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Bona Kim

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ID3915097
NAMEBona Kim
GIVEN NAMESBona
FAMILY NAMEKim
SIGNATUREKIM B
AFFILIATIONSInha University
ORCID0000-0002-6530-0050
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2
  • How Feminist Killjoys Are Constructed: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

    Open Access•Bona Kim•ARTICLE•Asian Women•2026•References: 3

    This study examines the construction of women who refuse normative ideals in South Korean society as internal enemies.It develops the concept of gendered securitization as an analytical framework that integrates Sara Ahmed's affective politics with feminist security studies, and applies this framework to Han Kang's The Vegetarian (2015).It argues that The Vegetarian functions as a literary allegory for how affective politics can be converted into…

  • The Future of Airports: How Travelers' Positive Perceptions Drive the Acceptance of 100% Contactless Smart Airports

    Open Access•Bona Kim, Vallarie Chong Xin Ying et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Tourism…•2025

    The upcoming Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 5 is intended to become a smart airport terminal with 100% contactless services, by enhancing the end‐to‐end Fast and Seamless Travel system. Based upon the stimulus–organism–response framework, this study focuses on the 100% contactless service system as stimuli and integrates key positive drivers—optimism and innovativeness, enjoyment, and novelty as organism—into the technology acceptance model as…

  • Empowering Consumers Through Self-Service Technology: A Comparative Analysis

    Open Access•Bona Kim, Yong Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Hospitality & Tourism…•2025•References: 46

    This study tests consumer evaluations of services with the adoption of self-service technology (SST) in the hospitality service context. We revised the conventional consumer evaluation model by incorporating the concept of consumer empowerment to capture the consumer experience with the technology. This model was tested in a two-stage process using data collected from the consumers of clubhouses in Singapore before and after the adoption of SST. …

  • Beyond the Plate: Exploring the Experiential Values of Meal Sharing

    Open Access•Cindy Yoonjoung Heo, Bona Kim•ARTICLE•Journal of Hospitality & Tourism…•2024

    Most research on hospitality management emphasizes the significance of customer experience, primarily focusing on the interactions between service providers and customers. However, the emergence of a sharing economy has extended service provision beyond traditional interactions. This study focuses on the importance of customer experience in the context of peer-to-peer (P2P) service transactions. It investigates the experiential values of meal sha…

  • Authenticity, health concern and sustainable intelligence in the farm restaurant context: Applying extended theory of planned behaviour

    Open Access•V G Girish, Anindita Saha et al.•ARTICLE•British Food Journal•2024

    Purpose The study aims to analyse the structural relationships of authenticity, health concern and sustainable intelligence in the farm restaurant context. Different types of restaurants have been targeted to understand consumer behaviour; however, the behavioural intention of visitors dining at the farm restaurants was rarely explored. Design/methodology/approach With the backdrop of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), this study highlights t…

  • Green Atmospherics as Nature-Based Solutions and Patient Responses and Behaviors in Healthcare Establishments From Romania

    Open Access•Elena‐Nicoleta Untaru, H Han et al.•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2023

    The present study aims to evaluate a conceptual framework that explains patients’ attachment to a healthcare establishment by considering the effect of a natural/green environment as nature-based solutions (NBS), mental health value, emotional wellbeing, and satisfaction. An online survey method was utilized to reach Romanian patients. Using this procedure, a total of 386 cases were used for the data analysis. Structural equation modeling was uti…

  • The effects of spirituality on visitor behavior: A cognitive‐affective‐conative model

    Open Access•Bona Kim, Chen Yong•ARTICLE•International Journal of Tourism…•2021

    This study applies the cognitive‐affective‐conative (CAC) model to develop an analytical framework of visitor experience with a sacred site. Furthermore, the framework that contains key variables of visitor experience, particularly spirituality, is tested in both senior and non‐senior groups. Since seniors and non‐seniors would behave differently with regard to spirituality, this analysis allows us to further identify the role of spirituality in …

  • Religious tourism studies: Evolution, progress, and future prospects

    Bona Kim, Sung‐su Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Recreation Research•2020

    This review study examines evolving themes in the scholarly literature on religious tourism and identifies research gaps that provide a basis for future investigations. The researchers evaluate a total of 84 studies of religion-induced tourism using content and thematic analyses. The findings show a plurality of approaches, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, that extend to diverse methods, themes, applications, geographical foci and manifes…

  • Hierarchical value map of religious tourists visiting the Vatican City/Rome

    Bona Kim, Sung‐su Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Geographies•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 62

    Constructing a hierarchical value map, a psychological structure is explored to understand how religious tourists perceive the sites they visit in terms of site attributes, the benefits religious tourists seek, and their own personal values. The sample comprised foreign tourists who visited Catholic religious sites with religious tourism as their primary purpose. Using means-end chain theory, a hierarchical value map of selected religious tourist…

  • The sacred and the profane: Identifying pilgrim traveler value orientations using means-end theory

    Open Access•Bona Kim, Sung‐su Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Management•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 73

  • The sacred and the profane: Identifying pilgrim traveler value orientations using means-end theory

    Open Access•Bona Kim, Sung‐su Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Management•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 73

  • Hierarchical value map of religious tourists visiting the Vatican City/Rome

    Bona Kim, Sung‐su Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Geographies•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 62

