Pub Date : 2023-01-25DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2022.2164820
J. Wu, N. Chen, Christine Y. H. Zeng, M. Schuckert
ABSTRACT Despite the well-documented cultural importance of fengshui, little research has been carried out to provide a theoretically complex view of its impacts on customers’ experiences of hotel stays. This study explores customers’ perceptions of hotel rooms’ fengshui and seeks to make sense of links between the environment, fengshui beliefs and hotel-staying experiences. Under a qualitative paradigm, a vignette-induced interview approach was employed to deconstruct beliefs in fengshui and their influence on customers’ perceptions of hotel rooms. The findings reveal that customers’ beliefs in fengshui explicitly or implicitly affect their perceptions of environmental stimuli, evaluations of hotel rooms, and behavioral intentions. Moreover, hotel guests focus more on prevention than promotion when staying in hotel rooms, especially those with strong beliefs in fengshui. Based on the findings, a conceptual framework is developed by integrating the perceptional process model and the regulatory focus theory, which may usefully inform future quantitative research.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2023.2167895
Tooba Ahmad, S. Ullah
ABSTRACT BRI is a mega-development project covering 140 countries in three continents; Asia, Africa, and Europe. The political and economic dimensions of BRI have been studied in several studies in the literature, but the effect on tourism has been less explored. Tourism development has been linked with sustainable development goals due to its substantial economic potential. A panel dataset of 151 countries from 2000–2019 is used to analyze the effect of participation in BRI on the tourism industry. The PSM-DID model is used after testing the validity through the event-study approach. The robustness of the estimates was tested through counterfactual evidence and a placebo test. The findings show that participation in BRI has increased the number of inbound tourists by 18.4% and tourism revenues by 7%. BRI proved relatively more beneficial for the tourism industry of South Asian, Western Asian, and Middle Eastern countries. The regional difference can be attributed to tourist attraction spots, entry regulations for foreigners, the service quality of the tourism industry, and support facilities offered to tourists. The cooperation among the countries should be increased to facilitate tourists. Tourism companies can use these findings to improve their selection of target markets and future development plans.
{"title":"Development Under Belt and Road Initiative: Gains for Tourism Industry in Participant Countries","authors":"Tooba Ahmad, S. Ullah","doi":"10.1080/19388160.2023.2167895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2023.2167895","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT BRI is a mega-development project covering 140 countries in three continents; Asia, Africa, and Europe. The political and economic dimensions of BRI have been studied in several studies in the literature, but the effect on tourism has been less explored. Tourism development has been linked with sustainable development goals due to its substantial economic potential. A panel dataset of 151 countries from 2000–2019 is used to analyze the effect of participation in BRI on the tourism industry. The PSM-DID model is used after testing the validity through the event-study approach. The robustness of the estimates was tested through counterfactual evidence and a placebo test. The findings show that participation in BRI has increased the number of inbound tourists by 18.4% and tourism revenues by 7%. BRI proved relatively more beneficial for the tourism industry of South Asian, Western Asian, and Middle Eastern countries. The regional difference can be attributed to tourist attraction spots, entry regulations for foreigners, the service quality of the tourism industry, and support facilities offered to tourists. The cooperation among the countries should be increased to facilitate tourists. Tourism companies can use these findings to improve their selection of target markets and future development plans.","PeriodicalId":51764,"journal":{"name":"Journal of China Tourism Research","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81759865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2022.2164100
Huimin Gu, Bin Li, C. Ryan, Yue Tang, Xu Yang
ABSTRACT In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the global tourism industry and continues to impact the Chinese hotel sector today. Using a multiple cases study method, we analyzed the response strategies of four Chinese hotel groups – Jinling, Jinjiang, New Century Hotels & Resorts, and Huazhu Group Ltd.—across four successive periods: (1) outbreak; (2) first recovery; (3) struggle; and (4) a predicted finest moment. We identified four internal recovery strategies: (a) rapid response, (b) recovery exploration, (c) optimization and upgrading, and (d) rejuvenation. Hotel groups’ resilience proceeded through all four stages include (re)activation, consolidation, extension, and ecosystem. Each stage demonstrated the companies’ movement from reliance on internal resources to interdependence across the supply chain with on the help of digital services such as contactless check-in, robot delivery and cloud-based PMS. We additionally identified a close link between stakeholders including online travel agencies, government and hotel chains. The analysis in the present study is premised on resource utilization, product and service development, organizational management and operation, leadership, digitalization, and social responsibility. Suggestions to cope with a long-duration crisis like COVID-19 are also provided.
