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Moreover, the behaviour of the tourism and The second paper explores the hotel selection
hospitality industry in the world is rapidly patterns of leisure travelers to understand their
changing due to the COVID-19 pandemic loyalty or variety-seeking intentions and profile
threat. This has negatively influenced the them through the key characteristics, factors
economics of tourism, importantly the travel that influence their hotel consumption patterns.
and job markets, because of the lockdowns and This paper extends the concept of variety-
other social distancing measures applied to the seeking behavior to micro-level consumption
industry. The critical areas like entertainment choices-hotel selection at a destination with
and recreation, food and beverage, hotel particular reference to Australia.
(lodging), and travel & tourism sectors have
been most unfavorably affected, prompting The third investigates visitor preferences for
cutback of paid positions for large numbers of different safari tour packages regarding the
employees worldwide. The sector’s economic Udawalawe National Park (UNP) in Sri Lanka.
development has come to a grinding halt, and The study's findings will be helpful to park
the danger of rising rate of need, craving, and managers in proposing a realistic price
other imbalances is genuine. This abrupt fall in structure for safari tours and providing good
the tourism and hospitality industry has had service to visitors at the UNP. The fourth paper
severe monetary and social results in and out assessed the performance of green resort
of South Asia. Hence, it is of utmost importance attributes while appraising how personal
to investigate the contemporary issues of emotional intelligence influences tourists’
sustainability like the pandemic in tourism and future behavioural responses. The findings of
hospitality, and SAJTH focuses on such original this study are found to apply to green resorts in
research in and out of South Asia. Malaysia as their performance induces positive
emotions that impact the behaviours of tourists
towards them in the future, for example,
The second issue of volume one sets out our recommending green resorts to their families or
new knowledge in tourism and hospitality friends. The fifth paper focuses on Bao from a
through five research papers and a book review sports tourism perspective by exploring the
that critically investigate current tourism and perception of the destination as sports tourism
hospitality issues in and out of South Asia. The amongst the residents of Tanzania. It is
first paper aims to determine the critical criteria suggested that the tourism stakeholders such
needed to implement sustainable development as destination marketing organizations should
goals (SDGs) through a systematic literature consider the factors such as leisure, refreshing
review approach. The study's conclusion the mind, the attraction of locals and tourists to
suggests that using Network Theory to assess Bao, and the sense of belonging to a group or
tourism policies may assist in the success of community when promoting Bao as sports
procedures for achieving the SDGs due to their tourism.
interrelated nature.
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