Issahaku AdamUniversity of Cape Coast | UCC · Department of Hospitality & Tourism Management
Issahaku Adam
BSc, MPhil, PhD (Tourism Management)
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Introduction
Behavioural change towards reducing single-use plastic consumption and litter
Additional affiliations
November 2011 - present
Education
August 2013 - March 2016
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Publications (54)
Understanding the causal influence of financial anxiety on future work commitment with social support and socio-psychological wellbeing as mediators amongst crisis-induced redundant tourism employees remains limited. Using data collected from 547 COVID-19-induced redundant tourism employees, this paper examines the influence of financial anxiety on...
Though leisure is noted to possess therapeutic efficacy, its impact on the psychological wellbeing of people with visual impairment, particularly in Africa has received little research attention. The burden of disability on the psychological wellbeing of people with visual impairment in African societies makes it imperative to understand how leisur...
Though rational and moral antecedents to tourists’ pro-environmental behavioral intentions have been separately established, the literature remains inconclusive on whether tourists’ pro-environmental intentions are underpinned by rational or moral considerations. Based on the theory of planned behavior and the norm activation model, this study exam...
Though single-use plastic waste remains a global challenge, there is little knowledge on tourists’ behavioral responses to single-use plastic waste. Underpinned by the value-belief-norm theory, and with a sample of 603 tourists in Ghana and analyzed with the two-step cluster technique, this study characterizes tourists’ behavioral response to singl...
Despite the potential of leisure to shape the sexual behaviour of young people with disability, there is limited knowledge on the subject. This paper explores the influence of leisure on the sexual behaviour of young people with hearing and vision loss, using data from 2127 young people aged 10–24 years from all the 16 special schools for the deaf...
Relying on the Push-Pull and Entrepreneurial Events theories, this study explores the motivations for entrepreneurial activities among COVID-19 induced redundant Ghanaian hospitality and tourism employees during COVID-19 pandemic. The study used a qualitative lens in selecting 20 respondents for interviews in Accra. The study revealed that the COVI...
Drawing on social and psychological well-being literature underpinned by the concept of resilience, this study examines the impact of COVID-19 induced redundancy on the socio-psychological well-being of redundant employees (laid-off or working reduced hours), and its effect on their commitment to work and support recovery in the tourism industry. U...
Tourists’ emotional responses to crises have been conceived from a unitary perspective despite the potential existence of different segments of emotional reactions. Using data from 412 residents drawn from Macau, this study segments their emotional responses toward the COVID-19 pandemic, characterizes the segments by their perceived travel risk and...
While tourists contribute to and suffer the consequences of beach litter, studies on beach clean-up exercises have mostly neglected them and overly focused on resident beach goers. Based on a sample of 685 international tourists in Ghana, this paper examines the perception of international tourists on beach litter and the determinants of their will...
Recent research attention has been directed at legislative and market-based instruments with little recourse to understanding attitudinal and behavioural responses to single-use plastics (SUPs). Using the tri-component model, this study examines attitudinal and behavioural segments on SUPs amongst residents in coastal cities of Accra and Cape Coast...
Despite the attention paid to food safety research, few empirical works have used a non-reductionist perspective to understand how international consumers cognitively respond to local food safety conditions. Using the tri-component theorisation and the two-step clustering approach with the Kruskal Wallis test on a sample of 109 international studen...
Drawing on network theory, this study examines how the entrepreneurship orientation (EO)-performance nexus is intermediated by networks firms establish with government agencies, suppliers, and resource acquisition. Structural equation modelling is used to test the model on a sample of 556 women tourism entrepreneurs in Ghana and Nigeria. Findings i...
Drawing on the literature examining the nexus between gender, entrepreneurial leadership and entrepreneurial performance, this article critically explores a framework for analysing the role of gender in shaping entrepreneurial performance and leadership in tourism firms in a non-western context. Utilising a poststructural feminist lens that challen...
In eschewing reductionist segmentation in backpacker research, this study employs multi-dimensional concepts of social identity, motivation and sustainable behaviour to understand different groups of backpackers. The two-step cluster analysis and Kruskal Wallis test performed on a sample of 400 backpackers revealed that there are three segments of...
This study examines the relationship between perceived impacts of COVID-19, risk perceptions, emotions, and travel intentions within selected higher education institutions of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR). The paper argues that hospitality and tourism recovery strategies should focus on specific internal market segments by understan...
