Amany E Salem
Biographic Data
| ID | 1310974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amany E Salem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amany E |
| FAMILY NAME | Salem |
| SIGNATURE | SALEM A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | King Faisal University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bibliometric Analysis of the Research Landscape and Evolutionary Trends of Climate Change Impacts on Ecotourism Destinations
Research on the impacts of climate change on ecotourism destinations is mostly dominated by qualitative descriptions and single-region empirical analyses, suffering from fragmentation and lack of cross-regional analysis, which makes it difficult to grasp the global knowledge landscape and evolutionary trends of this field. This study takes 178 relevant literatures from the Web of Science Core Collection between 2002 and 2025 as samples, employs V…
From Mašrabiya to Ṣaḥn
Cairo’s Islamic architectural heritage represents one of the world’s most significant concentrations of pre-industrial environmental ingenuity. For over a millennium, an integrated suite of passive climate-control systems—the Mašrabiya latticework screen, the open courtyard (Ṣaḥn), the wind-scoop (Malqaf), and stalactite vaulting (Muqarnas)—has moderated temperature, humidity, and airflow with remarkable effectiveness. Today, these inherited solu…
Customer Segmentation and Travel Behavior Analysis of Expedia Users
The current research utilizes a data-driven approach to segment Expedia users based on their behavior, using a dataset of user records to delineate traveler segments and their behaviors. The current study employed a dataset of 2,000 real Expedia users, and the collected variables included search behavior, booking actions, travel distances, travel party attribut es, and device usage. Using K-means clustering and subsequent statistical analysis, fo…
The Transformative Role of Place Attachment in Converting Sustainability Perceptions Into Active Tourist Advocacy
While a significant body of literature exists on sustainable tourism, little is known about the psychological mechanisms by which perceptions of sustainability are translated into advocacy behaviors. The affective and identity-based pathways that connect sustainability to proactive advocacy have been poorly theorized, as the majority of the literature has predicted advocacy from direct cognition rather than affective mediators. Further, advocacy …
From Classroom to Marketplace
This study examines how factors affect Egyptian tourism and hospitality students' digital entrepreneurial intention (DEI). The research investigates the extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) with self-efficacy, digital literacy, and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 3 (UTAUT3) as influential factors. The aim is to identify essential factors that help form potential digital entrepreneurs in the tourism and hospitality sect…
Preserving the Past
Historic urban cities face increasing pressure from tourism, necessitating sophisticated approaches to visitor management that protect both heritage values and local communities. The current study develops new sustainable metrics—sustainable visitor capacity (SVC) and Sustainable Visitation Index (SVI)—to provide a multifaceted assessment of heritage destination management beyond simple visitor volume calculations. The SVC considers operating hou…
Enhancing sustainable passenger experience through duty-free shopping at King Fahd Airport
With the increasing significance of travel retail within the global tourism industry, understanding the effects of duty-free shopping experiences on traveler well-being and brand perceptions has become crucial for enhancing customer satisfaction and engagement. This study examines the relationships between duty-free shopping experiences, traveler well-being, and brand perceptions at King Fahd International Airport. Utilizing a quantitative resear…
Enhancing regional well-being
The role of infrastructure in promoting regional well-being has gained significant attention. Infrastructure is critical in integrating the regional economy, multiplying economic development, and improving quality of life. Effective decision-making is crucial to maximize the return on these capital investments. This study assesses infrastructure investments’ short-term and long-term impacts. Short-term efficiency is evaluated through the multipli…
The Impact of Deceptive Hospitality and Tourism Marketing Tactics on Tourists’ Social Media Interactions and Trust and Destination Image in Emerging Markets
While previous research has examined the impacts of discrete deceptive marketing practices, limited studies have taken a holistic perspective to understand the interconnected relationships between various deceptive tactics across different marketing mix elements and key tourist behaviors and perceptions. This represents a significant gap as the complex interlinkages shape challenges for developing tourism industries. Therefore, this study explore…
Understanding the Influence of Food Value on Fast-Food Customer Behavior
