Koit Hung

Datos Biográficos

ID307139
NOMBREKoit Hung
NOMBRESKoit
APELLIDOHung
FIRMAHUNG K
AFILIACIONESHong Kong Polytechnic University
ORCID0000-0002-0782-6804
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS42
TOTAL DE CITAS276
TOTAL COMO AUTOR42
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2005
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H10

  • Understanding China’s Post-Pandemic Hospitality and Tourism Landscape

    Pearl M C Lin, Vicky Y Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2025Referencias: 6

    202601 bcch

  • The Contagion of Labor

    Ken-Hou Lin, Koit Hung et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 82

  • Antecedents and outcome of tourists' positive achievement emotions in visiting risky destinations

    Open AccessNafiseh Rezaei, W J Huang et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Tourism…2023

    The learning experience is an inseparable part of tourism, especially in a risk context. This study investigates the mechanism of tourists' achievement emotions in visiting risky destinations. The Control‐Value Theory of Achievement Emotions has been applied and transposed from the education to tourism context for the first time. Data was collected from seven top markets for the Middle East. Local people and tour leaders' support, along with perc…

  • Can Personality Influence People’s Intention to Cruise? The Role of Personality in Chinese Propensity for Cruising

    Koit Hung, Lianping Ren et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2023Referencias: 10

    Understanding the effects of tourists’ personality characteristics on cruise-related decision making is vital to the development of cruise tourism but remains unexplored. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among tourists’ personality traits, emotions, and cruising intentions. Two rounds of online surveys were conducted in Mainland China (N = 2400). Results reveal the major role of personality in tourists’ emotions and cruis…

  • The Network Structure of Occupations

    Ken-Hou Lin, Koit HungARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology2022Citada por: 15Referencias: 107

    Occupational structure is commonly viewed as either hierarchical or organized around stable classes. Yet, recent studies have proposed to describe occupational structure as a network, where the mobility of workers demarcates boundaries. Moving beyond boundary detection, this article develops occupational networks as a dynamic system in which between-occupation exchange is shaped by occupational similarities and occupational attributes are in turn…

  • Luxury shopping abroad

    Open AccessKoit Hung, Kam Hung et al.ARTICLETourism Management2021Citada por: 3Referencias: 25

  • Continuing Education and Stratification at Midlife

    Open AccessE Grodsky, Catherine Doren et al.ARTICLESociology of Education2021Citada por: 3Referencias: 24

    We ask whether patterns of racial ethnic and socioeconomic stratification in educational attainment are amplified or attenuated when we take a longer view of educational careers. We propose a model of staged advantage to understand how educational inequalities evolve over the life course. Distinct from cumulative advantage, staged advantage asserts that inequalities in education ebb and flow over the life course as the population at risk of makin…

  • Tourism representation by DMOs at religious sites

    Open AccessXiaotao Yang, Koit Hung et al.ARTICLETourism Management2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 5

  • Professor-for-a-Day’

    Honggen Xiao, W J Huang et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 7

    Inviting industry professionals as speakers to university classrooms for the benefit of future managers is essential to an applied field of higher learning. This study examines the role of ‘Professor-for-a-Day’ in nurturing communities of learning and practice in hospitality and tourism education at the university level. Data were collected (auto-) ethnographically over five years (2012–2017) in Hong Kong, through in-depth interviews with guest s…

  • Entrepreneurial Motivation and Destination Evolution

    Sha Wang, Koit Hung et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 10

    This study aims to understand the small tourism business owner’s entrepreneurial motivation in different stages of destination development. Using a qualitative approach, 46 entrepreneurs who owned guesthouses in the Old Town of Lijiang, China, were interviewed. The findings suggest that business orientation was dominant in the predevelopment stage and that the livelihood motivation was a main cause of business orientation, whereas lifestyle orien…

  • A Dynamic View on Tourism and Rural Development

    Xiaotao Yang, Koit Hung et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2018Referencias: 3

    This study traces tourism and agriculture development in two typical villages of contemporary China, where one is tourism-oriented and the other is agriculture-oriented. Through in-depth interviews with 57 villagers, the study presents the complexity of the socio-cultural relationships underpinning agriculture and rural tourism and confirms that these relationships are not static. The comparison sheds light on the villagers’ varying attitudes tow…

  • Understanding the cruising experience of Chinese travelers through photo-interviewing technique and hierarchical experience model

    Open AccessKoit HungARTICLETourism Management2018Citada por: 5Referencias: 43

  • Development of measurement scale for functional congruity in guest houses

    Open AccessSha Wang, Koit Hung et al.ARTICLETourism Management2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 40

  • Attachment to the home country or hometown? Examining diaspora tourism across migrant generations

    Open AccessW J Huang, Koit Hung et al.ARTICLETourism Management2018Citada por: 16Referencias: 63