{"title":"From Darkest to Finest Hour: Recovery Strategies and Organizational Resilience in China’s Hotel Industry During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Huimin Gu, Bin Li, C. Ryan, Yue Tang, Xu Yang","doi":"10.1080/19388160.2022.2164100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2022.2164100","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the global tourism industry and continues to impact the Chinese hotel sector today. Using a multiple cases study method, we analyzed the response strategies of four Chinese hotel groups – Jinling, Jinjiang, New Century Hotels & Resorts, and Huazhu Group Ltd.—across four successive periods: (1) outbreak; (2) first recovery; (3) struggle; and (4) a predicted finest moment. We identified four internal recovery strategies: (a) rapid response, (b) recovery exploration, (c) optimization and upgrading, and (d) rejuvenation. Hotel groups’ resilience proceeded through all four stages include (re)activation, consolidation, extension, and ecosystem. Each stage demonstrated the companies’ movement from reliance on internal resources to interdependence across the supply chain with on the help of digital services such as contactless check-in, robot delivery and cloud-based PMS. We additionally identified a close link between stakeholders including online travel agencies, government and hotel chains. The analysis in the present study is premised on resource utilization, product and service development, organizational management and operation, leadership, digitalization, and social responsibility. Suggestions to cope with a long-duration crisis like COVID-19 are also provided.","PeriodicalId":51764,"journal":{"name":"Journal of China Tourism Research","volume":"82 1","pages":"7 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79331545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2023.2174644
S. Huang, J. Bao, Xingye Jin, Jie Wang
The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for over 3 years. There is no clear sign that different variants of coronavirus will disappear any time soon although majority of the countries in the world, including China, have removed their stringent pandemic control policies. For the time being, China has abolished its zero-COVID policy but has seen soaring cases of daily infections. The world is far from safe to travel and it is likely the virus will be co-habituating with human beings. Tourism is among the most damaged industries during the pandemic. In the past 3 years, tourism was mostly subjugated to the pandemic situations in different countries. While international tourism already experienced a complete halt due to closure of country borders, China still witnessed a sound scale of domestic tourism in 2021, when the pandemic was under effective control. Globally, in early 2022, most countries had relaxed COVID-control measures and travel restrictions, thus seeing a gradual slow recovery of tourism activities. China, instead, saw itself on a rather unique and bumpy path in its combat with the coronavirus. In April 2022, lockdowns in Shanghai, China’s largest city and one of the economic powerhouses, proved to be most disruptive to people’s life and economic activities. Starting from November 2022, with the new Omicron variants’ exceptionally high transmissibility, it became increasingly difficult to exercise strict ‘zero-COVID’ control, eventually leading to the authorities’ renouncing the policy in mid-December 2022. Not surprisingly, after the relaxation of the COVID control, infection cases were immediately on the rise. The year of 2023 seems to be full of uncertainties with regard to the COVID-19. We are yet to see how COVID-19 further evolves in China and globally. However, in the past 3 years, different industry sectors developed their coping strategies and resilience toward the pandemic and researchers also worked to explore effective industry recovery strategies and solutions (Huang & Wang, 2023). Somehow, some certainties could be sought in these uncertain times. This editorial paper thus aims to provide some observations and analysis of the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on China tourism, discuss the trends of China tourism in the COVID new normal era, and introduce JCTR’s special issue ‘Tourism recovery under COVID-19: Experiences from China.’
