All Outputs (11)

Authenticity: The state-of-the-art in Tourism Geographies (2023)
Journal Article

A leading concept in the field of tourism studies, authenticity has a unique relationship with tourism geographies. This state-of-the-art review focuses on this relationship. First, we identity key themes of authenticity research in tourism geographi... Read More about Authenticity: The state-of-the-art in Tourism Geographies.

Everyday consumption during COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted everyday consumption routines and rituals, as well as their accompanying relationships. In doing so, the importance of such familiar activities to social meanings, cohesiveness, and wellbeing was made apparent. Often o... Read More about Everyday consumption during COVID-19.

A diamond in the rough: Inauthenticity and Gems TV (2022)
Journal Article

This paper explores inauthenticity in the context of the Gems TV shopping channel using existential phenomenology. Objectively, subjectively, and performatively Gems TV fails to convincingly stage a sense of authenticity. This is a televisual format... Read More about A diamond in the rough: Inauthenticity and Gems TV.

Negotiating authenticity: Three modernities (2021)
Journal Article

Post-postmodern authenticity is introduced and used in this conceptual article to characterise a new and emergent approach to negotiating reality and fantasy by tourists through tourism. Alongside modern and postmodern approaches, post-postmodern aut... Read More about Negotiating authenticity: Three modernities.

Post-postmodern consumer authenticity, shantay you stay or sashay away? A netnography of RuPaul's Drag Race fans (2021)
Journal Article

Consumer negotiation of authenticity is explored through a netnography of online fans of the reality television series RuPaul’s Drag Race. Suggestion is of a post-postmodern approach to negotiating the authenticity of series narratives consumed, asso... Read More about Post-postmodern consumer authenticity, shantay you stay or sashay away? A netnography of RuPaul's Drag Race fans.

Let's get this show on the road! Introducing the tourist celebrity gaze (2020)
Journal Article

The tourist celebrity gaze is identified and outlined in this article. A netnographic study of adventure backpackers' social media, documenting their taking part in the 2019 Mongol Rally, highlights a shift from touring places to being on tour. Hereb... Read More about Let's get this show on the road! Introducing the tourist celebrity gaze.

Tourism-in-literature: Existential comfort, confrontation and catastrophe in Guy De Maupassant's short stories (2019)
Journal Article

This paper sets out the tourism-in-literature research approach and applies to the intersection between existentialism and tourism. Illustrated is the value of reading works of literature as a means of enriching theoretical understanding within touri... Read More about Tourism-in-literature: Existential comfort, confrontation and catastrophe in Guy De Maupassant's short stories.

The passing of the postmodern in pop? Epochal consumption and marketing from Madonna, through Gaga, to Taylor (2018)
Journal Article

Using the literature-in-marketing approach this study explores the transition said to be occurring in contemporary culture, society and philosophy between the waning postmodern and the ascendant post-postmodern. Research gauges a complex unfolding so... Read More about The passing of the postmodern in pop? Epochal consumption and marketing from Madonna, through Gaga, to Taylor.

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner at Tiffany's: Existentialism and Consumption in Capote's Novella (2018)
Journal Article

Existentialism has been used within marketing to enrich understanding of consumer motivations and behaviour. Consumption may be used as a means of existential avoidance or

Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications (2017)
Journal Article

The concept of narcissism normalisation suggests that individuals and societies are becoming more narcissistic due to various cultural influences. Tourism is reviewed here as one such possible influence. Exploitative, entitled and exhibitionistic ten... Read More about Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications.

Tourism culture: Nexus, characteristics, context and sustainability (2015)
Journal Article

This article makes the case for tourism culture; the new cultural expressions, practises and identities, influenced by hosts, guests and industry context, which may develop in destinations, as a useful perspective with which to draw together various... Read More about Tourism culture: Nexus, characteristics, context and sustainability.