J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak
Andres is Associate Professor at the University of Greenwich (Marketing, Events and Tourism Department), Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Tourism Cities, advisor to the World Tourism Cities Federation and formerly Head of Research & International Partnerships at the Association of Town and City Management (www.atcm.org).
Following several years in industry (Shell and Anglo American plc), Andres worked for a number of UK-based universities as Senior Lecturer and Course Director of various postgraduate place management qualifications with teaching, consultancy and transnational research outputs in town centre management, sustainable events, urban regeneration, strategic positioning of town centres, city marketing and branding, place management, events and retail. Andres is a founding Fellow of the Institute of Place Management, founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Town and City Management, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has advised the UK Government on town centre competitiveness and retail.
Over the last 17 years, he has attracted in excess of £2.1 million in direct external funding from a variety of EU programmes. Andres has also managed major transnational projects with partners that included universities, chambers of commerce, retail trade associations, local authorities and regional governments in 17 European countries.
Andres is also a member of the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Tourism Cities, the Journal of Tourism Futures, the Journal of Place Management and Development, the Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, and has reviewed papers for a number of international journals and conferences. He has published internationally in a number of practitioner and academic journals.
Andres speaks Spanish, Polish and English fluently and holds a Doctorate in Town Centre (Downtown) Management from Middlesex University, two MSc degrees (Imperial College and MMU) and a first class BEng (Hons) degree in Mining Engineering (Univ. of Nottingham).
Following several years in industry (Shell and Anglo American plc), Andres worked for a number of UK-based universities as Senior Lecturer and Course Director of various postgraduate place management qualifications with teaching, consultancy and transnational research outputs in town centre management, sustainable events, urban regeneration, strategic positioning of town centres, city marketing and branding, place management, events and retail. Andres is a founding Fellow of the Institute of Place Management, founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Town and City Management, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has advised the UK Government on town centre competitiveness and retail.
Over the last 17 years, he has attracted in excess of £2.1 million in direct external funding from a variety of EU programmes. Andres has also managed major transnational projects with partners that included universities, chambers of commerce, retail trade associations, local authorities and regional governments in 17 European countries.
Andres is also a member of the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Tourism Cities, the Journal of Tourism Futures, the Journal of Place Management and Development, the Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, and has reviewed papers for a number of international journals and conferences. He has published internationally in a number of practitioner and academic journals.
Andres speaks Spanish, Polish and English fluently and holds a Doctorate in Town Centre (Downtown) Management from Middlesex University, two MSc degrees (Imperial College and MMU) and a first class BEng (Hons) degree in Mining Engineering (Univ. of Nottingham).
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A growing body of research argues that consumers’ expectations today go well beyond the functionality that town centres can provide in terms of their retail offer. Instead, it is the type and quality of the overall town centre experience that is becoming key to visitor engagement, satisfaction and local resident loyalty. The advent of what was contentedly coined in 1999 as the experience economy has manifested itself since in the growth of the evening and night-time economy, with an estimated worth of £66 billion and remarkable levels of resilience during the economic downturn. However, none of this success materialised by chance. Professionals in the hospitality sector - largely responsible for the service offer of the evening and night time economy - have long understood the importance of anticipating consumer trends and offering carefully designed services focusing on the customer experience.
The report offers a simple town centre 'personality' test linked to a typology of town and city centres. It also offers, for the first time ever in the UK, a national town centre performance framework linked to a do-it-yourself set of key performance indicators that anybody can use straight from the box without any previous knowledge of market research or statistical analysis.
Papers and articles by J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak
This research note analyses the intra-pandemic (i.e. during the pandemic) perceptions as well as post-pandemic planned behaviours among Chinese residents within the context of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, the Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1991) is adopted to explore planned changes to travel behaviours after the pandemic. The intra-pandemic perceptions towards tourism destinations are added to examine their association with post-pandemic planned travel behaviours, particularly with regards to Attitude and Post-pandemic Travel Intention. This research provides a novel contribution to existing knowledge by providing a prompt understanding of a real-time pandemic, particularly on the impacts of intra-pandemic perceptions on post-epidemic planned travel behaviours.
Purpose – Building on exponential trends of technological change affecting our cities and urban tourism destinations, avenues for further research and practice are explored in the context of smart tourism destinations.
