Academic Articles & Research Papers

Tourism and Public Policy

This chapter summarizes important aspects of tourism public policy research. It focuses on research approaches and methodologies, and considers the limitations of policy analysis. Debates and discussions concerning shifts in focus, for exam...

Urban Fear, Criminality and the Erosion of Intangible Cultural Access in Machala: A Critical Qualitative Content Analysis of Ecuadorian National Digital Press

This article examines how the Ecuadorian national digital press has represented the relationship between criminal violence, declining mobility, tourism contraction, and the erosion of intangible cultural access in Machala, Puerto Bolívar, a...

Editoral

Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires. The contributors explore divers...

Tourism politics and political science

Political science and tourism

Digitalisation of the Tourism Industry and Self-Employment: Challenges of the Gig-Economy

The study focuses on the challenges that the gig-economy brings to the labour market. Digitalisation is transforming the nature of labour relations, and the ratio of the employed to the self-employed is changing. By expanding the scope of d...

Destination Management and Marketing Organizations as Enablers of Entrepreneurial Resilience: Co-Creating Organizational Structures and Human Resource Capacity Through Participatory Governance and Emerging Technologies

Destination Management and Marketing Organizations (DMMOs) shape the human resource and technological conditions under which tourism enterprises, including digital ventures, pursue resilience and growth, yet their structures are often desig...

Spatial layout optimization model integrating layered attention mechanism in the development of smart tourism management

Tourism demand projection is paramount for both corporate operations and destination management, facilitating tourists in crafting bespoke, multifaceted itineraries and enriching their vacation experiences. This study proposes a multi-layer...

Appliance of Social Return of Investment (SROI) for Valuable Evaluation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at Village-Owned Enterprises (BumDes) Bumi Arum Tlahab Village, Kledung District, Temanggung Regency

This study is grounded in the growing importance of evaluating social, economic, and environmental impacts of community-based development programs, particularly in the context of rural tourism recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. Villa...

Tourism Demand Elasticities by Income and Prices of International Market Regions: Evidence Using Vietnam’s Data

This study aims to determine tourism demand elasticities by income and prices of regions, as well as total international markets. It is deployed to a total of 10 major source markets and two separate regions, from Asia and intercontinental ...

Palaeoenvironments and hominin evolutionary dynamics in southeast Asia

Abstract Secure environmental contexts are crucial for hominin interpretation and comparison. The discovery of a Denisovan individual and associated fauna at Tam Ngu Hao 2 (Cobra) Cave, Laos, dating back to 164–131 ka, allows for environmen...

Drivers of municipal waste generation in Nordic countries: panel evidence

Municipal waste generation remains a persistent sustainability challenge, even in countries with strong environmental governance and circular economy ambitions. Yet it remains unclear how affluence, household final consumption expenditure a...

Social Loafing and Job Performance in Hotels: Does Transactional Leadership Matter?

Employees are crucial resources for organizations, and their job performance is highly important for their success, especially in the hotel industry. The study investigated the impact of social loafing (SL) on hotel employees' job performan...

Business marketing activities in Ukraine during wartime

The war in Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the country’s economy. The relevance of the topic is due to the marketing ability to be an effective tool for restoring and developing business in Ukraine. The paper aims to define the state and p...

Volunteering on Heritage at Risk sites and wellbeing: A qualitative interview study

Abstract Introduction We explored experiences of volunteering in Heritage at Risk (HAR) projects, intended to mitigate the deterioration to historic assets, and the relationship with wellbeing. We aimed to understand the value of HAR to vol...

Tourism : The International Business

BRIDGING GENDER GAPS IN TOURISM: EXPLORING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Tourism plays a vital role in driving economic growth and community development. The active participation of diverse social groups is essential to achieving sustainable tourism. However, the persistence of patriarchal norms continues to h...

STRATEGI BAURAN PEMASARAN OCTOPUS DIVE PENIDA DALAM MENINGKATKAN KUNJUNGAN WISATAWAN

Octopus Dive Penida is one of the first local dive centers in Nusa Penida that provides international diving facilities (PADI, ADSI,SSI) with professional instructors. This study discusses the marketing strategy adopted by Octopus Dive. The...

Criminal Victimization and Legal Challenges of Migrants in Developed Countries: A Critical Analysis

This article examines migrant victimization as a structural outcome of migration governance systems in developed countries. This study demonstrates that variations in enforcement intensity, labor-market segmentation, and procedural safeguar...