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Sustainability of Leisure Tourism Events from a Destination Social Responsibility Perspective: Do Attribution Theory Dimensions Matter?

by Zakya E. Y. Maki, Thowayeb H. Hassan, Mohamed Y. Helal and Mahmoud I. Saleh

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(6), 4847; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064847 - 9 Mar 2023

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Although Destination Sustainable Responsibility (DSR) has become a critical factor in upholding tourists’ satisfaction and positive behavioral outcomes, research on how tourists perceive different attributional dimensions (e.g., controllability, stability) about the existing information adequacy on tourists’ behavior is limited. Additionally, no study has [...] Read more.

Although Destination Sustainable Responsibility (DSR) has become a critical factor in upholding tourists’ satisfaction and positive behavioral outcomes, research on how tourists perceive different attributional dimensions (e.g., controllability, stability) about the existing information adequacy on tourists’ behavior is limited. Additionally, no study has investigated how DSR influences leisure tourists’ satisfaction across various characteristics. Therefore, the current research has the novelty of examining the effects of Destination Sustainable Responsibility (DSR) on leisure tourists’ satisfaction. The study reveals two attribution theory dimensions, controllability, and stability, as mediators and information adequacy as a moderated mediation. Additionally, the study investigates how tourists’ personalities (extroverted, conscientious, neurotic, open, and agreeable) affect their perceptions of attribution dimensions. A quantitative analysis of 464 tourists who experienced leisure activities in sustainability resorts in the Red Sea was conducted to explore these relationships. The results provide a better understanding of how DSR affects leisure tourists’ satisfaction and how different personalities influence their perceptions. Our research findings demonstrate that tourists’ perceptions of destination sustainability initiatives (DSR) are contingent upon the controllability and stability of events and that extraverted and conscientious tourists reach different attributions on DSR than those with neuroticism and openness levels and agreeableness. Additionally, it appears that information adequacy concerning the controllability of events is privileged over the event’s stability about informant amount with DSR. We explore the implications of our conclusions from both theoretical and management perspectives. Full article

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Café Food Safety and Its Impacts on Intention to Reuse and Switch Cafés during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Starbucks

by Yunho Ji, Won Seok Lee and Joonho Moon

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2625; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032625 - 1 Feb 2023

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We explored the definition of food safety in the coffee service business during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic because consumer values and decision-making may have been affected by the pandemic. The food safety dimensions are freshness, quarantine, hygiene, and healthiness. We evaluated [...] Read more.

We explored the definition of food safety in the coffee service business during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic because consumer values and decision-making may have been affected by the pandemic. The food safety dimensions are freshness, quarantine, hygiene, and healthiness. We evaluated the effects of café food safety on both the consumer intention to revisit a café and their intention to switch to other cafés. We used the Amazon Mechanical Turk system for data collection. In total, 474 individuals responded to the survey questions. We used the statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) ver. 20.0 and the analysis of moment structure (AMOS) ver. 21.0. We subjected the definition of café food safety to confirmatory factor analysis and then used structural equations to test the research hypotheses. The four dimensions adequately defined food safety. The results indicated that food safety positively influenced the intention to revisit, although it had no significant impact on the intention to switch cafés. Our findings will assist managers because we identify the implications of food safety for the coffee service business. Full article

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Emotion Recognition from Large-Scale Video Clips with Cross-Attention and Hybrid Feature Weighting Neural Networks

by Siwei Zhou, Xuemei Wu, Fan Jiang, Qionghao Huang and Changqin Huang

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 1400; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021400 - 12 Jan 2023

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The emotion of humans is an important indicator or reflection of their mental states, e.g., satisfaction or stress, and recognizing or detecting emotion from different media is essential to perform sequence analysis or for certain applications, e.g., mental health assessments, job stress level [...] Read more.

The emotion of humans is an important indicator or reflection of their mental states, e.g., satisfaction or stress, and recognizing or detecting emotion from different media is essential to perform sequence analysis or for certain applications, e.g., mental health assessments, job stress level estimation, and tourist satisfaction assessments. Emotion recognition based on computer vision techniques, as an important method of detecting emotion from visual media (e.g., images or videos) of human behaviors with the use of plentiful emotional cues, has been extensively investigated because of its significant applications. However, most existing models neglect inter-feature interaction and use simple concatenation for feature fusion, failing to capture the crucial complementary gains between face and context information in video clips, which is significant in addressing the problems of emotion confusion and emotion misunderstanding. Accordingly, in this paper, to fully exploit the complementary information between face and context features, we present a novel cross-attention and hybrid feature weighting network to achieve accurate emotion recognition from large-scale video clips, and the proposed model consists of a dual-branch encoding (DBE) network, a hierarchical-attention encoding (HAE) network, and a deep fusion (DF) block. Specifically, the face and context encoding blocks in the DBE network generate the respective shallow features. After this, the HAE network uses the cross-attention (CA) block to investigate and capture the complementarity between facial expression features and their contexts via a cross-channel attention operation. The element recalibration (ER) block is introduced to revise the feature map of each channel by embedding global information. Moreover, the adaptive-attention (AA) block in the HAE network is developed to infer the optimal feature fusion weights and obtain the adaptive emotion features via a hybrid feature weighting operation. Finally, the DF block integrates these adaptive emotion features to predict an individual emotional state. Extensive experimental results of the CAER-S dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, exhibiting its potential in the analysis of tourist reviews with video clips, estimation of job stress levels with visual emotional evidence, or assessments of mental healthiness with visual media. Full article

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Travelers’ Subjective Well-Being as an Environmental Practice: Do Airport Buildings’ Eco-Design, Brand Engagement, and Brand Experience Matter?

by Aly H. Abdel-Gayed, Thowayeb H. Hassan, Ahmed Hassan Abdou, Mostafa A. Abdelmoaty, Mahmoud I. Saleh and Amany E. Salem

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 938; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20020938 - 4 Jan 2023

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The physical environment of airports plays a crucial role in improving travelers’ perceptions and well-being. Adopting a green physical environment may elicit customers’ cognitive and emotional responses and provide a convenient consumption environment. Brand experience and engagement are other important consumer–firm interactions that [...] Read more.

The physical environment of airports plays a crucial role in improving travelers’ perceptions and well-being. Adopting a green physical environment may elicit customers’ cognitive and emotional responses and provide a convenient consumption environment. Brand experience and engagement are other important consumer–firm interactions that influence the attributes of the passengers’ well-being. The current study sought to assess the impact of the eco-design of buildings, brand experience and engagement on the well-being of travelers at an international airport in Saudi Arabia. Additionally, the current study investigated the possible effects of eco-design on airport experience and engagement. The results of the structural equation modeling analysis revealed that the eco-design of airport buildings was independently associated with passengers’ well-being and brand engagement, but not with brand experience. Additionally, well-being was significantly predicted by brand engagement and experience. Airport managers are advised to adopt an internal eco-design to help promote passengers’ connection with the brand and improve their well-being, which would eventually be reflected in their behavioral attributes and decision-making. Full article

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Decision-Making in Virtual Reality Sports Games Explained via the Lens of Extended Planned Behavior Theory

by Bo-Hyun Seong and Chang-Yu Hong

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 592; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010592 - 29 Dec 2022

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This study aims to determine whether the effect of interactivity on participation in virtual sports has risen because of the COVID-19 pandemic and if there is a difference in decision-making. The significance of social factors may be highlighted even more as a rationale [...] Read more.

This study aims to determine whether the effect of interactivity on participation in virtual sports has risen because of the COVID-19 pandemic and if there is a difference in decision-making. The significance of social factors may be highlighted even more as a rationale for using virtual reality (VR) sports apps throughout the prolonged COVID-19 epidemic. A model was built based on the literature to describe the intention to participate in VR sports, and eight associated hypotheses were established. A sample of 301 submissions from a user poll on Korea’s cycling information sharing website was used for our analysis. SPSS 23.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) and AMOS 18.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) were used to validate Hypotheses 1–8 using a multigroup structural equation model (SEM) analysis and multigroup analysis. Although some hypotheses were not validated, the impact of perceived interaction presented as an extra variable altered based on the group participating before and after the COVID-19 epidemic, and the study’s goal was achieved. Given that information technology has evolved by overcoming physical space and socio-cultural constraints to create a society that connects people, the importance of online interaction, such as networking and competition between users, will be emphasized in the VR sports field in the future. Full article

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The Effect of Airbnb Users’ Regret on Dissatisfaction and Negative Behavioral Intention

by Seunghwan Lee, Min Jung Kim and Dae-Young Kim

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010002 - 20 Dec 2022

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As the most successful platform for peer-based accommodation sharing, Airbnb has transformed the lodging industry into something much more affordable and accessible for travelers on a budget. Compared to a hotel stay, however, its variability of facility and service has created guests’ negative [...] Read more.

As the most successful platform for peer-based accommodation sharing, Airbnb has transformed the lodging industry into something much more affordable and accessible for travelers on a budget. Compared to a hotel stay, however, its variability of facility and service has created guests’ negative emotions such as regret and dissatisfaction. These emotions may cause stress, which negatively affect mental health. Therefore, we explore the factors that influence Airbnb guests’ regret, and investigate the relationship between their regret, dissatisfaction, and negative behavioral intention. Structural equation model is utilized on a total of 456 U.S. consumers to examine the relationship among Airbnb users’ responses. The findings indicate that price perception influences regret and dissatisfaction the most. The study also reveals that regret has a positive correlation with dissatisfaction, while does not have an influence on switching intention and negative word of mouth. Based on the result, theoretical and managerial implications are discussed. Full article

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Energy-Related Pro-Environmental Behaviour of Employees in Hospitality Industry

by Huan Zhang, Khaoula Omhand, Huaizheng Li, Aqeel Ahmad, Sarminah Samad, Darie Gavrilut and Daniel Badulescu

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(23), 16141; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316141 - 2 Dec 2022

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Tourism and hospitality are at a crossroads. The growth and developmental potential of these industries indicate the economic benefits for an associated nation at one end. However, the environmental issues related to tourism and hospitality create challenges for the administration at another end. [...] Read more.

Tourism and hospitality are at a crossroads. The growth and developmental potential of these industries indicate the economic benefits for an associated nation at one end. However, the environmental issues related to tourism and hospitality create challenges for the administration at another end. In most cases, a sheer amount of carbon emission in hospitality lies with energy consumption, especially electrical energy. However, past studies on environmental management have mainly focused on the supply side of energy (production) and left the terrain of the demand side (consumption by individuals) unattended. Recently, behavioral scientists have indicated that corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions of a firm can promote sustainable behavior among individuals, including employees. We tend to spark this discussion from an energy consumption perspective by investigating the relationship between CSR and energy-related pro-environmental behavior of employees (EPB) in the hospitality sector of a developing country (Pakistan). To understand the underlying mechanism of this relationship, this study proposes the mediating role of green intrinsic motivation (GIM) and the moderating role of human emotions, e.g., employee admiration (ADM). We developed a theoretical model for which the data were gathered from different hotel employees with the help of a questionnaire. We used structural equation modeling for hypotheses testing. The empirical evidence indicated that CSR significantly predicts EPB, and there is a mediating role of GIM. The study also confirmed that ADM moderates this relationship. The findings of this study will be helpful for hotel administration to understand the profound importance of CSR-based actions to promote energy-related sustainable behavior among employees, e.g., EPB. Other implications for theory and practice have been highlighted in the main text of this draft. Full article

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Holidays Abroad and the Eating Behavior of the Inhabitants of Poland

by Anna Katarzyna Mazurek-Kusiak, Agata Kobyłka, Natalia Korcz and Andrzej Soroka

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(23), 15439; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315439 - 22 Nov 2022

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A hotel is interested that the guest buys from it not only accommodation, but also catering services, preferably an all-inclusive option. However, many tourists choose only accommodation or accommodation with breakfast, and dinners and other things are purchased outside the place of accommodation. [...] Read more.

A hotel is interested that the guest buys from it not only accommodation, but also catering services, preferably an all-inclusive option. However, many tourists choose only accommodation or accommodation with breakfast, and dinners and other things are purchased outside the place of accommodation. Therefore, it is important to know the eating behavior of tourists, and what hotels must do to make guests want to use food services at the place of accommodation. The purpose of this article is to show the reasons for not buying full meals at hotels during vacations by the inhabitants of Poland. The study used the diagnostic survey method with the help of the direct survey technique. A proprietary survey questionnaire was developed. The direct survey was conducted among 3071 tourists across the country. The study was conducted in 2019–2020. For data analysis, a discriminant function was chosen to examine the differences between groups based on a set of selected independent variables. When buying tourist holidays in travel agencies, 32.40% of Poles bought the all-inclusive option, 33.15% bought breakfast and dinner, 12.47% bought breakfast only, while 21.98%, bought accommodation without any food. For tourists who did not buy any meals at the hotel, the most important factors for eating out were mainly unwillingness to adapt to the hours of serving meals at the place of accommodation, and the desire to control the quality of raw materials needed for preparation of individual dishes. Among hotel guests who only had breakfast at the hotel, the main reasons for eating lunch and dinner outside of the hotel were the desire to try local dishes in regional restaurants, to get to know different restaurants, and to eat meals made entirely of ecological materials. A big barrier to buying meals in a hotel was the lack of offering dietetic dishes or their too high price. Older people dined out because of the lack of dietary dishes or their too high price and because they look for restaurants that serve meals prepared from ecological ingredients. Younger people, on the other hand, did not dine at the hotel because they did not want the hours of serving meals at the hotel to limit their sightseeing in the city and surroundings. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satisfaction, Stress, and Mental Health in the Tourism/Hospitality Industry)

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NAM and TPB Approach to Consumers’ Decision-Making Framework in the Context of Indoor Smart Farm Restaurants

by Kyuhyeon Joo, Junghoon (Jay) Lee and Jinsoo Hwang

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(21), 14604; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114604 - 7 Nov 2022

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The movement toward smart farming, which has productivity and eco-friendly roles, is emerging in the foodservice industry in the form of indoor smart farm restaurants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the consumer decision-making processes in the context of indoor smart [...] Read more.

