The David Airey Award for Best Contribution in Tourism is introduced at the Surrey 2023 Conference. Honouring the signifcant contribution of Professor David Airey to the University of Surrey and to education and research in tourism and hospitality, this award is to recognise an outstanding contribution in the extended abstract category.
Jigang Bao
Award
Prof Jigang Bao has been named the winner of the 16th Ulysses Prize, awarded by UNWTO for excellence in the creation and dissemination of knowledge in tourism. The formal presentation of the Ulysses Prize will be made at the 25th session of the UNWTO General Assembly, to be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (16-20 October 2023).
Dimitrios Buhalis
Conference organization
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis is co-organising two conferences:
The Mediterranean Tourism Knowledge Exchange & Policy Conference – 2023 Med Life: Tourism Hospitality And Wellbeing Towards 2030 in Malta https://medtourismforum.com/
The INVTUR International Conference (May 8-10 2024) at the University of Aveiro in Portugal https://www.ua.pt//en/invtur
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis has co-authored a range of journal articles including:
Buhalis, D., Leung, X.Y., Fan, D., Darcy, S., Chen, G., Xu, F., Wei-Han Tan, G., Nunkoo, R. and Farmaki, A. (2023), Tourism 2030 and the contribution to the sustainable development goals: The Tourism Review viewpoint, Editorial, Tourism Review, Vol. 78 No. 2, pp. 293-313. https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-04-2023-620
Boukis, A., Koritos, C., Papastathopoulos, A., Buhalis, D., 2023, Customer incivility for frontline employees, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 100, May 2023, 103555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103555
Williams, N., Ivanov, S., & Buhalis, D., 2023, Algorithmic Ghost in the Research Shell: Large Language Models and Academic Knowledge Creation in Management Research. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.07304
Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Nir Kshetri, Laurie Hughes, Emma Louise Slade, Anand Jeyaraj, Arpan Kumar Kar, Abdullah M. Baabdullah, Alex Koohang, Vishnupriya Raghavan, Manju Ahuja, Hanaa Albanna, Mousa Ahmad Albashrawi, Adil S. Al-Busaidi, Janarthanan Balakrishnan, Yves Barlette, Sriparna Basu, Indranil Bose, Laurence Brooks, Dimitrios Buhalis, Lemuria Carter, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Tom Crick, Scott W. Cunningham, Gareth H. Davies, Robert M. Davison, Rahul Dé, Denis Dennehy, Yanqing Duan, Rameshwar Dubey, Rohita Dwivedi, John S. Edwards, Carlos Flavián, Robin Gauld, Varun Grover, Mei-Chih Hu, Marijn Janssen, Paul Jones, Iris Junglas, Sangeeta Khorana, Sascha Kraus, Kai R. Larsen, Paul Latreille, Sven Laumer, F. Tegwen Malik, Abbas Mardani, Marcello Mariani, Sunil Mithas, Emmanuel Mogaji, Jeretta Horn Nord, Siobhan O’Connor, Fevzi Okumus, Margherita Pagani, Neeraj Pandey, Savvas Papagiannidis, Ilias O. Pappas, Nishith Pathak, Jan Pries-Heje, Ramakrishnan Raman, Nripendra P. Rana, Sven-Volker Rehm, Samuel Ribeiro-Navarrete, Alexander Richter, Frantz Rowe, Suprateek Sarker, Bernd Carsten Stahl, Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Wil van der Aalst, Viswanath Venkatesh, Giampaolo Viglia, Michael Wade, Paul Walton, Jochen Wirtz, Ryan Wright, 2023, “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy, International Journal of Information Management, Vol. 71, 102642, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102642
Buhalis, D. and Chan, J. (2023), Traveling with pets: designing hospitality services for pet owners/parents and hotel guests, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol.35, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-10-2022-1192
Shang, K., Fan, D.X.F. and Buhalis, D. (2023), "Tour guides’ self-efficacy and resilience capability building through sharing economy platforms", International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol.35, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-01-2022-0071
Guo, Q., Shen, H., Fan, D.X.F. and Buhalis, D. (2023), "CSR influence on job performance: the roles of psychological needs fulfilment and organizational identification among tourism firms", International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol.35. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-09-2022-1180
Johnson, A.G., Buhalis, D., 2023, Legitimacy in co-creating tourism experiences through Customer to Customer (C2C) or Traveller to Traveller (T2T) online travel communities, Tourism Recreation Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2023.2196488
Edited books
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis has co-editing with Professor Alastair Morrison two books:
Alastair Morrison and Dimitrios Buhalis (2023), Routledge Handbook of Trends and Issues in Tourism Planning, Development, Management and Technology.
