Abstract This paper aims to understand the relationship between work orientation ( job, career, and calling ), and intention to stay (ITS) among tourist guides (TGs). Based on an online survey of 153 ...TGs in Sabah, this study performed partial least square structural equation modelling using SmartPLS 4.0 analysis to test the hypotheses. Findings indicate that job and career were positively related to ITS. Furthermore, calling mediated the relationship between job and career with ITS. Theoretically, this study provides an integrative view of the influence of work orientation on ITS by accounting for their interactive effects. Practically, this study is beneficial to show tourism policymakers how to secure valuable TGs employment. Additionally, the study provides the basis for tour operators to design effective human resource strategies to increase the motivation of professional TGs.
The tourism market is characterized by a high level of competition. Hence, the entities providing tourism services and creating their offers in tourist destinations take actions aimed at satisfying ...the consumers’ (tourists’) needs. These activities are realized by achieving the appropriate level of marketing orientation. In terms of behaviour, marketing orientation is based on the implementation of a marketing concept focusing on customers’ needs and also on the achieved economic results. In cultural terms, marketing orientation should be understood as a type of business culture. The study is of theoretical, empirical and conceptual nature. The theoretical part presents the following issues: genesis and essence of marketing orientation and methods of its measurement, the concept and the scope of the tourism market, along with the implementation of marketing orientation issues necessary to assess the functioning of entities on this market. The concept of a system of connections of a selected type of tourist market entity with other entities in terms of shaping marketing orientation was presented. An example of the research on the level of marketing orientation on the tour operator market in selected European countries was presented in the empirical part. Tour operator market entities in Poland are characterized by a slightly higher average marketing orientation than entities from other European countries. Tour operators operating on the Polish market are also more diversified in terms of the level of marketing orientation than entities from other surveyed European countries. The main aim of the study is to adapt the theoretical and methodological issues related to the assessment of the level of marketing orientation to the entities operating on the tourism market. The specific aim is to analyze the level of marketing orientation of the entities on the tour operator market. The following research methods were used: a critical analysis of the literature on the subject, methods of logical operations; observation, quantitative methods, and diagnostic survey based on a standard questionnaire.
This paper examines the influence of tourism intermediaries on innovation in SMEs in the hotel industry from the perspective of the global value chain approach. The paper contributes towards ...characterizing the changing patterns of governance in the tourism global value chains. In addition, it provides useful information about SMEs' innovation for tourism destination managers. The dataset for this study comes from a survey of hotel SMEs in Spain. The results indicate that dependence on tour operators leads to lower levels of marketing innovation, while dependence on on-line travel agencies stimulates it. Dependence on traditional travel agencies is observed to be associated with less product innovation. Overall, dependence on tourism intermediaries implies lower autonomy in a hotel's determination of rates and margins, but can favour innovation by means of stimulating the introduction of information and communication technologies and quality standards.
A lot of lessons are learned post COVID-19 pandemic, including in the tourism business. Prior to the pandemic, tour operators had difficulties in competing with online travel agents (OTA) in terms of ...product sales and marketing. This article aims to understand the perception of digital marketing usage among tour operators and explore the factors influencing the adoption or rejection to it by using an integrated framework model which was grounded on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The factors identified which effect the usage of digital marketing technology were perceived ease of use, personal innovativeness, and facilitating condition, toward use behaviour. These factors were moderated by behaviour intention. The model was tested with 77 tour operator companies that are members of a travel agency association in Indonesia using PLS- SEM. The results show that tour operators’ facilitating condition and behaviour intention influence use behaviour directly. On the other hand, perceive ease of use, personal innovativeness, and facilitating condition directly influence behaviour intention. Personal innovativeness influences use behaviour mediated by behaviour intention. This study contributes to the understanding of tour operators where they need to focus on improving the ease of use and encouraging a positive intention among users.
Tourism in Africa Christie, Iain; Fernandes, Eneida; Messerli, Hannah ...
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This report is the first to examine tourism in Africa comprehensively and regionally and the first to recommend practical, evidence-based measures enabling the sectors economic and development power. ...This gives new impetus to the continents development progress by leveraging tourism in pursuit of lasting poverty alleviation and the creation of significantly more jobs and opportunities for all Africans.
•The issues associated with adoption of Blockchain Technology (BCT) are reviewed.•BCT is conceptualized as a value catalyst in the hospitality/tourism industries.•A hybrid methodology is proposed to ...investigate the criticality of factors, their hierarchical model and cause and effect relationships.•First study to investigate both barriers and enablers of block chain technology in tourism and hospitality industry.•First study to provide results from two economies.
