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Queensland University of Technology
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Automotive mechatronics and autonomous systems | Human-centred computing | Human-computer interaction
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-03-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-05-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-04-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-01-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-03-2017
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Date: 14-06-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-10-2017
Abstract: Tourism doctoral dissertations have grown exponentially in recent years. Despite this, there have been limited studies which examine the contribution of specific disciplines to tourism doctoral research over time. Subsequently, this article explores the theories, concepts and methods employed in tourism doctoral dissertations informed by the foundation disciplines of anthropology and sociology. Drawing on a database of 2155 dissertations from four countries, findings revealed exponential growth in doctoral theses grounded in anthropology and sociology between 1969 and 2013. The United States is the primary location for tourism doctoral theses informed by anthropology and sociology, with the University of California as the leading institution. Analysis revealed identity theory was the predominant theory, with socio-cultural change, ethnicity and culture core concepts. Results also showed an increase in qualitative and mixed-methods research. Future research should examine tourism doctoral theses housed in other disciplines, drawing inferences for future scholarly inquiry.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 26-03-2018
DOI: 10.3390/SU10040968
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-0002
Abstract: This article investigates the impact of tourism arrivals on a host country’s output gap, defined as the difference between actual gross domestic product (GDP) and trend GDP. Using panel data methods that account for the potential endogeneity of tourism and the business cycle, and the possible nonstationarity of tourism arrivals, the results show that an increase in tourism arrivals significantly improves the output gap of the host country. Quantitatively, a 10% increase in arrivals in a given year improves the output gap in that year by approximately 0.2% of actual GDP. There is, however, no evidence of a lagged effect of tourism. Based on this empirical evidence, the article concludes that tourism is a mechanism through which the domestic economy can take advantage of positive shocks happening elsewhere in the world. In this sense, tourism can contribute to the synchronization of business cycles between destination and origin countries.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1375/JHTM.17.1.44
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-07-2016
Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine current national early years’ policy reform, which emphasises the importance of service integration, national quality standards and a quality knowledge base for educators concerning the provision of early childhood education and care. Using Queensland, Australia, as an ex le, a policy discourse analysis identifies two problematics of implementing current national policy – the early childhood education and care problematic and the integration problematic. The article argues that speedy implementation of a national policy in order to meet national targets has unintended consequences for the knowledge base of educators and the possibility of collaboration within service provision. Although government commitment in this area is evident, these consequences and the current difficulties surrounding integration are the result of the lack of a specific integration strategy, and government investment focussed on the development of an integrated workforce.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-11-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-09-2014
Abstract: The Asia-Pacific region is a hot spot for population and tourism growth, both key drivers of water demand. Already, more than 75% of countries in this region are experiencing water stress. The management of water is becoming increasingly pressing, including for the tourism industry. Yet there has been little research into the predictors of water use in tourism in the Asia-Pacific region and opportunities for water saving. Therefore, this article develops both total and per guest night water-use models to determine the drivers of water use in accommodation in the Asia-Pacific region, delves into the differences between regions, and assesses the effectiveness of different water-saving measures. The results suggest geographical differences in water use that are influenced by climate zone and pool facilities. Importantly, the per guest night water-use model indicates that there are economies of scale to water use and that low/dual-flush toilets can significantly conserve water.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2019
Publisher: EDP Sciences
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-10-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-09-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-09-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-08-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-07-2019
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Date: 24-11-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2014
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 29-07-2022
DOI: 10.3727/154427322X16434959176122
Abstract: The increasing impacts of climate change on our most vulnerable protected areas has brought into focus the need for a better understanding of human–environment interactions. While it is established that visitation and place attachment can lead to conservation, the literature calls for further research into the valuation of tourism to protected marine environments, which manifest through emotional stability and environmental worldviews, how these differ across key visitor groups. Such an understanding will assist with creating support among global markets to better protect our most vulnerable environmental visitor assets. Through a survey of Australia's key visitor markets ( n = 1,225), using the iconic Great Barrier Reef (GBR) as the vulnerable protected marine environment in question, this research establishes a clear positive relationship between emotional stability and environmental worldview and the greater valuation of the GBR. Moreover, the results reveal differences in social resilience and protected area valuation across the different markets, as well as between previous and potential visitors to the GBR.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2014
