T Baum
Biographic Data
| ID | 25475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Baum |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Baum |
| SIGNATURE | BAUM T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5918-847X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 283 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Decent or dirty work? Revealing the complexities of employment in wellness tourism
Wellness tourism represents a growing international trend for health-conscious consumers seeking to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. It is also a multi-billion-dollar industry that supports workers and communities. Despite this, wellness tourism work can be viewed as a more extreme form of tourism work due to its gendered, sexualised and emotionally intensive nature. Of significance to the current study, the lived working experiences …
Tour guides as climate change agents: Conceptualizing meaningful work through agency theory in precarious employment
The Silent Influence of Ingrained Cultural Practices on Inclusive Policies in the Hotel Industry: An Integrative Literature Review
The global hospitality industry faces significant inclusivity challenges despite serving diverse populations worldwide. Major aspects that shape employee backgrounds are ingrained cultural practices, which are ideals and standards held by individuals within a community, passed down from one generation to the next. Every ethnic group has practices that are exclusive to it. One concept that bridges this gap is Ubuntu, a proposed pathway to achievin…
Workplace environment, feminist epistemology and positionality in a constructivist grounded theory study: Reflections of the novice hospitality researcher
Purpose This paper aims to capture a discussion between student and supervisors to understand the context of this constructivist grounded theory study. Design/methodology/approach Feminist epistemology refers to the need to include more women in all aspects of business, encouraging self-growth and development. Although this is a discussion between student and supervisors, the original study is a constructivist grounded theory study. Findings The …
Too many barriers to overcome? Career challenges of women in the UK hospitality industry
Women face numerous challenges in building a successful career. The hospitality industry exemplifies workplaces where women find progressing careers to senior management very challenging. This paper explores barriers to women's career progression in the hospitality industry in the United Kingdom (UK). The study analyses the views of women in management positions in the UK hospitality industry on challenges they face in career progression. The fin…
‘Boys will be boys?’: Submissive masculinity and sexual harassment in the gay tourism industry
This article considers the intersection of sexual harassment and internal hegemonic masculinity in assessing the experiences of men working in the gay tourism industry in Spain. It reports data from 36 interviews with managers and employers in a range of organizations primarily catering for gay, male customers. Consideration of the experiences of men working in the gay tourism industry allows for an understanding of how they navigate the near-con…
A review of research into tourism work and employment: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research curated collection on tourism work and employment
Work and employment are a significant constituent part of tourism and are gaining ground as an area of research. This review paper offers a critical reflection on the field of tourism work and employment. Drawing from two historical review papers and new empirical analysis, themes within the literature are identified, providing an overview of the current focus and scope of research. This is followed by an exploration of traditions of work publish…
He is the customer, I will say yes’: Notions of power, precarity and consent to sexual harassment by customers in the gay tourism industry
This article explores the sexualized nature of the gay tourism industry and examines how ‘pink dollar’ organizations tacitly encourage incidences of sexual harassment from customers. Drawing on qualitative data from two popular gay tourism destinations, the article shows the embeddedness of sex, as a selling point, in the industry which creates blurred lines between service, sexuality, and sex. This consequently leads to sexual harassment by cust…
Issues of context, capacity and scale: Essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy
The blue economy has roots in the international arena of sustainable development and sets out to unlock opportunities for economy and society whilst protecting and enhancing marine environments. To date there has been no analysis of how this overarching intention for sustainability has influenced the rapid development of blue economy policies at national and regional scales. In this article, we analyse the synergies and conflicts between blue eco…
Tourism work, media & Covid-19: A changed narrative
Covid-19’s impact on the hospitality workforce – new crisis or amplification of the norm?
