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Papers by Nigel MOrgan

The Economic and Social Impact of Arts in Surrey

How to write a REF impact case study? Critical discourse analysis of evidencing practices

The Critical Turn In Tourism Innovative Research

Prospect: The Future of Critical Tourism Studies: Reflections on the Road Ahead

Tourism Analysis, 2018

Since its inception in 2005, Critical Tourism Studies (CTS) has profiled itself as a network of s... more Since its inception in 2005, Critical Tourism Studies (CTS) has profiled itself as a network of scholars who share a vision of producing and promoting social change in and through tourism practice, research, and education. It has sought to legitimize the critical school of thought in tourism studies, and to provide an inclusive environment for the alternative voices in the academy. Six CTS conferences later, a vibrant and inclusive network of scholars has emerged, representing a wide range of institutions and tourism interests. Yet as the network matures, the question has emerged on what the future holds for CTS. Has the network achieved its goals? Has it helped make the academy become more accepting of critical tourism research? Has it remained an inclusive environment for alternative voices in tourism studies? And if it has achieved its goals, does that now make the network redundant? We reflect here on what lies ahead, and which challenges we face in creating a renaissance in cri...

Travel philanthropy and sustainable development: the case of the Plymouth–Banjul Challenge

Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2015

Travel philanthropy is an evolving phenomenon. It owes its origins to rising frustrations with co... more Travel philanthropy is an evolving phenomenon. It owes its origins to rising frustrations with conventional aid and traditional philanthropic giving and is seen as development assistance enabling resources to flow directly from the tourism industry into community development and conservation initiatives. Philanthropists have long sought to achieve social transformation, and travel philanthropy in all its forms has evolved through the democratization of charity, as a kind of "doing good" through "giving back" whilst travelling. This paper evaluates values, practices and impacts of traditional, modern and post-modern philanthropy. Drawing upon evidence emerging from a longitudinal study, which involved the retrospective evaluation of personal diary entries, participant observations and semi-structured interviews about the transcontinental PlymouthÀBanjul (car) Challenge (PBC), it exemplifies how an initiative can evolve across all three philanthropic approaches. It further debates critical understandings of the problematic travel philanthropy concept and its role in stimulating sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Beauty and the Abuse: A Handbook on Relationships and Emotions in Academia

This handbook encourages dialogue and reflexivity on human relationships and emotions in academic... more This handbook encourages dialogue and reflexivity on human relationships and emotions in academic environments. Fifteen vignettes inspired by real stories are presented. These narratives explore the light and shade of how love, friendship, eroticism, power, sexism, harassment and gendered academic identities and cultures shape our daily working lives. This intervention tool has been designed to be used in workshops, seminars and other forms of academic gatherings. It can also be used and shared freely for information and inspiration among individual academics, in mentoring programs and as an input for competence development of academic leaders and managers. The document includes reflexive questions, a workshop pedagogy and a thematic list of recommended resources.

Special issue introduction

Tourist Studies, Dec 1, 2005

Critical Turns in Tourism Studies

Tourism and Gender

Tourism enquiry continues to be dominated by western, masculinist approaches. This collection of ... more

Editors' Introduction: Promoting an Academy of Hope in Tourism Enquiry

The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies, 2007

Editors' Introduction: Promoting an Academy of Hope in Tourism Enquiry Irena Ateljevic, Nige... more

6 Fair Trade in Tourism–a Marketing Tool for Social Transformation?

... Fair Trade marked products increased in value by 57% in 2000 over 1999 (Kalisch, 2002). Betwe... more

The Beauty and the Abuse: A Workshop for Dialogue, Reflexivity, and Action

This workshop presents a handbook and a method to enhance dialogue, reflexivity, and action on th... more This workshop presents a handbook and a method to enhance dialogue, reflexivity, and action on the beauty and the abuse which characterizes human relationships and emotions in academic environments. Academic lives are often characterized by a blurring of boundaries between personal and professional spheres. The main aim of this workshop is to help create spaces of trust, where academics can reflect on experiences and complex issues, which are often considered taboo, shameful, or private, although these experiences have a major impact on our wellbeing and working lives. A series of vignettes inspired in real stories are presented. These stories all have in common that they deal with the lights and the shadows of how eroticism, love, sex, power, prejudice, and gendered academic identities and cultures shape our working environments and influence our career choices and trajectories. Each vignette section deals with one or several of the following themes: friendship love, romantic love,...

