segment and meet the expectations of high-end Chinese travellers. The main conclusions of...