Erose Sthapit
Biographic Data
| ID | 4641964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erose Sthapit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erose |
| FAMILY NAME | Sthapit |
| SIGNATURE | STHAPIT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1650-3900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring Local Government Behaviors Towards the Sustainable Development of Tourism Real Estate in Hainan Island: A Public Choice Theory Perspective
Local governments in Hainan Island, China, frequently make tourism real-estate decisions that conflict with broader sustainable tourism development goals. The purpose of this study is to apply public choice theory to: (i) identify the drivers of local government decision-making with respect to the development of tourism real estate, and (ii) explore the apparent misalignment between their real-estate development decisions and broader sustainable …
Critical success factors, knowledge management, organizational learning, and financial performance in tourism SMEs
This study investigates which critical success factors enable knowledge management activities in tourism SMEs and how organizational learning mediates the knowledge management-financial performance relationship. Using an online survey of tourism SME managers (n = 100, predominantly Finnish), we found that organizational learning fully mediates the relationship between knowledge management activities and financial performance, with no direct effec…
From the plate to place: Ethnic culinary authenticity and pathways to destination loyalty
This study examines how cultural authenticity perception in ethnic cuisine (CAPEC) influences memorable ethnic tourism experiences (METEs) and destination loyalty in ethnic tourism. Extending prior research that focuses merely on surface authenticity cues, this study centres on the deeper cultural meaning embedded in ethnic cuisine and draws on Symbolic Interactionism Theory and the relational authenticity perspective to explain this process. Bas…
Guilt‐Free Indulgence: How Cultural‐Creative Elements Transform Visitor Experiences in Integrated Casino Resorts
Integrated resorts (IRs) increasingly embed cultural and creative elements (CCEs) to buffer the moral tension that often accompanies hedonic consumption, yet the underlying psychological mechanisms remain underexplored. Drawing on cue utilization theory and cognitive dissonance theory, this study examines how CCE‐embedded extrinsic and intrinsic cues shape tourists' physical and psychological comfort, thereby facilitating cognitive reconstruction…
Reconfiguring Tourqual for resort tourism: Evidence for a multidimensional service quality framework
The resort segment is characterised by high levels of service integration and experiential complexity, which limit the applicability of generic service quality measurement models. Despite advances in tourism research, there remains a lack of context-sensitive frameworks capable of capturing the multi-dimensional nature of service quality in resort environments. This study examines how the TOURQUAL framework can be adapted to better reflect the sp…
Emotions in recall of memorable food experiences while travelling: A psychoevolutionary theory approach
Using Plutchik’s psychoevolutionary theory of emotion, this manuscript investigates emotions experienced when recalling both positive and negative memorable food experiences while travelling, building upon food tourism (culinary tourism) research. Research on memorable food tourism experiences has tended to focus on the attributes of the experience, rather than the individuals’ emotions, and researchers have focused almost exclusively on positive…
Projected Versus Organic: Mapping Destination Image Congruence
This study analyzes the alignment of three distinct images—Overt Induced I, Overt Induced II, and Organic—pertaining to a tourism destination. Using a comprehensive content analysis of various sources, including strategic marketing materials from the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism, promotional brochures from leading tour operators, and user‐generated content from platforms such as Booking.com , TripAdvisor, Routard, and Lonely Planet, the …
Longing for Digital‐Free Trips: The Case of a Yoga Retreat
People today are feeling exhausted by the continual distraction of mobile devices. Some are motivated to take a break from digital devices while travelling away from home. A popular combination is therefore to undergo a digital detox as part of a stay at a yoga retreat. This study examines how perceptions of novelty, effectiveness of co‐creation of the digital‐free hospitality experience, and the feeling of refreshment affect memorable digital‐fr…
The Digital Wanderlust: Exploring How Tourism Short Video Cyberloafing Translates Into Travel Intentions
Despite the prevalence of tourism short‐video cyberloafing (TSVC) in digital media consumption, its impact on tourism behavior remains underexplored. This study investigates how incidental exposure to tourism short videos during non‐work‐related online activities influences travel intention through the mediating roles of destination image expectation and desired destination value. Grounded in the Stimulus‐Organism‐Response (SOR) framework and exp…
Perceptions of the quality of tourist and visitor attractions: A comparative survey of tourists and residents
AI colleagues: How AI influences hotel employees’ service performance
