Alastair M Morrison

Biographic Data

ID3779963
NAMEAlastair M Morrison
GIVEN NAMESAlastair M
FAMILY NAMEMorrison
SIGNATUREMORRISON A M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Greenwich
ORCID0000-0002-0754-1083
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS100
TOTAL CITATIONS412
AUTHOR COUNT99
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX13

  • Developing the digital-free tourist identity

    Open AccessJing Li, Carol Xiaoyue Zhang et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2026

    How individuals consume or resist technologies is by social identity; therefore, not using or not wanting to use digital devices plays a role in the development of tourist identity. To explore the dynamics of digital-free tourist identity development, 35 narratives were analyzed. Five trajectory patterns were identified from individual plots. Concepts dominating each narrative phase revealed that progressive social comparisons promoted the develo…

  • How real-time social media engagement shapes value co-creation and co-destruction in hospitality

    Konstantinos Rigopoulos, Pernille Rydén et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2026

    Social media have become crucial for hotels to personalise communication in real time, yet the understanding of how real-time engagement influences both value co-creation and co-destruction remains limited. Adopting a time-as-process lens, this paper examines how the temporal dynamics of past experiences, present perceptions, and future anticipations interact within ongoing, situated real-time engagements, identifying critical moments of value co…

  • Beyond thanatopsis: The sublime experience of visitors at natural disaster sites

    Jinwei Wang, Jiaxin Guo et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2025

    Understanding positive emotions associated with dark tourism experiences is critical in highlighting their social significance. The sublime experience provides a new perspective for exploring the association. This research aimed to uncover the characteristics and generation of sublime experiences at natural disaster sites based on two classic Chinese earthquake memorials. Using thematic analysis of messages in guest books and travel-based social …

  • A destination performance measurement framework: Exploring the relationships among performance criteria and revisit intentions

    Open AccessAlastair M Morrison, Jun‐hwa Cheah et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2025

    Measuring the success of tourism destinations is vital to policymakers, destination managers, researchers, and businesses.However, the processes and metrics vary considerably across academia, tourism organizations, and governments since destination performance is multidimensional and multi-stakeholder.The primary aim of this research was to develop a destination performance measurement framework.Survey data were obtained from 403 domestic tourist…

  • My Work Matters! The Sequential Mediators Between Employee‐Perceived CSR and Job Performance

    Open AccessJie He, Xianmei Zeng et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Tourism…2025

    The current literature recognizes the important influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on individuals. However, the underlying process through which perceived external and internal CSR influences employee performance remains unclear. Drawing on cognitive appraisal theory, how perceived CSR influences employee job performance through work meaningfulness and organizational pride was analyzed. Also, the moderating effect of employee emot…

  • Psych ward gothic: Melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research

    Alastair Morrison, Alastair M MorrisonARTICLEMedical Humanities2025

    This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians' approach to communication and reassurance around involuntary hospitalisation. With evidence from film and fiction, it shows that these representations overwhelmingly fall into the genre of melodrama and, further, that this genre encodes conflicting but simultaneous historical anxieties abo…

  • Who sets prices better? The impact of pricing agents on consumer negative word-of-mouth when applying price discrimination

    Open AccessJinwei Wang, Zhihua Zhou et al.ARTICLETourism Management2025Cited by: 1References: 66

  • Developing virtual reality tourism for people with dementia based on meeting psychological and behavioural needs

    Open AccessKousik Mandal, Alastair M Morrison et al.ARTICLETourism Management2025Cited by: 1References: 66

  • The impacts of digital technology use and tourism expenditure on women’s family status: Evidence from China

    Open AccessJinwei Wang, Juan Hu et al.ARTICLETourism Recreation Research2025References: 70

    The status of women is an influential factor in supporting the stable development of families and societies. How to improve women’s status has become a focus in gender studies, with emerging digital technologies and tourism expenditure thought to have potential impacts. This research investigated relationships among digital technology use, tourism expenditure, and women’s family status using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS).…

