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Hospitality And Tourism Journal Matrix, Susan W. Arendt, Swathi Ravichandran, Eric A. Brown Oct 2014

Hospitality And Tourism Journal Matrix, Susan W. Arendt, Swathi Ravichandran, Eric A. Brown

Eric A. Brown

Ease in locating hospitality and tourism journals is of interest to hospitality and tourism professionals, graduate students, researchers, and scholars. At present, there is no one location with concise information regarding hospitality and tourism journal descriptions, editors, and contact information. The matrix that follows contains a compiled list of hospitality and tourism journals along with pertinent journal information.


Missing In Action: Research On Occupational Health And Safety Management In Organizations, Michael Zanko Mar 2014

Missing In Action: Research On Occupational Health And Safety Management In Organizations, Michael Zanko

Michael Zanko

The enormous problem of workplace injuries and deaths continues to beset countries. Reflexive OHS regulation often places primary responsibility on employers’ management of OHS in organizations. This paper seeks to ascertain how OHS management at the organizational level has been treated in the research literature. A review of leading journals (13 in management, 6 in HRM) from 1994 to 2005 showed OHS management to be largely missing as the subject or field of study. Naturally, the OHS literature was more fruitful: 5 main categories were identified. However, there was little in the way nuanced explanation of OHS management at the …


Informing Destination Recommender Systems Design And Evaluation Through Quantitative Research, Ulrike Gretzel, Yeong-Hyeon Hwang, Daniel Fesenmaier Feb 2014

Informing Destination Recommender Systems Design And Evaluation Through Quantitative Research, Ulrike Gretzel, Yeong-Hyeon Hwang, Daniel Fesenmaier

Ulrike Gretzel

Purpose - Destination recommender systems need to become truly human-centric in their design and functionality. This requires a profound understanding of human interactions with technology as well as human behavior related to information search and decision-making in the context of travel and tourism. This paper seeks to review relevant theories that can support the development and evaluation of destination recommender systems and to discuss how quantitative research can inform such theory building and testing. Design/methodology/approach - Based on a review of information search and decision-making literatures, a framework for the development of destination recommender systems is proposed and the implications …