Visitor Economy Research Group | Publications

Publications

2026

Rydzik A. & Gebbels M. (2026). Central and Eastern European Women Academics in the UK: Making Britain Home. Routledge.
Rydzik, A. (2026). Transnational (re)rooting: Reconnection, rest and resistance through gardening. In A. Rydzik & M. Gebbels (Eds.), Central and Eastern European Women Academics in the UK: Making Britain Home. Routledge.
Els G. (2026). Georgiana and the Dragon: A personal exploration of place attachment and belonging in contemporary Britain. In A. Rydzik & M. Gebbels (Eds.), Central and Eastern European Women Academics in the UK: Making Britain Home. Routledge.
Sima C. (2026). My procrastination journey. In A. Rydzik & M. Gebbels (Eds.), Central and Eastern European Women Academics in the UK: Making Britain Home. Routledge.
Agnieszka Rydzik and Maria Gebbels. (2026). Introducing the multifaceted journeys of making Britain and academia home. In A. Rydzik & M. Gebbels (Eds.), Central and Eastern European Women Academics in the UK: Making Britain Home. Routledge.

2025

Jones, K. (2025). Staging the Ghost Story: Shadows in the Limelight. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Nautiyal, R., Nayak, N., & Piramanayagam, S. (2025). Risk perception among pilgrims at natural disaster-prone non-western pilgrimage sites. Tourism Recreation Research, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2025.2509171
Sanju, N. L., Yap, G., Saha, S., & Rahman, M. (2025). Digitalisation as a vehicle of expansion of tourism industry. em>Tourism Economics, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166251393381
Zare, S., & Ye, I. (2025). Contested hospitality and welcome at the airport borders: The narratives of non-citizen residents. Hospitality & Society, 15(1-2), 45-66.
Pielichaty, H., & Velija, P. (2025). Soccer, society and motherhood: mothers, daughters and tackling gender norms. Soccer & Society, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2025.2603774
Mak, C. K. Y. & Xu, J. (2025). The role of pre-migratory aspirations-capabilities in shaping post-migratory agentic socialisation and the pursuit of belonging: A comparative study of Mainlander and Taiwanese Chinese migrants in Hong Kong.Hospitality & Society, 15(1-2), 129-152.
Rydzik, A., Chanamuto, N. & Chambers, D. (2025). Conceptualising the intersections between migration, (in)hospitality and belonging in uncertain times. Hospitality & Society, 15(1-2), 3-22.
Pielichaty, H. (2025). Feminism and sports business management higher education. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education, 36, p. 100544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100544
Zeinali, M., Rydzik, A. & Bosworth, G. (2025). Navigating hostility, pursuing hospitality: Conceptualising community engagement among migrant women entrepreneurs in peripheral areas, Hospitality & Society, 15(1-2) 177-200.
Nautiyal, R., Albrecht, J.N. & Carr, A. (2025). Spiritual practice as tourism experience: An application of cultural transmission theory. Annals of Tourism Research, 110, p.103866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2024.103866
Polus, R., Nautiyal, R. & Nautiyal, A. (2025). Caught in the maze: Exploration of the ‘tourist trap’ phenomenon. Tourism Management, 106, p.105009. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105009
Rydzik, A. & Price, L. (2025). Carving spaces of hospitality: Place attachment among migrant and non-migrant residents in a rural town undergoing rapid demographic change. Hospitality & Society, 15(1-2), 153-176.
Winter, T., Kim, S., & Palmer, N. (2025). Tourism-driven inclusive growth–insights from Brazil’s Northeast. Tourism Planning & Development, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2025.2499520
Manfreda, A., Wang, D., Zhang, Y., & Ma, E. (2025). Unraveling women (in) leadership in tourism and hospitality: A retrospect and outlook. The Service Industries Journal, 45(9-10), 751-778.

