Dinesh Chhabra
Biographic Data
| ID | 148798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dinesh Chhabra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dinesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Chhabra |
| SIGNATURE | CHHABRA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4565-0325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 311 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social Capital in Online Gaming Communities: A Systematic Review Examining the Role of Virtual Identities
The growth of online video-game players has seen a parallel growth in online gaming communities. Membership in these communities has been well known to play a vital role in shaping social connections and fostering social capital. This systematic review explored the role of interacting virtual identities in shaping the relationship between membership in gaming communities and social capital as an outcome. Online databases of Scopus, APA PsycNet, W…
Social Networking or Social Isolation? A Systematic Review on Socio-Relational Outcomes for Members of Online Gaming Communities
Recent technological advancements, increased access to gaming setups, and the emergence of free-to-play multiplayer games have contributed to a dramatic rise in the number of players gaming online and subsequently becoming a part of gaming communities. This systematic review explored the impact of being in an online gaming community on socio-relational outcomes, and variables that impacted the relation between gaming community membership and soci…
Prime and punishment: Effect of religious priming and group membership on prosocial behavior
This research investigates the influence of religious priming and group membership on prosocial behavior, measured by the willingness to donate to fictitious charities in a hypothetical scenario. A sample of 258 Hindu participants, averaging 21.3 years of age, were engaged in an online study designed on PsyToolkit. The study employed a 3*2 factorial design, wherein participants were subliminally primed with concepts of “reward” and “punishment” w…
Value co-creation by local residents in intangible cultural heritage tourism: The case of the yellow emperor ancestral worship ceremony
Sustainable Marketing of Transformative Heritage Tourism
Effectiveness of remotely delivered mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy-based smoking cessation programs: A systematic review
Resilience, Authenticity, and Digital Heritage Tourism
This book examines the authentication of authenticity in heritage tourism by using a resilient smart systems approach. It discusses the emerging trends in cultural tourism and outlines, in a detailed manner, their significance in negotiating authenticity in tourism experience. Authentication of authenticity is an evolving, less-researched field of inquiry in heritage tourism. This book advances research on this subject by exploring different auth…
Examining sustainability of heritage on wheels: The case of autorickshaws in Delhi (India)
This study examines autorickshaws (ARs), a traditional mode of transportation in a popular heritage tourism city from a sustainability standpoint. The overarching purpose is to suggest a modified ASI (Avoid-Shift-Improve) model that lends credibility to the auto rickshaw as a cultural and social/economically and environmentally viable form of personalized transport. This study argues that by meaningfully integrating the AR rides into a heritage t…
Authenticity and the authentication of heritage: Dialogical perceptiveness
The dialogue on authenticity continues to evolve across different temporalities and disciplines. This editorial for the special issue summarizes contemporary progress made by scholars of heritage tourism and shares innovative corridors for deep deliberations. A broad spectrum of provocative ideas are touched upon, ranging from host–guest authentication and intangible heritage to knowledge transfer processes, authenticating heritage in fairytale s…
Brand authenticity of heritage festivals
Soft power analysis in alienated borderline tourism
This study uses a combined content-semiotic analysis technique to identify visual representations of an alienated frontier between India and Pakistan. Additionally, narratives of tourism marketers, articles from leading newspapers, and online visitor reviews are analyzed to gain an insight into the manner the ‘closing of border gates’ ceremony is orchestrated and experienced. It is found that most tourism marketers offer distorted images of the b…
Heritage branding of India: A Gandhi tourism perspective
A cultural hospitality framework for heritage accommodations
This study suggests a sustainable cultural hospitality framework to measure the degree to which heritage accommodations across the world adhere to a cultural code. Using a case study approach, the framework is applied to a palace resort in the state of Rajasthan (India) and found to be robust
Heritage hotels and historic lodging: Perspectives on experiential marketing and sustainable culture
Heritage is one of the most pervasive tourism resources in the world. Many destinations use their unique heritage and cultural resources to increase their place-based competitive advantage (Munar
Education, values and ethics in international heritage: Learning to respect
The book offers a critical view of eurocentric notions of museum practice and illustrates that the contemporary era is using a more inclusive and hybrid way of guiding curatorial work and artifact
Present-centered dialogue with heritage representations
Cultural heritage and the challenge of sustainability
In the recent years, the heritage conservation discourse has broadened its parameters to relate to macro environment factors such as technological and natural. In her book, Barthel-Boucher takes a
Ethics of Gambling
