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Meanings and myths: Semiotics of Edinburgh Castle (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Furger, T. (2018, May). Meanings and myths: Semiotics of Edinburgh Castle. Paper presented at Royal Anthropological Institute’s (RAI) Annual Conference: Art, Materiality and Representation

Short abstract
We will present initial themes from my study into the semiotics of Edinburgh Castle through analysing shared online images. As a semiotic sign, Edinburgh Castle is an iconic tourist sight, a backdrop to the ‘festival city’, and the mo... Read More about Meanings and myths: Semiotics of Edinburgh Castle.

Festival community networks and transformative place-making (2018)
Journal Article
Jarman, D. (2018). Festival community networks and transformative place-making. Journal of Place Management and Development, https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-06-2017-0062

Purpose
Festivals are often explicitly connected to the destinations in which they take place, explored here as contributing to broader processes of place-making and engagement with local communities. Place is defined at a local scale, primarily as... Read More about Festival community networks and transformative place-making.

The effects of structural change: An investigation into the South African cricket development pathway (2018)
Journal Article
English, C., Nash, C., & Martindale, R. (2018). The effects of structural change: An investigation into the South African cricket development pathway. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 10(2), 371-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2018.1434811

Sports organisations face immense challenge, both structurally and organisationally, in coordinating talent development processes. This complex interaction may be exacerbated by structural change and sports policy decision-making, not only changing... Read More about The effects of structural change: An investigation into the South African cricket development pathway.

Senior Visitors to Attractions (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leask, A., & Barron, P. (2018, April). Senior Visitors to Attractions. Paper presented at Scottish Museums Federation Annual Conference

No abstract available.

Conceptualizing negatively valenced influencing behavior: forms and triggers (2018)
Journal Article
Azer, J., & Alexander, M. J. (2018). Conceptualizing negatively valenced influencing behavior: forms and triggers. Journal of Service Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/josm-12-2016-0326

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to show how customers engage in negatively valenced influencing behavior (NVIB) and what triggers customers to use different forms of NVIB in an online context.
Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative study i... Read More about Conceptualizing negatively valenced influencing behavior: forms and triggers.

Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through In-Situ, Customisable 3D - Printed Souvenirs (2018)
Book Chapter
Anastasiadou, C., Vettese, S., & Calder, L. (2018). Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through In-Situ, Customisable 3D - Printed Souvenirs. In L. Egberts, & M. D. Alvarez (Eds.), Heritage and Tourism : Places, Imageries and the Digital Age (151-171). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462985353

This research set out to investigate whether technological innovations in design and the personalisation of tourist souvenirs through 3D printing, could offer opportunities to break away from stereotypically throwaway, low quality, mass manufactured... Read More about Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through In-Situ, Customisable 3D - Printed Souvenirs.

Customer-to-customer co-creation practices in tourism: Lessons from Customer-Dominant logic (2018)
Journal Article
Rihova, I., Buhalis, D., Gouthro, M. B., & Moital, M. (2018). Customer-to-customer co-creation practices in tourism: Lessons from Customer-Dominant logic. Tourism Management, 67, 362-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2018.02.010

This study aims to explore specific customer-to-customer (C2C) co-creation practices and related value outcomes in tourism. The importance of C2C co-creation is first discussed in the context of the Service-Dominant logic, then a new approach to the... Read More about Customer-to-customer co-creation practices in tourism: Lessons from Customer-Dominant logic.

Strategic Talent Management in Hospitality (2018)
Journal Article
D'Annunzio-Green, N. (2018). Strategic Talent Management in Hospitality. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 10(1),

2018 DAnnunzio-Green, Edited edition of Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) on Strategic Talent Management, March 2018 Vol 10, No1, 2018.

Lifestyling Entrepreneurs' Sociological Expressionism (2018)
Journal Article
Sweeney, M., Docherty-Hughes, J., & Lynch, P. (2018). Lifestyling Entrepreneurs' Sociological Expressionism. Annals of Tourism Research, 69, 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2018.01.006

This study explores the tourism host-home relationship investigated through documentary analysis of photographs choreographed through mutual negotiation between hosts and researcher (collaborative auto-driving) and participants' spoken narratives (ph... Read More about Lifestyling Entrepreneurs' Sociological Expressionism.

Cornerstones of talent management as a strategic priority in the hospitality (2018)
Journal Article
D’Annunzio-Green, N. (2018). Cornerstones of talent management as a strategic priority in the hospitality. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 10(1), 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/whatt-10-2017-0070

Purpose
This paper aims to introduce the theme issue and the rationale for the theme issue question: Is talent management a strategic priority in the hospitality sector?

Design/methodology/approach
This paper re-visits the conclusions of an earl... Read More about Cornerstones of talent management as a strategic priority in the hospitality.

Reflections on the theme issue outcomes: Is talent management a strategic priority in the hospitality sector? (2018)
Journal Article
D’Annunzio-Green, N., & Teare, R. (2018). Reflections on the theme issue outcomes: Is talent management a strategic priority in the hospitality sector?. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 10(1), 124-130. https://doi.org/10.1108/whatt-11-2017-0073

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to profile the WHATT theme issue “Is talent management a strategic priority in the hospitality sector?” with reference to the experiences of the theme editor and writing team.
Design/methodology/approach
This p... Read More about Reflections on the theme issue outcomes: Is talent management a strategic priority in the hospitality sector?.

Talent management practices in small- and medium-sized enterprises in the hospitality sector: An entrepreneurial owner-manager perspective (2018)
Journal Article
Chung, K. L., & D’Annunzio-Green, N. (2018). Talent management practices in small- and medium-sized enterprises in the hospitality sector: An entrepreneurial owner-manager perspective. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 10(1), 101-116. https://doi.org/10.1108/whatt-10-2017-0065

Purpose
This paper aims to examine talent management (TM) practices in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the hospitality industry. Specifically, the views of SME owner-managers in the hotel and restaurant sector are examined. There a... Read More about Talent management practices in small- and medium-sized enterprises in the hospitality sector: An entrepreneurial owner-manager perspective.

A dialogic reframing of talent management as a lever for hospitableness (2018)
Journal Article
Ramdhony, A., & D’Annunzio-Green, N. (2018). A dialogic reframing of talent management as a lever for hospitableness. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 10(1), 14-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/whatt-10-2017-0066

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to consider how the talent of hospitableness can be transposed to commercial settings without a wholesale erosion of its altruistic and moral core and how it can be effectively leveraged within the talent managem... Read More about A dialogic reframing of talent management as a lever for hospitableness.

Conclusion: is talent management a strategic priority in the hospitality sector? (2018)
Journal Article
D'Annunzio-Green, N. (2018). Conclusion: is talent management a strategic priority in the hospitality sector?. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 10(1), 117-123. https://doi.org/10.1108/whatt-10-2017-0071

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide a conclusion to the theme issue question “Is talent management a strategic priority in the hospitality sector?”

Design/methodology/approach
The issues and debates relevant to the strategic question... Read More about Conclusion: is talent management a strategic priority in the hospitality sector?.

Strategic talent management: A macro and micro analysis of current issues in hospitality and tourism (2018)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Grant, K., & Garavan, T. (2018). Strategic talent management: A macro and micro analysis of current issues in hospitality and tourism. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 10(1), 28-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/whatt-10-2017-0062

Purpose
This article provides an academic viewpoint on contemporary factors associated with talent management (TM) in the hospitality and tourism sector.
Design/Methodology
A critical discussion of macro and micro level factors is provided, while... Read More about Strategic talent management: A macro and micro analysis of current issues in hospitality and tourism.

The traditional marketplace: serious leisure and recommending authentic travel (2018)
Journal Article
Curran, R., Baxter, I. W. F., Collinson, E., Gannon, M. J., Lochrie, S., Taheri, B., Thompson, J., & Yalinay, O. (2018). The traditional marketplace: serious leisure and recommending authentic travel. Service Industries Journal, 38(15-16), 1116-1132. https://doi.org/10.1080/02642069.2018.1432603

Services reliant on revenue generated from tourism are often beholden to how authentic visitors perceive their offering to be. From a managerial perspective, this is exacerbated when they serve a dual-purpose, as both actively ingrained in local cult... Read More about The traditional marketplace: serious leisure and recommending authentic travel.

10 Qs on the Fringe: Dr Louise Todd. This Media Podcast was recorded alongside public engagement event: Dr Louise Todd, The Fringe: My BFF', 'Skeptics on the Fringe 2017 (2018)
Digital Artefact
Todd, L. (2018). 10 Qs on the Fringe: Dr Louise Todd. This Media Podcast was recorded alongside public engagement event: Dr Louise Todd, The Fringe: My BFF', 'Skeptics on the Fringe 2017. [Podcast]

Before her talk for us on the relationships that people have with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Dr Louise Todd sat down with Heather Pentler to talk more about her research and how it came about, plus her thoughts about events and festivals in genera... Read More about 10 Qs on the Fringe: Dr Louise Todd. This Media Podcast was recorded alongside public engagement event: Dr Louise Todd, The Fringe: My BFF', 'Skeptics on the Fringe 2017.

SotF 2017: The Fringe: My BFF. This Media Podcast was recorded alongside public engagement event: Dr Louise Todd, The Fringe: My BFF', 'Skeptics on the Fringe 2017. (2018)
Digital Artefact
Todd, L. (2018). SotF 2017: The Fringe: My BFF. This Media Podcast was recorded alongside public engagement event: Dr Louise Todd, The Fringe: My BFF', 'Skeptics on the Fringe 2017. [Podcast]

Often skeptics are charged with only concentrating on hard, physical sciences. Well, that shouldn't be the case. Recorded during our 2017 Edinburgh Fringe run, this talk from Dr Louise Todd is the perfect antidote as we hear her describe her research... Read More about SotF 2017: The Fringe: My BFF. This Media Podcast was recorded alongside public engagement event: Dr Louise Todd, The Fringe: My BFF', 'Skeptics on the Fringe 2017..

Social network analysis and the hunt for homophily: diversity and equality within festival communities (2017)
Journal Article
Jarman, D. (2017). Social network analysis and the hunt for homophily: diversity and equality within festival communities. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2018.1414987

Diversity and equality at a Scottish volunteer run arts festival are explored in this paper, through survey based social network analysis and follow-up interviews. Together they provide an overview of the festival’s network structure, and rich eviden... Read More about Social network analysis and the hunt for homophily: diversity and equality within festival communities.

After Action (AAR) and Hot Reviewing in sport: An overview (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Westbury, T. (2017, December). After Action (AAR) and Hot Reviewing in sport: An overview. Paper presented at British Psychological Society Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology

In a range of performance areas, it has become common practice to engage in 'huddles' or times out. The purpose being to reorient individual or team performance to the goals establishing in planning or preparation. However few contexts are so time co... Read More about After Action (AAR) and Hot Reviewing in sport: An overview.