United States

emerging destination

tourism competitiveness

alternative tourism

Dear Delegates, 

On behalf of the organizing committee at UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management and Elsevier, I have the greatest pleasure to welcome you to the **6th World Research Summit for Tourism and Hospitality: Resilience, Adaptability, and Innovation.** 

Though we cannot host you this year owing to Covid-19 at our beautiful resort-like campus in Orlando, Florida, we believe this virtual and live-streamed conference will provide an interactive, dynamic, and shared international platform for global academics and practitioners to discuss how to enhance research applications and knowledge management through resilience, adaptability, digital intelligence, innovation, and smart knowledge in bringing our industry and research back to normal. This summit particularly offers unique opportunities to unfold and embrace various repercussions of COVID-19 pandemic with various stakeholders, including academic researchers, industry professionals, and government officials, through dialogues on how to better utilize research outputs for the benefits of the industry, in a resilient, intelligent and innovative way. 

I hope you will agree that we have put together a wonderful program including keynote speeches, panel discussions, concurrent presentations, poster sessions, and best paper recognition and award ceremony. We hope you will take advantage of these activities and engage yourself with great learning and sharing opportunities during the two days of the Summit. Thank you for joining us and we look forward to our discussions! 

Sincerely, 
Dr. Youcheng Wang 
Dean and Preeminent Chair Professor

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**Welcome to our 32nd annual conference!**
Once registered you should receive your ticket to gain full access to the schedule and the events. Our McNair Scholars have worked hard to produce this quality work. We look forward to showing the great work they’ve done and hear about what their future plans are. 

**A Note of Appreciation**

The McNair Staff would like to thank you for attending the Scholars Conference. The effort of the McNair Scholars put into their research is quite evident as reflected in the quality of their posters and presentations. The presentations are the result of each scholar conducting nearly 280 hours of research throughout this academic year. 

We also wholeheartedly extend our thanks to all of our mentors for their desire to work with our scholars and for their patience in carrying out their responsibilities. We hope these efforts have a lasting impression on the scholars.

The McNair Advisory Committee is also commended for the exemplary efforts it expended in selecting the 2020-2021 scholars.

**MU McNair Program Background**

The McNair Scholars Program was developed when the U.S. Senate was preparing the Higher Education Re-authorization act in 1986. This new program was created under the TRIO sub-section covering graduate education outreach to address the predicted shortage of persons with earned doctorates. In 1989, the Division of Higher Education Preparation and Support Services of the U.S. Department of Education launched the administration of the program.

Dr. Vicki Curby prepared and submitted a successful grant proposal which made the University of Missouri was one of the original 14 institutions selected for funding. The first group of scholars conducted their research that year, and the inaugural McNair Scholars Conference was held in the spring of 1990. 

**Ronald E. McNair**

Ronald Erwin McNair was born October 21, 1950, in Lake City South Carolina. After graduation from high school, he enrolled in North Carolina A&T State University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in physics in 1971. McNair then enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned his PhD in physics in 1976. 

While working as a staff physicist with Hughes Research Laboratory, he soon became a recognized expert in laser physics. In 1978, McNair was selected for the NASA space shuttle program, and, after years of training, he served as mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1984. He was the second African-American to travel in space.

Besides his academic achievements, McNair received three honorary doctorate degrees and many fellowships and commendations, such as the Presidential Schola, 1967-7; Ford Foundation Fellow, 1971-74; National Fellowship Fund Fellow, 1974-75; Omega Psi Phi Scholar of the Year, 1975; Distinguished National Scientist; National Society of Black Professional Engineers, 1979; and Friend of Freedom Award, 1981. McNair also held a fifth-degree black belt in karate and was an accomplished jazz saxophonist.

