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- Cassinger, Cecilia, et al.
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The Nordic wave in place branding : A manifesto
- 2019
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In: The Nordic wave in place branding : poetics, practices, politics - poetics, practices, politics. - 978 1 78897 431 8 ; , s. 236-236
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- Andersson Cederholm, Erika, et al.
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The Service Triad: Modelling Dialectic Tensions in Service Encounters
- 2010
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In: Service Industries Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0264-2069 .- 1743-9507. ; 30:2, s. 265-280
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- SUMMARY: Models of service encounters are often fraught by reductionism, describing business relationships as mathematical combinations of dyadic constellations. Metaphors of ideal social relationships (marriages or friendships) are highlighted to stress normative aspects of equal, balanced and long-term business partnerships. However, these approaches are limited in their analytical sensitivity, as they cannot address the complexity of multipart relationships, where meanings, roles and relationships are continuously constructed and reconstructed. In order to understand the ambivalent quality of business interactions, this article analyses the corporate travel market by applying Georg Simmel’s depiction of the triad as a specific social form. Triadic constellations and more complex service networks involve dialectic tensions, simultaneously exhibiting loyalty and disloyalty, trust and distrust, empowerment and disempowerment. It is argued that a qualitative methodology is more adequate approach to grasp such dynamic and contextual social realities, because (opposed to a quantitative approach) it is not confined to operate with mutually exclusive analytical categories.
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- Andersson Cederholm, Erika, et al.
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Tjänstens triad: Från ömsesidig harmoni till dialektisk spänning i tjänstemöten
- 2005
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In: Servicemötet - Multidisciplinära öppningar. - 9147075988 ; , s. 47-63
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Models of service encounters are often fraught by reductionism, describing business relationships as mathematical combinations of dyadic constellations. Metaphors of ideal social relationships (marriages or friendships) are highlighted to stress normative aspects of equal, balanced and long-term business partnerships. However, these approaches are limited in their analytical sensitivity, as they cannot address the complexity of multipart relationships, where meanings, roles and relationships are continuously constructed and reconstructed. In order to understand the ambivalent quality of business interactions, this article analyses the corporate travel market by applying Georg Simmel’s depiction of the triad as a specific social form. Triadic constellations and more complex service networks involve dialectic tensions, simultaneously exhibiting for example loyalty and disloyalty, trust and distrust, empowerment and disempowerment. It is argued that a qualitative methodology is more adequate approach to grasp such dynamic and contextual social realities, because (opposed to a quantitative approach) it is not confined to operate with mutually exclusive analytical categories.
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- Cassinger, Cecilia, et al.
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20 Years of Nordic Place Branding Research : A Review and Future Research Agenda
- 2021
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1502-2250 .- 1502-2269. ; 21:1, s. 70-77
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the past 20 years, the Nordic region has fostered a distinct place branding scholarship and practice. This paper briefly revisits hallmark contributions that founded and shaped Nordic place branding and argues that by today, the Nordic approach earned widespread international acknowledgement. The Nordic region offers more than a regional context of place branding; its cultural and geo-political idiosyncrasies greatly affect the axiological position of place branding research. By positioning Nordic place branding research on the global scene, the paper outlines the contours of a hybrid scholarly approach (the Nordic wave), which bridges across managerial and critical schools of branding and promotes a more extroverted knowledge collaboration with branding practitioners. The paper concludes with discussing the potential the NordicWave for future place branding endeavours.
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- Cassinger, Cecilia, et al.