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Pub Date : 2022-12-25DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2022.2158154
Yim King Penny Wan, W. Zhao, Suh-hee Choi
ABSTRACT This study explores the perceived quality and impact of tourism information exchanged between Chinese expatriates in Macao and their information recipients in mainland China. Self-administered surveys of 350 expatriates and information recipients were conducted. The results show that the information recipients perceived that the expatriates provided unique and trustable information across different tourism sectors. Especially, Chinese relied on their social networks for information exchange. Also, both groups were positive about the quality of information provided and received and the impact of information exchange. The study supports the role of expatriates as informants and shows their impacts on visitation, especially VFR travel.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2022.2160400
Tuan Phong Ly, Wai Peng Kong
ABSTRACT Small cities with fewer natural resources are relatively hesitant in developing ecotourism. However, ecotourism can be in any form anywhere, whenever all stakeholders involved in such businesses are ecologically, economically, and ethically responsible. This study therefore tries to identify challenges for small cities in developing ecotourism, by using the four criteria (i.e. ecotourism based in nature; learning opportunities; sustainably managed sites; and ethical and responsible activities). It also explains reasons discouraging small cities from ecotourism development based on the perspectives of involved stakeholders in nature-based tourism. Macao, with its small size, few natural resources, and the need to diversify tourism products to ease overcrowding issues in the urban touristic areas, was chosen as a case study to fill this research gap. The detailed evaluation of each criterion on ecotourism development and management presented a clear view of what has been done and not done properly in the city. This finding offers potential solutions for different public and nonpublic sectors who are attempting to embrace ecotourism.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2022.2155749
I. Phang, Shuai Jiang, X. Lim
ABSTRACT Building on the Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DIT), the present study examined the influence of consumer-motivated innovativeness on the overall image of a hotel with service robots and subsequently, the intention to stay at the hotel in China. Three dimensions of consumer-motivated innovativeness, i.e., functional, hedonic, and cognitive were measured. A total of 235 valid responses were collected and analyzed using SPSS 23 and SmartPLS 3.0 software. The findings supported the significant roles of the three consumer-motivated innovativeness dimensions on overall image as well as intention to stay. Overall image was found to mediate the effects of functionally and hedonically motivated innovativeness on intention to stay, but not for the effect of cognitively motivated innovativeness. These findings are consistent with the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), wherein overall image is used as a cue by individuals who are driven by functional and heuristic innovativeness, rather than those driven by cognitive innovativeness. The results contribute to a better understanding of consumer responses to the application of service robots as a marketing attraction and a management tool to improve operational efficiency.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2022.2149653
Yinan Li, Raúl Hernández Martín, P. Rodríguez González
Language barriers have always been considered as constraints on tourists' intentions to visit an overseas destination. However, little research has focused on how learning the destination language could affect tourists' behavioral intentions. This study attempts to fill this gap by analyzing the moderating effect of Spanish language proficiency on young Chinese travelers' intentions to visit Spain. A quantitative research method was adopted involving data collection through a structured questionnaire survey. A total of 642 Chinese university students were used as the sample in this study. The relationships between motivation, perceived cultural distance, destination image, and future behavioral intention were examined using the Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) analysis. The moderating effects of Spanish-language proficiency on these relationships were tested through MICOM and multi-group PLS-SEM analysis. The results show that Spanish-language proficiency could moderate four hypothesized relationships in the model. Hence, this study contributes to tourism literature by highlighting the role of potential tourists' destination-language proficiency on their future behavioral intentions. Additionally, practical implications are also provided for DMOs to attract more Chinese young travelers in the recovery process from COVID-19.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2022.2154299
Cora Un in Wong, Lianping Ren, Suh-hee Choi
While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the increasing popularity of rural and ethnic tourism, little research has examined what ethnic minority resources should be included as tourist attractions in their development stage. Building upon the seminal work of Leiper's tourist attraction system, this paper reveals what and how ethnic resources are selected and included in tour itineraries, in particular in rural areas where tourism development has started recently. The findings that are drawn from a field study, thematic interviews, and the analysis of government-endorsed promotional materials of Congjiang show that, apart from the intrinsic cultural value, the tour inclusion value that incorporates accessibility and the capacity of supporting facilities does not merely play the 'conditioning role' but instead becomes a prerequisite in an ethnic minority destination that is rurally situated.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-29DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2022.2149654
Hamira Zamani-Farahani, Kuan-Huei Lee
ABSTRACT This study is concerned with issues of food, ethnic cuisines, and tourism with specific reference to Chinese restaurants in a Middle Eastern country, namely Iran. This study tries to explore the environment surrounding food ethics for a particular cuisine in this country. Findings are based on interviews with managers from local Chinese restaurants. Data collected was thus supplemented by analysis of published materials and personal observations. Challenges involved in setting up and operating Chinese restaurants are identified. The research results also show that some action plans are needed for better understanding of the culture and food in China.
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