Brendan Moyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1413595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan Moyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan |
| FAMILY NAME | Moyle |
| SIGNATURE | MOYLE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8945-3086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 327 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 82 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A dual metacognitive approach to sustainable tourism research
Disability-inclusive tourism and psychological wellbeing
Tourism wellbeing scholarship has increasingly drawn on positive psychology frameworks to explain how tourism experiences support psychological wellbeing. However, this research is yet to be explicitly applied to disability-inclusive tourism contexts. Subsequently, this research note applies the DREAMA theoretical framework (detachment–recovery, engagement, affiliation, meaning, and achievement) to conceptualise how accessible tourism conditions …
Psychology of the tourist experience: A synthesis of behavioural and cognitive theoretical approaches
While research on the tourist experience is interdisciplinary, it remains largely dominated by theories deeply embedded in the parent discipline of psychology. Despite this, few studies examine the evolution of theoretical perspectives across the psychological subfields that underpin this body of scholarship. This conceptual paper adopts a reflective approach to critically assess the progression of behavioural and cognitive theoretical approaches…
Inspiration and pro-environmental behaviour in virtual nature-based tourism
The natural environment is facing deterioration, yet little is known about how immersive nature-based VR tourism experiences cultivate pro-environmental behaviours. Grounded in the transmission model of inspiration, this research seeks to assess whether and how virtual nature-based tourism experiences can inspire tourists to engage in pro-environmental behaviours over time. Using a sequential mixed-methods approach, Study 1 developed a VR nature-…
Reimagining green hospitality: Why employees must participate in leading the environmental sustainability agenda
Physiological measurement techniques in virtual tourism research: Three caveats for future studies
Unlocking the gateway to tourist well-being: The Triple-A model of engagement in tourism experiences
Engagement in tourist experiences is essential for destination development. However, how tourist engagement generates positive psychological outcomes, such as tourist well-being, remains underexplored. Consequently, drawing on an interpretivist paradigm, this study conducts in-depth focus groups with 23 tourism professionals to explore the mechanism through which engagement in tourism experiences is enhanced and subsequently influences tourist we…
Leveraging experimental designs in tourism economics research
Experimental research represents a significant yet underutilized methodological approach in tourism economics, offering robust tools designed to uncover causal relationships and isolate independent variable effects. Traditional approaches tend to rely on observational, administrative, and survey-based data collection, which limits the ability to advance the understanding of causality in phenomena within the field of tourism economics, such as sta…
Virtual Tourism Microdosing: A New Prescription for Tourist Wellbeing
Research on the hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing benefits of virtual tourism is experiencing exponential growth. However, few studies have considered its potential as a positive psychological intervention to enhance wellbeing. Through the lens of the recently conceptualised DREAMA model of tourist wellbeing, this conceptual paper critically examines the nuanced role of virtual tourism in enabling wellbeing. This research contends that microdosing…
Preregistration is not a panacea, but why? A rejoinder to “infusing preregistration into tourism research”
Beware of framework bias
Tourist decision-making under adverse weather conditions: A synthesis and future agenda
Thriving for workers with disability in tourism
This manuscript challenges conventional workplace norms in tourism that continue to marginalise people with disability. Grounded in emancipatory and social justice perspectives, we apply a visual-based participatory method to critically explore how people with disability understand thriving and what enables them to thrive in the tourism workforce. Findings reveal that vitality, learning and dignity are three key dimensions of thriving at work. Co…
Concept mapping in tourism: A Case Study of Visitor Attitudes
Concept maps are effective tools designed to summarise prior knowledge by capturing the organisation of key concepts. While common in various areas of research, the value of concept mapping for articulating future trends and directions within and across tourism knowledge (sub)domains is under-explored. Consequently, this short commentary develops a relational concept map of research on visitor attitudes to tourism to stimulate discourse on the be…
Perceived Destination Restorative Qualities in Wellness Tourism: The Role of Ontological Security and Psychological Resilience
Scholarship on wellness tourism has experienced exponential growth. Despite this, limited studies have explicitly examined how the perceived destination restorative qualities of a wellness tourism destination facilitate psychological recovery. Findings from a survey with 942 Chinese wellness tourists revealed perceived destination restorative qualities positively influenced psychological recovery, increasing ontological security, with the effect …
Cause-related marketing in tourism: How Goal Framing Promotes Consumer Prosocial Behaviours
