This study examines the role of dining in local ethnic restaurants as a push factor in motivating people to visit the cuisine's country of origin. A study was conducted on Hong Kong residents who ate at a local Korean restaurants. The study found that dining in restaurants stimulated a desire to...

This article presents an overview of the future of tourism journals. It is indicated that the future is unsure, but it is likely that journals will remain the key outlet for authors' works.

Communities are faced with the conundrum of what to do with obsolete industrial buildings. Revitalization through adaptive reuse is seen as one option, with many buildings being converted to hotels. This paper analyses the policy by the Hong Kong government to encourage adaptive reuse of...

This research note tests the proposition empirically that destinations have multiple lifecycles. It studies tourist arrivals to over 200 destination countries and economies over a 35 year period and applies Butler's parameters to map their lifecycles. Six different lifecycle patterns were...

Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the evolution of the cultural tourism market and what its future may be. Design/methodology/approach: Instead of seeing the cultural tourism market as homogeneous, a segmentation model was developed based on the centrality of culture in the overall decision to...

People's motivation to travel has long been discussed on a multidisciplinary basis characterized by three distinct motivation paradigms, namely, Plog's (1974) "travel personality," P. L. Pearce's (1988) "travel career ladder," and Cohen's (1972) concept of "strangeness-familiarity." This study...

This article explores the previously unexamined assumption that the cultural profile of international tourists traveling to different destinations mirrors that of the overall population of a nation. Most studies adopt a cross-sectional destination approach, comparing and contrasting visitors from...

A number of frameworks have been developed examining destination competitiveness. While most recognise the roles crises can play, specific issues related to crisis and crisis management have not been fully explored yet. It is believed that crisis-related issues will gain more prominence in...

The career prospects of tourism and hospitality academics have changed radically in the past 40 years, and this study examines how senior researchers, mid-career academics, and new and emerging scholars are negotiating the rapidly changing research, publishing, and ultimately career progression...

This paper examines how travel between China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is a function of the constitutional arrangement negotiated between China and Britain, leading up to the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. The Joint Sino-British Agreement allowed 'Hong...