This study examines the impact of employee and AI attributes on hotel employees’ service performance. Partial least squares structural equation modelling and necessary conditions analysis were conducted. The study indicates that (1) AI skills and AI understanding significantly and positively affect AI trust and are necessary conditions for AI trust, (2) privacy concerns do not significantly impact AI trust, but uncertainty and creepiness substant…
Exploring the impact of travel vlog attributes on silver tourists’ behavioural intentions: The role of cognitive and emotional resonance
This study examines the effects of different stimuli in travel vlogs on the responses of silver tourists. A particular focus is on the effects of cognitive and emotional resonance. A total of 376 valid questionnaires were collected from Chinese nationals aged 50 years and older. The results indicate that certain attributes of travel vlogs, namely information usefulness, vlogger’s attractiveness, para-social interaction, and audio-visual stimuli, …
Reimagining travel memories: The role of artificial intelligence in shaping tourist experiences
Based on the stimulus-organism-response framework, this study explores how artificial intelligence (AI) has changed tourism. A qualitative study was conducted to explore domestic and international tourists’ experiences in Malaga, Spain. The findings reveal the dual impact of AI-driven technologies. On the one hand, AI facilitates personalisation, convenience, emotional engagement and meaningful social connections, enriching the memorability of to…
Memorable Whale Watching Tourism Experiences: Insights From the Azores
This study examines the roles of learning, experience co‐creation, and experiential satisfaction as antecedents of a memorable whale‐watching tourism experience, as well as the relationships between experiential satisfaction, memorable whale‐watching tourism experience, hedonic well‐being, place attachment, and pro‐environmental behavior. Using data collected from 247 tourists who had taken a whale‐watching trip in the Azores, partial least squar…
Unpacking Destination Brand Equity: The Influence of Brand Familiarity and Perceived Quality Through Brand Image
This study examines the relationship between destination brand familiarity, perceived quality, destination brand image, and overall brand equity using the customer‐based brand equity framework. Employing a quantitative approach with partial least squares structural equation modeling, data were collected from 271 respondents using a convenience sampling technique. The findings indicate that brand familiarity and perceived quality significantly inf…
Overcrowding, Risk Perception, and Protective Behaviors: A Study on Tourist Decision‐Making
This study uses protection motivation theory as its theoretical foundation to examine the relationships between crowding experience, cognitive appraisal, risk perception, and protection behavioral intention. Data were gathered from 361 tourists who had experienced crowding situations. Structural equation modeling was then used to test a proposed conceptual model. The results indicate significant relationships between coping appraisal, risk percep…
Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: A serious-leisure perspective
This study examines the domestic overnight travel motivations of Finnish disc golfers, with a specific focus on the concept of serious leisure. Data gathered from 989 Finnish disc golfers were divided into clusters based on the serious leisure inventory and measure model. The results indicate that disc golfers are generally interested in travelling domestically to participate in disc golf, and that they tend to share common push and pull motives.…
Servant leadership and the innovative service behaviours of hotel employees: A dual-path model
Using social cognitive theory (SCT) as the theoretical foundation, this study proposes a conceptual model to examine the relationship between servant leadership and service innovative behaviour (SIB) of frontline employees in the hotel industry through an analysis of the dual mediation of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. 350 paired responses were collected from frontline employees and their supervisors working in chain hotels in Shenzhen, Chi…
Investigating hotel sustainability ‘from the top’: Insights from hotel marketing consortia managers and sustainability experts
Unlike past studies focusing on employees, customers, and hotel managers, this study expands sustainability research by examining the insufficiently considered roles of Hotel Marketing Consortia (HMC) managers and sustainability experts. Using a mixed-methods approach, it investigates their perspectives on environmental, social, and economic sustainability priorities; sustainability as a source of competitive advantage; measurement practices; and…
Antecedents of domestic visitor’s memorable experiences and gender difference: A Heritage Tourism Context
This study explores the interplay between visitor engagement, authenticity, and destination image in shaping memorable tourism experiences (MTE) within the realm of domestic heritage tourism, as well as the potential moderating role of gender in these relationships. Data were collected in the historic city of Kashan, Iran through a self-administered questionnaire and a combination of Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) an…
Antecedents and outcomes of memorable wildlife tourism experiences
Using a theoretical foundation based on memory-dominant logic, this study aims to develop and test an integrative model of memorable wildlife tourism experiences (MWTEs).The study first considers the role of escapism, experiencescapes, experience co-creation and education as antecedents of MWTE.It then examines the relationship between MWTE, satisfaction and hedonic well-being.Data were gathered from 202 tourists over 18 years old who had been on…