Studies on tourists' interactions are limited to positive interactions with little known on negative tourist-to-tourist (T2T) interactions and its influence on value destruction and associated behavioral antecedents and outcomes. This study examines the effects of negative T2T interactions on value destruction, visitor satisfaction and post consump...
The growing visibility of plastic pollution, particularly negative environmental impacts of single-use plastic bags, has entered the political debate, triggering policy interventions to control its manufacturing and use. This trend was also felt in Southern Africa, a region with high urbanization, leading to increased resource use and plastic consu...
The purpose of this study is to examine factors associated with competitive stress as experienced by a visually impaired elite athlete at the highest level of professional sports competition. Five-time Paralympic medalist Jason Dunkerley participated in two in-depth interviews providing a rich personal account of his most recent and vivid experienc...
Caribbean economies depend heavily on a healthy marine ecosystem, but the region includes ten of the top global marine polluters per capita. Regional marine pollution is driven by illegal plastic waste dumping due to poor waste management systems with limited recycling, and weak enforcement. Governments recognize the impacts of marine debris on the...
Purpose – Hospitality and tourism researchers are yet to provide evidence of actual crisis management amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially from a resource-scarce destination perspective. By adapting a crisis management framework, the authors elected to fill this gap by exploring small and medium-sized hospitality and touris...
Caribbean economies depend heavily on a healthy marine ecosystem, but the region includes ten of the top global marine polluters per capita. Regional marine pollution is driven by illegal plastic waste dumping due to poor waste management systems with limited recycling, and weak enforcement. Governments recognize the impacts of marine debris on the...
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/womens-entrepreneurial-journeys/how-women-are-helping-each-other-business-success-ghana/
https://theconversation.com/strategies-africas-tourism-requires-to-manage-blow-from-coronavirus-135858
Despite the destructive nature of tourist-to-tourist interactions, previous research efforts focused on service provider-tourist interactions while neglecting negative tourist-to-tourist interactions. Consequently, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on how to measure negative tourist-to-tourist interaction. Following a rigorous methodological pr...
Countries in Africa are increasingly adopting policies to reduce single-use plastic (SUP) pollution, yet there has been limited analysis of policies adopted by African countries. This paper reviews SUP reduction policies, specifically in West Africa. The main policy instruments used by countries in West Africa is legislative SUP bans mostly on plas...
Leisure provides a conducive opportunity for people to freely express
themselves and influence their identities.1 Identity is described
as socially distinctive characteristics that an individual (or group of
people) view as representing them.2 Identity development involves
the dual process of individuation and social relatedness. Individuation
rela...
Using the concept of Universal Design, this study examines the state of physical accessibility and its drivers among hotels in the Accra Metropolis of Ghana through physical accessibility audit and in-depth interviews. The findings reveal that there is poor compliance with physical accessibility though four and five-star hotels have better complian...
Though studies on the experiences of travellers with disabilities abound, little is known on the attitude and at-titudinal functions of frontline employees towards guests with disabilities. Using data from 825 hotel frontline employees in Ghana, this study applies the functional theory of attitude to understand their attitude and attitudi-nal funct...
Though digital leisure has the ability to complement the tourist experience, its determinants among inbound tourists remains unestablished. Using data from 634 inbound tourists in Ghana and analysed with multinomial logistic regression, independent samples t-test and one-way analysis of variance, the study established that digital chatting, digital...
This paper examines the relationship between motivation, experience, and post-purchase intentions of five ethnic tourist segments at Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade attractions. Multi-group invariance test on 783 tourists revealed that relaxation motivation influenced the emotional experience of all ethnicities except Blacks in the diaspora whose emotio...
Tourism is one of the key sectors expected to accelerate the global efforts towards sustainable development, and with this, there is a renewed interest in understanding and influencing tourists’ attitude and behaviour. Analysis of data from 819 international tourists using structural equation modeling indicates that values are significant anteceden...
Notwithstanding the complex relationships between antecedents to leisure participation among people with disabilities, limited empirical studies have explored these relationships. This study analyses the interactional relationships between the antecedents to leisure participation among people with physical disability in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana...
Despite the contestation of the existence of leisure freedom, particularly among marginalized populations such as people with disabilities, there have been limited studies to ascertain their leisure aspirations. The negative socio-cultural connotations of disability in Ghana further constricts disabled peoples’ leisure freedom and therefore warrant...
