This volume presents twenty updated and new theories of
travelers’ decisions and behaviors. It describes the advances in theory
construction and practical applications of theory in the disciplines of
tourism, hospitality, leisure, and entertainment (THLE) research. The chapters all
build on the grand models appearing in these four literature streams during
1965-2015.
This approach is comprehensive in both coverage and depth
with regard to constructing, testing, and applying theories of travelers’
decisions and behaviors, which includes original work in updating grand
theories and micro (algorithm-conscious and non-conscious based) theories of
travelers’ decisions and behavior. This volume is the first to fully recognize
and construct theories across the THLE discipline.
This volume describes the synergies, symbioses, and
serendipity occurring in THLE behavior. It tears down researchers' parochial
fences of what is and is not tourism, hospitality, leisure, and entertainment.
The time has arrived tor tourism to embrace hospitality, hospitality to embrace
tourism, and all to embrace leisure and entertainment, and this volume serves
as a catalyst to accomplish this embrace.
Price: $134.99
Pages: 184
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Series: Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
Publication Date:
12 September 2018
ISBN: 9781787563445
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Hospitality & service industries, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Park & Recreation Management, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Industry & industrial studies, Social impact of environmental issues
Researchers examine how cultures and behavior of tourists influence decisions by tourism companies and by local and national governments, at the same time that steps by companies and governments are influencing the actions of tourists. The studies reflect the shift in tourism research from studying relationships to studying outcomes using statistical methods. The topics include antecedents to the performance of mountain ropeway companies: empirical evidence for Switzerland, willingness-to-pay versus actual behavior: sustainable procurement at festivals, territorial planning as a creative tool for the upgrading of cultural tourism, and sustainable tourism development and Thai cultural heritage.
Timo Ohnmacht is a sociologist at the Institute of Tourism at
the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. His research focuses on
the interrelation of tourism mobilities and modernity, and leisure and tourism
travel. He studied transportation and sociology at the Technical University of
Berlin, University of Lancaster (UK), and ETH Zurich.
Julianna Priskin is a lecturer at the Institute of Tourism at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She is an expert in sustainable tourism management, having 15 years applied research and consulting experience from Australia, Canada, and Switzerland. She is currently involved with various projects focusing on understanding the demand side of sustainable tourism, including how to effectively market and communicate sustainable tourism products to different tourism markets.
Jürg Stettler is a lecturer, Deputy Dean, Head of Institute, and Head of Research at the Institute of Tourism at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He studied business administration and political economy at the University of Berne. One of the projects he has been involved with in past years includes the analysis of the sustainable effects of the UEFA EURO 2008 tournament in Switzerland.
Chapter 1. 'Sommerfrische' in Times of Climate Change: A
Qualitative Analysis of Historical and Recent Perceptions of the Term;
Fabian Weber, Maria Juschten, Carina Fanninger, Wiebke Unbehaun, Christiane Brandenburg, Alexandra
Jiricka-Pürrer and Christina CzachsChapter 2. Antecedents to the Performances of Mountain
Ropeway Companies: Empirical Evidence for Switzerland; Philipp Luetolf and Gabrielle Wanzenried
Chapter 3. Perceived Social–Environmental and
Emotional Well-Being as a Benefit of Sustainable Tourism Products and Services; Friederike Vinzenz, Werner Wirth, Julianna Priskin, Sindhuri Ponnapureddy and Timo Ohnmacht
Chapter 4. Willingness to Pay vs. Actual Behaviour: Sustainable
Procurement at Festivals; Rachel Dodds, Brittany Jenkins, Wayne Smith and Robert E. Pitts
Chapter 5. Tourists' Perceptions of and Intentions to
Stay at a Capsule Hotel in Bangkok; Natrawan Amornpornwiwat and Supara Kapasuwan
Chapter 6. Territorial Planning as a Creative Tool for
the Upgrading of Cultural; Aleksandra Djukić, Vladan Djokić and Branislav Antonić
Chapter 7. A
Conceptual Framework of Commercial Hospitality: Perception of tourists in
Thailand and Switzerland; Jürg Stettler, Barbara Rosenberg-Taufer, Lukas
Huck, Anna Amacher Hoppler, Julia Huilla, Jürg Schwarz and Chanin Yoopetch
Chapter
8. Sustainable Tourism Development and
Thai Cultural Heritage; Roberto B. Gozzoli