{"title":"Hotels in contested spaces of America's gun culture","authors":"Leonardo (Don) A.N. Dioko , Frank Guo Juncheng , Rich Harrill","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103926","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study theorizes how America's hotel industry endures despite the country's divisive gun culture. Exactly how hotels flourish in contentious gun environments remains enigmatic because entrenched theories maintain that crime and gun violence inhibit tourism and hospitality industry performance. Using panel data spanning 11 years across 44 U.S. states, we examine levels of gun violence, mortality, firearm regulations, and their combined influence on hospitality organizations. Robust cross sectional time series estimation assessed their influence on nine hotel industry performance indicators. Findings reveal gun laws mitigate gun violence's impact on hotel industry performance but may, paradoxically, also diminish it. It appears America's discordant gun culture induces behavioural self-segmentation among travelers, compelling hotels to adapt and evolve as safe havens in contested spaces to thrive.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 103926"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Tourism Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738325000325","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study theorizes how America's hotel industry endures despite the country's divisive gun culture. Exactly how hotels flourish in contentious gun environments remains enigmatic because entrenched theories maintain that crime and gun violence inhibit tourism and hospitality industry performance. Using panel data spanning 11 years across 44 U.S. states, we examine levels of gun violence, mortality, firearm regulations, and their combined influence on hospitality organizations. Robust cross sectional time series estimation assessed their influence on nine hotel industry performance indicators. Findings reveal gun laws mitigate gun violence's impact on hotel industry performance but may, paradoxically, also diminish it. It appears America's discordant gun culture induces behavioural self-segmentation among travelers, compelling hotels to adapt and evolve as safe havens in contested spaces to thrive.
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The Annals of Tourism Research is a scholarly journal that focuses on academic perspectives related to tourism. The journal defines tourism as a global economic activity that involves travel behavior, management and marketing activities of service industries catering to consumer demand, the effects of tourism on communities, and policy and governance at local, national, and international levels. While the journal aims to strike a balance between theory and application, its primary focus is on developing theoretical constructs that bridge the gap between business and the social and behavioral sciences. The disciplinary areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to, service industries management, marketing science, consumer marketing, decision-making and behavior, business ethics, economics and forecasting, environment, geography and development, education and knowledge development, political science and administration, consumer-focused psychology, and anthropology and sociology.
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