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Pilgrimage Tourism, one of the oldest forms of travelling, is the largest tourism sector in India; annually more than 70% of domestic tourist movement is for religious purposes which comes to 250 million pilgrims (Jachowski, 2000, Singh, 2016) and accounts for 20% of the revenue generated in the tourism industry (Dewan et al., 2008), hence, making it significant religiously,...

Today’s society is evolving at a fast pace. New communications tools are appearing every day and new technology is appearing constantly. To keep up with the newest trends, meet customers’ needs and stay competitive on the market, organizations have to adapt, change the way they operate. This is a complex matter which has to be addressed at societal, organizational and personal levels...

This paper explores the professional development needs of revenue management leaders. Considering the evolution of the function and the responsibilities of a revenue manager and the apparent lack of highly developed senior managers in the field of revenue management. The exploratory research determines the skills that revenue management leaders should ideally possess, identifies the...

One of the most important phases in planning a vacation is the booking activity process. The aim of this research is to study if the country of origin and/or seasonality has a link with the booking period (BP). The data used is from the largest booking platform of self-catering accommodations in the region of the Romand Valais in Switzerland. The data set contains more than 141,000...

Les processus de service doivent tenir compte du bien-être des employés pour créer de la valeur. L’article montre que le lien entre bien-être et création de valeur peut être aussi étudié sous l ’angle de la gestion des risques. Une approche exploratoire permet de comprendre cette problématique au sein du secteur de la gestion de fortune à Genève. Sur cette base, le modèle créé part...

This paper analyzes the demand for recreation in Swiss forests using the individual travel cost method. We apply a two-steps approach, i.e., a hurdle zero-truncated negative binomial model, that allows accounting for a large number of non-visitors caused by the off-site phone survey and over-dispersion. Given the national scale of the survey, we group forest zones to assess consumer...

Le tourisme de découverte économique propose de nouvelles expériences de consommation. Caractériser la visite d’entreprise comme une situation d’hospitalité offre à la littérature en marketing expérientiel un nouveau champ d’investigation, qui permet d’étudier les dimensions du concept d’hospitalité autant qu’il d’appréhende les réponses des visiteurs à l’hospitalité/inhospitalité...

Comment construire le futur de votre marque? Pourquoi et comment les brand vision archetypes vous aident à accomplir cette mission est le sujet de ce livre. Vous y trouverez des guides pratiques, les pièges à éviter, comment conduire des workshops, les listes de contrôle ainsi qu’un jeu complet de brand vision archetypes que vous pourrez copier pour votre propre usage.

Growing requirements for accountability and risk management put decentralized models of public governance under pressure. This article investigates the drivers for change from a completely decentralized, network-oriented model to a more centralized, and procedural governance model of school restaurants in a Swiss city. It focuses on the pressures and challenges that this municipality...