Design/methodology/approach – The literature on smart cities and smart tourism destinations is analysed in view of delivering a research agenda for a new generation of ‘post-smart’ tourism destinations, beyond existing paradigms in this field.
Findings – Smart tourism research to date is found to be lacking in terms of addressing emerging (‘post-smart’) social issues increasingly faced by global tourism cities, such as growing inequalities between host communities and visitors, wellness (e.g. slow tourism, slow cities), resilience and mental health (e.g. digital detox), among others.
Practical implications – A post-smart approach to tourism city management and marketing calls for a re-think of existing tourism and urban policies that address wider sustainability issues exemplified by the urban transitions debate as well as adopting a more holistic networked approach to smartness involving entire regions. This also calls for the development of a new research agenda in urban tourism through a new prism – the post-smart ‘wise’ tourism destination.
Originality/value – A new tourism futures construct - the ‘wise’ tourism destination - is posited. This is done within the context of a new (‘post-smart’) generation of tourism cities. It is argued that ‘wise’ tourism cities will require novel attributes and adopt a visionary strategic positioning well beyond today’s smart tourism destination paradigms. Additionally, a tentative research agenda for ‘wise’ tourism cities is discussed.
There is a growing consensus among scholars in neuroscience with regards to the adverse effects of technology on the cognitive functions of the human brain (Loh and Kanai, 2016). These include the processing of emotions, memory and the storage of lived experiences. In fact, this has been shown to be particularly applicable to regular users of smartphone-based mobile applications (Wilmer et al., 2017). Rather worryingly for today’s prevalently technology-based conception of what a smart tourism destination should deliver, recent research has shown that visitors’ intentions to preserve the memories of a visit to a tourism attraction by engaging with mobile media (e.g. taking photos and sharing them with others via social media) during their visit may actually prevent those same visitors (though perhaps not the recipients of their photos via social media) from remembering the very experience they are trying to preserve (Tamir et al., 2018; see also Soares and Storm, 2018). Furthermore, research has also shown that this ‘hyperconnected’ state of affairs may be altogether detrimental to visitors’ enjoyment of the overall experience (Barasch et al., 2017). For those tourists who can still boast an adequate level of battery charge on their smartphones after a busy visit spent updating social media profiles with new photos whilst trying to simultaneously absorb the multi-sensory experience offered by the tourist attraction, there is further bad news. Similar neurological research has shown that people who are over-reliant on satellite navigation systems for way-finding (say, back to the hotel or to a restaurant highly rated on Tripadvisor) tend to perform worse at finding their way in the absence of their digital aid than those who rely on paper maps (McCullough and Collins, 2019). Parallel research in tourism has argued that this ‘smart’ technology-enabled tourist may run the risk of alienation (or “e-lienation”, to use the term coined by Tribe and Mkono, 2017) from their surroundings and missing out on potentially enriching experiences offered by the tourism destination. All in all, this should be rather worrying news for aspiring and existing smart tourism destinations. Why? Well, given that memorable experiences remain arguably a desirable goal in the design and delivery of visitor experiences, it appears that technology could be actually conspiring to rewire our brains in the opposite direction (Ward, 2013). Should, then, smart tourist destinations strive to become more efficient at delivering other services instead of memorable experiences? Maybe, though this is perhaps particularly applicable to some of the earlier models in the smart cities longitudinal spectrum. In fact, there is growing consensus around the fact that technological innovation (Pinke-Sziva et al., 2019; Skeli and Schmid, 2019) can alleviate some of the effects of overtourism, particularly in the context of smart tourism destinations (Gretzel and Scarpino-Johns, 2018). This includes ‘smarter’ transport solutions, even if we know that residents and tourists will differ considerably in their assessment of urban mobility improvements (Albalate and Bel, 2010). However, all this is part of what smart cities (presumably) do already. Consequently, if the whole raison d'être of the ‘smart’ concept applied to tourism destinations rests mainly on the proviso of experience design and delivery, where do the insights from the latest neurological research leave smart tourism destinations? Should the next generation of smart tourism destinations re-consider their strategic focus altogether?
This special issue of the International Journal of Tourism Cities (IJTC) on “Overtourism and the Marketing of Smart Tourism Destinations” attempts to shed light not only on the overtourism phenomena but also on a nascent field of research: the marketing and branding of smart urban tourism destinations. Inevitably, and given that both topics can hardly be considered in isolation, much of the research showcased in this special issue, including this editorial, explore also elements spanning the overtourism phenomena and the marketing and management of smart tourism destinations, chiefly from an urban perspective.
