Adele Ladkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adele Ladkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adele |
| FAMILY NAME | Ladkin |
| SIGNATURE | LADKIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6810-7996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 274 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Digital nomads: Transient social interactions and local (dis)embeddedness in DNA, China
Social interactions between digital nomads and local residents reflect the embeddedness of digital nomads into a destination and what impacts they bring to the destination. In this study, we qualitatively examined the first digital nomad community in China, Digital Nomad Anji (DNA), and evaluated how domestic digital nomads in the community interact with the locality. We identified the characteristics of transient interactions between digital nom…
Digital nomads' work-leisure management practices
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly advanced digital technology adoption, transforming the knowledge work market and mainstreaming digital nomadism. While digital nomads often enjoy autonomy in choosing when, where, and how they perform their work, they face unique challenges in managing the intersection of work and leisure. Yet, literature on the practices digital nomads use to manage the boundaries between work and leisure is limited. This study …
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…
Blending work and leisure: A future digital worker hybrid lifestyle perspective
Work performed by digital means is one of many societal transformations caused by the prevalence and continuous adoption of digital technologies. Free of the constraints of location and time, digital work has the potential to disrupt the mental and physical separation of work from leisure. Using an exploratory qualitative approach based on narrative futuring, work and leisure orientations of future digital workers are imagined in relation to digi…
The lasting social value of mega events: Experiences from green point community in Cape Town, South Africa
A growing area of mega event research focuses on the long-term social value of outcomes and the impact of their far-reaching benefits. This paper questions whether mega events present opportunities for interventions through an exploration of the social value of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in the community of Green Point, Cape Town. Drawing on Chalip’s (2006) understanding of the liminal social value of events, the main considerations are whether the …
Health, active ageing and tourism
Demonstrates that tourism and leisure have a place within the public health agenda • Highlights the value of dialogue between tourism businesses and the health sector • Advocates social innovation as a means to inform policy responses for healthy ageing • Tourism businesses can facilitate healthy ageing events for tourists and residents
Quality of life perspectives for different social groups in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure
While the quality of life (QoL) concept in tourism research has gained momentum, scholarly work has focused on host QoL and tourist-host relations, rather than exploring and analysing the perception, interpretation and understanding of QoL among different social groups in a given tourist destination. Macao is a densely populated tourism destination and designated World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, where local residents and migrants work and coh…
The 'digital glimpse' as imagining home
This paper proposes the concept of the ‘digital glimpse’, which develops the existing framing of imaginative travel. Here it articulates the experiences of mobile workers digitally connecting into family life and everyday rituals when physically absent with work. The recent embedding of digital communication technologies into personal relationships and family life is reconfiguring how absence is experienced and practiced by workers on the move, a…
Case study: Wellness, tourism and small business development in a UK coastal resort: Public engagement in practice
This article examines the scope of well-being as a focus for tourism and its potential as a tool for small business development, particularly the opportunities for tourism entrepreneurs in coastal resorts. The study reports an example of public engagement by a research team and the co-creation of research knowledge with businesses to assist in business development by adapting many existing features of tourist resorts and extending their offer to …
Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze
Business travellers' connections to home: ICT s supporting work‐life balance
This paper examines the role of information communication technology in enabling connections to home for work‐related travellers. Although digital connectivity for work‐related tasks are well researched, the use of digital technology for home communication is under‐researched. The study draws on a qualitative study of UK ‐based organisations and business travellers to explore how these travellers use ICT s for personal use while ‘on the move’. Th…
Progress in tourism and destination wellbeing research
A proliferation of research in recent years has revealed a myriad of relationships between tourism and the concept of wellbeing. These include health benefits of visiting tourist destinations, a product focus on wellness and maintaining good health. Broader interpretations emphasize the complex ways in which tourism can influence the emotional, psychological, cognitive and spiritual dimensions of wellbeing, both for tourists and for destination c…
A Typology of Technology‐Enhanced Tourism Experiences
