{"title":"The self-distancing perspective of daily customer mistreatment and employee service behaviors","authors":"Dewen Liu , Chunyang Zhou , Yifu Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent research has explored employees' functional and dysfunctional reactions to customer mistreatment, acknowledging the diverse impacts it can have. Drawing on self-distancing theory, this study offers a novel investigation into hospitality employees’ varied reactions to daily customer mistreatment and identifies the boundary conditions that influence these responses. Using an experience sampling method research design, we conducted a ten-day daily diary survey of 82 hotel employees. Our results reveal that when hospitality employees adopt a self-distanced perspective following daily customer mistreatment, they are more likely to engage in problem-solving pondering during the evening, which leads to enhanced next-day proactive customer service performance. In contrast, when they adopt a self-immersed perspective, they tend to engage in affective rumination during the evening, which increases next-day service sabotage. Additionally, daily coworker reframing strengthens the relationship between daily customer mistreatment and problem-solving pondering during the evening and enhances the mediating role of problem-solving pondering during the evening between daily customer mistreatment and next-day proactive customer service performance. Conversely, daily venting with coworkers reinforces the connection between daily customer mistreatment and affective rumination during the evening, and intensifies the mediating effect of affective rumination during the evening between daily customer mistreatment and next-day service sabotage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"61 ","pages":"Pages 328-337"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744798","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":"Sports icons in nation branding the interplay of motivations, culture and country attachement","authors":"Natalia Vila-López , Isabel Pascual-Riquelme , Inés Küster-Boluda , Cristina Aragonés-Jericó","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.10.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.10.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the relationships among three main concepts: celebrity's media exposure, celebrity's image, and country image. Additionally, the moderating role of tourists' (i) motivations, (ii) culture, and (iii) country attachment was investigated. To this end, 938 real tourists visiting Spain from 3 nationalities were approached: the UK, France, and Germany. An international market research company provided the data using an online questionnaire among its panelists. Structural equation modelling with JAMOVI, based on R, was used. Our results showed the relevance of both media activities and the image of sports celebrities to enhance the perceived image of the country they represent and, in turn, tourists' intention to revisit and buy national products. First, the image of sports celebrities could improve Spain's brand, mainly (i) among those who travel for sports motives, (ii) from England, and (iii) being highly attached to Spain. Second, the country's image will augment tourists' intention to revisit the country, mainly (i) among non-sports travellers, (ii) from France, and (iii) low-attached tourists. The effectiveness of celebrities' media exposure was confirmed, supporting the Symbolic Communication Theory. Also, sports celebrity endorsement on destination image has been probed, strengthening the usefulness of the Image Transfer Theory. Lastly, the relationship between perceptions, attitudes, and behaviours has been demonstrated, as stated in the Theory of Planned Behavior. To conclude, Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) could invest in communication using sports celebrities as the campaign's backbone to improve the Spanish destination image. This policy will work better among (i) those who travel for sports motives, (ii) those from England and (iii) those who are highly attached to Spain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"61 ","pages":"Pages 316-327"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744797","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":"","authors":"Zahed Ghaderi","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"61 ","pages":"Pages 313-315"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698760","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}
Rui Li , Yong-Quan Li , Wen-Qi Ruan , Shu-Ning Zhang , Mei-Yu Wang
{"title":"Cultural resilience of heritage sites: Dimension exploration and scale development","authors":"Rui Li , Yong-Quan Li , Wen-Qi Ruan , Shu-Ning Zhang , Mei-Yu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Heritage sites are in a state of instability, facing various disturbances or environmental changes, which may lead to a crisis in cultural protection and inheritance. Importantly, cultural resilience is the key to dissipating these disturbances or even transforming them into sustainable development opportunities, but few studies have conducted theoretical exploration and evaluation on this topic. Therefore, this study aims to conceptualize and develop scales for cultural resilience of heritage sites (CRHS) using online and offline investigations (in-depth interviews, big data mining, and questionnaires). The results from grounded theory procedures reveal that cultural resilience consists of 5 dimensions: cultural resistance, restoration, learning ability, adaptability, and growth. Moreover, a cultural resilience scale with 17 items was developed and proved reliable and valid. This study lays an empirical foundation for the theoretical system development of CRHS and provides resilience ideas and strategies for their cultural protection, inheritance, and sustainable development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"61 ","pages":"Pages 299-312"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142696377","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":"Virtual voices in hospitality: Assessing narrative styles of digital influencers in hotel advertising","authors":"Yide Liu , Tao Ye , Cheng Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the impact of linear and non-linear narrative styles employed by virtual influencers in hospitality marketing, emphasizing their effects on consumer engagement and attitudes. By integrating narrative transportation theory, and parasocial interaction theory, this research elucidates how deliberate narrative choices by virtual influencers can enhance connections between audiences and media figures through co-constructed social constructionism processes. Experimental findings show that while both linear and non-linear narratives promote positive attitudes toward hotels, non-linear narratives have a significantly stronger impact, particularly when a hotel's hedonic features outweigh its utilitarian aspects, with trust acting as a mediator. This study fills gaps in the literature by showing that different narrative styles fit a hotel's specific offerings and target audiences, rather than affecting all consumers the same way. Additionally, it explores the uncertainty within academia regarding the role of sensemaking in the social constructionism process, specifically by examining how consumers' reflective engagement with narratives influences the effectiveness of sensemaking.