Taveras Dalmau, V., Becken, S. & Westoby, R. (2025). From paradigm
blindness to paradigm shift? An integrative review and critical analysis of the regenerative paradigm.
Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02232-7
Westoby, R., Becken, S. & Fleming, C. (2025). Critical ‘Outsider’
Reflections on Research-Initiated Pacific Partner Engagement. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.70011
MacAskill, S. & Becken, S. (2024). Geographies of hotel guest electricity,
water and gas consumption. Tourism Geographies. DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2025.2516098
Activities
Susanne Becken presented to the OECD Tourism Committee a report for comment and approval on a
proposed set of core indicators for sustainable tourism monitoring. This work is based on extensive country
studies, tailored monitoring frameworks in five Mediterranean countries, input from OECD member countries and
international organisations (including UN Tourism, Eurostat, UNESCO).
Susanne Becken presented on tourism data, monitoring and evaluation at the GSTC Summit in Fiji
(5-8 August, 2025).
Dimitrios Buhalis was appointed Sub-panel member for Sub-panel 24: Sport and Exercise Sciences,
Leisure and Tourism for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029.
BATH 2-5 June 2026 – Tourism Marketing Track 55th EMAC Annual Conference of the European
Marketing Academy. Deadline: 1.12.2025 https://www.emac2026conference.org/
MADRID Spain 16-19 July, 2026 Global Fashion Management Conference: Marketing & Management
in the Age of the AI Fashion Transformation, University of Navarra, Deadline: 15.1.2026 https://2026gfmc.imweb.me/index
Rainoldi, M., Buhalis, D., Ladkin, A., (2024). Digital Praxiography: A qualitative research
tool for capturing practice in the wild, Journal of Service Theory and Practicehttps://doi.org/10.1108/JSTP-02-2024-0055
Christodoulides, G., Chatzipanagiotou, K., Baker, J., & Buhalis, D. (2025). Conceptualizing
and Measuring Customer Luxury Experience in Hotels. Journal of Travel Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875251363846
Paliwal, M., Buhalis, D., Jha, S., Chatradhi, N., (2025). Exploring Generation Z Motivations to
Use Metaverse for Travel Planning, International Journal of Tourism Research, Vol. 27(4) https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.70074
Aldawsari, R., Buhalis, D. and Roushan, G., (2025). Immersive metaverse technologies for
education and training in tourism and hospitality, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality
Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-01-2025-0126
Lo, A., Huang, Z., Buhalis, D., Pang, J.M, Thomas, N., (2025). Mapping the landscape of
employer value propositions in Asian hotels through online job postings analysis, Tourism Management,
Vol. 110, October, 105184 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2025.105184
Richard Butler
Journal Article
Yilmaz, E., Yilmaz, E.E., & Butler, R. (2025) Were hospitallers some of the earliest tour
operators? European Journal of Tourism & Hospitality Research. 15(1): 64-80
Frederic Dimanche
Conferences
Frederic Dimanche attended the TTRA (Travel and Tourism Research Association International)
conference in Galway, Ireland, and presented a paper co-authored with Kelley McClinchey, titled "Memory work,
learning and tourism: On a transformational and collaborative journey for reconciliation."
Frederic Dimanche attended the ATMC (Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference) in Heraklion,
Greece, and presented a paper co-authored with Lidia Andrades titled "Truly Sustainable Destinations? The Spanish
Smart Tourism Destinations Model: An Instrument for Smart Destination Management."
Texas A&M University Department of
Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism faculty and students celebrating the Aplin Center groundbreaking
with donor Arch H. "Beaver" Aplin III '80.
Former student Arch Aplin (center) has donated $50 million in support of the Aplin Hospitality
Center, with $10 million donated to the renamed Arch H. Aplin III '80 Department of Hospitality, Hotel Management
and Tourism (previously Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences) and a further $5 million for student scholarships.
Metin Kozak
Journal Articles
D.F.S. Ferreira, R.A. da Costa, A.F. Chim-Miki, & Kozak, M. (2025). What
emotions trigger the perceived destination image and word-of-mouth recommendation in World Heritage Sites?
International Journal of Tourism Research. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jtr.70065
Başer, M.Y., Kozak, M. & Büyükbeşe, T. (2025). We shape our tools and
thereafter they shape us: The role of digital acculturation in human-robot interaction. International Journal
of Social Robotics. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12369-025-01310-w
As the co-chair, Metin Kozak involved in the organisation of the 10th Advances in Tourism
Marketing (ATMC) Conference, which took place in Crete, Greece. This year marked a significant milestone—two
decades of bringing together the bright minds in different fields to share cutting-edge research, foster
collaboration, and discuss the future of tourism marketing from a crucial interdisciplinary perspective. The event
attracted a diverse, multicultural group of 164 registered participants from 28 countries and 100+ institutions,
who contributed 120 paper presentations from 250+ authors at different stages of their academic career. The team
also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the ATMC Conference. The 11th edition will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia,
23-27 September 2027.
Academic Visit
Metin Kozak completed a productive academic visit to Macau at the invitation of Macau
University
of Science and Technology. As the first commitment of the new academic year, the visit was both a pleasant
and highly effective experience, enriched by new memories and opportunities for future collaboration. During his
short time on campus, he delivered three distinct lectures to graduate students and faculty members and
experienced the local hospitality.
