The Indian stock market recovered from the COVID-19 shocks as the NIFTY50 soared its peak on 09 November 2020. However, we evidence that the average return of the tourism sector was still lagging behind by approximately 33 percent. Using the event study methodology, we find that the post-event...

Tourist taxes represent one of the principal sources of revenue for a number of local authorities. Using a dataset of more than 300 thousands reviews on TripAdvisor, we analyze the effect of tourist taxes on online ratings posted by hotel costumers. Online ratings are strategic variables for the...

The study provides insights into how tourism can be managed to improve financial access in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments. To make this assessment, inequality dynamics (i.e. the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index and Palma ratio) are...

While previous research investigated the effects of online consumer reviews on purchase behaviors, currently, there is still a lack of knowledge on the impact of the reviews' credibility, content quality and information usefulness on the customers’ satisfaction levels with them. Data were...

I congratulate my colleagues, Adina Letiția Negrușa and Monica Maria Coroș for planning, organizing and leading their International Conference – Modern Trends in Business, Hospitality, and Tourism that was recently held at the Faculty of Business in Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca,...

We develop a six-factor ranking of U.S. state high points. While this index is significantly associated with fewer ascents, only one of the six factors drives that result. Technical difficulty is the only measure of high point difficulty that significantly discourages summits. Climbers seem...

This paper investigates the effect of natural disasters on tourism expenditure. We exploit the natural experiment of the recent volcanic eruption in La Palma (2021), an island in the archipelago of Canary Islands (Spain), to analyze the effect of the volcanic eruption on both aggregate...

We undertake a systematic literature review that looks at the economic effects of tourism at sub-national levels. This review, the first of its kind to our knowledge, is timely in view of the growing body of research investigating the economic impact of tourism at sub-national levels. Moreover,...

This paper presents a model of a dislocated restaurant created based on dislocated hotels in Italy. This paper aims to provide an innovative solution for new initiatives in the food and beverage industry experiencing great losses due to the Covid 19 epidemic. The study uses an existing hotel...

This research is focused on the utilization of artificially intelligent (AI), customer service chatbots in travel, tourism and hospitality. Rigorous criteria were used to search, screen, extract and synthesize articles on conversational, automated systems. The results shed light on the...