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hospitality workforce in situ between mid-April and June 2020. Design/methodology/approach This is a viewpoint paper that brings together a variety of sources and intelligence relating the impacts on hospitality work of the COVID-19 pandemic at three levels: macro (global, policy, government), meso (organisational) and micro (employee). It ques…
Changing employment dynamics within the creative city: Exploring the role of ‘ordinary people’ within the changing city landscape
This article is about creative cities and their largely invisible and largely neglected workforce, the ‘ordinary people’ who provide the work- and life-place services upon which creative workers depend. The article considers the nature of creative cities, their labour markets and the precarious nature of much employment within them. The ambiguous relationship between different employment groups within the creative city is illustrated. The analysi…
An African dilemma: Pastoralists, conservationists and tourists – reconciling conflicting issues in Kenya
Kenya is facing irreconcilable tensions by competing interests from conservationists, tourism developers and pastoralists. Concerns arising from the well-being of flora and, in particular, fauna by conservationists; tourists and commercial tourism; and the increasingly restricted use of traditional lands and herding animals by pastoralist indigenous communities, have populated the discourse of land use in Kenya. In this paper, we look into the va…
Work(ing) artefacts: Tools of the trade, totems or trophies
Do workplace artefacts have utility for their custodians beyond the workplace context? A new materiality perspective allowed the conversation to move beyond the parameters of the organisation and into the private spheres of both practicing and retired para-professionals. In this study of chefs, we discover the deliberate acquisition of occupational artefacts beyond their organisational utility. These artefacts betray a post-occupational identity …
Covid-19 and African tourism research agendas
COVID-19 has triggered a burst of international scholarship concerning the reshaping of tourism and the resetting of tourism research agendas. The aim of this paper is to tease out some implications for re-orienting the African tourism research agenda from 2020 and beyond. Arguably, an appropriate African research response to COVID-19 in the context of tourism must embrace a genuine transdisciplinary approach and draw in researchers who would not…
Sustaining precarity: Critically examining tourism and employment
There is consensus that both the social, or people, dimension of sustainability and the workforce are neglected in the tourism literature and policy. Premised on the understanding that sustainability is inherently set in neo-liberal discourses of progress, development and growth we set about to investigate tourism’s performance principally relative to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), no. 8 (UN, 2015), which calls for ‘decent work’. Adopting cr…
Applying sustainable employment principles in the tourism industry: Righting human rights wrongs
This paper argues that issues of employment in tourism raise fundamental concerns in the context of basic human rights. Such rights lie at the heart of intentions within the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which advocates ‘full and productive employment and decent work for all’. This paper contends that concerns relating to tourism employment, therefore, lie at the heart of the sustainability debate within international tourism. At a…
Applying endosymbiosis theory: Tourism and its young workers
Gender and Emotion in Tourism: Do Men and Women Tour Leaders Differ in Their Performance of Emotional Labor
Emotional dimensions of hospitality and tourism service providers constitute an essential research topic, as the provision of high-quality services has clear effects on a destination’s competitive advantage. Past studies on gender and emotions have been limited. Currently, little is known about the extent of gender differences in Chinese tour leaders’ roles and the relationship between such differences and emotional labor. This study aims to inve…
Tourism workforce research: A review, taxonomy and agenda
Human resources in tourism: Still waiting for change? - A 2015 reprise
An Ethnographic View from the Boundary: India vs England, The Fourth Test, Nagpur, December 2012
International Sports Events: Impacts, Experiences, And Identities
The Mobilities of Hospitality Work: An Exploration of Issues and Debates
Working the skies: Changing representations of gendered work in the airline industry, 1930–2011
Tourism workforce research: A review, taxonomy and agenda
Human resources in tourism: Still waiting for change? - A 2015 reprise
Human resources in tourism: Still waiting for change
The Mobilities of Hospitality Work: An Exploration of Issues and Debates
Motivation Factors of Ecotourists in Ecolodge Accommodation: The Push and Pull Factors
Tourist motivations are important factors in understanding tourist behaviour in relation to destination choice; and motivation relates to the needs, goals and preference of the tourists. Extensive research work on tourist motivation factors has been documented in the tourism literature. However, there seems to be a lack of empirical study on the accommodation sector, in particular ecolodge accommodation. Attention to tourists' motivational factor…