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Consuming place, contesting spatial imaginaries
- 2020
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In: Research in Consumer Culture Theory. ; 3
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The last few years has seen the emergence of anti-consumption narratives (Chatzidakis and Lee, 2012; Cherrier, 2009), which contest the marketisation of places, and the way that property and space are currently organised by their exchange values, rather than use values (cf. Visconti et al., 2010). Anti-consumption acts disrupt key social imaginaries of places and are apparent in demonstrations and protests around the world related to macro societal issues, such as globalisation, climate crisis, migration, overtourism, and social inequalities (see Colomb and Novy, 2016). Such narratives do not only challenge the intensified commodification of space, but also the way that “socialities, subjectivities and spatialities are constituted in space” (Mansvelt, 2005, xvi). This special session extends previous research in consumer culture theory on how anti-consumption acts challenge established imaginaries of place (Chatzidakis et al., 2012; Chatzidakis and Lee, 2012; Visconti et al., 2010) by focusing on the performativity of spatial imaginaries. Spatial imaginaries are here thought of as collectively shared performative discourses that intervene and shape social reality via embodied, material practices (Watkins, 2015; Butler, 1993). The aim of the session is to examine spatial imaginaries that contest conventional strategies of organising places according to a consumerist logic for increased economic growth. The session focuses on spatial imaginaries that challenge the spatial status quo and provoke new ideas of what it means to inhabit places. Each of the three papers in the special session address the logics and consequences of spatial imaginaries for the practices and organisation of place in various ways. The first paper investigates how consumerist imaginaries of urban space are symbolically and materially reconsidered in citizens’ protests acts against the bourgeoning touristification of inner cities in Europe. Informed by a relational and material understanding of space and theories on the public sphere, the temporalities and spatialities of public protests are analysed as ways of re-gaining the lifeworld from the material and expressive colonialization of tourism-consumption. It is argued that in order to preserve the public sphere, urban governing strategies are shifting focus from spatial imaginaries of consumerism to imaginaries of the lived city of dwellers. The second paper problematizes the affective resonance and intensities of urban crowds, by exploring the role of individuals’ moods (anxiety, apathy, stress, rage and boredom) in enhancing or disturbing spatial atmospheres. It argues that diverse co-located and intersecting mobility practices create affective intensities that simultaneously carry the potential of the urban buzz and the risk of coalescing into enduring anomalies in spatial imaginaries. But where might spatial reimaginings take us? The third paper addresses this question with the concept of ’fourth space’ as a virtual space of ’possible places’. Virtual spaces are understood as a plethora of ‘possible spaces’, where it is possible to foresee alternative futures and inhabit revolutionary imaginaries.
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- Cassinger, Cecilia, et al.
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Finding and making place in consumer culture theory research
- 2023
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We challenge extant conceptualizations of place as a context or object of consumption. In contrast to essentialist notions of commercial scapes and contested imaginaries, we bring forth a critical relational ontology and the concept of “dialectical utopianism” to advance discussions on place in CCT research.
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- Cassinger, Cecilia, et al.
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Guest editorial
- 2021
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In: Journal of Place Management and Development. - 1753-8335. ; 14:3, s. 257-261
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- Cassinger, Cecilia, et al.
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Introduction to the special issue: Nordic perspectives on place branding
- 2021
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In: Journal of Place Management and Development. - 1753-8335. ; 14:3
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Purpose This special issue on Nordic perspectives on place branding aims at developing research on the practices and processes of mobilising the Nordics in place branding in order to achieve cultural, commercial and diplomatic ends.Design/methodology/approachThe Nordic perspective goes beyond regionalist schools of global marketing scholarship. While regionalist perspectives give an insight into fruitful distinction tactics in international contexts, their lens of ‘radical particularism’ diverts attention away from more hybrid and geopolitically attentive branding endeavours. Hence, instead of attempting to simply portray the essence of Nordic place branding as a top-down positioning device, the ambition of this special issue is to understand how the cultural narrative of the Nordic is mobilised as a result of networked and participatory practices across multiple stakeholders.FindingsThe papers collated in this volume address different aspects of Nordic place branding. They share the notion of the Nordic as a cultural narrative that should be studied ’in the making’ via an engaged type of scholarship driven by therapeutic and diagnostic knowledge objectives, as opposed to technical or emancipatory intents. OriginalityLike any regionalist perspective, Nordic place branding manifests symbolic and material boundaries of exclusion and inclusion, involving ideological struggles and contestations. The special issue highlights the dialectical tensions inherent in the Nordic perspective between dismantling the old mythologies, symbols, and ideologies, and using them in branding efforts to differentiate the region.
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- Cassinger, Cecilia, et al.