The movement toward smart farming, which has productivity and eco-friendly roles, is emerging in the foodservice industry in the form of indoor smart farm restaurants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the consumer decision-making processes in the context of indoor smart farm restaurants. The investigational framework was designed around the norm activation model (NAM) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB), with the moderating role of age. In particular, this study merged NAM and TPB to assess the effect of awareness of consumption consequences on consumers’ attitudes as well as the role played by subjective norms in the formation of personal norms. Data were collected from 304 respondents in South Korea. As a result of structural equation modeling, the proposed hypotheses of causal relationships were generally supported, excluding only the relationship between subjective norm and behavioral intention. The moderating role of age was identified in the relationships between (1) subjective norm and attitude, and (2) personal norm and behavioral intention. This study presents not only theoretical contributions as the first empirical study on consumer behavior in the context of indoor smart farm restaurants but also presents practical suggestions from the perspective of green marketing. Full article

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When It Comes to Screen Golf and Baseball, What Do Participants Think?

by Bo-Hyun Seong and Chang-Yu Hong

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(20), 13671; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013671 - 21 Oct 2022

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Screen golf and baseball activities have been popular as virtual game content and sport activities, but no one has cogently explained why they are attractive to Korean urban society. Our research team analyzed the decision-making process for participating in screen golf and baseball [...] Read more.

Screen golf and baseball activities have been popular as virtual game content and sport activities, but no one has cogently explained why they are attractive to Korean urban society. Our research team analyzed the decision-making process for participating in screen golf and baseball through a widely used technology acceptance model (TAM) to explain the relationship between perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, personal attitude, and individual intention. Structural equation modeling (SEM) verified five hypotheses established through a literature review, and 400 effective samples obtained through online surveys provided material for analysis. As a result of the analysis, perceived usefulness was the most important variable leading to participation in virtual reality sports. Based on this finding, we could conclude that the successful popularization of virtual reality sports depends on the development of applications sophisticated enough to provide practical usefulness to participants, such as physical posture correction and an improvement in personal athletic skills. Full article

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Effect of Travel Expenditure on Life Satisfaction for Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Korea: Moderating Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic

by Joonho Moon, Won Seok Lee and Jimin Shim

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(20), 13523; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013523 - 19 Oct 2022

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The aim of this research was to examine the effects of travel expenditures on life satisfaction in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the research, a curvilinear relationship was established between life satisfaction and travel expenditures that was then compared between 2018 [...] Read more.

The aim of this research was to examine the effects of travel expenditures on life satisfaction in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the research, a curvilinear relationship was established between life satisfaction and travel expenditures that was then compared between 2018 and 2020. The study subjects were middle-aged and older adults who completed the 2018 and 2020 waves of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging. Demographic, travel expenditure, and life satisfaction data were collected, and quadratic regression analysis was conducted to examine the effects of travel expenditures on life satisfaction before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first-order condition was computed to determine the optimal level of travel expenditures to maximize life satisfaction, and the results exhibit that the utility of travel expenditure decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Full article

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Sentiment Classification of Chinese Tourism Reviews Based on ERNIE-Gram+GCN

by Senqi Yang, Xuliang Duan, Zeyan Xiao, Zhiyao Li, Yuhai Liu, Zhihao Jie, Dezhao Tang and Hui Du

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(20), 13520; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013520 - 19 Oct 2022

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Nowadays, tourists increasingly prefer to check the reviews of attractions before traveling to decide whether to visit them or not. To respond to the change in the way tourists choose attractions, it is important to classify the reviews of attractions with high precision. [...] Read more.

Nowadays, tourists increasingly prefer to check the reviews of attractions before traveling to decide whether to visit them or not. To respond to the change in the way tourists choose attractions, it is important to classify the reviews of attractions with high precision. In addition, more and more tourists like to use emojis to express their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the attractions. In this paper, we built a dataset for Chinese attraction evaluation incorporating emojis (CAEIE) and proposed an explicitly n-gram masking method to enhance the integration of coarse-grained information into a pre-training (ERNIE-Gram) and Text Graph Convolutional Network (textGCN) (E2G) model to classify the dataset with a high accuracy. The E2G preprocesses the text and feeds it to ERNIE-Gram and TextGCN. ERNIE-Gram was trained using its unique mask mechanism to obtain the final probabilities. TextGCN used the dataset to construct heterogeneous graphs with comment text and words, which were trained to obtain a representation of the document output category probabilities. The two probabilities were calculated to obtain the final results. To demonstrate the validity of the E2G model, this paper was compared with advanced models. After experiments, it was shown that E2G had a good classification effect on the CAEIE dataset, and the accuracy of classification was up to 97.37%. Furthermore, the accuracy of E2G was 1.37% and 1.35% ahead of ERNIE-Gram and TextGCN, respectively. In addition, two sets of comparison experiments were conducted to verify the performance of TextGCN and TextGAT on the CAEIE dataset. The final results showed that ERNIE and ERNIE-Gram combined TextGCN and TextGAT, respectively, and TextGCN performed 1.6% and 2.15% ahead. This paper compared the effects of eight activation functions on the second layer of the TextGCN and the activation-function-rectified linear unit 6 (RELU6) with the best results based on experiments. Full article

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The Impact of Airline’s Smart Work System on Job Performance of Cabin Crew

by Yongjin Jung, Haeok Liz Kim and Sunghyup Sean Hyun

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(19), 12414; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912414 - 29 Sep 2022

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Extant studies in medical and educational fields have demonstrated that employees’ device use (smartphones, tablet PCs, etc.) can enhance job performance. Correspondingly, global airline companies have made substantial investments to enhance passenger services. An earlier study examined the impact of flight attendants’ technology [...] Read more.

Extant studies in medical and educational fields have demonstrated that employees’ device use (smartphones, tablet PCs, etc.) can enhance job performance. Correspondingly, global airline companies have made substantial investments to enhance passenger services. An earlier study examined the impact of flight attendants’ technology usage on job satisfaction by investigating the causal relationship between the benefits of tablet PC use, job performance, and its consequences. Based on the literature review, four advantages of technology use were derived: (1) efficiency, (2) convenience, (3) service effectiveness, and (4) pride. Additionally, three consequences of job satisfaction were derived: (1) team performance, (2) organizational commitment, and (3) turnover intention. Empirical data were collected from 208 flight attendants working for a South Korean airline, which provided tablet PCs for its employees. Data analysis revealed that work efficiency, convenience, and pride had a significant and positive impact on job satisfaction. However, flight preparation did not show a similar impact. This study is the first to investigate the benefits of using technology in the airline industry. Furthermore, it examined the convergence of airline management and information technology. The findings provide managerial implications for airline companies that are considering providing tablet PCs to flight attendants. Full article

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Tourism at the Crossroads between Well-Being, Public Health and the Environment: Panel Data Evidence from the European Union

by Daniel Badulescu, Ramona Simut, Ciprian Simut and Andrei-Vlad Badulescu

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(19), 12066; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912066 - 23 Sep 2022

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The recent pandemic crisis led to a drop in tourism, and it highlighted the connection between tourism, healthcare, environmental concerns and well-being. In this context, the purpose of the research is to clarify the relationship between tourism, happiness, healthcare and environmental expenditure. Statistical [...] Read more.

The recent pandemic crisis led to a drop in tourism, and it highlighted the connection between tourism, healthcare, environmental concerns and well-being. In this context, the purpose of the research is to clarify the relationship between tourism, happiness, healthcare and environmental expenditure. Statistical data provided by the World Bank, Eurostat and the World Happiness Database from the EU27 countries, from 2000 to 2019, were used. In order to investigate the relationship between these indicators, the panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method was used. In the long run, happiness and environmental and healthcare expenditure have a statistically significant and positive impact on tourism arrivals and receipts. It follows that a 1% increase in happiness supports between 4% and 9% of international tourism, while a 1% increase in environmental expenditure supports an increase of 2% in international tourism. Additionally, there is a significant interaction between happiness and either environmental or healthcare expenditure in the long run. This means that increasing happiness diminishes the effect of the later on tourism arrivals and receipts. No short-term relationship was identified between arrivals and any of the above-mentioned variables. In the same context, healthcare expenditure has a negative short-term effect on tourism receipts. The research contributes to the literature by suggesting that increasing national happiness, healthcare and environmental expenditure has a beneficial spillover effect on tourism arrivals and receipts in the long run. Full article

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The Moderating Role of COVID-19 Perceived Risk between Health Concern and Psychological Well-Being of Active Senior Campers Using PROCESS Macro Model

by Eui-Yul Choi and Mi-Hwa Jang

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(18), 11405; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811405 - 10 Sep 2022

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This study attempts to contribute to improving the life of the elderly by empirically analyzing the factors affecting the psychological well-being of active seniors in the ‘With COVID-19’ era. To this end, the relationship between psychological well-being, health concern, and perceived risk of [...] Read more.

This study attempts to contribute to improving the life of the elderly by empirically analyzing the factors affecting the psychological well-being of active seniors in the ‘With COVID-19’ era. To this end, the relationship between psychological well-being, health concern, and perceived risk of COVID-19 was verified for active seniors in Korea who enjoy camping. Two hundred and sixty-four valid questionnaires collected from active senior participants of “The Korea Camping Fair 2022” held in EXCO, Daegu, Korea, from 29 April to 1 May 2022, were analyzed. The main results were as follows. The health and psychological well-being of active seniors were higher than the normal level, and the perceived risk of COVID-19 was lower than the normal level. It was found that the health of active seniors had a positive effect on their psychological well-being. The perceived risk of COVID-19 was found to moderate the effect of health concern on psychological well-being. In conclusion, in order to improve the psychological well-being of active seniors, active leisure activities of the elderly are essential even in the COVID-19 situation, and various measures are needed to increase health. Not only this, but also, importantly, accurate information sharing on COVID-19 should be premised. Full article

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Reducing Employee Turnover Intentions in Tourism and Hospitality Sector: The Mediating Effect of Quality of Work Life and Intrinsic Motivation

by Ying Xu, Diao Jie, Hongyu Wu, Xiaolu Shi, Daniel Badulescu, Sher Akbar and Alina Badulescu

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(18), 11222; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811222 - 7 Sep 2022

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Employee turnover causes various organizational disruptions, including economic and social loss and a deficit in organizational knowledge-skill inventory. Considering different forms of organizational disruptions associated with employee turnover, the contemporary literature on organizational sciences has shown serious concern in dealing with the challenge [...] Read more.

Employee turnover causes various organizational disruptions, including economic and social loss and a deficit in organizational knowledge-skill inventory. Considering different forms of organizational disruptions associated with employee turnover, the contemporary literature on organizational sciences has shown serious concern in dealing with the challenge of employee turnover. However, shockingly, the employee turnover rate in the tourism and hospitality sector has been reported to be critically high even at a global level. Moreover, considering the customer-facing nature of this industry, employee turnover has more consequences for the tourism and hospitality sector compared to other segments of the economy. Past literature has acknowledged the role of employee-related corporate social responsibility (ERCSR) activities of an organization in influencing employee behavior. However, a critical knowledge gap in this domain still exists. That is, most of the prior studies tested the impact of ERCSR on positive employee behavior and did not test how ERCSR engagement in an organization may reduce employee turnover intentions, especially in a hospitality context. To fill this knowledge gap, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between ERCSR and employee turnover intentions in a hospitality sector of a developing country. Additionally, the mediating roles of quality of work life and intrinsic motivation were also tested in the above-proposed relationship. The hotel employees were the respondents in this survey who provided their responses related to the study variables on a self-administered questionnaire (n = 278). A hypothetical model was developed and analyzed with the help of the structural equation modeling technique. The results confirmed that ERCSR orientation of a hotel organization significantly reduces the turnover intentions of employees, whereas both quality of work life and intrinsic motivation buffered this association by producing mediating effects. These findings have different theoretical and practical implications, among which the most important implication is to realize the key role of ERCSR in reducing employees’ turnover intentions in a hospitality context. Various other implications are discussed in detail. Full article

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A Study on Job Stress Factors Caused by Gender Ratio Imbalance in a Female-Dominated Workplace: Focusing on Male Airline Flight Attendants

by Kieun Lee, Jinyoung Olivia Choi and Sunghyup Sean Hyun

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(15), 9418; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159418 - 1 Aug 2022

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This study investigated the factors that cause job stress among male flight attendants in a female-dominated airline organization, as well as the impact of job stress on their mental health and turnover intention. It also attempted to determine whether perceived family support, perceived [...] Read more.

This study investigated the factors that cause job stress among male flight attendants in a female-dominated airline organization, as well as the impact of job stress on their mental health and turnover intention. It also attempted to determine whether perceived family support, perceived organizational support, and job positions had moderating effects on male flight attendants’ job stress. Six job stress factors were identified through focus group interviews and a literature review. A survey was conducted from 1 January to 2 February 2022 to validate the research model, and 188 valid samples were used for statistical analysis. This study discovered that gender differences in communication, relationship conflict with colleagues, hierarchical organizational culture, and role overload had a direct impact on male flight attendants’ job stress. Job stress was found to have a negative impact on mental health and a positive impact on turnover intention. Perceived organizational support was also found to reduce job stress. This study is notably the first to address stress encountered by male flight attendants at work. It offers new directions for future airline personnel management and research. It also presents practical implications, such as the development of training and personnel management programs for male flight attendants. Full article

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Living with Infection Risk and Job Insecurity during COVID-19: The Relationship of Organizational Support, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intention

by Yusuf Yılmaz, Engin Üngüren, Ömer Akgün Tekin and Yaşar Yiğit Kaçmaz

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(14), 8516; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148516 - 12 Jul 2022

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The COVID-19 outbreak caused a stressful process for hospitality employees in terms of both being infected and experiencing the risk of losing their jobs. Stressful working conditions increase employees’ turnover intentions (TI). This study aims to analyze the relationship among perceived organizational support [...] Read more.

The COVID-19 outbreak caused a stressful process for hospitality employees in terms of both being infected and experiencing the risk of losing their jobs. Stressful working conditions increase employees’ turnover intentions (TI). This study aims to analyze the relationship among perceived organizational support (POS), organizational commitment (OC), and turnover intention (TI) within the context of employees’ infection status and perceived job insecurity (JI). In this context, the study tests a moderated mediation research model. Having adopted a quantitative research method, data were acquired from 490 respondents who work at five-star accommodation companies in Alanya, Turkey. Findings show that the impact of POS on OC and IT differ according to employees’ infection status during the COVID-19 outbreak and their perceived JI. The findings of the study reveal empirical results in understanding employee attitudes toward companies alongside perceived job insecurity for those who are infected as well as for those who are not. Moreover, the study presents theoretical and practical contributions to reduce the negative impact of job insecurity and risk of infection on turnover intentions, which have been considered to be main sources of stress throughout the pandemic. Full article

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Investigating Inclusive Leadership and Pro-Social Rule Breaking in Hospitality Industry: Important Role of Psychological Safety and Leadership Identification

by Sajid Rahman Khattak, Muhammad Zada, Muhammad Nouman, Shams Ur Rahman, Muhammad Fayaz, Rezwan Ullah, Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz and Nicolás Contreras-Barraza

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(14), 8291; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148291 - 7 Jul 2022

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This study aims to empirically examine the mediating effects of psychological safety and leadership identification on the relationship between inclusive leadership and pro-social rule breaking among hospitality employees. This study analyzes the survey data collected in three waves from 589 employees working in [...] Read more.

This study aims to empirically examine the mediating effects of psychological safety and leadership identification on the relationship between inclusive leadership and pro-social rule breaking among hospitality employees. This study analyzes the survey data collected in three waves from 589 employees working in different hotels and restaurants operating in the Northern areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The scale validity, composite reliability, and hypotheses were assessed through PLS-SEM. The study found that inclusive leadership significantly impacts employees’ pro-social rule-breaking. The study also found that leadership identification and psychological safety partially mediate the relationship between inclusive leadership and pro-social rule-breaking. Hospitality leaders can practice inclusive leadership characteristics because it may significantly enhance employee engagement in pro-social rule-breaking. Through their inclusive features, hospitality leaders can improve employees’ psychological safety and leadership identification, enhancing frontline employees’ pro-social rule-breaking. Full article

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Psychological Benefits of Purchasing Home Meal Replacement in the Context of Eco-Friendly TV Home Shopping Broadcast: The Moderating Role of Personal Norm

by Heather Markham Kim, In-Hye Lee, Kyuhyeon Joo, JungHoon (Jay) Lee and Jinsoo Hwang

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(13), 7759; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137759 - 24 Jun 2022

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This study observed the relationship between psychological benefits and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in the context of an eco-friendly TV home shopping broadcasts. The theoretical framework was enhanced even further by examining the moderating role of personal norm on proenvironmental attitudes [...] Read more.

This study observed the relationship between psychological benefits and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in the context of an eco-friendly TV home shopping broadcasts. The theoretical framework was enhanced even further by examining the moderating role of personal norm on proenvironmental attitudes in the TV home shopping context. An online survey was conducted with Korean customers who had purchased home meal replacement (HMR) products from a TV home shopping broadcast within the past 6 months. A total of 305 samples were collected and used for the data analysis. All six of the hypotheses in the psychological benefits and TPB model were supported, meaning all constructs of psychological benefits, including warm glow, self-expressive benefits, and nature experiences, impacted TPB and behavioral intentions. Furthermore, personal norm had a moderating role in the relationship between warm glow and attitude. This research provides significant theoretical and managerial implications for the home shopping industry. Full article

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The Impact of Nutrition Labelling on Customer Buying Intention and Behaviours in Fast Food Operations: Some Implications for Public Health

by Abu Elnasr E. Sobaih and Ahmed Sh. Abdelaziz

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(12), 7122; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127122 - 10 Jun 2022

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This research examines customers’ intention to buy depending on their use of nutrition labelling (NL) in fast food operations (FFOs) and their intention to visit and recommend these FFOs with nutrition-labelled menus. The research model draws on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) [...] Read more.

This research examines customers’ intention to buy depending on their use of nutrition labelling (NL) in fast food operations (FFOs) and their intention to visit and recommend these FFOs with nutrition-labelled menus. The research model draws on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to examine customers’ intentions to buy from nutrition-labelled menus and their behaviour of visiting and recommending to others FFOs with nutrition-labelled menus. To achieve this purpose, a self-administrated questionnaire was distributed to and collected from a random sample of customers at FFOs in Greater Cairo, Egypt, i.e., McDonald’s and Subway. The results from the structural equation modelling (SEM) using AMOS software indicated positive and direct significant paths from the constructs of the TPB, except for customers’ attitude, to customer intention to buy nutrition-labelled menu items. The results also showed a positive significant impact of customers’ intention on their behaviour of visiting and recommending FFOs featuring nutrition-labelled menus. The findings showed that there is an awaking of nutritional awareness among fast-food customers and that providing nutritional information on fast-food menus will affect their purchasing intention in the future by encouraging them to make healthy food choices. Theoretical implications for scholars and managerial implications for FFOs, especially in relation to public health in general and healthy food choices in particular, are explained and discussed. Full article

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Influences of Distributive Injustice and Job Insecurity Amid COVID-19 on Unethical Pro-Organisational Behaviour: Mediating Role of Employee Turnover Intention

by Meqbel M. Aliedan, Abu Elnasr E. Sobaih, Mansour A. Alyahya and Ibrahim A. Elshaer

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(12), 7040; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127040 - 8 Jun 2022

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Drawn on Social Exchange Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory, this study developed a research model to examine the direct influence of job insecurity and distributive injustice, which were common in many hotels amid COVID-19, on unethical pro-organisation behaviour (UPoB) among hotel employees. [...] Read more.