2024

Zaman, M., Hasan, R., Vo-Thanh, T., Shams, R., Rahman, M. and Jasim, M. (2024) Adopting the metaverse in the luxury hotel business: a cost–benefit perspective, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-08-2023-1265
Nautiyal, R. & Hayes, S. (2024). Factors Influencing Changes to Traditional Folklore and Cultural Festivals. In: A. Jepson, R. Stadler & T. Walters, Reimagining community festivals and events: Critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Routledge, Advances in Event Research Series. Abingdon, Oxford, Routledge.
Pielichaty, H. (2024) Gender, Sport and Society: An Introduction, Routledge
Pielichaty, H., Zhu, X. and Sterling-Morris, R-E. (2024) ‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes. Sport, Education and Society.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13573322.2024.2317347.
Hadinejad, A. and Zare, S., 2024. The Role of Games in Hospitality Management Education. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, pp.1-8.https://doi.org/10.1080/10963758.2024.2441200
Chukwu, C., Vasilev, A. and Saha, S., 2024. Measuring Business Cycle Stylized Facts in Selected Oil-Producing Economies: A Comparative Study. Journal of Business Cycle Research, 20(1), pp.89-121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41549-024-00099-3
Ardley, B. and Hardwick J., 2024. The Honeycomb and the SME: Facilitating Growth Through Social Media in a High Technology Enterprise. Journal of Management and Strategy, 15(2), pp29-40. https://doi.org/10.5430/jms.v15n2p29
Ardley, B. and Hardwick, J.P., 2024. Business Models and Revenue Generation: Conceptualising the Development of Economic Value for Online Member Owned Communities. Open Journal of Business and Management, 12(3), pp.1429-1446. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojbm.2024.123077
Ellis-Vowles, V., 2024. The publican suggested leaving his pub using two words containing three f’s: Learning from difficulties in recruiting participants. SAGE Research Methods Case Studies.
Pielichaty, H., Velija, P., Phipps, C. and Dickerson, N., (Eds.) 2024. Handbook of teaching & learning in higher education sport. National Teaching Repository. https://doi.org/10.25416/NTR.27232014.v1
Lawrence, D. and Pielichaty, H., 2024. Reflection and reflecting on football coach education in connection with identity, process and practice. In: J. Forsyth and C-M. Roberts (eds.) Women’s football: from science to high performance. London: Routledge, pp.220-232.
Wang, D., Ma, E. and Leung, X.Y., 2024. Working with robots: A job design perspective of hospitality employees’ collaboration intentions with service robots. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 61, pp.66-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.09.012
Berbekova, A., Uysal, M., Wang, D. and Wang, S., 2024. Tourism development as a moderator between emotion and well-being. Tourism Recreation Research, 49(6), pp.1575-1579. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2023.2216524
Manfreda, A., Wang, D., Zhang, Y. and Ma, E., 2024. Unraveling women (in) leadership in tourism and hospitality: a retrospect and outlook. The Service Industries Journal, pp.1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/02642069.2024.2357584

2023

Rydzik, A. and Bal, M. (2023) The age of insecuritisation: Insecure young workers in insecure jobs facing an insecure future, Human Resource Management Journal[open access].
Pattinson, J., Laparidou, D., Akanuwe, J., Scott, A., Sima, C., Lewis, C., and Siriwardena, N. (2023) Volunteering on Heritage at Risk sites and wellbeing: A qualitative interview study, Health Expectations
Berbekova, A., Uysal, M., Wang, D. and Wang, S. (2023) Tourism development as a moderator between emotion and well-being, Tourism Recreation Research
Nautiyal, R., Polus, R., Tripathi, A., Shaheer, I. (2023) “To use or not to use” - Mobile technology in nature-based tourism, Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism experience,
Nautiyal, R., Albrecht, J. N., & ., Nautiyal, A. (2023). ChatGPT and tourism academia. Annals of Tourism Research, 99.
Nautiyal, R., Albrecht, J. N., & Carr, A. (2023). Can destination image be ascertained from social media? An examination of Twitter hashtags. Tourism and Hospitality Research, 23 (4). pp. 578-593.
Zare, S. and Ye, I. (2023) Contested tourists' border-crossing experiences, Annals of Tourism Research, 100, pp. 1-14, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103571
Hughes, H., 2023. Memorializing RAF bomber command in the United Kingdom. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 16(3), pp.270-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2021.1938840
Hughes, H., 2023. Public histories in South Africa: Between contest and reconciliation. Public History Review, 30, pp.31-42. https://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v30i0.8374
Ellis-Vowles, V. (2023) Complete Membership Ethnography: Negotiating relationships and co-creating interpretations in my parent’s pub. SAGE Research Methods Case Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529628012
Ma, E., Wang, D., Wang, L. and Liu, A., 2023. Industry as contexts or theory? A systematic and meta-analysis of status and directions of organizational citizenship behaviors in hospitality. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 47(5), pp.877-907. https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480211019104
Ma, E., Bao, Y., Huang, L., Wang, D. and Kim, M., 2023. When a robot makes your dinner: a comparative analysis of product level and customer experience between the US and Chinese robotic restaurants. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 64(2), pp.184-211. https://doi.org/10.1177/19389655211052286
Sinha, C., Mazumdar, T., Dutta, S. and Saha, S., 2023. The Industry of Idol-Making in Kolkata: A Survey in the Light of UNESCO Recognition. The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies, 4(01), p.2350002. https://doi.org/10.1142/S271754132350002X

