Background: Active travel behavior such as walking and cycling is associated with several health benefits. Especially the family environment seems to be important for active travel in children and adolescents. Currently, little is known regarding travel behavior in leisure time and associations of...

São Paulo is the financial center of Brazil, with a population of over 12 million, that receives travelers from all over the world for business and tourism. It was the first city in Brazil to report a case of COVID-19 that rapidly spread across the city despite the implementation of the restriction ...

The Asian lineage of Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito-borne pathogen originally from Africa, caused an epidemic into Brazil in 2015 and subsequently spread throughout the Americas. Local transmission in the U.S. is a public health concern, especially for Florida where the mosquito vectors Aedes...

Cardiovascular (CV) involvement after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) infection was found to be frequent among the general population, especially in the pre-vaccination era, and particularly for hospitalized patients or those who experienced a more severe course of the...

The potential privacy issues associated with artificial intelligence (AI) in service delivery require careful attention but remain understudied. Through the lens of the watching-eye effect, this research examines the impact of AI on customers' uneasiness through the mediation of privacy concerns....

The power of pet influencers has been increasingly recognized by hospitality and tourism practitioners as more people choose to travel with their pets these days. Pet influencers are social media influencers whose primary focus is on pets. An effective social media post by pet influencers can...

Research on customer mistreatment has focused on victims' perspectives with scant research on third-party observers' reactions, especially their reactions to customer mistreatment of supervisors. Drawing on the deontic justice theory, this research investigates how and when customer mistreatment of ...

This research investigated hospitality consumers' relative preferences for utilitarian or hedonic value under COVID-19 pandemic conditions. A series of four experiments and one secondary data analysis showed that the salience of the infectious disease threat increased consumers' preferences for...

Existing research in hospitality literature has studied hospitality vis-à-vis the host-guest spectrum, focusing on either the practice of hospitality in different service encounters or hospitality outcomes such as customer expectations and satisfaction. While existing studies are predicated on the...

Although extant literature on online reviews in the hospitality industry has adequately covered the area of helpfulness, trustworthiness, and quality of online reviews, the trustworthiness of the reviewer has remained largely ignored. In particular, the antecedents of the reviewer's trustworthiness ...