Liu-Lastres, BingjieWen, Han2024-04-262024-04-262020https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/49237<p><strong>Bingjie “Becky” Liu-Lastres,</strong> Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Tourism, Event, and Sport Management at IUPUI. The goal of Liu-Lastres’s research agenda is to promote safe travel and to ensure the health and well-being of tourists, organizations, and other key stakeholders within the tourism and hospitality industry.</p> <p><strong>Dr. Han Wen</strong> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hospitality & Tourism Management at University of North Texas. Dr. Wen’s research interests include foodservice management, food safety and food allergy in restaurants, food safety risk communication, and hospitality education.</p>Tourism, Happiness, Health, and WellnessThe purpose of this study was to examine ethnic minority workers’ perceptions of employee well-being in tourism and hospitality. Based on tourism and human resource management literature, this study adopted a mixed-methods research design. Particularly, fourteen interviews were conducted, and a total of 414 employees in the tourism industry were surveyed. A series of statistical analyses, including exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, were performed using SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 26.0. The results confirmed the multi-dimensional nature of employee well-being, which is constituted of four dimensions, namely, professional/personal development, work-life balance, workplace happiness, and work benefits. The findings also revealed that the participation in corporate-sponsored wellness programs might affect how employees perceive their well-being at work. Based on the findings, this study further discussed both theoretical and practical implications.Exploring Ethnic Minority Workers’ Perceptions of Employee Well-Being in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: An Exploratory Studyevent