Browsing Master's theses (SV-NHS) by Title
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Scandinavian hotel chains globalization and opportunities in China market: Country of origin (COO) approach
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-06-12)This study concentrates on Scandinavian (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) hotel chains’ globalization discussions and their opportunities to develop in Chinese hotel market. To find out how Chinese consumers perceived ... -
Scandinavian Hotel Chains Globalization and Opportunities in China Market: Country of Origin (COO) Approach
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-06)This study concentrates on Scandinavian (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) hotel chains’ globalization discussions and their opportunities to develop in Chinese hotel market. To find out how Chinese consumers perceived ... -
Sensation Seeking in Nature-Based Tourism: The Utility of a Personality Variable in Explaining Motives and Attitudes to Management in Natural Areas
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-06)Natural area managers are facing challenges to combine increasing visitation as nature-based tourism is growing with the protection of the natural resources. This thesis therefore aimed at contributing to solve this empirical ... -
Service perception: A quantitative analysis of Norwegian service providers perception of international tourists
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06)Current research from a service management perspective has been set to analyze tourists’ perceptions of quality and the importance of service received by service providers. However, service providers’ perception of tourists ... -
Staging new conferences: positioning the MICE industry and entrepreneurs in the Stavanger region
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)This thesis investigated the conference organizing process, people around it and factors influencing the success of similar events. During the recent years Stavanger conference industry has been developing rapidly. However, ... -
The Stavanger and Ryfylke regions’ potential as food tourism destinations: Towards a recipe for success
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)The purpose of the study was to determine how the Stavanger and Ryfylke regions can exploit their potential as food tourism destinations. This research was the first of its kind to combine data from the food and tourism ... -
Stavanger live festival from the viewpoint of volunteers
(Master thesis, 2014-06-29)This paper is exploring selected organization process in Stavanger Live Festival from the point of view of volunteers as very sensitive group that must be handled by professionals. The areas that will be analyzed are process ... -
Stavanger tourism policies
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2014, Master thesis, 2014-06-16)The importance of tourism policy planning stated by European Commission (2007) in the Lisbon Treaty of 2007 has a focus on the two axes specified in the article 176 B of the same Treaty, where it is explained that sectorial ... -
A study of the interaction between cross-cultural communication and management of employment relationship in relations to conflicts within cross-cultural organisations : sample from housekeeping departments in two Norwegian hotels
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2009, Master thesis, 2009)This paper is a small pilot study and is attempting to look at the interaction between crosscultural communication and management of employment relationship, and how this may influence the managing of conflicts in a ... -
A study of workplace satisfaction among hotel employees
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)This research paper is a descriptive case study of 10 hotel employees collected through in-depth interviews in Stavanger region. The study is focusing on hotel employee’s view of workplace satisfaction and what they think ... -
Sustainability and marketing value: A comparison of traditional and sustainable marketing scenarios in tourism
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-06)Climate change is a key issue that the earth is facing. With the increasing demands for a more sustainable development in the tourism industry, many companies and co-operations are facing the choice of whether to adapt to ... -
Sustainable tourism – an overall perspective in Fjord Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-06-19)This research is to examine the level of interest, understanding and implantation of sustainable tourism and practices at destination level. It’s a qualitative study exploring how sustainable tourism is perceived among ... -
Thailand as new destination for Norwegian travelers
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)Selling a destination has become a challenging task in today’s modern high-technological environment. Travelers can obtain a huge variety of choices about any destination from online networks. This study utilized Thailand ... -
The Demand Side of Dark Tourism – Characteristics of Dark Tourists
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06)Dark tourism, or thanatourism, is a type of tourism concerning using ‘death space’ for tourism purposes. The general goal of dark tourism research is to identify, describe and analyze tourism journeys to death space. There ... -
The democratisation of meal delivery service in France
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-15)The purpose of this study was to explore the meal delivery service in French market and the customer’s opinion in the future meal delivery business. In addition, I first did the research basically on the evolution of ... -
The effect of service employees’ perception of role clarity and psychological empowerment on organizational commitment, job satisfaction and staying intention
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)Background and purpose – This study examines the service-employees perception of role clarity and psychological empowerment in three different industries. Furthermore the study explores how these perceptions influence the ... -
The impact and perspectives of a capacitating culinary awareness program, in the knowledge development of culinary identity, nutrition, hygiene, meal planning and culinary techniques applications in the community “El Progreso” situated in Pedro Vicente Maldonado Province of Pichincha Ecuador
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)The purpose of this development project is to settle a Culinary Capacitating program along the community “El Progreso”, located in Pedro Vicente Maldonado, Province of Pichincha, Ecuador, in order to analyze the impact and ... -
The impact of hotel interiors on customer’s loyalty intentions
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06-15)Purpose – The purpose of this master thesis is to examine the role of hotel interiors which are perceived by five atmospheric elements of color, lighting, layout, style, and furnishings on customer’s loyalty intentions ... -
The multi-legged team: a study of the unique elements of sled dog racing
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2012;, Master thesis, 2012-06)Every year, more than 100 mushers use a great extent of their leisure time to prepare themselves, their handlers, and their dogs for the biggest event in Europe within dogsledding; Finnmarksløpet. Finnmarksløpet is the ... -
The perceived challenges of incoming tour operators with the post political crises effects in Madagascar
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-NHS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the effects of political instability on the tourism industry in Madagascar. It particularly investigates the effects of the political incidents of 2002 ...