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Member Activities

 

David Airey

  • Academy Fellows at the UNWTO General Assembly
    Four Academy Fellows, David Airey, Kaye Chon, Eduardo Fayos Sola and Don Hawkins were present at the 21st Session of the UNWTO General Assembly, which took place in September at Medellin, Colombia. They took part in the Forum on Talent Development for Tourism: investing in youth, which was held at the University of Medellin immediately before the start of the Assembly. Also as Ulysses Laureates they formed the panel to discuss the future of tourism at a Special Session arranged for attendees of the General Assembly.
  • Publications
    Airey, D. (2015). 40 Years of Tourism Studies: a remarkable story, Tourism and Recreation Research 40(1), pp. xx. Published on line 02 April 2015.
    Airey, D. (2015). Developments in Tourism Policy Research, Tourism Review 70(4), pp. xx. Accepted for publication.
    Lorde, T., Li, G.& Airey, D. (2015). Modelling Caribbean Tourism Demand: An Augmented Gravity Approach. Journal of Travel Research (accepted for publication).
    Komppula, R., Ilves, R. & Airey, D (2016). Social Holidays as a Tourist Experience in Finland, Tourism Management 52(x), 521–532 (published online August 2015). doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2015.07.016

 


 

Dimitrios Buhalis

  • New Books
    Marcello M. Mariani, Rodolfo Baggio, Dimitrios Buhalis, Christian Longhi (2014). Tourism Management, Marketing and Development: the Importance of Networks and ICTs. Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, ISBN 9781137368652

 


 

Sara Dolnicar

Sara has been awarded the inaugural Peter Keller Best Paper Award for the contribution that best integrates theoretical knowledge development and practical relevance at the 2015 AIEST conference for the paper titled "Video killed the radio star: will tourist hybridity kill market segmentation?" by Boztug, Babakhani, Laesser& Dolnicar.

Her paper titled "Including Don't know Answer Options in Brand Image Surveys Improves Data Quality" (Dolnicar & Grün, 2014, International Journal of Market Research) has been selected as a finalist for the Market Research Society's Silver Medal which will be awarded on the 7th of December for the best paper published in the journal in 2014.

Her paper titled "Why level-free forced choice binary measures of brand benefit beliefs work well" (Rossiter, Dolnicar & Grün, 2015, International Journal of Market Research) has been selected as a finalist for the Market Research Society's Innovation in Research Methodology Award chosen from all papers available in the public domain which outline new techniques for the manuscript. The winner will be announced on the 7th of December.

With Associate Professor Brent Ritchie, Sara has also been successful in attracting nationally competitive funding from the Australian Research Council for the project titled "Encouraging voluntary purchasing of carbon offsets".

 


 

David L. Edgell

David has just finished a new book Managing Sustainable Tourism: A Legacy for the Future which will become available shortly after the first of the year from Routledge publishers. The book speaks to sustainable tourism, philosophic issues, historic perspectives, milestones in progress toward sustainable tourism, global issues in sustainable tourism, impacts of climate change and global warming, and many other aspects of sustainable tourism. The volume provides a wealth of information and guidance on managing sustainable tourism now and in the future and will be invaluable to educators, students, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, tourism strategists, planners, policymakers, business people and marketers.

 


 

Donald Hawkins

George Washington University, represented by Don Hawkins, was elected Vice Chairman of the UNWTO Affiliates Council at the General Assembly in Medellin, Columbia on September 15, 2015.

 


 

Myriam Jansen-Verbeke 

Forthcoming publication 

Via@ - international interdisciplinary review of tourism, 2015  

MEMORYSCAPES OF THE GREAT WAR (1914-1918) [1]
A paradigm shift in tourism research on war heritage

[1] WHTRN, World Heritage Tourism Research Network  www.WHTRN.ca
On line survey 2012. Final Report by Myriam Jansen-Verbeke (University Leuven) in collaboration with 
* Wanda George (Mount Vincent University), Director of WHTRN and hosting the survey on line
* Anne Hertzog (Cergy Pontoise, Paris), Analysis and mapping participation in war memorial events
* Dominique Vanneste (University Leuven), Mapping of visitation patterns to war heritage sites
* Noel B. Salazar (University Leuven), Reflecting on the heritage value of war memoryscapes
* Caroline Winter (Ballarat University Australia), Visitors' profile survey methods
* Dirk Heerwegh (KUleuven), Proximity/Statistical analysis
* Laure Cazeau (MRTE, UCP, Paris), Mapping participation in memorial events
* Lieve Vanderstraten (University Leuven), Mapping visitation patterns.

[2] KEYWORDS: Memoryscapes, Heritage values, Memorial events, Tourismification, Great War survey

 


 

Carson Jenkins

Kit is visiting professor at the International College, Chiang Mai University, Thailand for the first semester of academic year 2015-16.