    Constructing a hierarchical value map, a psychological structure is explored to understand how religious tourists perceive the sites they visit in terms of site attributes, the benefits religious tourists seek, and their own personal values. The sample comprised foreign tourists who visited Catholic religious sites with religious tourism as their primary purpose. Using means-end chain theory, a hierarchical value map of selected religious tourist…

  • The sacred and the profane: Identifying pilgrim traveler value orientations using means-end theory

    Open Access•Bona Kim, Sung‐su Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Management•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 73

  • Hierarchical value map of religious tourists visiting the Vatican City/Rome

    Bona Kim, Sung‐su Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Geographies•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 62

    Constructing a hierarchical value map, a psychological structure is explored to understand how religious tourists perceive the sites they visit in terms of site attributes, the benefits religious tourists seek, and their own personal values. The sample comprised foreign tourists who visited Catholic religious sites with religious tourism as their primary purpose. Using means-end chain theory, a hierarchical value map of selected religious tourist…

  • Religious tourism studies: Evolution, progress, and future prospects

    Bona Kim, Sung‐su Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Recreation Research•2020

    This review study examines evolving themes in the scholarly literature on religious tourism and identifies research gaps that provide a basis for future investigations. The researchers evaluate a total of 84 studies of religion-induced tourism using content and thematic analyses. The findings show a plurality of approaches, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, that extend to diverse methods, themes, applications, geographical foci and manifes…

  • The effects of spirituality on visitor behavior: A cognitive‐affective‐conative model

    Open Access•Bona Kim, Chen Yong•ARTICLE•International Journal of Tourism…•2021

    This study applies the cognitive‐affective‐conative (CAC) model to develop an analytical framework of visitor experience with a sacred site. Furthermore, the framework that contains key variables of visitor experience, particularly spirituality, is tested in both senior and non‐senior groups. Since seniors and non‐seniors would behave differently with regard to spirituality, this analysis allows us to further identify the role of spirituality in …

  • Green Atmospherics as Nature-Based Solutions and Patient Responses and Behaviors in Healthcare Establishments From Romania

    Open Access•Elena‐Nicoleta Untaru, H Han et al.•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2023

    The present study aims to evaluate a conceptual framework that explains patients’ attachment to a healthcare establishment by considering the effect of a natural/green environment as nature-based solutions (NBS), mental health value, emotional wellbeing, and satisfaction. An online survey method was utilized to reach Romanian patients. Using this procedure, a total of 386 cases were used for the data analysis. Structural equation modeling was uti…

  • Beyond the Plate: Exploring the Experiential Values of Meal Sharing

    Open Access•Cindy Yoonjoung Heo, Bona Kim•ARTICLE•Journal of Hospitality & Tourism…•2024

    Most research on hospitality management emphasizes the significance of customer experience, primarily focusing on the interactions between service providers and customers. However, the emergence of a sharing economy has extended service provision beyond traditional interactions. This study focuses on the importance of customer experience in the context of peer-to-peer (P2P) service transactions. It investigates the experiential values of meal sha…

  • Authenticity, health concern and sustainable intelligence in the farm restaurant context: Applying extended theory of planned behaviour

    Open Access•V G Girish, Anindita Saha et al.•ARTICLE•British Food Journal•2024

    Purpose The study aims to analyse the structural relationships of authenticity, health concern and sustainable intelligence in the farm restaurant context. Different types of restaurants have been targeted to understand consumer behaviour; however, the behavioural intention of visitors dining at the farm restaurants was rarely explored. Design/methodology/approach With the backdrop of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), this study highlights t…

  • The Future of Airports: How Travelers' Positive Perceptions Drive the Acceptance of 100% Contactless Smart Airports

    Open Access•Bona Kim, Vallarie Chong Xin Ying et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Tourism…•2025

    The upcoming Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 5 is intended to become a smart airport terminal with 100% contactless services, by enhancing the end‐to‐end Fast and Seamless Travel system. Based upon the stimulus–organism–response framework, this study focuses on the 100% contactless service system as stimuli and integrates key positive drivers—optimism and innovativeness, enjoyment, and novelty as organism—into the technology acceptance model as…

  • Empowering Consumers Through Self-Service Technology: A Comparative Analysis

    Open Access•Bona Kim, Yong Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Hospitality & Tourism…•2025•References: 46

    This study tests consumer evaluations of services with the adoption of self-service technology (SST) in the hospitality service context. We revised the conventional consumer evaluation model by incorporating the concept of consumer empowerment to capture the consumer experience with the technology. This model was tested in a two-stage process using data collected from the consumers of clubhouses in Singapore before and after the adoption of SST. …

  • How Feminist Killjoys Are Constructed: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

    Open Access•Bona Kim•ARTICLE•Asian Women•2026•References: 3

    This study examines the construction of women who refuse normative ideals in South Korean society as internal enemies.It develops the concept of gendered securitization as an analytical framework that integrates Sara Ahmed's affective politics with feminist security studies, and applies this framework to Han Kang's The Vegetarian (2015).It argues that The Vegetarian functions as a literary allegory for how affective politics can be converted into…

Psychology (7 works) · Marketing (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Tourism (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cognitive and psychological constructs research (2 works)

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