  • The role of travel in enhancing life satisfaction among Chinese older adults in Hong Kong

    Open AccessXue Bai, Koit Hung et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2017Citada por: 1Referencias: 49

    Life satisfaction is an important indicator of wellbeing and successful ageing, while boosting life satisfaction in later life has long been a policy and service challenge. Based on a questionnaire survey with 415 Chinese older adults aged 60 years and over in Hong Kong, this study examined how older adults' travel motivations influenced their travel actions and how the travel affected their life satisfaction using structural equation modelling. …

  • Do perceptions of time affect outbound-travel motivations and intention? An investigation among Chinese seniors

    Open AccessJiaying Lu, Koit Hung et al.ARTICLETourism Management2016Citada por: 7Referencias: 80

  • Towards the Understanding of Chinese Collaboration in Hospitality – The Opinions of Professionals

    Philipp Wassler, Sha Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2015Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    The increasingly competitive market in China has resulted in the struggle of hotels for competitive advantage, and even for survival. Among the possible tools to rise above this cut-throat environment is the concept of hotel collaboration. This paper moves towards the understanding of hotel collaboration in China based on the focus group discussions of 22 experienced practitioners in the Chinese hotel and related industries. The data identified s…

  • Is Lifestyle Tourism Business in the Age of Commercialization Just a Dream? Challenges and Remedies

    Sha Wang, Koit Hung et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2014Citada por: 2Referencias: 7

    Lifestyle tourism businesses have emerged in many Chinese township destinations, and with rapid tourism development in China the problem of commercialization cannot be ignored. This study explores the effects of tourism commercialization on lifestyle tourism business owners’ attitudes towards doing business. In-depth interviews were conducted with lifestyle tourism business owners in Yangshuo, China. The grounded theory approach was followed thro…

  • Exploring Antecedents of Employee Turnover Intention – Evidence of China’s Hotel Industry

    Hanqin Qiu, Ben Haobin Ye et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2014Citada por: 3Referencias: 12

    The current study explores the antecedents of hotel employee turnover in China and determines new antecedents in the hospitality industry. Three focus group interviews were conducted with 13 supervisory employees from a hotel in Shenzhen, China. The findings replicate and extend the extant hospitality literature. Several themes emerged to explain hotel employee turnover intention, such as promotional/advancement opportunity, work-life balance, co…

  • Brand-as-Person versus Brand-as-User

    Philipp Wassler, Koit HungARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Tourism…2014Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

    Tourism self-congruity studies use two facets to personify destinations, namely, brand-as-person and brand-as-user. These features have been considered synonymous in previous research, and thus the differences between these facets, which may demonstrate biased congruity, must be investigated. This study uses projective techniques to personify brand-as-person and brand-as-user for two tourist destinations. Both facets are distinct and must not be …

  • Housing Preferences of Temporary Migrants in UrbanChina in the wake of GradualHukouReform

    Open AccessEddie C M Hui, Koit Hung et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Urban…2014Citada por: 19Referencias: 23

    In the wake of the recent announcement by the State Council concerning the provision of public rental housing acrossChina, and the gradual reform ofChina's household registration system (hukou), this article explores how potential adjustments in government housing policies (namely access to public rental housing) influence the housing preferences of temporary migrants who are currently residing inside thechengzhongcun(urban villages) ofShenzhen. …

  • Exploring Buddhist Travelers' Expectations Toward Buddhist-Themed Hotels

    Koit Hung, Carey Goh et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2013Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

    Despite the growing trend and demand, religious tourism, particularly Buddhist tourism, has rarely been touched upon in scholarly research. Building on the case study of Mount Putuo, one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains in China, this study explores Buddhist travelers’ expectations toward Buddhist-themed hotels and provides recommendations on the development and management of Buddhist-themed hotels. Research results based on in-depth intervi…

  • Understanding China's Hotel Industry

    Koit HungARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2013Citada por: 6Referencias: 4

    China has experienced expedited growth in its hotel and tourism industry over the past 30 years and will likely be the world's top tourist destination in the next decade. Though these achievements are worthy of celebration, China's future hotel industry could benefit from a clear understanding of its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). This study aimed at understanding the Chinese hotel industry from the hoteliers’ perspecti…

  • China's Generation Y's Expectation on Outbound Group Package Tour

    Ting Jin, Scarlett T Jin et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Tourism…2013Citada por: 11Referencias: 3

    This paper aims to identify China's Generation Y's (Gen Y) preference toward joining group package tour (GPT) when traveling abroad and explore their expectations on a number of service attributes. Six service attribute dimensions were identified through factor analysis, including: group leader/local guide(s), optional tour and shopping arrangement, safety, cleanness, and comfortableness, accommodation, activities, and shopping length and frequen…

  • Why immigrants travel to their home places

    Open AccessKoit Hung, Kam Hung et al.ARTICLETourism Management2013Citada por: 8Referencias: 50