discussion on tourism as a multi-cultural industry. Findings This paper offers a new sociological framework. Practical …

participants on how tourism will impact people and planet and so provide answers to the strategic question defined for this global … significant ideas and proposals and how they may contribute to knowledge and/or professional practice. Findings As the tourism … industry prepares to reach new records, there is a clear need to rethink tourism in the post COVID-19 era. The option of …

/methodology/approach Questionnaire data were collected from 220 senior tourism business members in Iran. Findings The results show that an individual … opportunity recognition. Because the data were limited to tourism industry, future studies need to validate these findings in … recognition ability, it is critical for tourism businesses to invest in developing and enhancing individual ability. Originality …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the tourism life cycle of Langkawi Island, Malaysia. The paper seeks …. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts Butler’s Tourism Area Life Cycle model as the research framework to describe … the characteristics of each stage of the island’s tourism life cycle and determine the time scale of the stages. The …

. Originality/value – Malaysia is an emerging market for tourism industry and the information obtained from the travellers can be … Western travellers during their stay in hotels in Malaysia. The paper also seeks to analyse the importance of the tangible and … taken only from travellers who are leaving Malaysia by plane. Future research can be carried out on the travellers arriving …

The recent development of the visitor market in Malaysia has brought to light an increasingly urgent need to supply …

hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – The dataset for this paper is a compilation of hotel reviews …

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine service quality dimensions and their impact on a rural tourism …, Malaysia. It attempts to add to the scant research and to bridge the gap between service quality and tourists' satisfaction in …

, unemployment and crime rates in Malaysia. This study covered the annual data from 1970 to 2008. Design/methodology/approach – The … arrivals are positively related to crime rates in Malaysia. For Granger causality, in the long‐run tourist arrivals, inflation … and unemployment rates Granger cause crime rate in Malaysia. However, in the short run we find bilateral causality between …

Purpose – The development of tourism and the hospitality industry has facilitated the proliferation of many small and … medium accommodation businesses in this region. These usually depend on the attractiveness of tourism products offered in … in three urban cities and islands in East Peninsular Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – Mixed‐method research was …