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Minkyung Park
Bio: Minkyung Park is an academic researcher from George Mason University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tourism & Service quality. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 22 publications receiving 328 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared rural tourism places under different growth levels in terms of crime effects and found that high growth tourism counties would experience the greatest increase in average crime rates.
107 citations
TL;DR: This paper explored the underlying personal meanings of gambling behavior from the perspective of enduring involvement and considered the relationships among gambling and gender, level of participation, and illusion of control. And they found that male participants tended to view gambling as a form of self-enhancement or self-expression more strongly than did female participants.
Abstract: This study explores the underlying personal meanings of gambling behavior from the perspective of enduring involvement and considers the relationships among gambling and gender, level of participation, and illusion of control. Based on a self-administered survey of gambling visitors to Black Hawk, Colora, the study found three underlying factors of gambling involvement: (1) self-identity, (2) pleasure/importance, and (3) centrality. The study also found gender differences in gambling involvement, suggesting that male participants tended to view gambling as a form of self-enhancement or self-expression more strongly than did female participants. Management and research implications drawn from these findings are discussed.
61 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship among the experience of film festival visitors, their satisfaction, and their behavioral intention, and validated a mediating role of the escapist experience between the tourist's perceptions of festival performance and behavioral intention toward future film festival participation.
Abstract: Building on Pine and Gilmore's experience economy concepts and recent related travel research, this study newly investigated the relationships among the experience of film festival visitors, their satisfaction, and their behavioral intention. In particular, the study focused on how an escapist experience and traveler satisfaction mediated the effects of the other experiential dimensions on behavioral intention. The data supported the proposed theoretical relationships among the constructs and the applicability of the experience economy scales to festival management. The results also validate a mediating role of the escapist experience between the tourist's perceptions of festival performance and behavioral intention toward future film festival participation.
61 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored virtual internship practices and the adaptation to changes brought by the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis by interviewing a small group of interns and site supervisors.
Abstract: This study explored virtual internship practices and the adaptation to changes brought by the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis by interviewing a small group of interns and site supervisors to understand how virtual internships were practiced in the wake of COVID-19. The findings of the study provided several insights into virtual internships. Overall, just like the conventional fieldwork, well-planned and designed virtual internships could be an empowering learning experience that allows students to capitalize on the practical strengths while applying classroom learning experiences to actual management situations. The study also discussed the advantages and challenges of virtual internships perceived by the student interns. The implications of the study and suggestions for future research were addressed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a critique of the social impact of tourism literature, highlighting the inadequacies in the research that has been conducted to date, which then leads to the development of a new conceptual framework.
550 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature on quality of life and wellbeing in tourism is presented, focusing on two major constituency: residents of host communities and tourists, and they highlight sampling and data collection methods, and discuss issues of construct measurement.
507 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe case study research in Pennsylvania and New York to document preliminary impacts of development occurring there and find that, in areas with low population density, higher levels of development lead to a broader awareness of natural gas impacts, both positive and negative.
Abstract: Communities experiencing rapid growth due to energy development (‘boomtowns’) have reported positive and negative impacts on community and individual well-being. The perceptions of impacts vary according to stage of energy development as well as experience with extractive industries. Development of the Marcellus Shale provides an opportunity to examine these impacts over time and across geographic and historical contexts. This paper describes case study research in Pennsylvania and New York to document preliminary impacts of development occurring there. Cases vary by level of development and previous extractive history. The study finds that, in areas with low population density, higher levels of development lead to a broader awareness of natural gas impacts, both positive and negative. Participants draw from the regional history of
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of residents' perceptions of the impacts of tourism on community participation and support for tourism development across urban and rural world heritage sites (WHSs) are investigated and compared.
273 citations
TL;DR: This article investigated the characteristics of opinion leaders within the computer-mediated environment, analyzed the differences between online opinion leaders and online non-leaders and examined the implications of opinion leadership theory for e-commerce.
Abstract: This paper investigates the characteristics of opinion leaders within the computer-mediated environment, analyses the differences between online opinion leaders and online non-leaders and examines the implications of opinion leadership theory for e-commerce. This study finds that opinion leaders in computer-mediated environments possess significantly higher levels of enduring involvement, innovativeness, exploratory behaviour and self-perceived knowledge than non-leaders. Online opinion leaders also possess greater computer skills, have used the internet for a longer period of time and use the internet more frequently for longer sessions than non-leaders. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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