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Place branding: A Nordic perspective
- 2018
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper examines the Nordic as an ideological, cultural, and geographical site from which to examine place branding. Although a number of studies have addressed Nordic place brands and branding, the peculiarity of branding within the Nordic welfare states remains understudied (Lucarelli et al., forthcoming 2019). The unusual open access to the field of practice granted to researchers (at least compared to Anglo-Saxon and European standard), and the particular political, institutional, cultural environment of the Nordic has not fully been unpacked. The limited scope of previous studies on place branding paired with a widespread international interest for the “Nordic” as both a geographical place, moral orientation, and (normative) discourse calls for more research into the global relevance of Nordic place branding. The Nordic is thus not confined to a region, but is approached as an idea that travels across the world. The literature on Nordic place branding is emergent and deals with disparate themes such as conceptual issues (Andersson, 2014; Niedomysl & Jonasson, 2012), nation branding (Ren & Gyimóthy, 2013; Cassinger et al. 2016), regional branding (Syssner, 2009; Wæraas et al., 2015), and city branding (Lucarelli & Berg, 2011). The present study offers a focused reading across different approaches and empirical fields in order to explore the peculiarity of Nordic place branding. The Nordic is here addressed as an ideological orientation and a cultural construct, as well as an empirical context from which to explore place branding practices and theories. In particular, the Nordic research tradition is argued to be suited to push critical, but hence far not sufficiently explored, issues in place branding, such as feminism, bio-ethics, sustainability, and social justice. It is further suggested that from a Nordic perspective place branding is characterised by processes of depoliticization, consensus, collaboration, and transparency. These peculiarities may be used for building theories and developing methods, which can be extended to the Anglo-Saxon and European field of research and practice.
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- Cassinger, Cecilia, et al.
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Sharing brand ideologies
- 2019
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The concept of sharing is commonly employed in brand narratives of platform-based start-ups to recruit users. This paper examines sharing as a brand ideology and how it is enacted by companies in the startup phase of business. As the sharing start-ups’ business model is dependent on transaction fees generated on the platforms, traction (i.e. a high volume of users) is critical for success. By analyzing commonalities in two failed attempts of generating traction for two sharing platforms for adventure tourism in Scandinavia, the study reveals some of the risks of adopting mainstream ideologies for startup brands. The findings demonstrate how the ideology of sharing startup brands aims at positioning itself opposite to traditional business logic, by emphasizing utopian social ideals of community, whilst at the same time adhering to ideals of a radically free market economy. Contradictory values are used to differentiate sharing businesses and give them a – perhaps - deeper meaning. Ideological components such as community, anti-consumerism, and sustainability are used to reconfigure precarious contract labor as self-fulfillment and individual choice. It is argued that this fuzzy ideology is not transferable to all platform-based startup brands and that the lure of sharing needs to be treated with caution.
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- Cassinger, Cecilia, et al.
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Sharing brand ideologies : A cultural analysis of startup brand failure
- 2019
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The concept of sharing is commonly employed in brand narratives of platform-based start-ups to recruit users. This paper examines sharing as a brand ideology and how it is enacted by companies in the startup phase of business. As the sharing start-ups’ business model is dependent on transaction fees generated on the platforms, traction (i.e. a high volume of users) is critical for success. By analyzing commonalities in two failed attempts of generating traction for two sharing platforms for adventure tourism in Scandinavia, the study reveals some of the risks of adopting mainstream ideologies for startup brands. The findings demonstrate how the ideology of sharing startup brands aims at positioning itself opposite to traditional business logic, by emphasizing utopian social ideals of community, whilst at the same time adhering to ideals of a radically free market economy. Contradictory values are used to differentiate sharing businesses and give them a – perhaps - deeper meaning. Ideological components such as community, anti-consumerism, and sustainability are used to reconfigure precarious contract labor as self-fulfillment and individual choice. It is argued that this fuzzy ideology is not transferable to all platform-based startup brands and that the lure of sharing needs to be treated with caution.
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- Cassinger, Cecilia, et al.
