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Luxury is a buzzword used extensively in the modern hospitality and tourism business spheres. Luxury has always been associated with purchasing and consuming goods and services of outstanding quality, premium image, exclusivity and high price. The term luxury is used to express varied connotations, such as luxury consumption, luxury items, luxury services, luxury facilities and luxury goods. According to Knoll (2009), luxury is the inherent tendency of every human being to improve living conditions and, under certain circumstances, to concentrate consumption in a specific field. Ko, Costello, and Taylor (2019) define luxury goods or services as high quality, authentic, prestigious, premium-priced and stimulating association consumers. Besides the economic perspective, luxury has also been seen through the lens of social psychology theory, emphasising the conspicuous and social values inherent in the term …