Businesses constantly strive to provide added value and brand equity to gain a competitive advantage, particularly in the contemporary hospitality industry. It is widely accepted that a luxury experience brand enhances the value of a luxury resort hotels industry. Since the 1980s, the concept of...

The current research adds to the employee branding literature by building a conceptual framework to identify key employee branding dimensions in the context of the Indian hospitality industry that has been overlooked by the previous literature. A survey-based approach is employed on a sample of...

This study relies on the social identity perspective to explore the relationships between the consumer-brand identification (CBI) construct and the customers' satisfaction, commitment, trust and loyalty toward hospitality brands. The methodology included a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) that...

Given that previous studies have supported the idea that brand storytelling has a significant impact on consumer behaviour, brand stories are increasingly becoming a part of companies' marketing communications tools. The present study investigates the effect of nostalgic corporate storytelling...

Purpose: The concept of cultural branding based on various narratives has been established in the marketing literature, but there is a lack of studies linking this concept with brand-related effects. The aim of this paper is to explore and explain the possible relationships between various brand...

This paper aims to conceptualise consumer's luxury brand attachment by developing and validating a psychometric scale through 5 studies. Study 1 generates and selects potential scale items through literature review, thesaurus search and expert surveys. Study 2 reduces the items and assesses the...

Abstract –India is home to some of the richest men in the world, with the fastest growing high net worth individuals (HNIs) in the Asia-Pacific region, the Indian luxury market is the beacon of the future. Numbers of international brands are vying to design, develop and deliver the high-end...