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Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
His research expertise is in hospitality leadership and cultural aspects of tourism. He has undertaken extensive research on marketing to emerging Asian markets. He has published several books, including on tourism marketing and development, VFR travel, hospitality leadership, resorts and Asia-Pacific tourism. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of Tourism, Culture & Communication and has held visiting professorships in Italy, Fiji, the UK and USA. He has consulted for international tourism agencies on human resource development and marketing. His industry experience includes manager and/or director roles in airlines, tour operations, destination management, cruise operations and hotels. He is chair of assessment at the International Centre of Excellence for Tourism and Hospitality Education (THE-ICE) and a Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism (IAST) and of the International Association of China Tourism Studies (IACTS).

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Australian Regulatory Bodies In Higher Education

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Arts Festival Visitors. Exploratory Factor Analysis

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Cultural Interactions And Rules Of Behaviour

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University of Aberdeen - (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)

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American Hotel & Lodging Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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University of Strathclyde - (Glasgow, United Kingdom)

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Monash University - (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

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Crisis preparedness of hospitality managers: evidence from Malaysia

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Novelty in Theme Park Physical Surroundings: An Application of the Stimulus-Organism-Response Paradigm

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International Students in Asia: Travel Behaviors and Destination Perceptions

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Webcam travel: A preliminary examination of psychological well-being

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Medical tourist perceptions of hospitality across cultures

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Wine tourism involvement: a segmentation of Chinese tourists

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A societal marketing approach to national tourism planning: evidence from the South Pacific

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Business model adaptation as a strategic response to crises: navigating the COVID-19 pandemic

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Theoretical Foundations of Social Media Power in Hospitality and Tourism: A Hierarchical Model

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NGOs in ecotourism: patrons of sustainability or neo-colonial agents? Evidence from Africa

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Determinants of attractiveness for a seniors-friendly destination: a hierarchical approach

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US OR THEM - LONELY PLANET TRAVEL SUMMIT

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS IN HOT SPRINGS TOURISM: AN APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS APPROACH

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Incremental Effects of the Shanghai Free-trade Zone-An Internet Informed Assessment of Hong Kong's Tourism Competitiveness

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Key Implementation Factors in Pro-poor Tourism

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Tourist Perceptions of Event-Sponsor Brand Fit and Sponsor Brand Attitude

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The influence of travel companionships on memorable tourism experiences, well-being, and behavioural intentions

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Understanding the past, anticipating the future - a critical assessment of China outbound tourism research

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A business model innovation process for tourism: findings from a literature review

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Experiencing culture in attractions, events and tour settings

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The use and perceived usefulness of information sources among Japanese overseas tourists

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Religious tourism studies: evolution, progress, and future prospects

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Barriers To Strategy Implementation In Turkey's Healthcare Industry: Hospital Manager Perspectives.

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Creating Australia's National Landscapes: Issues of collaborative destination management

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Employee performance outcomes and burnout following the presentation-of-self in customer-service contexts

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Tourism industry career prospects and the business environment: Evidence from Canada and Macau

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To Gamble or Not? Perceptions of Macau Among Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong Visitors

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Destination-Based Product Selections by International Backpackers in Australia

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The attributes and potential of secondary Australian destinations through the eyes of Korean travel industry executives

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Strategy implementation research in hospitality and tourism: Current status and future potential.

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Educational travellers and destination appeal: Deconstructing intrinsic motivations

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The sway of influencer marketing: Evidence from a restaurant group

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The Experiences of Chinese Tourism and Hospitality Postgraduate Students in Australia

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The Future of Volunteer Tourism in the Asia-Pacific Region: Alternative Prospects

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The Tourist Stereotype Model: Positive and Negative Dimensions

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Tourist perceptions of local food: A mapping of cultural values

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Local Impacts, Global Prospects: The Future of VFR Travel

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Using the Delphi method to assess the potential of Taiwan's hot springs tourism sector

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Customer preferences for staycation package attributes

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Gazing at hotel guests: Deconstructing elements of the host-gaze

