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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.

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.

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.

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..

CSR Leadership in a Hybrid Work Environment (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hejjas, K., Gilek, M., & Bratton, A. (2024, August). CSR Leadership in a Hybrid Work Environment. Paper presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024), Chicago, Illinois

Social exchange theory is used to understand the relationship between leadership and employee corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement in a hybrid work environment. Using interview data from managers (5), CSR champions (6), and employees (17)... Read More about CSR Leadership in a Hybrid Work Environment.

The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Leask, A. (2024, June). The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking. Paper presented at ATLAS Annual Conference 2024 Leisure & Tourism 2030: Navigating the Future, Breda, Netherlands

We will present initial findings from our research which considers how Edinburgh’s (UK) festivals and tourism sectors can deliver sustainable community engagement. Our study applies co-designed participative action research (PAR) (Goebel et al., 2020... Read More about The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking.

‘Who do you think you are?’ A longitudinal study of Scotland’s destination management (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastasiadou, C., & Hejjas, K. (2024, June). ‘Who do you think you are?’ A longitudinal study of Scotland’s destination management. Presented at ATLAS Leisure & Tourism 2030: Navigating the Future, Breda, Netherlands

Organizational structures and models for destination management have been changing in response to disruptions in the operational environment (Dredge, 2016) requiring traditional DMOs to shift their organisational models, leadership behaviours and col... Read More about ‘Who do you think you are?’ A longitudinal study of Scotland’s destination management.

Short-Term Licensing in Scotland: A policy murder is announced (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastasiadou, C., & McMillan, J. (2024, May). Short-Term Licensing in Scotland: A policy murder is announced. Paper presented at INVTUR 2024, Aveiro, Portugal

Objectives | The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of short-term licensing in Scotland, with particular focus on the city of Edinburgh using the lifecycle approach. The case of Edinburgh’s short-term let licensing scheme (CEC, undated... Read More about Short-Term Licensing in Scotland: A policy murder is announced.

Short-Term Licensing in Scotland: A policy murder is announced (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastasiadou, C., & McMillan, J. (2024, May). Short-Term Licensing in Scotland: A policy murder is announced. Presented at INVTUR 2024 International Conference, Aveiro, Portugal

Objectives
The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of short-term licensing in Scotland, with particular focus on the city of Edinburgh using the lifecycle approach. The case of Edinburgh’s short-term let licensing scheme (CEC, undated... Read More about Short-Term Licensing in Scotland: A policy murder is announced.

A critical review of the efficacy of the UN SDGs as conduits for collaboration in business tourism provision. Case Study Edinburgh & Melbourne (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M., Pyke, J., & Drake, C. (2023, February). A critical review of the efficacy of the UN SDGs as conduits for collaboration in business tourism provision. Case Study Edinburgh & Melbourne. Presented at 33rd Annual Conference of the Council for Australasian Universities Tourism and Hospitality Education, Fremantle, Western Australia

Business events can support the needs of access, equality, and learning for work and social inclusion, and determine a greater range of benefits than had been previously considered (Edwards, Foley, & Schlenker, 2011; Foley, Edwards, & Schlenker, 2014... Read More about A critical review of the efficacy of the UN SDGs as conduits for collaboration in business tourism provision. Case Study Edinburgh & Melbourne.

Cruise revenue management: An integrated RM Framework (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chu, A., & Hsu, C. (2023, December). Cruise revenue management: An integrated RM Framework. Paper presented at 2023 RevME Conference, Hendersonville, US

A holistic approach to understand cruise revenue management (RM) practices that cover ticket and onboard revenues, through a cross-disciplinary literature review and practitioner interviews. An integrated cruise RM framework was developed and served... Read More about Cruise revenue management: An integrated RM Framework.

The Impossible Dream? Achieving Public Value in Tourism (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastasiadou, C., & McMillan, J. (2023, July). The Impossible Dream? Achieving Public Value in Tourism. Paper presented at Surrey 2023 Conference: Bringing hospitality, tourism, transport and events back for good, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Mapping community engagement with the festival city through creative and participative methods (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2023, June). Mapping community engagement with the festival city through creative and participative methods. Presented at Festival Sustainability Symposium: Facing the Sector's Headwinds, Edinburgh

I will present details of two interdisciplinary and collaborative research studies that used creative and participative methods within a public engagement methodology. Both aimed to gain an understanding of community stakeholders’ engagement with Edi... Read More about Mapping community engagement with the festival city through creative and participative methods.

Public value for whom? Winners and losers in Edinburgh's short-term let licensing scheme (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastasiadou, C., & McMillan, J. (2023, June). Public value for whom? Winners and losers in Edinburgh's short-term let licensing scheme. Paper presented at Regional Studies Association Annual Conference 2023 - Transforming Regions: Policies and Planning for People and Places, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Stemming from a project seeking to explore whether Public Administration’s public value framework may be a useful conceptual framework to inform tourism policy making, the authors studied the introduction of short-term let (STL) licensing regulation... Read More about Public value for whom? Winners and losers in Edinburgh's short-term let licensing scheme.

The Role of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Driving and Enabling a Circular Economy in the Hospitality Sector: Insights from the Orkney Islands (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sciacca, A., Anastasiadou, C., & Urie, G. (2023, May). The Role of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Driving and Enabling a Circular Economy in the Hospitality Sector: Insights from the Orkney Islands. Paper presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated significant challenges for tourism destinations (UNWTO, 2022) and particularly for small island destinations (SIDs) (e.g., Farrell et al., 2020). While the pandemic has uncovered the low resilience of SIDs, it has... Read More about The Role of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Driving and Enabling a Circular Economy in the Hospitality Sector: Insights from the Orkney Islands.

Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2022, June). Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze. Paper presented at Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

There is an extant of research devoted to the ocular nature of tourism as a set of visual practices, and accordingly, to the tourist gaze thesis (Urry & Larsen, 2011). Within this construct, it is suggested that tourists’ and others’ visual practices... Read More about Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze.