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Controversy and Doxa: Sustainable Food Policy and the English Vegetable Sector
Moorhouse, Jan; Brennan, David Ross (2021-01-29)Purpose: The authors explore the market agora and the shaping of markets as controversies over the meaning and practices related to sustainability evolved. This study aims to explore what happened in a market-oriented ... -
Creating Critical Festival Discourse through flexible mixed Methodological research design
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)Our chapter traces a path through previously published doctoral research (Jepson, 2009) which investigates the planning and construction of community cultural festivals. Socio-cultural phenomena such as festivals are ... -
Creating the Opera Habit: Marketing and the Experience of Opera
Fraser, Peter; Fraser, Iain (Routledge, 2013-11-28) -
Critical moments of (un)doing doctoral supervision: : Collaborative writing as rhizomatic practice
Fullagar, Simone; Pavlidis, Adele; Stadler, Raphaela (2017-08-25)Despite the proliferation of doctoral training courses within universities, little attention is paid to the complexity of supervision as a process of becoming for both students and supervisors. As post-qualitative researchers ... -
Cultural Meaning, Advertising, and National Culture: A Four-Country Study
Czarnecka, Barbara; Brennan, David; Keles, Serap (2018-01-01)Cultural meaning transfer theory and GLOBE dimensions were employed in this comparative study to examine the extent to which cultural meaning presented in advertisements reflected national cultures of the target countries. ... -
The dark side of high performance human resource practices in the visitor economy
Page, Stephen J.; Bentley, Tim; Teo, Stephen; Ladkin, Adele (2018-08-01)Enhancing employee performance and improving staff retention are key objectives within the visitor economy, especially among the subset of tourism and hospitality businesses where there is a strong emphasis on 'people ... -
De-marginalising, Marginalised Communities: The case of participatory arts events and the over 70s in rural Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Jepson, Allan (Routledge, 2019-01-10)This chapter provides an insight into a much larger longitudinal study into the potential benefits of participatory arts events for the over 70s in rural communities in Hertfordshire, the United Kingdom. In order to achieve ... -
Dealing with Challenges to Methodological Pluralism: The Paradigm Problem, Psychological Resistance and Cultural Barriers
Midgley, Gerald; Nicholson, John; Brennan, David (2017-04-30)This paper calls for methodological pluralism in industrial marketing research. We discuss three challenges that proponents of methodological pluralism have to address if their practice is to be seen as credible: the ... -
Dementia as a global challenge: Progress and prospects for creating more dementia-inclusive tourism industries
Page, Stephen J.; Connell, Joanne (2024-10)Global Grand Challenges (GCs) have received only a limited attention within the tourism literature and this Progress paper examines one such GC – dementia and the contribution that tourism research can make to helping ... -
Dementia, tourism and leisure : Making the visitor economy more dementia-friendly
Connell, Joanne; Page, Stephen J. (Policy Press, 2021-09-24)• This chapter focuses on a place-based and business-oriented approach to operationalising the concept of living well with dementia by supporting people with dementia as customers in the visitor economy • Visitor attractions ... -
Developing tourism in South and Central Asia : Introduction
Michael Hall, C.; Page, Stephen J. (Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-09-15)One of the darker sides of us, the South Asians seems to be our habit of thinking that we know what is right and nobody should bother to teach us. We are very good teachers but not necessarily good students. Now we should ... -
Disadvantage in English seaside resorts : A typology of deprived neighbourhoods
Agarwal, Sheela; Jakes, Steven; Essex, Stephen; Page, Stephen J.; Mowforth, Martin (2018-12-01)Socio-economic disadvantage experienced by residents of English seaside resorts has been growing over the last decade, and academic and practice-based research is providing better insights into the causes, internal dynamics ... -
Doing and feeling together in older age: self-worth and belonging through social creative activities
Wood, Emma; Jepson, Allan; Stadler, Raphaela (2021-11-02)The potential for art activities to help in alleviating loneliness is explored through a focus on older women's regular attendance at creative social activities. We apply the concept of perceived emotional synchrony to ... -
Economic performance amongst English seaside towns
Agarwal, Sheela; Rahma, Sanzidur; Jakes, Steven; Page, Stephen J. (2023-07-13)Within urban and tourism studies, although much research has focused on uneven city prosperity and competitiveness, little is known about factors influencing seaside town economic performance. We adopt a place-based approach ... -
Editorial: The Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Asia
Michael Hall, C.; Page, Stephen J.; Hall, C, Michael; Page, Stephen J.; Hertfordshire Business School; Enterprise and Value Research Group (Routledge, 2016-09-15)Asia is regarded as the fastest growing area for international and domestic tourism in the world today and over the next 20 years. Given the economic, social and environmental importance of tourism in the region, there is ... -
Effects of Participation in a Simulation Game on Marketing Students' Numeracy and Financial Skills
Brennan, Ross; Vos, Lynn (2013-12)The need to endow marketing graduates with skills relevant to employability grows ever more important. Marketing math and elementary financial understanding are essential employability skills, particularly given the ... -
The Elderly Centre Location Problem
Davari, Soheil; van Woensel, Tom (2020-02-12)Increased human life expectancy combined with declining birth rates around the globe has led to ageing populations, particularly in the developed world. This phenomenon brings about increased dependency ratios and calls ... -
Electricity consumers in regional Australia : Social acceptance of coal-fired power and renewable energy
McCarthy, Breda; Eagle, Lynne; Osmond, Amy (2018-09-01)PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the concept of social acceptance and examine public opinions on climate change, renewable energy and fossil fuels in regional Australia. Understanding public opinion is critical ... -
Electrodermal activity measurement within a qualitative methodology : Exploring emotion in leisure experiences
Stadler, Raphaela; Jepson, Allan; Wood, Emma (2018-11-21)Purpose: Reflecting, reliving and reforming experiences enhance longer-term effects of travel and tourism, and have been highlighted as an important aspect in determining loyalty, re-visitation and post-consumption ... -
Emergency Management and Tourism Stakeholder Responses to Crises : A Global Survey
Morakabati, Yeganeh; Page, Stephen J.; Fletcher, John (2017-03-01)This article examines the contested area of the responsibility for destinations and tourists, within emergency settings. It incorporates a Delphi-Scenario technique to facilitate a structured discussion of emergency ...