Mike Peters
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Peters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Peters |
| SIGNATURE | PETERS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8254-3874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bridging the divide: Rethinking the relationship between academia and industry
The current academic system places strong emphasis on producing an unsustainably large quantity of publications, many of which offer limited novelty. As a result, academics lack the time and the incentives to build meaningful connections with industry. This paper is written as a personal reflection, supported by existing literature. It argues that if academics wish to have a tangible impact on future development, closer and more effective collabo…
Leisure constraints towards accessible tourism: Self-characteristics of people with disability along tourism value chains
Despite the intensifying legal focus on enhancing accessible infrastructure, people with disability are still often marginalized in traveling. To facilitate the advancement of accessible tourism, this research employs the self-categorization theory, incorporating the experiences of individuals with disabilities within all stages of the travel process. Following a qualitative approach, leisure constraints of people with hearing, seeing, learning, …
Tit for tat: How hotel guests can be convinced to do their part to reduce energy consumption
Perception of legitimacy and corporate social responsibility of winter sports tourism leisure providers
The role of sports events in developing tourism destinations: A systematized review and future research agenda
The link between sports and tourism has been widely researched. In this context, many studies have focused on sports event (SEs), finding that SEs provide a multitude of opportunities but also face many challenges at a local level. Despite the academic interest in the sports event tourism field, there is still little synthesis and no overview of research directions. Therefore, we proposed answering three research questions (RQs): What do we know …
Tourism organizations’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: An investigation of the lockdown period
Tourism is facing an unprecedented crisis whose sheer scope is dictating global transformation of the industry. The aim of this paper is to explore how different countries and destinations responded to the initial blow of the COVID-19 pandemic, and what is expected in the recovery and restart phases. A crisis management model was developed using data from 31 interviews with tourism organizations. The findings help identify the actions required to…
‘We did everything we could’: How employees’ made sense of Covid-19 in the tourism and hospitality industry
This study locates the COVID-19 pandemic in the realm of crisis management and by applying a novel paradox and sensemaking perspective, we illustrate how tourism organizations dealt with tensions between maintaining business as usual and preparing for the uncertain in the midst of an imminent winter season. We argue that it is not so much the novelty of the COVID-19 crisis per se but the paradoxes it created that should be considered if we are to…
Diversity in Advance Care Planning and End-Of-Life Conversations: Discourses of Healthcare Professionals and Researchers
To meet the end-of-life needs of all patients, ongoing conversations about values and preferences regarding end-of-life care are essential. Aspects of social identity are associated with disparities in end-of-life care outcomes. Therefore, accounting for patient diversity in advance care planning and end-of-life conversations is important for equitable end-of-life practices. We conducted 16 semi-structured interviews to explore how Dutch healthca…
Influence of Event and Place Image on Residents’ Attitudes Toward and Support for Events
Analyzing residents’ support for events has become popular in sports tourism research. Based on the social exchange theory and the theory of reasoned action, this study tests a model of support for the 2018 UCI Road World Championships (N = 2,265). The findings show that the perceived image fit between an event and a place significantly influences residents’ overall attitude and event support. Furthermore, overall attitude mediates the relationsh…
Media discourses about a superspreader destination: How mismanagement of Covid-19 triggers debates about sustainability and geopolitics
Winter sport destinations received increased attention from worldwide media due to their Covid-19 superspreader status. Using a critical media discourse analysis (N = 1036) for the case of Ischgl, Austria this paper 1) identifies crisis-specific media discourse patterns, 2) analyzes the embedding of discourses in prevailing public debates and 3) discusses the responsibility of media coverage. Our findings reveal scapegoating patterns reinforced b…
The co-creation of host–guest relationships via couchsurfing: A qualitative study
Online hospitality and traveller platforms have spawned novel formulas of hospitality for new networks of hosts and guests, including couchsurfers, who, while staying in the private homes of hosts, explore destinations while living as and with locals. As a growing phenomenon in the non-traditional accommodation sector, couchsurfing has attracted sustained attention in tourism, since, unlike traditional hospitality formulas and even non-traditiona…
