Programme

Please find below the programme for the 2nd International Symposium.

08:30

Registration Opens (David Goldman Informatics Centre)

09:00-09:10

Welcome

09:10-10:40

Session with Keynote Speakers

Prof Adele Ladkin: Sustainable tourism destinations: A human resources perspective

Prof. Alexandros Paraskevas: Black, Grey or White, they are all Swans! What’s the next Crisis in your Radar?

10:40-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:00

1st Paper Presentation Session

David Goldman: Room 107

Ian Yeoman, Una McMahon-Beattie, Katherine Findlay, Sandra Goh, Sophea Tieng & Sochea Nhem

Wellington on a plate: The future of food festivals

Helen Willis

An Analysis of Social Media in the context of Live Music Experience

Angela Eva Szemcsuk & Nicole Mitsche

The family decision making process and the adjoined experience for events

David Goldman: Room 108

Tom Mordue

Tourist Acceptance and Local Resistance to On-shore Wind Farms in a UK rural setting

Pavlos Arvanitis

Southampton as a cruise home port tourism destination

Stephanie Preston

Exploring the influence of work environment on the relationship between HRM and employee wellbeing and performance in the airline industry

David Goldman: Room 109

Kwan Keung (Steven) Ng, Francis Chiang, Karen K.Y. Lee, & Hector Rivera III

A survey on the travel experience of Mainland China students in Hong Kong

Ivan Ka-Wai Lai, & Kwan-Keung (Steven) Ng

The effect of destination image on destination brand equity of a gaming city: Gaming tourists vs non-gaming tourists in Macau

Velmurugan Pasupathi & B. George

A quality assessment study on east coast road in Tamil Nadu, India

12:10-13:10

2nd Paper Presentation Session

David Goldman: Room 107

Serkan Uzunogullari, Sharon Wilson & James Johnson

Not the Blue Mosque. Where would you like to take me?’ Destination Branding through the narratives of taxi drivers in Istanbul

Agnes Salajczyk & Richard Sharpley

Body Worlds: A Project of Happiness?

Hany Awad

The tour guides’ role as brokers of authentic, rather than ready-made, experiences

David Goldman: Room 108

Tam Nguyen Minh & Ilenia Bregoli

Measuring the interrelationships of events, destination image, destination satisfaction and destination loyalty: Observations from Lincoln, United Kingdom

Jo Guiver, Kate Torkington, & Davina Stanford

European Tourism Plans: Growth and Sustainability

 Julio Munoz, Tom Griffin & Michael Humbracht

Towards a new definition for “visiting friends and relatives”

David Goldman: Room 109

Theoharis Gkougkoulitsas & Eftychia Kasapi

Sports science and tourism development. A critical analysis of hospitality from Brazil Mundial 2014 and the Olympic Games 2016

Theoharis Gkougkoulitsas & M. Manou

Tourism marketing strategy for Naxos Island in Greece

Omer Coban

A Green Event: Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary (BIFED)

13:10-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-15:00

3rd Paper Presentation Session

David Goldman: Room 107

Liz Sharples

Riding on a Crest of a Wave: Customer Experience Management in the Pre-consumption Phase of Cruise Tourism

Dirisa Mulindwa

Street food in Uganda: Analysing the ‘Rolex’ from a Transformative Social Innovation Perspective

Lynne Hall, Tom Flint & Nicole Mitsche

Expanding the child visitor experience: mixing realities in a contemporary sculpture park

David Goldman: Room 108

Minoo H. Esfehani & Melville Saayman

Typology of Sustainable Tourism Events in National Parks

Juan Pedro Aznar, Josep Maria Sayeras Maspera & Xavier Quer

Aribnb and hotel industry competition. A Game Theory approach based on quality investment and prices

Margaret Chui

To explore the effectiveness of digital and experiential marketing to attract customer participation to the Wine and Dine Festival in Hong Kong

David Goldman: Room 109

Stavros Siderakis

The impacts of recession on Greeks’ attendance at Mega events and the extent that economic vulnerability affects their decision-making

Luiz Cezar Coelho Souto de Araujo

The entry into the labor market of the professional in Gastronomy

15:00-15:20

Coffee Break

15:20-16:00

4th Paper Presentation Session

David Goldman: Room 107

Ayhan Kapusuzoglu & Nildag Basak Ceylan

The relationship among tourism revenue, tourism expenditure, number of tourist arrivals and Borsa Istanbul tourism index: evidence from Turkey

Briony Sharp

Sport event volunteering: Exploring tourism motivations amongst Glasgow 2018 European Championships volunteers

David Goldman: Room 108

Nanthakumar Loganathan, Norsiah Ahmad & Roshaiza Taha

Exchange rate, price competitiveness and taxation on tourism demand in Malaysia: Quantile regression approach

Josep Maria Sayeras Maspera & Juan Pedro Aznar

The Cuban restaurant industry:  Where tourist want to go and what they want to eat?

16:00-16:15

Closing session

 

Delegates are invited to participate in drinks/food after the symposium at the ‘Poetic Licence’ bar. Please note that the cost of this is not included in the symposium fees.