Lori Pennington Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 2071098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori Pennington Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori Pennington |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5704-7799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
If I Care About Heritage Gastronomy, Does It Mean I Would Participate in Tourism and Preservation Planning
This study explores how rural communities shape social identities and their involvement in tourism strategies, with a focus on the role of gastronomy in establishing community identity. Employing a quantitative cross‐sectional design, a retrospective survey was conducted face‐to‐face with residents of Manabí, Ecuador, who identify as Montubio. The research examines the relationship between group contentment and the inclination to engage in touris…
Metatheorizing tourist flow at macro-level
Develops a new metatheory of tourism that explains tourist flow at macro-level • Universal Forces Theory promotes development of tourism-specific theories. • The theory identifies generalizable interactions among elements of tourism system. • Discusses push, pull, competition, and friction as previously identified forces • Proposes and validates herding as generalizable macro-level interaction in tourism
Measuring resilience of the tourism sector
Using the 2016 Zika outbreak to estimate the potential tourism impacts of a Chikungunya event in Florida
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne illness, is increasing in prevalence worldwide, and experts have warned of the imminence of an outbreak in the Southern Gulf Region of the United States (U.S.). Tourist destinations such as Miami and Orlando in Florida are among the most likely places for an outbreak to occur. The decline in attractiveness of a destination due to the outbreak, combined with the restrictive measures implemented to combat…
Does tourism matter in measuring community resilience
Recuperación de los Destinos Turísticos Después de un Desastre
En el ao 2015 se llev a cabo un estudio de resiliencia en la ciudad de Manta usando como herramienta el Scorecard de Resiliencia Turstica para Destino (SRTD). Los resultados de dicho estudio exhibieron debilidades significativas en la capacidad de respuesta del Departamento Turstico del cantn frente a escenarios de crisis que pudiesen afectar el destino. De igual manera se detectaron falencias en el portafolio de estrategias de recuperacin y adap…
Does location matter? Exploring the spatial patterns of food safety in a tourism destination
The dynamics of travel avoidance
Tourism crisis management
Predicting information seeking regarding hurricane evacuation in the destination
Bed bugs bite the hospitality industry? A framing analysis of bed bug news coverage
Lyme disease
Using the lens of Flickr to decode emic meanings about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on a tourism destination
While many individuals share information on social media sites, a paucity of research examines the use of photo sharing social media sites during a crisis. Recently, user-generated content on the internet has been a forum for a variety of audiences to post and share their experiences during a crisis. Flickr offers one way to communicate emic meanings about crises. This study compares images of Hurricane Sandy posted by professionals and layperson…
The Social Media Capital of the Universe
Research has examined the role of social media during crises in various fields; however, there is a paucity of research in this area as it relates to tourism. Moreover, few studies have examined at-risk populations, such as tourists, in times of crisis. To assess the influence of risk perceptions on the likelihood to turn to various information sources in the event of a crisis during travel, a national survey of 483 Brazilian travelers to the US …
A Flash of Culinary Tourism
This article presents the results of an exploratory study in the online image-sharing community Flickr. The purpose of this study was to profile the users who are fond of online food photography as well as to explore the role of online food photography in their traveling planning process. Grounded in “uses and gratification theory,” a mixed method was adopted for this research. Content analysis was employed to understand members' general motivati…
Destination risk perceptions among U.S. residents for London as the host city of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games
Images of safe tourism destinations in the United States held by African Americans
Ensuring a safe destination is an essential factor in travelers' decision-making, as well as a destination's success. Recent crises have threatened perceptions of safety related to tourism. Under such circumstances, negative destination images might be produced and destination choices might be altered. Thus, understanding the effect of risk perceptions on destination image is a necessary research stream. This study examined African American trave…
Expanding the tourism crisis management planning framework to include social media
This article summarises a case study investigating the relationship between the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the response by VISIT FLORIDA ® . The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill started leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico on 20 April 2010 and continued to leak until it was capped on 19 September 2010. These events caused major disruptions to the region’s main tourism season, particularly the state of Florida. A case study w…
Public sector perspectives and policy implications for the Pitons Management Area World Heritage Site, St. Lucia
St. Lucia faces numerous challenges associated with striking a balance between its economic and conservation goals with respect to the Pitons Management Area (PMA) World Heritage Site. Among the various stakeholders, the public sector, which largely constitutes the administrative authorities representing the general public, plays an instrumental role in site management. They are primarily responsible for policy formulation as well as the provisio…
