Alison J Mcintosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3099859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison J Mcintosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcintosh |
| SIGNATURE | MCINTOSH A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1593-700X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 426 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The challenges of international travel insurance for leisure travellers with pre-existing mental health conditions
International leisure travel is deemed therapeutic for reducing stress and improving mental health and wellbeing, although unfamiliar environments can exacerbate pre-existing mental health conditions. Travel insurance plays a crucial role in mitigating risks for travellers. There is a lack of critical evaluation regarding how insurers assess risk, determine coverage eligibility and communicate exclusions. International travel insurance policies m…
Sharing experiences of co-design for accessible tourism
Co-design with people with disabilities is essential for accessible tourism. • Provides critical reflections on co-design research for accessible tourism. • Revealed institutional, funding and attitudinal barriers perpetuating ableism. • Calls for researchers to share experiences to build knowledge for co-design
Ageing with disability, relationships and relational place making: Bali tourism case study
Advancing a social justice-orientated agenda through research: A review of refugee-related research in tourism
Scholars have called for more critical considerations of social justice and tourism that align with the tenets, values, and practices for sustainability, transformation, and social change. The aim of this research was to map and critically assess the status of refugee-related research in tourism, particularly with regards to the extent to which it adopts, or extends, a social justice-oriented agenda. A systematic literature review of existing stu…
Intellectual disability and care during travel
This phenomenological study unveils the lived experiences of care during travel of carers and the adults with intellectual disabilities they care for. In-depth interviews unveiled the unique nuances and complexities of giving care to those who are otherwise unable to travel independently. Their care experiences were characterised by emotional entanglements of ‘giving’, ‘attunement’, and ‘performance’, which span personal, relational, and social c…
Phenomenology of Leisure Travel following Death of a Loved One
This paper advances knowledge around the intersection of death, loss, and leisure travel. Our phenomenological study revealed the lived experiences of seven senior travelers who had traveled internationally following the death of a loved one(s). We employed the ‘MeBox’ method to help uncover new layers of meaning that are not always easy to put into words. The findings of our study provide new insights into notions of leisure by identifying overs…
Experiences of ‘doing gender’ and ‘undoing gender’ in the life histories of women executive chefs
Previous research attests that the chef profession is gender-segregated; men dominate the industry and occupy the prime culinary positions. Understandings of the experiences of women executive chefs in the professional kitchen environment remain scant. This study adopted a qualitative life history method to reveal 23 women executive chefs’ professional trajectories and narratives about their experiences in the professional kitchen. The intersecti…
Tourism and final wish making: The discourse of terminal illness and travel
This paper identifies a new discourse about tourism, that of final wish making. The website communications of charitable foundations whose dedicated purpose is to grant final wishes for adults with a terminal illness and their families were examined using critical discourse analysis. Specifically, the aim of this study was to understand how these charitable organisations construct, communicate and mediate meanings around terminal illness and trav…
The 'MeBox' method and the emotional effects of chronic illness on travel
Within tourism studies, there has been a gap in attempting to understand chronic illness within the context of travel. Researchers examining affective tourism have noted that much of everyday life endeavours to create order through ‘ontological security’ for individuals. In creating this sense of order, positivity and emotional security are emphasised, while taboo issues such as death, pain and chronic illness are ‘bracketed off’. Despite these a…
Volunteer tourism
This chapter considers how volunteer tourism experiences may be religious or spiritual in nature. Tourism experiences are no longer considered to be shallow and peripheral to an individual’s life. Recent years have seen a growth both in terms of the number of participants and the number of volunteer experiences being offered around the world. Motivations to engage in volunteer tourism and the personal meaning derived from volunteer experiences ar…