Framing the land of the Northern Lights

Annals of Tourism Research, 2019

The development of affinities between the production and consumption of people and place is cruci... more The development of affinities between the production and consumption of people and place is crucial for tourism development. We trouble front and backstage distinctions to examine how destinations are framed and critically explore the power of the imaginary in shaping how individuals apprehend and in turn create social worlds. Combining critical discourse analysis with stakeholder interviews, we scrutinise an influential television travel documentary as an instrument of cultural pedagogy, which recycles, recreates and re-enacts the tourism imaginary. The paper's distinctive contribution is to show the multiple means through which travel journalism enrols tourists through imagined portrayals of people and place within globalised cultural texts by highlighting the multi-dimensional workings of power in and through a framing of Northern Norway.

S. Pike, Destination marketing organizations, Elsevier, Oxford (2004) ISBN 0-08-044306-0 (p. 240 (hbk))

Tourism Management - TOURISM MANAGE, 2006

Turismo al maschile, turismo al femminile. L'esperienza del viaggio, il mercato del lavoro, il turismo sessuale

E., Ruspini, E., Richter, LK, Costa, N., …, 2005

Il volume rappresenta il primo tentativo in Italia di esplorazione della complessa relazione fra ... more

Travel and Tourism in Film and Literature: A Critical Review

This article takes up Beeton’s (2015) challenge of more integration between critical tourism and ... more This article takes up Beeton’s (2015) challenge of more integration between critical tourism and tourism film studies, in an attempt to close the hermeneutical circle between film and audience, theory and practice, and reflection and experience. Travel and tourism in film and literature provides an effective method of teaching the questions posed by critical tourism, while critical tourism adds theoretical depth to tourism film studies. Similarly, audiences make explicit the connection between critical tourism learning outcomes and lessons gleaned from travel narratives, informing their own travel experiences. Personal transformation (enlightenment) is often central to these outcomes, as well as recognition of power, oppression, and exploitation (empowerment and emancipation) encountered through travel. By providing some examples of travel and literature, this review provides for the broad exploration of geographies, histories, cultures, genders, identities, and socio-economic class...

Modelling welsh cultural events

Tourism Management Perspectives, 2016

This paper describes the development of a best practice managerial model for Welsh cultural event... more This paper describes the development of a best practice managerial model for Welsh cultural events. A theoretical model, comprising four stages: decision; planning; implementation; evaluation, was synthesized from an extensive review of the literature. The theoretical model was then used as a projective instrument for in-depth interviews with managers of three Welsh cultural events: Llangollen International Music Festival, the May Fair at the Museum of Welsh Life, and the Urdd Eisteddfod. From the interviews, three reasonably similar practical models were developed. These late models were then unified in a single best practice model, through the use of Delphi technique. The initial decision phase for the first year of each event differed markedly between events. However, the event managers were able to achieve consensus on a best practice annual managerial model for cultural events.

Gender-based harassment in tourism academia: organizational collusion, coercion and compliance

Tourism and gender-based violence: challenging inequalities, 2020

This chapter presents a critical synthesis of a range of literature from tourism studies, organiz... more This chapter presents a critical synthesis of a range of literature from tourism studies, organization studies and the wider social sciences, and has two interrelated aims. First, to locate gender-based harassment (GBH) as an issue in the tourism academy and thereby de-isolate, empower and reassure victims/survivors that they are not alone in experiencing such ordeals. Second, by discussing the issue, to create a lexicon for resistance and recovery for those subjected to GBH, which may help them to name and share their experiences. It is argued that higher education (HE) institutions must recognize that they inherently organize in ways that support orderings and behaviours that go unchecked and nurture harassment. The chapter then discusses how, in our neoliberal age, women and other underrepresented groups tend to be isolated and marginalized in HE hierarchies, before examining how GBH occurs in the tourism academy and concluding with an agenda for future enquiry.

