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Yong Chen

Dr Yong Chen

Dr Yong Chen

Associate Professor

Fachgebiet

  • Verhaltensökonomie im Tourismus und Gastgewerbe
  • Chinesischer In- und Outbound-Tourismus
  • Ökonomie des Tourismus und Gastgewerbes
  • Sharing Economy und zweiseitige Märkte
  • Wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen des Tourismus

Biographie

Yong Chen besitzt einen Doktortitel und ist Assistenzprofessor an der EHL (EHL) in der Schweiz, wo er Lehrveranstaltungen zu Marketing und Ökonomie des Tourismus und des Gastgewerbes hält. Seine Forschungsinteressen liegen in den Bereichen Touristenzufriedenheit, Tourismusnachfrage, wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Tourismus und Gastgewerbe, Sharing Economy und chinesischer Tourismus im Ausland.


Dr. Chens Forschungsarbeiten wurden in verschiedenen Fachzeitschriften veröffentlicht, unter anderem im Tourism Management, dem Journal of Travel Research und dem International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. Seine Ansichten über die Sharing Economy, die chinesische Tourismusnachfrage und die Hotelbranche wurden auch von CNN, MarketWatch, South China Morning Post und EHL Hospitality Insights veröffentlicht.

Ausbildung

PhD in Hospitality and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Unterrichtete Kurse

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
• Hospitality Economics

Unterrichtsort

EHL Campus Lausanne
Akademische Publikationen

Akademische Publikationen von Yong Chen

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CEO compensation and the performance of firms in the hospitality industry : a cross-industry comparison

This study examines whether industry-specific characteristics can explain the relationship between chief executive officer (CEO) compensation and the performance of firms and, if so, what roles these characteristics may play in affecting the...

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Why can package tours hurt tourists? : evidence from China’s tourism demand in Hong Kong

The package tour market is information intensive in nature. Its complex informational structure is generally inaccessible to tourists, whose purchase behavior might be affected by the extent to which they can access such information. This study...

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Building brand relationship quality among hotel loyalty program members

This study aims to investigate the impact of the loyalty program members’ satisfaction toward the hotel loyalty program benefits and the customer management relationship initiatives of individual hotels on the brand relationship quality (BRQ), i.e....

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Consumer valuation of Airbnb listings : a hedonic pricing approach

Purpose This paper aims to identify a wide array of utility-based attributes of Airbnb listings and measures the effects of these attributes on consumers’ valuation of Airbnb listings. Design/methodology/approach A hedonic price model was developed...

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Does a happy destination bring you happiness ? : evidence from Swiss inbound tourism

This study aims to explain tourist happiness by examining a specific destination in which happiness is generated for tourists via their travel behavior at the destination. Building upon the spillover theory of happiness, we developed a...

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Knowledge creation and research production in Swiss hotel schools : a case study of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne

This study aimed to analyze the obstacles to knowledge creation and scientific research in tourism and hospitality that Swiss hotel schools face. A case study approach was adopted to analyze the research practices of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne...

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A multiple indicators multiple causes (mimic) model of the behavioral consequences of hotel guests

This study aims to examine the effects of a set of covariates, including culture, sociodemographic, and travel behavioral patterns, on behavioral consequences of hotel guests. We developed a Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes (MIMIC) model to test...

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Social innovation in tourism : unleashing the time-money constraint

This study aims to explore whether the time-money constraint in tourism can be exerted to foster unconventional social innovation in the tourism industry. This study builds its conceptual framework upon the concept of time banking as an alternative...

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Effects of host incentives on multiple listings in accommodation sharing

Purpose : Despite the importance of hosts who contribute to the success of accommodation sharing through sharing underutilized space with guests, current literature sheds little light on what exactly incentivizes hosts to grow their properties. The...

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Channeling life satisfaction to tourist satisfaction : new conceptualization and evidence

This study developed a model that predicts tourist satisfaction with a destination based on their life satisfaction in their home country. The model was grounded on an assumption that tourist consumption does not necessarily entail consuming...