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THE PERCEPTIONS OF TOURISM EMPLOYEES AND THEIR FAMILIES TOWARDS TOURISM - A CROSS-CULTURAL-COMPARISON

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Reflecting on tourism and COVID-19 research

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Why Have Package Tour Itineraries Been Homogeneous? Insight From Industry Subgroup Relations

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Impacts ofmisbehaving air passengers on frontline employees: role stress and emotional labor

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A Profile of Farmstay Visitors in Victoria, Australia and Preliminary Activity-Based Segmentation

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Decoding the educational travel decision: destinations, institutions and social influence

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Stakeholder Involvement in the Public Planning Process - The Case of the Proposed Twelve Apostles Visitor Centre

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Tourism in China-Destinations, Planning & Experiences

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Evaluating natural attractions for tourism

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Intra-Asian performing arts tourism - the motivations, intentions, and performance preferences of Japanese visitors

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International tourists' local African food consumption

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Research on tourism experiencescapes: the journey from art to science

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Decision tools A systematic literature review, co-citation analysis and future research directions

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Restaurant preventive behaviors and the role of media during a pandemic.

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Principles of tourism - French,CN, CraigSmith,SJ, Collier,A

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City neighbourhood branding and new urban tourism

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Information searching and the travel behaviours of MICE travellers: a cross-cultural study

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Sociology Beyond Societies By John Urry. Routledge (11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE, UK) 2000, 255 pp (bibliography, index) 16.99 Hbk. ISBN 0-415-19089-4.

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An Attribute-Based Approach to Classifying Community-Based Tourism Networks

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Co-creation of value for cultural festivals: behind the scenes in Macau

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Loss aversion in hotel choice: Psychophysiological evidence

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The global dissemination of scholarly tourism outputs from 1976 to 2016: evidence from Australia

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ESCAPING FROM CULTURAL PRACTICES AT HOME: AN EXPLORATION OF PUSH AND PULL

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SOCIAL IMPACTS OF TOURISM - HOST PERCEPTIONS

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The stereotyping of tourism management students in a business school setting

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Response to Yeoman et al.: Competitive advantage through "authenticity": An assessment of Scotland's tourism prospects

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Adaptability among inbound tour operators in a disrupted business environment

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Research note: Using demand determinants to anticipate fluctuations in hotel occupancy

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Protected areas, conservation and tourism - financing the sustainable dream

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Tourist attitudes to mega-event sponsors: Where does patriotism fit?

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Travel Industry Leadership in Italy and China - A Biographical Comparison

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What does the Industry need to know about Chinese Hospitality Leadership?

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Understanding the wine tourism experience: The roles of facilitators, constraints, and involvement

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A regional approach to tourism education and training in Oceania: Progress and prospects

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Stakeholder collaboration as a major factor for sustainable ecotourism development in developing countries

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Taiwan's MICE visitors: business, leisure and education dimensions

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Explaining the embodied hospitality experience with ZMET

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ESTIMATING FUTURE ROOM OCCUPANCY FLUCTUATIONS TO OPTIMIZE HOTEL REVENUES

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The managerial competencies required by Indonesia's leading hotel groups: A preliminary investigation

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An Evaluation of Satisfaction Levels among Chinese Tourists in Vietnam

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LEARNING TO LIVE WITH TOURISM - CRAIGSMITH,S, FRENCH,CN

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Creating a scale for assessing socially sustainable tourism

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Managing Revenues in Macau's Casino Resorts through Turbulent Times: A Case of the New Normal?

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Migrants and their overseas travels: A psychographic segmentation of Australia's Vietnamese community

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Developing a slow city tourism evaluation index: a Delphi-AHP review of Cittaslow requirements

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Co-creation and co-destruction of service quality through customer-to-customer interactions: Why prior experience matters

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Impacts of personality, emotional intelligence and adaptiveness on service performance of casino hosts: A hierarchical approach

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Exploration of Culinary Tourism in Indonesia: What Do the International Visitors Expect?