This study proposes investigating the effect of food value on food bloggers' reviews (i.e., the direct effect) and the customers' purchase intentions (i.e., the direct and indirect effects) of fast-food restaurants. In addition, this study examines the moderating role of content credibility on food blogger reviews and customers' purchase intention relationships. The quantitative method is used in this study to gather data from fast-food restauran…
Digital Information’s Influence on Forming Tourism Event Impressions
Digital information plays a crucial role in shaping tourists' expectations and impressions of potential destinations and activities. This study explores how perceptions of digital information vary across different tourism experience types (adventure, leisure, cultural) and examines the complex interactions between digital information perception and tourism engagement. A survey was conducted among tourists actively participating in various tourism…
Locus of Control Theory in Treating Tourist Behavior
We aim to shed light on this issue by reviewing the roots and development of the locus of control theory. Moreover, we will introduce how we can use this development, in theory, to provide a new research direction in the tourism service field. A theory-based review was conducted to investigate the locus of control theory roots and its potential implications in the tourism industry using the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) list to explore…
The Power of Integration Towards Sustainable Performance
To develop a model that integrates restaurant and employee resources to overcome technostress and achieve sustainable performance. This qualitative study is based on twenty-two semi-structured interviews with restaurant managers and frontline employees (FLEs) to comprehensively understand how restaurant resources and personnel can be employed to combat technostress and achieve sustainable performance. Restaurant FLEs experience technostress from …
Travelers’ Subjective Well-Being as an Environmental Practice
The physical environment of airports plays a crucial role in improving travelers' perceptions and well-being. Adopting a green physical environment may elicit customers' cognitive and emotional responses and provide a convenient consumption environment. Brand experience and engagement are other important consumer-firm interactions that influence the attributes of the passengers' well-being. The current study sought to assess the impact of the eco…
Transformational Leadership, Employee Engagement, Job Satisfaction, and Psychological Well-Being among Hotel Employees after the Height of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Over the past few years, great attention has been given to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences on employee psychological well-being (PWB), particularly in the hospitality industry. Like many aspects of human life, employee PWB is influenced by multiple factors. One of the factors that may affect employee PWB is transformational leadership (TLS). Accordingly, we aim through this study to empirically (1) examine the direct eff…
The Impact of Religious Tourists’ Satisfaction With Hajj Services on Their Experience at the Sacred Places in Saudi Arabia
To identify the impact of satisfaction with the provided services (food quality, transportation, accommodation, medical services and the religious guidance) on the spiritual experience of religious tourists, as well as the potential moderating role of pilgrims’ demographic characteristics on the relationship between service satisfaction and experience. A structured survey was distributed among the domestic pilgrims in Mecca, Saudi Arabia who perf…
Renewing the Ecotourism Investments’ Strategies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The present study aimed to assess Saudi residents' attitudes toward tourism destination activities/initiatives using social exchange theory. In particular, we investigated the residents' perceptions of tourism's economic, sociocultural, environmental, and health impacts. A survey-based study was carried out on 190 residents from Saudi Arabia's biggest cities (Riyadh, Jeddah, Dhahran, Jubail, and Yanbu industrial area). Residents positively percei…
Service Value and Repurchase Intention in the Egyptian Fast-Food Restaurants
Service value is a crucial dominant indicator in customer decision-making. However, there is a lack of hospitality literature that investigates the multi-dimensional service value in emerging markets. Thus, this study aims to create a multi-dimensional scale for service value and to analyze how different service value dimensions affect customers repurchase intentions at fast-food restaurants. We make a conceptual framework with eight constructs, …
Impact of Rural Tourism Development on Residents’ Satisfaction with the Local Environment, Socio-Economy and Quality of Life in Al-Ahsa Region, Saudi Arabia
Tourism has a significant role in destination development, particularly in rural regions. However, within the context of the highly sensitive nature of rural areas to the ecological, economic, and socio-cultural effects of tourism development, it is important to assess the levels of satisfaction among the residents of rural destinations. The current study aimed to assess the impact of rural tourism development in the Al-Ahsa region, Saudi Arabia …
