Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research

In an era where fourth industrial revolution is unfolding before our eyes and digital workplace is making its advancements into everyday life, the international Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) industry is transforming under the influence of metaverse. The present study unearths performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), social influence (SI), facilitating conditions (FC), price value (PV), cognitive (C) and affective (A) responses (R) as the antecedents of behavior intention to use MICE in metaverse. From theoretical perspective, the novelty and originality of current study dwells in portraying the conceptual framework for the consumer behavioral intentions (BI) towards MICE in metaverse based on the stakeholder-centric approach. The practical implications demonstrate that MICE in metaverse can offer end-users remote interaction with meaningful, immersive experiences where consumers can organically interact with each other without losing the sense of belonging within the community as they engage and navigate through various virtual worlds that mirror the best versions of the physical world.

Aleksandar Radic

Wei Quan

Jongsik Yu

Antonio Ariza-montes

Heesup Han

Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR)

MICE in Metaverse: Linking UTAUT 2 and Experiencescape

元宇宙中的MICE：连接UTAUT 2与体验景观

This study investigates the motivations for organizing gastronomy festivals, their management, the strategic approaches followed, and their role in tourism. The selected research area is Alanya in Turkey, which has recently emphasized gastronomy in its tourism-based activities, including through a tropical fruit festival. For this qualitative case study, data were collected using document analysis, a focus group, and face-to-face interviews. First, documents were obtained to understand Alanya’s festival history. A focus group meeting was then organized to prepare a semi-structured interview form. Finally, face-to-face interviews were conducted with the people responsible for the organization of Alanya Tropical Fruit Festival. The data were subjected to content analysis. The findings indicated that the festival is organized in Alanya for social, cultural, economic, and political reasons while festival management includes design, planning, operation, and evaluation processes. Resource-based strategies and emerging strategies are important while the festival plays encouraging, supportive, and complementary roles in the region’s tourism. These findings have several theoretical and practical implications.

Gökay Güden

Oğuz Nebioğlu

Comprehending Gastronomy Festivals: A Qualitative Case Study on Alanya Tropical Fruit Festival

理解美食节：关于阿拉尼亚热带水果节的定性案例研究

The purpose of this study is to analyze existing research on the use of immersive technologies in the hotel industry and build academic and practical knowledge to explore current areas of immersive technology research and development that are critical for the effective digitalization of the hotel industry. Clustering analysis was applied to the publications analyzed by unsupervised machine learning method using the K-Means algorithm. To verify these concepts and answer the research questions, the clustered publications were subjected to in-depth content analysis within the framework of the research questions. The findings provide comprehensive information on the scope of Immersive Guest Experiences (Hereinafter referred to as IGX) for hotel industry and categorize the antecedents, dimensions, and consequences of IGX in hotels to better understand the reasons for the use of immersive technology in the hotel industry. The results provide guidance for practitioners in the design of IGX in hotels.

Tayfun Yörük

Nuray Akar

Zeynep Karsavuran

Fulya Almaz

Revealing Immersive Guest Experiences (IGX) in the Hotel Industry Using Clustering Analysis

揭示酒店业沉浸式宾客体验（IGX）的聚类分析

Fuzzy method has been widely used in time series forecasting. However, the current fuzzy time models have not accommodated the holiday effects so that the forecasting error becomes large at certain moments. Regarding the problem, this study proposes two algorithms, extended of Chen’s and seasonal fuzzy time series method (FTS), to consider the holiday effect in forecasting the monthly tourist arrivals to ancient human Sangiran Museum. Both algorithms consider the relationship between Eid holidays as the effect of calendar variations. The forecasting results obtained from the two proposed algorithms are then compared with those obtained from the Chen’s and the seasonal FTS. Based on the experimental results, the proposed method can reduce mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE), and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) obtained from Chen’s method up to 61%, 61%, and 58%, respectively. Moreover, compared to that obtained from the seasonal FTS, the proposed method can reduce the MAE, RMSE, and MAPE values up to 35%, 36%, and 29%, respectively. The method proposed in this paper can be implemented to other time series with seasonal pattern and calendar variation effects.

Wınıta SULANDARİ

Yudho YUDHANTO

Sri SUBANTİ

Etik ZUKHRONAH

Subanar SUBANAR

Muhammad Hisyam LEE

Forecasting Tourist Arrivals to Sangiran Using Fuzzy with Calendar Variations

使用模糊方法结合日历变化预测桑吉兰游客人数

Information symmetry is a critical antecedent to tourists’ consumptive decision-making and conative behaviour, especially in times of crisis and uncertainty. The present study is novel in its interrogation of whether COVID-19 induced perceived risk has an intervening effect in the destination media profile - travel intentions nexus of tourists. The quantitative study adopted a cross-sectional approach. Data was generated via an online survey of a purposive-convenient sample. The respondent-driven snowball sampling approach resulted in a final international sample of 323 potential tourists. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, linear regressions, and simple and parallel mediation analyses were employed. As it emerged from the study, a destination's media profile, directly and indirectly, influences the conative behaviour of tourists. At the same time, destination media profile has an apparent direct effect on perceived risk-oriented information symmetry. A partial diminishing intervening effect of COVID-19 induced risk is also established in the indirect relationship between destination media profile and tourists’ post-crisis travel intentions.

Tafadzwa MATİZA

Elmarie SLABBERT

The Destination Media Profile and Tourist Travel Intentions: The Mediating Effect of Covid-19 Induced Perceived Risk

目的地媒体形象与游客旅游意愿：新冠疫情引发感知风险的调节作用

This study aims to identify satisfiers and dissatisfiers by analyzing Google Reviews on Las Vegas Casino Buffet Restaurants. It also compared its results to the nascent literature regarding satisfiers and dissatisfiers for restaurants, as revealed in online review by analyzing 14,064 reviews using Nvivo and Excel, with content analysis and text analysis with Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count to gain insights into reviewers' emotional expressions. It found that food, option/variety, price/value, employees, and atmosphere were important satisfiers/dissatisfiers. For casino buffets, the theme of options was present as both satisfier and dissatisfier, indicating it is important to this type of restaurant.

Tevfik Demirciftci

Amanda Belarmino

Carola Raab

Satisfiers and Dissatisfiers for Las Vegas Casino Buffet Restaurants: A Google Review and LIWC Analysis

拉斯维加斯赌场自助餐厅的满意因素与不满意因素：基于谷歌评论和LIWC分析

Local food tourism is becoming increasingly popular, riveting academics to determine the relationships between food image, loyalty, and local food consumption values. The authors particularly aimed to examine how food image might impact loyalty and the mediating role of local food consumption values in this relationship. The research sample comprises foreign tourists visiting İstanbul and Antalya. Analyses were performed over the data collected from 659 foreign tourists visiting the relevant destinations. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used for testing the hypotheses. The results revealed that food image is an influential element that plays a determinant role on local food consumption values. Moreover, it was found that food image affects loyalty positively and significantly. It was concluded that taste/quality value, epistemic value and interaction value mediate the relationship between food image and loyalty. On the grounds of the research findings, suggestions were presented for practitioners and future research.

Merve Çetin

Semra Akar Şahingöz

Food Image and Destination Loyalty: The Mediating Role of Local Food Consumption Values

食物图像与目的地忠诚度：地方食物消费价值的中介作用

Abbreviation
Journal Impact	1.36
Quartiles(Global)	HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM(Q3)

ISSN	2147-9100, 2148-7316
h-index	10

Publication Information	Publisher: Akdeniz University Publishing House，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2018，Proportion of original research papers: 94.29%，Self Citation Rate:8.30%， Gold OA Rate: 100.00%
Average review cycle	网友分享经验：25 Weeks

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MICE in Metaverse: Linking UTAUT 2 and Experiencescape

Comprehending Gastronomy Festivals: A Qualitative Case Study on Alanya Tropical Fruit Festival

Revealing Immersive Guest Experiences (IGX) in the Hotel Industry Using Clustering Analysis

Forecasting Tourist Arrivals to Sangiran Using Fuzzy with Calendar Variations

The Destination Media Profile and Tourist Travel Intentions: The Mediating Effect of Covid-19 Induced Perceived Risk

Revealing Immersive Guest Experiences (IGX) in the Hotel Industry Using Clustering Analysis

Comprehending Gastronomy Festivals: A Qualitative Case Study on Alanya Tropical Fruit Festival

MICE in Metaverse: Linking UTAUT 2 and Experiencescape

Satisfiers and Dissatisfiers for Las Vegas Casino Buffet Restaurants: A Google Review and LIWC Analysis

Food Image and Destination Loyalty: The Mediating Role of Local Food Consumption Values