You're using an outdated browser. Please upgrade to a modern browser for the best experience.
Subject:
All Disciplines Arts & Humanities Biology & Life Sciences Business & Economics Chemistry & Materials Science Computer Science & Mathematics Engineering Environmental & Earth Sciences Medicine & Pharmacology Physical Sciences Public Health & Healthcare Social Sciences
Sort by:
Most Viewed Latest Alphabetical (A-Z) Alphabetical (Z-A)
Filter:
All Topic Review Biography Peer Reviewed Entry Video Entry
Topic Review
Co-Creation of Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality Experiences
Sustainability is and will be very closely linked to the development of tourism in the future. It is the most important trend shaping the sector, and it will continue to determine travelers’ preferences and motivations in the period after COVID-19.
  • 902
  • 20 Feb 2024
Topic Review
Perceived Value, Place Identity, and Behavioral Intention
Rural tourism has been a hot spot in tourism studies in recent years. 
  • 896
  • 23 Feb 2024
Topic Review
Sustainable Livelihoods and Tourism Seasonality
Local governments often integrate rural communities with tourism development to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development. The inherent vulnerability of tourism poses a substantial challenge to maintaining the productivity and stability of livelihoods among rural tourism households.
  • 879
  • 20 Oct 2023
Topic Review
Consumer Attitudes/Preferences towards Traditional Food Products in Vojvodina
The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is a province located in the northern part of the Republic of Serbia, known for its rich cultural heritage, diverse traditional food products, and culinary traditions. The multifarious traditional food of Vojvodina is influenced by different cultures and ethnic groups that have inhabited this region over the centuries, including Serbs, Hungarians, Slovaks, Romanians, and others.
  • 868
  • 24 Aug 2023
Topic Review Peer Reviewed
Metaverse Tourism: Opportunities, AI-Driven Marketing, and Ethical Challenges in Virtual Travel
Metaverse tourism refers to the application of immersive digital technologies—such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and blockchain—within tourism experiences. It enables users to explore destinations, participate in cultural experiences, and interact socially within persistent, 3D virtual environments. While it offers new ways of experiencing tourism beyond physical boundaries, it also introduces novel ethical, technological, and social dilemmas. This entry is written as an encyclopedia entry rather than a systematic review or empirical study. It is intended as a conceptual and integrative overview of current knowledge and debates, informed by peer-reviewed research, industry reports, and illustrative case examples.
  • 859
  • 08 Sep 2025
Topic Review
Tourism Demand Forecasting
Accurate forecasting of tourism demand and income holds paramount importance for both the tourism industry and the national economy. Accurate forecasts facilitate decision-making for tourism and hospitality businesses, resource management, marketing and pricing strategies, and infrastructure development, among other critical areas.
  • 816
  • 24 Nov 2023
Topic Review
Determinants of Recreational Activities Choice in Protected Areas
Conciliating nature conservation and tourism development is an increasingly important task for authorities in charge of managing protected areas and requires an adequate knowledge of visitors′ preferences and recreational behavior. In this light, the researchers used data collected by means of a choice experiment to investigate recreational preferences at Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park, a protected area located in Northeastern Italy. More specifically, we analyzed the determinants of visitors’ decisions to engage with different activities in the park. This is important information for park managers, as different recreational activities have both different impact on the natural heritage and different capability to generate revenue for nature conservation and for enhancing the quality of life of local communities.
  • 806
  • 20 Jan 2022
Topic Review
Effect of Ethical Climate in Hotel Companies
Researchers identifies the factors of ethical climate in hotel companies in light of the growing importance of ethics in corporate management. It determines the effects those factors have on organizational trust and, in turn, the effect organizational trust has on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB).
  • 779
  • 12 Aug 2022
Topic Review
Tourist Destinations and Digital Visitor Management
Visitor management is one way to avoid or mitigate the negative effects of overcrowding in tourism destinations. Visitor management depends upon a set of interventions aimed at guiding visitors and recommending alternatives. Interventions escalate from soft (information) over medium (nudging, pricing, reservation) to hard (stop access).
  • 760
  • 25 May 2023
Topic Review
Tourism and ICT. Bibliometric Study
The scientific production of digital literacy at the university level published in the Scopus database is analyzed, with a special emphasis on studies on tourism due to the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in said professional sector. For this, a bibliometric study of a pertinent sample is undertaken using a mixed methodology and based on a series of variables related to formal and content aspects. The last variable, reserved for the academic field under study, directly addresses the main objective as regards tourism. The results show a great global and multidisciplinary interest in digital literacy (DL), mainly from students. There is also a parallel between the integration of ICT into society and the growing evolution of case studies, as well as little interest in their development in specific areas such as tourism studies. Despite good results in general terms, the lack of specialization poses challenges that require greater involvement of training institutions in the sense of providing future professionals with the necessary tools to face them successfully, especially in sectors such as tourism where ICTs are a key piece.