A series of studies have demonstrated the relevance of visitors’ motivation, satisfaction and post-consumption behaviour to sustainable management of attractions, but existing knowledge on the intricate causal relationships among these issues in the context of eco-tourism is limited. Using data from 342 visitors to the Kakum National Park in Ghana...
Leisure pursuits of people with visual impairment is one of the under-researched concepts in disability discourse. Employing focus group discussions, this study explored the leisure pursuits of people with visual impairment. Their leisure pursuits include chatting, sleeping, listening to radio, meditation and watching television. The watching of te...
Notwithstanding its importance to the success of businesses and industries, the external operating environment is hardly a subject of interest in the tourism literature. But understanding the operating environment is of major value when assessing the efficacy of tourism and its role as a vehicle for socioeconomic transformation in any country. The...
Notwithstanding its importance to the success of businesses and industries, the external operating environment is hardly a subject of interest in the tourism literature. But understanding the operating environment is of major value when assessing the efficacy of tourism and its role as a vehicle for socio-economic transformation in any country. The...
Knowledge on leisure constraints is important in advancing the
discourse on leisure participation particularly amongst
marginalized populations such as disabled people. Research on
leisure constraints of disabled people in the contexts of
developing African countries is minimal despite their different
socio-cultural, economic and political environm...
Even though the literature unequivocally posits a relationship between tourism and crime, tourism
research has not explored this relationship within specific tourist segments such as backpackers despite
its growing importance. Using the tenets of the Routine Activities Theory (RAT), this study explored the
crimes that were perpetrated against backp...
Leisure motivation is central to the provision of leisure services especially
to marginalised groups such as disabled people who may have different
interests from non-disabled people. Using cross-sectional data from 536
people with physical and visual disabilities, this study assessed the leisure
motivations of disabled people in Ghana. The finding...
Knowledge of leisure constraints needs to be discussed within specific contexts.
However, little attention has been paid to understanding leisure constraints within the
context of educational institutions in developing countries. This study was based on a
case study of 1160 randomly sampled students from the University of Cape Coast in
Ghana. The r...
Tourists’ satisfaction with restaurant services tend to generate repeat visitation. The interrelationships between international tourists’ satisfaction of restaurant services and intentions to revisit have, however, received little empirical attention from academics in Ghana. Data were randomly collected from 768 international tourists in Ghana and...
Food safety concerns are critical elements in improving food services and subsequently enhancing patronage of food service establishments. Despite its critical role in determining the viability of food service establishments, little empirical studies have attempted to link food safety to choice of eating places especially in non-western societies....
Leisure researchers have contended that leisure patterns and constraints are significantly influenced by gender. Despite this assertion, little has been done to compare gender differences across leisure patterns and constraints within a single study population beyond the treatment of sex as a variable. The focus of this study was to assess the gend...
This study identified and assessed the differences in the extent to which location
factors were considered by hotel owners based on certain characteristics of their hotels in
the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana. The behavioural thought on industrial location decisions
was used as a framework to identify and assess hotel owners’ location decisions. Data...
Hotel location selection is core to future management strategies at destinations. Additionally knowledge of the determinants of hotel location selection factors is key to ensuring coherent spatial planning at the destinations. However, these subjects have received little attention by researchers in developing countries. The purpose of this study wa...
Spatial agglomeration is a firm behaviour and mostly occurs because of competition
among firms to enjoy spatial agglomeration effects and have the tendency to influence
hotel location choice. However, the literature on urban tourism has mostly neglected
the influence of perceived spatial agglomeration effects on hotel location choice,
especially in...
Knowledge of urban hotel development patterns is key to proper planning and
management of urban destinations. However, there is a paucity of empirical studies on the
development patterns of hotels within the African context. The purpose of this study was to
analyse the hotel development patterns in the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana. The study revealed...
Knowledge on the people involved in hotel location decision-making and why they are
involved is key to destination planning and development. Insights gained into this subject are
useful to future destination planners. Despite its importance, the subject of whom to involve
in the hotel location decision and why they should be involved, has received...
Projects
Projects (5)
Effective and sustainable approaches to reducing SUP pollution require stimulating consumer motivation to minimize the use of SUP. This project aims to identify how to influence the behaviour of residents of the coastal cities of Accra and Cape Coast in Ghana to reduce SUP consumption. The project will use the findings to design a behavioural change communication campaign, implement it for three months and conduct a post-intervention impact survey to determine the effectiveness of such behavioural change strategy.
