Visitor Economy Research Group | Publications

Publications

2025

• Rydzik, A., Chanamuto, N. and Chambers, D., 2025. Conceptualising the intersections between migration, (in)hospitality and belonging in uncertain times. Hospitality & Society, 15(1-2).
• 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. and Bosworth, G., 2025. Navigating hostility, pursuing hospitality: Conceptualising community engagement among migrant women entrepreneurs in peripheral areas, Hospitality & Society, 15(1-2)
• Nautiyal, R., Albrecht, J.N. and 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. and 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. and 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). https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp_00084_1 
• Mak, C. K. Y. and 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. 

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