Rotating shift work, sleep, and accidents related to sleepiness in hospital nurses
A hospital-based survey on shift work, sleep, and accidents was carried out among 635 Massachusetts nurses. In comparison to nurses who worked only day/evening shifts, rotators had more sleep/wake cycle disruption and nodded off more at work. Rotators had twice the odds of nodding off while driving to or from work and twice the odds of a reported accident or error related to sleepiness. Application of circadian principles to the design of hospita…
Developing the Dimensions of Tourism Volunteering
Volunteers within tourism settings are of growing interest. Research to date has been fragmented either focusing on individuals volunteering in their community (i.e., hosts) or tourists volunteering at a destination (i.e., guests). In this paper, the tourism and leisure literature on volunteering is synthesized and the host and guest streams of volunteering critiqued according to four defining dimensions: setting, time commitment, level of obliga…
HRD in tourism: A role for government
An investigation of employees’ job satisfaction: The case of hotels in Hong Kong
Working the skies: Changing representations of gendered work in the airline industry, 1930–2011
The case for government involvement in human resource development: A study of the Thai hotel industry
Themes and issues in comparative destination research: The use of lesson-drawing in comparative tourism research in the North Atlantic
The development and implementation of national tourism policies
Applying endosymbiosis theory: Tourism and its young workers
Subjective norms
National tourism policies: Implementing the human resource dimension
Tourism work, media & Covid-19: A changed narrative
Covid-19 and African tourism research agendas
COVID-19 has triggered a burst of international scholarship concerning the reshaping of tourism and the resetting of tourism research agendas. The aim of this paper is to tease out some implications for re-orienting the African tourism research agenda from 2020 and beyond. Arguably, an appropriate African research response to COVID-19 in the context of tourism must embrace a genuine transdisciplinary approach and draw in researchers who would not…
Applying sustainable employment principles in the tourism industry: Righting human rights wrongs
This paper argues that issues of employment in tourism raise fundamental concerns in the context of basic human rights. Such rights lie at the heart of intentions within the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which advocates ‘full and productive employment and decent work for all’. This paper contends that concerns relating to tourism employment, therefore, lie at the heart of the sustainability debate within international tourism. At a…
Volunteers and volunteering in leisure: Social science perspectives
Leisure has been widely examined within the context of social science theory. This article adopts a broad approach, examining a range of social science disciplines and applying them to specific phenomena located within the leisure field, namely, volunteers and volunteering in leisure settings. In a disciplinary sense, the sociological view focuses upon the conceptualisation of volunteering as leisure, the psychological view seeks to understand mo…
An empirical analysis of oligopolistic hotel pricing
Place, People and Interpretation: Issues of Migrant Labour and Tourism Imagery in Ireland
This paper addresses the contribution of tourism's workforce to destination image and branding and considers the role that employees play in visitors' interpretation of their experience of place. The focus of this paper is on the contribution of working people to the image of place and the potential for contradiction in imagery as the people who inhabit and work within a place change over time. At the same time, those consuming the place as visit…
Work(ing) artefacts: Tools of the trade, totems or trophies
Do workplace artefacts have utility for their custodians beyond the workplace context? A new materiality perspective allowed the conversation to move beyond the parameters of the organisation and into the private spheres of both practicing and retired para-professionals. In this study of chefs, we discover the deliberate acquisition of occupational artefacts beyond their organisational utility. These artefacts betray a post-occupational identity …
Issues of context, capacity and scale: Essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy
The blue economy has roots in the international arena of sustainable development and sets out to unlock opportunities for economy and society whilst protecting and enhancing marine environments. To date there has been no analysis of how this overarching intention for sustainability has influenced the rapid development of blue economy policies at national and regional scales. In this article, we analyse the synergies and conflicts between blue eco…
Are Tour Guides in China Ready for the Booming Tourism Industry: 面对快速发展的旅游业,中国导游是否准备就绪
This article aims to develop a profile of the educational attainments, skills and attitudes, career needs, and plans of tour guides in China based on a study of both permanent and freelance guides. The findings indicate that tour guides are ill‐prepared for the booming tourism industry. The workforce in China's tour guide sector is currently dominated by young staff with an educational background in vocational and/or professional schools. Althoug…
