{"title":"Influence of Demographic Characteristics of Knowledge Management Enablers in Nepalese Hospitality Industry","authors":"Pushpa Maharjan","doi":"10.3126/njhtm.v3i1.49179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njhtm.v3i1.49179","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the influence of demographic characteristics on knowledge management enablers in the hospitality industry such as hotel, travel and trekking agencies in Nepal. The study is based on primary data with 382 responses. The self-administered questionnaires were used to collect the perceptive opinions from the respondents. The study concludes that all age groups and number of years work experience groups of employees’ perception concerning collaboration, trust, learning, centralisation, formalisation, and information technology are similar. Different educational groups of employees have different opinions regarding collaboration, centralisation, and formalisation but their perception is similar to trust, learning and information technology.","PeriodicalId":366457,"journal":{"name":"Nepalese Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133493907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Endemicisation of COVID-19: Will it Salvage the Hospitality and Tourism Industry?","authors":"Arhan Sthapit","doi":"10.3126/njhtm.v3i1.45538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njhtm.v3i1.45538","url":null,"abstract":"The proposition of ‘endemicisation’ of COVID-19 is being mooted so that the hospitality and tourism industry that has borne the brunt of the pandemic could be salvaged and compensate for the damage. There are arguments for and against the ‘endemicisation’ bid that is making rounds among the policy makers and stakeholders of this industry.","PeriodicalId":366457,"journal":{"name":"Nepalese Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124229021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperation and Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism: Key to Recovery and Growth in post-Pandemic Era","authors":"Arhan Sthapit","doi":"10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44390","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":366457,"journal":{"name":"Nepalese Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"694 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122980102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monument Toppling: A Review of International Laws related to Cultural–Heritage Property and their Implications to Tourism","authors":"Bhavinee Singh","doi":"10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44394","url":null,"abstract":"Recent public conversations around cultural property law have exposed this area of international law to several gaps that exist in this field. Cultural property is key to tourism across the world and brings in the much-needed inflow of money in an economy due to its attraction. However, the entire premise of cultural property law is based on preservation and this common thread runs through almost all international legal instruments and most domestic legislations. In this paper, it is analysed through a careful perusal of the history of international cultural property law, if there is scope to introduce a limited right to destroy cultural – heritage property. This is explored through reading of international human rights law along with cultural property law to advance suggestions of rethinking and revamping this legal regime, as it has strong implications to tourism management. In the conclusion, the paper also explores how tourism management would also be reshaped if the international right to destroy oppressive imagery becomes a part of the discourse","PeriodicalId":366457,"journal":{"name":"Nepalese Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"322 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115840383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Status of Hospitality Education in Nepal: Analysis of the Perspective of Hospitality Students and Practitioners","authors":"S. Shrestha","doi":"10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44396","url":null,"abstract":"Hospitality Management Institutes have seen tremendous growth in the recent years in Nepal. More and more students have shown their inclination to pursue hospitality related courses from the institutes at national level or at different universities or from private institutes. However, the higher education system of this sector has encountered several constraints and challenges that led us to conduct this study to analyse the status of hospitality education in Nepal. The study employed a blend of qualitative and quantitative research method by delivering a descriptive approach as well as undergoing a simple empirical research. The respondents in this study were 180 final year students from bachelor level hotel management colleges and 10 human resource managers from large stale hotels. The study explored the views of students and hotel practitioners about the courses offered, mismatch of expectation, the skills the hospitality graduates possess and the challenges in retaining them in Nepalese industry. The study revealed the existence of mismatch between the expectation and reality from the bachelor in hotel management course. Further, the hotel practitioners also expressed Nepalese hospitality graduates are capable to take the entry level positions and lack the managerial capability to lead the departments and the organisations.","PeriodicalId":366457,"journal":{"name":"Nepalese Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130544763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employee perception on the environmental protection programmes: A case study of a luxury hotel in Macau","authors":"Ng Wai Si, Dandeep Basnyat","doi":"10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44391","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examined the luxury resort hotel employees’ perspectives on the environmental protection programmes initiated by the hotels in Macau, China. The concern for environmental protection is increasing globally in the hospitality industry, especially for big hotels, as they rank highest among the energy consumers compared to the various sectors of the industry. Macao SAR, whose economy is highly dependent upon casinos that reside within numerous hotels, is being