• Political Influences on the Use of Research Evidence in Sport & Tourism by Mike Weed

• High (on) Technology: Producing Tourist Identities through Technologized Adventure by Ida E. Berger; Itay Greenspan

• Sport Tourism on the Islands: The Impact of an International Mega Golf Event by Charles C. Lim; Ian Patterson

• Birthplace of Baseball or Village of Museums? The Packaging of Heritage Tourism in Cooperstown, New York by David A. Fyfe

• 16th EASM Conference - Bayreuth and Heidelberg in 2008 10th-13th September by Holger Preuss

• Special Issue on Sustainability in Sport & Tourism by Holger Preuss

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• A Comparison of Student and Practitioner Perspectives of the Travel and Tourism Internship by Brent Beggs, Craig M. Ross and Bryan Goodwin

• Chasing the ‘Fat’ - Chasing a ‘Fad’? The Waxing and Waning of Tourism and Tourism-Related Programmes in Australian Higher Education by Dirk H.R. Spennemann and Rosemary Black

• Internationalisation in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Higher Education: A Call for Further Reflexivity in Curriculum Development by Fiona Jordan

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• Examining the structural relationships of destination image, tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty: An integrated approach by Christina Geng-Qing Chi and Hailin Qu

• Place attachment, identity and community impacts of tourism—the case of a Beijing hutong by Huimin Gu and Chris Ryan

• Creative destruction and the water town of Luzhi, China by Chennan (Nancy) Fan, Geoffrey Wall and Clare J.A. Mitchell

• Perceptions of organizational structure in the hospitality industry: Consequences for commitment, job satisfaction and perceived performance by Torvald Øgaard, Einar Marnburg og Svein Larsen

• Selective marketing for environmentally sustainable tourism by Sara Dolnicar and Friedrich Leisch

• Resident perception of the impact of limited-stakes community-based casino gaming in mature gaming communities by Soo K. Kang, Choong-Ki Lee, Yooshik Yoon and Patrick T. Long

• Developing indicators for managing tourism in the face of peak oil by Susanne Becken

• Developing a multidimensional and hierarchical service quality model for the travel agency industry by Laura Martínez Caro and Jose Antonio Martínez García

• Testing take-up of academic concepts in an influential commercial tourism publication by Ralf Buckley

• Tourism and conservation: The effects of track proximity on avian reproductive success and nest selection in an open sanctuary by Karen Lindsay, John Craig and Matthew Low

• Sensation seeking and tourism: Tourist role, perception of risk and destination choice by Andrew Lepp and Heather Gibson

• The relative importance of large mammal species for tourism in Amboseli National Park, Kenya by Moses Makonjio Okello, Stephanie Grace Manka and Danielle E. D’Amour

• Financial portfolio approach to optimal tourist market mixes by SooCheong (Shawn) Jang and Ming-Hsiang Chen

• Estimating fishing and hunting leisure spending shares in the United States by Abdulbaki Bilgic, Wojciech J. Florkowski, Jonathan Yoder and Dean F. Schreiner

• HRD in tourism: A role for government? by Tom Baum and Edith Szivas

• Robust and alternative estimators for “better” estimates for expenditures and other “long tail” distributions by Tzung-Cheng Huan, Jay Beaman, Liang-Han Chang and Shih-Yun Hsu

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• Exploring the Relationship Between Hotel Renovation and Hotel Inspection by Ahmed Hassanien

• The Impact of Self-Efficacy on Job Outcomes of Hotel Employees: Evidence from Northern Cyprus by Osman M Karatepe, Huseyin Arasli and Abdulrahim Khan

• Management Accounting in the Hotel Business: The Case of the Greek Hotel Industry by Georgios Makrigiannakis and Marios Soteriades

• Risk-Adjusted STOCK Performance: A Cross-Sector Analysis of Hospitality Firms in the Recent Economic Downturn by Zhenxing Mao and Zheng Gu

• A Proposed Research Agenda for the Refinement of the High Performance Work System Construct in the U.S. Restaurant Industry by Kevin Murphy, Robin B DiPietro and Suzanne Murrmann

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• ‘Power to the paddlers’? The internet, governance and discipline by Paul Gilchrist and Neil Ravenscroft

• The carnival goes on and on! Children’s perceptions of their leisure time and play in SFO by Maria Øksnes

• Triathlon, suffering and exciting significance by Michael Atkinson

• Evolution and implications of a paradigm shift in the marketing of leisure services in the USA by John L. Crompton

• New meaning for the emotional state of the elderly, from a leisure standpoint by Gisele Maria Schwartz and Jossett Campagna

• On using concept-maps to study school-children’s understanding of leisure-time by Peter Edward Gill and Mariann Persson

• The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail: myths of scientific racism and the pursuit of excellence in sport by Karl Spracklen

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• Visa-free Travel Privileges: An Exploratory Geographical Analysis by Brendan Whyte

