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1 Citations
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Are Tourist Interactions Good or Bad? Tourist–Tourist Interactions at 5-Star Hotels in Istanbul

  • Elisa Zentveld,
  • Ebru Düşmezkalender,
  • Yunus Özhasar and
  • Yasin Emre Oğuz

10 December 2024

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of ambience and aesthetics on tourist–tourist interaction and the effects of tourist–tourist interaction on a sense of belonging, intention to recommend, and satisfaction in accommodatio...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,092 Views
24 Pages

At present, COVID-19 is seriously affecting the economic development of the hotel industry, and at the same time, the world is vigorously calling for “carbon emission mitigation”. Under these two factors, tourist hotels are in urgent need...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
18,038 Views
19 Pages

24 April 2024

This study presents a comparative assessment of emerging sustainability trends in tourist facilities, focusing on multiple hotels and resorts. By analyzing various aspects, such as energy efficiency, waste management, water conservation, and communit...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,331 Views
11 Pages

17 October 2019

This study employs the directional distance function in the meta-frontier model by expanding outputs, contracting inputs, and fastening quasi-fixed inputs simultaneously on a dataset of 170 observations obtained from the annual reports of internation...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,765 Views
27 Pages

31 October 2024

After the COVID-19 epidemic, the recovery of tourism growth faced more pressure on carbon emissions. As an important sector of tourism economic recovery, the tourist hotels’ carbon emissions cannot be ignored. This study combined the EEIO (the...

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  • Open Access
586 Views
27 Pages

Stakeholder Engagement and Social Networks: Enhancing Sustainable Food Waste Management in Zanzibar’s Tourist Hotels

  • Biubwa Ally,
  • Aziza Abdulkadir,
  • Haji Mwevura,
  • Peter Furu,
  • Fredrick Salukele,
  • Stig Hirsbak and
  • Arne Remmen

23 November 2025

Zanzibar has witnessed fast growth in tourism due to its natural beauty and unique cultural values. On average, about 600,000 tourists arrive annually, creating demand for more hotels, which significantly adds to the generation of waste streams on th...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,678 Views
28 Pages

This work aims to analyse the attitude towards circular economy (CE) and the environmental behaviour and circular practices among tourists of a well-known mature sun and beach destination. The study was conducted on a sample of tourists who visited G...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,515 Views
19 Pages

Modelling Tourists’ Acceptance of Hotel Experience-Enhancement Smart Technologies

  • Donglin Han,
  • Huiying (Cynthia) Hou,
  • Hao Wu and
  • Joseph H. K. Lai

16 April 2021

Whereas the use of specific smart technologies in various sectors of the tourism industry has been under greater scrutiny in recent years, research that investigates tourists’ acceptance of smart technologies applied as a whole to hotels is largely u...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,297 Views
15 Pages

Environmental Sustainability on Tourist Hotels’ Image Development

  • Tsai-Chiao Wang,
  • Jen-Son Cheng,
  • Hsin-Yu Shih,
  • Chia-Liang Tsai,
  • Ta-Wei Tang,
  • Ming-Lang Tseng and
  • Ying-Sheng Yao

22 April 2019

Previous studies are lacking that explore the added values of sustainable practices perceived by consumers. To achieve a balanced development of economy and environmental protection, tourist hotels should develop a service differentiation strategy ba...

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  • Open Access
1,284 Views
22 Pages

A Fractional Gompertz Model with Generalized Conformable Operators to Forecast the Dynamics of Mexico’s Hotel Demand and Tourist Area Life Cycle

  • Fidel Meléndez-Vázquez,
  • Josué N. Gutiérrez-Corona,
  • Luis A. Quezada-Téllez,
  • Guillermo Fernández-Anaya and
  • Jorge E. Macías-Díaz

17 December 2024

This study explores the application of generalized conformable derivatives in modeling hotel demand dynamics in Mexico, using the Gompertz-type model. The research focuses on customizing conformable functions to fit the unique characteristics of the...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,542 Views
13 Pages

27 August 2018

The beautiful, natural environment in a tourist hotel’s marketing images can evoke relaxing and soothing emotions. However, can tourist hotels use nature as a servicescape to make their performing arts services more attractive? Based on attention res...

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  • Open Access
372 Views
35 Pages

11 December 2025

The significance of organizational psychology within the hospitality sector has garnered increasing scholarly attention. This study seeks to examine the contextual effects of green organizational climate in international tourist hotels through a thre...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,536 Views
23 Pages

Food Waste Management at Selected Tourist Hotels in Zanzibar: Current Practices and Challenges in Creating a Circular Economy in the Hospitality Sector

  • Biubwa Ally,
  • Aziza Abdulkadir,
  • Arne Remmen,
  • Stig Hirsbak,
  • Haji Mwevura,
  • Peter Furu and
  • Fredrick Salukele

11 December 2024

Tourism is the key economic sector of and contributor to employment in Zanzibar. However, tourism growth creates a demand for more hotels, contributing to more waste. Meanwhile, food waste in the hospitality sector remains a concern due to its impact...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,871 Views
22 Pages

17 August 2023

Why was this research undertaken? Because in some tourist destinations the number of international tourists has a greater impact on the number of overnight stays at hotels compared to domestic tourism. The aim of this study was to analyse the main to...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
14,496 Views
19 Pages

28 November 2018

The main objective of this research was to provide suitable technical, organizational, financial, legal, and social indicators for solid waste management (SWM) systems, which can be used to diagnose the current situation faced by tourist destinations...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,864 Views
20 Pages

13 November 2020

Tourism, one of the economic sectors that has experienced great development in recent decades and must face unexpected challenges related to the evolution of the global context, needs a sustainable approach to harmonise its effects and impact on the...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
17,236 Views
22 Pages

Aspects Regarding Safety and Security in Hotels: Romanian Experience

  • Alexandru Anichiti,
  • Larisa-Loredana Dragolea,
  • Georgia-Daniela Tacu Hârșan,
  • Alina-Petronela Haller and
  • Gina Ionela Butnaru

19 January 2021

This study investigates safety and security from the perspective of Romanian tourists by assessing the level of importance that tourists give to safety and security depending on the level of classification of the services they experienced and the gen...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,557 Views
13 Pages

Stationary Traffic as a Factor of Tourist Destination Quality and Sustainability

  • Robert Maršanic,
  • Edna Mrnjavac,
  • Drago Pupavac and
  • Ljudevit Krpan

2 April 2021

Since the Republic of Croatia is one of the most popular European and world tourist destinations, the aim of this paper is, from the user’s (n = 596) point of view, to research the importance of stationary traffic in tourist destinations. The purpose...

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  • Open Access
1,315 Views
22 Pages

Destination Evaluation Attributes for Tourists in Hotel and Non-Hotel Accommodation in Spain

  • Elena Sánchez-Vargas,
  • Sergio López-Salas,
  • Bárbara-Sofía Pasaco-González and
  • Ana Moreno-Lobato

27 October 2025

Accommodation constitutes a key element in the competitiveness of a destination. However, there is limited information on how overnight tourists evaluate the destination according to the type of accommodation. To date, Information and Communication T...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
17,408 Views
22 Pages

AI Impact on Hotel Guest Satisfaction via Tailor-Made Services: A Case Study of Serbia and Hungary

  • Ranko Makivić,
  • Dragan Vukolić,
  • Sonja Veljović,
  • Minja Bolesnikov,
  • Lóránt Dénes Dávid,
  • Andrea Ivanišević,
  • Mario Silić and
  • Tamara Gajić

4 November 2024

This study examines the level of implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the personalization of hotel services and its impact on guest satisfaction through an analysis of tourists’ attitudes and behaviors The focus of the research is...

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  • Open Access
240 Views
14 Pages

Occurrence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Tourist Swimming Pools in Andalusia, Spain

  • Antonio Doménech-Sánchez,
  • Àlex González-Alsina,
  • Margalida Mateu-Borrás and
  • Sebastián Albertí

10 January 2026

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a key indicator of hygienic and operational deficiencies in swimming pools, particularly in tourist facilities with high and variable user loads. This study reports the results of a four-year regulatory surveillance program...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,213 Views
21 Pages

9 February 2023

Currently, the hospitality industry is related to environmental issues, generating both positive and negative impacts for the earth. Tourists are interested in staying and spending money in hotels that care about the environment. Based on the previou...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,873 Views
13 Pages

25 August 2022

Despite the recognition of the correlation between the tourism industry and a town’s spatial morphology, there is a dearth of rigorous empirical specifications to examine it. This study uses geographic information system (GIS) tools and space s...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,312 Views
16 Pages

Medical Tourism in the Region of Crete, Greece: Perspectives from Healthcare Providers, Hotel Managers, and Medical Tourists

  • Dimitrios Batakis,
  • Symeon Sidiropoulos,
  • Alkinoos Emmanouil-Kalos,
  • Theodoros Fouskas,
  • Constantin Zopounidis and
  • Athanassios Vozikis

14 December 2023

Medical tourism is a rapidly growing sector, and could become a major driver of tourism in Greece. This research examines the status quo and the potential of medical tourism on the island of Crete, Greece. A cross-sectional study was conducted from J...