Contemporary Destination Governance: A Case Study Approach
"Governance is about managing networks". This quote from political scientist Rod A.W. Rhodes pioneered a whole series of governance studies in different disciplines. Accordingly, destination governance describes the collective management of tourism destinations. Promoting collective action in tourism destinations means dealing with a myriad of different actors and applying various instruments. Probably the most basic requirement is to take into a…
Interkulturelles Management in Freizeit und Tourismus: Kommunikation - Kooperation - Kompetenz
Als Grundvoraussetzung unternehmerischer Wertschöpfung und sozialen Miteinanders sind gemeinsames Handeln und gegenseitiges Verständnis auch in Freizeit und Tourismus unverzichtbar. Umso mehr überrascht daher, wie wenig Bedeutung in einem Arbeitsbereich, den Internationalität und kulturelle Vielfalt prägt wie keinen zweiten, dem Thema "Interkulturelles Management" bislang beigemessen wird. Speziell ausgerichtet auf die Freizeit- und Tourismusbran…
Perception of the Culture and Education Programme of the Youth Olympic Games by the Participating Athletes: A Case Study for Innsbruck 2012
The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were introduced and officially inaugurated in Singapore in 2010, constituting the first new Olympic event to be staged since the 1924 Winter Olympic Games. The structure of the YOG is based on the model of the European Youth Olympic Festival, which was introduced three decades ago. Being a new international sports event targeting young athletes, a major innovation of the YOG is its unique Culture and Education Progra…
Entrepreneurial reputation in destination networks
Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism
Innovation in Tourism (Mike Peters and Birgit Pikkemaat) * The Marriage Between Welfare Services and Tourism--A Driving Force for Innovation? (Anne-Mette Hjalager) * Leadership and Innovation Processes--Development of Products and Services Based on Core Competencies (Harald Pechlaner, Elisabeth Fischer, and Eva-Maria Hammann) * Prospects for Innovation in Tourism: Analyzing the Innovation Potential Throughout the Tourism Value Chain (Klaus Weierm…
Hospitality Managers' Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility: An Explorative Study
In recent years, many factors have influenced the hotel industry to identify areas of social concern most beneficial to it. Staff incentives, rewards, community involvement, and charitable activities, coinciding with increased management and staff education concerning internal and external social responsibilities, have increased. The objective of this study is to investigate how hotel leaders from Hong Kong in high-tier and medium-tier hotels att…
Wettbewerb im alpinen Tourismus – Herausforderungen und Innovationen: Schweizer Jahrbuch für Tourismus 2010
Globalisierung – Klimawandel – knappe finanzielle Ressourcen: Internationale Tourismus-Experten zeigen, wie es gelingen kann, die Position des alpinen Tourismus im weltweiten Wettbewerb gezielt zu stärken. Der Leser erhält Einblick in bewährte und neue Strategien, z.B. zur Stärkung des alpinen Sommertourismus, Innovationen im Wintersporttourismus und die Förderung touristischer Innovationen. Know-how aus der Wissenschaft für die Tourismuspraxis.
Empire and Romance: Movie-Induced Tourism and the Case of the Sissi Movies
Recent literature discusses movies and television as determinants of destinations' image formation influencing tourists' travel decisions. However, there still exists a lack of knowledge regarding the details of such screen-related influences on travel behaviour. This study attempts to shed light on these screen-related aspects and their role in influencing travel decisions and travel behaviour at the destination. In particular, it examines the r…
Entrepreneurial Performance and Challenges for Aboriginal Small Tourism Businesses: A Canadian Case
Across Canada, national and regional support for nurturing the development of Aboriginal tourism enterprises is growing in response to increased awareness of potential market opportunities as well as a desire to improve economic and socio-cultural opportunities for native communities. Several past research initiatives emphasize the need to assist Aboriginal entrepreneurs in developing the skills, products and services required to deliver internat…
Destination Development and the Tourist Life-cycle: Implications for Entrepreneurship in Alpine Tourism
The so called 'new age of tourism' influenced the entrepreneurial paradigm considerably. The traditional model of mass tourism changed into a 'new tourism' which is presumably characterized by quality seeking customers with multi-optional needs, new production factors (such as information technologies), new business models and new management processes. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relvance of the tourist life-cycle model in derivin…
Tourism Sustainability Through Destination Benchmarking Indicator Systems: The Case of Alpine Tourism
