• Application of machine learning to predict visitors’ green behavior in marine protected areas: evidence from Cyprus 

      Rezapouraghdam, Hamed; Akhshik, Arash; Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-10)
      Interpretive marine turtle tours in Cyprus yields an alluring ground to unfold the complex nature of pro-environmental behavior among travelers in nature-based destinations. Framing on Collins (2004) interaction ritual concept and the complexity theory, the current study proposes a configurational model and probes the interactional effect of visitors’ memorable experiences with environmental ...
    • Beauty and Elegance: Value Co-Creation in Cosmetic Surgery Tourism 

      Majeed, Salman; Zhou, Zhimin; Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-16)
      This study presents an emerging trend in medical tourism, cosmetic surgery tourism (CST). We explore tourists’ perceptions of CST for medical service quality as an antecedent to tourists’ emotional attachment, trust, and intentions to visit, which is underexplored in CST. This study examines the mediating role of value co-creation in influencing behaviors of CST-seeking tourists to experience a ...
    • Corporate social responsibility at lux* Resorts and hotels: Satisfaction and loyalty implications for employee and customer social responsibility 

      Ramkissoon, Haywantee; Mavondo, Felix; Sowamber, Vishnee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-22)
      Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) remains a hot topic in management. Yet, little is known about how well managers, employees and consumers are responding to CSR initiatives to align with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Underpinned by well-established theories, this study develops a single integrative model of managers’, employees’ and consumers’ CSR. Data were collected from the ...
    • COVID-19 Adaptive Interventions: Implications for Wellbeing and Quality-of-Life 

      Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-17)
      Social bonds may assist in cultivating a more positive attitude to life through commonly shared meanings about the COVID-19 pandemic. The key challenge, however, is how to foster social bonds meeting the changing demands in a post pandemic world. Yet, it is in the middle of a crisis that the conversation needs to start about how to strategically plan for the recovery. This is important not only in ...
    • COVID-19 Place Confinement, Pro-Social, Pro-environmental Behaviors, and Residents’ Wellbeing: A New Conceptual Framework 

      Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-01)
      Residents’ wellbeing in the present COVID-19 global health crisis requires a deeper understanding to determine appropriate management strategies to promote sustainable behaviors and contribute to human and planetary health. Residents’ behavior can have a profound influence in contributing to personal and global community’s health by responding effectively to emergency strategies in disease outbreaks ...
    • Distributed Leadership in DMOs: A Review of the Literature and Directions for Future Research 

      Naumov, Nikola; Ramkissoon, Haywantee; Hristov, Dean (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-20)
      Amidst key emergent challenges for Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) and destinations triggered by changes in the funding and governance landscape for tourism on a global scale, Distributed Leadership (DL) has emerged as a promising concept to provide a collaborative framework for channelling resources and leadership to cope with such changes. Current evidence from academic literature ...
    • Employing a value-belief-norm framework to gauge Carthage residents’ intentions to support sustainable cultural heritage tourism 

      Megeirhi, Huda A.; Woosnam, Kyle Maurice; Ribeiro, Manuel Alector; Ramkissoon, Haywantee; Denley, Tara J. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-16)
      In light of the recent conflicts in Carthage over land use, cultural heritage preservation, and sustainable tourism, this work utilized a value-belief-norm (VBN) theoretical framework to consider psychological antecedents of residents’ behavioral intentions to support cultural heritage tourism. As such, personal values, cultural worldview, awareness of consequences, ascription of responsibility, and ...
    • Face consciousness, personal norms, and environmentally responsible behavior of Chinese tourists: Evidence from a lake tourism site 

      Wu, Jianxing; Wu, Homer C.; Hsieh, Chi-Ming; Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-03)
      This study explores the role of face consciousness in tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior (ERB). It expands the norm activation theory, integrates the concept of face consciousness and examines how personal norms (PN) on environmentally responsible behavior is moderated by face consciousness. Data was collected from 415 mainland Chinese tourists in West Lake, China. Structural equation ...
    • Green purchase and sustainable consumption: A comparative study between European and non-European tourists 

      Nekmahmud, Md.; Ramkissoon, Haywantee; Fekete-Farkas, Maria (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-22)
      This research aims to investigate tourists' sustainable consumption values and choice behaviour regarding green products in Europe by integrating the Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and consumption values (TCV). This study also compares the decisions of European and non-European tourists to purchase green products and services while travelling in some selected European cities. A total number of ...
    • Memorable tourism experiences and critical outcomes among nature-based visitors: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach 