For further details on this call for papers, please refer to:
https://www.touriscape.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Call-for-paper_IJTC-Themed-Issue-Transversal-Tourism-and-Landscape.pdf
Interested authors should submit an extended abstract/proposal (700 words) via the conference's website (www.touriscape.org) by 15 November 2019.
Authors will be notified no later than 1 December 2019 with a decision on the suitability of their abstracts.
We invite papers which engage with Sustainable Tourism in Urban Destinations in the following topics (indicative but not exhaustive themes):
• Sustainable tourism management in the city
• Governance and sustainable tourism
• Environmental performance of tourism businesses
• Corporate social responsibility in urban destinations
• Social entrepreneurship in the city
• Tourism and social justice in urban destinations
• Diversity, inclusion and urban tourism
• Urban tourism contributions to SDGs
• The role of smart cities as catalysts for sustainable tourism
• Regenerative tourism
• Transformational tourism
• The role of destination management organizations (DMOs) in facilitating sustainable tourism in cities
• Urban tourism destinations as socio-economic ecosystems
• Climate change strategies and planning in urban tourism destinations
• Roles of NGOs and the third sector in sustainable urban destinations
• Community resident roles in sustainable urban destinations
Submissions:
For journal author guidelines, see:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
Pre-submission drafts for a desk assessment and feedback by the editors should be sent to either one of the editors:
- Assoc. Prof. J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak (a.coca-stefaniak@greenwich.ac.uk)
- Assoc. Prof. Jonathon Day (jonday@purdue.edu)
- Prof. Alastair M. Morrison (alastair@belletourism.com
Important deadlines
Interested authors should email their abstract/proposal (200-300 words) to J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak (a.coca-stefaniak@gre.ac.uk) by 20th September 2019.
Authors will be notified no later than 30th September 2019 on the decision on their abstracts.
Full articles (6,000-8,000 words) should be submitted by 5th December 2019. Online submissions of full articles (but not abstracts/proposals) are required at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijtc
The format of guidelines is provided on the journal webpage:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
All manuscripts will undergo anonymous peer review.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZEuMy5jOZE9d
Abstract
This research applies a unique conceptual model and methodology incorporating popularity, commitment, and virality to measure the social media engagement with residents and visitors of smart cities and how they communicate ‘smart’ elements and their brands. Digital content analysis was applied to a sample of ten Spanish smart cities (including Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Seville and Valencia, among others), with measurable and quantifiable elements of engagement (e.g., likes, shares and comments). The smart cities analysed achieved acceptable, but rudimentary, levels of engagement via social media using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. However, they displayed weaknesses related to their image and branding as well as the effectiveness with which they communicated their smart characteristics. The main implication of this research is that these Spanish smart cities have considerable scope to improve their use of social media to enhance their communications and branding. Greater emphasis is required on delivering emotional (affective) messages and a higher priority needs to be given to business and business event travelers and those visiting friends and relatives.
A growing body of research argues that consumers’ expectations today go well beyond the functionality that town centres can provide in terms of their retail offer. Instead, it is the type and quality of the overall town centre experience that is becoming key to visitor engagement, satisfaction and local resident loyalty. The advent of what was contentedly coined in 1999 as the experience economy has manifested itself since in the growth of the evening and night-time economy, with an estimated worth of £66 billion and remarkable levels of resilience during the economic downturn. However, none of this success materialised by chance. Professionals in the hospitality sector - largely responsible for the service offer of the evening and night time economy - have long understood the importance of anticipating consumer trends and offering carefully designed services focusing on the customer experience.
The report offers a simple town centre 'personality' test linked to a typology of town and city centres. It also offers, for the first time ever in the UK, a national town centre performance framework linked to a do-it-yourself set of key performance indicators that anybody can use straight from the box without any previous knowledge of market research or statistical analysis.
This research note analyses the intra-pandemic (i.e. during the pandemic) perceptions as well as post-pandemic planned behaviours among Chinese residents within the context of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, the Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1991) is adopted to explore planned changes to travel behaviours after the pandemic. The intra-pandemic perceptions towards tourism destinations are added to examine their association with post-pandemic planned travel behaviours, particularly with regards to Attitude and Post-pandemic Travel Intention. This research provides a novel contribution to existing knowledge by providing a prompt understanding of a real-time pandemic, particularly on the impacts of intra-pandemic perceptions on post-epidemic planned travel behaviours.