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Effects of religious celebrity on destination experience : the case of Pope Francis's visit to Solmoe Shrine

A wealth of academic research has been devoted to examining the effects of secular celebrities rather than religious celebrities on individuals' destination experiences at the pilgrimage destination. We aim to investigate the effects of a religious...

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Measuring litter distribution on UK beaches

This study proposes a set of metrics that is built upon the Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient in economics to measure beach litter distribution. These metrics address the degree of litter distribution, distribution patterns as well as the causes of...

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The effects of spirituality on visitor behavior : a cognitive?affective?conative model

This study applies the cognitive-affective-conative (CAC) model to develop an analytical framework of visitor experience with a sacred site. Furthermore, the framework that contains key variables of visitor experience, particularly spirituality, is...

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The signaling and reputational effects of customer ratings on hotel revenues : evidence from TripAdvisor

This study aims to examine whether customer ratings and online reviews affect hotel revenues, and if so, to quantify the effects. To achieve this objective, we articulate the mechanisms grounded on reputation theories whereby customer ratings...

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Testing effects of hospitality employment on property crime in the United States

This study aims to model the effect of hospitality employment on property crime in economic crime equations, in which unemployment either indicates the opportunity cost of crime or suggests the decrease of targets. We developed a model of property...

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Mapping the spatiotemporal patterns of beach litter on UK beaches from 2000 to 2016 : an emerging hot spot analytical approach

Litter pollution on beaches is a growing problem worldwide that threatens marine species and tourism experiences. It is important to establish a virtual geographic environment by simulating the spatiotemporal pattern of litter to enhance our...

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Does official development assistance promote tourism demand for donor countries ? Evidence from Switzerland

This study estimates the effect of official development assistance (ODA) on tourism demand of recipient countries for donor countries. We analyzed a panel dataset of 15 recipient countries of Switzerland’s aid from 2005 to 2017, for which data are...

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The legal aspects of hotel rate parity

This research note delineates the conflict of hotel rate parity and key clauses of competition laws in both Europe and the U.S. We trace the origin of hotel rate parity to the principle of most favored nation (MFN) in international trade agreements....

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A network analysis of tourist activity

Purpose: This study aims to model tourist activities in a network and explore the properties of the network. Such network enables the author to explain and quantify how tourist activities are connected in determining tourist consumption as well as...

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Empowering Consumers Through Self-Service Technology: A Comparative Analysis

This study tests consumer evaluations of services with the adoption of self-service technology (SST) in the hospitality service context. We revised the conventional consumer evaluation model by incorporating the concept of consumer empowerment to...

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Zeitschriftenpublikationen

Kim, B., & Chen, Y. (Forthcoming). Can mega pilgrimages increase participants’ well-being? Evidence from the World Youth Day 2023. Journal of Travel Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875251337724

Chen, Y., & Bianchi, G. (2025). Coupon redemption in food and beverage businesses: Situational effects of in-vehicle scenarios. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 49(7), 1212–1226. https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480251361954

Chen, Y. (2025). Tourist Flows and Multi-Destination Trips: A Network Analysis. Journal of China Tourism Research, 21(1), 49–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2024.2309505

Kim, B., & Chen, Y. (2025). Empowering Consumers Through Self-Service Technology: A Comparative Analysis. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 49(2), 254-267. https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480231182959

Bianchi, G., & Chen, Y. (2024). The legal aspects of hotel rate parity. Tourism Economics, 30(5), 1324-1329. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166231190142

Chen, Y. (2024). A network analysis of tourist activity. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 36(2), 505-523. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-06-2022-0728

Lopez, L., Bianchi, G., & Chen, Y. (2023). Does official development assistance promote tourism demand for donor countries? Evidence from Switzerland. Tourism Economics, 29(1), 157-171. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166211041416

Bianchi, G., & Chen, Y. (2022). Testing effects of hospitality employment on property crime in the United States. Tourism Economics, 28(6), 1545-1565. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166211001180