Digital-Free Tourism Holiday as a New Approach for Tourism Well-Being
Digital-free tourism (DFT) has recently attracted tourism service providers' attention for its benefits in terms of enhancing tourists' experiences and well-being at destinations. DFT refers to tourists who are likely to voluntarily avoid digital devices and the Internet on holiday, or travel to destinations without network signals. DFT has advantages for tourists in increasing well-being, mental health, and social networking during their journey…
The Impact of Eatmarna Application Usability on Improving Performance Expectancy, Facilitating the Practice of Rituals and Improving Spirituality Feelings during Umrah Amid the Covid-19 Outbreak
The electronic tourism era has rapidly emerged during the explosive spread of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. The role of information technology was also evident in the religious tourism sector, and this facilitated the organization of religious events for Muslims, such as Hajj and Umrah. In the present study, we assessed the usability of a mobile application (Eatmarna) which provides permits to perform Umrah and other religious practices in Mak…
Impact of Service Quality of Low-Cost Carriers on Airline Image and Consumers’ Satisfaction and Loyalty during the Covid-19 Outbreak
Low-cost carriers (LCCs) in Saudi Arabia operate in a competitive, highly demanding environment. Customer-related attributes may be influenced by the levels of service quality in a no-frills airline, which might impact satisfaction and loyalty. Given the unique traveler and market characteristics of the aviation sector in the kingdom, we sought to investigate the impact of service quality of LCCs on customer satisfaction and loyalty and the perce…
The Social Responsibility of Tourism and Hotel Establishments and Their Role in Sustainable Tourism Development in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
This study aims to assess the impact of implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices on sustainable tourism development in Al-Ahsa city, Saudi Arabia. A survey was electronically distributed to the managers of hotels and travel agencies in Al-Ahsa City. A total of eight CSR strategies, including information analysis, compensation, system, delegation, prevention, education, regulation, and marketing, were extracted from the literat…
The Impact of Eatmarna Application Usability on Improving Performance Expectancy, Facilitating the Practice of Rituals and Improving Spirituality Feelings during Umrah Amid the Covid-19 Outbreak
The electronic tourism era has rapidly emerged during the explosive spread of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. The role of information technology was also evident in the religious tourism sector, and this facilitated the organization of religious events for Muslims, such as Hajj and Umrah. In the present study, we assessed the usability of a mobile application (Eatmarna) which provides permits to perform Umrah and other religious practices in Mak…
The Social Responsibility of Tourism and Hotel Establishments and Their Role in Sustainable Tourism Development in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
This study aims to assess the impact of implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices on sustainable tourism development in Al-Ahsa city, Saudi Arabia. A survey was electronically distributed to the managers of hotels and travel agencies in Al-Ahsa City. A total of eight CSR strategies, including information analysis, compensation, system, delegation, prevention, education, regulation, and marketing, were extracted from the literat…
Impact of Service Quality of Low-Cost Carriers on Airline Image and Consumers’ Satisfaction and Loyalty during the Covid-19 Outbreak
Low-cost carriers (LCCs) in Saudi Arabia operate in a competitive, highly demanding environment. Customer-related attributes may be influenced by the levels of service quality in a no-frills airline, which might impact satisfaction and loyalty. Given the unique traveler and market characteristics of the aviation sector in the kingdom, we sought to investigate the impact of service quality of LCCs on customer satisfaction and loyalty and the perce…
The Impact of Religious Tourists’ Satisfaction With Hajj Services on Their Experience at the Sacred Places in Saudi Arabia
To identify the impact of satisfaction with the provided services (food quality, transportation, accommodation, medical services and the religious guidance) on the spiritual experience of religious tourists, as well as the potential moderating role of pilgrims’ demographic characteristics on the relationship between service satisfaction and experience. A structured survey was distributed among the domestic pilgrims in Mecca, Saudi Arabia who perf…
Renewing the Ecotourism Investments’ Strategies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The present study aimed to assess Saudi residents' attitudes toward tourism destination activities/initiatives using social exchange theory. In particular, we investigated the residents' perceptions of tourism's economic, sociocultural, environmental, and health impacts. A survey-based study was carried out on 190 residents from Saudi Arabia's biggest cities (Riyadh, Jeddah, Dhahran, Jubail, and Yanbu industrial area). Residents positively percei…