This exclusive department is created to include findings of special significance and to identify areas of subtle research nuances through mutual debates, discourse and discussions. Elenctic method is used wherein knowledge progresses through articulation, cross-examination and rejection of spurious hypotheses. Thus, probe aims at encouraging scholars to think against the grain by unmasking the stereotype and dogmatic that has taken the mould of r…
Marketing of ethnic food experiences: Authentication analysis of Indian cuisine abroad
This study aims to examine how Indian restaurants outside of India negotiate and project authenticity onto toured markers (both tangible and intangible) in ‘restaurant/eatertainment’ experiences. Using predetermined authenticity criteria and an a priori list of authenticating markers, this study to scrutinizes the online promotional content of north Indian food in the USA. Based on the results, it is noted that the restaurant owners use preferred…
Translating museums: A counterhistory of South Asian Museology
Taking responsibility for tourism
Authenticating Ethnic Tourism
Authenticity of the objectively authentic
A present-centered dissonant heritage management model
Cultural Tourism Research Methods
Staged authenticity and heritage tourism
Positioning museums on an authenticity continuum
Heritage hotels and historic lodging: Perspectives on experiential marketing and sustainable culture
Heritage is one of the most pervasive tourism resources in the world. Many destinations use their unique heritage and cultural resources to increase their place-based competitive advantage (Munar
Authenticity of the objectively authentic
Marketing of ethnic food experiences: Authentication analysis of Indian cuisine abroad
This study aims to examine how Indian restaurants outside of India negotiate and project authenticity onto toured markers (both tangible and intangible) in ‘restaurant/eatertainment’ experiences. Using predetermined authenticity criteria and an a priori list of authenticating markers, this study to scrutinizes the online promotional content of north Indian food in the USA. Based on the results, it is noted that the restaurant owners use preferred…
Authenticity and the authentication of heritage: Dialogical perceptiveness
The dialogue on authenticity continues to evolve across different temporalities and disciplines. This editorial for the special issue summarizes contemporary progress made by scholars of heritage tourism and shares innovative corridors for deep deliberations. A broad spectrum of provocative ideas are touched upon, ranging from host–guest authentication and intangible heritage to knowledge transfer processes, authenticating heritage in fairytale s…
Present-centered dialogue with heritage representations
A present-centered dissonant heritage management model
Brand authenticity of heritage festivals
Soft power analysis in alienated borderline tourism
This study uses a combined content-semiotic analysis technique to identify visual representations of an alienated frontier between India and Pakistan. Additionally, narratives of tourism marketers, articles from leading newspapers, and online visitor reviews are analyzed to gain an insight into the manner the ‘closing of border gates’ ceremony is orchestrated and experienced. It is found that most tourism marketers offer distorted images of the b…
A cultural hospitality framework for heritage accommodations
This study suggests a sustainable cultural hospitality framework to measure the degree to which heritage accommodations across the world adhere to a cultural code. Using a case study approach, the framework is applied to a palace resort in the state of Rajasthan (India) and found to be robust
Translating museums: A counterhistory of South Asian Museology
Authenticating Ethnic Tourism
Exploring Market Influences on Curator Perceptions of Authenticity
Keywords: authenticitycurator perceptionsmuseum markets
Education, values and ethics in international heritage: Learning to respect
The book offers a critical view of eurocentric notions of museum practice and illustrates that the contemporary era is using a more inclusive and hybrid way of guiding curatorial work and artifact
Cultural heritage and the challenge of sustainability
In the recent years, the heritage conservation discourse has broadened its parameters to relate to macro environment factors such as technological and natural. In her book, Barthel-Boucher takes a
Cultural Tourism Research Methods
Life Dynamism Explorations on Perceived Quality of Life and Social Exchange Paradigms in Casino Settings
This study explores quality of life (QOL) perceptions associated with casino gambling and examines the causes of variations in those perceptions using an integrated version of age-graded phenomenon and life characteristics. This study further examines the affects of gaming activity participation as a leisure activity on subsequent support for the casino gambling activity within the context of social exchange theory (SET). Data were collected from…
Staged authenticity and heritage tourism
Defining Authenticity and Its Determinants: Toward an Authenticity Flow Model
The purpose of this study was to broaden the understanding of authenticity through an empirical examination of Scottish goods sold to tourists at retail outlets and festivals. The focus was on vendors selling Scottish merchandise in the United States and Canada. A majority of the vendors describe authenticity as a representation of Scottish traditions, and their definitions do not vary with their socioeconomic characteristics but with the percent…
Exploring Market Influences on Curator Perceptions of Authenticity
Keywords: authenticitycurator perceptionsmuseum markets
Positioning museums on an authenticity continuum
Life Dynamism Explorations on Perceived Quality of Life and Social Exchange Paradigms in Casino Settings
