Our research involves applying a critical lens to the study of tourism, hospitality, festivals, and events, using physical and virtual auto-ethnography, postmodernity and semiotics to explore mobilities, challenge conventional spaces and question narratives.
Publications (selected)
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
Anastasiadou, C., & Vettese, S. (2021). Souvenir authenticity in the additive manufacturing age. Annals of Tourism Research, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2021.103188
Anastasiadou, C. (2020). Tourism and the EU: Retrospect and Prospect. In Brexit and Tourism: Process, Impacts and Non-Policy, (30-42). Bristol: Channel View
Azer, J., Anker, T., Taheri, B., & Tinsley, R. (2023). Consumer-Driven racial stigmatization: The moderating role of race in online consumer-to-consumer reviews. Journal of Business Research, 157, 113-567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113567
Hannam, K. and Witte, A. (2018). Theorising practices of walking in tourism. In: Ren, C.,James, L. and Halkier, H. (Eds.) Theories of Practice and Tourism. Abingdon: Routledge.
Hejjas, K., Miller, G., and Scarles, C. (2019). "It's like hating puppies!" Employee Disengagement and Corporate Social Responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics, 157, pp. 319-337.
Holder, A., & Ruhanen, L. (2017). Identifying the relative importance of culture in Indigenous tourism experiences: netnographic evidence from Australia. Tourism Recreation Research, 1-11.
Holder, A., Ruhanen, L., Mkono, M., & Walters, G. (2021). Tourist socio-cultural aversions: A holistic conceptual framework. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 49, 439-450.
Holder, A., Ruhanen, L., Walters, G., & Mkono, M. (2023). “I think … I feel …”: using projective techniques to explore socio-cultural aversions towards Indigenous tourism. Tourism Management, 98,104778 104778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2023.104778
Holder, A., Walters, G., Ruhanen, L., & Mkono, M. (2022). Exploring tourist’s socio-cultural aversions, self-congruity bias, attitudes and willingness to participate in indigenous tourism. Journal of Vacation Marketing, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13567667221124343
Minnaert, L. (2020). Leveraging stakeholder perspectives in social tourism: ‘large scale listening’ for innovation. In Diekman, A. & McCabe, S. (Eds): Handbook of Social Tourism. Edward Elgar Publishing: Northampton.
Minnaert, L. (2020). Stakeholder stories: Exploring social tourism networks. Annals of Tourism Research, 83, 102979.
Minnaert, L. (2021). What, and Who, Is Social Tourism? The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector in Social Tourism Provision in Flanders, Belgium. In: Eusebio, C. & Lima J. (eds.): Social Tourism: Global Challenges and Approaches. CABI: Wallingford.
Mkono, M., & Holder, A. (2019). "The future of animals in tourism recreation: Social media as spaces of collective moral reflexivity." Tourism Management Perspectives 29, 1-8.
Muldoon, M., Witte, A, Guan, S., Fang, H., Xie, Y., & Zhou, L. (2023). Gendered tourism experiences in China: Exploring identity, mobility, and anger online. Annals of Leisure Research, 26(3) Special Issue on Women, Anger, and Tourism, 433-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.1878379
Robertson, M., Ong, F., Lockstone-Binney, L., & Ali-Knight, J. (2018) 22 (6) Critical Event Studies – Issues and Perspectives’ Event Management 22 (6). 865-873.
Stanley, P. (2022). An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism. London & New York: Routledge.
Stanley, P. (2022). Scottish Highlands campervan mobilities in pandemic times: Enclosures. Journal of Autoethnography.
Stanley, P., Clarke, D. W., Murray, F., & Wyatt, J. (2022). The fires we made, the fires that made us: Introducing the Forum. Journal of Autoethnography.
Stanley, P. (2020). Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism. In International Review of Qualitative Research. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940844720948066
Vettese, S., & Anastasiadou, C. (2018). In Situ, 3D Printed Heritage Souvenirs: Challenging Conventional Spaces and Culture. The Journal of Peer Production, 12, 27-39
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
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
Wight, A, C., and Stanley, P. (2022). Holocaust Heritage Digilantism on Instagram. Tourism Recreation Research. 47, 1-15
Witte, A. (2020). ‘Chinese don’t walk (?)’ – The emergence of domestic Chinese walking tourism on the Ancient Tea Horse Road. Journal of Leisure Research, 52(4), 424-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2020.1847624
Witte, A. (2023). Re-visiting walking as place-making: A discursive perspective. Tourism Geographies, 25(1), 334-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2021.1878269 .
Witte, A., Wilson, J., Burrai, E., & Dashper, K., (2023). Navigating tourism ethnographies – Fieldwork embroiled in time, movement, and emotion. Current Issues in Tourism, 26(9), 1394-1408. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2022.2057841