Politics and Museum Representations: Views from Postcolonial Chinese Destinations

The purpose of this presentation is to explore the ways in which power and politics influence tho... more The purpose of this presentation is to explore the ways in which power and politics influence those involved in the reproduction of cultural representations in postcolonial Chinese destinations: Hong Kong and Macau. Hong Kong and Macau were returned to China in the late 1990s under the concept of “one country, two systems.” Although these two cities are officially under the rule of China, their historical marginalisation in ancient Chinese history, rapid development during colonial times, and economic superiority before the handover makes them different from mainland China (Mathews, 1997; Chou, 2010). Set against the background of this “crisis of identity,” this study aims to locate postcolonial national identity debates within museum settings. It aims to extend the previous discussions on politics of tourism marketing (Morgan & Pritchard, 1998; Zhang, L’Espoir Decosta, & McKercher, 2015). Specifically, this study discusses how the History Museum of Hong Kong reveals a discourse of ...

$Research paper thumbnail of Understanding older women\u27s leisure: The value of biographical research methods$

Understanding older women\u27s leisure: The value of biographical research methods

The phenomenal growth in the number of older people in the western world is well documented, with... more The phenomenal growth in the number of older people in the western world is well documented, with the fastest growing group being those aged over 80 years, the majority of whom are women. Despite this demographic transformation, little research has sought to understand the meaning of tourism and leisure both for older people in general and specifically for women in the \u27oldest old\u27 phase. The research that does exist is typically quantitative and provides an essentialist view of leisure in old age, often failing to recognise the diversity of older people\u27s experiences. In contrast, this paper aims to provide a more fine-grained discussion of older people\u27s leisure. Drawn from the first author\u27s doctoral study, it reports and considers a biographical interview with a seventy-nine year old woman in order to provide insight into how a person\u27s history and the cultural, social and historical contexts of their life can determine their life choices. We conclude that it i...

The Economic and Social Impact of Arts in Surrey

How to write a REF impact case study? Critical discourse analysis of evidencing practices

The Critical Turn In Tourism Innovative Research

Prospect: The Future of Critical Tourism Studies: Reflections on the Road Ahead

Tourism Analysis, 2018

Since its inception in 2005, Critical Tourism Studies (CTS) has profiled itself as a network of s... more Since its inception in 2005, Critical Tourism Studies (CTS) has profiled itself as a network of scholars who share a vision of producing and promoting social change in and through tourism practice, research, and education. It has sought to legitimize the critical school of thought in tourism studies, and to provide an inclusive environment for the alternative voices in the academy. Six CTS conferences later, a vibrant and inclusive network of scholars has emerged, representing a wide range of institutions and tourism interests. Yet as the network matures, the question has emerged on what the future holds for CTS. Has the network achieved its goals? Has it helped make the academy become more accepting of critical tourism research? Has it remained an inclusive environment for alternative voices in tourism studies? And if it has achieved its goals, does that now make the network redundant? We reflect here on what lies ahead, and which challenges we face in creating a renaissance in cri...

Travel philanthropy and sustainable development: the case of the Plymouth–Banjul Challenge

Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2015

Travel philanthropy is an evolving phenomenon. It owes its origins to rising frustrations with co... more Travel philanthropy is an evolving phenomenon. It owes its origins to rising frustrations with conventional aid and traditional philanthropic giving and is seen as development assistance enabling resources to flow directly from the tourism industry into community development and conservation initiatives. Philanthropists have long sought to achieve social transformation, and travel philanthropy in all its forms has evolved through the democratization of charity, as a kind of "doing good" through "giving back" whilst travelling. This paper evaluates values, practices and impacts of traditional, modern and post-modern philanthropy. Drawing upon evidence emerging from a longitudinal study, which involved the retrospective evaluation of personal diary entries, participant observations and semi-structured interviews about the transcontinental PlymouthÀBanjul (car) Challenge (PBC), it exemplifies how an initiative can evolve across all three philanthropic approaches. It further debates critical understandings of the problematic travel philanthropy concept and its role in stimulating sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Beauty and the Abuse: A Handbook on Relationships and Emotions in Academia