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NGOs in ecotourism: patrons of sustainability or neo-colonial agents? Evidence from Africa

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Virtuous volunteer tourism: Towards a uniform code of conduct

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Hungry for Growth? Small and Medium-sized Tourism Enterprise (SMTE) Business Ambitions, Knowledge Acquisition and Industry Engagement

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DESTINATION ENCOUNTERS WITH LOCAL FOOD: THE EXPERIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL VISITORS IN INDONESIA

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Betwixt and between: a qualitative review of the (Re)acculturation of international students and returnees

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Measuring the Value of the Ethnic Connection: Expatriate Travelers from Australia to Sri Lanka

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Inconvenient Experiences among Muslim Travelers: An Analysis of the Multiple Causes

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Chinese Contributions to Hospitality Research: Patterns of Authorships and Collaborations

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Beyond the stereotypes: Opportunities in China inbound tourism for second-tier European destinations

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Cultural sustainability in hospitality and tourism: toward a holistic framework

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The influence of emotional intelligence on the service performance of casino frontline employees

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Muslim travelers in Asia: The destination preferences and brand perceptions of Malaysian tourists

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Hospitality and Tourism Scholarship in Africa: A Literature-Based Agenda for Future Research

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Accommodating the sharing revolution: a qualitative evaluation of the impact of Airbnb on Singapore's budget hotels

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WHAT IS ETHNIC TOURISM - AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE

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Gender disparities and positioning in collaborative hospitality and tourism research

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China's Outbound Tourism during the 1980s - A Socio-Political Perspective

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Profiling the Strategic Marketing Activities of Small Tourism Businesses

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Constructing an intangible cultural heritage experiencescape: The case of the Feast of the Drunken Dragon (Macau)

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Luxurious or economical? An identification of tourists' preferred hotel attributes using best-worst scaling (BWS)

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The experience of cultural festivals: evidence from Hong Kong

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Tracking destination visual narratives: photographic compositions from longer stay tourists

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Assessing Destination Competitiveness: An Application to the Hot Springs Tourism Sector

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Restaurant Customers' Attitude toward Sustainability and Nutritional Menu Labels

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International visitor dining experiences: A conceptual framework

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Stolen history: Community concern towards looting of cultural heritage and its tourism implications

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Training Hotels in Asia: An Exploration of Alternative Models

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Four Decades (1980-2020) of Hospitality and Tourism Higher Education in Australia: Developments and Future Prospects

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Chinese International Students. An Avant-Garde of Independent Travellers?

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Experiencing the destination brand: Behavioral intentions of arts festival tourists

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Why are Faculty Unfavorably Disposed to MOOCs? - A Sharing of Views by Chinese Hospitality Educators

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The Impacts of China's new free-trade zones on Hong Kong tourism

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MEASURING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MIGRATION-INDUCED TOURISM

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Relational bibliometrics for hospitality and tourism research: A best practice guide

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Developing a tourism region through tourism and culture: bordering, branding, placemaking and governance processes

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VFR traveller demographics: The social tourism dimension

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TOURISM IN THE PACIFIC RIM - DEVELOPMENT, IMPACTS AND MARKETS - HALL,CM

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Aging Stereotypes and the Customer Orientations of Older Hospitality Employees

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The Journey from Episode to Evaluation: How Travelers Arrive at Summary Evaluations

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Hotel Industry Leadership in Greater China-A Biographical Comparison

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In-destination tour products and the disrupted tourism industry: progress and prospects

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The sacred and the profane: Identifying pilgrim traveler value orientations using means-end theory

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THE HIDDEN COSTS OF CHEAP GROUP TOURS - A CASE STUDY OF BUSINESS PRACTICES IN AUSTRALIA

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Is the migration-tourism relationship only about VFR?

