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The global conference on business, hospitality and tourism research 2018

The Association of North America Higher Education International (ANAHEI) successfully organized the Global Conference on Business, Hospitality and Tourism Research (hereafter GLOSEARCH 2018) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 2 October to 5 October 2018. GLOSEARCH 2018 brought together researchers, scientists, scholar and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of business, hospitality, and tourism research and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. English is the official language of the conference. University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee sponsored the conference and Hoa Sen University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was the conference host. There were 12 tracks throughout the 4-day conference: Hospitality and Tourism; Marketing, Management, Accounting, and Economics; Education and Training; Technology/E-business/Social Media; Human Resource Management; Consumer Behaviour; Environmental Issues/Sustainability and Green Tourism; Strategy, Environmental Issues, and Sustainability; Research Methods and Social Science Studies; Accounting, Finance, and Banking; and Leisure Management. GLOSEARCH 2018 received more than 200 abstracts/papers from 242 authors from 32 countries. GLOSEARCH 2018 is an interdisciplinary and global conference as over 170 participants from 23 countries with diverse research backgrounds attended it. During the conference, various insightful activities engaged every attendee, including keynote speeches, panel discussions, education certification programmes, research presentations, and poster presentations. It is worth mentioning that before GLOSEARCH 2018, one day event called Think Tank was hosted to engage over 100 scholars and practitioners to share their insights about the prospects in hospitality, tourism, entertainment, and event industry. Many inspiring ideas were proposed, and impressive discussions happened. On Day 1 of the conference, two workshops simultaneously occurred: Research Academy and Hotel Industry Foundations and Introduction to Analytics (HIFIA) Certification Program (hereafter HIFIA Certification Program). Research Academy was composed of three sessions: first, Introduction to PLS-SEM using SmartPLS and WarpPLS, which was conducted by Dr S. Mostafa Rassolimanesh from Taylor’s University, Malaysia; second, Mediator-Moderator Using PLS-SEM; WarpPLS and SmartPLS, which was also conducted by Dr Rassolimanesh; third, Dr Faizan Ali (College of Hospitality and Tourism Leadership, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Florida, U.S.A.) lectured about How to Publish Successfully in the afternoon session. HIFIA Certification Program was supported by The STR SHARE (Supporting Hotel-related Academic Research and Education) Center and The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI). The STR SHARE (Supporting Hotel-related Academic Research and Education) Center supports schools around the globe by providing large volumes of hotel and tourism data, as well as related resources to professors and students for research, student projects and