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 03-2013
DOI: 10.3727/108354213X13645733247693
Abstract: Economic, social, and environmental transformation of destinations as a consequence of tourism has been observed and studied extensively within the tourism literature. transformation theory has evolved as a tool for understanding structural economic, social, or environmental change, which is driven by institutions. there is an emerging body of research that has sought to identify the institutional aspects of the tourism transformation process. Despite this, there has been limited development of tools that can measure institutions, inhibiting the development of long-run decision-making models that governments can use when developing policies for tourism destination development. As a result this research contributes a suite of institutional indices that can be used by tourism managers and planners to monitor, evaluate, and benchmark the tourism industry's institutions. Drawing from the organizational change literature, the proposed indices focus on competition, management processes, data and research capabilities, collaboration efforts, benchmarking processes, learning ability, and agility and adaptability. this research is an important step in developing combined structural and institutional models that will contribute to the development and implementation of decision-making tools to assist destinations seeking to achieve long-term sustainable tourism transformation.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-01-2018
DOI: 10.1108/IJCHM-05-2016-0267
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the validity of the service-profit chain (SPC) in a restaurant company context to comprehensively explicate the relationship between organizational practices, employee attitudes with customer and financial outcomes. The method used both questionnaire and company proprietary data to measure the predicted SPC outcomes through structural equation modeling. The research data were obtained from employees, customers and management at five restaurants in one casual theme restaurant chain in Australia. The findings indicate that revenue may be a more appropriate outcome than profit in the SPC, that context and in idual unit circumstances matter and that there may be a time lag between organizational actions, employee behavior, customer satisfaction and financial outcomes. Because of the nature of field research, there are limitations. As restaurants were added during the study, data per unit were impacted. Moreover, budgetary constraints limited the number of customer surveys. Nonetheless, the data set includes management, customer, employee and proprietary financial measures which are rarely available in the research literature. These data allow a thorough study of the SPC that provides both important findings and a model for future investigations into the SPC. As the SPC is a widely cited model used to explain the linkages between managerial and organizational actions and financial outcomes as they work through employee interactions with customers, the findings suggest that the chain may have a more direct impact on revenue than profit. Moreover, the data strongly suggest that context matters as the unique context of the restaurants had important influences on financial outcomes. The findings also indicate that a time lag exists between managerial and organizational actions and financial outcomes, suggesting that it can take time for such actions to ripple through the SPC. Structural equation modeling and standardized measures allowed the authors to overcome prior limitations in SPC research. Moreover, SPC researchers seldom have access to the proprietary data that enabled a test of the entire SPC. Consequently, this study contributes new insights into this classic model’s value in predicting and explaining financial outcomes resulting from the actions of an organization’s leadership influencing employee behavior toward customers in the restaurant industry.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-02-2022
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Date: 15-03-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-03-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-02-2015
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 17-12-2018
DOI: 10.3390/SU10124810
Abstract: This research advances our understanding of sustainable community development in relation to complex economic phenomena and psychological processes. The last decade has seen regional and global communities transition through unprecedented economic change. Community resilience offers a framework to guide regional development and explore the sustainability of social, economic and environmental systems to manage change. However, the fundamental constructs of community resilience are still not well known, such as the critical role of emotional stability and residents’ perceptions of change. This research explores this relationship in economies undergoing transformations by presenting the results of a survey administered to 663 Mackay and Whitsunday residents in Queensland, Australia. The findings add substantial depth to community resilience theory by demonstrating a positive relationship between emotional stability and resilience and a negative relationship between resilience and perceptions of change. The results also provide insight into the sustainable characteristics of communities to build resilience and manage the transformation process. Future research should focus on further testing the relationship between resilience, emotional stability and perceptions of change within communities at different stages of the transformation process.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 18-05-2018
