All Outputs (28)

Going the distance: endurance philanthropy, spectacle, and development in Central America (2024)
Journal Article

The increasing popularity of fusing adventure, humanitarianism, and travel has received attention from scholars within the fields of leisure and tourism studies, particularly regarding widespread activities such as volunteer tourism. Fewer have exami... Read More about Going the distance: endurance philanthropy, spectacle, and development in Central America.

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.

Suppliers' perceptions on engaging in smart destinations: Evidence from Ljubljana (2023)
Journal Article

Although it is acknowledged in research and practice that multiple, diverse tourism stakeholders are essential for the development of smart destinations, local tourism supplier participation is still lacking. There is limited understanding of how to... Read More about Suppliers' perceptions on engaging in smart destinations: Evidence from Ljubljana.

Traveling with a guide dog: Confidence, constraints and affective qualities of the human-guide dog relationship (2022)
Journal Article

Guide dogs enhance the confidence of people with vision impairment (PwVI) and improve their everyday mobility, but they also present constraints to travel. This paper investigates the influence of the PwVI-guide dog relationship on travel behavior th... Read More about Traveling with a guide dog: Confidence, constraints and affective qualities of the human-guide dog relationship.

A review of authenticity research in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on authenticity (2022)
Journal Article

Authenticity is one of the oldest and most debated concepts in tourism studies. The last major review of authenticity was published in 1999 in this journal. This review aims to contextualize the developments since that review within the broader trend... Read More about A review of authenticity research in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on authenticity.

A review of early COVID-19 research in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research's Curated Collection on coronavirus and tourism (2021)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unparalleled impacts to the global tourism industry, thus inspiring a wave of academic research. This paper presents a review of the early literature on COVID-19 and tourism, representing 249 papers. The analysis rev... Read More about A review of early COVID-19 research in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research's Curated Collection on coronavirus and tourism.

COVID-19 and vision impairment: Constraints negotiation, participation, and well-being during lockdown in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article

In response to the Coronavirus disease, the United Kingdom (UK) government introduced lockdown measures requiring people to isolate and adhere to social distancing. This article uses Constraints Negotiation Theory to examine effects of the lockdown o... Read More about COVID-19 and vision impairment: Constraints negotiation, participation, and well-being during lockdown in the United Kingdom.

Marketing ‘Literary England’ beyond the special interest tourist (2021)
Journal Article

The paper examines the likelihood of mainstream (US general sample) and special interest tourists (US literary society members) travelling to English literary tourism destinations. The study applied a mixed methods approach comprising a correlational... Read More about Marketing ‘Literary England’ beyond the special interest tourist.

Non-Interaction and identity change through Covid-19 tourism (2021)
Journal Article

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the fundamental desire for social interaction in international tourism. It is vital to understand how the loss of meaningful social interaction will impact on tourists' identity change. As the pandemic fir... Read More about Non-Interaction and identity change through Covid-19 tourism.

Irreconcilable differences: Divorcing ethics from existential authenticity (2021)
Journal Article

This paper challenges tourism research that attempts to bring together existential authenticity and ethics. Following on from others who have revived philosophically driven investigations of authenticity, we turn to key existential thinkers to specif... Read More about Irreconcilable differences: Divorcing ethics from existential authenticity.

Smartmentality in Ljubljana (2020)
Journal Article

Smart tourism has been advocated as a concept to drive co-produced, technology-based design of tourism-related experiences. Whilst it promises interactivity amongst supply networks, evidence of this outcome is limited. The aim of this paper is to und... Read More about Smartmentality in Ljubljana.

Literary England: a tourism destination for the US traveller (2019)
Conference Proceeding

England is the birthplace of many literature's well-know authors and their characters; be that Jane Austen and Elizabeth Bennet; Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist; or Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the UK has con... Read More about Literary England: a tourism destination for the US traveller.

Marketing literary England to the US traveller (2019)
Conference Proceeding

This paper examines English literary tourism through the eyes of the bibliophile and non-bibliophile. It adopts an inductive between-subjects experimental design to investigate the likelihood of a general sample of the US population visiting literary... Read More about Marketing literary England to the US traveller.

‘The smell of death and the smell of life’: authenticity, anxiety and perceptions of death at Varanasi’s cremation grounds (2019)
Journal Article

This paper contributes to an understanding of existential authenticity and existential anxiety in tourism studies through an investigation of tourists' perceptions of death, the Self, and "others" at the Hindu cremation grounds in Varanasi, India. En... Read More about ‘The smell of death and the smell of life’: authenticity, anxiety and perceptions of death at Varanasi’s cremation grounds.

Spectacle and adventure philanthropy (2018)
Journal Article

While humanitarian tourism is increasingly examined from critical theory perspectives (see Ingram, 2011; Mostafanezhad, 2013, 2104; Simpson, 2004), less attention has been given to the role of media and spectacle in the enactment of this type of tour... Read More about Spectacle and adventure philanthropy.

Wilderness state of mind: expanding authenticity (2018)
Journal Article

This paper challenges the overuse of existential authenticity as a categorical umbrella encapsulating touristic experience and contributes new insights to the way postmodern authenticity is defined in tourism research. To date, studies associated wit... Read More about Wilderness state of mind: expanding authenticity.

Tourism geographies and the place of authenticity (2018)
Journal Article

Along with the earliest theories of tourism arose an interest in understanding the role of authenticity. These burgeoning efforts were based in history, anthropology, and sociology (see Boorstin, 1961; MacCannell, 1973, 1976; Cohen, 1979); yet, the s... Read More about Tourism geographies and the place of authenticity.

Alienation and anxiety in tourism motivation (2018)
Journal Article

Although underexplored in tourism studies, recent work suggests theories of alienation, as the dialectic of authenticity, have much to contribute to our understanding of tourism motivation. This paper uses three major theoretical tropes (Marxism, exi... Read More about Alienation and anxiety in tourism motivation.

Considering service animals in tourism (2018)
Journal Article

Accessible tourism is a rapidly growing sector of the tourism industry and increasingly recognized as essential to supporting mobility and leisure as human rights (Buhalis & Darcy, 2001; Buhalis, Darcy, & Ambrose, 2012; McCabe & Diekmann, 2015). This... Read More about Considering service animals in tourism.

Managing cultural tourism in post-conflict areas: the Kurdistan Federal Region, Iraq (2017)
Journal Article

Conflict and post-conflict areas often suffer several challenges regarding tourism development owing to poor infrastructure, low investment, a lack of appropriate tourism management planning, and poor implementation mechanisms. Much research has been... Read More about Managing cultural tourism in post-conflict areas: the Kurdistan Federal Region, Iraq.