Hospitality & Tourism - Science topic

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Hello Maksim. This is a challenging task because there is no definitive method to establish the exact count of researchers working in the field of tourism and hospitality research. To ensure accuracy, you must specify your inclusion criteria. For instance, do you want to include only researchers specializing in this field, or do you also want to consider those with cross-disciplinary expertise? Also, do you want to incorporate gastronomy and foodservice-based researchers in your selection criteria?

Regarding journals, limiting your search to Scopus, WoS, and ERA index journals would be best. It's crucial to focus on quality over quantity since many non-indexed tourism and hospitality journals are available worldwide. I hope this information is helpful.

Dear Alicia - It might be useful to complete a short case study on a city that has won an award in the past to see how they measured the value of the award to their KPIs as a DMO. In my article below, I was not looking at your question but in the visitor stats on my page 3 I noted a surge which is attributed to the Green Award for the city.

good luck with the research, it sounds very valuable

Charlie

Re check the data, maybe something wrong when u input your data, anyway what type of data that you run?

From an island tourism perspective https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2019.1619825

Health tourism in Croatia:

Hello Noemi Mocker

My searches have found these so far:

Zhong L, Deng B, Morrison AM, Coca-Stefaniak JA, Yang L. Medical, Health and Wellness Tourism Research-A Review of the Literature (1970-2020) and Research Agenda. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Oct 16;18(20):10875. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182010875.

Béland D, Zarzeczny A. Medical tourism and national health care systems: an institutionalist research agenda. Global Health. 2018 Jul 16;14(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s12992-018-0387-0.

Park J, Ahn J, Yoo WS. The Effects of Price and Health Consciousness and Satisfaction on the Medical Tourism Experience. J Healthc Manag. 2017 Nov/Dec;62(6):405-417. doi: 10.1097/JHM-D-16-00016.

Are the topics/articles the type you are looking for?

I follow this topic.

The only solution is to expand the development of other economic sectors to avoid the country's dependence on the oil industry in the future.

I agree with Olga Rauhut Kompaniets

Due to the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic, a lot will change in terms of economic globalization. International, intermodal logistics chains of supply and distribution are shortened.

Regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

@Telma Brito thank you for your contribution

What exactly you want to find out in tented or camp Tourism. you may work on trying to find out the perception of people about Tented or camp tourism, satisfaction of tourist with regards to specific tented destination. or can do the complete case study of specific tented destination

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Wonder why Foodways are a Zero-Sum game. Food neophobia or fear of trying new food may be relevant as long as tourist is ill informed or ignorant of the local cuisine (Karim & Chi, 2010) . According to Zhao, et al. (2020) 'Trust' and 'Willingness' are more prominent factors than 'pickiness' of food.

At the same time, Food nostalgia may also have its limits when a tourist ventures into a new destination. A tourist is more likely to exhibit hedonistic behavior when travelling outside his home environment (Lertputtarak, 2012).

Personally, I try to sample iconic dishes of the places I visit. However, I would be picky when offered alien dishes that I have not tried before, heard of or can identify its ingredients.

Tourism is very important for economy of my country, but in this moment it is still dangerous. I only support partially, in delimited areas of some regions, with low risks and tight control.

Of course yes. It will help in boosting their image across social, political and economic lines

You can possibly ref the below articles:

At individual level, food wastage can be reduced by better planning of purchases, timely storage of perishables, serving what can be consumed, and tracking expiration dates of foods and patterns of food you end up through ing away. At community/macro level, strategies may include awareness raising through mass campaigning, as well as research and interventions to reduce food wastage at institutions where groups are served, such as school lunch programs.

Why on earth do you have to denigrate quantitative research? I think you doth protest too much!

10.07.19, 3 tourists lost their lives during 5min rainstorm in Chalkidiki. RIP

What do you think?

I do a lot of field work with my students. Starting with practical exercises, working our way up to more serious research.

A befitting response! Thank you, Sir!

Dear Muhamad,

You need to consider land size as a dependent variable. On the other hand, number of rooms and type of the accommodation facility should be considered as independent variables.

