Advances in culture, tourism and hospitality research

Perceived risk and novelty-seeking behavior : the case of tourists on low-cost travel in Algarve (Portugal) / Ant(c)Øonia Correia, Adriano Pimp(c)Þao, Geoffrey Crouch -- Mural-based tourism as a strategy for rural community economic development / Rhonda L.P. Koster -- Industrial tourism theory and implemented strategies / Elspeth A. Frew -- Leadership style and employee's job satisfaction in international tourist hotels / Chien-Wen Tsai -- Action and outcome metrics for evaluating destination marketing programs / Arch G. Woodside, Marcia Y. Sakai -- Independent traveler decision-making / Kenneth F. Hyde. This volume provides useful answers to the following questions: how do tourists go about seeking high novelty and yet return to the same destination year-after-year? How do some firms in the same industry end up embracing industrial tourism while other firms reject such business models? What simple and complex heuristics do freely-independent-travelers apply pre-trip and during the trip in deciding where to go and what to do? What metrics are useful for measuring the impact of activity-focused tourism on the well-being of regional areas? How do executive leadership styles affect employee satisfaction in international tourist hotels? What action and outcome metrics are useful for measuring performance management auditing and destination marketing organization planning and implementing?In terms of the first question, research on tourists' risk-handling behavior provides a useful framework for explaining their novelty seeking proneness. The first paper of the volume provides a complete research report on how tourists' risk-handling behavior explains contingencies in novelty seeking regarding repeat visits to a given destination. How executives process industrial tourism models depends on whether or not they view such enterprise development as a core or peripheral business. The second paper provides thick descriptions of alternative process approaches whilst the third reports a mixed-methods (interpretative and positivistic) research design to provide a thorough report on FITs' (fully independent travellers') pre-trip and trip thinking and doing behavior. This research approach shows how FITs take advantage of serendipitous opportunities to experience a number of locations, attractions, and activities that they had neither actively researched nor planned. The fourth paper applies the fields of travel research and community economic development (CED) within an

Year

2008

Language

English

Series

Advances in culture, tourism and hospitality research 1871-3173

Publisher

Emerald

Editions

1

ISBN

9781849505222

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