 


 

Brian King

Published Journal article:

Cheng-Fei, Lee & King, B.E.M. (2015). International students in Asia: Travel behaviors and destination perceptions. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. doi: 10.1080/10941665.2015.1062786

Brian has presented at various conferences as follows:

APAC-CHRIE - Auckland, New Zealand, 10th – 13th June 2015

  • Plenary session: "Greening World".
  • Co-authored paper: Gu, Q.S., King, B.E.M., & Qiu, H. (2015). The prevalence of wine tourism studies in hospitality and tourism journals: A literature review and suggestions for future research. Proceedings of the 2015 APacCHRIE / APF Conference. Auckland, New Zealand.

Macau Making Waves Conference, Macau 7th – 9th September 2015

  • Keynote Speaker: "Liveability, festivity and the city tourism experience: from Melbourne to Macao" (Session 7)
  • Moderator of Session 4B: Event Cases II.

The Symposium on Asian Cities' Exchanges and Cooperation and Busan's Growth – Busan, South Korea 17th Sep 2015

  • Plenary session: "Tourism directions in Asia Pacific cities: from Melbourne (Australia) to Hong Kong (China)".

Euro-CHRIE – Manchester, United Kingdom, 15th - 17th Oct 2015

  • Plenary session:

Career Academy Workshop: Developing, writing and using case studies for educational purposes: "Hotel ICON as a living laboratory for developing industry case studies".

The 9th UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism Trends and Outlook – Guilin, China 19th – 21st Oct 2015

  • Keynote speaker: "Enhancing the tourism experience - theories & practice"

 


 

Bob McKercher

Bob McKercher was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Academy of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research at their recently held a conference in Namur, Belgium. He has also been named a Fellow of the organization.

 


 

Philip Pearce

Philip reports that he was a keynote speaker at an enjoyable conference on Tropical Tourism in Lombok, Indonesia where he spoke on a new interest area of Intelligent tourists. Fellow Academy member Alan Lew was one of the major organizers of the event and James Cook University a sponsor. Newly elected academy member David Simmons from New Zealand was also a speaker. Hera Oktadiana, a PhD student of SHTM the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, known to many as one of our Academy secretariat, presented a paper on behalf of herself and Kaye Chon, and became an honorary member of the social and academic team linked to James Cook University delegates.
Philip is undertaking a one month appointment as Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. His 2015 publishing continues with recent major work on Tourism and Humour, positive psychology, and Asian outbound tourism.

 


 

Chris Ryan

Chris was again in Dubai in October 2015 staying at the Emirates Academy where he presented an update version of his 2014 Apac-Chrie address on trends in Hospitality Research. Prior to that, he was in China and the UK. In the former he stayed in Anhui revisiting past researched sites to update a paper, while in the UK he was able to spend time with family members. From Dubai he traveled to Macau to be present for the celebrations at the Institute for Tourism where he was a panel member responding to questions on the state of research today in tourism and hospitality. He also gave a presentation at Macau University of Science and Technology.

His current research relates to spatial proximity of hotels to attractions in Beijing and star rating and pricing with his former doctoral student, Dr. Zhang Xiaoyu at Beijing Union University. For this his learning techniques associated with data visualization programs. He also won the award for best paper published in 2014 in The Asia-Pacific Journal for Tourism Research with another of his former doctoral students, Dr. Yang Jingjng (Surrey University), and Professor Zhang Linyung (Beijing Union University).

 


 

TejVir Singh

TejVir delivered Key Note at a National Symposium on Synergizing Tourism Education, Industry and Research, organized by Department of History of Art and Tourism Management, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India on April 9, 2015.

In May 2015, TejVir presented a paper titled 'Demise of pastoral resort in the Indian Himalayas for lack of pro-growth policy and intelligence inaction: The Case of Manali' at t-Forum Global Conference on Tourism intelligence in Action at Naples, Italy.

TejVir, as a founding Director of Centre for Tourism Research and Development (CTRD) was invited by IFT Tourism Research Centre, Macao to sign the Macao Declaration for establishment of Global Research Alliance in Tourism (GReAT). The aims and objectives of this Alliance is to use the collective wisdom of its members and to pool whatever resource each can contribute toward coordinated research projects addressing global or common unresolved problems in tourism, such as tourism & poverty, tourism & inequality (gender, income, social), tourism & peace, and cultural or environmental protection/climate change. TejVir also attended Tourism 20:20 Symposium on October 12, which has been organized to celebrate IFT's 20th anniversary and to review tourism development over the last 20 years and looking at the challenges ahead in the coming 20 years.

 


 

Muzaffer Uysal

Became GLiGS Fellow – Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability, Virginia Tech – College of Natural Resources and Environment, http://cligs.vt.edu/about/people/

Received Founders Award - the Graduate Education and Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism, January 7-10, 2015.

