Richard R. Perdue

Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research

Find loads of the handbook of tourism and quality of life research book catalogues in this site as the choice of you visiting this page. You can also join to the website book library that will show you numerous books from any types. Literature, science, politics, and many more catalogues are presented to offer you the best book to find. The book that really makes you feels satisfied. Or thats the book that will save you from your job deadline.Over the past three decades, two bodies of literature have developed relatively independently: Quality-of-Life research in Psychology and Travel Motivations research in Tourism. Yet, the constructs underlying these two bodies of research are strongly interrelated. This book chapter (1) reviews the Quality-of-Life research area with a specific focus on the role of vacations as a Quality-of-Life domain, (2) reviews prior work in the area of Travel Motivations with a specific focus on motivational segments which may be associated with differences in the importance people attribute to vacations in general, and (3) proposes a conceptual model, referred to as the Grevillea Model, which integrates heterogeneity in the population with respect to both the importance attributed to vacations and Travel Motivations.

The Influence of Image on Destination Attractiveness

ABSTRACT This study examined the effects of cognitive and affective images on destination attractiveness. While several destination image studies have included cognitive and affective measures, further research is needed to identify the relative effects of these domains on destination attractiveness. In the context of ski destinations, both affective image (fun and comfortable atmosphere) and cognitive image (quality of skiing) were significantly related to destination attractiveness. This study also examined the moderating role of experience on the relative effects of affective and cognitive images. Consistent with theoretical expectations, the affective “fun and comfortable atmosphere” measure had a stronger effect on resort attractiveness for recreational and sport skiers. However, for expert skiers, the cognitive “quality of skiing” image had a greater effect. The marketing implications of these findings are discussed.

Corporate Social Responsibility Within the U.S. Lodging Industry: an Exploratory Study:

This exploratory study examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the lodging industry by measuring the contributions to communities made by lodging properties throughout the United States. This work is significant for two reasons: (a) It attempts to develop a theoretical foundation for CSR within the U.S. lodging industry; (b) it signifies one of the first attempts to quantify one component of CSR, corporate giving, within the U.S. lodging industry. A random sample of lodging properties in the United States was surveyed, and they were asked to report their various contributions to community. Although a limited response prevented generalizability, based on 421 responding properties, regression analysis suggested that the industry made various contributions worth more than

An Investigation of the Relationships among Employee Empowerment, Employee Perceived Service Quality, and Employee Job Satisfaction in a U.S. Hospitality Organization

815 million or 3.6% of total industry profits in 2005. The results also showed that a number of structural variables affected the quantified social component of CSR among lodging properties as well as the existence of CSR written policies, processes, and principles.

Destination Management, Competitiveness, and Quality-of-Life: A Review of Literature and Research Agenda

Service organizations wish to retain loyal customers to achieve business goals. With a greater level of uncertainty coming from increasingly demanding customers, service organizations need to empower their employees to go extra miles to meet customer expectations. Using the data from an opinion survey at a U.S. hospitality organization, this study examines the relationships among employee empowerment, employee perceived service quality, and job satisfaction. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were conducted to test the hypothesized model. Results show that employee empowerment has positive effects on employee perceived service quality and job satisfaction.

The Missing Links and Future Research Directions

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a review of the destination competitiveness literature and to articulate an agenda for future research on the interface between destination competitiveness and sustainability, with specific focus on the associated resident quality-of-life issues. The chapter is predicated on two beliefs. First, tourism destination development and management in the future will continue to focus more and more on sustainability and contributing to local resident quality-of-life. Second, destination management organizations (DMO) will continue to be the leaders for destination tourism planning and strategy implementation. The current DMO management philosophy is largely focused on destination competitiveness. Hence, there is an important need to examine the interfaces of sustainability and destination competitiveness concluding with suggestions for how DMOs will be evaluated in the future and the research needed to support those evaluation structures. This chapter suggests that an increased focus on destination sustainability and/or destination competitiveness will result in increased resident quality-of-life.

Prologue: Tourism and Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research: The Missing Links

This chapter discusses the missing links between tourism and quality-of-life research. The chapter posits that the link between the two should be made from a fully functioning tourism systems point of view with two nested models of tourism, one model examining the effect of tourism on the Quality-of-Life (QOL) of individual tourists and the second model examining the effect of tourism on the QOL of residents. Using these perspectives, the chapter integrates the preceding 36 chapters into the two integrated models reflective of current and future research on the effects of tourism both on the QOL of individual tourists and residents. Further, it identifies research gaps, challenges our current practice of impact studies, and encourages us to examine and understand how impact studies may change the QOL for tourists, residents, and different stakeholders. The chapter ends with further research issues related to the measurement of QOL indicators, overlapping life cycle stages, and involvement of various stakeholders groups and their various goals and agendas. In doing so, we may be in a better position to contribute more significantly to the QOL of destination residents and its stakeholders.

The Disciplinary Foundations of Tourism Research: 1980-2010

Tourism is a major socioeconomic force in today’s world. The study of tourism and its increasing growth as a field of study can be largely attributed to tourism’s ability to create significant economic benefits and jobs in destinations. Tourism and its socioeconomic impacts have become highly investigated phenomena of today’s academic world.

Consumer psychology of Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure, Volume 2

Research into tourism phenomena is regarded as a multidisciplinary quest, but to date no work has endeavored to quantify or characterize the extent to which various scholarly disciplines and research fields inform our scholarly discourse. The purpose of this analysis was to assess the multidisciplinary character of tourism research between 1980 and 2010. Previous efforts to analyze the use of the literature from other disciplines have been significantly limited. In this study, we sought to address this need by analyzing a sample comprising nearly 3,000 citations from tourism research articles published in a range of tourism journals stratified by journal ranking and time period.

Previous trip satisfaction, destination images, and probability of future visitation.

Knowledge of consumer psychology and consumer behaviour in relation to tourism is valuable in determining the success of tourism and hospitality ventures. The book is an edited collection of papers from the 3rd Symposium on Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure, held in Melbourne, Australia in January 2003. Themes covered by the papers include attitudes, emotions and information processing; motivation and learning; consumption systems; decision and choice; experience and satisfaction; market segmentation; attraction and loyalty; and image and interpretation.