When words become difficult: A critical reflection of the ‘MeBox’ method in understanding senior travellers’ responses to loss
Multiple dimensions of our experiences such as visual, embodied and sensory experiences cannot always be easily expressed in words. Traditional qualitative methods may struggle to access these deep-rooted complex and emotional aspects. Tourism scholars have called for innovative methodologies to unravel layers of diverse meaning in phenomena. This article critically reflects on a visual tool called the ‘MeBox’. It was adopted in our study to expl…
Uncovering absences and gaps: Using Ketso in qualitative research for accessible tourism
Engagement of stakeholders in the research process provides valuable insights around tourism issues yet can be fraught with challenges. Ketso is a toolkit that can help overcome these barriers to facilitate stakeholder inclusion and collaboration. Drawing on a study into accessibility and tourism, this paper provides critical reflections on the potential of Ketso as a qualitative method in bringing together diverse stakeholders for inclusive dial…
Hospitality & Society: Critical reflections on the theorizing of hospitality
This article is the second part of a critical reflection upon the progress of Hospitality & Society in its first ten years. Analysis of the articles published highlights conceptual contributions made to the field of hospitality studies. Thirteen major themes are identified: conceptualizations of hospitality; migration and labour; lifestyle; social hospitality; hospitality, consumption, global citizenship and ethics; addressing neglected areas of …
Reflecting on Hospitality & Society: The first ten years
This editorial is the first of a two-part critical reflection upon the progress of Hospitality & Society in its first ten years in relation to the original aims and ambitions. Drawing primarily upon the Dimensions database, a field of research analysis indicates the journal achieving multidisciplinary coverage through its publications with the four most popular fields being: studies in human society; sociology; commerce, management, tourism and s…
Theorizing hospitality: A reprise
This was the editorial for the first issue of Hospitality & Society, published in 2011. It has been reprinted to help contextualize the reflections in this 10-year anniversary issue, which consider how the journal has evolved, how its contributions have advanced the study of hospitality and society, and the future for the journal and the field. The editorial provides a narrative review of the disparate ways that hospitality has been conceptualize…
A critical consideration of Lego(R)Serious PLAY(R)methodology for tourism studies
In recent decade tourism researches turned their attention to creative qualitative methodologies to gain the deeper understandings of tourism phenomena. Despite the considerable body of research focusing on creative methodologies there is a need to challenge and creatively disrupt conventional methodological approaches as they are criticised for their inability to be participant driven, capture the co-construction of research context or to addres…
Hospitality artisan entrepreneurs’ perspectives of sustainability
Artisan entrepreneurs are argued to be creative disruptors of business norms influencing societal, political and economic change. Yet, studies of small- and medium-sized hospitality artisan enterprises are few, especially studies of their sustainability practice. This interpretive study used qualitative in-depth interviews with eight New Zealand hospitality operators who are deemed artisan entrepreneurs to glean exploratory insights into their pe…
The hidden side of travel: Epilepsy and tourism
Co-creating knowledge in tourism research using the Ketso method
Tourism scholars have called for critical engagement with transformational co-creative methodologies. Within this call, there is a need for researchers to be positioned as facilitators and co-creators; rather than lone experts. We provide a critical review of the Ketso method. Ketso is a facilitated ‘workshop in a bag’; a toolkit that enables people to think and work together. Ketso can be used for data collection and as a supplementary analysis …
I do my best to eat while I'm using: Mapping the foodscapes of people living with HIV/Aids who use drugs
Terminal illness and tourism: A review of current literature and directions for future research
This research note explores the contributions of scholarly research into terminal illness and tourism. Through a review of previous health tourism research, our search found very limited extant literature on tourism and life-threatening and terminal illness. Specific areas where research direction is needed include a reconceptualisation of health tourism to include notions of ill-health and its implications for the tourism industry; greater under…