Alastair Morrison and Dimitrios Buhalis (2023), Routledge Handbook of Trends and Issues in Tourism Supply and Demand
Richard Butler
Journal articles
Singh, T.V., Butler, R. and Fennell, D. (2023) Tourism as Pathway to Hope and Happiness Bristol: Channelview Publications
Calmak, E., Isaac, R. and Butler, R.W. (2023) Changing Practices of Tourism Stakeholders in COVID-19 Affected Destinations Bristol: Channelview Publications
Erik Cohen
Award
Professor Emeritus Erik Cohen, one of the world’s most prominent scientists in the field of sociology and anthropology of tourism, was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Zagreb in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to the development of Croatian and world science”.
Professor Cohen was born in Zagreb in 1932 and lived there until 1949, when his family moved to Israel following the Communist takeover of what was then Yugoslavia. He has retained connections with the University through his teaching and research in tourism with the University, including offering lectures to the International Tourism and Hospitality Academy at Sea (operated by the Faculty of Economics and Business at University of Zagreb) in recent years, including 2023. In its almost four hundred years of history, the University of Zagreb has given only 102 honorary degrees, including academics such as Neils Bohr and Linus Pauling, and the award to Professor Cohen is the first in the field of tourism. The award ceremony was held in the Aula Magna at the main University building (despite the recent earthquake damage), followed by a reception and a private lunch. The ceremony was accompanied by musical performances, and attended by the Rector and the Vice-Rectors of the University as well as other invited guests which included fourteen members of Professor Cohen’s family and the Israeli Ambassador (This short statement was provided by Prof Richard Butler).
Scott Cohen
Conference organization
Prof Scott Cohen is the Overall Chair of the Surrey 2023 Conference. Working together with the other Academy Fellows Prof Allan Williams, they play a key role in delivering the Surrey 2023 Conference under the theme of ‘Bringing Hospitality, Tourism, Transport and Events Back for Good’.
Salvador Anton Clavé
Edited book
Freitag, Florian, Carlà-Uhink, Filippo & Anton Clavé, Salvador (Coords) (2023). Key Concepts in Theme Park Studies: Understanding Tourism and Leisure Spaces. Springer Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11132-7
Frederic Dimanche
Journal article
McClinchey, K. A., & Dimanche, F. (2023). Discourses of Fear in Online News Media: Implications for Perceived Risk of Travel. Tourism and Hospitality, 4(1), 148-161.
Book chapter
With K.-A. Wright, I published a chapter titled "Canadian immigration policies: Implications for discrimination and biases in tourism employment" in a book edited by S. Slocum (Ed.), Inclusion in tourism: Understanding institutional discrimination and bias (pp. 29-45). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003255413-4
Conference presentation
In April, I attended the Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) Europe conference in Dijon, Burgundy, where I presented a paper with L.-E. Dubois and S. Newman(2023, April): Challenges and opportunities in cultural tourism: insights from Ontario, Canada.
I also presented at the TTRA Europe conference a paper co-authored with K.-A. Wright titled “Discrimination and biases in Canadian tourism employment: Assessment and recommendations to address the labour crisis”.
At the TTRA Europe conference, I delivered with P. Legohérel a keynote presentation titled International perspectives about the h-index: How are we using it?
Seminars
In May, at the invitation of Fellow Salvador Anton Clavé, I delivered a seminar titled "From tourist behavior to destination competitiveness" for the Research Group on Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies (GRATET) at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in Tarragona, Spain.
In June, at the invitation of colleague Ksenia Kirillova, I delivered a research seminar on Regenerative urban tourism development through immigration and multicultural place-making at Lyfe Institute (formerly Institut Paul Bocuse) in Lyon.
Blog posts
I had a couple of blog posts published in The Good Tourism Blog:
"Not for those seeking comfortable jobs"
"The great realignment: What caused tourism’s labour crisis & how do we fix it?"
Sara Dolnicar
Journal articles
Mahasneh, R., Randle, M., Gordon, R., Algie, J., Dolnicar, S., 2023. Increasing employer willingness to hire people with disability: the perspective of disability employment service providers. Journal of Social Marketing 13, 361–379. https://doi.org/10.1108/jsocm-08-2022-0174
Fechner, D., Reid, S., & Dolnicar, S. (2023). Tourism and Emerging Infectious Diseases: More Connections Than First Meet the Eye. Journal of Travel Research, 62(5), 935–948. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875221127718
Juvan, E., Grün, B., & Dolnicar, S. (2023). Waste production patterns in hotels and restaurants: An intra-sectoral segmentation approach. Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 4(1), 100090.
