Member Activities

Susanne Becken

Report

Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake, released in December 2023 by the Tourism Panel on Climate Change, brings together over 60 experts, some of the Academy Fellows. The citation of the report is:

• Tourism Panel on Climate Change (2023). Tourism and Climate Change Stocktake 2023. [Eds. Becken, S. & Scott, D.]. Available: https://tpcc.info/

Journal articles

• Becken, S., Miller, G., Lee, D. S. & Mackey, B. (2024). Net zero: racing against each other or together? Science of the Total Environment, 918, 25 March 2024, 170725.
• MacAskill, S., Becken, S., & Coghlan, A. (2023). Engaging hotel guests to reduce energy and water consumption: A quantitative review of guest impact on resource use in tourist accommodation. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 100156.
• Coghlan, A., Becken, S., & MacAskill, S. (2023). Designing sustainability changes in a tourist accommodation context from a systems perspective. Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism, 2, 1289009. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsut.2023.1289009

Dimitrios Buhalis

Journal Articles

• Zhou, L., Buhalis, D., Fan, D. X., Ladkin, A., & Lian, X. (2024). Attracting digital nomads: Smart destination strategies, innovation and competitiveness. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 31, 100850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2023.100850
• Fan, D. X., Buhalis, D., Fragkaki, E., & Tsai, Y. R. (2023). Achieving Senior Tourists’ Active Aging Through Value Co–creation: A Customer-Dominant Logic Perspective. Journal of Travel Research, 00472875231214733. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231214733
• Pizam, A., Ozturk, A. B., Hacikara, A., Zhang, T., Balderas-Cejudo, A., Buhalis, D., ... & State, O. (2024). The role of perceived risk and information security on customers' acceptance of service robots in the hotel industry. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 117, 103641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2023.103641
• Assiouras, I., Vallström, N., Skourtis, G., & Buhalis, D. (2023). Exploring how interaction leads to value co-creation, value co-destruction, and value no-creation during service mega-disruptions. Current Issues in Tourism, 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2259055
• Zhu, C., Fong, L. H. N., Li, X., Buhalis, D., & Chen, H. (2024). Short video marketing in tourism: Telepresence, celebrity attachment, and travel intention. International Journal of Tourism Research, 26(1), e2599. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2599

Books

Professor Buhalis is editing a Book on:

• Metaverse Marketing: Challenges, Opportunities, and Fundamental Mechanisms to be published by Edward Elgar (interested fellows can contact him for the contribution to the book chapter).

Conference organization

Professor Buhalis will keynote at the following conferences

• ATHENS, 8-9 March, INTOCUS: Tourism and Cultural Heritage: Resilience, Sustainability and Transformation. https://www.tourismheritage.hua.gr/intocus/
• SOUTH AFRICA, TTRA Europe, 21-24 April 2024, Fancourt Hotel, George, South Africa. https://ttra.com/events/europe-annual-chapter-conference/
• AVEIRO PORTUGAL, 8-10 May, The INVTUR International Conference, https://www.ua.pt/en/invtur
• AMSTERDAM, 5-7 June, THE INC 2024 Technology Enabled Competitiveness and Experiences in Tourism, Hague Hotel School, https://theinc2024.wordpress.com/
• TENERIFE, 19-21 June, Tourism: The State of the Art -Tenerife Global Summit 2024, https://tenerifetsa2024.com/
• MILAN, 11-14 July 2024, Marketing & Management in the Age of the Digital Fashion Transformation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy https://2024gfmc.imweb.me/

Professor Buhalis will Chair / organise the following conferences:

• MALTA Monday 25th -Wednesday 27th November 2024 - with Tourism Review followed by the 9th Mediterranean Tourism Forum on Wednesday 27th November 2024 * (To Be Confirmed)
• THE MEDITERRANEAN TOURISM KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE & POLICY CONFERENCE – 2024 ART IN MED TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY. https://www.medtourismforum.com/
• WROCLAW POLAND ENTER, 2025 February 19-21, 2025.

