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Rethinking Dark Tourism: Practitioner Perspectives, and Future Research Directions (2025)
Journal Article
Wight, C., Podoshen, J., Wyatt, B., & Lennon, J. (online). Rethinking Dark Tourism: Practitioner Perspectives, and Future Research Directions. Tourism Recreation Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2025.2521277

This study invited dark tourism practitioners to comment on the salient academic discourses concerning dark tourism and propose new ways forward for research. Through a genre analysis of dark tourism literature and semi-structured interviews with an... Read More about Rethinking Dark Tourism: Practitioner Perspectives, and Future Research Directions.

Navigating Culture, Religion and Controversy: The Penitensya Rituals in the Philippines as a Dark Event (2025)
Book Chapter
Victoria, M., & Wight, C. (in press). Navigating Culture, Religion and Controversy: The Penitensya Rituals in the Philippines as a Dark Event. In B. Wyatt, H. Stewart, J. Kennell, & P. R. Stone (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Dark Events. Routledge

This paper navigates the complex interplay between cultural tradition and controversy through an in-depth exploration of Penitensya, a Filipino Lenten ritual known for its violent self-mortification practices. By employing indigenous research methods... Read More about Navigating Culture, Religion and Controversy: The Penitensya Rituals in the Philippines as a Dark Event.

A Summer Sunday Evening (2025)
Digital Artefact
Stutterheim, K. A Summer Sunday Evening. [Film]

An experimental Short Documentary

After a busy summer weekend at one of southern England’s most beautiful beaches, people gather for BBQs, dip their feet in the sea, snap photos, and play ball. As the sun sets, a quieter truth remains: the traces... Read More about A Summer Sunday Evening.

Business Events and the Efficacy of UN SDGS for the Knowledge City (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2025, February). Business Events and the Efficacy of UN SDGS for the Knowledge City. Paper presented at Tourism Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Models of knowledge cities, the learning city, the incubation city, the smart city, and knowledge region are well established. With the evolution of the innovation paradigm, the understanding of regional innovation is being expanded. Business events... Read More about Business Events and the Efficacy of UN SDGS for the Knowledge City.

Artademic: Art practice as research (2025)
Digital Artefact
Todd, L. (2025). Artademic: Art practice as research. [Blog post]

‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ (origins unknown) is a much-repeated quote. Although (arguably) simplistic, there is something to this!
I am an artist. I’m also an interdisciplinary and engaged academic who strives to conduct impactful researc... Read More about Artademic: Art practice as research.

Revenue Management in Festivals & Events A case study of Edinburgh Fringe (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chu, A. (2024, December). Revenue Management in Festivals & Events A case study of Edinburgh Fringe. Presented at 2024 RevME/REMAPS Conference, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos , Spain

Some F&Es often rely on funding (public or private funder). RM may not necessarily have to maximise revenue, but that could also mean balancing the three RM levers for the optimal outcome, which is financial sustainability. Despite limited research... Read More about Revenue Management in Festivals & Events A case study of Edinburgh Fringe.

Constructing Childhood Tourism: The Proxy Gaze and Cultural Imaginaries in Picturebooks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2024, December). Constructing Childhood Tourism: The Proxy Gaze and Cultural Imaginaries in Picturebooks. Presented at Tourism and IBC Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University

What might happen when Paddington Bear, Beegu, Beato, Hamish McHaggis, Maisie Mackenzie, and Bella and Harry—all cherished figures in children’s picture books—embark on a fictional journey together? This study examines the portrayal of children as to... Read More about Constructing Childhood Tourism: The Proxy Gaze and Cultural Imaginaries in Picturebooks.

Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning (2024)
Journal Article
Kitchen, E., Goh, E., Steriopolous, E., Harkison, T., Drake, C., Robertson, M., Losekoot, E., & Waterston, L. (online). Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning. Studies in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2420868

Authentic learning is a critical pedagogy and curriculum requirement in higher education to better prepare students for future workforce requirements. As such, educators adopt a range of authentic learning tasks such as work-integrated learning, indu... Read More about Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning.

Learning for future challenges: tourism futures and deep learning applied to teaching the UN SDGs (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2024, November). Learning for future challenges: tourism futures and deep learning applied to teaching the UN SDGs. Presented at 2nd Tourism Futures Convention 2024 (TFC), Heilbron, Germany

This research presentation discussed the importance of future and foresight thinking (visioning) and the utility of scenario building as part of active design thinking as pedagogy. A real case study research project was used to consider the role of U... Read More about Learning for future challenges: tourism futures and deep learning applied to teaching the UN SDGs.

Dark tourism: Sectoral Engagement and Ontological Repositioning (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Podoshen, J., Wight, C., & Lennon, J. (2024, November). Dark tourism: Sectoral Engagement and Ontological Repositioning. Presented at The Annual Society for Marketing Advances Conference: The Age of AI, Tampa, Florida, US

We invited stakeholders involved in dark tourism to comment on, and respond to academic constructs of dark tourism, which resides within the body of literature on this topic. Specifically, we undertook a genre analysis of dark tourism literature, and... Read More about Dark tourism: Sectoral Engagement and Ontological Repositioning.

A critical evaluation of the factors that influence visitor engagement with UK slavery heritage museums: a blended passive symbolic netnographic study (2024)
Thesis
Roberts, S. K. R. A critical evaluation of the factors that influence visitor engagement with UK slavery heritage museums: a blended passive symbolic netnographic study. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

There is a substantial body of literature in slavery heritage tourism research that is mainly supply-driven and has focused on the management, presentation, and interpretation of slavery heritage for tourism purposes. However, the demand side in slav... Read More about A critical evaluation of the factors that influence visitor engagement with UK slavery heritage museums: a blended passive symbolic netnographic study.

Hybrid Servicescapes in Tourism and Hospitality (2024)
Book Chapter
Urquhart, E. (2024). Hybrid Servicescapes in Tourism and Hospitality. In N. Stylos, R. Rahimi, & P. Robinson (Eds.), Contemporary Marketing Management for Tourism and Hospitality (99-132). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65049-9_5

Bitner (1992, p. 65) defined the servicescape as “all of the objective physical factors that can be controlled by the firm to enhance (or constrain) employee and customer actions.” These include a series of environmental dimensions, namely ambient co... Read More about Hybrid Servicescapes in Tourism and Hospitality.

Engaging secondary stakeholders with Edinburgh’s festivals and tourism sectors: Staycations, localisation, community, and placemaking. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Leask, A. (2024, August). Engaging secondary stakeholders with Edinburgh’s festivals and tourism sectors: Staycations, localisation, community, and placemaking. Presented at 35th International Geographical Congress 2024, Dublin, Ireland

Our research considers how Edinburgh’s festivals and tourism sectors can advance through sustainable community engagement, such as facilitating staycations, by responding to contemporary contexts such as calls for localisation and the cost-of-living... Read More about Engaging secondary stakeholders with Edinburgh’s festivals and tourism sectors: Staycations, localisation, community, and placemaking..

Sustainable Events, Net Zero, UN SDGs and "stickiness” (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2024, August). Sustainable Events, Net Zero, UN SDGs and "stickiness”. Presented at 5th International Conference on Tourism and Business (ICTB) (Rethinking Tourism Sustainability: The Role of Destinations), Bangkok, Thailand

Through case study research, this conference paper consider the work of events as destination dynamics (Robertson, Mair, Lockstone-Binney & Duignan, 2022) and the significance of university commitment to SDGs as ‘bond’ and ‘bridge’ – sticky agents –... Read More about Sustainable Events, Net Zero, UN SDGs and "stickiness”.

‘Social Persistence’, original painting based on visual arts-based tourism research selected for international exhibition, Now and Then: Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Centenary Show (Part 2): Dalkeith Palace, Edinburgh (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. ‘Social Persistence’, original painting based on visual arts-based tourism research selected for international exhibition, Now and Then: Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Centenary Show (Part 2): Dalkeith Palace, Edinburgh. [Oil on linen]. 17 August 2024 - 25 August 2024

Paradigms. Ten original paintings and selected artworks exhibited in Paradigms, Recent artwork by C. Young, H. Brady, J. McIntyre, L. Todd. at Whitespace, Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. Paradigms. Ten original paintings and selected artworks exhibited in Paradigms, Recent artwork by C. Young, H. Brady, J. McIntyre, L. Todd. at Whitespace, Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme. [mixed media]. 10 August 2024 - 14 September 2024