Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a peer-reviewed research journal, has been published annually since 2004. AHL is indexed in Scopus and included in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal quality list. Its editors, editorial board members and ad-hoc reviewers include scholars from North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. AHL utilizes this international focus to participate in innovative methods of inquiry and inspire new research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected in the context of hospitality, tourism, and leisure. It strives to address the needs of the populace willing to disseminate seminal ideas, concepts, and theories derived from scholarly inquiries. This volume includes full papers and research notes which discuss conceptual models and empirical investigations using inductive and deductive methods. Potential readers may retrieve useful articles to outline new research agendas, suggest viable topics for a dissertation work, and augment the knowledge of the new subjects of learning.
FULL PAPERS
Chapter 1. CEDING TO THEIR APPETITES - A TAXONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISTS TO SOUTH AFRICA; Lisa-Mari Coughlan and Melville Saayman
Chapter 2. HONG KONG’S TOURISM QUALITY SERVICE SCHEME – GOOD IN THEORY BUT NO LONGER RELEVANT AS A CONSUMER PROTECTION STRATEGY; Bruce Prideaux, Nelson Kee Fu Tsang, and Ophelia Wong
Chapter 3. THE EFFECT OF ACTIVITY INVOLVEMENT ON PLACE ATTACHMENT WITH CO-CREATION AS A MEDIATOR; Yao-Chung Liu, Bor-Hon Lee, Yu-Chih Lo, and Shih-Shuo Yeh
Chapter 4. CUSTOMER RETENTION AMONG HOTELS IN AN EMERGING MARKET: AN EMPLOYEE–BASED PERSPECTIVE; Paulina Nillie Adzoyi, Robert Jan Blomme, and Ben Quarshie Honyenuga
Chapter 5. COMPETITIVENESS ANALYSIS OF CRUISE PORTS: A CASE IN CHINA; Danying Song, Joseph S. Chen, and Ke Dong
Chapter 6. EXAMINING ATTRIBUTES ASSOCIATED WITH TOURIST ARRIVALS TO FOREST PARKS THROUGH LINEAR AND CURVE ESTIMATIONS; Wan-Yu Liu
Chapter 7. A STUDY ON BRAND EQUITY OF ONLINE TOURISM ENTERPRISES BASED ON USER VALUE CO-CREATION; Han Shen, Xinge Li, and Yangfan Zhang
Chapter 8. MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT AND MARKET ORIENTATION PRACTICES IN GHANA’SHOTEL INDUSTRY; Edward Kwame Ayimey, Robert Jan Blomme, and Ben Quarshie Honyenuga
RESEARCH NOTES
Chapter 9. HUMOR IN LEADERSHIP: PERSPECTIVE OF THE HOTEL INDUSTRY; Dong-Woo Koo, Min-Seong Kim, and Young-Wook Kang
Chapter 10. TOURISM GROWTH UNDER INDIA’S NEW CSR REGIME; Tanmay Sharma
Chapter 11. TOWARDS A RESPONSIBLE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY: ETHICS THROUGH AESTHETICS IN TOURISM; Willy Legrand and Robert Schønrock Nielsen
Dr Joseph S. Chen is Professor of Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management at Indiana University (Bloomington), USA. His research centers on tourist behaviors, tourism impacts and sustainable development. He has published articles in top tourism and hospitality journals for decades and been named as a leading tourism/hospitality scholar by peer-viewed journals.