Richard Butler

Journal articles

• Butler, R. (2024). Never look back? Revisiting the past. Annals of Tourism Research, 103690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103690
• Butler, R. (2023). Rethinking tourism: why and who?. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 15(6), 602-607. https://doi.org/10.1108/WHATT-09-2023-0108
• Szromek, A. R., & Butler, R. W. (2023). A re-positioning of post-industrial heritage in Upper Silesia, Poland, into an integrated thematic tourist route. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2281440

Book chapters

• Dodds, R., & Butler, R. (2023). Overtourism in urban environments. In A. Morrison & D. Buhalis (Eds.), Handbook of Trends and Issues in Global Tourism. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Butler, R. (2023). The failure to change behavior with respect to seasonality in tourism. In H. Ramkissoon (Ed.), Handbook on Tourism and Behaviour Change (pp. 304-318). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Butler, R.W. (2023). Entrepreneurship: A man’s world in the early days of tourism? In H. Ramkissoon & F. Maavando (Eds.), Gender and Entrepreneurship in Tourism (pp. 9-22). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Butler, R. W. (2023). Micro entrepreneurs in a remote island setting. In H. Ramkissoon & F. Maavando (Eds.), Gender and Entrepreneurship in Tourism (pp. 73-89). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Scott Cohen

Journal articles

• Huang, H., & Cohen, S. (2023). It's not all about money: Understanding Chinese student switchers in Britain. Population, Space and Place, e2749. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2749
• Hopkins, D., Gössling, S., Cohen, S., Hanna, P., & Higham, J. E. (2023). Aeromasculinities and the fallacy of sustainable aviation. Energy Research & Social Science, 106, 103319. https://doi.org/10.3727/108354223X16922214414123

Brian King

School event

• Texas A&M Faculty and graduate students attending the 29th Graduate Education and Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism, Miami, USA. Photograph with Prof Kaye Chon, Academy Fellow and Conference Founder.

Journal articles

• Kim, J. H., Kim, J., Park, J., Kim, C., Jhang, J., & King, B. (2023). When ChatGPT Gives Incorrect Answers: The Impact of Inaccurate Information by Generative AI on Tourism Decision-Making. Journal of Travel Research, 00472875231212996.
  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00472875231212996
• Andrianto, T & King, B.E.M. (2023). Assessing Visitor Volatility Over the Longer Term: 25 Years of Hong Kong Inbound Tourism. Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism, 12 (1): 71–93.
  https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/20230251313
• Senbeto, D. L., Hon, A. H., Köseoglu, M. A., King, B. E., & Vo-Thanh, T. (2023). Seasonality in tourism and hospitality: A review and typology for future research. Tourism Analysis. https://doi.org/10.3727/108354224X17076820300692

Metin Kozak

Journal articles

• Khalilzadeh, J., Kozak, M., & Del Chiappa, G. (2024). Tourism motivation: A complex adaptive system. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 31, 100861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100861
• Z. Turgambekova, M. Kozak, & A. Correia (2023). Brand assets: A prerequisite to promoting a developing destination. International Journal of Tourism Cities. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJTC-03-2023-0054
• Turgambekova, Z., Kozak, M., & Correia, A. (2023). Brand assets: a prerequisite to promoting a developing destination. International Journal of Tourism Cities, 9(3), 517-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2273918
• Wen, J., Hu, F., Zheng, D., Phau, I., Kozak, M., Hou, H., & Wang, W. (2023). Solidarity tourism: A pathway to revitalising the health of vulnerable war-affected populations? Journal of Global Health, 13. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.03050
• Günaydin, Y., Kozak, M., & Çinar, K. (2023). Impacts of the Pandemic on Hospitality Operations: The Managerial Perspective. Tourism Analysis, 28(4), 565-586. https://doi.org/10.3727/108354223X16922214414123

Books

• J. Mair, G. Aktaş, & M. Kozak (eds., 2024). International case studies in event management. Oxon: Routledge.
• M. Kozak & N. Kozak (eds., 2023). Early framers of tourism knowledge. Volume I, Oxon: Routledge.
• M. Kozak & N. Kozak (eds., 2023). Early framers of tourism knowledge. Volume II, Oxon: Routledge.
• M. Kozak & N. Kozak (eds., 2023). Early framers of tourism knowledge. Volume III, Oxon: Routledge.

Scott McCabe

• Professor McCabe announces the coming publication of the 50th anniversary special issue of Annals of Tourism Research in January 2024. Once released, the volume link can be shared, and all papers in it are open-access for one year.

Muzzo Uysal

• Prof Uysal was named Carney Family Endowered Professor of Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massecuites, Amherst.

• Prof Uysal was invited as a keynote speaker to talk about “Quality of life research in tourism: Research and Policy Implications”. Outdoor Recreation Association of R.O.C. 2023: The 25th Leisure, Recreation, Tourism Online Research Symposium and International Forum, Taiwan, September 20-25, 2023.

• Uysal, M., & Sirgy, J. (Eds.). (2023). Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research II: Enhancing the Lives of Tourists, Residents of Host Communities and Service Providers. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
• Chen, J.S., Prebensen, N., & Uysal, M. (Eds.). (2024). Handbook of Experience Science: Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure. Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Uysal, M. S., Prebensen, N. K., & Chen, J. S. (2024). Experience science: challenges and research directions. In Handbook of Experience Science (pp. 282-29). EE Publishing.
• Uysal, M., Woo, E., & Singal, M. (2023). Area Life Cycle (TALC) and the Quality of Life (QOL) of Destination Community Revisited. In Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research II (pp. 116-130). Springer.
• Wang, J., & Uysal, M. (2024). Quality of life and tourism experience. In Handbook of Experience Science (pp. 116-130). EE Publishing.
• Berbekova, A., & Uysal, M. (2024). The nexus of sustainable urban tourism and quality of life. In Handbook of Sustainable Urban Tourism (Eds. C. Maxim, A.M. Morrison, & J. Day). Edgard Elgar Publishing.
• Chen, Y., Martin, D., & Uysal, M. (2023). Well-Being and Performance in the Hotel Industry: A Multilevel Perspective. In Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research II. Springer.

• Berbekova, A., Uysal, M., & George Assaf, A. (2024). Quality of life and public policy development for tourism destinations. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 65(1), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/19389655231182089
• Karagöz, D., & Uysal, M. (2023). The consequences of self-identification: examples from–two recreation experience settings. Leisure Sciences, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2023.2227187
• Wei, W., Önder, I., & Uysal, M. (2023). Smart tourism destination (STD): developing and validating an impact scale using residents’ overall life satisfaction. Current Issues in Tourism, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2296587
• Wang, Y. C., & Uysal, M. (2023). Artificial intelligence-assisted mindfulness in tourism, hospitality, and events. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-11-2022-1444

David Simmons

• Prof. David Simmons has been awarded a civil honour, a Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit (derived from the British CBE), for his lifetime work in tourism and education. The award is granted by the New Zealand Monarch, King Charles III, via the New Zealand Government and follows a nomination by the New Zealand Tourism Industry Association. In notifying the academy of the award, David notes the contributions of other Fellows: Doug Pearce (NZ) who taught David a post-graduate course in the Geography of Recreation and Tourism (1978), Geoff Wall (Ca) primary PhD supervisor, Steven Smith (Ca) PhD committee member, and David Airey (UK) who has assisted David in the establishment of tourism degree programmes in New Zealand. The photo shows Prof. Simmons and the NZ Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand following the presentation of the award.

• Prof. Simmons and other four fellows of the Academy (Larry Dwyer, Sara Dolnicar, David Airey, and Tom Baum) were in attendance at the 34th CAUTHE conference that was held in Hobart, Tasmania from the 6th -9th February 2024. The photograph shows professors Larry Dwyer, Sara Dolnicar, David Airey, and David Simmons, who are all Fellows of Cauthe. Not captured, but also in attendance was Tom Baum.

Haiyan Song

• Establishment of RCdTT - Drive Tourism’s Digital Revolution
  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has recently established the Research Centre for Digital Transformation of Tourism (RCdTT), which is a research unit under the PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research (PAIR). Dedicated to researching the digital transition of tourism, RCdTT held its Inauguration Ceremony on 19 February 2024, with attendees from the industry and academia worldwide. Professor Haiyan Song – Fellow of IAST, was appointed Director of RCdTT. The Centre's primary focus is on optimizing travel experiences and achieving sustainability through the digital transformation of tourism and related businesses, with the ultimate goal of improving the lives and well-being of global citizens. Additionally, the Centre actively engages with stakeholders in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area (GBA), and other countries to develop research solutions and promote best practices in digitalizing the travel industry. The collaboration across various disciplines and sectors fosters innovation and generates new insights within RCdTT, contributing to the future of digitalization in the tourism and hospitality industry.