This handbook encourages dialogue and reflexivity on human relationships and emotions in academic... more This handbook encourages dialogue and reflexivity on human relationships and emotions in academic environments. Fifteen vignettes inspired by real stories are presented. These narratives explore the light and shade of how love, friendship, eroticism, power, sexism, harassment and gendered academic identities and cultures shape our daily working lives. This intervention tool has been designed to be used in workshops, seminars and other forms of academic gatherings. It can also be used and shared freely for information and inspiration among individual academics, in mentoring programs and as an input for competence development of academic leaders and managers. The document includes reflexive questions, a workshop pedagogy and a thematic list of recommended resources.

Special issue introduction

Tourist Studies, Dec 1, 2005

Critical Turns in Tourism Studies

Tourism and Gender

Tourism enquiry continues to be dominated by western, masculinist approaches. This collection of ... more

Editors' Introduction: Promoting an Academy of Hope in Tourism Enquiry

The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies, 2007

Editors' Introduction: Promoting an Academy of Hope in Tourism Enquiry Irena Ateljevic, Nige... more

6 Fair Trade in Tourism–a Marketing Tool for Social Transformation?

... Fair Trade marked products increased in value by 57% in 2000 over 1999 (Kalisch, 2002). Betwe... more

The Beauty and the Abuse: A Workshop for Dialogue, Reflexivity, and Action

This workshop presents a handbook and a method to enhance dialogue, reflexivity, and action on th... more This workshop presents a handbook and a method to enhance dialogue, reflexivity, and action on the beauty and the abuse which characterizes human relationships and emotions in academic environments. Academic lives are often characterized by a blurring of boundaries between personal and professional spheres. The main aim of this workshop is to help create spaces of trust, where academics can reflect on experiences and complex issues, which are often considered taboo, shameful, or private, although these experiences have a major impact on our wellbeing and working lives. A series of vignettes inspired in real stories are presented. These stories all have in common that they deal with the lights and the shadows of how eroticism, love, sex, power, prejudice, and gendered academic identities and cultures shape our working environments and influence our career choices and trajectories. Each vignette section deals with one or several of the following themes: friendship love, romantic love,...

Framing the land of the Northern Lights

Annals of Tourism Research, 2019

The development of affinities between the production and consumption of people and place is cruci... more The development of affinities between the production and consumption of people and place is crucial for tourism development. We trouble front and backstage distinctions to examine how destinations are framed and critically explore the power of the imaginary in shaping how individuals apprehend and in turn create social worlds. Combining critical discourse analysis with stakeholder interviews, we scrutinise an influential television travel documentary as an instrument of cultural pedagogy, which recycles, recreates and re-enacts the tourism imaginary. The paper's distinctive contribution is to show the multiple means through which travel journalism enrols tourists through imagined portrayals of people and place within globalised cultural texts by highlighting the multi-dimensional workings of power in and through a framing of Northern Norway.

S. Pike, Destination marketing organizations, Elsevier, Oxford (2004) ISBN 0-08-044306-0 (p. 240 (hbk))

Tourism Management - TOURISM MANAGE, 2006

Turismo al maschile, turismo al femminile. L'esperienza del viaggio, il mercato del lavoro, il turismo sessuale

E., Ruspini, E., Richter, LK, Costa, N., …, 2005

Il volume rappresenta il primo tentativo in Italia di esplorazione della complessa relazione fra ... more

Travel and Tourism in Film and Literature: A Critical Review

This article takes up Beeton’s (2015) challenge of more integration between critical tourism and ... more This article takes up Beeton’s (2015) challenge of more integration between critical tourism and tourism film studies, in an attempt to close the hermeneutical circle between film and audience, theory and practice, and reflection and experience. Travel and tourism in film and literature provides an effective method of teaching the questions posed by critical tourism, while critical tourism adds theoretical depth to tourism film studies. Similarly, audiences make explicit the connection between critical tourism learning outcomes and lessons gleaned from travel narratives, informing their own travel experiences. Personal transformation (enlightenment) is often central to these outcomes, as well as recognition of power, oppression, and exploitation (empowerment and emancipation) encountered through travel. By providing some examples of travel and literature, this review provides for the broad exploration of geographies, histories, cultures, genders, identities, and socio-economic class...