Purpose – Building on exponential trends of technological change affecting our cities and urban tourism destinations, avenues for further research and practice are explored in the context of smart tourism destinations.
Design/methodology/approach – The literature on smart cities and smart tourism destinations is analysed in view of delivering a research agenda for a new generation of ‘post-smart’ tourism destinations, beyond existing paradigms in this field.
Findings – Smart tourism research to date is found to be lacking in terms of addressing emerging (‘post-smart’) social issues increasingly faced by global tourism cities, such as growing inequalities between host communities and visitors, wellness (e.g. slow tourism, slow cities), resilience and mental health (e.g. digital detox), among others.
Practical implications – A post-smart approach to tourism city management and marketing calls for a re-think of existing tourism and urban policies that address wider sustainability issues exemplified by the urban transitions debate as well as adopting a more holistic networked approach to smartness involving entire regions. This also calls for the development of a new research agenda in urban tourism through a new prism – the post-smart ‘wise’ tourism destination.
Originality/value – A new tourism futures construct - the ‘wise’ tourism destination - is posited. This is done within the context of a new (‘post-smart’) generation of tourism cities. It is argued that ‘wise’ tourism cities will require novel attributes and adopt a visionary strategic positioning well beyond today’s smart tourism destination paradigms. Additionally, a tentative research agenda for ‘wise’ tourism cities is discussed.
There is a growing consensus among scholars in neuroscience with regards to the adverse effects of technology on the cognitive functions of the human brain (Loh and Kanai, 2016). These include the processing of emotions, memory and the storage of lived experiences. In fact, this has been shown to be particularly applicable to regular users of smartphone-based mobile applications (Wilmer et al., 2017). Rather worryingly for today’s prevalently technology-based conception of what a smart tourism destination should deliver, recent research has shown that visitors’ intentions to preserve the memories of a visit to a tourism attraction by engaging with mobile media (e.g. taking photos and sharing them with others via social media) during their visit may actually prevent those same visitors (though perhaps not the recipients of their photos via social media) from remembering the very experience they are trying to preserve (Tamir et al., 2018; see also Soares and Storm, 2018). Furthermore, research has also shown that this ‘hyperconnected’ state of affairs may be altogether detrimental to visitors’ enjoyment of the overall experience (Barasch et al., 2017). For those tourists who can still boast an adequate level of battery charge on their smartphones after a busy visit spent updating social media profiles with new photos whilst trying to simultaneously absorb the multi-sensory experience offered by the tourist attraction, there is further bad news. Similar neurological research has shown that people who are over-reliant on satellite navigation systems for way-finding (say, back to the hotel or to a restaurant highly rated on Tripadvisor) tend to perform worse at finding their way in the absence of their digital aid than those who rely on paper maps (McCullough and Collins, 2019). Parallel research in tourism has argued that this ‘smart’ technology-enabled tourist may run the risk of alienation (or “e-lienation”, to use the term coined by Tribe and Mkono, 2017) from their surroundings and missing out on potentially enriching experiences offered by the tourism destination. All in all, this should be rather worrying news for aspiring and existing smart tourism destinations. Why? Well, given that memorable experiences remain arguably a desirable goal in the design and delivery of visitor experiences, it appears that technology could be actually conspiring to rewire our brains in the opposite direction (Ward, 2013). Should, then, smart tourist destinations strive to become more efficient at delivering other services instead of memorable experiences? Maybe, though this is perhaps particularly applicable to some of the earlier models in the smart cities longitudinal spectrum. In fact, there is growing consensus around the fact that technological innovation (Pinke-Sziva et al., 2019; Skeli and Schmid, 2019) can alleviate some of the effects of overtourism, particularly in the context of smart tourism destinations (Gretzel and Scarpino-Johns, 2018). This includes ‘smarter’ transport solutions, even if we know that residents and tourists will differ considerably in their assessment of urban mobility improvements (Albalate and Bel, 2010). However, all this is part of what smart cities (presumably) do already. Consequently, if the whole raison d'être of the ‘smart’ concept applied to tourism destinations rests mainly on the proviso of experience design and delivery, where do the insights from the latest neurological research leave smart tourism destinations? Should the next generation of smart tourism destinations re-consider their strategic focus altogether?