Short Report on Assessment: Do‐it‐yourself Evaluation of Teaching
The paper is critical of the generally prescriptive approach to the evaluation of teaching by students. Based on the authors’ research work in this field, examples are given as to how the lack of prescription enables teachers to employ evaluations in a far more varied, relevant and innovative manner
Towards a relevant research education
Rotating shift work, sleep, and accidents related to sleepiness in hospital nurses
A hospital-based survey on shift work, sleep, and accidents was carried out among 635 Massachusetts nurses. In comparison to nurses who worked only day/evening shifts, rotators had more sleep/wake cycle disruption and nodded off more at work. Rotators had twice the odds of nodding off while driving to or from work and twice the odds of a reported accident or error related to sleepiness. Application of circadian principles to the design of hospita…
National tourism policies: Implementing the human resource dimension
The development and implementation of national tourism policies
The Role of the Public Sector in the Development and Implementation of Human Resource Policies in Tourism
Policy development and the management of the human resource environment, within both the public and private sectors of international tourism, are characterised by fragmentation at all stages through to implementation. This fragmentation is frequently due to the variety of parties with a role and interest in this area but also reflects the common lack of any clear leadership or co-ordination of this vital area within tourism. This issue is clearly…
An empirical analysis of oligopolistic hotel pricing
Tourism and the host community: A cautionary tale
Lessons from the edge: Tourism and the North Atlantic Islands Programme
Looking beyond the periphery
Mature doctoral candidates: The case in hospitality education
The case for government involvement in human resource development: A study of the Thai hotel industry
A study of the inter‐relationships between employees’ job satisfaction and their demographic characteristics
Past empirical studies have suggested that employee's job satisfaction is related to age, length of employment, job level, marital status, and educational level. This study examines the relationships between demographic characteristics of hotel employees and job satisfaction using of Hong Kong hotel employees as a case for illustration. The findings show that there are significant differences between demographic variables of employees and the six…
Themes and issues in comparative destination research: The use of lesson-drawing in comparative tourism research in the North Atlantic
An investigation of employees’ job satisfaction: The case of hotels in Hong Kong
Heritage Tourism and World Heritage Sites The Case of Newfoundland
Power and Politics at the Seaside: The Development of Devon's Resorts in the Twentieth Century
Human resources development for tourism in rural communities: A case study of Kerala
Considering the relative backwardness of rural areas, human resources development (HRD) seems to have a very important role in rural tourism development. However, tourism HRD in rural communities is affected by a number of drawbacks. In the absence of any significant private sector presence, especially during initial stages, the public sector need to take the initiative in equipping and empowering the local community to meaningfully participate i…
The Management of the Tourism Sector
Subjective norms
Platform (translated from the French by Frank Wynne)
Low-cost Air Travel: Social Inclusion or Social Exclusion
The low-cost revolution that has impacted upon North America, Western Europe, and, increasingly, other parts of the world, is, on initial examination, a development that has created opportunity for wider travel for all sectors of the community. This is certainly true in terms of price in that the impact of the emergence of low-cost carriers on major, generally short-haul, air routes has been to reduce headline prices significantly across all serv…
Dr. Terry Lam
Tourism in Iran: Central control and indigeneity
Iran has a long history and tradition of accommodating visitors and travellers, as well as having a great number of minority cultures within its borders, reflecting its geographic location astride some of the major trade routes in the Middle East. Despite what could be seen as great advantages in the competition for tourism, the present powers in Iran have downplayed the potential role of indigenous groups in tourism, just as they have downplayed…
Cultural diversity in hospitality work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the growing importance of migrant workers to the hospitality industry of peripheral locations in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on data collected through in‐depth surveys of and focus group discussions with migrant workers in hotels in three peripheral locations in the UK. Findings Findings point to varied experiences for international workers in terms of recruitment and selecti…
Political science (39 works) · Tourism (39 works) · Business (35 works) · Sociology (31 works) · Economics (29 works) · Hospitality and Tourism Education (26 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (24 works) · Marketing (24 works) · Geography (23 works) · Economic growth (16 works)