Experience‐driven well‐being and purchase: An alternative model of memorable wine tourism experiences
Wine tourism has several distinctive features that militate against using Kim et al.'s model of memorable tourism experiences to understand its antecedents and consequences. Accordingly, this study adopts an alternative theoretical framework—the stimulus–organism–response theory—to develop an alternative model. Data were collected from visitors to a well‐known vineyard in Yantai, China and structural equation modelling and multiple group analysis…
Memorable nature-based tourism experience, place attachment and tourists’ environmentally responsible behaviour
This study tests a new model for memorable nature-based tourism experiences by examining the effects of novelty, experiencescape, experience co-creation, experience intensification and satisfaction. The study also examines the relationship between memorable nature-based tourism experiences, place attachment and tourists' environmentally responsible behaviour. Data were gathered from tourists who visited a national park within the three months pre…
Memorable tourism experience: A review and research agenda
A decade of research has produced substantial results but the theorization of memorable tourism experience, often drawing on positive and environmental psychology, remains fuzzy and fragmented. Adopting state‐of‐the art practices, this study systematically reviews, synthesizes, and integrates the extant body of knowledge across multiple literature streams on memorable tourism experience. Our review indicates that research in this field has a geog…
Connections Between Culinary Tourism Experiences and Memory
Tourism researchers have identified many factors leading to memorable food tourism (culinary tourism) experiences. This research proposes reasons why food experiences while traveling are especially memorable and proposes avenues for future research on food and memory. The act of travel in addition to the act of eating/drinking and individual attitudes and emotions likely work together to create memories. Travelers agreed with many reasons why foo…
Antecedents of domestic visitor’s memorable experiences and gender difference: A Heritage Tourism Context
This study explores the interplay between visitor engagement, authenticity, and destination image in shaping memorable tourism experiences (MTE) within the realm of domestic heritage tourism, as well as the potential moderating role of gender in these relationships. Data were collected in the historic city of Kashan, Iran through a self-administered questionnaire and a combination of Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) an…
Perceptions of the quality of tourist and visitor attractions: A comparative survey of tourists and residents
Domestic tourists and local food consumption: Motivations, positive emotions and savouring processes
This study examines the motivation for local food consumption amongst domestic tourists. It integrates the positive psychology concept of savouring by examining the positive emotions savoured by domestic tourists on the basis of broaden-and-build theory, including the savouring processes used when recalling their recent local food experiences. Data were collected only from Indian residents using a self-administered open-ended web-based questionna…
Antecedents of memorable tourism experience related to behavioral intentions
This study investigates the antecedent factors of memorable tourism experience (MTE) and their relationship to visitors’ behavioral intentions (BIs); Kim, Ritchie, & McCormick, ). Based on a survey of 314 structured interviews among visitors to the zoo and museum in Rovaniemi, Finland, the study reveals different MTE dimensions than in Kim et al.’s study. Only four factors—hedonism, local culture, involvement, and knowledge—influence visitors’ BI…
Memorable tourism experiences: Antecedents and outcomes
The present study examines the specific dimensions of Kim, Ritchie, and McCormick’s [(2012). Development of a scale to measure memorable tourism experiences. Journal of Travel Research, 51(12), 12–25. doi:10.1177/0047287510385467] memorable tourism experience (MTE) scale that affects tourists’ subjective well-being to a single destination. A web-based post-holiday survey was conducted among tourists to Rovaniemi, Finland, and a valid sample of 20…
The memorable souvenir-shopping experience: Antecedents and outcomes
This study examines the relationship among authenticity, satisfaction, co-creation, memorable souvenir-shopping experiences, and place attachment. A post-holiday web-based survey was conducted among tourists to Rovaniemi, Finland, and a valid sample of 301 tourists was used for data analysis. The survey results show that satisfaction and co-creation during onsite souvenir shopping at a tourism destination create memorable souvenir shopping experi…
Domestic tourists and local food consumption: Motivations, positive emotions and savouring processes
This study examines the motivation for local food consumption amongst domestic tourists. It integrates the positive psychology concept of savouring by examining the positive emotions savoured by domestic tourists on the basis of broaden-and-build theory, including the savouring processes used when recalling their recent local food experiences. Data were collected only from Indian residents using a self-administered open-ended web-based questionna…
Memorable tourism experience: A review and research agenda
