With the government owning all land in Hong Kong, public land sales have been an important channel for developers to acquire land for property development, apart from private-led urban regeneration. For the colonial time before 1997, land was supplied to the market via a supply-oriented model,...

The scholarly literature in retail proposes various shopper typologies. However, the global retail environment, especially in the United States, is undergoing a metamorphosis. Against the backdrop of changing retail technologies, the onset of ‘de-malling’ trends calls for a re-examination of...

While almost all travel destinations seek to increase tourists, less attention is paid to balancing the growth in tourists against consequent visitor–resident irritants, which is essential if the objective is to make tourism more sustainable. Overlooking the carrying capacity of a destination...

Purpose – Omni-channel marketing in the retail environment involves the integration of multi-channel marketing activities to provide a unified and holistic shopping experience to customers. The purpose of this paper is to understand the impact of omni-channel marketing in the retail...

Conventional wisdom suggests that non-local buyers usually pay a premium for home purchases. While the standard contract theory predicts that non-local buyers may pay such a price premium because of the higher cost of gathering information, behavioral economists argue that the premium is due to...