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Guest editorial: Special issue introduction repurposing and repositioning events: real, responsible and revolutionary futures (2023)
Journal Article
Abreu Novais, M., Ali-Knight, J., Holmes, K., Lockstone-Binney, L., Robertson, M., & Stewart, H. (2023). Guest editorial: Special issue introduction repurposing and repositioning events: real, responsible and revolutionary futures. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 14(2), 137-140. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEFM-05-2023-100

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Festival hiatus, resilience and innovation during COVID-19: learnings from the Edinburgh festivals (2023)
Journal Article
Ali-Knight, J., Kerr, G., Stewart, H., & Holmes, K. (2023). Festival hiatus, resilience and innovation during COVID-19: learnings from the Edinburgh festivals. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 14(2), 170-188. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijefm-08-2022-0068

Purpose
In this paper, we explore how Edinburgh’s key Festivals have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their response presents the emergence of more innovative festival delivery models and a different imagining of the festival space.

Design/met... Read More about Festival hiatus, resilience and innovation during COVID-19: learnings from the Edinburgh festivals.

The Arcade at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator) (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Kerr, G. The Arcade at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator). [Exhibition]. Exhibited at Cheltenham Science Festival. 6 June 2023 - 11 June 2023

Welcome to The Arcade! Get your tokens ready to make, break and create. Test out your skills on our fun, creative and two-player challenges. Come along to The Arcade to play games of the past, present and future. Plus, hang out with our cyber cracker... Read More about The Arcade at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator).

Encounters with the other: Imagining the hospitable tourist gaze (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. Encounters with the other: Imagining the hospitable tourist gaze. 31 May 2023 - 31 May 2023

As an artists and academic researcher my artwork invites viewers to encounter ‘the other’ (Levinas, 1986) by reflecting upon hospitality in the context of the tourist gaze. Much tourism research is concerned with the ocular nature of tourism and the... Read More about Encounters with the other: Imagining the hospitable tourist gaze.

The Semiotic Paradigm for Deconstructing Event Design and Meaning (2023)
Journal Article
Viol, M., Todd, L., & Anastasiadou, C. (2023). The Semiotic Paradigm for Deconstructing Event Design and Meaning. Event Management, 27(7), 1063-1079. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599523X16847420514728

Festivals and events convey a range of historical, political, social and cultural signs and meanings, however, there remains limited methodological guidance for understanding these. This paper proposes semiotics as a valuable yet underappreciated and... Read More about The Semiotic Paradigm for Deconstructing Event Design and Meaning.

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.

Deconstructing commemorative narratives: the anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall (2023)
Journal Article
Viol, M., Anastasiadou, C., Todd, L., & Theodoraki, E. (2024). Deconstructing commemorative narratives: the anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Leisure Studies, 43(1), 153-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2023.2215468

Historically, researchers have studied commemorative events primarily for their political role in the (re)construction of contested national collective memories and identities, but globalisation, social justice movements, multiculturalism and regiona... Read More about Deconstructing commemorative narratives: the anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Developing a tourism region through tourism and culture: bordering, branding, placemaking and governance processes (2023)
Journal Article
King, B., Richards, G., & Chu, A. (online). 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

China’s pre-pandemic national-level planning advocated a combination of culture and tourism to advance growth in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) mega-region. Culture is seen as increasing regional cohesion, with multi-destination travel products connectin... Read More about Developing a tourism region through tourism and culture: bordering, branding, placemaking and governance processes.

'Port of Call' painting by Louise Todd selected for the 197th Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Annual Exhibition (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. 'Port of Call' painting by Louise Todd selected for the 197th Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Annual Exhibition. [Original artwork, oil paint on stretched linen canvas, 30cm x 30cm x 3cm.]. Exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Edinburgh. 6 May 2023 - 11 June 2023

The artist: "I am an artist and academic researcher based in Edinburgh. I am particularly interested in narratives of visual culture in tourism, and the tourist gaze, alongside the experience and performance of tourism. This painting, ’Port of call’,... Read More about 'Port of Call' painting by Louise Todd selected for the 197th Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Annual Exhibition.

Role of Festivals for Promoting Scottish Pilgrimage (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2023, March). Role of Festivals for Promoting Scottish Pilgrimage. Paper presented at Pilgrimage Today: Routes to Flourishing Communities & Enterprise, Wexford

Cruise revenue management: Cross-discipline literature review and development of an integrated cruise revenue management framework (2023)
Journal Article
Chu, A., & Hsu, C. (2023). Cruise revenue management: Cross-discipline literature review and development of an integrated cruise revenue management framework. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 35(10), 3542-3569. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-07-2022-0838

Purpose: The study aims to adopt 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 fr... Read More about Cruise revenue management: Cross-discipline literature review and development of an integrated cruise revenue management framework.

EU Tourism and Student Identities in a pre-Brexit UK (2023)
Journal Article
Anastasiadou, C., Pilcher, N., Gutu, M., & Panyik, E. (2023). EU Tourism and Student Identities in a pre-Brexit UK. Annals of Tourism Research, 99, Article 103545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103545

The EU has long advocated cultural tourism to construct a shared, supranational European identity. Drawing on data collected prior to the UK Brexit referendum, the paper compares EU discourse in selected tourism policy documents, and the travel exper... Read More about EU Tourism and Student Identities in a pre-Brexit UK.

Interculturality-in-Action: Communication Affordances used by International Postgraduate Students at a Thai University (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2023, February). Interculturality-in-Action: Communication Affordances used by International Postgraduate Students at a Thai University. Paper presented at GXUST-ENU 2023 Research Seminar

The current investigation explores interculturality by looking at the communicative practices of a culturally and linguistically diverse group of international and local postgraduate students from China, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand.... Read More about Interculturality-in-Action: Communication Affordances used by International Postgraduate Students at a Thai University.

Re-enactment in Lighter Dark Tourism: An Exploration of Re-enactor Tour Guides and Their Perspectives on Creating Visitor Experiences (2023)
Journal Article
Wyatt, B., Leask, A., & Barron, P. (2024). Re-enactment in Lighter Dark Tourism: An Exploration of Re-enactor Tour Guides and Their Perspectives on Creating Visitor Experiences. Journal of Travel Research, 63(2), 496-516. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875221151074

This study explores the perspectives of re-enactor tour guides (RTG) concerning their role and re-enactment of dark histories—an overlooked topic within dark tourism research. A conceptual model is proposed that reflects the role of RTGs and how they... Read More about Re-enactment in Lighter Dark Tourism: An Exploration of Re-enactor Tour Guides and Their Perspectives on Creating Visitor Experiences.

Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram (2022)
Journal Article
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (2024). Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram. Tourism Recreation Research, 49(6), 1316-1330. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2022.2153994

Discursive, netnographic and visual methods have been applied in the past to critique self-images, providing insight into the behaviours of tourists. However, such studies have ignored reactions to self-image posts on social media, and particularly t... Read More about Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram.

We can make festivals fit for the climate change fight (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Kerr, G., & Ali-Knight, J. (2022). We can make festivals fit for the climate change fight. The Scotsman

As world leaders gather for COP27 in Egypt to discuss how we keep temperature rises below catastrophic levels, people may well be thinking about how they can do their bit at home and in their work. For those who put on festivals, by their nature draw... Read More about We can make festivals fit for the climate change fight.