In a rapidly changing and competitive world, managing an organization is becoming very complex. It is utmost vital to gain a competitive advantage by an organisation to survive the cut-throat competition. Hospitality organizations is one of them. Uniquely, these organizations can strengthen and improve its human resource productivity to gain competitive advantage. One of the element that influence productivity of employee is, how they are guided, mentored and supported in the organization and provided with workplace spirituality to contribute more effective in the organizational work process. Therefore, this research study aimed at analyzing the relationship between creating workplace spirituality, and how it influences the employee productivity in Nepalese hospitality organization. A sample of 150 employees from hospitality organizations was selected for the study with convenience sampling method. The study concluded that there is a positive relationship between workplace spirituality and productivity and workplace spirituality positively predict employee productivity in hospitality organization. This suggests that the workplace spirituality plays an important role to make the employee productive and satisfied. Employee thus become more productive over the long run compared with employees in organizations where spirituality is ignored or disrespected. Therefore, hospitality organizations should emphasize to make their respective organization spiritual and adopt spiritual environment, and also emphasize spiritual leadership. Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Education 8 (2018) Page: 62-76
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Poverty alleviation through community development is well-accepted agenda throughout the globe. One of the recognized tools for such community development endeavors has been community-based tourism. Not only an atecendent of development, community based tourism can have transformative effect on the individual, community and society as a whole, contributing to momentous transformative service movement. This formed the basis of this study. The research focuses primarily in two communities based tourism. Although the research is conducted at two different locations of Nepal, this study’s findings can help guide other similar programs. The findings of the study are encouraging, firstly, it shows CBT can have transformative effect on individual, community and society as a while - people involved in CBT have better individual wellbeing, with satisfaction in their life and better community attachment. In terms of financial wellbeing and psychological needs, CBT seems to fulfill these requirements. Then secondly, it has identified the reasons behind failure of CBT as deficiency in proper mechanism, insufficient scope of coverage, lack of local engagement and empowerment On the positive side, CBT has been successful in stimulating local economy in terms of tourist in flow, enhance the historical heritage, culture, traditions etc., promoting local tradition, generating income promoting local entrepreneurship and produces. The economic impact of CBT is found to be significant. And thirdly based on the outcomes a strong advocacy for CBT is proposed, and this study stands as an attempt to contribute to TSR movement. This research positively links transformative service and community-based tourism together, which has strong future implication.Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Education 8 (2018), page: 77-96
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In this 21st century, where all the organizational activities are transforming into a digital technology base, the disruption in any business cannot be imagined without adapting a technological break through. Technological disruption in HR may cause a robotic service experience for the customers, especially in the hospitality industry because if the human resource component is replaced with the technology, for e.g. a meal service in the restaurant if replaced with a robotic machine or a robot, the human touch component of that experience will not be realized by the customer hence the service in a long run becomes mechanistic. The innovation theory seems to be more relevant to any product or a service but when we talk about human resource, it is neither a product nor a service. The term Human Resource is used to the people those who work for the organization and also the department who is responsible for managing the required resources for the employees to facilitate their job. The term Human Resource was first coined in the year 1960 when people realized the value of labor relation, motivation, behavior and productivity. Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Education 8 (2018) 1-29
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Not available. About book :Edited by : Cordula Wohlmuther and Werner WintersteinerPublisher : Centre for Peace Research and Peace Education of KlagenfurtUniversity, AustriaYear of : 2014PublicationISBN No. : 978-3-85435-713-1Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Education 8 (2018) 97-106
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3126/jthe.v11i0.38247
Francis Okosodo, S. Mohapatra
This research study was carried out to investigate medicinal plant species that is used to treat malaria and typhoid fever and to provide information on the tourism potentials of these plants species in Omo forest reserve southwest Nigeria. The study area was divided into two compartments for the purpose of this research work, undisturbed forest and secondary forest compartments. Data was collected using field surveys and visiting traditional medicine homes for parts the used for the treatment of malaria and typhoid fever. Field trips were embarked upon for three months from July to September 2020 for medicinal plant species identification. The researchers were accompanied by a field assistant who can identify the plant species in local languages.. The computer PAST Model version 3 was used to analyze plant species diversity indices. The result obtained from the study shown that the study area is rich in plant species that are used to treat malaria and typhoid fever in southwest Nigeria. In all, a total of 81 plant species belonging to 42 families were recorded in the study area with great tourism potential when a sustainable management is set up. The family Asteraceae has a plant diversity of 6 and this is followed by Rubiaceae and Solanaceae family’s which have five (5) each Figure 2. The diversity index was higher in the undisturbed compartment (4.414) than the secondary forest compartment (4.364).
