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View article: Cultural sustainability in hospitality and tourism: toward a holistic framework
Cultural sustainability in hospitality and tourism: toward a holistic framework Open
Purpose This paper proposes a holistic framework that identifies factors at micro-, meso- and macro-levels and their impacts on the development and evolution of cultural sustainability in hospitality and tourism. Design/methodology/approac…
View article: Poetry for Rights! Intergenerational Co-creation for Child Rights Scholarship
Poetry for Rights! Intergenerational Co-creation for Child Rights Scholarship Open
This article presents the work of a group of child rights activists including children, young people and a supporting adult, who creatively convey their thoughts and feelings about the most pressing contemporary issues in the field of chil…
View article: City neighbourhood branding and new urban tourism
City neighbourhood branding and new urban tourism Open
City authorities worldwide have sought to rejuvenate and diversify their tourism product offerings by dispersing visitors into less familiar and frequented locales. Despite calls to understand such ‘new tourism areas’ (NTAs) in urban areas…
View article: Developing a tourism region through tourism and culture: bordering, branding, placemaking and governance processes
Developing a tourism region through tourism and culture: bordering, branding, placemaking and governance processes Open
China’s pre-pandemic national-level planning advocated a combination of culture and tourism to advance growth in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) mega-region. Culture is seen as increasing regional cohesion, with multi-destination travel product…
View article: Lookahead When It Matters: Adaptive Non-causal Transformers for Streaming Neural Transducers
Lookahead When It Matters: Adaptive Non-causal Transformers for Streaming Neural Transducers Open
Streaming speech recognition architectures are employed for low-latency, real-time applications. Such architectures are often characterized by their causality. Causal architectures emit tokens at each frame, relying only on current and pas…
View article: Leveraging Redundancy in Multiple Audio Signals for Far-Field Speech Recognition
Leveraging Redundancy in Multiple Audio Signals for Far-Field Speech Recognition Open
To achieve robust far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR), existing techniques typically employ an acoustic front end (AFE) cascaded with a neural transducer (NT) ASR model. The AFE output, however, could be unreliable, as the beamfor…
View article: Being the Supreme Court: Teaching Constitutional Law to Undergraduates as a Semester-Long Simulation
Being the Supreme Court: Teaching Constitutional Law to Undergraduates as a Semester-Long Simulation Open
This paper surveys these various approaches to simulation in constitutional law courses, then introduces an immersive, semester-long approach. The structure of the course mimics that of the Supreme Court itself. As each new topic arises st…
View article: Why Have Package Tour Itineraries Been Homogeneous? Insights From Industry Subgroup Relations
Why Have Package Tour Itineraries Been Homogeneous? Insights From Industry Subgroup Relations Open
In addressing one of the least-researched areas in tourism—the formation of product strategies—this study focuses on the homogeneous package tour phenomenon. It draws on Industrial Organization theory to explore the impact of relationships…
View article: Toward Fairness in Speech Recognition: Discovery and mitigation of performance disparities
Toward Fairness in Speech Recognition: Discovery and mitigation of performance disparities Open
As for other forms of AI, speech recognition has recently been examined with respect to performance disparities across different user cohorts. One approach to achieve fairness in speech recognition is to (1) identify speaker cohorts that s…
View article: Reducing Geographic Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition via Elastic Weight Consolidation
Reducing Geographic Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition via Elastic Weight Consolidation Open
We present an approach to reduce the performance disparity between geographic regions without degrading performance on the overall user population for ASR. A popular approach is to fine-tune the model with data from regions where the ASR m…
View article: Compute Cost Amortized Transformer for Streaming ASR
Compute Cost Amortized Transformer for Streaming ASR Open
We present a streaming, Transformer-based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) architecture which achieves efficient neural inference through compute cost amortization. Our architecture creates sparse computation pathways dynamica…
View article: Ocean observations indicate a key role for ocean dynamics in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability
Ocean observations indicate a key role for ocean dynamics in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability Open
<p>Multidecadal changes in North Atlantic Ocean heat storage directly affect the climate of the surrounding continents, and it is important to understand how and why the changes are taking place. Here we synthesize a wide range of ob…
View article: The experience of cultural festivals: evidence from Hong Kong
The experience of cultural festivals: evidence from Hong Kong Open
Cultural festivals can attract cultural tourists, extend the tourist season and add vibrancy to the cultural scene. However, there is relatively little research on how festivals affect tourist experience of the destination or outcomes such…
View article: Reflecting on tourism and COVID-19 research
Reflecting on tourism and COVID-19 research Open
Reflection is a form of deep thinking that is evident in everyday lives – private and professional – and this article offers insights for key parties about reflecting on research outcomes to ensure enhanced tourism impacts post-pandemic. U…
