This study aims at determining the impact of liquidity and leverage on the performance of the Hotels and Entertainment Services Industry in the MENA region, using a sample of 71 selected publicly quoted firms in the cited industrial sector of the designated countries from the MENA region. A...

To what extent can accessing desired information transform our views, shape our behavior, or influence our wellbeing? What does occur in our mind when we find the information we need? Building upon these questions, what emotions arise in our consciousness when we encounter unexpected or...

This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use the fact that the number and timing of paid vacation...

Change is the only constant. 25th march 2020- a red letter day in the world calendar of the 21st century. Industries witnessed the unprecedented. While each new day spelt doom for yet another industry, a handful of companies started rolling in the big bucks. Aviation, entertainment, hospitality,...

This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use the fact that the number and timing of paid vacation...

This paper presents selected case studies of mergers and acquisitions in the entertainment sector that took place in the 21st century. The analysis carried out allows us to conclude that M&A processes in the entertainment sector are as complex as M&A processes in technology industries and...

COVID-19 has a negative impact on business performance through anti-contagion regulations and consumers’ self-restraints. It is especially serious in specific service industries such as hospitality, tourism, entertainment, and cultural industries. Empirical studies have been carried out on the...

This paper examines the impact of vaccination programs on the stock market volatility of the travel and leisure sector. Using daily data from 56 countries over the period from January 2020 to March 2021, we find that vaccination leads to a decrease in the investment risk of travel and leisure...

Recreation prices and hours worked have both fallen over the last century. We construct a macroeconomic model with general preferences that allows for trending recreation prices, wages, and work hours along a balanced-growth path. Estimating the model using aggregate data from OECD countries, we...

I show that recreation has become much more egalitarian over the last hundred years by estimating recreational expenditure elasticities in 1888-1890, 1917-1919, 1935-1936, 1972-1973, and 1991. I find that expenditure elasticities have fallen from around two at the beginning of the century to...

Corporations are consistently finding themselves at the forefront of social conversations as corporate boycotts and corporate social responsibility methods are becoming more ubiquitous in society. There has never been a better example of this than the entertainment industry’s response to...

Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for the last 105 years. We also present empirical and...

In the very popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top twenty-four contestants. It is only the votes of viewers that count. In the 2007 season of the show, one of the...

The scope of this study is to examine the impact of board gender diversity on corporate cash-holding decisions within the European sport and leisure sector. A sample of 125 unique firms was selected for the period from 2008 to 2019, and analysis was performed using panel fixed-effects...

This study aims to determine the influencing factors of consumer behavior thru online streaming shopping in entertainment marketing. The purpose of this study is 1) To determine the influence of social interaction ties and shared language and vision on trust. 2) To determine the influence of...

The United States economy, as well as the economies of several other highly industrialized nations, has experienced significant changes in sector composition over the last fifty years. The United States economy has shifted from manufacturing to a service based economy, where services represent...

"This innovative textbook explains how sport and leisure organisations can become more entrepreneurial in order to achieve sustainable growth. It introduces key tools, techniques and approaches that can help sport and leisure organisations put entrepreneurship at the centre of their culture....

Chapter-1: Emerging trends for reshaping digital entertainment: Role of demographics, consumer, and technological innovations -- Chapter 2: Digital Solution for Broadcast Media: Role of Pandemic and Sustainable Development of depleting industries -- Chapter 3: Digital Solution for Entertainment:...

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a peer-reviewed research journal, has been published annually since 2004. AHL is indexed in Scopus and included in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal quality list. Its editors, editorial board members, ad-hoc reviewers entail scholars...