John Salazar

University of Georgia | UGA · Hospitality and Food Industry Management

COVID-19 has affected travel and will undoubtedly impact how people view travel and future intentions to travel as we adjust to life moving forward. Understanding how people arrive at these travel intentions will be paramount for managers and planners in determining how best to reactively and proactively plan for tourism, especially considering per...

Understanding what factors play a role in people’s decisions to travel during a pandemic is important to public health officials and to stakeholders in the travel and tourism industry in the United States (US) and worldwide. This study examines factors influencing people’s decisions to cancel/postpone recreational travel within the US amidst the CO...

This study examined the effect of Hurricane Matthew on visitor intent to travel to US South Atlantic destinations along the hurricane path two weeks after hurricane landfall. Researchers also studied the influence of the storm on a visitor’s perceived characteristics of a destination and the impact the hurricane had on a visitor’s level of confiden...

This study examines the effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on outdoor recreation trips and values using revealed preference data in the context of travel cost method. Demand models are estimated using data on pre‐ and post‐pandemic trips reported in a nationwide survey of recreation participants. The models incorporate related subjective risk percept...

The purpose of this paper is to test the effect of residents’ attitudes concerning tourism development on support for future tourism development, and ultimately whether such a relationship explains a sense of solidarity with tourists. To do this, a theoretical model was developed and tested based on the social exchange theory and affect theory of e...

There is a tremendous amount of literature that explores the relationship between employee job satisfaction and intent to stay. Similarly, recent research in the area of human resources has focused on the impact of human resources practices on various organizational outcomes. In this article the authors explore the relationships between training an...