Ronald E. McNair died in the Challenger accident on January 28, 1986 which claimed the lives of the entire crew. He legacy lives on in the McNair Scholars Program

 
**McNair Staff**
 Director: NaTashua Davis
 Associate Director: Natalie Downer
 Program Coordinator: Jeremy Bloss
 Program Assistant: James Hamilton
 Graduate Assistant: Brittany Fatoma

**Scholars and Mentors**
 **Stephan Agee**, Mechanical Engineering, **Hongbin Ma**
 **Angelique Allen**, Biological Sciences, **Manuel Leal**
 **Elias Bunting**, Natural Resources Science & Management, **Ronald Revord**
 **Kelly Dade**, Electrical Engineering, **Justin Legarsky**
 **Kyle Downes**, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, **Craig Kluever**
 **Chavis Ferguson**, Biomedical Engineering, **Bret Ulery**
 **Derek Fiquet**, Interdisciplinary Studies, **Thomas Bonnot**
 **Jay “Javion” Golden**, Health Sciences, **Kuanysh Kabytaev**
 **Christian Kinghorne**, Psychology,** Chunyan Peng**
 **Adam Lappe**, Political Science and International Studies, **Bryce Reede**r
 **A. Habib Oma**r, Biochemistry and Biology, **Kiruba Krishnaswamy**
 **Ymbar Polanco**, Aerospace Engineering, **Sheng Wang**
 **Tessi Rickabaugh**, Women’s & Gender Studies and Religious Studies, **Francisco Sanchez**
 **Francesca Rodriguez-Hart**, Geography, **Matthew Foulkes**
 **Claire Schneider**, Architectural Studies, **Robert Walsh**
 **Caleb Sewell**, Educational Studies and Black Studies, **Stephen Graves**
 **Mason Ward**, Agriculture, R**obert Sites**
 **Yuki Yang**, Biology, **Aaron Morton & Steven Segal**

**2020-2021 McNair Advisory Committee**
 Vicki Boyd-Kennedy
 John David
 Melissa Herzog
 Charles Nilon

**The schedule is as follows:**
* Opening sessions: 9:00am – 11:00am
* Poster session 1: 11:00am – 11:30am
* Hour break: 11:30am – 12:30pm
* Session 2: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
* Poster session 2: 2:00-2:30pm

2021 MU McNair Scholars Conference

Alternative tourism contributes to the sustainable development of tourism and, among other things, to the active participation of communities in the management of tourism development in their territories, for which it is considered necessary to study the concept, characteristics and benefits of alternative tourism, as well as its relationship with sustainable development and tourist competitiveness, which lead to a methodology to evaluate the potential of a territory as an alternative tourism destination. The main objective of this study is to design an Index of Sustainable Development in Alternative Tourism (IDSTA) based on the indicators of tourist competitiveness that are focused on the dimensions of sustainable development, as a tool for identifying the capacities of an associated territory to the development of alternative tourism. This index was validated in a country considered an emerging destination and its different regions (departments or states). The main findings indicate that at the country level, the territory is suitable for the development of alternative tourism, while the analysis by grouping of departments (cluster analysis) shows three large groups, the first with optimal conditions for the development of alternative tourism , the second has a medium level and, the last group must strengthen its characteristics for alternative tourism.

Alternative tourism development index: Review and implications

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Social media discourse’s effects on persistent localized environmental hazards in tourist destination selection: An exploratory assessment

How to improve risk management in sport tourism: Applying the AcciMap approach to examine Gansu ultramarathon incident

The use of food delivery apps during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: The role of solidarity, perceived risk and regional aspects

"Intra-muros”: An assessment of the physical carrying capacity of Intramuros in the time of COVID-19

Tourism marketing campaign for COVID-19 post-crisis recovery - A case study of the“Go to Travel” campaign in Japan

Assessing the effects of text-image congruence on hotel guests’ information perceptions and booking intention

Hospitality in the age of Covid: The impact on exhibition assemblers

In search of survival: The impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on the hotel and restaurant sector

A critical review of artificial intelligence research in hospitality and tourism

Augmented reality and sustainable development of tourism: An integrative literature review

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