Advances in Hospitality and Leisure - Chen, Joseph S. (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013)
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, a peer-review volume, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure and tourism. It provides a platform to galvanize thoughts on contemporary issues and merging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective. The main focus of this volume is to transcend the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire new research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected. This volume is keen to address the needs of the populace having interests in disseminating ideas, concepts and theories derived from scholarly investigations. Potential readers may retrieve useful texts to outline new research agendas, suggest viable topics for a dissertation work, and augment the knowledge of the subjects of interest
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
FRONT COVER; ADVANCES IN HOSPITALITY AND LEISURE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; AIMS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES; EDITORIAL BOARD; FULL PAPERS; WHO ARE THE WELLNESS TRAVELERS?; INTRODUCTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; METHODOLOGY; RESULTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; THE EXPLORATION OF THE MEMORABLE TOURIST EXPERIENCE; INTRODUCTION; METHOD; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION AND FUTURE IMPLICATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES APPROACH TO STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING FOR TOURISM RESEARCH; INTRODUCTION; ASSESSMENT AND RESULTS OF A PLS-SEM MODEL; CONCLUSION.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSREFERENCES; VISITORS' PERCEPTION OF THEME PARK CROWDING AND BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES; INTRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHOD; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; BENCHMARKING TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN NORTHERN NORWAY; INTRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODS; RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; CONSUMER RESPONSE TO NUTRITION INFORMATION MENU LABELING IN FULL-SERVICE RESTAURANTS: MAKING THE HEALTHY CHOICE; INTRODUCTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; METHODS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES.
THE NATURE AND ANTECEDENTS OF FAIR PRICE PERCEPTION IN TOURIST EXPERIENCESINTRODUCTION; THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESES; METHODOLOGY; ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF THE GULF COAST OIL SPILL ON THE STATE OF LOUISIANA'S RESTAURANT INDUSTRY; INTRODUCTION; METHODOLOGY; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; LIMITATIONS; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; NOSTALGIC EMOTION, EXPERIENTIAL VALUE, DESTINATION IMAGE, AND PLACE ATTACHMENT OF CULTURAL TOURISTS; INTRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHOD; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; VALUE DETERMINANTS OF TOURIST EXPERIENCES.