Special Issue "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: 30 November 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Jinkyung Jenny Kim
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Guest Editor
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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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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Tourism Economic Network Structural Characteristics of National Parks in the Central Region of China
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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