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  • Open Access
3,117 Views
16 Pages

This study examines how hotel characteristics and urban spatial context influence tourist satisfaction in Seoul, South Korea, by integrating sentiment analysis of online reviews with regression modeling. Drawing on 4500 TripAdvisor reviews from 75 ho...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,587 Views
26 Pages

16 June 2025

This study examines how Chinese tourists perceive the value of sustainable practices implemented in five-star hotels in Phuket, Thailand, through the lens of the perceived value theory and the service experience framework. While luxury hotels increas...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,591 Views
24 Pages

Reducing Carbon Emissions from the Tourist Accommodation Sector on Non-Interconnected Islands: A Case Study of a Medium-Sized Hotel in Rhodes, Greece

  • Martin Spiller,
  • Corinna Müller,
  • Zara Mulholland,
  • Paraskevi Louizidou,
  • Frithjof C. Küpper,
  • Kevin Knosala and
  • Peter Stenzel

21 May 2022

Reducing the carbon emissions from hotels on non-interconnected islands (NII) is essential in the context of a low carbon future for the Mediterranean region. Maritime tourism is the major source of income for Greece and many other countries in the r...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,280 Views
13 Pages

26 November 2019

The significance of green rural tourism for sustainable development is widely recognized. In addition, a number of researches attempt to explain the green choice among tourists. Hereby, different theoretical approaches are used. The dynamic approach...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,813 Views
10 Pages

Swimming Pool Regulations in the COVID-19 Era: Assessing Acceptability and Compliance in Greek Hotels in Two Consecutive Summer Touristic Periods

  • Kassiani Mellou,
  • Athina Mplougoura,
  • Georgia Mandilara,
  • Antonios Papadakis,
  • Dimosthenis Chochlakis,
  • Anna Psaroulaki and
  • Athena Mavridou

3 March 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has urged many countries to issue new regulations to assure safety in pool environments. Greece enforced stricter requirements in 2020 and 2021 for hotel pools. However, even though regulations are important, they can only be ef...

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  • Open Access
1,147 Views
22 Pages

It is necessary for the allocation of resources to be more efficient, and making more adequate operational strategies to realize productivity change is contributed to by the kind of output sources in the hotel’s production process. This study t...

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  • Open Access
2,044 Views
21 Pages

Circular Economy Framework for Plastic Waste Management: A Case Study from Coastal Hotels in Zanzibar

  • Aziza Abdulkadir,
  • Biubwa Ally,
  • Arne Remmen,
  • Stig Hirsbak and
  • Fredrick Salukele

18 November 2025

Tourism-driven growth in Zanzibar has intensified solid waste generation, creating critical environmental and resource management challenges for the hotel sector. This study provides the first comprehensive assessment of the volume, composition, and...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,849 Views
24 Pages

Change in the Structure of the Accommodation Capacity of the Czech Hotel Industry under Conditions of Economic Globalization

  • Lucie Severová,
  • Karel Šrédl,
  • Marie Prášilová,
  • Roman Svoboda,
  • Alexandr Soukup,
  • Marek Dvořák and
  • Jitka Prachařová

13 August 2021

As our research has shown, the number of foreign tourists visiting Czechia rose in the period between 2012 and 2017, as did hotel occupancy and accommodation prices. The growth of the local economy, the new airlines from Asia and the USA to Prague, a...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,993 Views
31 Pages

On the basis of analyzing the problems concerning hotel accommodation recommendation (HAR), this paper constructs a tourism HAR algorithm based on the CS-IDIANA clustering model (cellular space-improved divisive analysis). The algorithm integrates th...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,832 Views
14 Pages

Unveiling Island Tourism in Cape Verde through Online Reviews

  • Cristina Oliveira,
  • Paulo Rita and
  • Sérgio Moro

21 July 2021

This paper is focused on research addressing a large quantity of data extracted from online reviews written by tourists visiting islands. These were extracted from TripAdvisor regarding island tourist destinations since there is a gap in the scientif...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,308 Views
13 Pages

Holidays Abroad and the Eating Behavior of the Inhabitants of Poland

  • Anna Katarzyna Mazurek-Kusiak,
  • Agata Kobyłka,
  • Natalia Korcz and
  • Andrzej Soroka

A hotel is interested that the guest buys from it not only accommodation, but also catering services, preferably an all-inclusive option. However, many tourists choose only accommodation or accommodation with breakfast, and dinners and other things a...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,827 Views
15 Pages

A successful expansion and intensification of the links between tourism and horticulture is needed for tourism to contribute to economic diversification. Without inter-sectoral coordination and the cultivation of sustainable links between tourism dem...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,333 Views
12 Pages

17 March 2024

Sustainable practices are becoming increasingly important to tourists and hotel guests. As a result, destinations, hotels, and booking platforms are implementing eco-friendly practices and displaying sustainable badges to communicate their efforts to...