Having a voice in inclusive tourism research
Food as harm reduction: Barriers, strategies, and opportunities at the intersection of nutrition and drug-related harm
Research suggests that food insecurity exacerbates the harms experienced by people who use drugs (PWUD). Therefore, improving the food security status can help PWUD reduce drug-related harms. This paper identifies a knowledge gap in public health and harm reduction literatures regarding the relationship between food and harm reduction. We argue that there needs to be a more comprehensive and systematic model of food provision in harm reduction se…
Time for me and time for us: Conference travel as alternative family leisure
Conference travel tends to be perceived as a functional activity for professional gatherings rather than leisure. Yet, there is potential for including leisure in this type of travel especially when being 'accompanied' by a significant other. Literature has been limited on the topic but relevant studies have illustrated how conference travel can become couple leisure with the presence of an accompanying partner. This paper aims to explore accompa…
Using Ketso for engaged tourism scholarship
Theorizing hospitality
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Affirming authenticity
Tourism and Spirituality: A Phenomenological Analysis
Volunteer Tourism: Evidence of Cathartic Tourist Experiences
This Department is devoted to research reports, notes, conference résumés and other significant research events. Two copies of write-ups, not exceeding 3,000 words, may he mailed to the Section Editor, Professor David A. Fennell, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1; e-mail: [email protected]. In all cases, one copy of the report should be mailed to the Chief Editor, TRR
Globalization, Frontier Masculinities and Violence: Booze, Blokes and Brawls
Over the last two decades, two new trajectories have taken hold in criminology—the study of masculinity and crime, after a century of neglect, and the geography of crime. This article brings both those fields together to analyse the impact of globalization in the resources sector on frontier cultures of violence. This paper approaches this issue through a case study of frontier masculinities and violence in communities at the forefront of generat…
Tourists’ appreciation of Maori culture in New Zealand
Heritage Buildings and Tourism: An Experiential View
There has been a lack of attention in previous heritage tourism studies to the experiential relationship between heritage buildings and tourism. The aim of this paper is to explore the experiences gained by international tourists from heritage buildings in a particular region of New Zealand: Hawke's Bay. Specifically, the paper seeks insight into the specific attributes of heritage buildings that influenced the experiences of international touris…
Long-Term Travellers Return, ‘Home’
Buddhism and Tourism
Power-knowledge and tour-guide training: Capitalistic domination, utopian visions and the creation and negotiation of Unesco’s Homo Turismos in Macao
Rethinking Maori tourism
This paper seeks a conceptual clarification of "Maori tourism" from a values-based perspective. While useful as a tool for measuring Maori involvement in tourism, the majority of existing definitions have failed to incorporate unique Maori cultural values and have not been derived from an approach that is culturally acceptable to Maori. Yet, a values-based definition is important for the protection and development of cultural values, as well as f…
The hidden side of travel: Epilepsy and tourism
From frozen continent to tourism hotspot? Five decades of Antarctic tourism development and management, and a glimpse into the future
Understanding Tourist Behavior Using Means–End Chain Theory
A critical consideration of Lego(R)Serious PLAY(R)methodology for tourism studies
In recent decade tourism researches turned their attention to creative qualitative methodologies to gain the deeper understandings of tourism phenomena. Despite the considerable body of research focusing on creative methodologies there is a need to challenge and creatively disrupt conventional methodological approaches as they are criticised for their inability to be participant driven, capture the co-construction of research context or to addres…
Intellectual disability and care during travel
This phenomenological study unveils the lived experiences of care during travel of carers and the adults with intellectual disabilities they care for. In-depth interviews unveiled the unique nuances and complexities of giving care to those who are otherwise unable to travel independently. Their care experiences were characterised by emotional entanglements of ‘giving’, ‘attunement’, and ‘performance’, which span personal, relational, and social c…
Motivations, experiences and perceived impacts of visitation at a Catholic monastery in New Zealand
