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David Airey

Award

  • 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

Announcement

Journal articles

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.
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  • 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
  • King, BEM; Richards, G; Yeung, E; (2023) City neighbourhood branding and new urban tourism. Current Issues in Tourism.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2023.2214719
  • 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.

 

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