2022

Islam, M.A., Hack-Polay, D., Rahman, M., Hosen, M., Hunt, A., and Shafique, S. (2022) Work environment, HR practices and millennial employee retention in hospitality and tourism in Bangladesh, International Journal of Emerging Markets
Lewis, C., Siriwardena, N., Laparidou, D., Pattinson, J., Sima, C., Scott, A., Hughes, H., and Akanuwe, J. (2022) Wellbeing in Volunteers on Heritage at Risk Projects, Historic England, Research Report
Ma, E., Wang, Y. C., Xu, S. T., & Wang, D. (2022) Clarifying the multi-order multidimensional structure of organizational citizenship behavior: A cross-cultural validation. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 50, 83-92.
Mak, C. K. Y., Lai, A.-L., Tsaousi, C., & Davies, A. (2022). Mobilising the walking-with technique to explore mundane consumption practices: practical and theoretical reflections. Qualitative Market Research, 25(3), 383–401.
Nautiyal, R., & Polus, R. (2022) Virtual tours as a solidarity tourism product? Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 3(2),
Nautiyal, R., & Shaheer, I. (2022) World’s First Destination Loyalty Programme–Will It Work? Tourism Case Studies.
Nautiyal, R., Albrecht, J. N., & Carr, A. (2022) Conceptualising a tourism consumption-based typology of yoga travellers. Tourism Management Perspectives, 43, 101005.
Nautiyal, R., Albrecht, J.N., & Carr, A. (2022) Yoga Tourism. In D. Buhalis (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Tourism Management and Marketing (pp. 825-828). Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Pielichaty, H. (2022) Gender justice and women’s football: a macro and micro analysis of the game in England. In: R. Bullingham and G, Molnar (eds.) Routledge handbook of gender politics in sport and physical activity. London: Routledge, 312-322.
Pielichaty, H. (2022) Students as active agents in facilitating gender justice in higher education. In: M, Kitchener, M. (ed.) Handbook for creating a gender-sensitive curriculum: teaching and learning strategies[Online].
Rydzik, A. and Kissoon, C.S. (2022) The shaping of the neoliberal worker: Socialisation of young adults through flexible hospitality work. Annals of Tourism Research, 97
Tripathi, A., Polus, R., Zhang, Y., Nautiyal, R., & Shaheer, I. (2022) ‘Remember that time?’: introducing retrospective collaborative autoethnography. Tourism Recreation Research.
Zhang, Y., Tripathi, A., Nautiyal, R., & Shaheer, I. (2022) Staging: Exploring how a dark fun factory is co-performed. Tourism Recreation Research,
Voase, R., 2022. Tourist Experience: A Semiotic Perspective. In: Sharpley, R. (ed) The Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience. London, Routledge, pp 128-152,
Hunt, A. and Kitchen, T., 2022. Enabled Archaeology in the Field, in Museums, and the Visitor Experience. In: Stevenson, A (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2021

Wang, D., Baker, M. A., Kim, Y., Ma, E. (2021). From Angels to Demons: Uncovering the Relationships between Tipping, Social Dignity, OCB and Incivility Intentions. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 98, 103043.
Wang, D., Ma, E. Kim, Y., Liu, A. (2021). From Good Soldiers to Happy Employees: Exploring the Emotional and Well-being Outcomes of OCBs. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. 49, 570-579. 
Ma, E., Bao, Y., Huang, L., Wang, D., & Kim, M. S. (2021). When A Robot Makes Your Dinner: A Comparative Analysis of Product Level and Customer Experience Between U.S. And Chinese Robotic Restaurants. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly,
Ma, E., Wang, D., & Liu, A. (2021). Industry as Contexts or Theory? A Systematic and Meta-Analysis of Status and Directions of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Hospitality. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research,
Ma, E., Wang, S., Wang, D., Liu, A. & Kim, M. S. (2021). When Work and Life Boundaries are Blurred—P2P Accommodation Hosts’ Work-Life Integration and Consequences. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 99,103074
Ma, E., Zhang, Y., Xu, F., Wang, D., & Kim, M. S. (2021). Feeling Empowered and Doing Good? A Psychological Mechanism of Empowerment, Self-esteem, Perceived Trust, and OCBs. Tourism Management, 87, 104356
Winter, T., Kim, S. and Palmer, N. (2021) Where is 'the poor' in pro-poor VCA? - A review of applying pro-poor VCA in a coastal tourism destination in the Northeast of Brazil. In: Harju-Myllyaho, A. & Jutila, S. (eds), Inclusive Tourism Futures. Bristol: Channel View Publications. //
Xu, T., Yang, W., Wu, L., Ma, E., & Wang, D. (2021). Work or Baby? Maternity Leave in the U.S. Lodging Industry. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 46, 267-271.
Winter, T. and Adu-Ampong, E., 2021. Residents with camera: exploring tourism impacts through participant-generated images. Annals of Tourism Research, 87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.103112
Winter, T. and Kim, S., 2021. Exploring the relationship between tourism and poverty using Sen’s capability approach. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 29(10), 1655-1673. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2020.1865385
Hughes, H and Kitchen, T., 2021. Lincoln's Engineering Heritage. In: Walker, A (ed.) Lincoln's Engineering Industries: A Concise History, c.1780 -1980s. Lincoln: The Survey of Lincoln.