When discussing type of accommodation as a variable you need to follow the idea of binary variables. When introducing three types of accommodation facilities (A, B, and C), two binary variables will be included (A, and B). When the facility is not classified as A or B, it will be classified as C (A=0, B=0). Hence, there is no sense to introduce variable representing type C.

Moreover, you might also consider star rank as a control variable. Thus, the equation which coefficients need to be estimated is following: Land Size = b1 * No of Rooms + b2 * Type A + b3 * Type B + b4 * No of stars. You can start with OLS regression and then decide about other methods.

Good luck with your research!

Tomasz

Ecotourism can be defined by three core criteria: nature, learning and sustainability. The ecotourist market has been segmented by the nature and learning criteria only. It has been assumed that ecotourists are environmentally concerned and therefore sustainability is a factor in their decision-making. However, little empirical research has confirmed this assumption. This study surveyed 243 respondents participating in an ecotourism experience in Australia. It identified ecotourists according to the nature and learning criteria as per previous segmentation studies. Pro-environmental attitudes were measured as an indication of their support for sustainability. Results revealed no significant differences in pro-environmental attitudes between those identified as ecotourists and those considered non-ecotourists. While demand exists for nature and learning experiences, compliance with the sustainability criterion seems to be no more a factor in ecotourist decision-making than for mainstream tourists. Implications are that market segmentation research should consider all relevant criteria when segmenting a market for a particular product to ensure supply matches demand. However, demand for certain products can be created by innovative marketing practices. This would enable the ecotourism industry to respond to the market's demand for nature and learning, but also influence the behaviour and structure of the market with regard to sustainability.

Narelle Beaumont (2011) The third criterion of ecotourism: are ecotourists more concerned about sustainability than other tourists?, Journal of Ecotourism, 10:2, 135-148, DOI: 10.1080/14724049.2011.555554

Thanks Rachel. Very interesting and aligned with my recent research interests in Power Laws and Pareto principles to explain social phenomena under the corolary of complexity and complexity science. I think this reflects too the predictability search and matematizaton of the scientific thought at a time we saw in American in the pre and post WWI and WWII believing there was a mathematical equation for a therory of everything. Gracias Raquel Huete

Muchas gracias está muy interesante

me gustaría ver el tema de economía informal urbana en ciudad de México

When we talk about tourism, we talk about cleanliness and protection against all forms of pollution (noise, cleanliness ...). In Algeria, tourism is developing little by little but in a rational way, by taking into account the problems...

Dear Dr. Rafiq,

I think that foreign tourists contribute more to the development of the tourism sector. They bring with them foreign currencies that contribute to development of the economy of our countries.

Regards

Rama

Brian Lee thank you. However, I was looking into some other type of content, for instance, workflows sheets, scientific methodology based on performance review, etc. However, thanks for sharing!

I have seen this work, the authors have similar studies, it helped me quite. Thank you very much for your support.

Best wishes..

This is a very interesting study. Thanks for the explanation.

I hope that one day peace will come and I will be able to come and check the hummus and the hotels of Beirut :)

Best wishes.

Ya'akov

Hi Salman,

My suggestion would be to issue some type of Likert-scale survey as one enters a country that queries perceptions upon national entry. Upon leaving the country, issue the survey again after the visit ends. I believe you could do a paired t-test or ANOVA to determine whether a statistically significant difference existed between the events.

Have a great day!

--Adrian

I totally agree with you Scott. This is a good way of thinking - what and for what it can be used and in what way. However, I am thinking that such generic models have significant impact on a particular destination (the ranking). We may be certain that, based on the rankings many other factors, necessary for the development of the destination and the improvement of the competitiveness, e.g. investment, depends on. It is not good for a destination to be ranked for many years on the bottom of the list in one region and that the model itself can not detail point out which are the key factors that make this position as "bad" one. What matters is that the final assessment of competitiveness should include, my opinion, tourists who rank the destination on the basis of an indicator's assessment - compared to other destinations (notably, it is not the only assessment needed)

Thank you James!

