Hosting ethnically and culturally rich religious festivals provides visitors a glimpse into how sense of togetherness faith are not only established but strengthened through shared beliefs ritualistic behavior. This research examines visitors’ destination loyalty their emotional bonding with place, the solidarity they experience residents, perceived level safety. Based on data collected from 813 during Attur Church Feast in Karkala, India, results indicated that place attachment directly...

Purpose During COVID 19 pandemic emergency remote teaching (ERT) in higher education emerged and faculty members had to go through a transformation teaching-learning without preparedness. The purpose of the study is understand instructional delivery experiences members, explore challenges how they overcame these during transition from traditional classroom ERT. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research approach using phenomenology adapted for study. conducted selected renowned...

Purpose Wine consumption among women in India is gradually increasing on the back of several factors such as increased urbanization, higher disposable income, rising affluence people, exposure to new cultures and a changing perception about wine being healthy beverage. Eventually, this offers tremendous opportunities for marketers design appropriate strategies target Indian consumers. However, along with growth, there growing need identify attributes that desire wines their choice. Toward...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence two personality traits (i.e. food neophobia (FN) and domain-specific innovativeness (DSI)) on revisit intentions consumers in festival context. Design/methodology/approach study adopted a FN scale, DSI scale intention capture constructs. Furthermore, data were collected from 265 attendees town Udupi (State Karnataka, India). structural equating modeling relationship between three Findings findings reveals that seems exercise...

Purpose Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a method intended to create awareness, knowledge, competence and attitude amongst stakeholders towards Goals (SDGs) through higher education curricula. This bibliometric analysis, coupled with systematic review, presents comprehensive objective assessment of the evolution Sustainability in Hospitality (SHE) literature. Design/methodology/approach study integrated two review techniques: analysis peer-reviewed scientific articles published...

As wine has become more than just a drink, exploring consumer studies provides better understanding of various factors that shape the industry. Therefore, this paper aims to review and map landscape literature using bibliometric analysis systematic review. It identifies key areas, clusters, antecedents, mediators, moderators, outcomes propose framework for future research directions. This study adopts an integrative approach: The data were retrieved from Scopus database. While analyses are...

Purpose This study aims to identify and validate the different clusters of wine festival visitors based on their hedonic motivation. Further, this also sought how identified were in terms perceived value, satisfaction loyalty festival. Design/methodology/approach A survey was conducted during International Beach Wine Festival held Karnataka, India, collect primary data from 400 visitors. Data subjected a two-step cluster analysis. segmentation visitors’ demographics, conducted. Decision tree...

Despite the growing interest in sustainable tourism studies India, there are not many that comprehensively analyse emerging trends, patterns, and themes this field. Therefore, study reviews published papers on development Indian context. This analyses 32 by researchers Scopus database. performed performance of research constituents, coword analysis keywords, bibliographic coupling documents. The brings to light three streams literature: development, community-based tourism, attitude toward...

Purpose This study aims to identify and validate the different clusters of wine consumers in India based on wine-related lifestyle (WRL) instrument. It also investigates how identified differ terms socio-demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, income, education, employment marital status. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a survey using structured questionnaire collect data from India. number participants totalled 432. first latent profile analysis. then used...

Sustainable tourism development relies heavily on the attitudes and involvement of residents (Da Silva Lopes et al., 2019; Pazhuhan 2023; Vivek, 2021), who serve as key stakeholders in shaping future their communities. Central to this is residents' Sense Community (SOC) (Sarason, 1974), a crucial aspect community development, it enhances participation contributes overall well-being communities (Talò 2014). Research has shown that strong sense associated with various positive outcomes,...

This research examined the relationship between cultural festival experience and subjective well-being among attendees. In this connection, study captured perceptions of 192 attendees' attending "Virasat" in India on four subdimensions experiences (i. e., music experience, atmosphere, social separation experience) well-being. Accordingly, adopted structural equation modeling (SEM) hierarchical regression analysis to examine constructs. Results that emerge from point towards presence a...