<title>ABSTRACT</title> Many universities, two-year colleges, and graduate schools in Korea strive to increase the number of hospitality and tourism programs to accommodate the explosive popularity of the hospitality and tourism management field. This study aims to identify reasons why students in Korea at...

Understanding association members' evaluations of site attributes helps prospective meeting destinations to target associations and thus improve their chances of acceptance. Further, associations may need their members' insights into which attributes are more or less important, so they can...

We study asymptotic properties of location estimators based on the projection depth. A rigorous proof of the limiting distribution of projection median is provided using the result of Bai and He (Ann. Statist. 27 (1999) 1616) under a general setting. The rates of convergence of the trimmed mean...

This article describes the development of a consumption emotion scale for use in the full-service restaurant industry. The current emotion measures utilized in consumer and marketing research are reviewed, along with the conceptualization of consumption emotions. The adequacy of employing a...