Service Value and Repurchase Intention in the Egyptian Fast-Food Restaurants
Service value is a crucial dominant indicator in customer decision-making. However, there is a lack of hospitality literature that investigates the multi-dimensional service value in emerging markets. Thus, this study aims to create a multi-dimensional scale for service value and to analyze how different service value dimensions affect customers repurchase intentions at fast-food restaurants. We make a conceptual framework with eight constructs, …
Impact of Rural Tourism Development on Residents’ Satisfaction with the Local Environment, Socio-Economy and Quality of Life in Al-Ahsa Region, Saudi Arabia
Tourism has a significant role in destination development, particularly in rural regions. However, within the context of the highly sensitive nature of rural areas to the ecological, economic, and socio-cultural effects of tourism development, it is important to assess the levels of satisfaction among the residents of rural destinations. The current study aimed to assess the impact of rural tourism development in the Al-Ahsa region, Saudi Arabia …
Digital-Free Tourism Holiday as a New Approach for Tourism Well-Being
Digital-free tourism (DFT) has recently attracted tourism service providers' attention for its benefits in terms of enhancing tourists' experiences and well-being at destinations. DFT refers to tourists who are likely to voluntarily avoid digital devices and the Internet on holiday, or travel to destinations without network signals. DFT has advantages for tourists in increasing well-being, mental health, and social networking during their journey…
The Impact of Eatmarna Application Usability on Improving Performance Expectancy, Facilitating the Practice of Rituals and Improving Spirituality Feelings during Umrah Amid the Covid-19 Outbreak
The electronic tourism era has rapidly emerged during the explosive spread of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. The role of information technology was also evident in the religious tourism sector, and this facilitated the organization of religious events for Muslims, such as Hajj and Umrah. In the present study, we assessed the usability of a mobile application (Eatmarna) which provides permits to perform Umrah and other religious practices in Mak…
Locus of Control Theory in Treating Tourist Behavior
We aim to shed light on this issue by reviewing the roots and development of the locus of control theory. Moreover, we will introduce how we can use this development, in theory, to provide a new research direction in the tourism service field. A theory-based review was conducted to investigate the locus of control theory roots and its potential implications in the tourism industry using the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) list to explore…
The Power of Integration Towards Sustainable Performance
To develop a model that integrates restaurant and employee resources to overcome technostress and achieve sustainable performance. This qualitative study is based on twenty-two semi-structured interviews with restaurant managers and frontline employees (FLEs) to comprehensively understand how restaurant resources and personnel can be employed to combat technostress and achieve sustainable performance. Restaurant FLEs experience technostress from …
Travelers’ Subjective Well-Being as an Environmental Practice
The physical environment of airports plays a crucial role in improving travelers' perceptions and well-being. Adopting a green physical environment may elicit customers' cognitive and emotional responses and provide a convenient consumption environment. Brand experience and engagement are other important consumer-firm interactions that influence the attributes of the passengers' well-being. The current study sought to assess the impact of the eco…
Transformational Leadership, Employee Engagement, Job Satisfaction, and Psychological Well-Being among Hotel Employees after the Height of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Over the past few years, great attention has been given to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences on employee psychological well-being (PWB), particularly in the hospitality industry. Like many aspects of human life, employee PWB is influenced by multiple factors. One of the factors that may affect employee PWB is transformational leadership (TLS). Accordingly, we aim through this study to empirically (1) examine the direct eff…
Enhancing sustainable passenger experience through duty-free shopping at King Fahd Airport
With the increasing significance of travel retail within the global tourism industry, understanding the effects of duty-free shopping experiences on traveler well-being and brand perceptions has become crucial for enhancing customer satisfaction and engagement. This study examines the relationships between duty-free shopping experiences, traveler well-being, and brand perceptions at King Fahd International Airport. Utilizing a quantitative resear…
Enhancing regional well-being
