This study adopted a meta-analysis to generalize and compare the effect of influencing factors on hospitality and tourism management students’ career intentions from 34 studies. After 13 existing factors were classified into four categories, the results revealed that 11 of them significantly impact students’ career intentions. In general, the influences of social identity and self-perception are more important, followed by school education and work conditions. A subgroup analysis further identified the sample students’ grades as dynamics that partially moderate some of the influencing factors, while no statistical changes in the relative influences were observed after the COVID-19 outbreak. Finally, suggestions are provided for hospitality and tourism management education and industries.

Tourist communities have enjoyed the benefits of tourist development in various regions and have paid the associated costs, resulting in different attitudes towards tourism development in World Heritage Sites. On this basis, this study takes the Mount Sanqingshan National Park, a World Natural Heritage site, collects 330 examples of perceptions of residents of tourism communities, relies on social exchange theory and community participation theory, uses structural equation modeling as a technical methodology, and constructs a conceptual model, including perceived benefits and costs, community satisfaction, and place attachment as mediating variables from the view of tourism’s social, economic, environmental, and heritage protection impacts. The study shows that: first, the perceptions of benefits have a significant positive influence on place attachment and community satisfaction; second, the perceived cost has a significant negative influence on place attachment, and a negative influence on community satisfaction does not hold true; third, place attachment has a full mediating effect on tourist cost perception and satisfaction, a partial mediating effect on tourist benefit perception and satisfaction, and a significant positive effect on community satisfaction. Finally, we propose the ‘SHE-ABC’ framework of WHS tourist community satisfaction based on the perspectives of heritage tourism impact perception and place attachment. The results of the study have theoretical value and practical guidance to sustainable development, tourist industry, and community management of World Heritage Sites.

This study constructs a three-dimensions of perceived career barriers (CB) of hospitality and tourism management (HTM) students, namely personal, social and interactional career barriers, and explores their impacts on students’ professional identity and intention to work in hospitality and tourism (H&T) industry. The findings based on a sample of 842 HTM students in mainland China are as follows. Firstly, the three-dimensions model could reveal the structure of HTM students’ perceived career barriers and all dimensions have significantly negative effects on professional identity and career intention. Meanwhile, the predictive power of personal career barriers is strongest, interactional and social barriers followed. Secondly, students’ professional identity plays a role as a mediator between career barriers and intention. Lastly, the barriers could be negotiated by major satisfaction, as it moderates the relationship of career barriers to intention partially. Managerial implications are also discussed for tourism industries and educators.