2020

Davis, Leon (2020) The adaptation of the live PDC darts event during the COVID-19 lockdown. Managing Sport and Leisure . ISSN 2375-0472
Ellin, Dan (2020) A ‘Lack of Moral Fibre’ in Royal Air Force Bomber Command and Popular Culture. British Journal for Military History, 6 (3). pp. 42-65. ISSN 2057-0422
Catalani, Anna and Hughes, Heather (2020) Engaging young audiences before, during and after lockdown. Museum and Society, 18 (3). pp. 319-322. ISSN 1479-8360
Hughes, Heather, Fedele, Greta, Gaiaschi, Zeno and Pesaro, Alessandro (2020) Public History and Contested Heritage. Archival Memories of the Bombing of Italy. Public History Review, 27 . pp. 1-24. ISSN 1833-4989
Everett, Sally, Cade, Nicola, Hunt, Abigail, Lock, Deborah, Lupton, Katie and McDonald, Steve (2020) The Tourism, Hospitality and Events Student's Guide to Study and Employability. Sage. ISBN 9781526436467, 9781526436450
Rydzik, Agnieszka and Anitha, Sundari (2020) Conceptualising the agency of migrant women workers: Resilience, reworking and resistance. Work, Employment and Society, 34 (5). pp. 883-899. ISSN 0950-0170
Sharif, Arshian, Saha, Shrabani, Campbell, Neil, Sinha, Avik and Ibrahiem, Dalia (2020) Tourism, Environment and Energy: An Analysis for China. Current Issues in Tourism, 23 (23). pp. 2930-2949. ISSN 1368-3500

2019

Liu, Yu-lun, Yuen, Tsunwai Wesley and Jiang, Han-Ling (2019) An experimental study of consumption orientations, environmental sustainability advertising and home-sharing adoption intentions. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management . ISSN 0959-6119
Pielichaty, Hanya (2019) Pleasure and the Sanctuary Paradox: Experiences of Girls and Women Playing Soccer. International Review for the Sociology of Sport . ISSN 1012-6902
Pielichaty, Hanya (2019) Identity salience and the football self: a critical ethnographic study of women and girls in football. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 11 (4). pp. 527-542. ISSN 2159-676X
Hu, Jiayao, Liu, Yu-lun, Yuen, Wesley, Lim, Ming Kim and Hu, Jialun (2019) Do green practices really attract customers? The sharing economy from the sustainable supply chain management perspective. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 149 . pp. 177-187. ISSN 0921-3449
Del Chiappa, G., Bregoli, Ilenia and Kim, A. (2019) Inter-sectorial collaboration in networks: A Boundary Object approach to wine routes. Tourism Planning & Development. ISSN 2156-8324
Rydzik, Agnieszka and Ellis-Vowles, Victoria (2019) ‘Don’t use “the weak word”’: Women brewers, identities and gendered territories of embodied work. Work, Employment and Society, 33 (3). pp. 483-499. ISSN 0950-0170

2018

Voase, Richard (2018) Holidays under the hegemony of hyper-connectivity: getting away, but unable to escape? Leisure Studies, 37 (4). pp. 384-395. ISSN 0261-4367
Davis, Leon (2018) From a pub game to a sporting spectacle: the professionalisation of British Darts, 1970–1997. Sport in History, 38 (4). pp. 507-533. ISSN 1746-0263
Sima, Claudia and Vogt, Franziska (2018) The symbiotic relationship between unusual venues and street food commercial events: the case of Street Feast in London. In: Exhibitions, trade fairs and industrial events. Routledge Advances in Event Research . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138219359
Kim, Young-Rae, Saha, Shrabani, Vertinsky, Ilan and Park, Chansoo (2018) The Impact of national institutional quality on international tourism inflows: a cross-country evidence. Tourism Analysis . ISSN 1083-5423

2017

Els, Georgiana and Kane, Kevin (2017) Social enterprise ecosystems: a case study of the Danube Delta region of Romania. In: Social entrepreneurship and tourism: philosophy and practice. Tourism on the Verge . Springer, Cham, pp. 251-264. ISBN 9783319465166
Rydzik, Agnieszka, Pritchard, Annette, Morgan, Nigel and Sedgley, Diane (2017) Humanising migrant women’s work. Annals of Tourism Research, 64. pp. 13-23. ISSN 0160-7383
Rydzik, Agnieszka (2017) Travelers, tourists, migrants or workers? Transformative journeys of migrant women. In: Women and Travel: historical and contemporary perspectives. Advances in hospitality and tourism . Apple Academic Press. ISBN 9781771884686
Sima, Claudia (2017) Communist heritage representation gaps and disputes. International Journal of Tourism Cities, 3 (3). pp. 210-226. ISSN 2056-5607
Sima, Claudia and Sima, Elena (2017) Aspects of the tourism market development within the European rural space. Strategii Manageriale, V (34). pp. 320-326. ISSN 1844-668X
Sima, Claudia (2017) Brexit impacts on British tourism. Strategii Manageriale, 5 (34). pp. 297-303. ISSN 1844-668X
Sharif, Arshian, Saha, Shrabani and Loganathan, Nanthakumar (2017) Does tourism sustain the economic growth? A wavelet based evidence from United States. Tourism Analysis, 22 (4). pp. 467-482. ISSN 1083-5423
Saha, Shrabani, Su, Jen-Je and Campbell, Neil (2017) Does political and economic freedom matter for inbound tourism? A cross-national panel data estimation. Journal of Travel research, 56 (2). pp. 221-234. ISSN 0047-2875

2016

Rahman, Mizan and Hassan, Azizul (2016) Sustainable tourism practices and development: the case of the Sundarbans. Tourism Dimensions. ISSN 2349-7394
Bregoli, Ilenia and Ceruti, Francesca (2016) Can perceptions of Italian organised crime affect travel behaviour? In: Tourist behaviour: An international perspective. CABI. ISBN 9781780648125
Bregoli, Ilenia, Hingley, Martin, Del Chiappa, Giacomo and Sodano, Valeria (2016) Challenges in Italian wine routes: managing stakeholder networks. Qualitative Market Research, 19 (2). pp. 204-224. ISSN 1352-2752
Pappas, Nikolaos and Bregoli, Ilenia (2016) Global dynamics in travel, tourism, and hospitality. IGI global. ISBN 9781522502012
Pielichaty, Hanya, Els, Georgiana, Reed, Ian and Mawer, Vanessa (2016) Events project management. Routledge. ISBN 9781138832664, 9781138832688
Sima, Claudia (2016) Generations BB, X, Y, Z, α: the changing consumer in the hospitality industry. In: The Routledge handbook of hotel chain management. Routledge, London, pp. 471-479. ISBN 9781138805057

2015

Ellis, Victoria and Bosworth, Gary (2015) Supporting rural entrepreneurship in the UK microbrewery sector. British Food Journal, 117 (11). pp. 2724-2738. ISSN 0007-070X
Davis, Leon (2015) Football Fandom and Authenticity: A Critical Discussion of Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Soccer and Society. ISSN 1466-0970
Pielichaty, Hanya (2015) Festival Space: gender, liminality and the carnivalesque. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 6 (3). pp. 235-250. ISSN 1758-2954
Hassan, Azizul and Rahman, Mizan (2015) World Heritage Site as a label in branding a place. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 5 (3). pp. 210-233. ISSN 2044-1266
Hassan, Azizul and Rahman, Mizan (2015) Macromarketing perspective in promoting tourism: the case of Buddhist Vihara in Paharpur. Tourism Spectrum, 1 (2). pp. 13-19. ISSN 2395-2849
Cheung, Yun Hsing and Saha, Shrabani (2015) Exploring the nexus between tourism demand and cultural similarity. Tourism Analysis, 20 (2). pp. 229-241. ISSN 1083-5423
Saha, Shrabani and Yap, Ghialy (2015) Corruption and tourism: an empirical investigation in a non-linear framework. International Journal of Tourism Research, 17 (3). pp. 272-281. ISSN 1099-2340

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