Cause-related marketing is commonly regarded as an effective tool for tourism enterprises to bolster their commitment to sustainable practices, fostering environmental and social responsibility within their operations and offerings. However, despite this, there is limited research into the implementation of cause-related social marketing to achieve the sustainability goals of tourism enterprises. Consequently, this research leverages construal le…
Rethinking Travel Companionship: An Alternative Conceptual Model and Future Research Agenda
Travel companionship is commonplace across tourism industries, with existing discourse exclusively emphasizing positive downstream outcomes. However, limited studies have provided a potential counterpoint to the positive outcomes embedded in scholarly work associated with travel companionship. This research, building on interdisciplinary insights, aims to create a comprehensive perspective on travel companionship, elucidating the conditions where…
Inclusive research in tourism: Are We Enabling or Disabling People With Disability
Re‐thinking tourist wellbeing: An integrative model of affiliation with nature and social connections
Research on positive psychological outcomes of tourism has experienced exponential growth. However, a critical dimension of tourist wellbeing, affiliation, remains underexplored and conceptually underdeveloped. This study draws on 26 in‐depth interviews with international tourists to Fiji to explore the influence of affiliation with nature and social connectedness on tourist wellbeing. Findings demonstrate the integral role of travel companionshi…
Tourist Wellbeing: Re-Thinking Hedonic and Eudaimonic Dimensions
Research on tourists’ eudaimonic and hedonic wellbeing has grown exponentially in the tourism literature. The paper re-examines the conceptualization of psychological tourist wellbeing. While there is agreement that tourist wellbeing is multidimensional in nature, it is unclear what specific dimensions, or psychological domains, underpin tourists’ hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing. Models that summarize these domains seemingly overlap, notably the…
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: Evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games
Recommendations are a high form of community consultation, but rarely solicited in surveys of resident attitudes despite their potential to better inform planning and foster stronger event loyalty in an era of mega-event crisis. This paper innovates by identifying and structuring open-ended recommendations for the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games from host region residents 10 years prior to that mega-event. From an online survey of 897 respondents, 94…
Exploring Chinese Tourists’ Well-Being Through a Confucian Lens: A Multi-Focal Model
Despite exponential growth in research interest in the psychological benefits derived from travel experiences, existing conceptualizations of well-being in tourism predominantly adopt Western perspectives. This conceptual paper proposes a multifocal model for understanding tourist well-being through a Confucian lens. By comparing the five cardinal Confucian virtues with Aristotelian well-being perspectives, this multidimensional framework integra…
Towards a typology of virtual tourists: Efficacy of visual patterns and attentional cues
Virtual tourism is rapidly emerging in prominence in contemporary tourism research. Previous studies tend to consider the virtual tourism population as a homogeneous entity, resulting in unintended consequences. Despite the ocular-centric nature within virtual environments, existing eye tracking studies have rarely classified virtual tourists into benefit-based segments, discounting the critical role of pre-existing visual patterns and associated…
Augmented reality and the enhancement of memorable tourism experiences at heritage sites
Augmented reality (AR) has revolutionized the tourist experience, presenting an opportunity to generate meaningful engagement with unique culture and heritage. Despite the potential, a limited empirical inquiry has assessed the efficacy of AR for the creation of memorable heritage tourism experiences (MTEs). Consequently, this research aims to examine the efficacy of AR for enhancing the memorability of tourism experiences (MTE) at heritage sites…
Exploring the Travel Experience of Chinese Solo Female Travelers Through a Gender and Cultural Lens
Due to exponential growth across the globe, solo female travel is emerging as a popular area of research and scholarship. Existing studies on the phenomenon have had focus on the characteristics of solo female travelers, providing a basic descriptive understanding of motivations and outcomes. Limited research has examined how gender and culture determine, shape and reinforce solo female travel experiences. To explore the intersection between cult…
Constraint Negotiation in Serious Leisure: A Study of Amateur Triathletes
This paper explores strategies employed by amateur triathletes engaged in serious leisure to negotiate leisure constraints. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 Australian triathletes, revealing a range of negotiation strategies used to adapt to or alleviate constraints. In particular, triathletes accepted the likelihood of opportunity costs, were pragmatic about their performance and used a self-determined hierarchy of importance to make l…
Cognitive psychology and tourism research: State of the Art
Purpose This review aims to discuss concepts and theories from cognitive psychology, identifies tourism studies applying them and discusses key areas for future research. The paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness of cognitive psychology for understanding why tourists and particularly pleasure travellers demonstrate the behaviour they exhibit. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews 165 papers from the cognitive psychology and literature …