      Akhshik, Arash; Rezapouraghdam, Hamed; Ozturen, Ali; Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-11)
      Intense global competition for natural resources, manifesting in negative environmental externalities, has forced hospitality and tourism stakeholders to adopt strategies that may result in economic growth in tandem with environmental conservation. One such strategy is to cultivate travellers’ loyalty to the tourism destinations and encourage them to participate in environmentally friendly ...
    • Online Tourism Information and Tourist Behavior: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis Based on a Self-Administered Survey 

      Majeed, Salman; Zhou, Zhimin; Lu, Changbao; Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-21)
      This study presents the interacting phenomena of perceptions of tourist destination online content (TDOC) and tourists’ behavioral intentions with a mediating role of tourists’ satisfaction, which is as yet under-explored in hospitality and tourism research. A model based on three main constructs, namely TDOC (with sub-constructs of online information quality and user-friendly accessibility), ...
    • Perceived social impacts of tourism and quality-of-life: a new conceptual model 

      Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-23)
      Residents’ overall well-being and quality-of-life require a deeper understanding of their perceived social impacts of tourism to determine appropriate management strategies to promote behaviours in support of tourism development. Aligning with the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, this paper proposes a new framework for residents’ quality-of-life. Bringing together multi-disciplinary evidence ...
    • Place Affect Interventions During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic 

      Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-14)
      The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has also brought a rise in people being unable to cope with their existing medical conditions and other issues such as domestic violence, drugs, and alcohol among others. Suicidal tendencies have been on the rise. Feelings of isolation causing emotional distress in place-confined settings have put additional pressure on the healthcare systems demanding ...
    • Social bonding and public trust/distrust in covid-19 vaccines 

      Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-14)
      COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has been a growing concern. The pandemic has proved to be very complicated with the mutated virus. The Delta variant is contributing to a surge of cases across the globe. Vaccine hesitancy can be socially contagious, requiring more stringent efforts from policy makers and health professionals in promoting vaccine uptake. Some evidence shows that vaccine acceptance ...
    • Social customer relationship management: a customer perspective 

      Dewnarain, Senika; Ramkissoon, Haywantee; Mavondo, Felix (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-13)
      While the construct customer brand engagement is gaining magnitude in hospitality studies, this study establishes positive word of mouth and brand loyalty as relevant outcomes of customer brand engagement. It proposes and empirically tests a model which is underpinned by social customer relationship management theory. By means of survey questionnaires, data was obtained from 373 customers from hotels, ...
    • Sustainable practices in hospitality pre and amid COVID-19 pandemic: Looking back for moving forward post-COVID-19 

      Elkhwesky, Zakaria; Salem, Islam Elbayoumi; Varmus, Michal; Ramkissoon, Haywantee (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-15)
      Sustainability issues are becoming increasingly important in the hospitality sector during crisis times such as COVID-19 and post-pandemic. In order to synthesize the literature on sustainable practices in hospitality, we developed a systematic literature to illustrate the dominant sustainable practices in hospitality. We present a comprehensive review of the 48 articles on sustainable practices in ...
    • A systematic and critical review of leadership styles in contemporary hospitality: a roadmap and a call for future research 

      Elkhwesky, Zakaria; Salem, Islam Elbayoumi; Ramkissoon, Haywantee; Castañeda-García, José-Alberto (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-02)
      Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of leadership styles in the hospitality industry. It also demonstrates theories used in hospitality leadership styles research, identifies the main outcomes and highlights gaps for future research.<p> <p>Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a comprehensive review of the 79 articles on leadership styles in the hospitality ...
    • Yoga travellers’ experiences in guided tours: a multiple case study approach 

      Atsız, Ozan; Ramkissoon, Haywantee; Öğretmenoğlu, Mert (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-02)
      This study investigates yoga travellers’ experiences in guided tours organized by the renowned online travel platform, Tripaneer. Travellers’ online narratives (N = 880) regarding three main yoga destinations were collected and examined through content analysis. Six main components were revealed: yoga facilities and services, a sense of awe, the overall benefits of yoga, a memorable experience, ...