This special issue of the International Journal of Tourism Cities (IJTC) on “Overtourism and the Marketing of Smart Tourism Destinations” attempts to shed light not only on the overtourism phenomena but also on a nascent field of research: the marketing and branding of smart urban tourism destinations. Inevitably, and given that both topics can hardly be considered in isolation, much of the research showcased in this special issue, including this editorial, explore also elements spanning the overtourism phenomena and the marketing and management of smart tourism destinations, chiefly from an urban perspective.
For further details on this call for papers, please refer to:
https://www.touriscape.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Call-for-paper_IJTC-Themed-Issue-Transversal-Tourism-and-Landscape.pdf
Interested authors should submit an extended abstract/proposal (700 words) via the conference's website (www.touriscape.org) by 15 November 2019.
Authors will be notified no later than 1 December 2019 with a decision on the suitability of their abstracts.
We invite papers which engage with Sustainable Tourism in Urban Destinations in the following topics (indicative but not exhaustive themes):
• Sustainable tourism management in the city
• Governance and sustainable tourism
• Environmental performance of tourism businesses
• Corporate social responsibility in urban destinations
• Social entrepreneurship in the city
• Tourism and social justice in urban destinations
• Diversity, inclusion and urban tourism
• Urban tourism contributions to SDGs
• The role of smart cities as catalysts for sustainable tourism
• Regenerative tourism
• Transformational tourism
• The role of destination management organizations (DMOs) in facilitating sustainable tourism in cities
• Urban tourism destinations as socio-economic ecosystems
• Climate change strategies and planning in urban tourism destinations
• Roles of NGOs and the third sector in sustainable urban destinations
• Community resident roles in sustainable urban destinations
Submissions:
For journal author guidelines, see:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
Pre-submission drafts for a desk assessment and feedback by the editors should be sent to either one of the editors:
- Assoc. Prof. J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak (a.coca-stefaniak@greenwich.ac.uk)
- Assoc. Prof. Jonathon Day (jonday@purdue.edu)
- Prof. Alastair M. Morrison (alastair@belletourism.com
Important deadlines
Interested authors should email their abstract/proposal (200-300 words) to J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak (a.coca-stefaniak@gre.ac.uk) by 20th September 2019.
Authors will be notified no later than 30th September 2019 on the decision on their abstracts.
Full articles (6,000-8,000 words) should be submitted by 5th December 2019. Online submissions of full articles (but not abstracts/proposals) are required at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijtc
The format of guidelines is provided on the journal webpage:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
All manuscripts will undergo anonymous peer review.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZEuMy5jOZE9d
Abstract
This research applies a unique conceptual model and methodology incorporating popularity, commitment, and virality to measure the social media engagement with residents and visitors of smart cities and how they communicate ‘smart’ elements and their brands. Digital content analysis was applied to a sample of ten Spanish smart cities (including Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Seville and Valencia, among others), with measurable and quantifiable elements of engagement (e.g., likes, shares and comments). The smart cities analysed achieved acceptable, but rudimentary, levels of engagement via social media using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. However, they displayed weaknesses related to their image and branding as well as the effectiveness with which they communicated their smart characteristics. The main implication of this research is that these Spanish smart cities have considerable scope to improve their use of social media to enhance their communications and branding. Greater emphasis is required on delivering emotional (affective) messages and a higher priority needs to be given to business and business event travelers and those visiting friends and relatives.
Article author guidelines: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
The aims of this Themed Issue of the International Journal of Tourism Cities are to:
1) Examine the contribution of wellness tourism to the quality of life and livability of cities, especially resident wellbeing.
2) Explore the ways in which cities and their stakeholders can contribute to the wellness of visitors.
3) Define the role of destination management organisations (DMOs) in the integration of wellness activities as part of tourism destinations' wider portfolio of services and experiences for visitors.
4) Discuss the roles of specialist destination management bodies (e.g. wellness tourism associations and clusters) in initiating, developing, managing and branding wellness- based services in urban context.
5) Explore the integration of wellness into the hospitality and catering sectors.
6) Investigate the role of spas and other wellness propositions in the urban context.
7) Explore the role of heritage (tangible and intangible) in urban wellness tourism.
