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Student destination choices in international education: exploring Brazilian students’ attitudes to study abroad (2013)
Journal Article
Foster, M. (2013). Student destination choices in international education: exploring Brazilian students’ attitudes to study abroad. Practice and evidence of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, 8, 176-202

Increasing cross-border education and student mobility calls for a better understanding of international student destination choice and the benefits of study abroad to the students. The study reported in this paper examined Brazilian students’ attitu... Read More about Student destination choices in international education: exploring Brazilian students’ attitudes to study abroad.

Managing revenue in Scottish visitor attractions. (2012)
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Leask, A., Fyall, A., & Garrod, B. (2012). Managing revenue in Scottish visitor attractions. Current Issues in Tourism, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2012.667070

Revenue management is often identified as a potentially valuable tool for addressing some of the challenges currently facing visitor attractions. This article sets out to investigate the adoption of revenue-management practices by Scottish paid-entry... Read More about Managing revenue in Scottish visitor attractions..

Engaging residents as stakeholders of the visitor attraction. (2012)
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Garrod, B., Fyall, A., Leask, A., & Reid, E. (2012). Engaging residents as stakeholders of the visitor attraction. Tourism Management, 33, 1159-1173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2011.11.014

While local residents are widely recognised to play a pivotal role in the development and management of destinations, their role in the context of visitor attractions has largely been overlooked. This paper seeks to explore the purposes and processes... Read More about Engaging residents as stakeholders of the visitor attraction..

Tourism mobility in regional integration schemes: a case of political deregulation? (2011)
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Anastasiadou, C. (2011). Tourism mobility in regional integration schemes: a case of political deregulation?. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 3, 237-255. https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2011.576867

Tourism mobility has been discussed in certain contexts in the relevant literature but has received limited treatment in the context of regional integration schemes. The purpose of this paper is to establish to what extent such schemes support or... Read More about Tourism mobility in regional integration schemes: a case of political deregulation?.

Engaging students in enhanced academic transitions – a case of online study skills resource SPICE (Student Pre-arrival Induction for Continuing Education) (2011)
Journal Article
Foster, M. (2011). Engaging students in enhanced academic transitions – a case of online study skills resource SPICE (Student Pre-arrival Induction for Continuing Education). Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education,

In the current educational landscape, with increasingly diverse student groups on programmes, traditional induction many not always be best suited to the needs of the students and programmes of study. Research shows that an extended induction which a... Read More about Engaging students in enhanced academic transitions – a case of online study skills resource SPICE (Student Pre-arrival Induction for Continuing Education).

Community Involvement in Festivals: Exploring Ways of Increasing Local Participation (2011)
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Rogers, P., & Anastasiadou, C. (2011). Community Involvement in Festivals: Exploring Ways of Increasing Local Participation. Event Management, 15, 387-399. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599511X13175676722681

Despite the existence of measurement indicators for the social impacts of festivals, there has been limited research on how communities feel part of and contribute to the festival experience. This study examines how festivals involve local people and... Read More about Community Involvement in Festivals: Exploring Ways of Increasing Local Participation.

Promoting Sustainability From Above: reflections on the influence of the European Union on tourism governance (2011)
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Anastasiadou, C. (2011). Promoting Sustainability From Above: reflections on the influence of the European Union on tourism governance. Policy Quarterly, 7(4), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v7i4.4403

Due to the long-standing absence of direct and legally-binding competencies in tourism, European Union (EU) tourism policy has mainly influenced tourism governance through indirect interventions and non-binding instruments (Anastasiadou, 2006, 2008a,... Read More about Promoting Sustainability From Above: reflections on the influence of the European Union on tourism governance.

Student part‐time employment: Implications, challenges and opportunities for higher education (2009)
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Barron, P., & Anastasiadou, C. (2009). Student part‐time employment: Implications, challenges and opportunities for higher education. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 21, 140-153. https://doi.org/10.1108/09596110910935642

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the pattern of part‐time working amongst a cohort of full time hospitality and tourism students studying at a university in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach Students studying hospitality and tou... Read More about Student part‐time employment: Implications, challenges and opportunities for higher education.

Individualized Tourism Brochures as a Novel Approach to Mass Customization (2008)
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Migas, N., Anastasiadou, C., & Stirling, A. (2008). Individualized Tourism Brochures as a Novel Approach to Mass Customization. Journal of Hospitality and Leisure Marketing, 17, 237-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/10507050801978463

Tourism is an information intensive business and technological advances have transformed the way in which information is stored, managed and transmitted to potential visitors. Despite the wide adoption of Internet technologies in tourism marketing, i... Read More about Individualized Tourism Brochures as a Novel Approach to Mass Customization.

Tourism interest groups in the EU policy arena: characteristics, relationships and challenges. (2008)
Journal Article
Anastasiadou, C. (2008). Tourism interest groups in the EU policy arena: characteristics, relationships and challenges. Current Issues in Tourism, 11, 24-39. doi:10.2167/cit326.0

Despite the European Union’s (EU) influence on tourism, surprisingly little is known of tourism interest representation and the nature of their relationship with the EU institutions. Empirical evidence drawn from a study on the EU tourism policy env... Read More about Tourism interest groups in the EU policy arena: characteristics, relationships and challenges..

Personal and Professional Development Planning HEA Case Study in HEA Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism. (2005)
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Graham, J., Westwood, J., & Foster, M. (2004). Personal and Professional Development Planning HEA Case Study in HEA Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism. HEA: Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network,

Activity - Providing students with structured opportunities to self-assess a range of their current skills and attributes and to identify ones that they need to further develop. These will form the basis of their development planning. In other wor... Read More about Personal and Professional Development Planning HEA Case Study in HEA Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism..

The role of regional trading blocks in the development and management of tourism: an analysis of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (2005)
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Anastasiadou, C., & De Sausmarez, N. (2005). The role of regional trading blocks in the development and management of tourism: an analysis of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. International Journal of Tourism Research, 8, 317-332. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.579

The establishment of regional trading blocs is considered an important aspect of the process of economic and political globalisation. Focusing on the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, this paper considers whether the invo... Read More about The role of regional trading blocks in the development and management of tourism: an analysis of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations..

Questioning the impact of the ‘graduatization’ of the managerial labour force upon the management of human resources in the Scottish hotel industry (2000)
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Ingram, A., Jamieson, R., Lynch, P., & Bent, R. (2000). Questioning the impact of the ‘graduatization’ of the managerial labour force upon the management of human resources in the Scottish hotel industry. International journal of consumer studies, 24(4), 212-222. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-6431.2000.00128.x

This paper outlines the findings of a questionnaire survey returned by 125 Scottish hotels from a sample of 500 small and middle-sized enterprises. We asked questions on the level of impact that hospitality graduates have had upon human resource mana... Read More about Questioning the impact of the ‘graduatization’ of the managerial labour force upon the management of human resources in the Scottish hotel industry.