Dolnicar, S. (2023). Demystifying the Journal Review Process: An Editor’s Observations.
Dolnicar, S., & Demeter, C. (2023). Why targeting attitudes often fails to elicit sustainable tourist behaviour. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-07-2022-0828
Greene, D., Nguyen, M., & Dolnicar, S. (2023). How to entice restaurant patrons to order low-emissions meals? A meta-analysis and research agenda. Appetite, 106612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106612
Conference presentation
Sara was invited as a keynote speaker at the 53rd Annual Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) Conference. She reported on a sensor-based wireless system that can automatically measure the environmental performance of hotels. This presentation showed how tourism researchers can leverage smart technology to develop effective ways of triggering pro-environmental behaviours in tourists, while also reducing the operating cost of tourism businesses.
Nelson Graburn
Award
Prof Nelson Graburn was awarded the University of California’s Distinguished Emeritus Professorship for the work he has done since his retirement in 2007.
Note
Dear Fellow Academicians,
It is with great pleasure that I remember our meeting in Leiden last June, which I followed up by visiting colleagues in Krakow (Magda Banaszkiewicz, Ana Duda, Sabina Owsianowska) and Helsinki (Xiangchun Zheng). Later in the summer, I helped David Picard and Maria Gravari-Barbas organize and attend a workshop on Wine and the Global Urbe at David’s winery Adega Belem in Lisbon. This will be followed by a small conference this September to which you are invited (Details please see Call for Papers sections).
In the autumn I was awarded the University of California’s Distinguished Emeritus Professorship for the work I have done since my retirement in 2007! In November I attended the meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle, participating in two sessions on tourism. This spring I taught two seminars, on Tourism, Ritual and Heritage. I was again astounded by the excellent work of a number of very young Chinese students – one freshman and one sophomore (1st and 2nd year undergraduates) were the best students in my Graduate seminar!
This summer I will spend a month in China visiting colleagues in Kunming, Chengdu, and Wuhan, carrying out research on ethnic tourism development as a consultant for the minority Yao-tzu (“tribe”) in Guizhou and working with Prof. Lu Jin of Ningbo, hoping to complete our ten years of research on the amazing Anji Country Ecomuseum system (42 museums and exhibition halls!). I will present a paper on this at the AAA meetings in Toronto in November, and we hope to publish an expository article showing Europeans how much further the Chinese have developed their original idea of ecomuseums!
Look forward to seeing you at the next Academy meeting!
Donald Hawkins
Awards
Don Hawkins, Emeritus Professor of tourism studies, management, and international affairs at GW Business, was awarded the Gold Medal of Tourism Merit, 1st degree, from Portugal Secretary of State for Tourism, Commerce, and Services, Nuno Fazenda de Almeida, recognizing his decades of contributions to the field of tourism, including his efforts to promote sustainable tourism worldwide.
Prof Hawkins will be awarded an honorary doctorate by Caucasus University on July 29 at the graduation ceremony in Tbilisi, Georgia.
He is serving as an Envoy to the Sustainable Tourism Global Center (STGC) in the Ministry of Tourism, Saudi Arabia. The STGC is a world-first multi-country, multi-stakeholder coalition that will lead, accelerate, and track the tourism industry’s transition to net-zero emissions, as well as drive action to protect nature and support communities.
Brian King
Announcement
There has been a lot of preparation work in anticipation of adding a hospitality dimension to the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University. There will be more to report in subsequent Academy announcements.