This paper begins by describing typical resource and sustainability issues provoked by the small and medium-sized tourism enterprise structure in European mountain areas. It suggests that because of the labour intensive character of tourism, sustained competitive gains for alpine businesses and their communities can be obtained by focusing management energies on improving the productivity of local tourism service production processes or value cha…
Heterosexual Risk for HIV Among Puerto Rican Women: Does Power Influence Self-Protective Behavior
Modelling Asian incoming tourism: A shift‐share approach
This paper provides insights into the relative competitive advantage of Asian regions in tourism. The study employs the shift‐share technique which decomposes the growth in tourist arrivals to selected receiving regions from different generating regions of the world over a prescribed time period. Each receiving region's performance will be compared to the overall performance of the area (i.e., aggregated benchmark). As a result of this comparing …
Internationalisierung der hotellerie — unternehmerische barrieren; hemmnisse und chancen von klein‐ und mittelbetrieben
The article deals with factors that act as an incentive to internationalisation of the hotels in the small‐to‐medium‐sized enterprises (SME) category in the traditional tourism countries, and also discusses the obstacles to internationalisation. The “OLI” approach according to Dunning (ownership advantages, location‐specific advantages, advantages of internalisation) is tested against the results of a survey of hotelkeepers in the Alpine countrie…
The internationalization behaviour of small‐and medium‐sized service enterprises
This paper concerns itself with the internationalization behavior of service companies in general, and tourism service companies in particular, and is based on the literature dealing with the internationalization process (Johanson and Vahlne, 1977; Johanson and Vahlne, 1990). An attempt will be made to identify the problems of small and medium‐sized service enterprises which are faced with the entry strategies into foreign service industries mark…
Entrepreneurial reputation in destination networks
Media discourses about a superspreader destination: How mismanagement of Covid-19 triggers debates about sustainability and geopolitics
Winter sport destinations received increased attention from worldwide media due to their Covid-19 superspreader status. Using a critical media discourse analysis (N = 1036) for the case of Ischgl, Austria this paper 1) identifies crisis-specific media discourse patterns, 2) analyzes the embedding of discourses in prevailing public debates and 3) discusses the responsibility of media coverage. Our findings reveal scapegoating patterns reinforced b…
Destination Development and the Tourist Life-cycle: Implications for Entrepreneurship in Alpine Tourism
The so called 'new age of tourism' influenced the entrepreneurial paradigm considerably. The traditional model of mass tourism changed into a 'new tourism' which is presumably characterized by quality seeking customers with multi-optional needs, new production factors (such as information technologies), new business models and new management processes. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relvance of the tourist life-cycle model in derivin…
The co-creation of host–guest relationships via couchsurfing: A qualitative study
Online hospitality and traveller platforms have spawned novel formulas of hospitality for new networks of hosts and guests, including couchsurfers, who, while staying in the private homes of hosts, explore destinations while living as and with locals. As a growing phenomenon in the non-traditional accommodation sector, couchsurfing has attracted sustained attention in tourism, since, unlike traditional hospitality formulas and even non-traditiona…
Tit for tat: How hotel guests can be convinced to do their part to reduce energy consumption
Hospitality Managers' Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility: An Explorative Study
In recent years, many factors have influenced the hotel industry to identify areas of social concern most beneficial to it. Staff incentives, rewards, community involvement, and charitable activities, coinciding with increased management and staff education concerning internal and external social responsibilities, have increased. The objective of this study is to investigate how hotel leaders from Hong Kong in high-tier and medium-tier hotels att…
Entrepreneurial Performance and Challenges for Aboriginal Small Tourism Businesses: A Canadian Case
Across Canada, national and regional support for nurturing the development of Aboriginal tourism enterprises is growing in response to increased awareness of potential market opportunities as well as a desire to improve economic and socio-cultural opportunities for native communities. Several past research initiatives emphasize the need to assist Aboriginal entrepreneurs in developing the skills, products and services required to deliver internat…
Perception of the Culture and Education Programme of the Youth Olympic Games by the Participating Athletes: A Case Study for Innsbruck 2012