A decade of research has produced substantial results but the theorization of memorable tourism experience, often drawing on positive and environmental psychology, remains fuzzy and fragmented. Adopting state‐of‐the art practices, this study systematically reviews, synthesizes, and integrates the extant body of knowledge across multiple literature streams on memorable tourism experience. Our review indicates that research in this field has a geog…
Connections Between Culinary Tourism Experiences and Memory
Tourism researchers have identified many factors leading to memorable food tourism (culinary tourism) experiences. This research proposes reasons why food experiences while traveling are especially memorable and proposes avenues for future research on food and memory. The act of travel in addition to the act of eating/drinking and individual attitudes and emotions likely work together to create memories. Travelers agreed with many reasons why foo…
Memorable nature-based tourism experience, place attachment and tourists’ environmentally responsible behaviour
This study tests a new model for memorable nature-based tourism experiences by examining the effects of novelty, experiencescape, experience co-creation, experience intensification and satisfaction. The study also examines the relationship between memorable nature-based tourism experiences, place attachment and tourists' environmentally responsible behaviour. Data were gathered from tourists who visited a national park within the three months pre…
Antecedents and outcomes of memorable wildlife tourism experiences
Using a theoretical foundation based on memory-dominant logic, this study aims to develop and test an integrative model of memorable wildlife tourism experiences (MWTEs).The study first considers the role of escapism, experiencescapes, experience co-creation and education as antecedents of MWTE.It then examines the relationship between MWTE, satisfaction and hedonic well-being.Data were gathered from 202 tourists over 18 years old who had been on…
Experience‐driven well‐being and purchase: An alternative model of memorable wine tourism experiences
Wine tourism has several distinctive features that militate against using Kim et al.'s model of memorable tourism experiences to understand its antecedents and consequences. Accordingly, this study adopts an alternative theoretical framework—the stimulus–organism–response theory—to develop an alternative model. Data were collected from visitors to a well‐known vineyard in Yantai, China and structural equation modelling and multiple group analysis…
AI colleagues: How AI influences hotel employees’ service performance
This study examines the impact of employee and AI attributes on hotel employees’ service performance. Partial least squares structural equation modelling and necessary conditions analysis were conducted. The study indicates that (1) AI skills and AI understanding significantly and positively affect AI trust and are necessary conditions for AI trust, (2) privacy concerns do not significantly impact AI trust, but uncertainty and creepiness substant…
Exploring the impact of travel vlog attributes on silver tourists’ behavioural intentions: The role of cognitive and emotional resonance
This study examines the effects of different stimuli in travel vlogs on the responses of silver tourists. A particular focus is on the effects of cognitive and emotional resonance. A total of 376 valid questionnaires were collected from Chinese nationals aged 50 years and older. The results indicate that certain attributes of travel vlogs, namely information usefulness, vlogger’s attractiveness, para-social interaction, and audio-visual stimuli, …
Reimagining travel memories: The role of artificial intelligence in shaping tourist experiences
Based on the stimulus-organism-response framework, this study explores how artificial intelligence (AI) has changed tourism. A qualitative study was conducted to explore domestic and international tourists’ experiences in Malaga, Spain. The findings reveal the dual impact of AI-driven technologies. On the one hand, AI facilitates personalisation, convenience, emotional engagement and meaningful social connections, enriching the memorability of to…
Memorable Whale Watching Tourism Experiences: Insights From the Azores
This study examines the roles of learning, experience co‐creation, and experiential satisfaction as antecedents of a memorable whale‐watching tourism experience, as well as the relationships between experiential satisfaction, memorable whale‐watching tourism experience, hedonic well‐being, place attachment, and pro‐environmental behavior. Using data collected from 247 tourists who had taken a whale‐watching trip in the Azores, partial least squar…
Unpacking Destination Brand Equity: The Influence of Brand Familiarity and Perceived Quality Through Brand Image
This study examines the relationship between destination brand familiarity, perceived quality, destination brand image, and overall brand equity using the customer‐based brand equity framework. Employing a quantitative approach with partial least squares structural equation modeling, data were collected from 271 respondents using a convenience sampling technique. The findings indicate that brand familiarity and perceived quality significantly inf…
Overcrowding, Risk Perception, and Protective Behaviors: A Study on Tourist Decision‐Making
This study uses protection motivation theory as its theoretical foundation to examine the relationships between crowding experience, cognitive appraisal, risk perception, and protection behavioral intention. Data were gathered from 361 tourists who had experienced crowding situations. Structural equation modeling was then used to test a proposed conceptual model. The results indicate significant relationships between coping appraisal, risk percep…
Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: A serious-leisure perspective
This study examines the domestic overnight travel motivations of Finnish disc golfers, with a specific focus on the concept of serious leisure. Data gathered from 989 Finnish disc golfers were divided into clusters based on the serious leisure inventory and measure model. The results indicate that disc golfers are generally interested in travelling domestically to participate in disc golf, and that they tend to share common push and pull motives.…
Servant leadership and the innovative service behaviours of hotel employees: A dual-path model
Using social cognitive theory (SCT) as the theoretical foundation, this study proposes a conceptual model to examine the relationship between servant leadership and service innovative behaviour (SIB) of frontline employees in the hotel industry through an analysis of the dual mediation of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. 350 paired responses were collected from frontline employees and their supervisors working in chain hotels in Shenzhen, Chi…
Investigating hotel sustainability ‘from the top’: Insights from hotel marketing consortia managers and sustainability experts
Unlike past studies focusing on employees, customers, and hotel managers, this study expands sustainability research by examining the insufficiently considered roles of Hotel Marketing Consortia (HMC) managers and sustainability experts. Using a mixed-methods approach, it investigates their perspectives on environmental, social, and economic sustainability priorities; sustainability as a source of competitive advantage; measurement practices; and…
Antecedents of domestic visitor’s memorable experiences and gender difference: A Heritage Tourism Context
This study explores the interplay between visitor engagement, authenticity, and destination image in shaping memorable tourism experiences (MTE) within the realm of domestic heritage tourism, as well as the potential moderating role of gender in these relationships. Data were collected in the historic city of Kashan, Iran through a self-administered questionnaire and a combination of Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) an…
Exploring Local Government Behaviors Towards the Sustainable Development of Tourism Real Estate in Hainan Island: A Public Choice Theory Perspective
Local governments in Hainan Island, China, frequently make tourism real-estate decisions that conflict with broader sustainable tourism development goals. The purpose of this study is to apply public choice theory to: (i) identify the drivers of local government decision-making with respect to the development of tourism real estate, and (ii) explore the apparent misalignment between their real-estate development decisions and broader sustainable …
Critical success factors, knowledge management, organizational learning, and financial performance in tourism SMEs
This study investigates which critical success factors enable knowledge management activities in tourism SMEs and how organizational learning mediates the knowledge management-financial performance relationship. Using an online survey of tourism SME managers (n = 100, predominantly Finnish), we found that organizational learning fully mediates the relationship between knowledge management activities and financial performance, with no direct effec…
From the plate to place: Ethnic culinary authenticity and pathways to destination loyalty
This study examines how cultural authenticity perception in ethnic cuisine (CAPEC) influences memorable ethnic tourism experiences (METEs) and destination loyalty in ethnic tourism. Extending prior research that focuses merely on surface authenticity cues, this study centres on the deeper cultural meaning embedded in ethnic cuisine and draws on Symbolic Interactionism Theory and the relational authenticity perspective to explain this process. Bas…
Guilt‐Free Indulgence: How Cultural‐Creative Elements Transform Visitor Experiences in Integrated Casino Resorts
Integrated resorts (IRs) increasingly embed cultural and creative elements (CCEs) to buffer the moral tension that often accompanies hedonic consumption, yet the underlying psychological mechanisms remain underexplored. Drawing on cue utilization theory and cognitive dissonance theory, this study examines how CCE‐embedded extrinsic and intrinsic cues shape tourists' physical and psychological comfort, thereby facilitating cognitive reconstruction…
Reconfiguring Tourqual for resort tourism: Evidence for a multidimensional service quality framework
The resort segment is characterised by high levels of service integration and experiential complexity, which limit the applicability of generic service quality measurement models. Despite advances in tourism research, there remains a lack of context-sensitive frameworks capable of capturing the multi-dimensional nature of service quality in resort environments. This study examines how the TOURQUAL framework can be adapted to better reflect the sp…
Emotions in recall of memorable food experiences while travelling: A psychoevolutionary theory approach
Using Plutchik’s psychoevolutionary theory of emotion, this manuscript investigates emotions experienced when recalling both positive and negative memorable food experiences while travelling, building upon food tourism (culinary tourism) research. Research on memorable food tourism experiences has tended to focus on the attributes of the experience, rather than the individuals’ emotions, and researchers have focused almost exclusively on positive…
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