Conference presentation
Plenary Presentation: “The Role of Interpretation in the Travel Industry” Trails & Rails National Conference, Washington, DC. Hosted by The National Park Service, US Department of the Interior
Journal articles
King, BEM; Richards, G; Chu, A; (2023) Developing a tourism region through tourism and culture: Bordering, branding placemaking and governance processes. Tourism Recreation Research. https://doi/org/10.1080/02508281.2023.2207156
Leutwiler-Lee, MJ; Seongseop, K; Badu-Baiden, F & King, BEM; (2023) Dimensionality in the service quality perceptions of quarantine hotel guests. Tourism Management Perspectives. doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101124
Lee, MF, Filep, S, Vada, S & King, BEM; (2023) Webcam travel: A preliminary examination of psychological well-being. Tourism and Hospitality Research. DOI: 10.1199/14673584221145818
Hsu, AYC., King, BEM. & Wang, D; (2023) Adaptability among inbound tour operators in a disrupted business environment. R&D Management. doi.org/10.1111/radm.12595
Lei, WS; Chen, Z; Zhou, X; King, BEM; (2023) Organic destination imagery and social media: Mapping tourism dynamics across China’s Greater Bay Area cities. Journal of China Tourism Research. doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2022.2047857
Koseoglu, M; Mehraliyev, F; Xiao, H; King, BEM; (2023) Tourism knowledge: its creation and dissemination by region. Anatolia. doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2021.2005647
Zhang, X; Koseoglu, M; King, BEM; Aladag, OF; (2023) Why are Faculty Unfavorably Disposed to MOOCs? — A Sharing of Views by Chinese Hospitality Educators. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education. doi.org/10.1080/10963758.2021.1963749
King, BEM; Lejealle, C; Chapuis, JM; (2023) Educational travellers and destination appeal: Deconstructing intrinsic motivations. Journal of Vacation Marketing. doi.org/10.1177/13567667221078241
Sonnenschein, K; Michelini, C.; King, BEM; (2023) Betwixt and between: a qualitative review of the (re)acculturation of international students and returnees. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2021.1998884
Metin Kozak
Journal articles
K. Esfandiar, M.R. Seryasat & M. Kozak (2023). To shop or not to shop while traveling? Exploring the influence of shopping mall attributes on overall tourist shopping satisfaction. Tourism Recreation Research, DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2023.2186088
D. Zheng, J. Wen, M. Kozak, I. Phau, H. Hou, & W. Wang (2023). Vulnerable populations with psychological disorders in tourism: Methodological challenges and recommended solutions for empirical research. Tourism Management, 98, 104760
Book chapter
M. Kozak (2023). Accelerated trends in tourism marketing and tourist behaviour. In Morrison, A.M., & Buhalis, D. (Eds.). (2023). Routledge Handbook of Trends and Issues in Global Tourism Supply and Demand. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003260790 (coming soon)
Muzzo Uysal
Books
Two upcoming new books from Provost and Carney Family Endowed Prof Muzzo Uysal:
Uysal, M., & Sirgy. (eds). (2023). Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research II: Enhancing the Lives of Tourists and Residents of Host Communities, Springer. to be released in August 2023.
Chen, J., Prebensen, N., & Uysal, M. (eds). (2023). Handbook of Experience Science: Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure, Edward Elgar Publishing, to be released in summer 2023.
Allan Williams
Award
He has been elected a member of the Letters division of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, which is Portugal’s leading national academy for advancing science and learning.
Research project
Allan Williams and his Surrey colleague, Isabel Rodríguez, have been awarded a major Leverhulme Trust research grant for a project entitled “Life after-death: knowledge trajectories after innovation failure”. This 15-month project will investigate the mobility of knowledge after the commercial failure of tourism start-up firms and the determinants of whether and how this is reused.
Journal Articles
Kilinç, N., Williams, A. M. and Hanna, P. (2022). From “inbetweeners” to ‘transcultural mediators’: Turkish-German second-generation’s narratives of ‘return’ migration, third spaces and re-invention of the self, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(14): 2726-2748
Liu, C, Williams, A. M. and Li, G. (2022). Knowledge management practices of tourism consultants: a project ecology perspective, Tourism Management, 91
Williams, A.M., J.L. Chen, G. Li and V. Baláž (2022). Risk, uncertainty and ambiguity amid COVID-19: A multi-national analysis of international travel intentions. Annals of Tourism Research, 92
Humbracht, M., Cohen, S. and Williams, A. M. (2022). Aspirational intimacy in visiting friends and relatives, Annals of Tourism Research, 94
Zhang, W., Williams, A. M., Liu, A. and Li G. (2022). Entrepreneurial responses to uncertainties during COVID-19 recovery: A longitudinal study of B&Bs in Zhangjiajie, China, Tourism Management, 91
Humbracht, M., Williams, A. M., & Cohen, S. (2022). Cruel (im)mobilities and the nearly utopian intimacies of Italian migrants’ personal relationships. Global Networks, 123(1): 188-202
Figueroa-Domecq, C., de Jong, A., Kimbu, A. N. & Williams A. M. (2022). Financing tourism entrepreneurship: a gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2022.2130338
Jephcote, C., Williams, A. M., Li, G. and Janta, H. (2022). Return migration and employment mobility: A pan-European analysis. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2142104
Liu, A. T., Williams, A. M., Liu, A., Kim, Y. R., & Lin, P. M. (2023). A Systematic Analysis of Diaspora Tourism: Geographical Perspectives and Superdiversity. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 10963480231152571
Conference organization
Prof Allan Williams has taken on the role of Consensus Chair within the Surrey 2023 Conference organizing committee.