Drawn on Social Exchange Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory, this study developed a research model to examine the direct influence of job insecurity and distributive injustice, which were common in many hotels amid COVID-19, on unethical pro-organisation behaviour (UPoB) among hotel employees. The study also examines the mediating role of turnover intention in the relationship between job insecurity, and distributive injustice, which was result of the COVID-19 pandemic on UPoB. For this purpose, a questionnaire survey was self-dropped and collected through personal network to hotel employees in Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. The results of structural equation modelling using AMOS (version 23) supported all the study hypotheses. The results showed a significant positive influence of distributive injustice and job insecurity on UPoB among hotel employees. Moreover, turnover intention was found to have a partial mediation role in the relationship between job insecurity, distributive injustice and UPoB. The results extend our understanding of Social Exchange Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory that employees in hotels are more likely to protect themselves and their job by engaging in UPoB if they perceived their job at threat due to a crisis, i.e., the COVID-19 pandemic. The major conclusion of current research is that when hotels employees perceived job insecurity and distributive injustice because of the pandemic, they responded with high turnover intention and as a last choice engaging in UPoB to save their resources, in this case their jobs, since they have no other alternatives outside the organisations. However, this inappropriate antisocial behaviour could have a negative influence on both employees and organisation at the long term. The results of current research have several theoretical implications for tourism scholars and managerial implication for hoteliers. Full article

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Will Perceived Risk of COVID-19 Move Exhibition Visitors from On-Site to Virtual? Focusing on Exhibition Quarantine Service Quality and Switching Intention

by Mi-Hwa Jang and Eui-Yul Choi

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(11), 6388; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116388 - 24 May 2022

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COVID-19 has shifted people’s activities from the real world to the virtual world in many fields, such as conferences, shopping, education, and more. In the field of MICE, however, exhibitions have been held steadily since the second half of 2020 in the form [...] Read more.

COVID-19 has shifted people’s activities from the real world to the virtual world in many fields, such as conferences, shopping, education, and more. In the field of MICE, however, exhibitions have been held steadily since the second half of 2020 in the form of on-site exhibitions. The exhibition organizers and related authorities have tried to attract exhibitors and visitors to the exhibition hall by providing exhibition quarantine services. Moreover, despite various perceived risks during the COVID-19 period, exhibition visitors continue to visit the exhibition. This study, therefore, paid attention to the psychological factors of visitors who consistently visit on-site exhibitions even during the pandemic. In addition to the perceived risks, this study tried to examine the quality of exhibition quarantine services and switching intention of visitors, and to analyze the relationships between them. A survey of 167 people who visited the camping exhibition and well-food exhibition held in June 2021 found that they would not visit the exhibition due to the functional and financial risk of the exhibition rather than the risk of the virus. On the other hand, it was found that visitors who felt the social risk of COVID-19 valued the quality of exhibition quarantine service. Furthermore, the study found that the quarantine service quality lowered switching intention. Therefore, the study suggests that exhibition organizers should think about ways to strengthen the most essential characteristics of on-site exhibitions along with appropriate quarantine measures to induce steady visits even during the pandemic. Full article

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Positive Humor and Work Withdrawal Behaviors: The Role of Stress Coping Styles in the Hotel Industry Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

by Ibrahim A. Elshaer, Alaa M. S. Azazz and Sameh Fayyad

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(10), 6233; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19106233 - 20 May 2022

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Working in the hospitality industry is stressful due to the intensive workload and extended work hours; this stress has increased after the COVID-19 pandemic due to high levels of job insecurity, downsizing, and laying off procedures. Employees in the hotel industry can deal [...] Read more.

Working in the hospitality industry is stressful due to the intensive workload and extended work hours; this stress has increased after the COVID-19 pandemic due to high levels of job insecurity, downsizing, and laying off procedures. Employees in the hotel industry can deal with stress positively by utilizing task-coping styles or negatively by emotion- and avoidance-coping styles. Building on the transactional theory of stress and coping, and the benign violation theory of humor, the current study explores the relationships between positive humor and work withdrawal behaviors with the mediating effects of coping styles. A total of 407 hotel employees participated, and the obtained data were analyzed by structural equation modeling with partial least squares (PLS). The results asserted that affiliative humor is able to reduce coping with stresses via the negative styles and to increase coping with stresses via the positive style. The results also demonstrated the ability of task-coping in reducing work withdrawal behavior. Significant insights into theoretical and practical implications are further discussed. Full article

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Digital-Free Tourism Holiday as a New Approach for Tourism Well-Being: Tourists’ Attributional Approach

by Thowayeb H. Hassan, Amany E. Salem and Mahmoud I. Saleh

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(10), 5974; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105974 - 14 May 2022

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Digital-free tourism (DFT) has recently attracted tourism service providers’ attention for its benefits in terms of enhancing tourists’ experiences and well-being at destinations. DFT refers to tourists who are likely to voluntarily avoid digital devices and the Internet on holiday, or travel to [...] Read more.

Digital-free tourism (DFT) has recently attracted tourism service providers’ attention for its benefits in terms of enhancing tourists’ experiences and well-being at destinations. DFT refers to tourists who are likely to voluntarily avoid digital devices and the Internet on holiday, or travel to destinations without network signals. DFT has advantages for tourists in increasing well-being, mental health, and social networking during their journeys. DFT also has a benefit for tourism marketers in that they can consider it as a new tourism approach. However, there is a lack of studies into tourists’ locus of control (LOC) while experiencing DFT holidays. LOC refers to how individuals assign the responsibility of event outcomes—whether they assign it to themselves (internal LOC) or they say it is beyond their control (external LOC). Therefore, the current study contributes to investigating tourists’ LOC impacts while experiencing DFT holidays. The study relies on semi-structured interviews with millennial tourists who have experienced DFT holidays. The study findings reveal that millennial tourists with an internal LOC (vs. external) are more likely to perceive the DFT advantages (vs. obstacles) during and after the DFT holidays. However, millennial tourists with external LOC incrementally change their attitudes and perceive the DFT holiday benefits through their self-efficacy enhancement. The findings propose managerial strategies for developing effective DFT holidays for millennial tourists regarding their LOC. Full article

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Toward Improving Working Conditions to Enhance Professionalism of Convention Workers: Focusing on the Difference between Job Satisfaction and Job Performance According to Professionalism Perception

by Wenyan Yan, Eunjin Kim, Soyeon Jeong and Yeonghye Yoon

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(10), 5829; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105829 - 10 May 2022

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In recent years, the importance of professionalism of convention workers has been rapidly emerging. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to establish a strategy for strengthening the professionalism of convention workers. For this, the study investigates if there are any differences in [...] Read more.

In recent years, the importance of professionalism of convention workers has been rapidly emerging. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to establish a strategy for strengthening the professionalism of convention workers. For this, the study investigates if there are any differences in job satisfaction and job performance based on the segmented groups of professionalism perception of convention workers. The results of factor analysis showed six underlying dimensions of professionalism perception of convention workers. Cluster analysis showed that there were different segmented groups of professionalism perception: high level (cluster 1), low level (cluster 2), moderate level (cluster 3). Lastly, MANOVA showed that there were differences in job satisfaction and job performance among the segmented groups. More theoretical and practical implications are discussed in the conclusion. Full article

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The Future of Medical Tourism for Individuals’ Health and Well-Being: A Case Study of the Relationship Improvement between the UAE (United Arab Emirates) and South Korea

by Haeok Liz Kim and Sunghyup Sean Hyun

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(9), 5735; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095735 - 8 May 2022

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The medical tourism industry has been growing rapidly in recent years as governments seek new sectors for sustainable growth. The increase in medical tourism and cooperation in the health and medical sector may be a path to improving relationships between countries. As a [...] Read more.