• Tourism Politics in Lijiang, China: An Analysis of State and Local Interactions in Tourism Development by Xiaobo Su and Peggy Teo

• Second-home Landscape: The Meaning(s) of Landscape for Second-home Tourism in Finnish Lakeland by Kati Pitkänen

• Border Tourism in Israel: Conflict, Peace, Fear and Hope by Alon Gelbman

• Mapping and Analysing Local Tourism Systems in Italy, 1991-2001 by Luciana Lazzeretti and Francesco Capone

• GIS-based Modelling of Recreational Potential of Nature-Based Tourist Destinations by Prem Chhetri and Colin Arrowsmith

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• Ethnicity, Heritage, and Visitor Attractions: Singapore’s Taman Warisan Melayu by Joan Henderson

• “I Decided to Invest in My Kids’ Memories”: Family Vacations, Memories, and the Social Construction of the Family by Susan M. Shaw, Msrk E. Havitz, and Fern M. Delemere

• Novel Insights into the Identity Changes among Backpackers by Philip L. Pearce and Darya Maoz

• Farewell Countercultural Wanderer? Dress and Styles in South Asian Backpacking by Petri Hottola

• Tourism in the Middle East by Malcolm Cooper

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• Festivals and Events: Beyond Economic Impacts by Jack Carlsen, Martin Robertson and Jane Ali-Knight

• Access—A Research Agenda for Edinburgh Festivals by Jack Carlsen, Jane Ali-Knight and Martin Robertson

• Managing Special Events in the New Era of the Triple Bottom Line by Anne-Marie Hede

• Analyzing the Role of Festivals and Events in Regional Development by Gianna Moscardo

• Culture and Authenticity in a Traditional Event: The Views of Producers, Residents, and Visitors in Barcelona by Greg Richards

• Social Dimensions of Community Festivals: An Application of Factor Analysis in the Development of the Social Impact Perception (SIP) Scale by Katie Small

• Traditional Scottish Music Events: Native Scots Attendance Motivations by Leigh-Ann McMorland and Deirdre Mactaggart

• Knowledge Mapping for Safe Festivals and Events: An Ontological Approach by Neha Singh, Pradeep Racherla and Clark Hu

• Events Framed by the Mass Media: Media Coverage and Effects of America’s Cup Preregatta in Sweden by Jesper Falkheimer

• Identifying Social Consequences of Rural Events by Sacha Reid

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• Influential factors and relational structure of Internet banner advertising in the tourism industry by Shwu-Ing Wu, Pao-Lien Wei and Jui-Ho Chen

• Why ‘the tourism industry’ is misleading as a generic expression: The case for the plural variation, ‘tourism industries’ by Neil Leiper

• Tourism strategy making: Insights to the events tourism domain by Robyn Stokes

• Exploring the cognitive–affective nature of destination image and the role of psychological factors in its formation by Héctor San Martín and Ignacio A. Rodríguez del Bosque

• A systematic comparison of first-time and repeat visitors via a two-phase online survey by Xiang (Robert) Li, Chia-Kuen Cheng, Hyounggon Kim and James F. Petrick

• Destination competitiveness—Applying different models, the case of Slovenia by Doris Omerzel Gomezelj and Tanja Mihalič

• Tourism development of World Heritage Sites in China: A geographic perspective by Mimi Li, Bihu Wu and Liping Cai

• A factorial validation of work value structure: Second-order confirmatory factor analysis and its implications by Kay Hei-Lin Chu

• Attendee-based brand equity by Jin-Soo Lee and Ki-Joon Back

• Individual attitudes and organisational knowledge sharing by Jen-te Yang

• A typology of photographic representations for tourism: Depictions of groomed spaces by William Cannon Hunter

• Knowledge management in the hospitality industry: A review of empirical research by Carina Antonia Hallin and Einar Marnburg

• Is the Turkish tourism industry ready for a disabled customer’s market?: The views of hotel and travel agency managers by Yuksel Ozturk, Ali Yayli and Mehmet Yesiltas
  
  

• Gender — a Crucial Neglected Element in the Service Encounter: An Exploratory Study of the Choice of Hotel Masseur or Masseuse by Yaniv Poria

• Portuguese Charter Tourists to Long-Haul Destinations: A Travel Motive Segmentation by Antónia Correia, João Albino Silva, and Cláudia Moço

• Perceived Clientelism: Effects On Residents’ Evaluation of Municipal Services and Their Intentions for Participation in Tourism Development Projects by Fisun Yuksel and Atila Yuksel

• The Interactive Effect of Market Competition and Use of MAS Information on Performance: Evidence From the Upscale Hotels by Anoop Patiar and Lokman Mia

• Multidimensional Customer-Based Brand Equity and Its Consequences in Midpriced Hotels by Woo Gon Kim, Bongran Jin-Sun, and Hyun Jeong Kim

• Examination of Various Financial Risk Measures for Lodging Firms by Seoki Lee

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