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The purpose of this paper is to improve understanding of Tourism Innovation by using a Uses and Gratification Theory model to investigate tourist intention to visit a city after reading other users' valuations of the destination on Mobile Applications.

The Uses and Gratification Theory (U&G) model was adapted to investigate the factors which influence tourist intention to visit a city. Satisfaction and Tourism Experience were added as external variables to the U&G model. The original Convenience construct for mobile tourism applications was changed to Mobile Convenience for this study.

A survey was carried out to investigate the factors which influence tourist intention to visit a City. 261 users with different nationalities were asked about their experiences and feelings when using Runnin'City, which was the mobile tourism application used in this study. The results were analyzed with Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). All the relationships of U&G were supported, except for Information for Tourism Experience.

Self-Expression was found to be especially relevant and was moderated by Entertainment, Information and Mobile Convenience which in turn influence Satisfaction, Tourism Experience and Intention to visit a City.

The Gender and Running frequency variables were also investigated using multi-group analysis. The influence of Mobile Convenience on Satisfaction was seen to be moderated by Gender, and the relationships of Information and Entertainment on satisfaction are moderated by Running Frequency.

The results obtained with the proposed changes in the U&G model will be very useful for academics and also for designers and developers of mobile tourism apps as they show the special role played by Self-Expression and Entertainment as relevant factors for the success of a mobile tourism app.

In the last five years, home rentals for tourists have generated significant media and social concern. Since the economic crisis of 2007–2008, online platforms have emerged that have boosted the collaborative economy and provided security and trust. There are two positions related to the impacts of peer-to-peer and intermediation platforms: some consider them to reflect the destruction of tourist destinations at the hands of international corporations, while others allege that they have helped improve the incomes of many families and meet demand. These positions raise doubts, and based on the descriptive analysis of secondary public data from Spain, this study makes a first approximation of the actual situation. The results indicate that the platforms have given online visibility to business that already existed, while tourist rentals cater to specific market niches and adjust hotel supply to tourist demand. The study concludes that tourist rentals have been confused with the real problem: large and rapid increases in demand that are difficult to manage, aggravating mismatches in the rental market that are the result of multiple factors.

In a time of persistent and fierce “war for talents,” which is naturally inherent to the knowledge-intensive industries, the issue of employees’ job satisfaction is of the utmost managerial significance. In that respect, this study explores certain intrinsic factors that underlie the job satisfaction concept, as well as the durability of employees’ job satisfaction. Based on the extant literature, a theoretical model of job satisfaction was designed, which was subsequently tested using the data gathered through the surveys conducted over the ten years. The results obtained by model testing show that employees’ job expectations make up that particular intrinsic factor that differentiates job satisfaction from non-satisfaction. More intriguingly, the results showed that prior job satisfaction is not a reliable predictor of later job satisfaction.

Many scholars underline the significance of clusters for knowledge spillovers and related benefits in terms of innovation and firm competitiveness. The Industry 4.0 technological scenario emphasizes dispersed technologically interconnected activities and distributed knowledge management opportunities, while clusters focus on proximity, which is why many question the attractiveness of the latter for firms. Bearing in mind the scarcity of studies on the relationship between digitalization and clusters, the paper discusses how clusters may be attractive for foreign subsidiaries in times of the fourth industrial revolution by referring to the case of the Aviation Valley in Poland as explanatory example supporting conceptual considerations proposed.

Music affects viewers’ responses to advertisements. In this study we present the findings of an experiment that investigates the emotional and cognitive reactions of subjects’ brains during exposure to television advertisements with music congruent, and incongruent, with the advertisement content. We analyze the electroencephalography signals and eye-tracking behaviors of a group of 90 women watching six TV advertisements. The study's findings suggested that incongruent music generates higher levels of attention and advertisement recall. On the other hand, frontal asymmetry measured through electroencephalography was shown to be higher with congruent music. Similarly, cognitive workload was higher when the music was incongruent with the advertisement content. No significant differences were found in terms of advertisement likeability based on incongruent versus congruent music. The results demonstrated the validity of neurophysiological techniques for assessing the effects of levels of music congruence in advertisements.

