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Contemporary Issues and Phenomenon in the Hospitality and Tourism

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 9869

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Jinkyung Jenny Kim

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School of Hotel and Tourism Management, Youngsan University, Busan 48015, Korea
Interests: innovations in hospitality; hotel management; hospitality and tourism marketing; sustainable tourism

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The hospitality and tourism industry is dynamic and constantly changing, involving new offerings, technological innovations, novel business models, new types of marketing strategies, and many more features. The industry is also influenced by the changes in customers’ interests such as the wellbeing phenomenon in recent years. In addition, these service sectors are vulnerable to threats caused by various environmental factors such as economic downturns, political conflict, and natural disasters. Therefore, a clear understanding of the contemporary issues and phenomena in the industry and fast responses to changing markets and customer demand are of great importance today. This can be achieved based on the identification of emerging trends and behavioral change in the consideration of different situational factors that may affect and disrupt hospitality and tourism. Thus, this Special Issue aims to bring together contemporary issues and phenomena in hospitality and tourism to offer insights for scholars to provide strategic directions. Furthermore, a meaningful level of contribution from industry practitioners is expected to proactively help to overcome difficulties and to create opportunities based on long-term thinking in business.

In summary, the scope of this Special Issue, “Contemporary Issues and Phenomena in Hospitality and Tourism“, is discussing emerging issues to address the challenges and opportunities in the hospitality and tourism industry. The potential topics include but are not limited to the following aspects:

  • Emerging trends;
  • Behavioral change;
  • Growing tourism/market segments;
  • Innovative and smart technologies;
  • Sustainable development;
  • Leadership and employee innovation;
  • Workplace diversity;
  • Change management;
  • Crisis management;
  • COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Jinkyung Jenny Kim
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • contemporary issues in hospitality and tourism
  • emerging trends
  • innovations
  • behavioral change
  • marketing
  • customer and employee loyalty
  • HR management
  • change management
  • crisis management
  • green hospitality and tourism

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Geopolitical-Risk and Economic Policy—Uncertainty Impacts on Tourist Flows from Neighboring Countries: A Wavelet Analysis
by Alisa Kazakova and Insin Kim
Sustainability 2021, 13(24), 13751; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413751 - 13 Dec 2021
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This paper investigates the nexus of geopolitical risks (GPRs), economic policy uncertainty (EPU), and tourist arrivals in South Korea. Specifically, this research examines whether arrivals from neighboring tourism source countries (i.e., China and Japan) are influenced by geopolitical events and economic volatilities in [...] Read more.
This paper investigates the nexus of geopolitical risks (GPRs), economic policy uncertainty (EPU), and tourist arrivals in South Korea. Specifically, this research examines whether arrivals from neighboring tourism source countries (i.e., China and Japan) are influenced by geopolitical events and economic volatilities in South Korea. To establish the research purpose, we investigated the relationships among GPRs, EPU, and tourism demand by using monthly data from January 2003 to November 2019. Additionally, innovative techniques (continuous wavelets, wavelet coherency, and wavelet phase difference) were employed, which allow the decomposition of time series considering different time and frequency components. The results demonstrate inconsistent and heterogeneous co-movements between variables that are localized across different time periods and frequencies. In addition, we detected several significant coherencies that prove the important role of GPR and EPU in explaining changes in the numbers of tourists arriving in South Korea from China and Japan. In terms of time domain, negative and positive correlations in tourism demand were detected, meaning that economic and geopolitical shocks may not always lead to negative consequences. From the frequency domain, the causal effects of GPR mostly appear to have short- to mid-run implications, with almost no relationship in the low-frequency band, whereas EPU holds a heterogeneous influence varying short-term to long-term, including higher to lower frequencies. Results show the resilience of the tourism industry against the transient effects of economic and geopolitical shocks. Tourists become adversely affected by external events such as geopolitical risks and economic uncertainties, but the impact is not consistent over time for tourists from countries neighboring Korea. The findings provide a deeper understanding of how crisis events, including political instability and economic fluctuations, can affect inbound tourism in geographically and historically interrelated countries. Therefore, to minimize the negative effect on tourism demand, it is important for practitioners to consider potential external threats when making forecasts. Full article
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Functions of Currency before and after COVID-19: Is Bitcoin Sustainable for Tourism?
by Hyojin Kim, Sangmook Lee and Gumkwang Bae
Sustainability 2021, 13(24), 13572; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413572 - 8 Dec 2021
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The specific purposes of this study are (1) to analyze whether there is a difference in the recognition of tourists in the functions of currency according to the type of currency spent by tourists before and after COVID-19; (2) to identify why tourists [...] Read more.
The specific purposes of this study are (1) to analyze whether there is a difference in the recognition of tourists in the functions of currency according to the type of currency spent by tourists before and after COVID-19; (2) to identify why tourists employ Bitcoin among the functions of currency; and (3) to identify tourists’ intentions to continue to using Bitcoin according to the degree of recognition of the function of virtual currency in Korea. Both quantitative and qualitative methods, including a one-way analysis of variance, a paired t-test, a simple regression analysis, and an in-depth interview, were employed. One of the conclusions implies that tourists in a tourism destination still prefer paying with cash rather than paying with card or virtual currency. Moreover, the study discovered that tourists count more on virtual currency and prepare for a future with virtual currency when a factor that has an unstable impact on social economy, such as COVID-19, happens. As to the functions of Bitcoin, tourists appeared to place a great importance on its storage, value, satisfaction, convenience, and investment. Additionally, the study showed that tourists intend to continue using Bitcoin due to the same satisfaction, convenience, and investment attributed to Bitcoin. More discussion and implications were provided. Full article
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Tourism Economic Network Structural Characteristics of National Parks in the Central Region of China
by Kai Wang, Menghan Wang, Chang Gan, Qinchang Chen and Mihai Voda
Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 4805; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094805 - 25 Apr 2021
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The social network analysis has been actively applied in various tourist destinations, with a few studies on the tourism economic network structure of national parks. Taking the national parks in the Central Region of China as research objects, this study applies the modified [...] Read more.
The social network analysis has been actively applied in various tourist destinations, with a few studies on the tourism economic network structure of national parks. Taking the national parks in the Central Region of China as research objects, this study applies the modified gravity model to measure the strength of tourism economic connection. The social network analysis method (SNA) is used to analyze the network structure of tourism economic connection among national parks from the perspectives of overall network density, network centrality, and cohesive subgroups. The results show that the intensity of the tourism relationships among national parks in Central China is unbalanced in spatial distribution. The structure of tourism economic network presents a multi-core model. Lushan Mountain, Shaoshan, Wudang Mountain, and other national parks play a necessary role in the transmission of regional tourism economic elements. There are cohesive subgroups of connections among national parks, which are closely related to administrative divisions and regional cultural background. The subgroups of interior scenes in the same province are more closely related, and the degree of tourism integration still needs to be improved. The study advances the understanding of tourism economic network relationships among tourist attractions in a destination. Full article
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