Purpose: Following Airbnb’s recent turn to the luxury market, this paper aims to explore how Airbnb hosts construct meanings of luxury as enacted in their hosting practices. Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured interviews with 46 Airbnb hosts were undertaken using purposing sampling....

"This book provides an overview of the history and evolution of tourism to the present, and speculates on possible and probable change into the future. It uses several practitioner-linked, real-life examples and case studies derived from all aspects of the tourism, travel and events industries."

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights concerning the use of ethnographic techniques to explore the antecedents of tourist satisfaction; otherwise referred to as the needs and expectations which precede tourist satisfaction. By revealing the relevance of both needs and expectations in...

Purpose: This study aims to provide a theoretical account of the nexus of religion and entrepreneurship in hospitality and tourism (H&T) by considering the influences of religion on entrepreneurial motivation, acquisition of resources for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behaviour....