This study explores quality of life (QOL) perceptions associated with casino gambling and examines the causes of variations in those perceptions using an integrated version of age-graded phenomenon and life characteristics. This study further examines the affects of gaming activity participation as a leisure activity on subsequent support for the casino gambling activity within the context of social exchange theory (SET). Data were collected from…
Sustainable Marketing of Cultural and Heritage Tourism
Cultural attractions play an important role in tourism at all levels, and attract huge numbers of tourists interested in heritage and the arts. Cultural Heritage Tourism has positive economic and social impacts but can also have negative impacts on communities and regions. This book draws together and links ideas of tourism from sustainable marketing perspectives and embeds it within a heritage management setting. Through a discussion and analysi…
Cultural Tourism Research Methods
Taking responsibility for tourism
Authenticating Ethnic Tourism
Authenticity of the objectively authentic
A present-centered dissonant heritage management model
Marketing of ethnic food experiences: Authentication analysis of Indian cuisine abroad
This study aims to examine how Indian restaurants outside of India negotiate and project authenticity onto toured markers (both tangible and intangible) in ‘restaurant/eatertainment’ experiences. Using predetermined authenticity criteria and an a priori list of authenticating markers, this study to scrutinizes the online promotional content of north Indian food in the USA. Based on the results, it is noted that the restaurant owners use preferred…
Translating museums: A counterhistory of South Asian Museology
Cultural heritage and the challenge of sustainability
In the recent years, the heritage conservation discourse has broadened its parameters to relate to macro environment factors such as technological and natural. In her book, Barthel-Boucher takes a
Ethics of Gambling
This exclusive department is created to include findings of special significance and to identify areas of subtle research nuances through mutual debates, discourse and discussions. Elenctic method is used wherein knowledge progresses through articulation, cross-examination and rejection of spurious hypotheses. Thus, probe aims at encouraging scholars to think against the grain by unmasking the stereotype and dogmatic that has taken the mould of r…
A cultural hospitality framework for heritage accommodations
This study suggests a sustainable cultural hospitality framework to measure the degree to which heritage accommodations across the world adhere to a cultural code. Using a case study approach, the framework is applied to a palace resort in the state of Rajasthan (India) and found to be robust
Heritage hotels and historic lodging: Perspectives on experiential marketing and sustainable culture
Heritage is one of the most pervasive tourism resources in the world. Many destinations use their unique heritage and cultural resources to increase their place-based competitive advantage (Munar
Education, values and ethics in international heritage: Learning to respect
The book offers a critical view of eurocentric notions of museum practice and illustrates that the contemporary era is using a more inclusive and hybrid way of guiding curatorial work and artifact
Present-centered dialogue with heritage representations
Soft power analysis in alienated borderline tourism
This study uses a combined content-semiotic analysis technique to identify visual representations of an alienated frontier between India and Pakistan. Additionally, narratives of tourism marketers, articles from leading newspapers, and online visitor reviews are analyzed to gain an insight into the manner the ‘closing of border gates’ ceremony is orchestrated and experienced. It is found that most tourism marketers offer distorted images of the b…
Heritage branding of India: A Gandhi tourism perspective
Brand authenticity of heritage festivals
Authenticity and the authentication of heritage: Dialogical perceptiveness
The dialogue on authenticity continues to evolve across different temporalities and disciplines. This editorial for the special issue summarizes contemporary progress made by scholars of heritage tourism and shares innovative corridors for deep deliberations. A broad spectrum of provocative ideas are touched upon, ranging from host–guest authentication and intangible heritage to knowledge transfer processes, authenticating heritage in fairytale s…
Examining sustainability of heritage on wheels: The case of autorickshaws in Delhi (India)
This study examines autorickshaws (ARs), a traditional mode of transportation in a popular heritage tourism city from a sustainability standpoint. The overarching purpose is to suggest a modified ASI (Avoid-Shift-Improve) model that lends credibility to the auto rickshaw as a cultural and social/economically and environmentally viable form of personalized transport. This study argues that by meaningfully integrating the AR rides into a heritage t…
Resilience, Authenticity, and Digital Heritage Tourism
This book examines the authentication of authenticity in heritage tourism by using a resilient smart systems approach. It discusses the emerging trends in cultural tourism and outlines, in a detailed manner, their significance in negotiating authenticity in tourism experience. Authentication of authenticity is an evolving, less-researched field of inquiry in heritage tourism. This book advances research on this subject by exploring different auth…
Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Geography (18 works) · Tourism (18 works) · Archaeology (15 works) · Business (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Cultural heritage (10 works) · Heritage tourism (9 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (9 works)