Resident Attitudes Towards Women Owned and Operated Tourism Businesses in an Emerging Destination
This paper investigates resident attitudes towards women owned and operated, tourism related businesses in a rural and emerging destination. This study used social exchange theory (SET) to access whether attitudes about women owned and operated tourism ...
Beedle, Jennifer +3 more
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Moral Licensing in Luxury: Why Prosocial Brand Image Outshines Coolness in Cause‐Related Marketing
ABSTRACT This research examines how cause‐related marketing (CM) shapes consumer responses to luxury brands. We focus on the roles of CM‐driven prosocial brand image and brand coolness as parallel mediators in reducing guilt and enhancing purchase intentions.
Jiyoung Hwang
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DEVELOPING THE NATURE-BASED TOURISM SECTOR IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA
The purpose of this study was to: 1) identify opportunities for expanding the tourism sector in southwestern North Dakota, 2) identify challenges and obstacles facing the area's tourism businesses, and 3) frame key issues and outline potential options ...
Hodur, Nancy M. +2 more
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ABSTRACT This research investigates how consumers establish trust in ghost kitchens, a rapidly growing digital service format that eliminates physical interaction and redefines the boundaries of food consumption. Despite their growing popularity, ghost kitchens present a paradox of trust, as the absence of physical premises and direct interaction ...
Trang Huong Pham +4 more
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Measuring the Burden of Choice: Development and Validation of a Choice Overload Scale
ABSTRACT Excessive choice imposes substantial cognitive demands on consumers, impair decision‐making, and generate negative consumer responses—a phenomenon widely known as the choice overload effect. Despite its conceptual prominence in consumer research and its enduring relevance in today's consumer markets, existing approaches to measuring choice ...
Jennifer Musial
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From Confusion to Clarity: A Multi‐Stage Process Framework for Understanding Consumer Confusion
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes consumer confusion as a multi‐stage temporal process rather than a static outcome, addressing theoretical fragmentation in existing antecedent‐consequence models. By integrating cognitive appraisal, contextual amplification, and adaptive coping within a unified framework, we explain how confusion unfolds rather than
Fatih Celik, Erdogan Koc
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ABSTRACT The circular economy is gaining traction as a transformative approach to address climate change and the shortcomings of the linear economic model, which is defined by unsustainable production and consumption patterns. This study explores the implementation of circularity principles in the Spanish automotive industry, with particular attention ...
Salvador Perez‐Canto +2 more
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Factors Influencing the Digital Transformation of Tourism Enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Background: Digital transformation is inevitable for Vietnamese tourism businesses after the COVID-19 epidemic and will determine their existence and development moving forward.
Bui Duc Sinh , Truong Dinh Thai
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Sustainability practices of accommodation sector representatives: The case of mountain protected area Serra da Estrela Natural Park (Portugal). [PDF]
Stoica IV +4 more
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The role of mindfulness in tourism: Tourism businesses' perceptions of mindfulness in Dubai, UAE
Mindfulness is the ability of an individual to actively process information surrounding them with the aim of using that information to draw distinctive or novel conclusions.
Chris Dutt +3 more
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