Celebrity endorsement in tourism: Attention, emotional arousal and familiarity
Management of immersive heritage tourism experiences: A conceptual model
Costs and Perseverance in Serious Leisure Careers
Few studies have explored the impacts of costs on serious leisure careers. This article presents a case study of amateur athletes encountering a significant cost—cancellation of the 2012 Ironman New Zealand triathlon—and how they persevered despite this cost. Through a phenomenological research design incorporating qualitative interviews with 14 amateur triathletes, grounded theory analysis revealed that despite encountering a significant cost, a…
Virtual reality and mixed reality for second chance tourism
Innovative methods for heritage tourism experiences: Creating windows into the past
Heritage tourism products and experiences can generate substantial economic and social contribution to local communities. Yet, significant challenges face heritage tourism destinations, including heritage preservation and the subsequent transition into viable tourism experiences. This paper aims to employ innovative heritage preservation methods that can be utilised to develop tourism experiences at heritage sites. This research details how cutti…
Disciplines that influence tourism doctoral research
Community Perceptions of Tourism: Bruny and Magnetic Islands, Australia
Tourism is increasingly perceived as important for island sustainability, though it also has impacts. Impacts on host communities have negative consequences on desired interactions with visitors, an important visitor appeal of islands. This paper uses social exchange and social representation theories to investigate island community perceptions of tourism development and impacts. The investigations highlight a diversity of island community perspe…
Geopolitics and touristrategic borderlands: Balancing nationalism and globalisation in Hainan, China
Toward Conceptual Advancement of Costs and Perseverance within the Serious Leisure Perspective
Research into serious leisure has grown since the 1980s. Despite the popularity of the serious leisure perspective, some embedded concepts remain conceptually underdeveloped, specifically costs and perseverance. Consequently, this paper commences by highlighting the ambiguity surrounding these two concepts. In addition, this paper explores potential overlap between costs and perseverance and the concepts of constraints and constraint negotiation …
Welcome back: Repeat visitation and tourist wellbeing
Emotional responses to tourism advertisements: The application of FaceReaderTM
Traditionally, tourists’ emotional responses to advertising and associated stimuli have been assessed using self-report questionnaires. Image recognition software, such as FaceReaderTM provides a means to analyse emotional responses to stimuli, specifically the type of emotion, valence (positive/negative) and arousal (intensity) via facial expressions. This research note reports on the benefits and drawbacks of FaceReaderTM. Respondents from Iran…
The black market in China for tiger products
Poaching of tigers is a major threat to the survival of the species. China is responsible for much of the demand for tiger parts. Poaching occurs because it is profitable and organizations able to procure transport and sell tiger products over thousands of miles and international borders also exist. Unfortunately there is little corresponding data on these organizations. It appears as if these organizations operate to minimize the most significan…
Exploring the Travel Experience of Chinese Solo Female Travelers Through a Gender and Cultural Lens
Due to exponential growth across the globe, solo female travel is emerging as a popular area of research and scholarship. Existing studies on the phenomenon have had focus on the characteristics of solo female travelers, providing a basic descriptive understanding of motivations and outcomes. Limited research has examined how gender and culture determine, shape and reinforce solo female travel experiences. To explore the intersection between cult…
Pragmatic engagement with the wicked tourism problem of climate change through ‘soft’ transformative governance
Physiological and self-report methods to the measurement of emotion in tourism
There is strong growth in research on tourist emotion, with a substantial scholarly debate emerging, surrounding approaches to measurement. Recently objective physiological methods for measurement of emotion have been applied in the tourism field. However, there are few studies which explore the benefits and limitations of applying physiological and self-report methods to measure emotions. This research aims to compare and contrast physiological …
The role of institutions in the production of space for tourism: National Forest Parks in China
Crowding and Visitor Satisfaction During the Off‐season: Port Campbell National Park
Crowding in outdoor recreation has received considerable attention in academic literature, in relation to its ability to cause both physical and perceptual impacts. In particular, the influence of crowding on visitors’ satisfaction has received much consideration. Nonetheless, these studies have focused on crowding and satisfaction during peak periods of visitation. Focusing studies on peak periods seems logical, as this is when a destination exp…
Beware of framework bias
Towards a typology of virtual tourists: Efficacy of visual patterns and attentional cues
