{"title":"The rebounding paradox in the hospitality and tourism industry: Why strategic ESG strengthens organizational resilience while responsive ESG undermines it","authors":"Hao Wang , Weizheng Zhang , Ke Zhang , Bing Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104614","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104614","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated significant disruptions for hospitality and tourism (H&T) firms, which exhibited resilience through an initial financial decline followed by recovery. However, the mechanisms for enhancing organizational resilience in this sector remain scarce. We address this gap by examining how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) influence organizational resilience, grounded in the resource-based view and signaling theory. Existing literature predominantly measures organizational resilience through absolute magnitudes of financial performance, treating recovery and loss as discrete dimensions. Departing from conventional measurements, we propose an advanced method to achieve a novel resilience index that quantifies the interplay between recovery and loss by calculating the ratio of the average recovery speed to the average loss speed during COVID-19. Drawing on stakeholder theory, we classify ESG implementation into two typologies: strategic ESG and responsive ESG. Using a quarterly reconstructed dataset of China’s A-share listed H&T firms during 2010–2023, the estimations from the regressions demonstrate that strategic ESG significantly strengthens organizational resilience, whereas responsive ESG undermines it. It also revealed that marketing capabilities enhance positive effects of strategic ESG on organizational resilience and weaken negative effects of responsive ESG. Earnings aggressiveness mitigates positive effects of strategic ESG and exacerbates negative effects of responsive ESG.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 104614"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146161737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yujia Liu , Victoria K. Wells , Ariadne Beatrice Kapetanaki
{"title":"Understanding out-of-home plate waste: A systematic review and future research agenda","authors":"Yujia Liu , Victoria K. Wells , Ariadne Beatrice Kapetanaki","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104630","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Consumer food waste represents a critical global challenge with substantial social, economic, and environmental costs. One underexplored but significant domain is plate waste, which poses specific challenges for the hospitality and food service sector and undermines global sustainability goals. Given the theoretical fragmentation and methodological dispersion in this area, a comprehensive synthesis is urgently needed. This study presents a systematic literature review of 101 peer-reviewed publications to consolidate current knowledge of how plate waste has been understood and addressed and identify future research and practical directions. We find that, despite increasing interest, existing research tends to conceptualise plate waste as a static outcome of consumer choice, often relying on individualised, cognitive-behavioural models while underexploring social, contextual, and systemic influences and dynamic dining procedures. This SLR synthesises evidence to theorise plate waste as a processual and dynamic phenomenon, unfolding through a sequence of “decisive moments” in the dining-out experience—planning, ordering, food evaluation, and leftover handling. These moments are shaped by interacting micro level intrapersonal, meso level-social, physical, and macro-level factors, and entangled with broader household and cultural food practices. We develop an integrative framework that shifts the analytical focus from static, individualised, outcome-based to process-based, multi-leveled understandings of consumption and waste in hospitality. We conclude with a research agenda and implications for hospitality stakeholders. This review establishes a critical foundation for advancing context-sensitive, sustainable food consumption strategies in hospitality research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 104630"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146161739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authentic leadership as an energy booster for service creativity: The mediating role of access to strategic information and the moderating role of work passion","authors":"Raheel Yasin , Muhammad Atif , Neuza Ribeiro","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104606","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104606","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Based on the self-determination theory (SDT), this paper formulates and tests a moderated mediation model to explore the nexus between authentic leadership, access to strategic information, employee work passion, and service creativity of employees. A sample of 364 frontline employees of Malaysian hospitality sector was used to gather the data. Using structural equation modeling in Mplus, the results confirm that authentic leadership has a positive impact on access to strategic information and employee service creativity. Moreover, access to strategic information mediates between Authentic leadership and employee service creativity. Results also support the moderating effects of employee work passion between access to strategic information and employee service creativity. This study extends SDT by conceptualizing access to strategic information as a motivational factor and by identifying employee work passion as an important boundary condition in the leadership-creativity relationship.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 104606"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bitcoin and the hospitality balance sheet: Allocation thresholds from Monte Carlo VaR analysis","authors":"Andrew Sungsik Yoon","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104623","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104623","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study evaluates the financial viability of integrating Bitcoin into the corporate treasury portfolios of hospitality firms, inspired by MicroStrategy’s high-profile cryptocurrency strategy. Drawing on industry-average financial data from Marriott International, Hilton Worldwide Holdings, and Hyatt Hotels Corporation, the research applies Monte Carlo simulation to model four treasury allocation scenarios, including 0 %, 5 %, 10 %, and 20 % Bitcoin exposure, over a one-year horizon. Historical Bitcoin return and volatility data from 2020 to 2024 inform the simulation parameters, enabling the estimation of mean treasury value, risk dispersion, and Value at Risk (VaR) at 95 % and 99 % confidence levels. Results indicate that modest allocations (≤10 %) enhance expected treasury value while maintaining manageable downside risk, whereas higher allocations substantially increase volatility without delivering proportional gains. These findings suggest that Bitcoin can serve as a complementary treasury asset for large hospitality firms, offering limited diversification benefits but requiring robust risk governance to ensure liquidity and operational stability. This research contributes to hospitality finance literature by introducing a simulation-based framework to assess cryptocurrency adoption within corporate treasury management strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 104623"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is lodging appraisal bias different from other commercial real estate sectors?","authors":"Amrik Singh , John W. O’Neill , Peng Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104609","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104609","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates appraisal bias in the lodging sector and compares it with other commercial real estate sectors. Based on a sample of 4931 securitized mortgages, we document a significant positive relationship between leverage and appraisal bias in commercial real estate. Variation in bias with bias greater than five percent ranges from 21 % for retail properties to 46 % in the lodging sector. The results also show a significant positive association of appraisal bias