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Deconstructing the shopping experience of tourists to the Dubai Shopping Festival
Shopping Festivals are being promoted as tourism products, thus attracting large number of tourists. Recent years have seen the growth of shopping festivals and shopping gaining greater significance in tourism, given its contribution to the retail and ...
Sangeeta Peter, Victor Anandkumar
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Relational knowing as method and practice
Abstract This paper seeks to contribute to (re)building the capacity for embodied, place‐based relational knowing, transforming how we know and thus what we know. What is known, or sought to be known, is relations. How we know these relations is by already being in it: breathing, sensing, moving, listening, responding, affecting and being affected ...
Katie Moon
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha +3 more
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The Kinetic Materialism of ‘Close Capitalism’: Exploiting and Shaping Health and Wellbeing
ABSTRACT This paper considers health geography's past engagements with capitalism and proposes a basis for future ones. Looking back, it notes a number of implicit, indirect and partial engagements in five core research pillars of the subdiscipline. Looking forward, it then makes a case for a more explicit, direct and full engagement with capitalism ...
Gavin J. Andrews, Cameron Duff
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Circular Economy Pathways for Airport Climate Change Mitigation
ABSTRACT Airport operators face growing climate‐change pressures; the circular economy offers pathways to reduce impacts and recover resources. We examine how airport operators apply the circular economy in practice. We use an exploratory qualitative multicase design based on practitioner‐generated documents (e.g., press releases and sustainability ...
Michele Oppioli +3 more
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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico
ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid‐and‐Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named ...
Hector Becerril +2 more
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ABSTRACT This study explores how positive and negative emotions influence online shopping‐related well‐being, purchase frequency, and word‐of‐mouth (WOM) behavior. Semi‐structured interviews and a consumer survey were used to identify emotions from online shopping experiences.
Sandra Miranda +2 more
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The effects of store atmosphere on shopping behaviour - A literature review. [PDF]
This paper provides an insight into how the atmospherics of a retail environment influence shopping behaviour. Its objective is to support researchers and practitioners by summarizing the current state of knowledge and identifying gaps and avenues for ...
Bohl, Patrick
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CHRISTMAS – FROM RELIGIOUS TO LAIC. THE STIMULI THAT “SELL” CHRISTMAS [PDF]
Romania has been a country with a strong cultural background since ancient times. The Romanian people, born Christian, cherished holy days as part of its daily life, Christmas included. From a religious viewpoint, Christmas is one of the twelve holy days
Teodora Roman +3 more
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Haptic Feedback and the Role of Need for Touch on Augmented Reality Mobile Shopping Apps
ABSTRACT As mobile commerce has become increasingly prevalent, retailers have sought to enhance the mobile shopping experience by incorporating multisensory stimulation (i.e., visual, auditory, and now tactile stimulation). This paper investigates the presence of sensory inputs, specifically haptic feedback, when positioning and manipulating augmented ...
Margot Racat +2 more
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