This study examined the attitudes towards Spring Break niche tourism that has developed over the past 40 years in the United States, especially given popular perceptions and associations. Insights from numerous tourism studies concerned with local attitudes imply that residents interest in travel and tourism is likely to moderate their attitudes toward niche tourism in their own community. In reference to both conventional and niche tourism markets, several scholars have recognized shifts in community perceptions of tourism benefits or costs in relation to their own potential authority or power in tourism matters. However, as research on niche tourism products and markets is limited, equally limited is the understanding of the role of residents general interest with tourism or travel and empowerment in tourism decision-making. An important contribution of this paper to the body of literature on tourism attitudes is that it brings to attention the importance of residents Involvement with travel or tourism in perceptions of niche markets. To enrich the findings, this study examined differences in attitudes toward Spring Break tourism associated with perceived empowerment.
Day: June 28, 2019
Effect of Quality of Work Life on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Performance: A Structural Equation Analysis
All the organizations are in a position to retain their employees happy and satisfied for the continuous work flow towards success. By ensuring the quality of work life at the work place, the employers can retain their talents and tends towards the job satisfaction and organizational performance. These two positive outcomes along with quality of work life needed to be treated positively to keep the employees motivated to provide their contributions to the organizational effectiveness. With this background the purpose of this study is to find out the degree of relationship among quality of work life, job satisfaction and organizational performance among the bank employees. In total 357 employees were selected from both public and private sector banks. Explorative Factor Analysis was adopted for the validation and Structural Equation Modeling was used to test the extent of relationship among the variables. The results of the study shows that there is positive significant relationships among quality of work life, job satisfaction and organizational performance.
Testing the Long Memory Feature in Indian Equity Market
The Present paper examined the long memory behavior in Indian equity market. This paper uses the data from January 2000 to March 2018 of Sensex, Nifty-50 and VIX. By using the Rescaled range analysis as proposed by Lo (1951) ‘Hurst Exponent’, this indicates that there is significant long memory in Sensex and Nifty-50 returns series. However, volatility does not show any persistence but exhibit clustering. The study conclude that there is not persistence behavior with respect to long memory effect on Nifty-50 returns subject to occurrence of structural breaks(demonization).The study concludes with managerial relevance and issued for futures research. Findings would be beneficial for the investors, practitioners, academics and policy makers etc. To the best of our knowledge, there is dearth of literature on the subject in Indian equity market. Therefore the present study is an attempt to plug this gap.
Business Turnaround in the Technological Era: The Study of Selected Manufacturing Industries in Nigeria
Obsolesces has taking many products un-aware and as such, been wiped out of the market by their competitors who are environmental scanner, creative and innovators. However, this study examined the relationship between product change and the performance of manufacturing industries in Nigeria.The study employed a descriptive survey design methods of sample size technique to determine the study sample from thirty (30) selected manufacturing industries in Nigeria. This makes the study sample size to be twenty-two (22). The collected data were analyzed using an inferential and statistical equation with the aid of statistical packages for social sciences (SPSS). The findings reviewed that the inferential results indicates a significant correlation between independent and dependent variables of R-Square (R2) which is computed as 95% of the variations in return on assets (ROA) which can be explained by firm size (FSZ), Leverage (LEV), Tangible assets (TGA), Liquidity (LIQ) and Growth (GRTH). It inculcate that turnaround nature in business through technological advancement has called on organizations to go for deep environmental scanning and be up to date in consumer taste.It recommends that organizations are to streamline their processes so as to reduce costs, lead time and improve performance. Finally, it also called for originality inculcation for organizational survival.
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