Advances in hospitality and leisure. Vol. 5 / edited by Joseph S. Chen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, Joseph S.

Series:

Advances in hospitality and leisure, 1745-3542

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitality industry.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Emerald Group Publishing, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a peer-reviewed series, seeks to deliver refreshing insights from a host of scientific investigations pertaining to hospitality, leisure, and tourism while rendering an academic forum to stimulate discussion on current literature, contemporary issues and emerging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective. The main focus of this journal is to divulge the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire new research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected. AHL strives to address the needs of the populace willing to disseminate seminal ideas, concepts, and theories derived from scholarly inquiries. Potential readers may retrieve useful texts helping outline new research agendas, suggest viable topics for a dissertation work, and augment the knowledge of the new subjects of learning.

Contents:

Health-care tourism in Singapore / Tak-Kee Hui, David Wan

Investigating the differences in corporate governance between hospitality and nonhospitality firms / Seonghee Oak, Raghavan J. Iyengar

Comparison of hospitality practitioners and student/practitioner work values / Po-Ju Chen, Dana V. Tesone

Developing a food and wine segmentation and classifying destinations on the basis of their food and wine sectors / Michelle Thompson, Bruce Prideaux

Trip patterns of German tourists : a case of Majorca, Spain / Helmut Wachowiak

An importance-performance model of restaurant dining experience / Meng-Lei Monica Hu, Ting-Kuo Chen, Tsung-Lin Ou

Hotel offer adjustments for senior citizen guests : perception of Swiss hoteliers / Andrew Mungall, Thouraya Gherissi Labben

The relationships between leisure behaviors and life satisfaction of foreign labors in Taiwan : the case of Thai labors / Tzuhui A. Tseng, David Y. Chang, Ching-Cheng Shen

Predictors of sustainable consumption in a tourism context : a CHAID approach / Mehmet Mehmetoglu

Perceptions of job and hospitality industry characteristics on career decisions / Arjan van Rheede, Debbie Tromp, Robert J. Blomme

Recreation conflict of participants in different mode of water-based activities and their adoption choice / Chung-Chi Wu, Ching-Tang James Wang, Hsiou-Hsiang Jack Liu, Wei-Ching Wang

Best practices in sustainability : German and Estonian hotels / Philip Sloan, Willy Legrand, Heli Tooman, Joachim Fendt.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781848556751

OCLC:

501322336