Hello Aleksandar,

I have 0 experience in your field of research so I won't be able to talk about the subject of study and discuss your results.

However, there is a general rule that applies in such situations. If you, as a young researcher obtain results that contradict the accepted knowledge in that field of study, first thing to do it to check your methodology and make sure it's correct. Check it multiple times. Make sure that from the begining until the end of your experiment you used the right methods to retrieve and analyse data. Asking for opinion from someone with experience on that subject would also be helpful.

The reason why I'm saying that is because young researchers (and I'm talking from own experience) are naive sometimes and overlook important aspects in methodology and data interpretation. But let's be honest, it's hard to believe that someone with low experience in a domain is able to demonstrate that all the others, much more experienced, are wrong.

If however, after thoroughly checking the experiment you make sure everything you did is correct, then congratulations! Your study will have a high impact and will make a difference in your field of research. Don't be afraid to use sentences as "despite the current belief that...." and "many years it was hypothesized that ...., however this study demonstrates that in fact ....".

But don't forget, you must have strong evidence before doing that.

Best regards,

Iulian

Thank you Danny for your response. However, I use in my question the term "niche" in the context of scientific research. That is a specialized area of study, which is not (or is no longer) among those that attract more attention in a discipline.

Many thanks Marjore for your recommendation.

Brick and mortar agencies have to some degree tended now to focus on higher-value and more complex travel arrangements, especially for time-poor business travellers. Simple travel arrangements can be accomplished online by anyone with a modicum of internet savvy. What do you think, Kevin?

An undergraduate thesis perhaps does not need to contribute to new knowledge that has rigour theoretically and is relevant. In my days at the School of Economics, University of the Philippines, this became feasible because of the following factors:

1. Students were encouraged to think of a thesis topic before the term that they actually enrolled for thesis writing. This is usually the last term before graduation.

2. Topic should be specific and bounded. Some topics deal with validation of a hypothesis, evaluation of project, analysing the impact of an investment, or something along similar lines. 

3. A thesis outline could be made ready on the first week of the term. The students are expected to have done some research on the topic before enrolling for the term. In this way, the adviser assigned to the student could spend some time at the outset to give some guidance on scoping the topic.

There is always the temptation to do too much or too little. In my view, an undergraduate thesis is an opportunity for the students to consolidate what they have learned during the four years (or some took more time, while others less) that they worked towards gaining their degree. 

The best place (at this point in time) for online surveys -- and likely the fastest growing -- is MTurk from Amazon.com. 

This 'crowd-support' site provides step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement MTurk surveys.

For design of good online questions and survey instruments, your best bet is Qualtrics.

Anyone can get the free version of Qualtrics... for the advanced version, you have to consult your company or university.

Dear Rose.

I use the following principle. I type the keyword in Google and put the journal and pdf. So get similar papers.

Thank you, Chetan.  Great suggestions, on the constancy and quantity.  We are investigating with sparkling wine at this point and its great to hear others are as well. Byron

Dear Jan,

I would like to recommend you the article:4 Real-World Examples of How a Visitor Management System Helped Our Customers

Posted by Dan Ryan on Jun 24, 2016, http://insights.identicard.com/blog/4-real-world-examples-of-how-a-visitor-management-system-helped-our-customers and some links:http://insights.identicard.com/blog/4-real-world-examples-of-how-a-visitor-management-system-helped-our-customers, http://www.parksandbenefits.net/images/stories/downloads/Visitormanagement/visitor_management_strategy_final.pdf

Best regards

Barbara

This was the one my lecturers suggested when I was a student: Marketing for hospitality and tourism  by Philip Kotler, John Bowen, James Makens

You may be interested in the Australian Learning and Teaching Academic Standards recently developed for Tourism, Hospitality and Events:

David: I am not sure if our papers (see the links below) can be of much help to you, but still let me share these to you and the others.

I think that different tourists have different algorithms. The most lazy go to tourist agency asking for organized trip. After some experience one can find that individual search allows sometimes to save money. Then one go for example to booking.com and get available hotels for chosen dates with prices. If one cares about prices, they can be listed in certain order. However, the cheapest may be too far from cultural center, or in bad neighborhood. That is why I usually take into account other factors, like map with relative location of hotel and touristic attractions.