Online platform working, Gig working, E lancing and Moonlighting have become synonymous in the Industry 4.0. Searching for and practicing alternative employments is an important phase in recording the sequence of employees’ withdrawal cognitions (WC). WC have been studied in the past majorly in relation with job attitudes for the ultimate consequence of turnover but in this virtual era, it is equally considerable to investigate the relationship of job attitudes with this important cognition sequenced before turnover stage, i.e. moonlighting, which may ultimately lead to turnover. This paper proposes to conduit the research gap of investigating the effect of Job Satisfaction on Moonlighting Intentions and the mediating effect of Organizational Commitment between these two variables. SmartPLS 3.0 software has been used to execute partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) for the research framework on a sample of 161 IT professionals working in the North Indian IT hubs of N.C.R. Delhi and Chandigarh. In the present study, four hypotheses have been employed for examining the relationships among the variables Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Moonlighting Intentions. PLS –SEM supported all of them. Organizational Commitment has a mediating effect between Job Satisfaction & Moonlighting Intentions while Job Satisfaction puts a very high positive impact on Organizational Commitment. In addition, Organizational Commitment shows a very significant inversely proportionate relationship with Moonlighting Intentions.

There are many studies on the determinants of visitor spending at sport events. However, few studies investigate the effect of satisfaction on spending and even fewer relate this to visitor expectations. The present study examines the case of the World Ski Championships 2015 which were held in Falun, Sweden. A particular focus of the study is if and how visitor satisfaction influences visitors’ expenditures. It is hypothesized and argued that spending depends on satisfaction relative to prior expectations. It is empirically found that those visitors with satisfaction greater than their expectations prior to the visit spend significantly more. A limitation of this study, however, is that the satisfaction is not measured systematically taking into consideration several dimensions of satisfaction which should be addressed in the future research.

The presence of the real estate investment trust in the Spanish real estate market since 2013 has led a significant number of the housing stock being offered for rent in the most popular cities around the country. In the specific case of the Costa del Sol, it is necessary to evaluate the participation of these companies in the establishment of a stable business fabric of housing for rent as well as in the development sector for home sales. In addition, its membership of international financial circuits means that the effect of financing the economy on urban environments has to be taken into account.

In order to assess the weight of the real estate investment trust in the development of the Costa del Sol, we turned to data on housing developments for sale provided by the main Internet real estate portals are used, comparing their market share with that of other national and local players The main conclusion is that this type of company has not opted for professional marketing of housing offered for residential rental in the province, but nevertheless, they have become the leading companies in the real estate development sector in the province by number of homes offered.

To achieve this objective, this document has first opted for a study of literature review that includes the contributions of Spanish and international social scientists on the processes of transmission of financial capital to the real estate sector, the characteristics of financial actors and their patterns of behavior, the factors that enable and facilitate their activity; as well as the transformations that have undergone today and that have allowed them to expand their investments, concluding with the economic and social consequences of all this.

Likewise, this analysis has also been deepened with the main characteristics of RETTs have, also attending the main magnitudes and figures related to it, provided by Spanish public institutions.

Finally, current data have been obtained on the new construction market of real estate of the Costa del Sol, using reports and statistics prepared by business study centers, and professional organizations in the sector. This information has allowed to know the number of homes built and put up for sale in recent years, as well as their geographical distribution or the nature of the real estate developer, which has allowed to show the main characteristics of this market.

These contributions and the data on the number, location and origin of the real estate developer of new construction homes, confirm the influence that the international financial agents have on the real estate sector of the province of Malaga, with an important participation in the tourist sector, focusing its activity on the real estate development of housing sales, while it has a marginal role in the supply of residential rental housing.

Taking advantage of the dynamics of the growth of the tourism sector, REITs have been the pioneers