Experiences constitute the essence of the tourism industry. While the literature has recognized the recent impact of technology on experiences, its empirical exploration remains scarce. This study addresses the gap by empirically exploring five leading industry cases to generate a holistic understanding of technology‐enhanced tourism experiences. The main contribution of this paper lies in the development of a nine‐field experience typology matri…
In search of employment: Online technologies and P olish migrants
This paper seeks to advance our understanding of recruitment strategies focusing on a hitherto undeveloped research area, which scrutinises the relationship between social media and recruitment strategies in the context of facilitating international migration. The case study used to explore this activity is migrant workers from P oland seeking and engaging in employment in the UK hospitality sector. Using empirical findings, the paper outlines th…
Developing Hospitality Education in China: A Case Study of Guilin Institute of Tourism
The article examines an attempt to develop a new hospitality management program at the Guilin Institute of Tourism in China. Using a case study approach, the research explores the process of curriculum review and redesign and implementation of a new hotel management program. Two areas are identified for discussion based on empirical data collection and the perceived importance of and satisfaction with different attributes relating to teaching qua…
Migrant networks, language learning and tourism employment
Career Identity and its Relation to Career Anchors and Career Satisfaction: The Case of Convention and Exhibition Industry Professionals in Asia
This paper explores career identity and its relation to career anchors and career satisfaction, key demographic and job variables, specific to convention and exhibition (C&E) industry professionals in Asia. It reviews the key literature relating to career identity and career anchors, which is followed by a discussion of findings of an online survey of C&E industry professionals in Asia. Study results indicate that the majority of C&E professional…
Leadership Issues and Challenges in the Tourism Industry: A Hong Kong Perspective
This study examines current leadership issues and challenges in the tourism industry with a particular focus on Hong Kong, a trend-setting locality for the industry. Employing qualitative research, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 highly respected industry leaders, all having long-established careers involving extensive local and global experience. These leaders represent a wide variety of sectors of the tourism industry. Study findings…
Exploring tourism labor
Migrant relationships and tourism employment
Developing Effective Tourism Leadership: 旅游业优秀领导能力的培养
This study explores the development of effective leadership in the tourism industry from the perspective of current industry leaders in Hong Kong, China. The literature reviews the key themes in tourism leadership research, which is followed by an empirical qualitative study of 10 leaders in the tourism industry in Hong Kong. Findings are explored in relation to three key areas: (a) how the leaders learned their skills, (b) what makes an effectiv…
Employment experiences of Polish migrant workers in the UK hospitality sector
Polish Migrant Labor in the Hospitality Workforce: Implications for Recruitment and Retention
This article explores the implications for recruitment and retention in the hospitality industry as a result of the increasing involvement of Polish migrants in the workforce. The research draws on primary data collected using netnography, a modern version of ethnography, from a sample of Polish migrant workers. The merits and difficulties of using this technique are explored and the rationale for the use of netnography as an appropriate research…
International Perspectives of Festivals and Events
Events have always enjoyed a special role in the celebration and demarcation of local and national cultures. More recently, with contemporary increases in leisure time and discretionary spending, governments and tourism organisations have adopted events as strategic means to international marketing and the promotion of a particular image. Events have also become an increasingly important aspect of a destination’s tourism product, acting as an add…
International Perspectives of Festivals and Events: Paradigms of Analysis
Stakeholder collaboration and heritage management
Employment experiences of Polish migrant workers in the UK hospitality sector
Exploring tourism labor
Migrant relationships and tourism employment
Progress in tourism and destination wellbeing research
A proliferation of research in recent years has revealed a myriad of relationships between tourism and the concept of wellbeing. These include health benefits of visiting tourist destinations, a product focus on wellness and maintaining good health. Broader interpretations emphasize the complex ways in which tourism can influence the emotional, psychological, cognitive and spiritual dimensions of wellbeing, both for tourists and for destination c…
Sustainable tourism: A regional perspective
Migrant networks, language learning and tourism employment
Case study: Wellness, tourism and small business development in a UK coastal resort: Public engagement in practice
This article examines the scope of well-being as a focus for tourism and its potential as a tool for small business development, particularly the opportunities for tourism entrepreneurs in coastal resorts. The study reports an example of public engagement by a research team and the co-creation of research knowledge with businesses to assist in business development by adapting many existing features of tourist resorts and extending their offer to …
Life and work history analysis: The value of this research method for hospitality and tourism
Mobility and structure in the career paths of UK hotel managers: A labour market hybrid of the bureaucratic model
Blending work and leisure: A future digital worker hybrid lifestyle perspective
Work performed by digital means is one of many societal transformations caused by the prevalence and continuous adoption of digital technologies. Free of the constraints of location and time, digital work has the potential to disrupt the mental and physical separation of work from leisure. Using an exploratory qualitative approach based on narrative futuring, work and leisure orientations of future digital workers are imagined in relation to digi…
Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze
In search of employment: Online technologies and P olish migrants
This paper seeks to advance our understanding of recruitment strategies focusing on a hitherto undeveloped research area, which scrutinises the relationship between social media and recruitment strategies in the context of facilitating international migration. The case study used to explore this activity is migrant workers from P oland seeking and engaging in employment in the UK hospitality sector. Using empirical findings, the paper outlines th…
Quality of life perspectives for different social groups in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure
While the quality of life (QoL) concept in tourism research has gained momentum, scholarly work has focused on host QoL and tourist-host relations, rather than exploring and analysing the perception, interpretation and understanding of QoL among different social groups in a given tourist destination. Macao is a densely populated tourism destination and designated World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, where local residents and migrants work and coh…
Business travellers' connections to home: ICT s supporting work‐life balance
This paper examines the role of information communication technology in enabling connections to home for work‐related travellers. Although digital connectivity for work‐related tasks are well researched, the use of digital technology for home communication is under‐researched. The study draws on a qualitative study of UK ‐based organisations and business travellers to explore how these travellers use ICT s for personal use while ‘on the move’. Th…
Digital nomads' work-leisure management practices
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly advanced digital technology adoption, transforming the knowledge work market and mainstreaming digital nomadism. While digital nomads often enjoy autonomy in choosing when, where, and how they perform their work, they face unique challenges in managing the intersection of work and leisure. Yet, literature on the practices digital nomads use to manage the boundaries between work and leisure is limited. This study …
Developing Effective Tourism Leadership: 旅游业优秀领导能力的培养
This study explores the development of effective leadership in the tourism industry from the perspective of current industry leaders in Hong Kong, China. The literature reviews the key themes in tourism leadership research, which is followed by an empirical qualitative study of 10 leaders in the tourism industry in Hong Kong. Findings are explored in relation to three key areas: (a) how the leaders learned their skills, (b) what makes an effectiv…
Career analysis: A case study of hotel general managers in Australia
The 'digital glimpse' as imagining home
This paper proposes the concept of the ‘digital glimpse’, which develops the existing framing of imaginative travel. Here it articulates the experiences of mobile workers digitally connecting into family life and everyday rituals when physically absent with work. The recent embedding of digital communication technologies into personal relationships and family life is reconfiguring how absence is experienced and practiced by workers on the move, a…
Leadership Issues and Challenges in the Tourism Industry: A Hong Kong Perspective
This study examines current leadership issues and challenges in the tourism industry with a particular focus on Hong Kong, a trend-setting locality for the industry. Employing qualitative research, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 highly respected industry leaders, all having long-established careers involving extensive local and global experience. These leaders represent a wide variety of sectors of the tourism industry. Study findings…
Hotel management careers: A research update
Career Identity and its Relation to Career Anchors and Career Satisfaction: The Case of Convention and Exhibition Industry Professionals in Asia
This paper explores career identity and its relation to career anchors and career satisfaction, key demographic and job variables, specific to convention and exhibition (C&E) industry professionals in Asia. It reviews the key literature relating to career identity and career anchors, which is followed by a discussion of findings of an online survey of C&E industry professionals in Asia. Study results indicate that the majority of C&E professional…
Hotel management careers: Research update 2
Hotel management careers: A research update
Hotel management careers: Research update 2
Mobility and structure in the career paths of UK hotel managers: A labour market hybrid of the bureaucratic model
Sustainable tourism: A regional perspective
Estimating the value of the social benefits to visitors to a large art gallery
Museums and galleries benefit the community. However, with increased pressure on funding, galleries have to demonstrate that the benefits equal or preferably exceed the costs of providing them. This is not an easy task, given the nature of the benefits which galleries provide. This paper identifies four categories of beneficiary: the visitors; the users – those who may be researchers, or from the media or education, who seek information or assist…
Life and work history analysis: The value of this research method for hospitality and tourism
Career analysis: A case study of hotel general managers in Australia
Steps to success: Global good practices in tourism human resources