8) Examine the challenges and complexities of developing and managing historic spa towns (e.g. from traditional medical services towards wellness).
9) Analyse the lifestyle and leisure trends that encourage urban retreat development and holistic offers.
10) Determine the difference and potential relationship between the behaviour and preferences of wellness tourists in urban tourism destinations and those of other tourist segments for whom wellness is not at the core of their visit.
11) Explore the similarities and differences of wellness tourism in urban vs rural settings.
12) Investigate the role of local traditions and rituals (e.g. visiting local saunas) in the delivery of authentic wellness (tourism) experiences in urban settings.
13) Discuss the links between other forms of tourism (e.g. event tourism, wine tourism, religious tourism, food tourism) and wellness tourism in urban tourism destinations.
14) Explore the links between novel forms of smart tourism and wellness tourism, including digital detox holidays in tourism cities and their surroundings.
15) Investigate the use of wellness tourism in strategic place branding for urban tourism destinations and its impact on those brands.
Article author guidelines: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
The aims of this Themed Issue of the International Journal of Tourism Cities are to:
1. Define and operationalize the concept of a destination under the new sharing economy paradigm.
2. Determine the relationship of impacts (positive and negative) generated in destinations by the sharing economy.
3. Explore the physical, social, economic and experiential dimensions of the sharing economy in destinations.
4. New entrepreneurs, new hospitality services, new employees and new tourists within the sharing economy. New regulations and guidelines for destinations and the relationships among their stakeholders.
5. The role of destination management organizations (DMOs) in this new scenario.
6. Analyze visitors’ destination images and changes therein produced by the sharing economy.
Topics
We invite papers which engage with the Sharing Economy in the following topics (indicative but
not exhaustive themes):
• New marketing strategies and promotion techniques by city marketing organizations
(DMOs)
• New business models in cities
• Controversial issues of the sharing economy in tourism
• City gentrification
• Impacts of sharing-economy providers on urban tourism
• Changes in tourism perception and residents’ attitudes toward tourism
• Sharing economy and destination images
• New tourism destination planning processes
• The impact of the sharing economy on residents’ and tourists’ quality of life and destination experiences
• Regulation of the sharing economy in destinations
• The impact of the sharing economy on employees’ profiles and conditions
• Experiences in destinations under the sharing economy
• Special interest tourism (film tourism, sport tourism, etc.) and the sharing economy
• Corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and the sharing economy
• Implications of the sharing economy on tourists’ experiences and behavior (search for authenticity, loyalty, etc.)
Article author guidelines: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
The aims of this Themed Issue of IJTC are to:
1. Define business events and identity the characteristics that distinguish them from cultural, sports and community events, as well as from leisure tourism.
2. Document the positive and negative impacts of business events on cities, including their impacts upon local communities.
3. Review approaches to measuring residents’ attitudes and opinions on business events in their communities.
4. Explore the methods used by cities to attract business events.
5. Investigate the impact on business events of forces operating in the wider market environment, including geopolitical changes, advances in information technology and demographic developments.
6. Consider how business events can generate additional leisure tourism in the cities where they are held.
We invite papers linked to the theme of Business Events in Tourism Cities in the following topics (indicative but not exhaustive themes):
• Definition and categorisation of business events
• Impacts of business events on urban environments and host populations
• Measurement of urban resident attitudes toward business events
• ‘Bleisure’
• City branding
• Destination marketing for business events
• The role of destination image in the process of marketing cities for business events
• The impacts of technology, geopolitical changes and demographics on the business events market
• The sharing economy and business events
• Safety and security at business events
• The supply and design of venues for business events
• Participants’ perception of their own experience of attending business events
• Education and training for business events professionals
• Ethical issues in business events.
Interested authors should email their abstract (200-300 words) or proposal to Dr. J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak (a.coca-stefaniak@gre.ac.uk) by 12th May, 2019.
Authors will be notified no later than 25th May 2019 on the decision over their abstracts.
Full articles (6,000-8,000 words) should be submitted by October 15th, 2019 using the journal’s online submission system at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijtc
Further author guidelines for submission of manuscripts is provided on the journal webpage:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
All manuscripts will undergo anonymous peer review.