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The Nordic wave in place branding: global implications and relevance
- 2021
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In: A Research Agenda for Place Branding. - 978 1 83910 284 4 ; , s. 117-130
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter is concerned with the Nordic region as a context fostering a distinct place branding scholarship and practice. The endeavour goes beyond demonstrating particular practices or significance of branding phenomena in this region. Rather, the aim is to compile and structure a growing body of research dealing with Nordic place branding and assess its global relevance and academic implications. The Nordic is approached, not only as a geographical context of place branding, but also as an approach – an ideological mindset – that shape place branding concepts, strategies and tactics. Boldly put, the Nordic wave is proposed as a hybrid scholarly approach, which bridges across managerial and critical schools as well as sensitively engages with place branding practitioners. It is argued that these distinct features allow the Nordic wave in place branding to travel across geo-political and scholarly boundaries, and carry the potential of expanding place branding research and practices on an international scale.
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- Eksell, Jörgen, et al.
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A Nordic perspective on supranational place branding
- 2019
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In: The Nordic wave in place branding: poetics, practices, politics. - 9781788974318 ; , s. 25-38
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The chapter concerns the supranational place branding by the Nordic countries. Earlier studies highlighlight the obstacles in supranational place branding initatives and the challanges for involved stakeholders’ to agree as geographical size and complexity increases. The branding initiative of the Nordic countries, executed by the Nordic Council of Ministers, represents a rare example of a group of nations that have agreed on a strategy. The purpose of the chapter is to develop knowledge on place branding by exploring significant antecedents and factors of the creation of the Nordic supranational place branding strategy. The analysis highlights the importance of the two-hundred years of interregional peace and established long-term political collaboration in official organs. Furthermore, the anlysis points to the significance of the heightened international interest in ‘Nordic’ culture, lifestyle, cuisine and politics. In addition, the analysis conveys a picture of a brand work that allowed the distinctive features of each country to present itself in both the supranational place branding strategy and the nation branding of the respective countries. Hence, the negotiation process and the strategy work can be characterized as productive, inclusive and pragmatic. Lastly, the study points to the importance of using a holistic perspective on the political governance context in supranational place branding initiatives including historical, cultural and societal antecedents, internal and external understanding of the countries, as well as contemporary contextual factors.
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- Gyimothy, Szilvia
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Book Review
- 2006
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In: Tourism Review International. - 1943-4421. ; 11:1
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- Gyimothy, Szilvia
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Manufacturing Nostalgia
- 2005
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In: Hospitality Review. ; 7:3, s. 38-46
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- Gyimothy, Szilvia, et al.
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Play in Adventure Tourism
- 2004
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In: Annals of Tourism Research. - 1873-7722. ; 31:4, s. 855-878
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper discusses narratives of polar adventure tourism from a multidisciplinary perspective of play. Reviewing discussions on the motivation behind this subject, it examines two concurrent approaches in particular: risk and insight theories. Based on empirical evidence obtained from a winter trekking trip to an Artic tourism destination, the paper argues that these theories may be particular components of adult play. The interplay among risk, insight seeking, and play is explored in this paper with a particular emphasis being placed on the competence, materiality, and bodily techniques demonstrated by Arctic adventure tourists.
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- Gyimóthy, Szilvia, et al.
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Popcultural tourism: A research manifesto
- 2013
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In: Celebrating and enhancing the tourism knowledge-based platform: A tribute to Jafar Jafari, Palma de Mallorca October 23-25 2013.
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- Gyimóthy, Szilvia, et al.
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Popculture tourism : A research manifesto
- 2015
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In: Tourism Research Frontiers. - Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9781783509935 - 9781783509942 ; 20, s. 13-26
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Tourism in the wake of films, literature, and music is gaining interest among academics and practitioners alike. Despite the significance of converging tourism and media production and popcultural consumption, theorizing in this field is weak. This chapter explores complex relationships among popcultural phenomena, destination image creation, and tourism consumption. By taking a broader social science approach, it revisits and connects research themes, such as symbolic consumption, negotiated representations, fans and fandom, technology mediation, and media convergence. The chapter concludes with an integrative model, or "popcultural placemaking loop," which is qualified through six propositions. Copyright © 2015 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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- Gyimóthy, Szilvia, et al.