  • Aerotainment – Toward a research agenda merging airports and theme parks in the experience economy

    Open AccessLázaro Florido‐benítez, Alastair M Morrison et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2025References: 14

    This is the first study to posit the concept of “aerotainment” • Urban tourism destinations can benefit from a joint strategic marketing by airports and theme parks. • Airports help to increase the market power of theme parks • Future research avenues for “aerotainment” concept are discussed

  • Substitution effects in tourism and hospitality: Influential Factors, Examples, and Propositions

    Kadir Çakar, Alastair M Morrison et al.ARTICLETourism Recreation Research2025References: 81

    The main purpose of this investigation was to explore consumer substitution decisions in tourism and hospitality. The specific aim was to identify influential factors, find relevant supporting examples, and put forward propositions associated with substitutions. This research note is based on an exploratory research study and was qualitative in design. The data were gathered using literature reviewing and identifying and analysing relevant substi…

  • From ownership to responsibility: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Tourist Environmentally Responsible Behavioral Intentions

    Hongliang Qiu, Xiongzhi Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sustainable Tourism2025Cited by: 16References: 74

    This research adopts the view that tourists can feel destinations belong to them emotionally (destination psychological ownership). An ownership route for promoting tourist environmentally responsible behavioral intentions (TERBI) is examined based on the theory of planned behavior, with perceived environmental responsibility and place attachment as mediators. Data were collected from two samples in Hangzhou: Gen Z (n = 549) and older generations…

  • Handbook on Sustainable Urban Tourism

    Cristina Maxim, Alastair M Morrison et al.BOOKHandbook on Sustainable Urban…2024

    In this multidisciplinary and multi-jurisdictional account of sustainability in urban tourist destinations, the Handbook on Sustainable Urban Tourism draws together the latest academic research and provide key practical insights on this developing area of study. It not only considers the importance of cities as ideal tourist destinations due to their complex characteristics and the variety of attractions they offer, but also the challenges they a…

  • Hotel employee resilience during a crisis: Conceptual and scale development

    Jiangchi Zhang, Chaowu Xie et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2024

    This research aims to address the lack of research on hotel employee resilience during a crisis (HERC) and the absence of a measurement scale to assess it. A mixed-method approach was used to conceptualize HERC, identify its dimensions, and build a measurement scale. In Study 1, an online survey of 69 employees from upscale hotels was conducted, revealing a five-factor HERC model comprising resistance, adaptability, cooperation, restoration, and …

  • Who wears Hanfu clothing when they travel? Experience-based cultural tourism market segmentation – the case of Xi'an, China

    Lina Zhong, Liyu Yang et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2024

    The Han culture is the Chinese national culture as well as a significant part of the world's costuming heritage. However, Han clothes (Hanfu) are little known outside of China. This research selected Xi'an, a famous historical city, as the case to collect data using the survey questionnaire method. Factor analysis explored the variables involved in the cultural tourism experiences of wearing Hanfu clothing. Two-step clustering was used to prepare…

  • Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: Evidence from China

    Xiaomei Cai, Jie He et al.ARTICLELocal Environment2024

    Rural public cultural spaces are important living environments that improve resident well-being. According to space theory, this research explored the core dimensions of rural public cultural spaces, and analyzed the relationship between these spaces and resident well-being through a case study. The moderation of place attachment and mediation of space openness between rural public cultural space on resident well-being was tested based on a surve…

  • Modelling generation Z tourists' social responsibility toward environmentally responsible behaviour: The role of eco‐travel cravings

    Open AccessJennifer Yee‐shan Chang, Xin-Jean Lim et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Tourism…2024

    Generation Z (Gen Z) is believed to be more socially and environmentally committed. While environmentally responsible behaviour is crucial to the success of sustainable tourism, little is known about Gen Z's specific environmental behaviours in tourism settings. In this research, the roles of Gen Z's consumption emotions and environmentally friendly behaviour were explored based on cognitive appraisal and elaborated intrusion theories. The modera…

  • I do not want to be perfect: Investigating generation Z students' personal brands on social media for job seeking