Co-authored "What can big data text analytics tell us about hotel gust experience and satisfaction" (Xiang, Z., Schwartz, Z., Gerdes, J,, & Uysal, M.). Paper published in International Journal of Hospitality Management, 44, 120-130, 2015, which received the W. Bradford Wiley memorial Best Research Paper of the Year Award, 2015 (ICHRIE Conference, 29 - 31 July 2015, Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando, Florida USA.

Uysal, M., Schwartz, Z., & Sirakaya-Turk, E. (2015). Management Science in Hospitality and Tourism: Theory, Practice and Applications. Apple Academic Press, Canada; Francis & Taylor Group. Completed and will be released late this year or in January 2016, http://www.appleacademicpress.com/title.php?id=112

Gursoy, D., Uysal, M., Sirakaya-Turk, E., Ekinci, Y & Baloglu, S. (2015). Handbook of Scales in Tourism and Hospitality. CABI Publishing, London, U.K., 432 pages. http://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9781780644530

Also, co-authored the following articles with colleagues and graduate students:

Uysal, M., Sirgy, J., Woo, E., and Kim, L. (2015).  Quality of Life (QOL) and Well-Being Research in Tourism. Tourism Management. doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2015.07.013

Kara, D., Kim, L., and Uysal, M. (2015). The Effect of Manager Mobbing Behavior on Female Employees' Quality of Life. Current issues in Tourism. doi:10.1080/13683500.2015.1078298

Prebensen, N., Kim, L., and Uysal, M. (2015). Co-creation as Moderator between the Experience Value and Satisfaction Relationship. Journal of Travel Research. doi: 10.1177/0047287515583359.

Kim, H., Lee, S., Uysal, M., Kim, J., & Ahn, K. (2015). Nature – Based Tourism: Motivation and Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, doi:10.1080/10548408.2014.997958.

Xiang, P., Schwartz, Z., Gerdes, J., and Uysal, M. (2015). What Can Big Data and Text Analytics Tell Us about Hotel Guest Experience and Satisfaction? International Journal of Hospitality Management, 44, 120-130.

Kim, L., Woo, E., and Uysal, M. (2015). Tourism Experience and Quality of Life among Elderly Tourists. Tourism Management, 46, 465-476.

Woo, E., Kim, L. and Uysal, M. (2015). Life Satisfaction and Support for Tourism Development. Annals of Tourism Research, 50, 84–97.

Woo, E., Kim, L., and Uysal, M. (2015).  A Measure of Quality of Life in Elderly Tourists. Applied Research of Quality of Life. doi: 10.1007/s11482-014-9355=x.

 


 

Allan Williams

Allan presented a keynote address on 'Innovation and productivity: from policy to practice' to the ICOT conference held in London in June 2015. He also presented a keynote address on 'Theorising risk in tourism' to the Atlas conference in Lisbon in October 2015.

 


 

Arch G. Woodside

The 2016 International Conference in Strategic Management (ICSM) will be held March 9-11 in Chengdu, China.Arch is academic co-chair of the 2016 ICSM. "Sustainability in Urban and Rural Tourism" is one of the major sub-themes of the 2016 ISCM. 

The forthcoming book by Arch and Suresh Sood: "Storytelling-Case Archetype Decoding & Assignment Manual (SCADAM)" by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, will be released on December 2, 2015.

Published Journal Articles:

Do, H., Ko, E. & Woodside, A, G. (2015). Tiger Woods, Nike, and I are (not) best friends: how brand's sports sponsorship in social-media impacts brand consumer's congruity and relationship quality. International Journal of Advertising, 34(4), 658-677. doi:10.1080/02650487.2015.1031062
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02650487.2015.1031062

Lloyd, S. & Woodside, A. G. (2015). Advancing paradox resolution theory for interpreting non-profit, commercial, entrepreneurial strategies. Journal of Strategic Marketing, 23(1), 3-18. doi: 10.1080/0965254X.2014.914064
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0965254X.2014.914064

Muniz, K. M., Woodside, A. G., & Sood, S. (2015). Consumer storytelling of brand archetypal enactments. International Journal Tourism Anthropology, 4(1), 67-88.
http://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1504/IJTA.2015.067644

Rauch, A., Deker, J. S. & Woodside, A. (2015). Consuming alone: Broadening putnam's "bowling alone" thesis. Psychology & Marketing, 32(9), 967–976. doi: 10.1002/mar.20830
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mar.20830/abstract

Woodside, A. G. & Martin, D. (2015). Introduction: The tourist gaze 4.0: uncovering non-conscious meanings and motivations in the stories tourists tell of trip and destination experiences. International Journal Tourism Anthropology, 4(1), 1-12.

 

 

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