This paper explores visitors' motivations and experiences for visiting the Tyburn monastery and retreat centre in the north island of New Zealand, and the perspectives of the nuns on the impacts of the visits. Using a qualitative research approach, the paper presents the findings of semi-structured interviews with 22 visitors and 3 nuns at the monastery; all Catholic in denomination. Findings of the research elicited three key experiential themes…
Having a voice in inclusive tourism research
Constructing tourism realities through Lego Serious Play
Established-Outsider Relations and Fear of Crime in Mining Towns
Using Elias and Scotson's (1994) account of established-outsider relations, this article examines how the organizational capacity of specific social groups is significant in determining the quality of crime-talk in isolated and rural settings. In particular, social 'oldness' and notions of what constitutes 'community' are significant in determining what activities and individuals are salient within crime-talk. Individual and group interviews, con…
Co-creating knowledge in tourism research using the Ketso method
Tourism scholars have called for critical engagement with transformational co-creative methodologies. Within this call, there is a need for researchers to be positioned as facilitators and co-creators; rather than lone experts. We provide a critical review of the Ketso method. Ketso is a facilitated ‘workshop in a bag’; a toolkit that enables people to think and work together. Ketso can be used for data collection and as a supplementary analysis …
Time for me and time for us: Conference travel as alternative family leisure
Conference travel tends to be perceived as a functional activity for professional gatherings rather than leisure. Yet, there is potential for including leisure in this type of travel especially when being 'accompanied' by a significant other. Literature has been limited on the topic but relevant studies have illustrated how conference travel can become couple leisure with the presence of an accompanying partner. This paper aims to explore accompa…
Thinking Space: Ten Truths about Australia's Rush to Mine and the Mining Workforce
The sky is falling because the much-vaunted mining ‘boom’ is heading for ‘bust’. The fear-mongering by politicians, the industry and the media has begun in earnest. On ABC TV's 7:30 program on 22 August 2012, Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott blamed the Minerals Resource Rent Tax and the Carbon Tax for making ‘a bad investment environment much, much worse’ for the mining industry. The following day, Australia's Resources and Energy Minister M…
The 'MeBox' method and the emotional effects of chronic illness on travel
Within tourism studies, there has been a gap in attempting to understand chronic illness within the context of travel. Researchers examining affective tourism have noted that much of everyday life endeavours to create order through ‘ontological security’ for individuals. In creating this sense of order, positivity and emotional security are emphasised, while taboo issues such as death, pain and chronic illness are ‘bracketed off’. Despite these a…
Tourism and final wish making: The discourse of terminal illness and travel
This paper identifies a new discourse about tourism, that of final wish making. The website communications of charitable foundations whose dedicated purpose is to grant final wishes for adults with a terminal illness and their families were examined using critical discourse analysis. Specifically, the aim of this study was to understand how these charitable organisations construct, communicate and mediate meanings around terminal illness and trav…
Political Perceptions of Population Stabilization and Decline
Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies
Disturbing the Nest assesses the future of the as an institution through an historical and comparative analysis of the nature, causes, and social implications of change in advanced western societies such as the United States, New Zealand, and Switzerland by focusing on the one society in which decline is found to be the greatest, Sweden. The founding of the modern Swedish welfare state was based in large part on the belief that it was necessary f…
Affirming authenticity
The psychology of tourism (Second Edition)
Quality issues in heritage visitor attractions
Rethinking Maori tourism
This paper seeks a conceptual clarification of "Maori tourism" from a values-based perspective. While useful as a tool for measuring Maori involvement in tourism, the majority of existing definitions have failed to incorporate unique Maori cultural values and have not been derived from an approach that is culturally acceptable to Maori. Yet, a values-based definition is important for the protection and development of cultural values, as well as f…
Tourists’ appreciation of Maori culture in New Zealand
Understanding Tourist Behavior Using Means–End Chain Theory
A Cultural Encounter through Volunteer Tourism: Towards the Ideals of Sustainable Tourism?
