Metaverse in services marketing: an overview and future research directions

D Gursoy, L Lu, R Nunkoo, D Deng - The Service Industries Journal, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Although it is still at the inception stage, the Metaverse is likely to revolutionize service
marketing and management by disrupting existing business strategies, consumer norms …

Is coolness important to luxury hotel brand management? The linking and moderating mechanisms between coolness and customer brand engagement

NH Khoi, ANH Le - International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to contribute by forming the concept of luxury hotel brand (four-and
five-star hotel) coolness and revealing its promoting role to customer brand engagement …

The mediating effect of interpersonal distrust on the relationship between perceived organizational politics and workplace ostracism in higher education institutions

DN Karim, AHA Majid, K Omar, OJ Aburumman - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Despite a widespread consensus towards the implications of workplace ostracism to
employees, little research attention has been paid to exploring its determinants, especially in …

Lookism in hospitality and tourism workplaces: A multilevel review and research agenda

J Jones, A Manoharan, JM Madera - International Journal of Hospitality …, 2024 - Elsevier
By analyzing 47 articles on lookism of employees in Hospitality-Tourism workplaces
published up to March 2023 in hospitality and non-hospitality journals, this study provides a …

Is beauty always good? Effects of visual presentation of Influencer's aesthetic labor on brand purchase intention

S Xie, H Wei, F Liu - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2023 - Elsevier
Aesthetic labor plays a crucial role in social media influencer marketing. Based on the
theories of aesthetic labor and social media influencers, this study aims to identify the …

Ethically transformative experiences in hospitality

H Kuokkanen, K Kirillova - Annals of Tourism Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Given the significance of transformation and the conceptualization of experiences that
incorporate corporate social responsibility in their design to satisfy customers, this paper …

Formal versus casual: How do customers respond to service robots' uniforms? The roles of service type and language style

C Liu, L Xie - International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Although service robots wearing uniforms are increasingly common in hospitality services,
little is known about how robot uniforms affect customers' perceptions and behavioral …

Exploring the attractiveness of service robots in the hospitality industry: analysis of online reviews

H Park, S Jiang, OKD Lee, Y Chang - Information Systems Frontiers, 2024 - Springer
As the hospitality industry has begun adopting service robots to replace frontline human
services, service robots' attractiveness becomes a salient factor in their design and …

Emotional and social competence in the aestheticization of labor in the restaurant industry

V Genc, M Akoglan Kozak - International Journal of Contemporary …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance regarding the satisfaction of
customer needs in the competitive restaurant industry. Restaurants have seen a …

Luxury branding in the hospitality industry: The impact of employee's luxury appearance and elitism attitude

K Kim, MA Baker - Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Some of the luxury consumption literature suggests that luxury consumption is a beneficial
social signal for the actor which facilitates social interaction. However, a different stream of …