Virtual tourism is rapidly emerging in prominence in contemporary tourism research. Previous studies tend to consider the virtual tourism population as a homogeneous entity, resulting in unintended consequences. Despite the ocular-centric nature within virtual environments, existing eye tracking studies have rarely classified virtual tourists into benefit-based segments, discounting the critical role of pre-existing visual patterns and associated…
Perspectives of Endurance Athletes' Spouses: A Paradox of Serious Leisure
Amateur endurance sports have been widely couched as serious leisure. However, to date there has been a lack of research exploring impacts of serious leisure on athletes' spouses. Adopting a grounded theory approach, in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 spouses of endurance athletes in Australia who regularly competed in distance running, triathlon, and/or adventure racing events. Spouses adopted a support role for their athlete spanning da…
Fostering visitors’ pro-environmental behaviour in an urban park
Recognizing the increasing importance of sustainable environment, this research explored visitors’ pro-environmental decision-making process in an urban park context. This study investigated the relationships among attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behaviour control, positive and negative anticipated emotions as well as behavioural intentions. The results suggest that positive anticipated affects positively influenced low-effort and high-eff…
Drilling into community perceptions of coal seam gas in Roma, Australia
Rethinking Travel Companionship: An Alternative Conceptual Model and Future Research Agenda
Travel companionship is commonplace across tourism industries, with existing discourse exclusively emphasizing positive downstream outcomes. However, limited studies have provided a potential counterpoint to the positive outcomes embedded in scholarly work associated with travel companionship. This research, building on interdisciplinary insights, aims to create a comprehensive perspective on travel companionship, elucidating the conditions where…
Species conservation and the principal–agent problem
Crowding and Visitor Satisfaction During the Off‐season: Port Campbell National Park
Crowding in outdoor recreation has received considerable attention in academic literature, in relation to its ability to cause both physical and perceptual impacts. In particular, the influence of crowding on visitors’ satisfaction has received much consideration. Nonetheless, these studies have focused on crowding and satisfaction during peak periods of visitation. Focusing studies on peak periods seems logical, as this is when a destination exp…
The black market in China for tiger products
Poaching of tigers is a major threat to the survival of the species. China is responsible for much of the demand for tiger parts. Poaching occurs because it is profitable and organizations able to procure transport and sell tiger products over thousands of miles and international borders also exist. Unfortunately there is little corresponding data on these organizations. It appears as if these organizations operate to minimize the most significan…
Community Perceptions of Tourism: Bruny and Magnetic Islands, Australia
Tourism is increasingly perceived as important for island sustainability, though it also has impacts. Impacts on host communities have negative consequences on desired interactions with visitors, an important visitor appeal of islands. This paper uses social exchange and social representation theories to investigate island community perceptions of tourism development and impacts. The investigations highlight a diversity of island community perspe…
Strategic Issues in the Australian Tourism Industry: A 10-year Analysis of National Strategies and Plans
Predicting future events, trends and issues that may affect the tourism industry is not an exact science. Already the 21st century has seen a number of significant, radical and unexpected events, including September 11, SARS and, more recently, the worldwide economic downturn and natural disasters, such as earthquakes and cyclonic activity. Within this increasingly volatile global landscape, more than ever there is a need for the tourism industry…
Disciplines that influence tourism doctoral research
Customer Relationship Management in the Exhibition Industry in China: An Exploration into the Critical Success Factors and Inhibitors
China’s exhibition industry has experienced considerable growth over the past decade; however, recent studies have identified a number of issues affecting its future growth, including an inability to retain customers. Customer relationship management (CRM) offers a potential solution to this problem. Although anecdotal evidence suggests that CRM has been widely adopted in China’s exhibition industry, there is a lack of empirical research focused …
Visitor expectations of contact with staff at a protected site
The importance of managing visitor expectations has been highlighted in natural and protected areas. However, minimal research has been completed on visitor expectations of contact with staff in national parks and protected areas. Staff can play an important role in delivering information and in interpreting significant natural and heritage attributes. This research aims to address this gap by examining visitors' expectations regarding staff cont…
Managing Outdoor Recreation: Case Studies in the National Parks
Constraint Negotiation in Serious Leisure: A Study of Amateur Triathletes
This paper explores strategies employed by amateur triathletes engaged in serious leisure to negotiate leisure constraints. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 Australian triathletes, revealing a range of negotiation strategies used to adapt to or alleviate constraints. In particular, triathletes accepted the likelihood of opportunity costs, were pragmatic about their performance and used a self-determined hierarchy of importance to make l…