  • 754
  • 13 May 2021
Topic Review
Collaboration between Hotel Frontline Employees and Service Robots
With the increasing adoption of frontline service robots (FLSR) in hospitality workplaces, collaboration between frontline employees (FLE) and FLSR has become a necessity. Existing literature focuses on the customer perspective of FLSR. The chapters herein explain the mechanisms through which employees’ willingness to collaborate with FLSR are built. By incorporating robot service capability and perceived risk as external variables into a technology acceptance model, researchers investigated the mechanisms of FLE’s willingness to collaborate with FLSR. The results showed that the service capability of FLSR plays a significant role in increasing FLE’s willingness to collaborate, whereas perceived risk decreases their willingness to collaborate. These results indicate that the level of service capability of FLSR and the management of perceived risk are important in shaping FLE's positive attitudes toward collaborating with FLSR. 
  • 746
  • 02 Jun 2023
Topic Review
Regional Products and Sustainability
The production, sale, and consumption of regional products can positively influence a region’s sustainable development. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 addresses sustainable consumption and production, thus calling attention to sustainable management and efficient use of resources. Provision and consumption of regional products in destinations is relevant to this SDG.
  • 745
  • 19 Jan 2024
Topic Review
Benevolent Leadership on Job Engagement
This research examines how job engagement (JE) is affected by benevolent leadership (BL). This research also explores psychological safety (PS) and workplace friendship (WF) as mediators.
  • 713
  • 10 Oct 2023
Topic Review
Indigenous Forestry Tourism Dimensions
Indigenous tourism is an activity that is developing and expanding globally in all latitudes with complex nature and characteristics, and with lines of research that incorporate the sustainable conservation of culture, environment, and local traditions.
  • 712
  • 23 Feb 2022
Topic Review
Digital Inclusivity
In the fast-paced digital economy, stakeholders across regions, industries and organisational typologies are recognising the growing significance of adopting customer-centric digital strategies. Inexorably, this necessitates the comprehension of consumer behaviours across a diverse customer spectrum, including individuals with disabilities (PwD).
  • 710
  • 05 Mar 2024
Topic Review
Future Travel Intentions
COVID-19 has affected travel and will undoubtedly impact how people view travel and future intentions to travel as we adjust to life moving forward. Understanding how people arrive at these travel intentions will be paramount for managers and planners in determining how best to reactively and proactively plan for tourism, especially considering perceived risk and uncertainty related to COVID-19.
  • 704
  • 21 Nov 2023
Topic Review
The Technology Adoption Model Canvas
The socioeconomic contribution of microbusinesses towards emerging economies is undeniable. This conceptual study proposes the Technology Adoption Model Canvas (TAMC) based on theories such as the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2), Diffusion of Innovation (DOI), and the Business Model Canvas (BMC) alongside four new/emerging variables, making it possible to understand technology adoption through both individual/cognitive and organizational/physical perspectives. 
  • 685
  • 08 Dec 2023
Topic Review
Visitors’ Intentions to Use Location-Based AR Games
Location-based AR games have been discussed as a promising means of providing visitors with meaningful experiences at cultural heritage sites, with great potential to enhance users’ positive emotions and well-being. Visitors’ positive emotions (fulfillment, enjoyment, and self-existence) in location-based AR games positively impact the intention to use location-based AR games.
  • 666
  • 17 Oct 2023
Topic Review
Social Farmers’ Networking for Inclusive Tourism
Social entrepreneurship plays a key role in making tourism an inclusive activity. Literature on the topic is increasing but needs to pay more attention to collaboration, which is crucial for social enterprises. To overcome this gap, the research focuses on the impact that social entrepreneurs’ drivers and barriers towards collaboration might have on providing decent work in rural tourism. The research considers the case of social farming, which has important implications for developing inclusive tourism.
  • 635
  • 27 Nov 2023
Topic Review
Pandemic, Service in Rural Households and the Rural Environment
Tourism is sensitive to all kinds of crises caused by natural disasters: infectious diseases, conflicts, energy losses, economic and political instability, etc. There is a large number of studies that deal with the negative consequences that the pandemic has had on tourism, and destruction of large tourist centers, but few of them have recorded the opposite effect or the importance of the expansion of visits to villages in that period, or saw the rural setting as an advantage to encourage investing in the quality of rural services recovery. The search for solutions to overcome the crisis in the tourism sector is an acute problem and focuses on changing the direction of tourism and its sustainable approach, and also focuses on mutual benefits for non-agricultural activities.
  • 626
  • 22 Jan 2024
  • Page
  • of
  • 6
Featured Entry Collections
>>

Featured Books

>>
Encyclopedia of COVID-19
Encyclopedia of Engineering
Encyclopedia of Social Sciences
Encyclopedia of Digital Society, Industry 5.0 and Smart City
Academic Video Service
Feedback