The medical tourism industry has been growing rapidly in recent years as governments seek new sectors for sustainable growth. The increase in medical tourism and cooperation in the health and medical sector may be a path to improving relationships between countries. As a result of globalization, international tourism has been growing faster than any other time in the past. The growth of international tourism is being regarded as a contributor to the development of the economy, social cooperation, politics, and cultural relations. This paper suggests that developing medical tourism may act as a basis for increasing tourism in general, thereby enhancing cultural exchanges and improving the relationship between South Korea (Republic of Korea) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), especially by establishing a new cooperative relationship in the health and medical field. This paper focuses on the functions of medical tourism in the past and its potential in the future, which may play a significant role in the relationship between South Korea and the UAE, particularly its influence on South Korea’s policies of cooperation with the UAE in the field of health and medical services. Full article

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Study on Factors That Influence Human Errors: Focused on Cabin Crew

by Jiyoung Kim, Myoungjin Yu and Sunghyup Sean Hyun

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(9), 5696; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095696 - 7 May 2022

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This study aims to reduce the possibility of human mistakes and accidents among airline cabin crew by identifying the cause of human errors by focusing on the importance of the causal relationship between human factors and human errors. According to statistical analysis, among [...] Read more.

This study aims to reduce the possibility of human mistakes and accidents among airline cabin crew by identifying the cause of human errors by focusing on the importance of the causal relationship between human factors and human errors. According to statistical analysis, among the five human factors, physical fatigue, psychological stress, and the complacency of cabin crew had a positive impact on human errors. However, hurrying under time pressure and the distractions caused by external factors do not significantly affect human errors. Human errors have a negative impact on job crafting and mental health. This study analyzed the human factors influencing the cabin crew’s errors and revealed the importance of complacency, which was not covered in previous studies. Finally, the research implications, limitations, and future studies were discussed. Full article

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The Effects of Workplace Loneliness on the Psychological Detachment and Emotional Exhaustion of Hotel Employees

by Yoon-Sik Jung, Hyo-Sun Jung and Hye-Hyun Yoon

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(9), 5228; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095228 - 25 Apr 2022

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This study was aimed at establishing whether loneliness among hotel employees in the workplace affects their psychological and emotional experiences by empirically investigating their perceptions of negative situations. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 300 hotel employees, after which confirmatory factor analysis was [...] Read more.

This study was aimed at establishing whether loneliness among hotel employees in the workplace affects their psychological and emotional experiences by empirically investigating their perceptions of negative situations. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 300 hotel employees, after which confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to reassess the reliability and validity of the measured questionnaire items. A model of workplace loneliness, psychological detachment, and emotional exhaustion was developed and examined through structural equation modeling. The results showed that the hotel employees experienced workplace loneliness and expressed a desire to be psychologically detached from their jobs for recovery. Workplace loneliness also contributed to emotional exhaustion. Theoretical and practical implications, as well as limitations and future research directions, are discussed. Full article

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Unethical Organization Behavior: Antecedents and Consequences in the Tourism Industry

by Ibrahim A. Elshaer, Alaa M. S. Azazz and Samar K. Saad

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(9), 4972; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19094972 - 20 Apr 2022

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The entire tourism and hospitality industry has witnessed a considerable increase in the number of ethical difficulties that occur in the workplace. It has been discovered that unethical organizational behavior (UOB) is the most significant category in tourists’ unpleasant experiences, driving them to [...] Read more.

The entire tourism and hospitality industry has witnessed a considerable increase in the number of ethical difficulties that occur in the workplace. It has been discovered that unethical organizational behavior (UOB) is the most significant category in tourists’ unpleasant experiences, driving them to switch and spread unfavorable word-of-mouth information. This study aims to explore the effects of three contextual factors on UOB (i.e., work intensification, job insecurity, and an unethical company-profit climate) and to investigate its possible employee-related consequences, including the feeling of guilt, emotional exhaustion, and customer-oriented citizenship behavior. A total of 970 employees working in hotels (5-star and 4-star) and travel agencies (Category A) participated, and the obtained data were analyzed by structural equation modeling. The results asserted that work intensification, job insecurity, and an unethical company-profit climate stimulate unethical organizational behavior, and unethical organizational behavior leads to feelings of guilt, emotional exhaustion, and customer-oriented citizenship behavior. Significant insights into theoretical and practical implications were further discussed. Full article

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How Will Video Conference Fatigue Affect Participants of MICE in the With-COVID-19 Era? Focusing on Video Conference Quality, Social Presence Theory, and Flow

by Mi-Hwa Jang and Eui-Yul Choi

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(8), 4601; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084601 - 11 Apr 2022

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Is our mental health at risk due to spending a significant amount of time online due to the COVID-19 pandemic? In the new era that we are living in, where we live a life that coexists with the virus, we are participating in [...] Read more.

Is our mental health at risk due to spending a significant amount of time online due to the COVID-19 pandemic? In the new era that we are living in, where we live a life that coexists with the virus, we are participating in video conferences held online rather than on-site in order to slow the spread of the virus. Video conferencing has become our necessity since March 2020, and is becoming a new standard, especially in the MICE industry. Recently, however, people who have excessively used video conference platforms are complaining of video conference fatigue, which is a new negative emotion such as stress, anxiety, and worry as well as general work fatigue. Therefore, this study focused on the mechanism of video conferencing in MICE, which is rapidly digitally converted by the virus, and the digital psychological factors of the participants. This study derived the quality attributes of video conferencing in MICE and empirically analyzed the relationship with digital psychological factors of the video conference participants, such as video conference fatigue, social presence, and flow. One hundred and thirty-eight valid questionnaires collected from participants of several international academic conferences held in EXCO, Daegu, Korea, from 23 to 28 May 2021, were analyzed. The main results are as follows. First, unlike general video conference fatigue, MICE video conference fatigue was not found to be related to the preceding and following variables. This is due to the characteristics of the MICE video conference and the expertise of the participants. Second, social presence was identified as an important variable in MICE video conferencing. Although media-mediated, the feeling of being present with the presenter and participants was found to affect the participants’ flow in the video conference. Third, in this study, the fun factor was identified as the most important video conference quality that can enhance the social presence of the video conference participants of MICEs. Full article

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Effects of Parent Brand Equity on Perceived Fit and Customer Behavior of Extended Brand—Focused on MICE Destination

by Jiwon Lee and Eunjoo Yoon

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(8), 4540; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084540 - 9 Apr 2022

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This study aims to examine the relationship among tourism destination brand equity (as parent brand), perceived fit, and customer behavior intention toward the extended MICE destination brand. It also identifies the moderating effect of place attachment between brand equity and customer behavior by [...] Read more.

