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Purpose - Employing a qualified workforce is a crucial topic for organiza-tional success. Research on employer branding in family businesses has not come to a clear conclusion of which family business characteristics might be attractive for which potential employees. Aim(s) - This paper focuses on family businesses in the IT industry to analyze whether they might or might not profit from the communication of family involvement. Design/methodology/approach - To answer the research question, an online survey was conducted. The participants were divided into two groups, whereby one group was manipulated by the communication of the owner-ship. Findings - The results show that family businesses are associated with greater security but fewer development opportunities. In addition, certain personality traits of job applicants influence the perception of organizational attractiveness. However, the communication of ownership had no significant influence on employer attractiveness. Similarly, the varying importance of job security and development opportunities among applicants cannot be clearly explained by personality traits. Limitation of the Study - The final sample size was relatively small. In addi-tion, in reality the applicants would be provided with more and more detailed information about the company. The representativeness and generalizability of the survey must therefore be questioned. Practical implications – As the results show a positive correlation between perceived job security, opportunities for further development and attractive-ness, it might be valuable for family businesses to support and communicate job security and opportunities for further development for raising increased attractiveness. Originality/value - The attempt is made to give companies, especially family businesses, a better understanding of the effect of communicating the own-ership relationship on potential applicants.

Given the great potential of Generation Y for the tourism industry, their perceptions, and opinions of family-run hotels, which dominate tourism, were explored through 20 semi-structured interviews. The study shows that Generation Y perceives the image of family-run hotels positively and emphasizes traditions, small-scale structures, authenticity, and trust while highlighting their hospitableness. Our results underline the assumption of responsibility to family firms, including the importance of word-of-mouth, in the communication between Generation Y and family firms. Based on organizational identity theory, family-run hotels can build on their core values to build family firm images, contributing to differentiation, and establishing customer relationships. This study relates Generation Y to the tourism industry context, which family firms mainly run. The findings suggest that Generation Y should be targeted as a segment for the family-run tourism industry and that research should be expanded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores sport experiences. Sports are a form of popular culture. This study examines sport participants' perceived sport experiences. The interrelationships between sport experiences and the spaces and places offered within destinations are studied. Destination space, living space and sport places and space are theoretically linked and explored. Twenty-four interviews are conducted with runners and climbers. Deductive and inductive thematic analysis is applied. The results suggest strong relationships between destination spaces and sport places and spaces. Peak experiences, feelings of flow, and the serious leisure framework qualities also facilitate these. From a regional destination development perspective, the findings show that popular culture, such as spatial sports practices, can be appropriated and leveraged for sustainable tourism gain, as sports transform places, and place identity. This study contributes to theory. The interviews link and explore different conceptualisations of space (living space, destination space and sport places and spaces) that have not yet been examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]