Melanie Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Highlands and Islands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1818-1511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Years of creative tourism
This research note reports on a panel discussion held at the 2025 ATLAS Conference on 25 years of creative tourism development. Since creative tourism was first defined in 2000, the concept has gone through an evolution from a narrow base of craft workshops towards a broader articulation of creativity and tourism. Three panellists discuss the evolution of creative tourism in the past quarter-century, with the aim of highlighting the origins of th…
Engaging Young Dads in the Discussion of Family Health
Inclusion of fathers in research and initiatives related to maternal and infant health outcomes is limited, though fathers’ involvement with their families has been associated with positive family health outcomes. Engagement of fathers must be done with an understanding of how men view health and fatherhood. This study explores if and how fatherhood influences men’s health perceptions and health care-seeking behaviors. This observational study ut…
National preschool directors’ best practices for teacher retention
A qualitative descriptive case study was utilised for interviewing 10 preschool directors and 10 preschool teachers recruited from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) website. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to describe preschool directors’ best practices that facilitate increased teacher retention. The emergent themes that both preschool teachers and directors considered necessary to pr…
Pregnancy-related anxiety and maternal-foetal bond
The maternal-foetal bond (MFB) is the affectionate relationship between a mother and unborn child, and pregnancy-related anxiety (PrA) is a specific and distinct anxiety. Both are associated with adverse maternal/infant outcomes, but few have examined their relationship. Addressing previous limitations and gaps in the literature, this study examined the relationship between PrA and MFB, and factors (i.e., partner support, pregnancy and foetal sex…
Bridging cross-cultural assessment gaps
Objective: Effective screening tools are crucial to support the mental health of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia. Pictorial assessments are suggested as a solution to the cultural and linguistical barriers and translation complications, often encountered in text-based assessments. This study developed and validated a pictorial scale to assess psychological distress. Method: Participants, who were general comm…
An assessment of visited landscapes using a Cultural Ecosystem Services framework
According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), Ecosystem Services are divided into four main categories: supporting, regulating, provisioning, and cultural services. The Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) represent the physical, intellectual, and spiritual interactions with ecosystems and land/seascapes. The current work aims to strengthen the links between CES and Tourism, by presenting how the conceptualization of CES can contribute to…
The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity
Background: The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity (UT) is a transdiagnostic, emotion-focused treatment adapted for use in residential group treatment. This study examined the effect of UT implementation across five years of treatment delivery. Methods: Data were collected by questionnaire at admission, discharge (DC), and 6-month follow-up (6MFU). Patient outcomes were measured by the Eating Disorder Examination-Quest…
Taming rewilding - from the ecological to the social
Discourses, Bodies, and Questions of Sharedness in Kenya’s Wellness Communities
This article contemplates the construction of sharedness that underlies the success of alternative lifestyle communities in Eastern Africa. In Kenya, a new tourism niche market that focuses on yoga, mindfulness, and alternative medicine is flourishing. Tourists travel to East Africa to practice yoga, but also to introduce local communities to ‘alternative lifestyles’. By considering Western and Kenyan practitioners’ discourses about the benefits …
Perception and partnership
Tourism, landscapes and cultural ecosystem services
This research note presents a new tool for analysing the benefits of landscapes for visitors and tourists using the Cultural Ecosystems Services (CES) framework as defined by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) in 2005. The authors reflect on the challenges of defining Cultural Ecosystem Services and interpreting and translating these categorisations for the purposes of questionnaire research. Previous studies had noted the difficulties inh…
Glocalization
The neologism “glocalization” has emerged in recent years in economic, sociological, and cultural theories in response to the proliferation of writings about globalization and its local implications. It might best be described as the relationship between global and local processes, which are increasingly viewed as two sides to the same coin rather than being diametrically opposed. The age of global mobility has created more fluid and seamless rel…
Reflections on retrofits
To meet targets on fuel poverty, energy efficiency and carbon emissions existing homes need to be more energy efficient. We report the results of a participatory action research project to explore the challenges associated with energy efficiency retrofit programmes and ways to better implement future schemes
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism
Culture and tourism were two of the major growth industries of the twentieth century, and in recent decades the combination of these two sectors into ‘cultural tourism’ has become one of the most desirable development options for countries and regions around the world. As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report on The Impact of Culture on Tourism (2009) noted, cultural tourism accounted for almost 360 million inte…
Alpine Treelines
Key Concepts in Tourist Studies
Tourism is the fourth biggest industry in the world. This book for students of tourism contains concise and authoritative entries on planning tourism, sustainable tourism, festivals and events and much more. It offers the basic materials, tools and guidance for making sense of tourism and gaining the best results in essays and exams
Taking your Life into your own Hands? New Trends in European Health Tourism
This paper will focus on European trends in health tourism, in particular the shift away from medically-orientated, curative treatments for the physical body, towards a greater degree of self-responsibility through lifestyle-based, preventative wellness activities. Many spas and wellness hotels have been quick to embrace these new trends, and consumers appear to have been receptive. However, there are clearly national and regional variations. The…
New Places in Old Spaces
The aim of this paper is to map some of the new developments that have been taking place in Budapest since 1989, in particular focusing on the role that tourism and cultural regeneration have played in transforming old spaces into new places. The redevelopment of former socialist cities is politically complex, as new power relationships need to be negotiated, heritage values must be reassessed, and widening economic and social disparities should …
Cultural Tourism
Cultural tourism” could be defined as tourism that focuses on cultural attractions and activities as a primary motivating factor for travel. Notwithstanding the broad definitions of culture that abound within postmodern and populist writings, parameters need to be drawn around what is defined as “culture” in this context. It is therefore useful to break the concept of cultural tourism down into a number of subsets. As argued by Smith (2003: 29), …
Politics, Power and Play
Wellness Tourism
Holistic Tourism
Escapism has arguably always been an important element of tourism, but the visitor gaze has usually been externally rather than internally directed. However, the growth of the holistic tourism sector suggests that there is an increasing desire to focus on the self rather than the Other', and ‘existential’ rather than 'objective 'authenticity (Wang 1999). This represents escapism of a different kind—a paradoxical desire to escape but in order to ‘…
Bollywood Dreams? The Rise of the Asian Mela as a Global Cultural Phenomenon
This article will examine some of the complexities inherent in the development of Asian Mela festivals from small-scale community-based events in India, to national celebrations of Diasporic culture in Western countries. Like Caribbean Carnivals, Melas are becoming more popular as a global cultural tourism phenomenon and are increasingly being promoted to white and tourist audiences. This similarly engenders fears of cultural dilution, distortion…
Journeys of Expression III
©2004 Tourism Recreation Research This was a fascinating conference, which focused on a number of important research trajectories that are pertinent to festival studies. The two previous Journeys of Expression conferences in Bonn and Vienna were organised in parallel with the IFEA (International Festivals and Events Association) conference, whereas this one functioned as a stand-alone event, aimed mainly at academics and researchers. The previous…
Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies
Combining a rigorous and academic theoretical framework with practical case studies and real-life examples, initiatives and projects from both the developed and developing world, this wide-ranging yet detailed book examines the phenomenon of cultural tourism in its broadest sense. It explores many issues including, amongst others: the development of cultural tourism and its impacts sustainable cultural tourism policies the role of cultural touris…
The relations of children's dispositional empathy-related responding to their emotionality, regulation, and social functioning
The relations of kindergartners' to 2nd graders' dispositional sympathy to individual differences in emotionality, regulation, and social functioning were examined. Sympathy was assessed with teacher- and self-reports ; contemporaneously and 2 years earlier, parents and teachers reported on children's emotionality, regulation, and social functioning. Social functioning also was assessed with peer evaluations and children's enacted puppet behavior…
Wellness Tourism
The relations of emotionality and regulation to dispositional and situational empathy-related responding
The purpose of the present study was to examine the prediction of adults' situational and dispositional empathy-related responses from measures of emotionality (emotional intensity and positive and negative affect) and regulation. A multimethod approach including self-reported, facial, and heart rate (HR) responses was used to assess situational vicarious emotional responding; Ss' (and sometimes friends') reports were used to assess the dispositi…
Holistic Tourism
Escapism has arguably always been an important element of tourism, but the visitor gaze has usually been externally rather than internally directed. However, the growth of the holistic tourism sector suggests that there is an increasing desire to focus on the self rather than the Other', and ‘existential’ rather than 'objective 'authenticity (Wang 1999). This represents escapism of a different kind—a paradoxical desire to escape but in order to ‘…
New Places in Old Spaces
The aim of this paper is to map some of the new developments that have been taking place in Budapest since 1989, in particular focusing on the role that tourism and cultural regeneration have played in transforming old spaces into new places. The redevelopment of former socialist cities is politically complex, as new power relationships need to be negotiated, heritage values must be reassessed, and widening economic and social disparities should …
Taming rewilding - from the ecological to the social
Holistic Holidays
This paper will explore on the current trend towards spiritual tourism, focusing on the quest for the enhancement of self through physical, mental and creative activities. This will include, for example, reference to holistic holidays, yoga tourism, ashram visits, and certain kinds of religious and pilgrimage tourism. The paper will provide an analysis of the factors that have created a need for personal and collective engagement in such forms of…
A Critical Evaluation of the Global Accolade
World Heritage Site (WHS) status is becoming a highly valued accolade in both developed and developing countries alike.The diversification and expansion of theWorld Heritage List has led to a more inclusive and representative approach to both designation and inscription. Although this could be perceived as a positive development, questions should still be raised about the meaning and significance of WHS status given the apparently indefinite expa…
Tourism, landscapes and cultural ecosystem services
This research note presents a new tool for analysing the benefits of landscapes for visitors and tourists using the Cultural Ecosystems Services (CES) framework as defined by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) in 2005. The authors reflect on the challenges of defining Cultural Ecosystem Services and interpreting and translating these categorisations for the purposes of questionnaire research. Previous studies had noted the difficulties inh…
An assessment of visited landscapes using a Cultural Ecosystem Services framework
According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), Ecosystem Services are divided into four main categories: supporting, regulating, provisioning, and cultural services. The Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) represent the physical, intellectual, and spiritual interactions with ecosystems and land/seascapes. The current work aims to strengthen the links between CES and Tourism, by presenting how the conceptualization of CES can contribute to…
Evidence for abrupt climatic change in northern Scotland between 3900 and 3500 calendar years BP
Palaeohydrological and palaeoecological investigations from five locations in northern Scotland reveal a distinct and large-scale shift to wetter climatic conditions which may reflect a major transition in climate from the midto late Holocene. Radiocarbon age estimates place this transition between about 3900 and 3500 cal. BP, although the transition appears to have occurred abruptly, possibly over a decadal to century timescale. This event appea…
Perception and partnership
Glocalization
The neologism “glocalization” has emerged in recent years in economic, sociological, and cultural theories in response to the proliferation of writings about globalization and its local implications. It might best be described as the relationship between global and local processes, which are increasingly viewed as two sides to the same coin rather than being diametrically opposed. The age of global mobility has created more fluid and seamless rel…
Reflections on retrofits
To meet targets on fuel poverty, energy efficiency and carbon emissions existing homes need to be more energy efficient. We report the results of a participatory action research project to explore the challenges associated with energy efficiency retrofit programmes and ways to better implement future schemes
Taking your Life into your own Hands? New Trends in European Health Tourism
This paper will focus on European trends in health tourism, in particular the shift away from medically-orientated, curative treatments for the physical body, towards a greater degree of self-responsibility through lifestyle-based, preventative wellness activities. Many spas and wellness hotels have been quick to embrace these new trends, and consumers appear to have been receptive. However, there are clearly national and regional variations. The…
In Brief
The relations of emotionality and regulation to dispositional and situational empathy-related responding
The purpose of the present study was to examine the prediction of adults' situational and dispositional empathy-related responses from measures of emotionality (emotional intensity and positive and negative affect) and regulation. A multimethod approach including self-reported, facial, and heart rate (HR) responses was used to assess situational vicarious emotional responding; Ss' (and sometimes friends') reports were used to assess the dispositi…
The Role of Emotionality and Regulation in Children's Social Functioning
Nancy Eisenberg, Richard A. Fabes, Bridget Murphy, Pat Maszk, Melanie Smith, Mariss Karbon, The Role of Emotionality and Regulation in Children's Social Functioning: A Longitudinal Study, Child Development, Vol. 66, No. 5 (Oct., 1995), pp. 1360-1384
The relations of children's dispositional empathy-related responding to their emotionality, regulation, and social functioning
The relations of kindergartners' to 2nd graders' dispositional sympathy to individual differences in emotionality, regulation, and social functioning were examined. Sympathy was assessed with teacher- and self-reports ; contemporaneously and 2 years earlier, parents and teachers reported on children's emotionality, regulation, and social functioning. Social functioning also was assessed with peer evaluations and children's enacted puppet behavior…
Evidence for abrupt climatic change in northern Scotland between 3900 and 3500 calendar years BP
Palaeohydrological and palaeoecological investigations from five locations in northern Scotland reveal a distinct and large-scale shift to wetter climatic conditions which may reflect a major transition in climate from the midto late Holocene. Radiocarbon age estimates place this transition between about 3900 and 3500 cal. BP, although the transition appears to have occurred abruptly, possibly over a decadal to century timescale. This event appea…
A Critical Evaluation of the Global Accolade
World Heritage Site (WHS) status is becoming a highly valued accolade in both developed and developing countries alike.The diversification and expansion of theWorld Heritage List has led to a more inclusive and representative approach to both designation and inscription. Although this could be perceived as a positive development, questions should still be raised about the meaning and significance of WHS status given the apparently indefinite expa…
Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies
Combining a rigorous and academic theoretical framework with practical case studies and real-life examples, initiatives and projects from both the developed and developing world, this wide-ranging yet detailed book examines the phenomenon of cultural tourism in its broadest sense. It explores many issues including, amongst others: the development of cultural tourism and its impacts sustainable cultural tourism policies the role of cultural touris…
Holistic Holidays
This paper will explore on the current trend towards spiritual tourism, focusing on the quest for the enhancement of self through physical, mental and creative activities. This will include, for example, reference to holistic holidays, yoga tourism, ashram visits, and certain kinds of religious and pilgrimage tourism. The paper will provide an analysis of the factors that have created a need for personal and collective engagement in such forms of…
Journeys of Expression III
©2004 Tourism Recreation Research This was a fascinating conference, which focused on a number of important research trajectories that are pertinent to festival studies. The two previous Journeys of Expression conferences in Bonn and Vienna were organised in parallel with the IFEA (International Festivals and Events Association) conference, whereas this one functioned as a stand-alone event, aimed mainly at academics and researchers. The previous…
Politics, Power and Play
Wellness Tourism
Holistic Tourism
Escapism has arguably always been an important element of tourism, but the visitor gaze has usually been externally rather than internally directed. However, the growth of the holistic tourism sector suggests that there is an increasing desire to focus on the self rather than the Other', and ‘existential’ rather than 'objective 'authenticity (Wang 1999). This represents escapism of a different kind—a paradoxical desire to escape but in order to ‘…
Bollywood Dreams? The Rise of the Asian Mela as a Global Cultural Phenomenon
This article will examine some of the complexities inherent in the development of Asian Mela festivals from small-scale community-based events in India, to national celebrations of Diasporic culture in Western countries. Like Caribbean Carnivals, Melas are becoming more popular as a global cultural tourism phenomenon and are increasingly being promoted to white and tourist audiences. This similarly engenders fears of cultural dilution, distortion…
Cultural Tourism
Cultural tourism” could be defined as tourism that focuses on cultural attractions and activities as a primary motivating factor for travel. Notwithstanding the broad definitions of culture that abound within postmodern and populist writings, parameters need to be drawn around what is defined as “culture” in this context. It is therefore useful to break the concept of cultural tourism down into a number of subsets. As argued by Smith (2003: 29), …
New Places in Old Spaces
The aim of this paper is to map some of the new developments that have been taking place in Budapest since 1989, in particular focusing on the role that tourism and cultural regeneration have played in transforming old spaces into new places. The redevelopment of former socialist cities is politically complex, as new power relationships need to be negotiated, heritage values must be reassessed, and widening economic and social disparities should …
Key Concepts in Tourist Studies
Tourism is the fourth biggest industry in the world. This book for students of tourism contains concise and authoritative entries on planning tourism, sustainable tourism, festivals and events and much more. It offers the basic materials, tools and guidance for making sense of tourism and gaining the best results in essays and exams
Taking your Life into your own Hands? New Trends in European Health Tourism
This paper will focus on European trends in health tourism, in particular the shift away from medically-orientated, curative treatments for the physical body, towards a greater degree of self-responsibility through lifestyle-based, preventative wellness activities. Many spas and wellness hotels have been quick to embrace these new trends, and consumers appear to have been receptive. However, there are clearly national and regional variations. The…
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism
Culture and tourism were two of the major growth industries of the twentieth century, and in recent decades the combination of these two sectors into ‘cultural tourism’ has become one of the most desirable development options for countries and regions around the world. As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report on The Impact of Culture on Tourism (2009) noted, cultural tourism accounted for almost 360 million inte…
Alpine Treelines
Reflections on retrofits
To meet targets on fuel poverty, energy efficiency and carbon emissions existing homes need to be more energy efficient. We report the results of a participatory action research project to explore the challenges associated with energy efficiency retrofit programmes and ways to better implement future schemes
Perception and partnership
Tourism, landscapes and cultural ecosystem services
This research note presents a new tool for analysing the benefits of landscapes for visitors and tourists using the Cultural Ecosystems Services (CES) framework as defined by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) in 2005. The authors reflect on the challenges of defining Cultural Ecosystem Services and interpreting and translating these categorisations for the purposes of questionnaire research. Previous studies had noted the difficulties inh…
Glocalization
The neologism “glocalization” has emerged in recent years in economic, sociological, and cultural theories in response to the proliferation of writings about globalization and its local implications. It might best be described as the relationship between global and local processes, which are increasingly viewed as two sides to the same coin rather than being diametrically opposed. The age of global mobility has created more fluid and seamless rel…
The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity
Background: The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity (UT) is a transdiagnostic, emotion-focused treatment adapted for use in residential group treatment. This study examined the effect of UT implementation across five years of treatment delivery. Methods: Data were collected by questionnaire at admission, discharge (DC), and 6-month follow-up (6MFU). Patient outcomes were measured by the Eating Disorder Examination-Quest…
Taming rewilding - from the ecological to the social
Tourism (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (6 works)