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  • Open Access
35 Citations
10,868 Views
15 Pages

Perspectives on Sustainable Tourism Development in the Hotel Industry—A Case Study from Southern Europe

  • Igor Trišić,
  • Snežana Štetić,
  • Donatella Privitera,
  • Marko D. Petrović,
  • Marija Maksin,
  • Slavoljub Vujović,
  • Zoran Jovanović and
  • Marija Kalinić

17 May 2021

Sustainable development is in many ways the fundamental basis of tourism. The importance and role of sustainable tourism development in the 21st century is at the center of this paper on eco-certificates and green procurement in the hotel industry, w...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,025 Views
15 Pages

The Potential of Albanian Tourism Sector

  • Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu and
  • Ferjolt Ozuni

1 April 2021

The aim is to develop a profile of Albania’s hotels based on a critical analysis of the attitude of foreign tourists visiting the country. COVID-19 negatively affected the Albanian tourism sector because 2,657,818 foreign citizens visited Albania in...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,296 Views
23 Pages

The Connection between Phuket’s Water Supply and the Hotel Sector’s Water Use for Assessment of Tourism Carrying Capacity

  • Thunyapat Sattraburut,
  • Kritana Prueksakorn,
  • Thanchanok Kitcharoen,
  • Teeraporn Amattayakul,
  • Papaporn Pinitsuwan and
  • Chitsanuphong Pratum

11 January 2024

For tourism development in areas where there are frequent problems with water shortage, it is important to assess water use potential from a geographic perspective. This study investigated the relationship between water use in the hotel sector and th...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,400 Views
12 Pages

Hotel Rooftops as a Space for Consumption in Historic Centres: The Case Study of Palma (Spain)

  • Pere Mercadé-Melé,
  • Fernando Almeida-García,
  • Aitor Martinez-Garcia and
  • Miquel Angel Coll-Ramis

10 March 2023

This research analysed the transformation of hotel rooftops in the historic centre of Palma into new spaces for tourist consumption. Nowadays, tourists are looking for unique and special experiences, which has led tourist destinations to seek new att...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,892 Views
24 Pages

The Impact of the Environmental Quality of Online Feedback and Satisfaction When Exploring the Critical Factors for Luxury Hotels

  • Miguel Ángel Ríos-Martín,
  • José Antonio Folgado-Fernández,
  • Pedro R. Palos-Sánchez and
  • Paula Castejón-Jiménez

30 December 2019

The tourism sector is undergoing many very significant changes. In addition to adapting to an interactive society, the use of quality must be incorporated as a competitive strategy. It also has the challenge of promoting excellence. The Internet is a...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,699 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2018

This article aims to analyze the civil construction projects of the hotel industry in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through statistical modeling, regarding the issue of accessibility. The key point of the study was to diagnose ho...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,756 Views
15 Pages

Digital Communication and the Crisis Management in Hotel Management: A Perspective in the Euroregion North of Portugal and Galicia (ERNPG)

  • Diana Cardoso,
  • Bruno Sousa,
  • Dália Liberato,
  • Pedro Liberato,
  • Eunice Lopes,
  • Francisco Gonçalves and
  • Victor Figueira

21 August 2023

The current unprecedented globalization of the social economy, with worldwide mobility of people, products and services in an increasingly connected market and society, has promoted the rapid geographic spread of the coronavirus (i.e., crisis managem...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,364 Views
17 Pages

Examination of Individual Preferences for Green Hotels in Crete

  • Alexandros Apostolakis,
  • Shabbar Jaffry and
  • Markos Kourgiantakis

9 October 2020

The hospitality sector is experiencing a massive transformation currently. Hotels are currently receiving considerable criticism over their practices concerning energy, environmental, as well as resource management. As a result, managerial practices...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,256 Views
15 Pages

26 June 2023

Due to increasing concern about climate change and its impact on the tourism sector, it is vital to understand tourists’ decision-making process in relation to staying in green accommodations. Many factors influence tourists’ decision-mak...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,036 Views
18 Pages

28 March 2022

The present study aims to investigate the determinants of luxury hotel choice, while also analyzing hotels’ ability to promote their related destination. The relationship between Destination Brand Love, and the antecedent factors which determin...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,280 Views
12 Pages

Accessibility in Inclusive Tourism? Hotels Distributed through Online Channels

  • Eva Martin-Fuentes,
  • Sara Mostafa-Shaalan and
  • Juan Pedro Mellinas

12 April 2021

There is a lack of comprehensive international studies on accommodations for people with disabilities; only small, local-level studies exist. This study aims to show the status of the tourist accommodation sector through the online distribution chann...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,724 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2023

The study investigates the connections between tourists‘ hotel preferences and distance from resort expressed in meters, distance from ski lift expressed in meters, booking score, number of reviews, room type, feature of free cancellation, pric...

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  • Open Access
1,074 Views
19 Pages

19 September 2025

This study investigates the behavioral determinants of tourists’ selection of ESG-certified hotels by applying association rule mining to 895,962 valid records derived from datasets of the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Environm...

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