The tourism and hospitality sector's inequitable environment demands an unassailable and disruptive technology that optimizes its operational efficiencies. Thus, this paper aims to explore the nature of blockchain technology under varying conditions for consumer benefits. Academic and press articles followed by interviews from industry experts were used to explore the nature of blockchain technology (BCT) for the hospitality and tourism sector (HTS). A hybrid research methodology is proposed to investigate the criticality of factors, their hierarchical model, and cause & effect relationships. 35 Employees from two geographies, namely India (N=17) and Netherlands (N=18) in hospitality and tourism firms, were interviewed. In the next step, the expert opinions were collected using the Analytic hierarchy process - Interpretive Structural Modeling- Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (AHP-ISM-DEMATEL) technique. A forward-looking approach was adopted by considering the implications of barriers and drivers on the adoption of BCT and thereby benefiting HTS. The results suggest that ‘low cost’ and ‘risk management’ are the key drivers with driving power of 1 and 10 in Indian and the Netherlands, respectively. They are placed at I and VI hierarchy levels and fall under the cause effect group. ‘Lack of Government Regulation/ Policy’ and ‘Market Uncertainty’ are the critical barriers with driving power 9 and 10 in the Indian and Netherlands context, respectively. They are placed at V and III hierarchy levels and fall under the cause effect group.
Eco-initiatives from tourism employees can contribute to the green sustainability of tour companies as well as destinations. Nonetheless, mechanisms underlying employee green creativity in the ...tourism industry have been less explored. Our study aims to examine if environmentally-specific servant leadership can foster green creativity among tourism employees via dual mediation paths of green crafting and green role identity. A two-wave survey process was implemented to garner data from employees and their managers from tour operators based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Results revealed the effect of environmentally-specific servant leadership on employee green creativity through green role identity, green-related resource and challenge seeking behaviors, but not through green task demand reducing behavior. The direct effect of green role identity and its interaction effect with environmentally-specific servant leadership were found significant for green-related resource and challenge seeking behaviors, but not for green task demand reducing behavior. This study advances our understanding of mechanisms underlying employee green creativity especially in the tourism context as well as extends research on the leadership-creativity nexus.
Green behavior among employees can contribute to the green performance of organizations. Regardless of the salience of human resource (HR) practices in translating organizational strategy into ...employee behaviors, this role of green HR practices in shaping employee green behavior has been under-explored. Through surveys of the participants from tour operators in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, our study seeks to investigate how green HR practices impact organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) at team and individual levels as well as the mechanisms underlying such effects. The results demonstrated the positive relationships between green HR practices and collective as well as individual OCBE. Collective green crafting was found to mediate these relationships. Besides, environmentally specific servant leadership served as a moderator to strengthen the effects of green HR practices on collective green crafting as well as OCBE at team and individual levels. We anticipate our research to solicit further investigations into mechanisms underlying the nexus between green HR practices and employee green behavior. Discussion on the implications for tourism practitioners is presented.
Efficient transferring information and knowledge play a fundamental strategic role in a tourism system. This is especially important in critical times where efficient collaboration practices and a ...fluid flow of ideas is essential for the performance and the growth of the entire tourism industry. Here we use the methods of network science for increasing our awareness of the different collaborative structures and the potential information and knowledge flows across them. Intermediaries play a fundamental strategic role for the whole tourism domain and the good functioning this system is crucial for the social and economic development of tourism activities. The paper builds on previous research on the subject and takes as unit of analysis the Italian travel agencies and tour operators. Numerical simulations allow to build scenarios that improve the understanding of the Italian tourism intermediaries knowledge network and can be used to devise policies that tend to a more efficient and innovative functioning of the sector. The findings show how even limited structural changes in the system sensibly improve its efficiency and the capability to exchange information and knowledge.
•Resource-based strategies in the Chilean wine industry.•System Dynamics modeling with in-depth semistructured interviews.•Tour operators and services are critical drivers in increasing tourism ...adoption.•Product attractiveness has a stronger influence on tourism adoption in the long term.
The aim of this paper is to identify the key drivers of wine tourism adoption in Chile and their feedback loop structures through an extensive literature review supplemented by in-depth semistructured interviews of Chilean wine managers. We develop a model to quantitatively assess the impacts of these drivers on wine tourism adoption over time. We use a system dynamics modeling approach to simulate the effectiveness of wine adoption drivers based on data from 69 Chilean wine firms. To different degrees, five drivers affect wine tourists: word-of-mouth recommendations, product attractiveness, tourism services, information available on the internet, and tour operators’ recommendations. Tour operators and tourism services are critical drivers in increasing the number of wine tourists, but product attractiveness has a stronger influence over the long term.
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