This study aims to examine the relationship among tourism destination brand equity (as parent brand), perceived fit, and customer behavior intention toward the extended MICE destination brand. It also identifies the moderating effect of place attachment between brand equity and customer behavior by adopting the brand extension concept in tourism and MICE destinations. The analysis of data collected from 381 respondents revealed that perceived fit is the most important factor influencing customer behavior, even though tourism brand equity and place attachment both had a positive effect on customer behavior, supporting all hypotheses. The theoretical implication of broadening the brand extension concept in MICE destinations and DMO marketing strategies is discussed. Full article

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Impact of Rural Tourism Development on Residents’ Satisfaction with the Local Environment, Socio-Economy and Quality of Life in Al-Ahsa Region, Saudi Arabia

by Thowayeb H. Hassan, Amany E. Salem and Mostafa A. Abdelmoaty

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(7), 4410; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074410 - 6 Apr 2022

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Tourism has a significant role in destination development, particularly in rural regions. However, within the context of the highly sensitive nature of rural areas to the ecological, economic, and socio-cultural effects of tourism development, it is important to assess the levels of satisfaction [...] Read more.

Tourism has a significant role in destination development, particularly in rural regions. However, within the context of the highly sensitive nature of rural areas to the ecological, economic, and socio-cultural effects of tourism development, it is important to assess the levels of satisfaction among the residents of rural destinations. The current study aimed to assess the impact of rural tourism development in the Al-Ahsa region, Saudi Arabia on the overall resident satisfaction and three relevant subdomains. The findings revealed that the three tourism development impacts under investigation, including the social, economic and environmental effects, were positively associated with resident overall satisfaction. The three influential developmental categories were also independent predictors of the satisfaction with the quality of life and environment subdomains. National policy makers are required to implement adequate rural tourism development measures and regulations to improve tourism services and activities, which would eventually be reflected in the quality of life of local residents. Full article

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The Effect of Psychological Anxiety Caused by COVID-19 on Job Self-Esteem and Job Satisfaction of Airline Flight Attendants

by Yelin Shin, Jinyoung Olivia Choi and Sunghyup Sean Hyun

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(7), 4043; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074043 - 29 Mar 2022

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This study aimed to investigate how psychological anxiety caused by COVID-19 has influenced airline cabin crew job self-esteem and job satisfaction. A questionnaire based on prior research was developed to identify factors of psychological anxiety among cabin crews as a result of COVID-19. [...] Read more.

This study aimed to investigate how psychological anxiety caused by COVID-19 has influenced airline cabin crew job self-esteem and job satisfaction. A questionnaire based on prior research was developed to identify factors of psychological anxiety among cabin crews as a result of COVID-19. The survey sample was limited to current cabin crews who experienced leave of absence due to COVID-19, and questionnaires were distributed to 201 crew members from 15 February to 15 April 2021. As a result of the analysis, the hypothesis that salary reduction, career stagnation, social perception, and employment insecurity have a significant effect on job self-esteem and job satisfaction was supported, while perceived infection risk and benefit reduction were rejected. This study found that psychological anxiety caused by COVID-19 affected cabin crew’s self-esteem and job satisfaction. These findings could aid in the development of strategies for effective airline human resource management to prevent psychological anxiety from creating stress and negatively affecting work. Furthermore, since the alert for the emergence of new viruses will not be eased in the future, this study will prevent psychological anxiety among cabin crews to cause job self-esteem and job dissatisfaction. Full article

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The Mediating Effects of Work–Life Balance (WLB) and Ease of Using WLB Programs in the Relationship between WLB Organizational Culture and Turnover Intention

by Han-Sun Yu, Eun-Jun Lee and Tae-Kyun Na

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(6), 3482; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063482 - 15 Mar 2022

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Work–life balance (WLB) is an important concern for all workers irrespective of their age, sex, education level, family structure, or occupation. This study analyzes WLB’s mediating effects and the ease of using WLB programs in the relationship between WLB organizational culture of hotels [...] Read more.

Work–life balance (WLB) is an important concern for all workers irrespective of their age, sex, education level, family structure, or occupation. This study analyzes WLB’s mediating effects and the ease of using WLB programs in the relationship between WLB organizational culture of hotels and turnover intention of its culinary staff. We conducted a survey featuring 320 culinary staff members at hotels in Incheon from 10 to 30 August 2020 and performed statistical analysis using 290 responses. We find that the company’s willingness for WLB, empathetic communication with colleagues, material support of colleagues for WLB, and the ease of using WLB programs in organizational culture had a positive impact on WLB. The company’s willingness for WLB, boss’s consideration for WLB, empathetic communication with colleagues, and material support of colleagues for WLB in organizational culture had a negative impact on turnover intention. The ease of using WLB programs had no indirect effect on the relationship between organizational culture and turnover intention. However, WLB had an indirect effect on the relationship between the four components except for the boss’s consideration for WLB and turnover intention. Hotel management should create an organizational culture that supports the WLB of culinary staff. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satisfaction, Stress, and Mental Health in the Tourism/Hospitality Industry)

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The Effects of Types of Service Providers on Experience Economy, Brand Attitude, and Brand Loyalty in the Restaurant Industry

by Jinsoo Hwang, Jawad Abbas, Kyuhyeon Joo, Seung-Woo Choo and Sunghyup Sean Hyun

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(6), 3430; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063430 - 14 Mar 2022

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This study was designed to understand the relationships among the experience economy, brand attitude, and brand loyalty based on the type of service providers, such as robot servers and human servers in the restaurant industry. The data were collected from 296 people who [...] Read more.

This study was designed to understand the relationships among the experience economy, brand attitude, and brand loyalty based on the type of service providers, such as robot servers and human servers in the restaurant industry. The data were collected from 296 people who experienced robot servers and from 294 people who experienced human servers and was analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM), which indicated that the four sub-dimensions of the experience economy: education, entertainment, esthetics, and escapism, positively affect brand attitude, which in turn has a significant positive impact on brand loyalty. In addition, statistical differences were found with the average value of the six constructs based on the type of service providers, such as robot servers and human servers. Full article

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Perceived Risk of Job Instability and Unethical Organizational Behaviour Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Family Financial Pressure and Distributive Injustice in the Tourism Industry

by Ibrahim A. Elshaer, Alaa M. S. Azazz, Samy Wageh Mahmoud and Marwa Ghanem

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(5), 2886; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052886 - 2 Mar 2022

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The economic disaster precipitated by the pandemic of COVID-19 changed people’s perceptions of ordinary job stability and elevated it to an ultimate high level. To avoid being laid off, employees who are concerned about job stability may engage in unethical activities in the [...] Read more.

The economic disaster precipitated by the pandemic of COVID-19 changed people’s perceptions of ordinary job stability and elevated it to an ultimate high level. To avoid being laid off, employees who are concerned about job stability may engage in unethical activities in the name of their employer. In this study, the influence of job instability on unethical organizational behaviour (UOB) was investigated through the mediating role of family financial pressure and distributive injustice. Perceptions of 830 employees working in hotels (5-star and 4-star) and travel agencies (Category A) were explored and further analyzed using structural equation modelling. The results asserted that family financial pressure and distributive injustice partially mediated the effects of job insecurity on UOB. Important insights on theoretical and practical implications were further deliberated towards the end of this study. Full article

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