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ABSTRACTThis study investigates the critical firm-level strengths and weaknesses that explain cross-sectional variations in abnormal stock returns of Hospitality and Tourism (HT) firms during different phases of a crisis. We used the event study and multivariate regression framework for analysing the Indian HT firms’ data around the COVID-19 crisis. While reporting a significant negative influence of COVID-19, we identified the early crisis, market crash and continuation of the crisis periods. Furthermore, we observe that during the early-crisis period, business diversity, financial stability and board diversity improved HT firms’ strength to withstand the risk, while business group affiliation was of little help. During the market crash and continuation of the crisis phase, better capital intensity and financial stability proved helpful. The managers of HT firms can take cues from this study to understand firm-level characteristics that provide resilience to their firms’ value in managing different phases of the crisis.

We report the clinical efficacy against COVID-19 infection of BBV152, a whole virion inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine formulated with a toll-like receptor 7/8 agonist molecule adsorbed to alum (Algel-IMDG) in Indian adults.

ABSTRACTThe present study views adventure tourism through a services marketing lens to investigate the impact of customer experience on tourist satisfaction. It further explores the mediating role of commitment between tourists’ satisfaction and behavioural intents, that is, their revisit intentions (RVIs). The adventure activities under consideration in this study are trekking and rafting. A survey of participants with experience in trekking and rafting was conducted to establish support for the proposed model. The findings of the study indicate that quality of experience positively affects satisfaction, which in turn leads to positive commitment and enhances RVIs of the tourists.