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Book SynopsisAdvances in Hospitality and Leisure 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 focus is to transcend the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire new research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected. All volumes are 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.
Trade ReviewThis year's volume contains eight full papers and two research reports. The topics include the emotional traveler: happiness and engagement as predictors of behavioral intentions among tourists in northern Norway, barriers to implementing green management in the hospitality industry, the inter-relationship between personality traits and psychological constraints on adventure activity participation, friends and relatives as a destination information source, and environmental-focused events: saving tourism landmarks for future generations. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsFULL PAPERS: THE EMOTIONAL TRAVELER: HAPPINESS AND ENGAGEMENT AS PREDICTORS OF BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS AMONG TOURISTS IN NORTHERN NORWAY;
Joar Vittersø, Nina K. Prebensen, Audun Hetland and Tove Dahl ON-SITE AND MEMORABLE TOURIST EXPERIENCES: TRENDING TOWARDS VALUE AND QUALITY-OF-LIFE OUTCOMES;
Anita Zatori and Meghan Beardsley BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTING GREEN MANAGEMENT IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY;
Shih-Shuo Yeh, Anestis K. Fotiadis, Mei-Ling Huang and Tzung-Cheng Huan CLIMATE-CONSCIOUS IDENTITY AND CLIMATE-ADAPTIVE INNOVATIONS IN HOSPITALITY;
Willy Legrand and Robert S. Nielsen THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON ADVENTURE ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION;
May K. Vespestad and Mehmet Mehmetoglu ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND PERCEIVED ECO-INNOVATIVENESS: A FARM VISITOR STUDY;
Weerapon Thongma, Yun-Tsan Lin, Winitra Leelapattana and Chih-Cheng Cho FRIENDS AND RELATIVES AS A DESTINATION INFORMATION SOURCE;
Michelle Thompson, Leonie Cassidy, Bruce Prideaux, Anja Pabel and Allison Anderson HOTEL GUEST’S GREEN LODGING EXPERIENCES: A SEGMENTATION STUDY;
Ya-Ling Chen RESEARCH NOTES TOURISM POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION IN INDIA: A CENTRE VS. STATE TUG-OF-WAR;
Tanmay Shamar ENVIRONMENTAL-FOCUSED EVENTS: SAVING TOURISM LANDMARKS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS;
Qing Ye and Aaron Tkaczynski
