Purpose This review aims to discuss concepts and theories from cognitive psychology, identifies tourism studies applying them and discusses key areas for future research. The paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness of cognitive psychology for understanding why tourists and particularly pleasure...

Purpose: This paper aims to provide a personal perspective on the application of psychological theory in tourism studies and the importance of cognitive science for future research. Design/methodology/approach: Empirical findings and theoretical ideas from cognitive science provide insights...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore recent trends in the theories and methods applied to studies on residents’ attitudes. Design/methodology/approach: To achieve the objective of this research, this paper provides a review of 90 journal articles on residents’ attitudes towards...

Purpose: Hotel labour costs in Malaysia are increasing. This paper aims to explore Langkawi hotel managers’ perceptions about reducing labour costs using various information and communication technology (ICT) innovations. Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured interviews were conducted...

Purpose – Despite the proliferation of the governance concept in the broader academic literature, there is little agreement on definitions, scope and what actually constitutes governance. This is arguably due to the fact that empirical research on the topic, with some exceptions, is generally...

Purpose – The growing interest in complexity science as a framework for understanding social and economic systems has had, in recent times, an influence on the study of tourism destinations. This paper aims to describe this approach and discuss its theoretical and methodological implications...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between fringe benefits (FB) provided to hotel managerial employees as part of their compensation and managers’ organisational commitment (OC). Design/methodology/approach – This empirical study collected quantitative data from 104...