This study aims to identify Chinese tourism doctoral students' motivations for staying
overseas by using the push-pull model. Through purposive and snowball sampling, 22 semi …

Abstract Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) are often forced to optimize costs due
to limited resources. Thus, it is important to prioritize factors that will indeed bring results in a …

This research aims to explore the phenomenon of taking pets to tourism activities in China
based on the hierarchical leisure constraints model. In-depth interview with 23 participants …

A performance evaluation index system is built in this paper with four dimensions (service
performance, sales performance, behavioral performance, and social performance) and 14 …

Volunteering literature is yet to examine the motivations for helping at business events. This
paper contributes to closing this research gap by on-the-ground investigation of volunteer …

Purpose Corporate meetings are a large sector of the global meetings, incentive, convention
and exhibition (MICE) industry. However, regular attendance and productive participation by …

Although the involvement of diverse stakeholders is crucial for business events, there has
not been much attempt to investigate who should be considered as stakeholders and how …

Taking into consideration the scarcity of research on volunteering at conferences, this study
aims to examine conference volunteers' motivations by using the push–pull framework. This …

Despite the importance of the exhibition industry globally, and that of China in particular,
there is a paucity of research on this topic. This study aims to address this research gap by …

A myriad of combinations of organizational characteristics is more likely to be successful
than a limited number. To test this, we conducted an analysis comparing a variables' single …