"You Want Your Guests to Be Happy in This Business": Hoteliers' Decisions to Adopt Voluntary Smoke-Free Guest-Room Policies.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To explore why some hotels have implemented 100% smoke-free policies voluntarily, the perceived consequences of doing so, and media responses.

Design

Qualitative study of hotel management and quantitative content analysis of media coverage of smoke-free hotels.

Setting

Hotels and media based in the United States.

Participants

Eleven representatives of 5 independent and 4 chain hotels. Other data included 265 news items about smoke-free hotels.

Method

We conducted 30-minute semi-structured interviews with hotel representatives and analyzed the data using qualitative content analysis. We also searched 3 online news databases for news items about hotels in our study, and collaboratively coded retrieved items; we analyzed the content and slant of new

SUBMITTER: McDaniel PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6136976 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature