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The Impossible Dream? Achieving Public Value in Tourism (2023)
Presentation / Conference
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
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
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.

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.

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. (Unpublished)

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. (in press). The Semiotic Paradigm for Deconstructing Event Design and Meaning. Event Management, 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
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.

Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience – a reflection of process and purpose (Stage 1 – with focus on Edinburgh Case) (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Kitchen, E., Drake, C., Goh, E., Harkison, T., Losekoot, E., Robertson, M., …Waterston, L. (2023, May). Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience – a reflection of process and purpose (Stage 1 – with focus on Edinburgh Case). Poster presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education 2023, Annual Conference, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Authentic teaching and learning is a critical pedagogy and curriculum requirement in higher education to better prepare for the future workforce. As such, educators adopt a suite of authentic assessments such as work-integrated learning, industry rep... Read More about Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience – a reflection of process and purpose (Stage 1 – with focus on Edinburgh Case).

Deconstructing commemorative narratives: the anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall (2023)
Journal Article
Viol, M., Anastasiadou, C., Todd, L., & Theodoraki, E. (in press). Deconstructing commemorative narratives: the anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Leisure Studies, 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.

'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. (Unpublished)

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.

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
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. (in press). Re-enactment in lighter dark tourism: An exploration of re-enactor tour guides and their perspectives on creating visitor experiences. Journal of Travel Research, 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 th... 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. (in press). Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram. Tourism Recreation Research, 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.

Lessons from the Past for the Future (2022)
Book Chapter
Victoria, M. (2022). Lessons from the Past for the Future. In M. Victoria (Ed.), Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing