The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel tenant mix model for shopping malls from an analogy of ecological theories. This study empirically investigated the tenant species-area relationship and tenant species-abundance distribution in shopping malls. By a sample of 25 shopping malls are...

Touristification is an emerging concept used to enable the understanding of how various stakeholders interfere and transform a neighbourhood through tourist activities. This study develops a touristification rent gap theory to examine how an influx of tourists causes an increase in retail rents....

This paper aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on retail real estate and high street landscape through acceleration of e-commerce and digitalization. The retail business have been evolving over the past several decades, accentuated by the evolution and development of digital...

The scholarly literature in retail proposes various shopper typologies. However, the global retail environment, especially in the United States, is undergoing a metamorphosis. Against the backdrop of changing retail technologies, the onset of ‘de-malling’ trends calls for a re-examination of...

Purpose – Omni-channel marketing in the retail environment involves the integration of multi-channel marketing activities to provide a unified and holistic shopping experience to customers. The purpose of this paper is to understand the impact of omni-channel marketing in the retail...

Hong Kong as a small city has witnessed a drastic change in the number of short-stay and same-day tourists from Mainland China ever since the relaxation of the tourism policy began in the early 2000’s. This study examines the impacts on the prices of retail space attributed to the substantial...

Most of the previous studies on the impacts of pedestrianised areas on the environment were qualitative ones, and without controls. This study, in contrast, using panel market data in Hong Kong to estimate the effect of a pedestrianisation scheme on the retail rent of the area, in a controlled...