Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how food neophobia, food involvement, tour guide performance and intention of local food consumption impact each other. Design/methodology/approach A survey was performed with a sample of international tourists visiting Antalya, Turkey, and the data were used to test the proposed research model by means of structural equation modelling. Findings Results reflected a causal relationship among the examined constructs. Although tour guide performance had an insignificant effect on food neophobia, tourists’ food involvement negatively impacted and decreased neophobia. Originality/value This study is an exceptional contribution to the literature, as it empirically investigates the role of tour guides on tourists’ local food consumption behaviour.

Fairs play an important role in bringing together producers and consumers. However, participating businesses and fair visitors are separate groups that fair organizers need to keep satisfied for long-term business success and sustainability of the event. For comparing both side motivations, two separate surveys were performed during a local products fair held in Antalya, Turkey. Fortyfive company representatives and 244 visitors took part in the studies and the results showed that "innovation and promotion" motivations of the businesses coincide with "learning and trying" motivations of the visitors.

Ethics is a significant issue in business both on the firm level and wider phases. Ethics indicate what is right and what is wrong in business branches also lead employees and stakeholders with moral values. Ethics is the basics for an impartial internal environment in an organization. An ethical climate constituted on fair foundations and lead by executives upholding ethical standards in the first instance tend to be more achieved when compared to other firms, since fair organizational internal environment motivates employees by satisfying their necessities, enhancing the organizational performance initially, then to bringing about industry and country wide developments. Thus, the aim of this paper is to review ethical management and corporate performance with a theoretical point of view, also with comprising the international business dimension of ethics and its significance for businesses resting on profound publications.

The main purpose of this study is to analyse the effect of green meetings participants’ perceptions on behavioural intention related to green practices in the tourism industry. Finding out the factor structure of green meeting perception by means of EFA and confirming the discovered factor structure by using CFA are among the research goals. In this study, quantitative research methods were applied. For this purpose, a total of 275 questionnaires were obtained. The research sample consisted of medical conference participants in Antalya, Turkey in 2014 (health sector representatives including doctors, practitioners, nurses, representatives of medical firms, and academics). According to the results, participants supported all kinds of conservation measures to save food, water, electricity, and paper. They attached large importance to eco-friendly, sustainable applications and positively viewed eco-friendly material usage. In addition, it can be concluded that medical conference participants have higher perceptions regarding the forming of social awareness and increasing the number of eco-friendly green meetings in the world. Also, it can be stated that participants’ perceptions of green meetings have an important effect on their behavioural intentions towards eco-friendly practices in the meeting sector. The current study showed that a large number of the participants had the intention of attending green meetings but nearly half of them were not willing to pay more for green meetings. On the other hand, the participants were not sure about paying environmental tax on their travels. The present study pointed out that the participants with green meeting experience had more positive perceptions than those who did not. The originality of this paper stems from being one of the few studies in the context of tourism literature to test the effects of green meeting perception on behavioural intention about green practices and being one of leading studies discovering the factor structure of green meeting perception.

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