Destination Benchmarking
Destination Benchmarking: Concepts, Practices and Operations. Metin Kozak. Oxon, UK: CABI Publishing, 2004Academic books on tourism have taken off like hot cakes in recent years. North America has seen a remarkable growth in the breadth and depth of books on tourism. However, Europe has seen even greater growth. Destination published by CABI of England, and authored by Kozak of Turkey, demonstrates the strength in the Europeans who study tourism.…
Profiling risk perceptions of tourists
Cohort Segmentation
Segmentation by demographic variables is by far the most widely used method of segmentation. Factors such as age, income, stage of life, and gender have all been used to segment markets. One factor that has been gaining attention over the past decade is groups of individuals born during the same time period who experience similar “epochal” events better known as cohorts. This paper reviews and assesses the literature on cohorts and uses a case st…
Florida Residents' Constraints to Parks and Public Lands Visitation
The purpose of this study was to empirically test Crawford, Jackson and Godbey's (1991) constraints model (intrapersonal, interpersonal and structural) for construct validity within the context of visiting parks and public lands among the residents of Florida, U.S. Respondents were asked to respond (major reason, minor reason, not a reason, and not sure) to 17 perceived constraint statements that represented the three theoretical constraint const…
Profiling risk perceptions of tourists
Bed bugs bite the hospitality industry? A framing analysis of bed bug news coverage
Does tourism matter in measuring community resilience
Tourism crisis management
Does location matter? Exploring the spatial patterns of food safety in a tourism destination
Predicting information seeking regarding hurricane evacuation in the destination
Lyme disease
Destination risk perceptions among U.S. residents for London as the host city of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games
Cohort Segmentation
Segmentation by demographic variables is by far the most widely used method of segmentation. Factors such as age, income, stage of life, and gender have all been used to segment markets. One factor that has been gaining attention over the past decade is groups of individuals born during the same time period who experience similar “epochal” events better known as cohorts. This paper reviews and assesses the literature on cohorts and uses a case st…
Expanding the tourism crisis management planning framework to include social media
This article summarises a case study investigating the relationship between the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the response by VISIT FLORIDA ® . The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill started leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico on 20 April 2010 and continued to leak until it was capped on 19 September 2010. These events caused major disruptions to the region’s main tourism season, particularly the state of Florida. A case study w…
Florida Residents' Constraints to Parks and Public Lands Visitation
The purpose of this study was to empirically test Crawford, Jackson and Godbey's (1991) constraints model (intrapersonal, interpersonal and structural) for construct validity within the context of visiting parks and public lands among the residents of Florida, U.S. Respondents were asked to respond (major reason, minor reason, not a reason, and not sure) to 17 perceived constraint statements that represented the three theoretical constraint const…
Using the lens of Flickr to decode emic meanings about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on a tourism destination
While many individuals share information on social media sites, a paucity of research examines the use of photo sharing social media sites during a crisis. Recently, user-generated content on the internet has been a forum for a variety of audiences to post and share their experiences during a crisis. Flickr offers one way to communicate emic meanings about crises. This study compares images of Hurricane Sandy posted by professionals and layperson…
Images of safe tourism destinations in the United States held by African Americans
Ensuring a safe destination is an essential factor in travelers' decision-making, as well as a destination's success. Recent crises have threatened perceptions of safety related to tourism. Under such circumstances, negative destination images might be produced and destination choices might be altered. Thus, understanding the effect of risk perceptions on destination image is a necessary research stream. This study examined African American trave…
Florida Residents' Constraints to Parks and Public Lands Visitation
The purpose of this study was to empirically test Crawford, Jackson and Godbey's (1991) constraints model (intrapersonal, interpersonal and structural) for construct validity within the context of visiting parks and public lands among the residents of Florida, U.S. Respondents were asked to respond (major reason, minor reason, not a reason, and not sure) to 17 perceived constraint statements that represented the three theoretical constraint const…
Cohort Segmentation
Segmentation by demographic variables is by far the most widely used method of segmentation. Factors such as age, income, stage of life, and gender have all been used to segment markets. One factor that has been gaining attention over the past decade is groups of individuals born during the same time period who experience similar “epochal” events better known as cohorts. This paper reviews and assesses the literature on cohorts and uses a case st…
Profiling risk perceptions of tourists
Destination Benchmarking
Destination Benchmarking: Concepts, Practices and Operations. Metin Kozak. Oxon, UK: CABI Publishing, 2004Academic books on tourism have taken off like hot cakes in recent years. North America has seen a remarkable growth in the breadth and depth of books on tourism. However, Europe has seen even greater growth. Destination published by CABI of England, and authored by Kozak of Turkey, demonstrates the strength in the Europeans who study tourism.…
