THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force soon. What changes will be brought by the new European law? The session will discuss the background and the implications of a cornerstone legislation, with a slight accent on data use in marketing advertisement. This Webinar is co-hosted by University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee and M3 Center for Hospitality Technology and Innovation.

Crafting Literature Review

Sexual Harassment | The Stakes Continue to Rise

The focus of this online panel discussion is academic reviewing, its importance as well as the benefits and challenges brought by it. We will be looking at ethical issues too and providing some tips and tricks.

ANAHEI Lecture: Innovative analytical approaches in tourism marketing studies by Hossein Olya, PhD This webinar focuses on discussing new methods - namely qualitative comparative analyses (QCA) and necessary condition analysis (NCA) - in tourism marketing studies. QCA, which bridges the gulf between quantitative and qualitative methods, explores the sufficient and consistent combination of the causal indicators leading to the given outcome. It will be explained how this approach generates new knowledge and addresses several assumptions of asymmetrical modeling. NCA will be introduced as a pragmatic method for identifying necessary factors for reaching the model outcome. The application of these methods will be exemplified from tourism studies. The software for QCA and NCA will be advised. Hossein Olya is a faculty member of Hospitality and Tourism College at Sejong University in Seoul. He is methodology editor of the Service Industries Journal and one of the pioneer researchers in application of fsQCA and NCA in tourism field.

Scale Development by Dr. Babak Taheri

Applying for a masters or doctoral degree in the U.S. is a standard procedure: submit your standardized test scores (e.g. TOEFL, IELTS, GRE, GMAT), submit your application, statement of objectives and references. Did you know that most graduate programs in the U.S. also offer scholarships and assistantships? These may be a path to financing your graduate education. This panel will talk about the steps that the students need to take to earn a scholarship/assistantship from a graduate program. It will include some common mistakes that applicants do and tips for a successful application.

SmartPLS

Robonomics - Principles, Benefits, Challenges, Solutions

Panel: Cuba as a Tourism Destination for Americans

Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a statistical approach to analyze a hypothetical framework. It allows a researcher to test and develop theories, and to test the relationships between latent variables on the conceptual model. PLS-SEM, a major type of SEM, can handle theory development and is lenient towards model’s assumption of data normality and sample size. PLS-SEM is a variance-based approach and aims to maximize the explained variance of the dependent latent constructs. Hence, PLS-SEM is preferred when a researcher wants to predict the construct and identify relationship between them. WarpPLS software package is a powerful non-linear package to perform PLS-SEM. It can handle linear and non-linear relationships between constructs. The software provides various composite and factor –based algorithms for outer model, and different resampling methods. In addition to all quality criteria to assess the reflective and formative measurement models, several important criteria such as; full collinearity including lateral and vertical collinearity between constructs are provided by WarpPLS. It provides plots of all relationships between constructs, as well as, 2D and 3D figures for moderators. WarpPLS 6.0 as the latest version of WarpPLS, providing many more new features to analyze models. This webinar will briefly explain PLS-SEM and WarpPLS and its features. Dr. S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh is a lecturer and senior researcher at the School of Housing, Building, and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He has published several articles in high impact SSCI-indexed journals such as Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Cities, Habitat International, International Journal of Tourism Research, and Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research.

Introduction to Network Science and Complex Systems

The purpose of this online panel will be to give strategies to young researchers to increase their citation numbers. The panelists will include Dr. Dimitrios Buhalis +30,000 citations (tourism), Dr. Marko Sarstedt +30,000 citations (statistics/business), Dr. Liu Bing +50,000 citations (data science/computer science). Having your research optimized for discoverability online will not online enhance its visibility, but also positively affect the citation rate and overall impact. There are many decisions to make once you choose to publish your work, no doubt the most important one is choosing the right publication outlet. Once this step is established, promoting your research via various outlets is also important and it will greatly impact your overall success. Join us for this online panel where we will be presenting and discussing key steps towards promoting, monitoring, and optimizing your articles that will attract the most citations as well as picking the right topic. Dr. Cihan Cobanoglu - Moderator Dr. Liu Bing - Panelist Dr. Dimitrios Buhalis - Panelist Dr. Marko Sarstedt - Panelist