Gu, Q., Zhang, H., Chen, Y., & Li, T. (2022). Mapping the spatiotemporal patterns of beach litter on UK beaches from 2000 to 2016: An emerging hot spot analytical approach. Transactions in GIS, 26(3), 1318-1338. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12906

Sayfuddin, A., & Chen, Y. (2021). The signaling and reputational effects of customer ratings on hotel revenues: Evidence from TripAdvisor. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 99, 103065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2021.103065

Chen, Y. (2021). Measuring litter distribution on UK beaches. Marine Policy, 130, 104592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104592

Kim, B., & Chen, Y. (2021). The effects of spirituality on visitor behavior: A cognitive-affective-conative model. International Journal of Tourism Research, 23(6), 1151-1162. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2474

Bianchi, G., & Chen, Y. (2020). The short-and long-run hotel demand in Switzerland: A weighted macroeconomic approach. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 44 (5), 835-857. https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020913608

Chen, Y. (2020). Channeling life satisfaction to tourist satisfaction: New conceptualization and evidence. Journal of China Tourism Research, 16, 566-584. https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2019.1631926

Kim, B., & Chen, Y. (2020). Effects of religious celebrity on destination experience: the case of Pope Francis’s visit to Solmoe Shrine. International Journal of Tourism Research, 22(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2314

Walker, N. K., & Chen, Y. (2019). Social innovation in tourism: Unleashing the time-money constraint. Journal of the knowledge economy, 10(4), 1700-1719. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-018-0534-0

Chen, Y., & Jiang, K. (2019). A multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) model of the behavioral consequences of hotel guests. Tourism Management Perspectives, 30, 197-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2019.02.014

Xie, K. L., & Chen, Y. (2019). Effects of host incentives on multiple listings in accommodation sharing. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 31(4), 1995-2013. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-02-2018-0145

Chen, Y., Dellea, D., & Bianchi, G. (2018). Knowledge creation and research production in Swiss hotel schools: A case study of EHL. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, 31(1), 10-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10963758.2018.1480960

Chen, Y., & Li, R. (2018). Does a happy destination bring you happiness? Evidence from Swiss inbound tourism. Tourism Management, 65, 256-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2017.10.009

Chen, Y., & Xie, K. L. (2017). Consumer valuation of Airbnb listings: A hedonic pricing approach. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 29(9), 2405-2424. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-10-2016-0606

Lo, A. S., Im, H. H., Chen, Y., & Qu, H. (2017). Building brand relationship quality among hotel loyalty program members. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 29(1), 458-488. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-06-2015-0283

Chen, Y., Schuckert, M., Song, H., & Chon, K. (2016). Why can package tours hurt tourists? Evidence from China’s tourism demand in Hong Kong. Journal of Travel Research, 55(4), 427-439. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287515612597

Chen, Y., & Dellea, D. (2015). Swiss hospitality and tourism education: The experience of the EHL. Tourism Tribune, 30(10), 5-9.

Bianchi G., & Chen Y. (2015). CEO compensation and firm performance in the hospitality industry: A cross-industry comparison. International Journal of Tourism Sciences, 15(3-4), 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/15980634.2016.1181320

Li, M., Zhang, H., Xiao, H., & Chen, Y. (2015). A grid-group analysis of tourism motivation. International Journal of Tourism Research, 17(1), 35-44. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.1963

Lo, A. S., Mak, B., & Chen, Y. (2014). Do travel agency jobs appeal to university students? A case of tourism management students in Hong Kong. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 14(1), 87-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2014.872908

Guo, Y., Kim, S., & Chen, Y. (2014). Shanghai residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and quality of life. Journal of China Tourism Research, 10, 142-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2013.849639

Chen, Y., Mak, B., & Li, Z. (2013). Quality deterioration in package tours: The interplay of asymmetric information and reputation. Tourism Management, 38, 43-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2013.02.010