Advances in Hospitality and Leisure

by Joseph S. Chen

Overview

Assessment and outcomes evaluation have become increasingly important in librarianship. Although initially used in educational contexts to measure student learning, the strategy has migrated to other contexts such as hiring, employee development, overall organizational and institutional successes, measuring the outcomes of projects and operational changes, and self assessment at the personal level. This growing emphasis is partly due to increasingly stringent requirements that funds are used effectively to improve services and operations. The current economic climate and retrenchments in non-profit agencies, have raised the need for assessment and outcomes evaluation to a critical level. 'Contexts for Assessment and Outcome Evaluation in Librarianship' focuses not on the how of undertaking assessment and outcomes evaluation, but rather on their successes and failures in various contexts in which these tools have been and will be used.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780529363
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	07/17/2012
Series:	Advances in Hospitality and Leisure , #8
Pages:	309
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Joseph S. Chen is Professor of Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management at Indiana University(Bloomington), USA. His research centers on tourist behaviors, tourism impacts and sustainable development.

Table of Contents

WHO ARE THE WELLNESS TRAVELERS? Tak-Kee Hui, Weerapon Thomgma, Kuan-Ying Chen and Huai-Chen Wang THE EXPLORATION OF THE MEMORABLE TOURIST EXPERIENCE Line Mathisen PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES APPROACH TO STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING FOR TOURISM RESEARCH Mehmet Mehmetoglu VISITORS' PERCEPTION OF THEME PARK CROWDING AND BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES Shih-Shuo Yeh, Leong-Man Wai Aliana and Fan-Yi Zhang BENCHMARKING TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN NORTHERN NORWAY Nina K. Prebensen CONSUMER RESPONSE TO NUTRITION INFORMATION MENU LABELLING IN FULL-SERVICE RESTAURANTS: MAKING THE HEALTHY CHOICE(R) Robert Gallicano, Robert J. Blomme and Arjan van Rheede THE NATURE AND ANTECEDENTS OF FAIR PRICE PERCEPTION IN TOURIST EXPERIENCES Arild Rokenes and Nina K. Prebensen, EXAMINING THE AFFECTS OF THE GULF COAST OIL SPILL ON THE STATE OF LOUISIANA'S RESTAURANT INDUSTRY Yvette Green, John A. Williams and Kim Williams NOSTALGIC EMOTION, EXPERIENTIAL VALUE, DESTINATION IMAGE AND PLACE ATTACHMENT OF CULTURAL TOURISTS Shih-Shuo Yeh, Chun Chen and Yao-Chung Liu VALUE DETERMINANTS OF TOURIST EXPERIENCES Nina K. Prebensen THE EVOLUTION OF VIRGIN AUSTRALIA FROM A LOW COST CARRIER TO A FULL SERVICE AIRLINE- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TOURISM INDUSTRY Randall Whyte, Bruce Prideaux and Hana Sakata INVESTIGATING HOSPITALITY CONSUMERS THROUGH NETNOGRAPHIC METHODS Muchazondida Mkono ONSITE OR ONLINE? A COMPARISON OF EVENT SEGMENTATION DATA COLLECTION METHODS Aaron Tkaczynski and Sharyn Rundle-Thiele A RESEARCH FRAMEWORK ON SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY Arjan van Rheede and Rob J. Blomme

Editorial Reviews

Contributed by management, hospitality and tourism, and other researchers from around the world, the 11 articles in this volume discuss topics in hospitality and leisure. They address the culinary preferences of international tourists to South Africa; Hong Kong's Quality Tourism Services scheme; the relationship between activity involvement, place attachment, and co-creation in a festival setting; customer retention among hotels in Ghana; the competitiveness of Chinese cities in the cruise market; attributes associated with tourist arrivals to forest parks in Taiwan; the impact of customer value co-creation behavior on the brand equity of online travel enterprises; the influence of management commitment on market orientation practices in Ghana's hotel industry; the structural relationships among humor leadership, psychological empowerment, innovative behavior, and job performance in the Korean hotel industry; tourism growth under India's new corporate social responsibility regime; and the connection between ethics and aesthetics in tourism.

Annotation ©2019

This year's volume contains eight full papers and two research reports. The topics include the emotional traveler: happiness and engagement as predictors of behavioral intentions among tourists in northern Norway, barriers to implementing green management in the hospitality industry, the inter-relationship between personality traits and psychological constraints on adventure activity participation, friends and relatives as a destination information source, and environmental-focused events: saving tourism landmarks for future generations.

Annotation ©2017

This year's volume contains eight full papers and two research reports. The topics include the emotional traveler: happiness and engagement as predictors of behavioral intentions among tourists in northern Norway, barriers to implementing green management in the hospitality industry, the inter-relationship between personality traits and psychological constraints on adventure activity participation, friends and relatives as a destination information source, and environmental-focused events: saving tourism landmarks for future generations.

Annotation ©2017

Contributed by management, hospitality and tourism, and other researchers from around the world, the 11 articles in this volume discuss topics in hospitality and leisure. They address the culinary preferences of international tourists to South Africa; Hong Kong's Quality Tourism Services scheme; the relationship between activity involvement, place attachment, and co-creation in a festival setting; customer retention among hotels in Ghana; the competitiveness of Chinese cities in the cruise market; attributes associated with tourist arrivals to forest parks in Taiwan; the impact of customer value co-creation behavior on the brand equity of online travel enterprises; the influence of management commitment on market orientation practices in Ghana's hotel industry; the structural relationships among humor leadership, psychological empowerment, innovative behavior, and job performance in the Korean hotel industry; tourism growth under India's new corporate social responsibility regime; and the connection between ethics and aesthetics in tourism.

Annotation ©2019