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Tourism knowledge: its creation and dissemination by region

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HOST-GUEST CULTURAL INTERACTIONS: SERVICE ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN VIETNAMESE HOSTS AND INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

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Casino Service Quality, Tiered Customer Segments, and Casino Player Retention

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Segmenting Chinese Millennial Restaurant Customers: A Lifestyle and Health and Environmental Consciousness Approach

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When ChatGPT Gives Incorrect Answers: The Impact of Inaccurate Information by Generative AI on Tourism Decision-Making

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Urban tourism attributes and overall satisfaction: An asymmetric impact-performance analysis

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Host and Guest Perceptions of Tourism Impacts in Island Settings: a Malaysian Perspective

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Shaping the organizational citizenship behavior or workplace deviance: Key determining factors in the hospitality workforce

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The diversification of the commercial home Evidence from regional Australia

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VFR Tourism and the Tourist Gaze: Overseas Migrant Perceptions of Home

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TOURISM HIGHER-EDUCATION IN ISLAND MICROSTATES - THE CASE OF THE SOUTH-PACIFIC

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Emotional Intelligence in a Hierarchical Relationship: Evidence for Frontline Service Personnel

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Employee preferences for industry retention strategies: The case of Macau's "Golden Nest Eggs"

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Origins, evolution and themes of scholarly hospitality sources: 1960-2019

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HIV as social and ecological experience.

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Transactional and Transformational Leadership: A Comparative Study of the Difference between Tony Fernandes (Airasia) and Idris Jala (Malaysia Airlines) Leadership Styles from 2005-2009

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Canadian Center of Science and Education

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VFR Travel: Progressing Towards Greater Recognition

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Emotional intelligence and adaptability - Service encounters between casino hosts and premium players

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Predicting hotel occupancies with public data: An application of OECD indices as leading indicators

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Religious tourism studies: evolution, progress, and future prospects

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Dimensionality in the service quality perceptions of quarantine hotel guests

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The impacts of China's policy-making and legislation on outbound tourism - perspectives from long-haul intermediaries

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The Application of Environmental Governance Networks in Small Island Destinations: Evidence from Indonesia and the Coral Triangle

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Television as a travel purchasing medium: Transporting rich information and its impact

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Going global, acting local: volunteer tourists as prospective community builders

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Festivalscapes and the visitor experience: An application of the Stimulus Organism Response approach

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Restaurant Employee Service Sabotage and Customer Deviant Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Corporate Reputation

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Leadership research in the root of hospitality scholarship: 1960-2020

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To Engage or Not? Leading Scholar Memberships and Involvement in Hospitality and Tourism Associations

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Integrated tourism in Pacific Island countries

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The VFR and Migration Nexus - The Impacts of Migration on Inbound and Outbound Australian VFR Travel

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Strengthening Community-Based Tourism in a new resource-based island nation: Why and how?

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THE PERCEIVED RISKS OF TRAVELING OVERSEAS: EVIDENCE FROM KOREA

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The Purchasing Experiences of Chinese Tourism and Hospitality Students in Australia

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African diaspora tourism-How motivations shape experiences

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Organic destination imagery and social media: Mapping tourism dynamics across China's Greater Bay Area cities

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Nostalgia film tourism and its potential for destination development

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Expert Online Review Platforms: Interactions between Specialization, Experience, and User Power

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Menu to Meal: Leveraging Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence for Hispanic Restaurant Nutritional Labeling

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United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Department of Hospitality, Hotel Management & Tourism; 600 John Kimbrough Boulevard; 2261 TAMU

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Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Australians now have visa-free travel to China, but how can they pay in an increasingly cashless society?

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Let tourists hanker for the Good Old Days

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King to head Texas A&M’s Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences

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Chinese railway could put Laos on the tourist map

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How Asheville tourism became a $3 billion-a-year behemoth

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Texas A&M launches new degree program in hospitality, hotel management and tourism

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VU academic & tourism leader honoured for lifetime achievement

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A national tourism campaign that takes risks will travel well for Australia

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Brand new department of Hospitality, Hotel Management, and Tourism approved Texas A&M University

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Focus at Four: New department of hospitality, tourism & hotel management at Texas A&M

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Tourism as an Integrated Field of Study by Brian King

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International Integrated Resorts Management students had the honor of receiving the guest lecturer Professor Brian King

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Dr. Brian King Celebrated for Dedication to the Field of Hospitality and Tourism Education