The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were introduced and officially inaugurated in Singapore in 2010, constituting the first new Olympic event to be staged since the 1924 Winter Olympic Games. The structure of the YOG is based on the model of the European Youth Olympic Festival, which was introduced three decades ago. Being a new international sports event targeting young athletes, a major innovation of the YOG is its unique Culture and Education Progra…
Tourism Sustainability Through Destination Benchmarking Indicator Systems: The Case of Alpine Tourism
This paper begins by describing typical resource and sustainability issues provoked by the small and medium-sized tourism enterprise structure in European mountain areas. It suggests that because of the labour intensive character of tourism, sustained competitive gains for alpine businesses and their communities can be obtained by focusing management energies on improving the productivity of local tourism service production processes or value cha…
Modelling Asian incoming tourism: A shift‐share approach
This paper provides insights into the relative competitive advantage of Asian regions in tourism. The study employs the shift‐share technique which decomposes the growth in tourist arrivals to selected receiving regions from different generating regions of the world over a prescribed time period. Each receiving region's performance will be compared to the overall performance of the area (i.e., aggregated benchmark). As a result of this comparing …
The internationalization behaviour of small‐and medium‐sized service enterprises
This paper concerns itself with the internationalization behavior of service companies in general, and tourism service companies in particular, and is based on the literature dealing with the internationalization process (Johanson and Vahlne, 1977; Johanson and Vahlne, 1990). An attempt will be made to identify the problems of small and medium‐sized service enterprises which are faced with the entry strategies into foreign service industries mark…
Internationalisierung der hotellerie — unternehmerische barrieren; hemmnisse und chancen von klein‐ und mittelbetrieben
The article deals with factors that act as an incentive to internationalisation of the hotels in the small‐to‐medium‐sized enterprises (SME) category in the traditional tourism countries, and also discusses the obstacles to internationalisation. The “OLI” approach according to Dunning (ownership advantages, location‐specific advantages, advantages of internalisation) is tested against the results of a survey of hotelkeepers in the Alpine countrie…
Heterosexual Risk for HIV Among Puerto Rican Women: Does Power Influence Self-Protective Behavior
Modelling Asian incoming tourism: A shift‐share approach
This paper provides insights into the relative competitive advantage of Asian regions in tourism. The study employs the shift‐share technique which decomposes the growth in tourist arrivals to selected receiving regions from different generating regions of the world over a prescribed time period. Each receiving region's performance will be compared to the overall performance of the area (i.e., aggregated benchmark). As a result of this comparing …
Tourism Sustainability Through Destination Benchmarking Indicator Systems: The Case of Alpine Tourism
This paper begins by describing typical resource and sustainability issues provoked by the small and medium-sized tourism enterprise structure in European mountain areas. It suggests that because of the labour intensive character of tourism, sustained competitive gains for alpine businesses and their communities can be obtained by focusing management energies on improving the productivity of local tourism service production processes or value cha…
Destination Development and the Tourist Life-cycle: Implications for Entrepreneurship in Alpine Tourism
The so called 'new age of tourism' influenced the entrepreneurial paradigm considerably. The traditional model of mass tourism changed into a 'new tourism' which is presumably characterized by quality seeking customers with multi-optional needs, new production factors (such as information technologies), new business models and new management processes. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relvance of the tourist life-cycle model in derivin…
Entrepreneurial Performance and Challenges for Aboriginal Small Tourism Businesses: A Canadian Case
Across Canada, national and regional support for nurturing the development of Aboriginal tourism enterprises is growing in response to increased awareness of potential market opportunities as well as a desire to improve economic and socio-cultural opportunities for native communities. Several past research initiatives emphasize the need to assist Aboriginal entrepreneurs in developing the skills, products and services required to deliver internat…
Wettbewerb im alpinen Tourismus – Herausforderungen und Innovationen: Schweizer Jahrbuch für Tourismus 2010
Globalisierung – Klimawandel – knappe finanzielle Ressourcen: Internationale Tourismus-Experten zeigen, wie es gelingen kann, die Position des alpinen Tourismus im weltweiten Wettbewerb gezielt zu stärken. Der Leser erhält Einblick in bewährte und neue Strategien, z.B. zur Stärkung des alpinen Sommertourismus, Innovationen im Wintersporttourismus und die Förderung touristischer Innovationen. Know-how aus der Wissenschaft für die Tourismuspraxis.
