Khan, Sonia
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism (APJIHT)
For ages, tourists have been fascinated with “Other” cultures making it a primary reason for international travel. Several destinations around the world are blessed with cultural pluralism and proudly boast of being “multicultural”. These destinations comprise multiethnic migrant communities living in their respective “ethnic enclave” settings in a...
Kaurav, Rahul Pratap Singh Baber, Ruturaj Chowdhary, Nimit Kapadia, Shakir
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism (APJIHT)
There is a huge gap in defining the core concept of destination, performance and its marketing / management organisation. This review paper intends to study the aforesaid gap and aid the concept in defining it from different perspectives. The chosen study also highlights the burning need of researchers and students alike in serving the definitional...
Binder, Annina Varga, Peter
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism (APJIHT)
Sustainability in the hospitality industry has been an area of growing interest among stakeholders in the last decades. However, sustainable projects that are often proposed by foreign/international stakeholders have met various obstacles during their implementation. Beyond economic and political barriers, this paper focuses on sociocultural specif...
Chindaprasert, Kantimarn Yasothornsrikul, Paradee Esichaikul, Ranee
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism (APJIHT)
Over the past few decades, the influence of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) program and Asian Economic Community (AEC) framework of ASEAN has led to an increasing number of tourists visiting Thailand and Laos (PDR) border sites. Accordingly, the Thailand-Laos (PDR) border destination appears to have a high tourism market potential as it is seen...
Nair, Vikneswaran Mohamed, Badaruddin Chiun, Lo May
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism (APJIHT)
Malaysia is regarded as a heaven for ecotourism and natural resources. Nonetheless, the very concept of ecotourism is confused with massive “greenwashing” that is destroying many pristine destinations especially in the rural settings. Various tourism models emphasising on the environment have been developed in the past in Malaysia with no holistic ...
Zhou, Yuan Omar, Rosmini
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism (APJIHT)
While the question of how commitment influences user behavior in online communities has recently attracted considerable research, few studies have empirically evaluated the drivers of online community commitment. Building on a conceptual framework of factors affecting commitment with online communities, this study evaluates the influence of individ...
Chawla, Gaurav Manhas, Parikshat Singh
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism (APJIHT)
This paper aims to investigate students’ perceptions about sustainability curricula in hospitality management degree programmes. Sustainability, a prime business concern, is now a prominent agenda in higher education, and also in hotel management courses. The study is located in India and adopts a positivist epistemological position. Quantitative d...
Genç, Ruhet
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism (APJIHT)
This paper aims to highlight the importance of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), especially the Skål movement for sustainable tourism. NGOs play a role in developing tourism sustainably by taking into account a community’s attachment, engagement and commitment. NGOs play a vital role in tourism management and development. Skål International wh...
Kala, Devkant Bagri, Satish Chandra
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism (APJIHT)
Tourism is a major driver of economic growth and livelihood promotion in the Uttarakhand state of India. The contribution of tourism to the state gross domestic product (GDP) and employment generation is significant. The expansion of tourism inevitably brings about the development of the hotel industry. Hotels must create effective competitive stra...
Khalifa, Gamal S. A. Abou-Shouk, Mohamed A. A.
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism (APJIHT)
The use of web as a marketing channel is on the rise rapidly worldwide. The majority of businesses across all industries including hotels, adopt web usage in order to satisfy their customers. Hotels adopt this new environment to communicate directly with travellers and offer customers who are willing to search for information the opportunity to boo...