Adele Ladkin
Panelists
Panel speaker on ‘Power in the margins: rewriting the rules of belonging in hospitality and
beyond’ at the ‘Above and Beyond’ industry event series, Institute of Hospitality, Bournemouth, UK. 29th September
2025.
Panel speaker on ‘Unpacking platform labor: Power, precarity, and the future of work in digital
capitalism’. At the Communication and Capital(ism) mid-term conference of the European Sociological Association,
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. 28th-30th September 2025.
Journal Articles
Rainoldi, M., Ladkin, A., Buhalis, D., and Neuhofer, B. (2025). Digital praxiography: A
qualitative research toolkit for capturing digital service-related practices. Journal of Service Theory and
Practice. August 2025, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTP-02-2024-0055
Savric, J., Ladkin, A., Cooper, C., and Turnsek, M. (2025). Climate Change and Tourism Work. A
perspective Paper. Tourism Review. May 2025. https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-10-2024-0956
Rainoldi, M., Ladkin, A., and Buhalis, D. (2025). Digital nomads work-leisure management
practices. Annals of Tourism Research. Volume 111, March 2025, 103904 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2025.103904
Book Chapters
Gjerald, O., Ladkin, A., and Nickson, D. (2025). The Fair Work Framework: Its future and
evolution. In Curran, D. & Hadjisolomou, A. (Eds) Unpacking Hospitality Work Realities. Oxford:
Goodfellow Publishers. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781917433204-5836
Sheehan., S., Buhalis, D., Ladkin, A., and Ngugi, I. Understanding the anatomy of a
regenerative business. In F. Fiste-Forne and A. Hussain (Eds). The Routledge Handbook of Regenerative
Tourism. https://www.academia.edu/128574360/
Marina Novelli
News
Marina Novelli has been appointed as panellist for the criteria-setting phase of Research
Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 Unit of Assessment C24 Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism, which
will be followed by the evaluation phase.
Doug Pearce
Book Launch
Doug Pearce’s writing on tourism has taken a new turn with the recent launch of his debut
novel, Lepan’s Shadow, an international mystery triggered by the death of a renowned French
anthropologist on a pre-conference tour Chile's Atacama Desert. The novel deals with the price of academic
ambition and who pays that price. Amazon.com: Lepan's Shadow: An international mystery: 9780473751944: Pearce,
Douglas: Books
The international cast of characters is comprised mainly of tourism professors and students.
"Our professions aren't that different," the chief protagonist, a retired professor of tourism management, tells
the detective investigating Lepan's death. "Ask the right questions, analyse the data, interpret your findings,
draw your conclusions."
Doug was interested in the extent to which his writing style had changed in the transition to
fiction after more than 40 years penning numerous academic publications on tourism. To find out, he ran some basic
metrics comparing Lepan’s Shadow to Tourist Destinations: structure and synthesis, his last
academic book. Striking differences emerged. On average, the sentences in Lepan’s Shadow are half as long
(12 words) as those in Destinations (26 words). Only 5% of the sentences in the former are passive
compared to 30% in the latter. Lepan’s Shadow sits comfortably in the adult readers accessibility range
with a Flesch Reading Ease score of 72.2, compared to a shudderingly low 25.9 for Destinations. Maybe
academic writers have something to learn from novelists in this regard.
Muzzo Uysal
Journal Articles
Coyne, M., Assaf, A. G., & Uysal, M. (2025). USA wine consumers’ self-expansion to
territorial brand attachment. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 131, 104342.
Wang, J., Coyne, M., Lee, Y., & Uysal, M. (2025). Scale development practice in hospitality
and tourism: shaping the field. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.
Wei, W., Önder, I., Assaf, A. G., & Uysal, M. (2025). Information Communication Technology
as a Driver of Tourism Efficiency. Journal of Travel Research, 00472875251361901.
Seth, D, Sheel, A., Onder, I., & Uysal, M. (2025). Cross-border tourism in North America: A
hybrid deep learning framework with macro indicators. Tourism Management.
Conference paper
Liang, Y, Uysal, M., and Onder, I. (2025). High-End Hotel Location Evaluation and Prediction in
Nanjing City: A Data-Driven Approach Using Multi-Source Spatial Data and Machine Learning (141-154), In
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2025, Proceedings of the ENTER 2025 eTourism
Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, February 17–21, 2025.
Book Chapter
Uysal, M., & Wang, J. (2025). Quality of Life and Cultural and Heritage Tourism. In The
Future of Cultural Tourism, edited by X. Matteucci and S. Moretti, Channel View Publications.
Allan Williams
Journal Articles
Chen, J., Balaz, V., Li, G. and Williams, A. M. (2025) Tourist decision-making and types of
crises: risk attitudes, knowledge and destination preference persistence. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241310819
Liu, A.T., Williams, A. M., Liu, A., Kim, Y. R., & Lin, P. M. C. (2025), A systematic
analysis of diaspora tourism: Geographical perspective and superdiversity, Journal of Hospitality &
Tourism Research, 49 (1), 146-159.