Public sector perspectives and policy implications for the Pitons Management Area World Heritage Site, St. Lucia
St. Lucia faces numerous challenges associated with striking a balance between its economic and conservation goals with respect to the Pitons Management Area (PMA) World Heritage Site. Among the various stakeholders, the public sector, which largely constitutes the administrative authorities representing the general public, plays an instrumental role in site management. They are primarily responsible for policy formulation as well as the provisio…
Expanding the tourism crisis management planning framework to include social media
This article summarises a case study investigating the relationship between the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the response by VISIT FLORIDA ® . The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill started leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico on 20 April 2010 and continued to leak until it was capped on 19 September 2010. These events caused major disruptions to the region’s main tourism season, particularly the state of Florida. A case study w…
The Social Media Capital of the Universe
Research has examined the role of social media during crises in various fields; however, there is a paucity of research in this area as it relates to tourism. Moreover, few studies have examined at-risk populations, such as tourists, in times of crisis. To assess the influence of risk perceptions on the likelihood to turn to various information sources in the event of a crisis during travel, a national survey of 483 Brazilian travelers to the US …
A Flash of Culinary Tourism
This article presents the results of an exploratory study in the online image-sharing community Flickr. The purpose of this study was to profile the users who are fond of online food photography as well as to explore the role of online food photography in their traveling planning process. Grounded in “uses and gratification theory,” a mixed method was adopted for this research. Content analysis was employed to understand members' general motivati…
Destination risk perceptions among U.S. residents for London as the host city of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games
Images of safe tourism destinations in the United States held by African Americans
Ensuring a safe destination is an essential factor in travelers' decision-making, as well as a destination's success. Recent crises have threatened perceptions of safety related to tourism. Under such circumstances, negative destination images might be produced and destination choices might be altered. Thus, understanding the effect of risk perceptions on destination image is a necessary research stream. This study examined African American trave…
Bed bugs bite the hospitality industry? A framing analysis of bed bug news coverage
Lyme disease
Using the lens of Flickr to decode emic meanings about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on a tourism destination
While many individuals share information on social media sites, a paucity of research examines the use of photo sharing social media sites during a crisis. Recently, user-generated content on the internet has been a forum for a variety of audiences to post and share their experiences during a crisis. Flickr offers one way to communicate emic meanings about crises. This study compares images of Hurricane Sandy posted by professionals and layperson…
The dynamics of travel avoidance
Tourism crisis management
Predicting information seeking regarding hurricane evacuation in the destination
Does location matter? Exploring the spatial patterns of food safety in a tourism destination
Recuperación de los Destinos Turísticos Después de un Desastre
En el ao 2015 se llev a cabo un estudio de resiliencia en la ciudad de Manta usando como herramienta el Scorecard de Resiliencia Turstica para Destino (SRTD). Los resultados de dicho estudio exhibieron debilidades significativas en la capacidad de respuesta del Departamento Turstico del cantn frente a escenarios de crisis que pudiesen afectar el destino. De igual manera se detectaron falencias en el portafolio de estrategias de recuperacin y adap…
Does tourism matter in measuring community resilience
Using the 2016 Zika outbreak to estimate the potential tourism impacts of a Chikungunya event in Florida
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne illness, is increasing in prevalence worldwide, and experts have warned of the imminence of an outbreak in the Southern Gulf Region of the United States (U.S.). Tourist destinations such as Miami and Orlando in Florida are among the most likely places for an outbreak to occur. The decline in attractiveness of a destination due to the outbreak, combined with the restrictive measures implemented to combat…
Metatheorizing tourist flow at macro-level
Develops a new metatheory of tourism that explains tourist flow at macro-level • Universal Forces Theory promotes development of tourism-specific theories. • The theory identifies generalizable interactions among elements of tourism system. • Discusses push, pull, competition, and friction as previously identified forces • Proposes and validates herding as generalizable macro-level interaction in tourism
Measuring resilience of the tourism sector
If I Care About Heritage Gastronomy, Does It Mean I Would Participate in Tourism and Preservation Planning
This study explores how rural communities shape social identities and their involvement in tourism strategies, with a focus on the role of gastronomy in establishing community identity. Employing a quantitative cross‐sectional design, a retrospective survey was conducted face‐to‐face with residents of Manabí, Ecuador, who identify as Montubio. The research examines the relationship between group contentment and the inclination to engage in touris…
Tourism (18 works) · Business (17 works) · Geography (16 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Marketing (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Advertising (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)