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Social media cocreation strategies : The 3Cs
- 2015
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In: Event Management. - : Cognizant Communication Corporation. - 1525-9951 .- 1943-4308. ; 19:3, s. 331-348
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores how social media becomes a part of integrated marketing communications of festival organizations. The purpose of this article is to conceptualize the cocreation of festival experiences online by comparing managerial strategies and communicative patterns of three large Scandinavian music festivals: Storsjöyran, Way Out West (Sweden), and Roskilde Festival (Denmark). The theoretical point of departure is taken in the literature on consumer-producer cocreation, originating from recent conceptualizations of the service-dominant logic and a tribal perspective on consumption. Based on the empirical findings, we propose an analytical framework to improve our understanding of the management of social media communications, offering three distinct value cocreation strategies in a festival context. © 2015 Cognizant Comm. Corp.
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- Ioannides, Dimitri, Professor of Human Geography, 1961-, et al.
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From liminal labor to decentwork : A human-centered perspective on sustainable tourism employment
- 2021
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In: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 13:2
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In its sustainable tourism agenda for 2030, the UN World Tourism Organization has embraced three United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. One of these, specifically SDG 8, highlights the need to pursue decent work and growth. Nevertheless, despite the growing recognition of this target and although there is a growing number of writings lamenting the precarity characterizing many tourism-related jobs, the topic of tourism-related work continues to receive sparse attention in the considerable volume of academic literature on tourism and sustainability. This paper attempts to redress this neglect. First, by providing a review of extant studies on tourism labor, we seek to explain why this research lacuna continues to exist. We then examine organizational and technological aspects of tourism governance, which hinder attempts to establish decent work and improve dignity in the tourism industry worldwide. By acknowledging the volatile and liminal status of tourism work and future labor market prospects, we arrive at the following question: what should sustainable tourism work look like? This leads us to suggest that the development of a human-centered research agenda, which focuses on workers’ agency and resources, offers a promising research avenue for expanding on the tourism and sustainability research agenda.
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- Ioannides, Dimitri, Professor of Human Geography, 1961-, et al.
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The COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity for escaping the unsustainable global tourism path
- 2020
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In: Tourism Geographies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1461-6688 .- 1470-1340. ; 22:3, s. 624-632
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The COVID-19 pandemic has halted mobility globally on an unprecedented scale, causing the neoliberal market mechanisms of global tourism to be severely disrupted. In turn, this situation is leading to the decline of certain mainstream business formats and, simultaneously, the emergence of others. Based on a review of recent crisis recovery processes, the tourism sector is likely to rebound from this sudden market shock, primarily because of various forms of government interventions. Nevertheless, although policymakers seek to strengthen the resilience of post-pandemic tourism, their subsidies and other initiatives serve to maintain a fundamentally flawed market logic. The crisis has, therefore, brought us to a fork in the road–giving us the perfect opportunity to select a new direction and move forward by adopting a more sustainable path. Specifically, COVID-19 offers public, private, and academic actors a unique opportunity to design and consolidate the transition towards a greener and more balanced tourism. Tourism scholars, for example, can take a leading role in this by redesigning their curriculum to prepare future industry leaders for a more responsible travel and tourism experience.
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- Larson, Mia, et al.
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Collaboration Deficiencies in Meetings Networks : Case-studies of Two Peri-urban Destinations
- 2013
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In: Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1940-7963 .- 1940-7971. ; 5:1, s. 62-80
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The intention of this article is to understand inter-organizational collaboration in a meeting destination context and explain the failure of such collaborative networks. We demonstrate how meeting tourism actors in two smaller Scandinavian cities fail to form long-term collaborations. Major players and organizations in the destination promotion triads [Sheehan, L., Ritchie, J.R.B., & Hudson, S. (2007). The destination promotion triad: Understanding asymmetric stakeholder interdependencies among the city, hotels, and DMO. Journal of Travel Research, 46(1), 64–74] were interviewed in order to map cooperative activities, intentions or latent tensions among these. Based on a constructivist framework of network analysis, we identified the lack of convenor legitimacy and low levels of trust and commitment as reasons for collaboration deficiencies. The findings contribute to Larson's [(2009). Joint event production in the jungle, the park, and the garden: Metaphors of event networks. Tourism Management, 30(3), 393–399] model of event networks, identifying yet another metaphor – the desert – illustrating a network consisting of loosely coupled actors that co-exist but do not interact. The findings also indicate that collaborative dynamics may follow cyclical loops, entailing shifts between turbulence and stability over time.