View article: Investigation of Training Label Error Impact on RNN-T
Investigation of Training Label Error Impact on RNN-T Open
In this paper, we propose an approach to quantitatively analyze impacts of different training label errors to RNN-T based ASR models. The result shows deletion errors are more harmful than substitution and insertion label errors in RNN-T t…
View article: Tourism knowledge: its creation and dissemination by region
Tourism knowledge: its creation and dissemination by region Open
This study investigates regional similarities and differences in the tourism research knowledge domain, based on two decades of publications. The authors analysed co-citations in the reference lists of full-length articles published in Ann…
View article: Travel Industry Leadership in Italy and China — A Biographical Comparison
Travel Industry Leadership in Italy and China — A Biographical Comparison Open
Entrepreneurial leadership has been important in developing the global travel industry with implications for both organizations and people. This comparative biographical analysis of two travel industry leaders and their respective contexts…
View article: Warped Dynamic Linear Models for Time Series of Counts
Warped Dynamic Linear Models for Time Series of Counts Open
Dynamic Linear Models (DLMs) are commonly employed for time series analysis due to their versatile structure, simple recursive updating, ability to handle missing data, and probabilistic forecasting. However, the options for count time ser…
View article: Business model adaptation as a strategic response to crises: navigating the COVID-19 pandemic
Business model adaptation as a strategic response to crises: navigating the COVID-19 pandemic Open
Purpose This study aims to explore how hotels adapt their business models as a strategic response to crisis situations. It sheds light on the processes and methods of business model adaptation during severe crisis situations, such as the C…
View article: Global Inverse Design across Multiple Photonic Structure Classes Using Generative Deep Learning (Advanced Optical Materials 20/2021)
Global Inverse Design across Multiple Photonic Structure Classes Using Generative Deep Learning (Advanced Optical Materials 20/2021) Open
In article number 2100548, Christopher Yeung, Aaswath P. Raman, and co-workers propose a global photonics and materials design framework, based on generative adversarial networks, which simultaneously optimizes a photonic system's device c…
View article: CoDERT: Distilling Encoder Representations with Co-Learning for Transducer-Based Speech Recognition
CoDERT: Distilling Encoder Representations with Co-Learning for Transducer-Based Speech Recognition Open
We propose a simple yet effective method to compress an RNN-Transducer (RNN-T) through the well-known knowledge distillation paradigm. We show that the transducer's encoder outputs naturally have a high entropy and contain rich information…
View article: To Engage or Not? Leading Scholar Memberships and Involvement in Hospitality and Tourism Associations
To Engage or Not? Leading Scholar Memberships and Involvement in Hospitality and Tourism Associations Open
Participating in associations can benefit professional development. Nevertheless, hospitality and tourism (H&T) researchers have focused on understanding conference attendance, neglecting the role and functions of the associations organizi…
View article: Prelims
Prelims Open
Citation (2021), "Prelims", Kulshreshtha, S.K. (Ed.) Virus Outbreaks and Tourism Mobility (Tourism Security-Safety and Post Conflict Destinations), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. i-xxvii. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-334-5…
View article: Why are Faculty Unfavorably Disposed to MOOCs? — A Sharing of Views by Chinese Hospitality Educators
Why are Faculty Unfavorably Disposed to MOOCs? — A Sharing of Views by Chinese Hospitality Educators Open
This study explores the negative disposition of many hospitality higher education faculty toward MOOCs, an increasingly prominent delivery mode in pedagogical discourse which potentially enriches student learning. Such enrichment is partic…
View article: Global Inverse Design across Multiple Photonic Structure Classes Using Generative Deep Learning
Global Inverse Design across Multiple Photonic Structure Classes Using Generative Deep Learning Open
Understanding how nano‐ or micro‐scale structures and material properties can be optimally configured to attain specific functionalities remains a fundamental challenge. Photonic metasurfaces, for instance, can be spectrally tuned through …
View article: The sway of influencer marketing: Evidence from a restaurant group
The sway of influencer marketing: Evidence from a restaurant group Open
Influencer marketing has become a powerful channel for brand promotion and market expansion in the hospitality industry. However, those responsible for implementing influencer marketing campaigns are susceptible to the "myth of viewability…
View article: Loss aversion in hotel choice: Psychophysiological evidence
Loss aversion in hotel choice: Psychophysiological evidence Open
The authors investigate the psychophysiological correlates of loss aversion in hotel choice. Consumers are frequently found reluctant to shift their choice to a subsequent option from their first encountered hotel. The concept of loss aver…
View article: Do You Listen with One or Two Microphones? A Unified ASR Model for Single and Multi-Channel Audio
Do You Listen with One or Two Microphones? A Unified ASR Model for Single and Multi-Channel Audio Open
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are typically designed to operate on a single input data type, e.g. a single or multi-channel audio streamed from a device. This design decision assumes the primary input data source does not chang…