    Open AccessNguyen M Trang, Brad Mckenna et al.ARTICLEInformation Technology and People2024

    Purpose This research aims to explore generation (Gen) Z's personal branding on social media when job seeking. Design/methodology/approach Gen Z students, in their final year of university, were interviewed about personal branding, as well as recruiters and career advisors to gain insights into the recruitment process and expectations of online personal brands. Before interviewing, Gen Z students' LinkedIn profiles were examined, and then fed int…

  • How Do Information Sources Influence the Purchases of Tourism, Culture, and Entertainment? An Analysis of China Family Panel Studies Data

    Open AccessQiao Chen, Yan Mao et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2024

    Information sources affect people’s tourism, culture, and entertainment buying. It is therefore important to study the apportionment effects by information source type and comprehensively analyze how information sources positively or negatively impact the consumption of tourism, culture, and entertainment. This research analyzed the influence of four information sources on such buying based on data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from …

  • Reinvestigating repurchase intentions for travel apps: A comparison of China's various tiers of cities

    Open AccessZiyi Gao, Jun‐hwa Cheah et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Tourism…2024Cited by: 1References: 15

    The intense competition amongst travel apps, regardless of their popularity, has made repurchase intention a critical financial challenge for travel providers. By combining the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework and the New Economic Geography (NEG) theory, this research examined how city tier disparities influence the experiential features of travel apps and user repurchase intentions. Survey data was acquired from 739 travel app users …

  • The effects of knowledge of tourist civility and Taoist values on tourist civility intentions based on an extended theory of planned behavior

    Open AccessHelen Wei Zheng, Zheng Wei et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2024Cited by: 2References: 20

    Tourist civility is attracting growing attention from practitioners and scholars. However, the research on the effects of knowledge of tourist civility and Taoist values on tourist civility intentions (TCI) is incomplete. Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), an expanded and integrated framework was developed to explore TCI with data from 358 domestic tourists in China. Structural equation modeling was adopted and mediation and moderatio…

  • The effects of foreign product demand-labor transfer nexus on human capital investment in China

    Open AccessHui Hu, Yuqi Zhu et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2023

    Using about 73,000 individuals’ data in China, this research, for the first time, analyzes the impact of labor transfer (LT) caused by foreign product demand (FPD) on human capital investment. Two-stage least squares estimation with the instrumental variable is applied and produced three findings. First, the FPD-LT model illustrates that with FPD increasing, more labor transfers from the agricultural sector to the non-agricultural sector. Second,…

  • Is it a persistent ailment for the city? Urban resident perceptions and attitudes toward informal employment in tourism

    Jinwei Wang, Guoquan Wang et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2023

    Informal employment in tourism is an important component of urban economies. A mixed-method approach using a questionnaire survey combined with in-depth interviews was used to analyze urban resident perceptions and attitudes toward tourism informal employment in Beijing, while considering the residents as both hosts and consumers. The results showed that: (1) resident perceptions toward tourism informal entrepreneurs are positive and negative, an…

  • The effect of destination source credibility on tourist environmentally responsible behavior: An application of stimulus-organism-response theory

    Hongliang Qiu, Xiongzhi Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sustainable Tourism2023

    A lack of credibility in the tourism sector is becoming a social and environmental concern. This article argues that destination source credibility as a destination-level stimulus can have significant influences on tourist environmentally responsible behavior (TERB). Based on the stimulus-organism-response theory, this article developed an integrated model of the relationship between destination source credibility and TERB, with destination image…

  • Breaking bad: How anticipated emotions and perceived severity shape tourist civility

    Hongliang Qiu, Xiongzhi Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sustainable Tourism2023

    How to alleviate tourist incivility (i.e. social and environmental deviant behaviors) is not only a practical concern but an emerging tourism research topic. Advocating civilized tourist behavior could be an effective tool in enhancing sustainable tourism. In this paper, we test how tourists’ anticipated emotions and perceived severity (of tourism incivility problems) shape tourist civility via an extended norm activation model (NAM). A total of …