Stakeholder collaboration and heritage management
Literature Review
International Perspectives of Festivals and Events: Paradigms of Analysis
Polish Migrant Labor in the Hospitality Workforce: Implications for Recruitment and Retention
This article explores the implications for recruitment and retention in the hospitality industry as a result of the increasing involvement of Polish migrants in the workforce. The research draws on primary data collected using netnography, a modern version of ethnography, from a sample of Polish migrant workers. The merits and difficulties of using this technique are explored and the rationale for the use of netnography as an appropriate research…
International Perspectives of Festivals and Events
Events have always enjoyed a special role in the celebration and demarcation of local and national cultures. More recently, with contemporary increases in leisure time and discretionary spending, governments and tourism organisations have adopted events as strategic means to international marketing and the promotion of a particular image. Events have also become an increasingly important aspect of a destination’s tourism product, acting as an add…
Developing Effective Tourism Leadership: 旅游业优秀领导能力的培养
This study explores the development of effective leadership in the tourism industry from the perspective of current industry leaders in Hong Kong, China. The literature reviews the key themes in tourism leadership research, which is followed by an empirical qualitative study of 10 leaders in the tourism industry in Hong Kong. Findings are explored in relation to three key areas: (a) how the leaders learned their skills, (b) what makes an effectiv…
Employment experiences of Polish migrant workers in the UK hospitality sector
Career Identity and its Relation to Career Anchors and Career Satisfaction: The Case of Convention and Exhibition Industry Professionals in Asia
This paper explores career identity and its relation to career anchors and career satisfaction, key demographic and job variables, specific to convention and exhibition (C&E) industry professionals in Asia. It reviews the key literature relating to career identity and career anchors, which is followed by a discussion of findings of an online survey of C&E industry professionals in Asia. Study results indicate that the majority of C&E professional…
Leadership Issues and Challenges in the Tourism Industry: A Hong Kong Perspective
This study examines current leadership issues and challenges in the tourism industry with a particular focus on Hong Kong, a trend-setting locality for the industry. Employing qualitative research, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 highly respected industry leaders, all having long-established careers involving extensive local and global experience. These leaders represent a wide variety of sectors of the tourism industry. Study findings…
Exploring tourism labor
Migrant relationships and tourism employment
Developing Hospitality Education in China: A Case Study of Guilin Institute of Tourism
The article examines an attempt to develop a new hospitality management program at the Guilin Institute of Tourism in China. Using a case study approach, the research explores the process of curriculum review and redesign and implementation of a new hotel management program. Two areas are identified for discussion based on empirical data collection and the perceived importance of and satisfaction with different attributes relating to teaching qua…
Migrant networks, language learning and tourism employment
A Typology of Technology‐Enhanced Tourism Experiences
Experiences constitute the essence of the tourism industry. While the literature has recognized the recent impact of technology on experiences, its empirical exploration remains scarce. This study addresses the gap by empirically exploring five leading industry cases to generate a holistic understanding of technology‐enhanced tourism experiences. The main contribution of this paper lies in the development of a nine‐field experience typology matri…
In search of employment: Online technologies and P olish migrants
This paper seeks to advance our understanding of recruitment strategies focusing on a hitherto undeveloped research area, which scrutinises the relationship between social media and recruitment strategies in the context of facilitating international migration. The case study used to explore this activity is migrant workers from P oland seeking and engaging in employment in the UK hospitality sector. Using empirical findings, the paper outlines th…
Business travellers' connections to home: ICT s supporting work‐life balance
This paper examines the role of information communication technology in enabling connections to home for work‐related travellers. Although digital connectivity for work‐related tasks are well researched, the use of digital technology for home communication is under‐researched. The study draws on a qualitative study of UK ‐based organisations and business travellers to explore how these travellers use ICT s for personal use while ‘on the move’. Th…
Progress in tourism and destination wellbeing research
A proliferation of research in recent years has revealed a myriad of relationships between tourism and the concept of wellbeing. These include health benefits of visiting tourist destinations, a product focus on wellness and maintaining good health. Broader interpretations emphasize the complex ways in which tourism can influence the emotional, psychological, cognitive and spiritual dimensions of wellbeing, both for tourists and for destination c…
Political science (27 works) · Business (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Tourism (24 works) · Public relations (22 works) · Marketing (18 works) · Hospitality and Tourism Education (16 works) · Economics (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works)