Albert Assaf
Biographic Data
| ID | 4625997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Assaf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Assaf |
| SIGNATURE | ASSAF A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3920-2844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
What is a cool restaurant? Understanding, measuring, and leveraging coolness for restaurants
Quality of life performance index for tourism destinations
Understanding and Employing Formative Constructs
While tourism researchers devote large efforts to justify and test the theoretical relationships between constructs, the links between items and their respective constructs receive very little deliberate attention. This is because the relationship between construct and item is, often incorrectly, assumed to be reflective, meaning that the measurement items reflect the construct. In contrast to reflective constructs, for formative constructs, meas…
Interdisciplinary Approach to Tourism Demand Modeling
Tourism demand modeling remains a critical issue in tourism research and practice. To date, demand studies have predominantly focused on economic variables to explain tourism demand. While this is well established, recent research demonstrates the importance of not limiting demand specification to economic variables only. This study proposes an interdisciplinary approach to tourism demand by incorporating the relative quality of life index into t…
Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) offers important opportunities for the hospitality and tourism (HT) industry in the context of operations, design, marketing, destination management, human resources, revenue management, accounting and finance, strategic management, and beyond. However, the implementation of GAI in HT contexts comes with ethical, legal, social, and economic considerations that require careful reflection by HT firms. The pu…
Place solidarity
Perceptions of institutional warmth and competence strongly associated with place solidarity. • Assumption that more positive predispositions lead to approach tendencies challenged. • Underscores importance of place solidarity in understanding tourism after natural disasters
Critical reflection of the tourism literature on performance modeling
Frontier measurement for quality of life performance
Tourism Demand Analysis
The role of affinity and animosity on solidarity with Ukraine and hospitality outcomes
In times of war
Introduction to the Special Issue
Testing for Collinearity using Bayesian Analysis
Testing for collinearity continues to be a controversial issue in the literature. Multicollinearity detection criteria, such as the variance inflation factor, often fail to detect the true extent of multicollinearity. In this article, we propose utilizing the Bayesian approach as an attractive alternative. Under the Bayesian approach, we recommend comparing the marginal posterior of regression parameters under two different priors. If the differe…
Bayesian Hypothesis Testing for Hospitality and Tourism Research
In hospitality and tourism research, p-values continue to be the most common approach to hypothesis testing. In this article, we elaborate on some of the misconceptions associated with p-values. We discuss the advantages of the Bayesian approach and provide several important practical recommendations and considerations for Bayesian hypothesis testing. With the main challenge of Bayesian hypothesis testing being the sensitivity of the results to p…
A Bayesian solution to multicollinearity through unobserved common factors
A thematic analysis of crisis management in tourism
A Bayesian non-parametric stochastic frontier model
Compression in stochastic frontier models
Covid-19 and the recovery of the tourism industry
Measuring firm performance
Endogeneity in multiple output production
Understanding the Covid-19 tourist psyche
A review of research into performance modeling in tourism research - Launching the Annals of Tourism Research curated collection on performance modeling in tourism research
Revisiting shape and moderation effects in curvilinear models
Diagnosing and correcting the effects of multicollinearity
Understanding the Covid-19 tourist psyche
Advancing destination image
The xenophobic tourist
A thematic analysis of crisis management in tourism
On the origin of tourist behavior
Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) offers important opportunities for the hospitality and tourism (HT) industry in the context of operations, design, marketing, destination management, human resources, revenue management, accounting and finance, strategic management, and beyond. However, the implementation of GAI in HT contexts comes with ethical, legal, social, and economic considerations that require careful reflection by HT firms. The pu…
The estimation and decomposition of tourism productivity
Short-run and long-run performance of international tourism
Measuring hotel performance
The role of affinity and animosity on solidarity with Ukraine and hospitality outcomes
Look at me—I am flying
In times of war
The time has come
The cost efficiency of Australian airports post privatisation
Bayesian dynamic panel models for tourism research
Destination characteristics that drive hotel performance
Endogeneity in multiple output production
Revisiting shape and moderation effects in curvilinear models
Diagnosing and correcting the effects of multicollinearity
Forecasting occupancy rate with Bayesian compression methods
Understanding and Employing Formative Constructs
While tourism researchers devote large efforts to justify and test the theoretical relationships between constructs, the links between items and their respective constructs receive very little deliberate attention. This is because the relationship between construct and item is, often incorrectly, assumed to be reflective, meaning that the measurement items reflect the construct. In contrast to reflective constructs, for formative constructs, meas…
Interdisciplinary Approach to Tourism Demand Modeling
Tourism demand modeling remains a critical issue in tourism research and practice. To date, demand studies have predominantly focused on economic variables to explain tourism demand. While this is well established, recent research demonstrates the importance of not limiting demand specification to economic variables only. This study proposes an interdisciplinary approach to tourism demand by incorporating the relative quality of life index into t…
Place solidarity
Perceptions of institutional warmth and competence strongly associated with place solidarity. • Assumption that more positive predispositions lead to approach tendencies challenged. • Underscores importance of place solidarity in understanding tourism after natural disasters
Frontier measurement for quality of life performance
A Bayesian solution to multicollinearity through unobserved common factors
Are U.S. airlines really in crisis
The cost efficiency of Australian airports post privatisation
Identifying and Ranking the Determinants of Tourism Performance
After a prolonged period of growth, driven, in part, by an increasing number of affluent consumers, the international tourism industry is now suffering the effects of a weaker world economy. These tougher market conditions have, in turn, led to increasing competition. As a result, countries, their tourism industries, and tourism businesses seek to improve the performance of the tourism industry and its constituents by vigorously promoting themsel…
Look at me—I am flying
Short-run and long-run performance of international tourism
Motivations and Goals of Slow Tourism
The concept of slow tourism is gaining attention, and this study provides new insights into the phenomenon from the perspective of a goal-driven consumption process. The authors conduct primary qualitative research to define slow tourism, build a conceptual model, and develop measurement scales. Based on the data collected from four popular U.S. tourist destinations, the authors find that goal-driven consumption theory exhibits compelling explana…
Advancing destination image
Destination characteristics that drive hotel performance
Measuring hotel performance
The time has come
Bayes factors vs. P-values
The estimation and decomposition of tourism productivity
On the origin of tourist behavior
A review of research into performance modeling in tourism research - Launching the Annals of Tourism Research curated collection on performance modeling in tourism research
Revisiting shape and moderation effects in curvilinear models
Diagnosing and correcting the effects of multicollinearity
Bayesian dynamic panel models for tourism research
Forecasting occupancy rate with Bayesian compression methods
On proper specification in tourism research
The xenophobic tourist
Covid-19 and the recovery of the tourism industry
Measuring firm performance
Endogeneity in multiple output production
Understanding the Covid-19 tourist psyche
Introduction to the Special Issue
Tourism (29 works) · Geography (28 works) · Computer Science (25 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (23 works) · Business (20 works) · Econometrics (19 works) · Economics (18 works) · Bayesian probability (16 works) · Mathematics (14 works) · Marketing (13 works)