Service recovery and leisure events: Implications from the cancellation of Ironman ® New Zealand 2012
Service recovery is a crucial consideration for event organizers when an event is cancelled or deviates from its advertised format. Despite its importance in leisure provision, service recovery has received limited attention in previous leisure events research. In addition, links between service recovery and risk management have not been well explicated. This paper explores amateur participants' perceptions of the service recovery efforts of even…
An institutional assessment of three local government-level tourism destinations at different stages of the transformation process
Costs and Perseverance in Serious Leisure Careers
Few studies have explored the impacts of costs on serious leisure careers. This article presents a case study of amateur athletes encountering a significant cost—cancellation of the 2012 Ironman New Zealand triathlon—and how they persevered despite this cost. Through a phenomenological research design incorporating qualitative interviews with 14 amateur triathletes, grounded theory analysis revealed that despite encountering a significant cost, a…
The raw and the carved: Shipping costs and ivory smuggling
Trends and patterns in sustainable tourism research: A 25-year bibliometric analysis
In the quarter of a century since the release of the 1987 Brundtland Report, sustainable tourism has emerged as the dominant paradigm in tourism development. However, the debate, discourse, and criticism of this subfield of tourism research continues. To address such concerns the purpose of this paper is to explore trends and patterns in sustainable tourism research over the past 25 years. A 25-year bibliometric analysis was conducted for the fou…
Drilling into community perceptions of coal seam gas in Roma, Australia
Toward Conceptual Advancement of Costs and Perseverance within the Serious Leisure Perspective
Research into serious leisure has grown since the 1980s. Despite the popularity of the serious leisure perspective, some embedded concepts remain conceptually underdeveloped, specifically costs and perseverance. Consequently, this paper commences by highlighting the ambiguity surrounding these two concepts. In addition, this paper explores potential overlap between costs and perseverance and the concepts of constraints and constraint negotiation …
Shaping destination image and identity: Insights for Arab tourism at the Gold Coast, Australia
Purpose - This paper aims to explore how destination image can be shaped, created and crafted, from an induced-source, supply-side perspective to better cater to Arab visitors, drawing on empirical research conducted on the Gold Coast, Australia. Design/methodology/approach - Two sequential stages of research were implemented. The first stage conducted an analysis of websites to compare and contrast the image of the Gold Coast projected with the …
The role of institutions in the production of space for tourism: National Forest Parks in China
Anthropology and sociology in tourism doctoral research
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 fou…
Cruise infrastructure development in Auckland, New Zealand: A media discourse analysis (2008–2016)
The deployment of mega cruise ships is putting pressure on ports to redesign or construct new infrastructure. However, there is limited research which considers the media discourse surrounding this development over a longitudinal period. The aim of this paper is to explore how the media portrays the cruise infrastructure debate in the complex and highly contested political environment of Auckland, New Zealand. Thematic analysis was used to determ…
Assessing preferences of potential visitors for nature-based experiences in protected areas
Contested images, place meaning and potential tourists’ responses to an iconic nature-based attraction ‘at risk’: The case of the Great Barrier Reef
This study explores images of an attraction that is simultaneously tagged as the ‘greatest reef in the world’, the ‘best managed reef’ and potentially a ‘world heritage site in danger’. Combining research in conservation psychology, place identity and visual communication, this study analysed a sample of images (n = 45) of the Great Barrier Reef to explore the complexity of messages being conveyed with regard to the status and health of the world…
A multi-sectoral model of tourism and resource sector transformation
Despite preoccupation in the literature with tourism decline and rejuvenation there is limited research and theoretical frameworks to understand the impact a dominant resources sector has on tourism and its ability to rejuvenate. Grounded in transformation theory, this research explores the mechanisms of change within two resource sector dependent regions (Gladstone and Roma, Australia) with a focus on the ramifications for tourism. Adopting a qu…
Cognitive psychology and tourism research: State of the Art
Purpose This review aims to discuss concepts and theories from cognitive psychology, identifies tourism studies applying them and discusses key areas for future research. The paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness of cognitive psychology for understanding why tourists and particularly pleasure travellers demonstrate the behaviour they exhibit. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews 165 papers from the cognitive psychology and literature …
Tourism (61 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (55 works) · Political science (52 works) · Business (39 works) · Sociology (35 works) · Geography (33 works) · Psychology (31 works) · Computer Science (28 works) · Public relations (23 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (21 works)