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Managing cultural tourism in post-conflict areas: the Kurdistan Federal Region, Iraq (2017)
Journal Article
Braim, K., McCabe, S., Rickly, J. M., & Gadi, M. (2017). Managing cultural tourism in post-conflict areas: the Kurdistan Federal Region, Iraq. Tourism Today: The Journal of the College of Tourism and Hotel Management, 111-130

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.

Evaluating user-generated content in social media: an effective approach to encourage greater pro-environmental behavior in tourism? (2017)
Journal Article
Han, W., McCabe, S., Wang, Y., & Chong, A. Y. L. (2018). Evaluating user-generated content in social media: an effective approach to encourage greater pro-environmental behavior in tourism?. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 26(4), 600-614. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2017.1372442

Appealing to tourists’ intrinsic interest for high-quality tourism environments, and thus encouraging them to act with a greater sense of personal responsibility toward the environment, could be critical to promoting sustainable tourism. Proliferatin... Read More about Evaluating user-generated content in social media: an effective approach to encourage greater pro-environmental behavior in tourism?.

Destination Choice of Chinese Long-haul Outbound Tourists and Market Segmentation (2017)
Journal Article
Li, C., McCabe, S., & Ye, C. (2017). Destination Choice of Chinese Long-haul Outbound Tourists and Market Segmentation. Journal of China Tourism Research, 13(3), 298-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2017.1398118

China is an important emerging generator of outbound international tourism. Recent studies have investigated trip characteristics and specific behaviours of Chinese travellers but have focused on intraregional patterns of actual tourists and short-ha... Read More about Destination Choice of Chinese Long-haul Outbound Tourists and Market Segmentation.

Social tourism and self-efficacy: exploring links between tourism participation, job-seeking and unemployment (2017)
Journal Article
Kakoudakis, K. I., McCabe, S., & Story, V. (2017). Social tourism and self-efficacy: exploring links between tourism participation, job-seeking and unemployment. Annals of Tourism Research, 65, 108-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.05.005

Social tourism is assumed to provide important psychological benefits for economically and socially disadvantaged populations. This study examines empirically whether these individual benefits are associated with socioeconomic benefits to society by... Read More about Social tourism and self-efficacy: exploring links between tourism participation, job-seeking and unemployment.

PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience (2017)
Journal Article
Ingram, C., Caruana, R., & McCabe, S. (2017). PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience. Annals of Tourism Research, 65, 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.04.008

Despite a wealth of research on the tourist experience, empirical evidence remains weak due to difficulties in data collection during people’s holidays. Tourist experience has thus primarily been analysed from a fixed point, such as prior motivations... Read More about PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience.

The contribution of social tourism to sustainable tourism: a case study of seasonally adjusted programmes in Spain (2017)
Journal Article
Cisneros-Martinez, J. D., McCabe, S., & Fernández- Morales, A. (2018). The contribution of social tourism to sustainable tourism: a case study of seasonally adjusted programmes in Spain. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 26(1), 85-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2017.1319844

Recent policy from the European Union has attempted to justify social tourism initiatives on the basis that they lead to a more sustainable tourism industry. However, the majority of latest research in the field has been focused on the benefits for p... Read More about The contribution of social tourism to sustainable tourism: a case study of seasonally adjusted programmes in Spain.

Sustainability and marketing in tourism: its contexts, paradoxes, approaches, challenges and potential (2017)
Journal Article
Font, X., & McCabe, S. (2017). Sustainability and marketing in tourism: its contexts, paradoxes, approaches, challenges and potential. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 25(7), 869-883. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2017.1301721

Tourism marketing has typically been seen as exploitative and fuelling hedonistic consumerism. Sustainability marketing can, however, use marketing skills and techniques to good purpose, by understanding market needs, designing more sustainable produ... Read More about Sustainability and marketing in tourism: its contexts, paradoxes, approaches, challenges and potential.