People who are less restricted in costs may look at the hotel order by popularity index, that is based on opinion of previous visitors. I also look at that index even if I want to save on costs. For example, if we have 3 hotels with the prices $40, $45 and $50, but the one with $40 is 5 km away from center, and with $45 has valuation of only 6, I will choose one for $50 just in 1 km from center and with valuation 8 (of 10). So this is a kind of multi-criteria optimization. More sophisticated tourists can also look at room photos, wi-fi availability, etc. But selection can take much time, and many tourists rely on the opinion of their friends, for example.

Mojde, if you want to apply this for the development of tourism in Iran, I would suggest the following. Those hotels that have contracts with firms organizing foreign tourism, will get initial advantage. However, if they are overpriced or have some other disadvantage (bad location or quality), individual tourists searching on booking.com will build up indices reflecting real values of hotels. Those indices would correlate with opinions of friends (or a tourist) in the long run, and those highly valued hotels will have rising popularity.

Most hotels and lodging establishments in all developing countries now have some form of computerized reservation systems. This also helps them to get bookings through travel and hotel websites  like Hotel.com etc

Please collect yourself..organizations wont share their own data specially.

Each component of the marketing mix has its own distinct set of scales. You might need to do separate literature search on each component of the marketing mix.

Hello Ruben,

You can try this one and see if it works for you:

Best regards,

Damir

Hello Daniela,

You can read

Best regards,

PN

interesting topic.

please read this paper. it may help you in your research. all the best

Dear colleagues, 

thank you all for answers and suggestions. I followed them and also reviewed some different sources. First, a short conclusion would be that at this moment there is no such a data collected at one place or source (including world reports and by country). So there is no global facts about alternative, niche or special interest tourism, only accounts and approximations. Second, instead of previous, I found many papers and resources with own statistics gathered by regions or by tourism themes (eg eco-turism, adventure forms, backpacking, wine, geo-tourism...). 

In time to time I will share those facts here, so it can be reachable to everyone interested. 

Best regards. 

If your goal is to develop communities, then surely they need to be involved in the research through participatory action research methods (which can be both qualitative and quantitative). Communities are "experts" in their own development, and as nearby resident stakeholders, they likely have ideas of how the university is influencing their lives, which would hint at pathways to take.

I think if the schools that you referred to, received money from the guests and provided some services to the customers (e.g., breakfast, beds), so these can claim the school as a tourism destination.

"Most influential" depends on how you define influence and whom the influence will affect. However, a rough guide to answer your question can be to check the most cited articles of tourism journals. For example the currently most cited articles in Tourism Management are:

Role of social media in online travel information search by Zheng Xiang | Ulrike Gretzel

Tried and tested: The impact of online hotel reviews on consumer consideration by Ivar E. Vermeulen | Daphne Seegers

A review of innovation research in tourism by Anne Mette Hjalager

As a former government person I agree that SEM findings need to be "translated" into readable documents for businesses. There is also a need for engagement with tourism businesses to ensure research has an end, a meaningful end, rather than just being research for research sake! It needs to be driven towards a usable outcome.

For finding correlation, you may be able to use the historical/past data about tourism activities and income inequality. In order to establish causality, you need to control all the other possible factors. In both cases, you will need quantitative data about tourism activities and income inequality. For income inequality you may use statistical measure of dispersions such as income range, mean deviation, variance or standard deviations of the income data. For tourism activity data, you need to think of some quantitative measures for it.

I know about this publication for British tourism data,

perhaps it may help your research.

You will have to segments your data analysis, developing countries, developed countries, etc. as the data will differ considerably.

I completely agree with Krishnan that to get more guests and more facilities, apply the principle of affordability.

First stage: Dark Tourism

Second stage: Rehabilitation Tourism

Third stage: Economic Development Tourism Activities

Fourth stage: Heritage Tourism

Fifth stage: Tourism, Tourism and Tourism...

Thanks for sending the links! I will check them out.