When animals are traded in lucrative international luxury markets, individuals really do matter to conservation. Identifying the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that make some species especially vulnerable to this kind of threat helps set guidelines for more effective conservation.

This paper studied the comprehensive evaluation index of sensory luxury of Sound Quality in Vehicle interior noise. The relationship between it and psychoacoustic parameters under different conditions was studied. Four types of vehicle real-time noises were recorded at several running speeds and later were subjectively evaluated in the testing room by semantic subdivided method. According to th...

The 2008 recession reportedly led to the demise of conspicuous consumption with wealthy consumers abandoning luxury goods that prominently display their brands for more subdued designs. Utilizing data collected before and in the midst of the recession from designer handbag manufacturers, Louis Vuitton and Gucci, we find products introduced during the recession actually display the brand far mor...

Although aspirational brands are commonly referred to in the business literature, no consistent definition exists for the term. Further, “aspirational brand” is often used interchangeably with the term “luxury brand.” This study aims to conceptually define the term “aspirational brand”and delineate it from the well-established term “luxury brand.” A sample of 452 consumers were asked to provide...

BACKGROUND More so than the traditional socioeconomic indicators, such as education and income, wealth reflects the accumulation of resources and makes socioeconomic ranking manifest and explicitly visible to the outside world. While the lack of basic goods, such as a refrigerator, may affect health directly, via biological pathways, the lack of luxury goods, such as an LCD television, may affe...

Previous studies on luxury consumption demonstrated that men spend large sums of money on luxury brands to signal their mate value to women and, thus, increase their reproductive success. Although women also spend copious amounts of money on luxuries, research focusing on women's motives for luxury consumption is rather scarce. Relying on costly signaling and intrasexual competition theory, the...

this paper aims to shed the light on how the luxury tourism may serve as a community economic development strategy in the depleted communities. the purpose of the study is to identify the interests and preferences of potential tourists in the 21st century, primarily those individuals who have the time and money to spend a week visiting the 1000 islands region, thereby contributing much more to ...