Karen A Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen A Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Volunteering Legacies from the Olympic Games
This paper examines how far a post-event volunteering legacy is facilitated by event organising committees leveraging existing volunteering infrastructure in host communities. The paper uses the lens of regulatory capitalism to examine how the organising committees of the Sydney 2000 and London 2012 Olympic Games engaged with the third sector, and specifically the volunteering infrastructure of the host nations, in the planning, delivery and post…
Case Based Research in Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Events
The Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism
This timely handbook examines the most contemporary, controversial and cutting-edge issues related to the involvement of volunteers in the fields of events, sport and tourism. Split into thematic sections, the primary areas covered include: key disciplinary approaches to understanding volunteerism, international contexts, managing volunteers, the impacts and legacies of volunteering and future trends in these sectors including online and digital …
Co-creating communities
Fandoms as expressions of popular culture are characterized by common interests and a sense of belonging and community. Creating and participating in communities is an inherent part of fandom, with tourism providing spaces for this community building to occur face to face. Overlaps between tourism and fandoms have been identified in popular culture (e.g. film tourism contexts); previous research, however, is characterized by disciplinary fragment…
An exploratory study of volunteer motivation at conferences
Taking into consideration the scarcity of research on volunteering at conferences, this study aims to examine conference volunteers’ motivations by using the push–pull framework. This study explores the motivations for volunteering in a sample of 26 volunteers at the First World Conference on Tourism for Development by using semi-structured interviews. The data are analyzed by thematic analysis. The findings show that conference volunteers are dr…
What motivates volunteers to help at business events? Reciprocal altruism and reflexivity
Volunteering literature is yet to examine the motivations for helping at business events. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by on-the-ground investigation of volunteer motivations at business events. Drawing upon 22 volunteers from different business events in China, the results identify a variety of functional motives related to self-development. The analysis gives emphasis to the subjectivity and reflexivity with which individ…
Cross-cultural event volunteering
The Future of Events & Festivals
The Socialization of Families Away from Home
The focus on individuals in tourism research has led to limited and fragmented research on family groups and their leisure experiences away from home. This article extends conceptual and theoretical understandings within family tourism research by offering a three-dimensional framework inclusive of group perspectives. A whole-family methodology was used with 10 families (10 fathers, 10 mothers and 20 children) in New Zealand as a more critical an…
Visitor centre staffing
Volontiranje studenata u Zagrebu u komparativnom kontekstu
The paper presents an analysis of the results of the research of volunteering of students of the University of Zagreb and Technical and Social Sciences Polytechnics in Zagreb conducted between 2006-2007 within the international comparative research of students in 14 countries of the world. The aim of the research was to collect the data on various aspects of volunteering (experience, basic forms, motivations and benefits of volunteering, values c…
The absence of fatherhood
The lack of research into fathers on holiday is a reminder that understandings of masculinities and gender relations in tourism are absent compared to other disciplinary areas. Research on family holiday experiences is largely informed by feminist gender representations rather than examinations of femininities and masculinities. True gender scholarship requires more holistic and critical appraisals of gender relations that recognize the intersect…
Photography and Children
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 be mailed to the Section Editor, Professor David A. Fetmell, 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
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…
Family Holidays
Holidays with children have largely been marginalised in research that examines leisure travel. This paper is a critical review of the available literature and presents a summary of themes relevant for the study of family holidays. Most tourism work is market-driven and from an adult perspective, with children treated as passive members of the family. Neglected areas include the social and cultural dimensions of the family holiday experience, suc…
Dracula's castle in Transylvania
Transylvania, situated beneath the Carpathian mountains, is one of the travel frontiers of Europe and the most romantic province of Romania. To most of its visitors, Transylvania is associated with haunted castles and vampires, thanks to the literary character Dracula. Even though Bran Castle appears to form the perfect home for a vampire count, this heritage destination is surrounded by debate because of the conflicting marketing strategies adop…
Parent-Adolescent Conflict
Adolescence has been portrayed as a time of storm and stress, and parent-adolescent conflict has been identified as a primary contribution to this state. At the present time there have been few studies addressing the issue of conflict between parents and adolescents. The purposes of the present study were to examine the perceptions of conflict among nonclinic mothers, fathers, and their early adolescent daughters, and to predict perceptions of pa…
The Socialization of Families Away from Home
The focus on individuals in tourism research has led to limited and fragmented research on family groups and their leisure experiences away from home. This article extends conceptual and theoretical understandings within family tourism research by offering a three-dimensional framework inclusive of group perspectives. A whole-family methodology was used with 10 families (10 fathers, 10 mothers and 20 children) in New Zealand as a more critical an…
The absence of fatherhood
The lack of research into fathers on holiday is a reminder that understandings of masculinities and gender relations in tourism are absent compared to other disciplinary areas. Research on family holiday experiences is largely informed by feminist gender representations rather than examinations of femininities and masculinities. True gender scholarship requires more holistic and critical appraisals of gender relations that recognize the intersect…
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…
Photography and Children
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 be mailed to the Section Editor, Professor David A. Fetmell, 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
Co-creating communities
Fandoms as expressions of popular culture are characterized by common interests and a sense of belonging and community. Creating and participating in communities is an inherent part of fandom, with tourism providing spaces for this community building to occur face to face. Overlaps between tourism and fandoms have been identified in popular culture (e.g. film tourism contexts); previous research, however, is characterized by disciplinary fragment…
Parent-Adolescent Conflict
Adolescence has been portrayed as a time of storm and stress, and parent-adolescent conflict has been identified as a primary contribution to this state. At the present time there have been few studies addressing the issue of conflict between parents and adolescents. The purposes of the present study were to examine the perceptions of conflict among nonclinic mothers, fathers, and their early adolescent daughters, and to predict perceptions of pa…
Visitor centre staffing
Dracula's castle in Transylvania
Transylvania, situated beneath the Carpathian mountains, is one of the travel frontiers of Europe and the most romantic province of Romania. To most of its visitors, Transylvania is associated with haunted castles and vampires, thanks to the literary character Dracula. Even though Bran Castle appears to form the perfect home for a vampire count, this heritage destination is surrounded by debate because of the conflicting marketing strategies adop…
Volontiranje studenata u Zagrebu u komparativnom kontekstu
The paper presents an analysis of the results of the research of volunteering of students of the University of Zagreb and Technical and Social Sciences Polytechnics in Zagreb conducted between 2006-2007 within the international comparative research of students in 14 countries of the world. The aim of the research was to collect the data on various aspects of volunteering (experience, basic forms, motivations and benefits of volunteering, values c…
An exploratory study of volunteer motivation at conferences
Taking into consideration the scarcity of research on volunteering at conferences, this study aims to examine conference volunteers’ motivations by using the push–pull framework. This study explores the motivations for volunteering in a sample of 26 volunteers at the First World Conference on Tourism for Development by using semi-structured interviews. The data are analyzed by thematic analysis. The findings show that conference volunteers are dr…
What motivates volunteers to help at business events? Reciprocal altruism and reflexivity
Volunteering literature is yet to examine the motivations for helping at business events. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by on-the-ground investigation of volunteer motivations at business events. Drawing upon 22 volunteers from different business events in China, the results identify a variety of functional motives related to self-development. The analysis gives emphasis to the subjectivity and reflexivity with which individ…
Cross-cultural event volunteering
Parent-Adolescent Conflict
Adolescence has been portrayed as a time of storm and stress, and parent-adolescent conflict has been identified as a primary contribution to this state. At the present time there have been few studies addressing the issue of conflict between parents and adolescents. The purposes of the present study were to examine the perceptions of conflict among nonclinic mothers, fathers, and their early adolescent daughters, and to predict perceptions of pa…
Dracula's castle in Transylvania
Transylvania, situated beneath the Carpathian mountains, is one of the travel frontiers of Europe and the most romantic province of Romania. To most of its visitors, Transylvania is associated with haunted castles and vampires, thanks to the literary character Dracula. Even though Bran Castle appears to form the perfect home for a vampire count, this heritage destination is surrounded by debate because of the conflicting marketing strategies adop…
Family Holidays
Holidays with children have largely been marginalised in research that examines leisure travel. This paper is a critical review of the available literature and presents a summary of themes relevant for the study of family holidays. Most tourism work is market-driven and from an adult perspective, with children treated as passive members of the family. Neglected areas include the social and cultural dimensions of the family holiday experience, suc…
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…
The absence of fatherhood
The lack of research into fathers on holiday is a reminder that understandings of masculinities and gender relations in tourism are absent compared to other disciplinary areas. Research on family holiday experiences is largely informed by feminist gender representations rather than examinations of femininities and masculinities. True gender scholarship requires more holistic and critical appraisals of gender relations that recognize the intersect…
Photography and Children
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 be mailed to the Section Editor, Professor David A. Fetmell, 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
Visitor centre staffing
Volontiranje studenata u Zagrebu u komparativnom kontekstu
The paper presents an analysis of the results of the research of volunteering of students of the University of Zagreb and Technical and Social Sciences Polytechnics in Zagreb conducted between 2006-2007 within the international comparative research of students in 14 countries of the world. The aim of the research was to collect the data on various aspects of volunteering (experience, basic forms, motivations and benefits of volunteering, values c…
The Future of Events & Festivals
The Socialization of Families Away from Home
The focus on individuals in tourism research has led to limited and fragmented research on family groups and their leisure experiences away from home. This article extends conceptual and theoretical understandings within family tourism research by offering a three-dimensional framework inclusive of group perspectives. A whole-family methodology was used with 10 families (10 fathers, 10 mothers and 20 children) in New Zealand as a more critical an…
What motivates volunteers to help at business events? Reciprocal altruism and reflexivity
Volunteering literature is yet to examine the motivations for helping at business events. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by on-the-ground investigation of volunteer motivations at business events. Drawing upon 22 volunteers from different business events in China, the results identify a variety of functional motives related to self-development. The analysis gives emphasis to the subjectivity and reflexivity with which individ…
Cross-cultural event volunteering
Co-creating communities
Fandoms as expressions of popular culture are characterized by common interests and a sense of belonging and community. Creating and participating in communities is an inherent part of fandom, with tourism providing spaces for this community building to occur face to face. Overlaps between tourism and fandoms have been identified in popular culture (e.g. film tourism contexts); previous research, however, is characterized by disciplinary fragment…
An exploratory study of volunteer motivation at conferences
Taking into consideration the scarcity of research on volunteering at conferences, this study aims to examine conference volunteers’ motivations by using the push–pull framework. This study explores the motivations for volunteering in a sample of 26 volunteers at the First World Conference on Tourism for Development by using semi-structured interviews. The data are analyzed by thematic analysis. The findings show that conference volunteers are dr…
The Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism
This timely handbook examines the most contemporary, controversial and cutting-edge issues related to the involvement of volunteers in the fields of events, sport and tourism. Split into thematic sections, the primary areas covered include: key disciplinary approaches to understanding volunteerism, international contexts, managing volunteers, the impacts and legacies of volunteering and future trends in these sectors including online and digital …
Case Based Research in Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Events
Volunteering Legacies from the Olympic Games
This paper examines how far a post-event volunteering legacy is facilitated by event organising committees leveraging existing volunteering infrastructure in host communities. The paper uses the lens of regulatory capitalism to examine how the organising committees of the Sydney 2000 and London 2012 Olympic Games engaged with the third sector, and specifically the volunteering infrastructure of the host nations, in the planning, delivery and post…
Sociology (12 works) · Tourism (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (8 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (6 works) · Business (5 works) · History (5 works)