In December 2019, a novel laboratory-confirmed coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection, which has caused clusters of severe illnesses, was first reported in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China. This foodborne illness, which reportedly most likely originated in a seafood market where wild animals are sold illegally, has transmitted among humans through close contact, across the world. The aim of this study is to explore health/risk perceptions of and attitudes toward healthy/risky food in the immediate context of food crisis. More specifically, by using the data collected from 1008 respondents in January 2020, the time when China was hit hard by the “Corona Virus Disease 2019” (COVID-19), this study investigates the overall and different generational respondents’ health/risk perceptions of and attitudes toward organic food and game meat. The results reveal that, firstly, based on their food health and risk perceptions of healthy and risky food, the respondents’ general attitudes are positive toward organic food but relatively negative toward game meat. Secondly, older generations have a more positive attitude and are more committed to organic food. Younger generations’ attitude toward game meat is more negative whereas older generations attach more importance to it because of its nutritional and medicinal values. In addition, this research also indicates that the COVID-19 crisis influences the respondents’ perceptions of and attitudes toward organic food and game meat consumption. However, the likelihood of its impact on older generations’ future change in diets is smaller, which implies that older generations’ food beliefs are more stable.

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This study examines the influence of hotels' green practices, recent amenities, and traditionally salient attributes on customers' overall online evaluation, revisit intention and hotel performance. The researchers acquired data from more than one hundred US hotels located across different states with the assistance of an international hotel chain. In order to demonstrate the incremental information content of recently-adopted hotel amenities and levels of green initiatives, the study compared two extended models with the basic model, which incorporates only salient attributes such as cleanliness, location, room, service and value. MethodsResearchers conducted focus-group interviews through video and telephone conferences with a total of eight managers. We controlled work experience and age in order to select the proper focus group members. They represented different functional departments: rooms, marketing, food and beverage, human resources, and engineering. ResultsThe findings indicate that the availability of recently-added amenities such as free Wi-Fi, pet boarding, free self-parking, multilingual staff, and airport transportation, as well as green practice initiatives, have a strong, incremental predictive power in explaining guests' overall online review ratings, price premium and revisit intention. ConclusionThis study confirmed the incremental predictive power of recent emerging attributes and green practices on guests' overall attitudes and their willingness to pay a price premium. Thus, traditional salient hotel attributes, for example, service, location, value for money, and room cannot fully meet guests' demanding expectations. This study's results corroborate the findings of Ottenbacher and Gnoth (2005) that hotels relying on the investment in these basic tangible or intangible facilities or services will not be any more successful.