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"61 ","pages":"Pages 281-298"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142696379","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":"Impact of pro-poor ethnic tourism on achieving sustainable development goals","authors":"Yan Guo , Robert G. Tian , Marina Vasiljeva","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores whether and how Chinese government-led pro-poor ethnic tourism advances the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in ethnic villages with poverty elimination as the top agenda, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in typical pro-poor ethnic tourism destinations in Guizhou Province, China. While the government focused more on economic, social, and cultural sustainability, the impacts perceived by stakeholders were related to 12 of the 17 SDGs. SDG1 (no poverty) and SDG17 (partnership for goals) were identified as core goals. The negligible impact of pro-poor ethnic tourism on the environment implies that the Chinese government should pay more attention to environmental sustainability in rural revitalization through ethnic tourism. The novelty of this study lies in the summarized conceptual model of the impact of government-led pro-poor ethnic tourism on the sustainable development of ethnic areas. These findings provide critical insights into how pro-poor ethnic tourism can be optimized to meet SDGs through government intervention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"61 ","pages":"Pages 270-280"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661114","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}
YooHee Hwang, Sau Yin Cheung, Vincent Wing Sun Tung, Kaye Chon
{"title":"Cross-industry career mobility of hospitality and tourism graduates: Motivations and transferrable skills","authors":"YooHee Hwang, Sau Yin Cheung, Vincent Wing Sun Tung, Kaye Chon","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Career mobility is common among hospitality and tourism graduates, often moving from one industry to another (cross-industry career mobility). The current study aims to investigate motivations for cross-industry career mobility. Moreover, this study identifies transferrable skills and sources of such skills from college and work experiences. Although previous studies have advanced our understanding of why hospitality and tourism graduates leave the industry, there is limited research on transferrable skills for cross-industry career mobility. The current study addresses this knowledge gap. The authors gathered qualitative data via 28 in-depth semi-structured interviews from hospitality and tourism graduates working in other industries, such as consulting, information technology, and finance. The current study advances understanding of why and how hospitality and tourism graduates move to other industries by drawing on the career mobility theory and the effort-reward imbalance model. Mentorship programs that connect alumni working in other industries and flexible internship arrangements to include various industries are recommended, given an increasing number of graduates going to other fields.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"61 ","pages":"Pages 261-269"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661113","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 visual effects of emoji in social media travel sharing on user engagement","authors":"Huili Yan , Chenxin Shen , Yuzhi Wei , Hao Xiong","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.10.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.10.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emojis in social media travel sharing are an effective tool for enhancing emotional expression or promoting semantic interpretation. However, the visual appeal of emojis as small icons remains uncertain. This study shows that using facial emojis in desirability travel sharing enhances tourists' visual attention and social media engagement. In contrast, using non-facial emojis in feasibility travel sharing leads to more effective visual attention and social media engagement. These relationships are mediated by imagery fluency and influenced differently depending on the emoji's position within a sentence (mid-sentence vs. end of sentence). Our research contributes to the study of emojis' visual appeal by providing a theoretical explanation of how and why the interaction effects of emoji visual types and travel sharing content occur. This study also offers practical implications for how tourists, travel marketers, and social media platforms can use emojis appropriately to increase engagement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"61 ","pages":"Pages 240-250"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661111","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}
Pei Zhang , Jijun Jackie Chen , Dan Jin , Shinyong Shawn Jung
{"title":"Service robots in crowded environments: How crowd dynamics shape robotic adoption intention at events","authors":"Pei Zhang , Jijun Jackie Chen , Dan Jin , Shinyong Shawn Jung","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Service robots tackle labor shortages and improve customer experiences. While research has examined factors affecting robotic adoption, the impact of social crowdedness remains unexplored. Through a multi-experimental design, this study adopts a dual-role perspective to investigate how social crowdedness interacts with prominent robot-related factors (i.e., conversation initiation and personality), as a predictor and a moderator, in influencing robotic adoption intention in event settings. Key findings show that attendees are less willing to adopt robots in crowded settings, unless the robot initiates interaction, which are perceived as more intelligent and socially adept. The interaction between robot personality and social crowdedness reveals the contextual role of crowdedness in human-robot interactions, with social interactivity and perceived intelligence mediating the relationship. This study fills a critical gap in service robot literature by examining how social crowdedness influences human-robot interactions and intersects with key aspects of robot design. It also offers practical guidance for event organizers, suggesting collaboration with service partners to program robots for proactivity, personality, and crowdedness dependent.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"61 ","pages":"Pages 251-260"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating pro-environmental behavior among tourists: The role of value-belief-norm theory, personality traits, and commitment","authors":"Tianyu Pan , Wuzhen Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.10.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Utilizing the Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory and Environmental Commitment Theory (ECT) as foundational frameworks, the research introduces and tests the Personality-VBN-Commitment (PVC) model. Results indicate that individuals with a robust personal norm for sustainability are more inclined to engage in pro-environmental behaviors while traveling. Additionally, the study underscores the role of personality traits, including extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness, in influencing pro-environmental travel choices and recognizing personal advantages from such behaviors. This research enriches the understanding of drivers behind tourists' pro-environmental behavior and offers insights for advancing sustainable tourism. Finally, the theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"61 ","pages":"Pages 226-239"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661110","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}