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3126/jthe.v11i0.38237
D. Khadka, Ankita Chaudhary, Rubina Karki, Bishal Sharma, Sijar Bhatta
Tourism is the act of spending time away from home. Nepal has remained an exotic tourist location for several decades, and wetlands are among the major areas of tourism in Nepal. Located in the far-western Tarai of Nepal, Ghoda Ghodi Lake is among the major wetlands in terms of both biodiversity and tourism. This study has assessed the ecotourism status in Ghoda Ghodi Lake of Nepal and to understand the current condition and possible inferences. A total of 40 households were surveyed, and 80 visitors were interviewed for collecting primary data. Most of the respondent visitors have visited wetlands more than five times. It is important to point out that fifty percent of the respondent visitors have visited the wetland for natural purposes indicating that the naturalness of the wetland has more capacity to attract tourists. Visitors perceived to enhance economic activities and increase employment opportunities to attract locals to promote ecotourism. The local people were engaged in homestay earning around NRs 2 to 4 lakh per year as well most of the local respondents (50%) were participating in tourism promotion activities.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3126/jthe.v11i0.38248
R. Kunwar, Bikram Homagain, Neeru Karki
A unique and increasingly pervasive feature within the tourism landscapes in the post-modern world is the special interests of tourists in death and anything associated with death. It is often believed that those who indulge in death and disaster site tours could potentially awaken their spiritual journey. The visitor immersions, in the spaces of death, and the events that have taken place or are re-created, triggers social conscience, or some shared emotion or an experience of involvement, with the death event. Reckoning to this facet, Pashupatinath temple- a place of pilgrimage for the followers of Santana Vedic religion which shows the comprehensive aspect of Hindu death rituals, symbols and processes has been chosen. The study proposes the site as a dark tourism destination and explores the convergence of cultural heritage site, pilgrimage and death rituals in the area that is associated with its characterization- particularly with reference to the witnessing of live open pyre burning death rituals at the cremation ground (ghat) that exclusively showcases the eastern phenomenon of death-spectatorship exhibited by Hindu death ritual. Despite an immense influence of the site in the tourism industry, the eastern dark tourism potential induced by the site has not been recognized formally by the tourism stakeholders. Even though it is widely consumed by the western visitors as a tourist element. The phenomenon of Hindu death tradition in the ghats of Pashupatinath is inclusive of all the death-related rituals and is a threshold of transition and transgression, a place in between life and death. Henceforth, as the central tenet of dark tourism being “the death”, Hindu death rituals in Pashupatinath could be firmly brought into the realms of dark tourism discourse. The findings are based on the prevalence of push factors that encourages consumption of the proposed site as a dark tourist product in liminal conditions (an in-between position). To be more specific, the practice of intellectualization of emotion, convenience of visits, edutainment elements, practice of moral disengagement. The prospective of dark tourism in Pashupatinath, if entitled to the mere promotion of the crematory site, may send a negative connotation and raise moral and ethical concerns. Hence, tourism stakeholders should consciously introduce the phenomenon as an accompaniment to the popularized mainstream religious and cultural value of the site.
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