Factors influencing MICE tourism stakeholders' decision making: The case of Aqaba in Jordan

Alananzeh, Omar; Al-Badarneh, Mohammad; Al-Mkhadmeh, Ahmad; Jawabreh, Omar

doi:10.1080/15470148.2018.1526152

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“…Additionally, since MICE tourism facilitates core functions of organisations, Fenich (2008) contends its relative resilience in times of crises. For these reasons, amongst others, MICE tourism has become known to increase the competitiveness of tourism destinations (Cassar et al, 2020;Alananzeh et al, 2019). Affirming such assertions, Nicula and Elena (2014) note that the sector offers opportunities for diversification of the tourism experience, especially from the natural and anthropogenic elements of destinations that have long attracted international tourists.…”

Section: Mice Tourismmentioning

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Adaptive Strategies Employed by the Mice Sector in Response to Covid-19

Lekgau¹,

Economics²,

Tichaawa³

2021

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COVID-19 has brought to the fore drastic and transformative changes to MICE tourism. The current study therefore sought to examine the adaptive responses employed by the MICE sector of South Africa to survive and maintain business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adopting a qualitative research design, 19 representatives of various subsectors of the MICE industry (including organisers, suppliers, and associations) were interviewed. The data reveals that the immediate strategies implemented by many MICE organisations involved the reevaluation of their operational costs. Moreover, the study found that the sector has readjusted its business models to include virtual events in order to ensure recovery and resilience in light of the pandemic. The study argues the importance of understanding adaptive strategies as broadening theory on tourism and crises (specifically to the MICE sector) as well as understanding the process of sector resilience post-COVID-19.

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Section: Mice Tourismmentioning

confidence: 96%

Adaptive Strategies Employed by the Mice Sector in Response to Covid-19

Lekgau¹,

Economics²,

Tichaawa³

2021

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“…This legislation seeks to address the challenges facing the preservation of the environment. The legislation has been in existence since the early 1950s (Al-Zu'bi, 2011;Jawabreh, 2017b;and Alananzeh et al, 2019).…”

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Business Sustainability Through Environmental and Operational Management in Five Star Hotels in Amman, Jordan

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This paper aims to investigate sustainable environmental performance in five-star hotels in Amman, Jordan. The primary objective of the study is to determine the impact of business and operational practices of five-star hotels in Amman. The research focuses on five operational departments, including maintenance and security (MS), food and beverage (F&B), kitchens (K), purchasing (P), and housekeeping (H). This study adopted a qualitative method, using semi-structured interviews as the primary source for collecting extensive data. Moreover, the study employed quantitative instruments in data collection using a survey instrument and non-participatory observation as triangulation to the qualitative method. The study involved respondents from 13 fivestar hotels in Amman, Jordan. This paper examines the impact of operational business practices on environmental sustainability in five-star hotel properties in Amman. It suggests ways in which sustainable practices can contribute positively towards allowing hotels to achieve better performance towards the environment. The findings showed that all five-star hotels applied different sustainable practices in their daily operations to achieve sustainable environmental performance. Most of the respondents from the five operational departments acknowledged that suitable use of water and energy savings were the preferred choices that aided sustainability practices in the hotel properties

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“…Business tourism has been identified as one of the key drivers of tourism growth worldwide (Alananzeh et al, 2019;Bueno et al, 2020;Mair and Jago, 2010;Rogerson, 2015). Business tourism scholarship often points to the use of business tourism as part of tourism-led urban regeneration and destination marketing strategies (Lau et al, 2005;Alananzeh et al, 2019;Buathong and Lai, 2017;Davidson, 2018). Indeed, many urban areas have invested in conference centres and business accommodations that are often needed for business travellers, and have established convention bureaus in becoming competitive business tourism destinations (Davidson, 1994;Buathong and Lai, 2017;Mair and Jago, 2010;Rogerson, 2015).…”

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“…The available writing on business tourism is overwhelmingly based on the 'Northern' conceptualization of business tourism, with the European Union, East Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand being the contexts on which most scholarship is concentrated (Rogerson, 2014a). Commonly, researchers have investigated factors influencing the choice of destination for business events (see Haven-Tang et al, 2007;Byrne and Skinner, 2007;Dragićević et al, 2012;Marais et al, 2017;Alananzeh et al, 2019;Henderson, 2007), sustainability and development issues concerned with business tourism (Dwyer and Forsyth, 1997;Dwyer and Mistilis, 1999;Hoyer and Naess, 2001;Katsitadze and Natsvlishvili, 2017;Lau et al, 2005;Mair and Jago, 2010;Marques and Santos, 2017), and the use of business tourism as part of destination marketing for urban cities (Marques and Pinho, 2021;Cieslikowski, 2015). Predominantly, this literature on the northern or developed context focuses on the formal sector of business tourism -either domestic or international tourists travelling with the intent on attending MICE events (Rogerson, 2015).…”

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Informal Business Tourism in Cameroon

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2021

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The uniqueness of business tourism in the African context is argued to be an amalgam of several clusters of activities manifested in both the formal and informal sectors. In this study, business tourism in the global south, with a specific focus on the informal sector in Cameroon is analysed. Using data that was collected from a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with three hundred and seventy-seven business travellers, the study reveals that informal business tourism includes domestic business travellers classified into five distinctive categories: (1) informal salespeople (2) shopowners (3) herdsmen (4) local farmers and (5) wholesalers. The study concludes that informal business tourism represents an important sector that contributes to tourism development and if well harnessed, its multiplier effect could be widespread amongst the different economic sectors of Cameroon.

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Factors influencing MICE tourism stakeholders' decision making: The case of Aqaba in Jordan

Cited by 35 publications

References 43 publications

Adaptive Strategies Employed by the Mice Sector in Response to Covid-19

Adaptive Strategies Employed by the Mice Sector in Response to Covid-19

Business Sustainability Through Environmental and Operational Management in Five Star Hotels in Amman, Jordan

Informal Business Tourism in Cameroon

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