Modelling welsh cultural events

Tourism Management Perspectives, 2016

This paper describes the development of a best practice managerial model for Welsh cultural event... more This paper describes the development of a best practice managerial model for Welsh cultural events. A theoretical model, comprising four stages: decision; planning; implementation; evaluation, was synthesized from an extensive review of the literature. The theoretical model was then used as a projective instrument for in-depth interviews with managers of three Welsh cultural events: Llangollen International Music Festival, the May Fair at the Museum of Welsh Life, and the Urdd Eisteddfod. From the interviews, three reasonably similar practical models were developed. These late models were then unified in a single best practice model, through the use of Delphi technique. The initial decision phase for the first year of each event differed markedly between events. However, the event managers were able to achieve consensus on a best practice annual managerial model for cultural events.

Gender-based harassment in tourism academia: organizational collusion, coercion and compliance

Tourism and gender-based violence: challenging inequalities, 2020

This chapter presents a critical synthesis of a range of literature from tourism studies, organiz... more This chapter presents a critical synthesis of a range of literature from tourism studies, organization studies and the wider social sciences, and has two interrelated aims. First, to locate gender-based harassment (GBH) as an issue in the tourism academy and thereby de-isolate, empower and reassure victims/survivors that they are not alone in experiencing such ordeals. Second, by discussing the issue, to create a lexicon for resistance and recovery for those subjected to GBH, which may help them to name and share their experiences. It is argued that higher education (HE) institutions must recognize that they inherently organize in ways that support orderings and behaviours that go unchecked and nurture harassment. The chapter then discusses how, in our neoliberal age, women and other underrepresented groups tend to be isolated and marginalized in HE hierarchies, before examining how GBH occurs in the tourism academy and concluding with an agenda for future enquiry.

Politics and Museum Representations: Views from Postcolonial Chinese Destinations

The purpose of this presentation is to explore the ways in which power and politics influence tho... more The purpose of this presentation is to explore the ways in which power and politics influence those involved in the reproduction of cultural representations in postcolonial Chinese destinations: Hong Kong and Macau. Hong Kong and Macau were returned to China in the late 1990s under the concept of “one country, two systems.” Although these two cities are officially under the rule of China, their historical marginalisation in ancient Chinese history, rapid development during colonial times, and economic superiority before the handover makes them different from mainland China (Mathews, 1997; Chou, 2010). Set against the background of this “crisis of identity,” this study aims to locate postcolonial national identity debates within museum settings. It aims to extend the previous discussions on politics of tourism marketing (Morgan & Pritchard, 1998; Zhang, L’Espoir Decosta, & McKercher, 2015). Specifically, this study discusses how the History Museum of Hong Kong reveals a discourse of ...

$Research paper thumbnail of Understanding older women\u27s leisure: The value of biographical research methods$

Understanding older women\u27s leisure: The value of biographical research methods

The phenomenal growth in the number of older people in the western world is well documented, with... more The phenomenal growth in the number of older people in the western world is well documented, with the fastest growing group being those aged over 80 years, the majority of whom are women. Despite this demographic transformation, little research has sought to understand the meaning of tourism and leisure both for older people in general and specifically for women in the \u27oldest old\u27 phase. The research that does exist is typically quantitative and provides an essentialist view of leisure in old age, often failing to recognise the diversity of older people\u27s experiences. In contrast, this paper aims to provide a more fine-grained discussion of older people\u27s leisure. Drawn from the first author\u27s doctoral study, it reports and considers a biographical interview with a seventy-nine year old woman in order to provide insight into how a person\u27s history and the cultural, social and historical contexts of their life can determine their life choices. We conclude that it i...