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to expand our understanding of sustainable tourism research given that both researchers and policymakers consistently question the effectiveness of sustainable tourism and its practices, applications and practical adoption. The aim of the research was to provide an update on previous studies by examining how sustainable tourism research has progressed in the five intervening years since Ruhanen et al. completed their 25-year bibliometric analysis. This paper provides insights into how sustainable tourism research has developed over the 30 years since the publication of the Brundtland report. It shows that over the past five years, the field has matured to place greater emphasis on climate change, modeling, values, behavior and theoretical progression. Future research in the field should aim to better understand the methods and analysis techniques being used in sustainable tourism, as well as how sustainable tourism and climate change policy and actions translate into policy and practice. Bibliometrics and text mining shows that 30 years after the Brundtland report, sustainable tourism research continues to grow exponentially, with evidence that the field is starting to mature by broadening its horizons and focusing on more relevant, big-picture and hard-hitting topics, such as climate change.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-05-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-12-2020
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 04-05-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2020
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Date: 04-08-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.MATURITAS.2021.10.008
Abstract: To determine if hearing loss is associated with increased risk of frailty in later life. Cross-sectional study of a community s le of 4,004 men aged 70 years and above living in the metropolitan region of Perth, Western Australia. Data were retrieved from the Health in Men Study (HIMS) and the Western Australian Data Linkage System (WADLS). Frailty was assessed using the FRAIL scale and the Frailty Index. Hearing loss was defined by self-report or by diagnosis recorded in the WADLS. We also collected demographic, lifestyle and social support information. Frailty was assessed using the FRAIL scale and the Frailty Index. The prevalence of frailty in the s le population was 16.1% and 25.4% when assessed using the FRAIL scale and the Frailty Index respectively. After adjusting for participant demographic, lifestyle and social factors, hearing loss was significantly associated with the prevalence of frailty when diagnosed by either measure (FRAIL scale: odds ratio [OR] 1.59, 95 CI% 1.32 to 1.91 Frailty Index: OR 1.76, 95 CI% 1.50 to 2.05). The proportion of men with hearing loss increased with increasing severity of frailty. Hearing loss is associated with increased prevalence of frailty in older men when assessed using the FRAIL scale and the Frailty Index. Future longitudinal studies using objective measures of hearing will be helpful in determining if this association is likely to be causal.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-11-2020
Abstract: Destination familiarity is thought to critically influence tourists’ decision-making processes. Yet the role of familiarity in shaping tourists’ and residents’ image of, and loyalty to, a destination remains uncertain. This research tests a complex and holistic model of familiarity, affective, cognitive and overall images, and the conative behavioural intentions of visiting and recommending the destination for both residents and visitors in the context of the emerging tourism destination of Molise, Italy. The results reveal that residents and visitors differ in terms of their familiarity and intention to visit a place, with familiarity being less likely to influence residents’ intentions. There is heterogeneity between residents and visitors’ affective image and intention to visit, as well as between their overall image and intention to recommend Molise. Hence, unlike visitors, residents are more likely to respond to factual cognitive imaging, rather than emotional messaging, suggesting that shifting residents’ perceptions of place image requires a different approach to that of visitors. Future research should seek to confirm the relationships in a multi-destination study.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-03-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-01-2021
Abstract: In recent years, significant work has emerged exploring the relationship between tourism and mining. Generally, the relationship is considered to be negative, the result of crowding out of tourism during mining booms. However, the relationship is likely to be more complicated with mining affecting tourism both directly and indirectly. The indirect effects arise from the mediation role played by foreign direct investment (FDI), governance quality, trade and the real exchange rate. To verify this hypothesis, this article uses an unbalanced panel data set that covers 190 countries over the 2002–2017 period. A structural equation model is used to account for the mediating relationships. The results show a direct negative relationship between natural resource intensity and international tourist arrivals, as well as indirect positive relationship mediated by FDI partially offset by an indirect negative relationship mediated by governance.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-12-2010
Abstract: In many countries, tourism has emerged to become an important economic sector, often replacing traditional industries such as agriculture. This process of change, whereby an economy restructures over time from one economic sector to another as a result of institutional change, has been termed transformation. Transformation as a result of tourism activity has been observed and studied within the literature, but the body of work is not well synthesized and there are definitional issues. In particular, few researchers have addressed the process of tourism transformation, specifically the dynamic interaction between structure and institutions. This lack of research foci has limited the development of long-run decision-making tools available to governments, resulting in difficulties when developing policies for tourism destination development. This article investigates this gap by synthesizing the tourism transformation literature to develop a theoretical framework to support future transformation research in a tourism context. The theoretical framework is based on four dimensions of transformation theory: time, space, structure, and institutions.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2023
Start Date: 07-2024
End Date: 07-2029
Amount: $5,000,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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