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- Larson, Mia, et al.
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The changing role of airports in the meetings industry
- 2009
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In: The Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) - 18th International Research Conference. - : Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet.
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- Lichrou, Maria, et al.
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Roundtable: Critical inquiries into places of consumption and consumption in places
- 2020
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In: Research in Consumer Culture Theory. ; 3
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A growing body of consumer culture theory (CCT) research has pointed to the way that places are increasingly conceptualised and commodified as brands and consumption objects (Lichrou et al., 2008; Giovanardi et al., 2018). Research has explored consumers’ experiences with different kinds of spaces and places, including retail settings (e.g. Penaloza, 1998; Kozinets et al., 2004; Maclaran & Brown, 2005), natural and cultural attractions (e.g. Arnould and Price, 1993; Chronis et al., 2012), public (e.g. Visconti et al., 2010; Chatzidakis et al., 2012; O’Leary et al., 2019) and private places (e.g. Costa, 1989; Hirschmann et al., 2012) and virtual spaces (e.g. Denegri-Knott & Molesworth, 2010). Earlier accounts almost entirely focused on compartmentalised spaces and commercial arenas as containers of consumption, but more recent research examine the mutual constituency of consumption and space. For example, attention has turned to the interplay between consumers’ embodied spatial practices and the construction of place and space (Lucarelli & Giovanardi, 2016; O’Leary et al., 2019). However, further consideration of how consumer imaginaries and practices produce and transform places is called for (cf. Chatzidakis et al., 2018; Chatzidakis et al., 2012). Moreover, more consideration should be given to critical perspectives on the relational construction of consumption space.Places around the globe are currently reimagined as spaces of consumption (Miles, 2010, Massey, 2005), where sensations, dreams and play are mobilised with the sole aim of creating profit (Amin & Thrift, 2002). These processes often transform places into commodified and exlusionary spaces that can be detrimental for those living in them (Kearns & Philo, 1993, Lichrou et al., 2014; Kavaratzis et al., 2017). The commodifying logic of the economic politics of places diminishes the spaces where people lead their everyday life, make decisions, and cope with things other than the purely economic (Habermas, 1987). Such spaces are, as De Certeau (1984, 87) puts it, “haunted by countless ghosts that lurk there in silence to be “evoked” or not”. Yet, places are important sites of human activities beyond the commercial realm. The mobility of global capital, investments and growing volumes of international visitors and migrant labour have put these livehoods under multiple spatial and social pressures (ranging from crowding and environmental degradation to gentrification, and displacement), which has fuelled the upscaling of responsible or political consumerism and morally conscious policy agendas.This roundtable discussion brings together researchers representing different critical perspectives on place consumption. The aim is to provide an opportunity to talk about the meaning and implications of critical theory for the conceptualisation, analysis and collection of data regarding consumption in and of place (Chatzidakis et al., 2018) on multiple scales, ranging from micro-level practices to macro-level perspectives. More specifically, the discussion focuses on the conjunction of commodified and lived space, as well as on the complexities and social imaginaries arising in shared spaces. By virtue of the critical inquiry, the aim is to identify the empirical potential and conceptual possibilities embedded in such hybrid spaces, with regard to sustainable and inclusive place consumption and governance.
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- Munar, Ana María, et al.
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The Gender Gap in the Tourism Academy : Statistics and Indicators of Gender Equality
- 2015
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This study is part of an ongoing research project entitled “While Waiting for the Dawn,” which explores the role that gender plays in the lives of women scholars and students in the tourism academy. This report maps gender equality in the tourism academy through a series of key indicators that reflect leadership in the field. These indicators include editorial positions in journals, positions on conference committees, and keynote speakers, among others. Results clearly show a gender gap within the tourism academy and an imbalance in the influence of women and men in key leadership roles, and suggest that tourism scholarship mirrors the patriarchal structures that characterize the global academy. Gender imbalances are not self‐correcting, and proactive policies and initiatives need to be implemented to tackle the gender gap and to avoid the perpetuation of unequal opportunities. We hope this report will help to raise awareness and contribute to creating a more just academy, where women have equal opportunities to shape the present and the future of tourism scholarship.
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