tourism research
UH Study Finds Luxury Shoppers Opting for High-End Experiences Over Goods
The University of Houston | May 5, 2023
HOUSTON, May 5, 2023 – In an ever-evolving, post-pandemic world, more and more consumers of luxury goods are opting for unplanned, high-end experiences instead, according to researchers at the University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership. In a new study published in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, Minjing Shin, an assistant professor at Hilton College, and her colleagues at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, suggest unplanned purchases of luxury experiences increase positive emotions and a sense of escapism. Hospitality experts define escapism as an intense experience that allows indivi...
Tourism Tidbits: Developing a Tourism Marketing Plan in a Changing World – Part 2 of 2
Dr. Peter Tarlow | October 1, 2018
By Dr. Peter Tarlow As noted in part one of this two part series, the tourism industry lives in a dynamic environment. Tourism is dependent on economic conditions, on climate, on political conditions and on local issues such a health and security. In all of these cases, the tourism professional is often in a reactive rather than proactive position. This need to react may lead to certain levels of frustration and even inaction. Although it is rare that a tourism professional can change major economic or political trends, there is however much more that s/he can do to shape his or her part of the industry. Tourism Tidbits offers the follo...
Tourism Tidbits: Natural Disasters and Tourism
Dr. Peter Tarlow | October 3, 2017
by Dr. Peter Tarlow The recent hurricanes in the United States and the Caribbean, the earthquake in Mexico, and floods occurring in parts of Europe ought to serve once again to remind us that much of the tourism industry is dependent on Mother Nature. Although we tend to focus tourism security more on human actions such as terrorism or crime, these acts of nature are as or often more deadly than acts perpetrated by humans. We tend to use terms such as "Acts of God" or "Natural Disasters", but in reality many of these disasters are as much a result of poor planning and poor risk management as they are results of acts of nature. All too o...
Tourism Tidbits: Still More on Old-New Forms of Tourism Research and Product Development
Dr. Peter Tarlow | September 6, 2017
by Dr. Peter Tarlow The world is changing faster than most of us can comprehend. New threats seem to arise daily, from threats of nuclear war to threats of economic crises, from acts of low-tech terrorism, such as car ramming, to new computer scams. These accelerated changes means that tourism professionals must adapt to a world that is not only often incomprehensible to the professional but even more so to his/her client. This consistency of change requires tourism professionals to constantly update their attitudes and assumptions and become not only up-to-date with the world in which they work, but also be open to constantly new "...
