Guided group activities, where tourists consume with other tourists, are common and important. Although the tourism services literature suggests customer-employee rapport impacts customer satisfaction, composition impact of tourist-tourist in guided activities have received minimal attention. We use a three-study mixed method approach to conceptualize examine activities. Study 1 identifies two ...

Global connectivity facilitated tourism and redefined economic landscapes, highlight an interest in better understanding retention factors. Today, view of the global COVID-19 pandemic, this is made even more important as world prepares to lift lockdown restrictions re-engage cross border circulation; reiterating needs understand satisfaction revisit intentions. This study thus sheds light on pr...

Corpus-based linguistic approach is one of the most used text studies. Nowadays, stylistic analysis has been adopted to shed new light on tourism English. The topic is to apply the language theory—the stylistic analysis to the tourist text analysis, to discover the style essence of Tourist English Hypertext. The stylistic features include graphological analysis of Tourist English Hypertext, lex...

For travelers who plan to visit a particular tourist spot, information about it is required. In this paper, we propose a method for extracting and organizing appropriate information from weblogs (blogs). Recently, increased numbers of travelers have been writing of their travel experiences via blogs. We call these travel blog entries, and they contain much useful travel information. For example...

Potential manipulation of prices and convergence to rational expectations equilibrium is studied in a game without noise traders. Informed players with initially long and short positions (bulls and bears) seek to manipulate consumer expectations in opposite directions. In equilibrium, period 1 prices reveal the state, so manipulation is unsuccessful. Bears and uninformed consumers sell up to th...