International volunteering is increasingly recognised as a form of alternative tourism. However, the nature of the ‘alternative’ experience gained, and the ensuing narrative between host and volunteer, remains under-explored in published research, especially in volunteer tourism research within a cultural context in a developed nation. This paper examines the nexus between volunteer tourism and cultural tourism in the search for alternative and s…
Heritage Buildings and Tourism: An Experiential View
There has been a lack of attention in previous heritage tourism studies to the experiential relationship between heritage buildings and tourism. The aim of this paper is to explore the experiences gained by international tourists from heritage buildings in a particular region of New Zealand: Hawke's Bay. Specifically, the paper seeks insight into the specific attributes of heritage buildings that influenced the experiences of international touris…
Volunteer Tourism: Evidence of Cathartic Tourist Experiences
This Department is devoted to research reports, notes, conference résumés and other significant research events. Two copies of write-ups, not exceeding 3,000 words, may he mailed to the Section Editor, Professor David A. Fennell, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1; e-mail: [email protected]. In all cases, one copy of the report should be mailed to the Chief Editor, TRR
Commercial Homes in Tourism: An International Perspective
This volume is the first to examine the commercial home from an international perspective, paying attention to the frequently occurring but often neglected forms of commercial accommodation including farmstays, historic houses, and self-catering accommodation. Conceptually, it helps to explain a range of behaviours and practices, for example the importance of setting and the nature of the host/guest exchange. The idea of home provides a conceptua…
Spiritual Hosting and Tourism: The Host-Guest Dimension
This paper contributes to an understanding of how spirituality and faith can shape the nature of the hosttourist encounter. Specifically, using the case of the New Zealand HIT (Hosting Israeli Travellers) network, this paper explores the phenomenon of ‘spiritual hosting’ and its influence on the host-guest interaction. By applying assumptions based on the ‘Value-Stretch Model’ and analysis of in-depth interviews, the paper characterizes the natur…
Obituary
Globalization, Frontier Masculinities and Violence: Booze, Blokes and Brawls
Over the last two decades, two new trajectories have taken hold in criminology—the study of masculinity and crime, after a century of neglect, and the geography of crime. This article brings both those fields together to analyse the impact of globalization in the resources sector on frontier cultures of violence. This paper approaches this issue through a case study of frontier masculinities and violence in communities at the forefront of generat…
From frozen continent to tourism hotspot? Five decades of Antarctic tourism development and management, and a glimpse into the future
Theorizing hospitality
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Thinking Space: Ten Truths about Australia's Rush to Mine and the Mining Workforce
The sky is falling because the much-vaunted mining ‘boom’ is heading for ‘bust’. The fear-mongering by politicians, the industry and the media has begun in earnest. On ABC TV's 7:30 program on 22 August 2012, Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott blamed the Minerals Resource Rent Tax and the Carbon Tax for making ‘a bad investment environment much, much worse’ for the mining industry. The following day, Australia's Resources and Energy Minister M…
Established-Outsider Relations and Fear of Crime in Mining Towns
Using Elias and Scotson's (1994) account of established-outsider relations, this article examines how the organizational capacity of specific social groups is significant in determining the quality of crime-talk in isolated and rural settings. In particular, social 'oldness' and notions of what constitutes 'community' are significant in determining what activities and individuals are salient within crime-talk. Individual and group interviews, con…
Significant other voices in tourism research
Long-Term Travellers Return, ‘Home’
Buddhism and Tourism
Tourism and Spirituality: A Phenomenological Analysis
Motivations, experiences and perceived impacts of visitation at a Catholic monastery in New Zealand
This paper explores visitors' motivations and experiences for visiting the Tyburn monastery and retreat centre in the north island of New Zealand, and the perspectives of the nuns on the impacts of the visits. Using a qualitative research approach, the paper presents the findings of semi-structured interviews with 22 visitors and 3 nuns at the monastery; all Catholic in denomination. Findings of the research elicited three key experiential themes…
A place for healthy activity’: Parent and caregiver perspectives on smokefree playgrounds
Tourism (40 works) · Sociology (38 works) · Political science (33 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (28 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Law (21 works) · Business (17 works) · Social science (17 works) · Public relations (15 works) · Geography (13 works)