The role of infrastructure in promoting regional well-being has gained significant attention. Infrastructure is critical in integrating the regional economy, multiplying economic development, and improving quality of life. Effective decision-making is crucial to maximize the return on these capital investments. This study assesses infrastructure investments’ short-term and long-term impacts. Short-term efficiency is evaluated through the multipli…
The Impact of Deceptive Hospitality and Tourism Marketing Tactics on Tourists’ Social Media Interactions and Trust and Destination Image in Emerging Markets
While previous research has examined the impacts of discrete deceptive marketing practices, limited studies have taken a holistic perspective to understand the interconnected relationships between various deceptive tactics across different marketing mix elements and key tourist behaviors and perceptions. This represents a significant gap as the complex interlinkages shape challenges for developing tourism industries. Therefore, this study explore…
Understanding the Influence of Food Value on Fast-Food Customer Behavior
This study proposes investigating the effect of food value on food bloggers' reviews (i.e., the direct effect) and the customers' purchase intentions (i.e., the direct and indirect effects) of fast-food restaurants. In addition, this study examines the moderating role of content credibility on food blogger reviews and customers' purchase intention relationships. The quantitative method is used in this study to gather data from fast-food restauran…
Digital Information’s Influence on Forming Tourism Event Impressions
Digital information plays a crucial role in shaping tourists' expectations and impressions of potential destinations and activities. This study explores how perceptions of digital information vary across different tourism experience types (adventure, leisure, cultural) and examines the complex interactions between digital information perception and tourism engagement. A survey was conducted among tourists actively participating in various tourism…
Customer Segmentation and Travel Behavior Analysis of Expedia Users
The current research utilizes a data-driven approach to segment Expedia users based on their behavior, using a dataset of user records to delineate traveler segments and their behaviors. The current study employed a dataset of 2,000 real Expedia users, and the collected variables included search behavior, booking actions, travel distances, travel party attribut es, and device usage. Using K-means clustering and subsequent statistical analysis, fo…
The Transformative Role of Place Attachment in Converting Sustainability Perceptions Into Active Tourist Advocacy
While a significant body of literature exists on sustainable tourism, little is known about the psychological mechanisms by which perceptions of sustainability are translated into advocacy behaviors. The affective and identity-based pathways that connect sustainability to proactive advocacy have been poorly theorized, as the majority of the literature has predicted advocacy from direct cognition rather than affective mediators. Further, advocacy …
From Classroom to Marketplace
This study examines how factors affect Egyptian tourism and hospitality students' digital entrepreneurial intention (DEI). The research investigates the extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) with self-efficacy, digital literacy, and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 3 (UTAUT3) as influential factors. The aim is to identify essential factors that help form potential digital entrepreneurs in the tourism and hospitality sect…
Preserving the Past
Historic urban cities face increasing pressure from tourism, necessitating sophisticated approaches to visitor management that protect both heritage values and local communities. The current study develops new sustainable metrics—sustainable visitor capacity (SVC) and Sustainable Visitation Index (SVI)—to provide a multifaceted assessment of heritage destination management beyond simple visitor volume calculations. The SVC considers operating hou…
Bibliometric Analysis of the Research Landscape and Evolutionary Trends of Climate Change Impacts on Ecotourism Destinations
Research on the impacts of climate change on ecotourism destinations is mostly dominated by qualitative descriptions and single-region empirical analyses, suffering from fragmentation and lack of cross-regional analysis, which makes it difficult to grasp the global knowledge landscape and evolutionary trends of this field. This study takes 178 relevant literatures from the Web of Science Core Collection between 2002 and 2025 as samples, employs V…
From Mašrabiya to Ṣaḥn
Cairo’s Islamic architectural heritage represents one of the world’s most significant concentrations of pre-industrial environmental ingenuity. For over a millennium, an integrated suite of passive climate-control systems—the Mašrabiya latticework screen, the open courtyard (Ṣaḥn), the wind-scoop (Malqaf), and stalactite vaulting (Muqarnas)—has moderated temperature, humidity, and airflow with remarkable effectiveness. Today, these inherited solu…
Tourism (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Marketing (11 works) · Advertising (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (6 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (6 works) · Destinations (5 works)