Article author guidelines: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
The aims of this Themed Issue of IJTC are to:
1. Define and operationalize the concept of overtourism in academic terms.
2. Determine the antecedents of overtourism.
3. Document the negative impacts of overtourism on communities.
4. Explore the physical and psychological dimensions of overcrowding in urban tourism and recreation.
5. Review approaches to measuring resident attitudes and opinions on tourism in their communities.
6. Investigate the impacts of sharing economy providers on tourism within cities and their contributions to overtourism.
7. Elaborate on planning and other processes to mitigate the negative aspects of overtourism on cities.
8. Analyze visitor attitudes toward overtourism in urban environments.
Topics
We invite papers which engage with Overtourism in Cities in the following topics (indicative but not exhaustive themes):
• Capacity measurement for urban tourism
• City gentrification
• Impacts of sharing-economy providers on urban tourism
• Measurement of urban resident attitudes toward tourism
• Overcrowding in city tourism and recreation
• Overtourism and destination image
• Resident expression of dissatisfaction with tourism
• Social media contributions to overtourism
• Tourism destination planning processes
• Tourism impacts of city residents’ quality of life
• Tourist attitudes and opinions on overcrowding
Submissions:
For journal author guidelines, see:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
Pre-submission drafts for a desk assessment and feedback by the editors should be sent to Assoc. Prof. Andres Coca-Stefaniak (a.coca-stefaniak@greenwich.ac.uk).
Important deadlines (revised)
Interested authors should email their abstract/proposal (200-300 words) to Andres Coca-Stefaniak, a.coca-stefaniak@gre.ac.uk by 2nd June 2019.
Authors will be notified no later than 12th June 2019 on the decision on their abstracts.
Full articles (6,000-8,000 words) should be submitted by 5th August 2019. Online submissions of full articles (but not abstracts/proposals) are required at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijtc
The format of guidelines is provided on the journal webpage:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc
Terrorism attacks in major cities (e.g. New York, Paris, Brussels, London, Barcelona) and their impact on the image of these global tourism destinations is a topic of growing interest to academics, industry practitioners and policy makers worldwide. The impact of recent terrorist attacks may extend beyond immediate image issues and to wider longer-term aspects such as the resilience of the destination's brand, its overall competitiveness in global tourism markets and its attractiveness to major investors.
Although a number of studies have analysed the impact of security concerns linked to terrorism on the events industry (e.g., Hu and Goldblatt, 2005; Gordon et al., 2008) and tourism (see Sonmez and Graeffe, 1998; Goodrich, 2002), their scope to date remains somewhat limited with some considering economic impact (e.g., Pizam and Smith, 2000), visitor risk perceptions (e.g., Fuchs and Reichell, 2011; Korstanje, 2015), dark tourism (e.g., Seraphin and Seraphin, 2017), social theory (e.g., Mansfeld and Pizam, 2006) or tourism demand (e.g., Arana and Leon, 2008), with very few adopting a more strategic outlook as regards tourism destinations (Beirman, 2003; Paraskevas and Arendell, 2007). This themed issue seeks to redress this balance by addressing a major knowledge gap in our understanding of the longer term impacts of terrorism on the resilience of tourism destination brands (see Avraham, 2015), their overall competitiveness in the global tourism market and their attractiveness to major international investors.
Organized into four parts, the Handbook begins with an introductory section that explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends that tourism cities face today. A range of topics are explored, including sustainable urban tourism, overtourism and urbanization, the impact of terrorism, visitor-host interactions, as well as reflections on present and future challenges for tourism cities. In Part II the marketing, branding and markets for tourism cities are considered, exploring topics such as destination marketing and branding, business travelers, and exhibition hosting. This section combines academic scholarship with real-life practice and case studies from cities. Part III discusses product and technology developments for tourism cities, examining their supply and impact on different travelers, from open air markets to creative waterfronts, from social media to smart cities. The final Part offers examples of how urban tourism is developing in different parts of the world and how worldwide tourism cities are adapting to the challenges ahead. It also explores emerging forms of specialist tourism, including geology and ecology-based tourism, socialist heritage and post-communist destination tourism.
This Handbook fills a notable gap by offering a critical and detailed understanding of the diverse elements of the tourist experience today. It contains useful suggestions for practitioners, as well as examples for theoretical frameworks to students in the fields of urban tourism and tourism cities. The Handbook will be of interest to scholars and students working in urban tourism, heritage studies, human geography, urban studies and urban planning, sociology, psychology and business studies.