developed as a world tourism and leisure centre. This, in turn, further reinforces the need for the examination of environmental protection programmes. Data for this qualitative study was collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews with fifteen participants which were later analysed using the content analysis method. The result shows that the employees of the luxury resort hotel in Macau perceive variously of the performance of the green practices initiated by the hotel, albeit there was a consensus that additional effort on the part of the hotel was needed to further strengthen environmental protection programmes. The implications of this study and the direction for future research have been explained as well.","PeriodicalId":366457,"journal":{"name":"Nepalese Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123237495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors Affecting Employee Job Satisfaction in Nepalese Hospitality Industry: A Study of Hotels in Bhaktapur","authors":"Kishor Hakuduwal","doi":"10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44392","url":null,"abstract":" \u0000The objective of the study is to analyse the factors affecting employee job satisfaction in hotels of Bhaktapur, Nepal. Compensation and reward, working environment, career development, job security and co-workers are taken as independent variables and employee job satisfaction as a dependent variable. Using the purposive sampling, 153 employees were selected, and a questionnaire survey was carried out to collect data. Using regression analysis, the study found that compensation and reward, working environment, career development, and job security have significant impact on employee job satisfaction but the relationship with co-workers has negative significant impact on employee job satisfaction in hotels of Bhaktapur. Likewise, the study also revealed that job security has the highest positive significance on employee job satisfaction in hotels of Bhaktapur followed by compensation and reward, working environment and career development opportunities.","PeriodicalId":366457,"journal":{"name":"Nepalese Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126676130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Satisfaction and Revisiting Behaviour of Tourists in India","authors":"Ashish Raina, Varinder Singh Rana","doi":"10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njhtm.v2i1.44393","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the fact that the tourists choose and visit the destination after considering the available information, there are certain aspects of the destination which result in the satisfaction of tourists and their revisit behaviour towards a destination. The present paper aims to create a conceptual framework that incorporates the principles of service efficiency system and an efficiency to measure revisiting and recommendation behaviour at various tourist spots in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in India. It used a formal questionnaire to interview 431 visitors to Jammu and Kashmir, India. Primary data was collected and subjected to a statistical software package for analysis. The dimension reduction (factor analysis) technique on the collected data decreased the 25 proposed variables into five new variable constructs. The finding showed that all new variables were relevant for influencing the overall satisfaction level, be them Indians or foreigners. Moreover, the results signified that the total satisfaction leads to the likelihood that families and friends will visit the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The data review research can contribute to successful tourism industry policies and strategy preparation.","PeriodicalId":366457,"journal":{"name":"Nepalese Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130844346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The perception of employees about the regulatory environment in the tourism industry: Insights from Nepal","authors":"Sandeep Basnyat","doi":"10.3126/njhtm.v1i1.44403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njhtm.v1i1.44403","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to explore the perceptions of tourism employees on the role of regulatory environment including the government in promoting employees’ welfare. Despite a need for an examination of employees’ voice in the formulation of employment policies and in their implementation by a government, no or very little literature specifically dealing with this topic has been found during the present study. This paper is an attempt to fill this gap. Based on an in-depth semi-structured interview with hotel and airline employees in Kathmandu (Nepal), this paper hammers out three key aspects of the regulatory environment that may affect employees’ welfare, viz., efficiency of labour law, government’s attitude towards tourism labour, and judicial process and system. The paper discusses the implications of these findings for the tourism industry as well as for the government in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":366457,"journal":{"name":"Nepalese Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127585208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Motivates Tourists to Visit Religious Sites? A Case Study of Pashupatinath Area","authors":"Sunita Dabadi, Sitaram Sharma","doi":"10.3126/njhtm.v1i1.44404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/njhtm.v1i1.44404","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines the motivation to visit religious site of Pashupatinath Area. Based on a structured questionnaire survey, the study sought if the three types of travel motivation, namely, construct motivation, religious motivation, and secular motivation push tourists to visit Pashupatinath. Using a purposive sampling technique 152 respondents who had stayed overnight in the hotels in Kathmandu Valley for Pashupati visit were successfully surveyed. The result revealed that secular motivation plays a significant role to visit the Pashupatinath followed by religious motivation. ANOVA found no significant relation between marital status and age group as to what motivate one to visit religious sites.","PeriodicalId":366457,"journal":{"name":"Nepalese Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122283042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}