with loan pricing, indicating that loan originators were aware of, and priced most, but not all risk. Consequently, the additional unpriced risk raises moral hazard concerns in the lodging CMBS securitization process. The overall results provide evidence that lodging property behavior is distinctly different from other commercial real estate properties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 104609"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The silent shift: A phenomenological study on quiet quitting among hospitality employees","authors":"Yifei Wang , IpKin Anthony Wong , Danni Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104613","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104613","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This qualitative study employs a phenomenological approach to investigate the quiet quitting experiences of 30 hospitality employees, responding to recent calls to further explore the dynamic evolution of quiet quitting. We draw on conservation of resources (COR) theory and the career resources framework to explore the attributes that relate to employees’ quiet quitting trajectories. First, we identify a two-stage developmental path of quiet quitting, including the early symptoms in the primary stage (i.e., phoning it in, and emotional detachment) and two evolutionary pathways in the second stage (i.e., recalibration and departure). Then, we explain how individual resources in the resource caravan relate to the evolution of quiet quitting. Finally, we discuss several theoretical and practical implications of our findings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 104613"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minyi Zhang , Juan Liu , Xi Li , Jun (Justin) Li , Xi Yu
{"title":"Gift-based promotions in green consumption","authors":"Minyi Zhang , Juan Liu , Xi Li , Jun (Justin) Li , Xi Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104612","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104612","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research proposed a strategy for advocating green hotels from the perspective of gift promotion—offering promotion gifts through vouchers. The present study, conducting three experiments, examined how and why the gift-based promotion format (voucher-based vs. direct-gift-based) molded customers’ environment-friendly decisions. This research reveals that voucher-based (vs. direct-gift-based) gift promotion positively affects customers’ sensitivity to loss, thus influencing their environment-friendly decisions. In addition, this study unfolds the boundary conditions (i.e., message framing and relationship norms) of the effects of the promotion format. These findings bring new knowledge to an underexplored area—gift-based promotions for green hotels. Results also provide practical guidance for hotel marketers to design effective promotional tactics to promote green consumption choices in hotels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 104612"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohamed Adel Abdelrazek , David Dose , Ahmed Rabea , Gomaa Agag
{"title":"Understanding the relationship between eco-certification and hotel performance: A longitudinal analysis of two comparable hotels","authors":"Mohamed Adel Abdelrazek , David Dose , Ahmed Rabea , Gomaa Agag","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104619","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104619","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the complexity of implementing environmentally sustainable practices, an increasing number of firms have invested in eco-certification. According to signalling theory, this study examines whether third-party audited eco-certification influences hotel performance by examining behavioural transaction data. This analysis uses two-way fixed-effects panel regression applied to 55,753 booking transactions from 2012 to 2018. Results reveal approximately 43 % higher sales during certified periods, accompanied by higher room prices and longer booking durations. These effects have been independently tested for robustness across various covariates and time windows. Through replacing stated intentions with observed behavior, this study contributes to close the gap between green intentions and behaviours, demonstrates that credible sustainability signals generate durable commercial returns, and provides behaviour-based evidence on how signalling theory operates in credence-based service environments. Managers and policymakers considering the value of voluntary environmental certification schemes can use the findings to make practical decisions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 104619"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sharing experienscape, reflexivity, & re-engagement: A cross-cultural study","authors":"Thi Thanh Huong TRAN , Shijiao (Joseph) CHEN , Khai Trieu TRAN","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104617","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104617","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>What prompts customers to reflect on and re-engage with a sharing service after their initial experience? While the concept of <em>experienscape</em> elucidates hospitality service environments shaping customer experiences, how it operates across cultures or drives continued engagement in the sharing economy remains unclear. This study reconceptualizes <em>experienscape</em> as the <em>sharing experienscape</em>—a universally measurable construct—and investigates how its dimensions foster reflexivity and re-engagement across universalistic and particularistic cultures. Using three mixed-method studies, the findings reveal a single sharing-economy encounter does more than satisfy—it teaches. Yet this learning is culturally contingent: for universalistic customers, utilitarian and hedonic dimensions stimulate reflection on functionality and replicability; for particularistic customers, social and hedonic dimensions elicit reflection on interpersonal connection and authenticity. The <em>sharing experienscape</em> thus transforms experiences into culturally-grounded patterns of future engagement. The study advances the hospitality literature by positioning re-engagement as a culturally contingent, reflexive process in the global sharing economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 104617"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nirmeen M.A.A. Elmohandes , Károly Pető , Katalin Csobán , Mostafa N.M. Marghany
{"title":"Tech at the table: Managerial insights into workforce evolution in restaurants","authors":"Nirmeen M.A.A. Elmohandes , Károly Pető , Katalin Csobán , Mostafa N.M. Marghany","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104604","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104604","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>By integrating the technology acceptance model (TAM) and technology-organisation-environment (TOE), this study explores the factors affecting UK restaurant managers’ intentions to adopt advanced technologies and how these intentions shape the future of the restaurant workforce. Drawing on a qualitative approach, the data collection involves semi-structured interviews and field observations to provide comprehensive insights. Thematic analysis was employed to extract key themes, uncovering factors across three dimensions: technological (usefulness, ease-of-use, cost), organisational (trust, employee engagement, readiness), and environmental (brand perception, competitive pressure, labour dynamics). The analysis led to three in-depth scenarios of the workforce future: (1) human-technology interaction (HTI), (2) tech-related joblessness (TJ), and (3) unemployment and job creation paradox (UJCP). Each scenario was explored thoroughly and individually, informing strategies for workforce management. This research enhances the TAM-TOE model by providing a comprehensive insight into managerial decision-making towards technology adoption. It also offers practical workforce solutions for policymakers, enabling them to address automation challenges while supporting sustainable employment practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 104604"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146161738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}