Tea Tourism: Examining University Faculty Members’ Expectations

Tea tourism is emerging worldwide as a new type of sustainable cultural tourism; a market to which little academic attention has been paid. This study surveyed a total of 246 university faculty members in United States, China, and Taiwan with regard to their perceptions of tea tourism, including their levels of interest in various tea tourism activities and importance of tour components. The findings of this study revealed that demographic factors, cultural backgrounds, and self-reported expertise with regard to tea culture were significantly associated with respondents’ expectations towards tea tourism. Practical recommendations in tea tourism marketing were provided

What Pedagogical Methods Impact Students' Entrepreneurial Propensity?

There is a dearth of research that investigates the effectiveness of different pedagogical methods for teaching entrepreneurship. This paper focuses on three learning design choices: experiential learning, use of teamwork, and focus on quantitative methods. The paper examines pedagogical variables that could contribute to raising student scores on constructs of change, risk taking, goal setting, feedback, and achievement as measured by our customized entrepreneurial propensity survey. Results offer moderate evidence to confirm effects of experiential learning designs for goal-setting and weak evidence for feedback. Additional findings suggest the need for rethinking the role of teamwork in entrepreneurship courses

Simulation Modeling of Occupational Health of Tourism and Hospitality Workers

Tourism and hospitality research has utilized mostly traditional approaches to understand and explain observed phenomena. Complexity science offers great potential for studying the complex dynamical system of tourism and hospitality with greater effectiveness. The accelerating pace of technological advances, destabilization of societies, and increasing levels of uncertainty have fueled the emergence of chaos and complexity perspectives. Social scientists are increasingly viewing the conceptual and statistical assumptions underlying the linear paradigm as being seriously flawed and limiting our ability to explain social phenomena. Innovative complex-systems approaches grounded in complex adaptive systems (CAS) theoretical, methodological, and analytical perspectives have potential to lead to greater understanding of various phenomena. The foregoing methods and tools will be discussed in the context of occupational health of Hispanic immigrant hospitality sector workers

Hotel Companies’ Environmental Awareness & Commitment: A review of their web pages

Because of today’s complicated economic and political environment, businesses face increasing pressure to follow environmentally conscious principles; the hospitality industry is no exception. The purpose of this study is to increase our understanding of the extent to which pro-environmental policies are being implemented in the hotel industry, identify the best of these practices as a reference for hotels that are lagging behind in fulfilling their environmental responsibilities, and most of all to increase the environmental awareness of hoteliers and encourage more research on the development of pro-environmental practices in the hospitality industry. The results of the study and their implications are discussed

What pedagogical methods impact students' entrepreneurial propensity

Abstract: There is a dearth of research that investigates the effectiveness of different pedagogical methods for teaching entrepreneurship. This paper focuses on three learning design choices: experiential learning, use of teamwork, and focus on quantitative methods. The paper examines pedagogical variables that could contribute to raising student scores on constructs of change, risk taking, goal setting, feedback, and achievement as measured by our customized entrepreneurial propensity survey. Results offer moderate evidence to confirm effects of experiential learning designs for goal-setting and weak evidence for feedback. Additional findings suggest the need for rethinking the role of teamwork in entrepreneurship courses. Keyword