Empire and Romance: Movie-Induced Tourism and the Case of the Sissi Movies
Recent literature discusses movies and television as determinants of destinations' image formation influencing tourists' travel decisions. However, there still exists a lack of knowledge regarding the details of such screen-related influences on travel behaviour. This study attempts to shed light on these screen-related aspects and their role in influencing travel decisions and travel behaviour at the destination. In particular, it examines the r…
Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism
Innovation in Tourism (Mike Peters and Birgit Pikkemaat) * The Marriage Between Welfare Services and Tourism--A Driving Force for Innovation? (Anne-Mette Hjalager) * Leadership and Innovation Processes--Development of Products and Services Based on Core Competencies (Harald Pechlaner, Elisabeth Fischer, and Eva-Maria Hammann) * Prospects for Innovation in Tourism: Analyzing the Innovation Potential Throughout the Tourism Value Chain (Klaus Weierm…
Hospitality Managers' Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility: An Explorative Study
In recent years, many factors have influenced the hotel industry to identify areas of social concern most beneficial to it. Staff incentives, rewards, community involvement, and charitable activities, coinciding with increased management and staff education concerning internal and external social responsibilities, have increased. The objective of this study is to investigate how hotel leaders from Hong Kong in high-tier and medium-tier hotels att…
Entrepreneurial reputation in destination networks
Interkulturelles Management in Freizeit und Tourismus: Kommunikation - Kooperation - Kompetenz
Als Grundvoraussetzung unternehmerischer Wertschöpfung und sozialen Miteinanders sind gemeinsames Handeln und gegenseitiges Verständnis auch in Freizeit und Tourismus unverzichtbar. Umso mehr überrascht daher, wie wenig Bedeutung in einem Arbeitsbereich, den Internationalität und kulturelle Vielfalt prägt wie keinen zweiten, dem Thema "Interkulturelles Management" bislang beigemessen wird. Speziell ausgerichtet auf die Freizeit- und Tourismusbran…
Perception of the Culture and Education Programme of the Youth Olympic Games by the Participating Athletes: A Case Study for Innsbruck 2012
The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were introduced and officially inaugurated in Singapore in 2010, constituting the first new Olympic event to be staged since the 1924 Winter Olympic Games. The structure of the YOG is based on the model of the European Youth Olympic Festival, which was introduced three decades ago. Being a new international sports event targeting young athletes, a major innovation of the YOG is its unique Culture and Education Progra…
Contemporary Destination Governance: A Case Study Approach
"Governance is about managing networks". This quote from political scientist Rod A.W. Rhodes pioneered a whole series of governance studies in different disciplines. Accordingly, destination governance describes the collective management of tourism destinations. Promoting collective action in tourism destinations means dealing with a myriad of different actors and applying various instruments. Probably the most basic requirement is to take into a…
The co-creation of host–guest relationships via couchsurfing: A qualitative study
Online hospitality and traveller platforms have spawned novel formulas of hospitality for new networks of hosts and guests, including couchsurfers, who, while staying in the private homes of hosts, explore destinations while living as and with locals. As a growing phenomenon in the non-traditional accommodation sector, couchsurfing has attracted sustained attention in tourism, since, unlike traditional hospitality formulas and even non-traditiona…
Influence of Event and Place Image on Residents’ Attitudes Toward and Support for Events
Analyzing residents’ support for events has become popular in sports tourism research. Based on the social exchange theory and the theory of reasoned action, this study tests a model of support for the 2018 UCI Road World Championships (N = 2,265). The findings show that the perceived image fit between an event and a place significantly influences residents’ overall attitude and event support. Furthermore, overall attitude mediates the relationsh…
Media discourses about a superspreader destination: How mismanagement of Covid-19 triggers debates about sustainability and geopolitics
Winter sport destinations received increased attention from worldwide media due to their Covid-19 superspreader status. Using a critical media discourse analysis (N = 1036) for the case of Ischgl, Austria this paper 1) identifies crisis-specific media discourse patterns, 2) analyzes the embedding of discourses in prevailing public debates and 3) discusses the responsibility of media coverage. Our findings reveal scapegoating patterns reinforced b…
Tourism organizations’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: An investigation of the lockdown period
Tourism is facing an unprecedented crisis whose sheer scope is dictating global transformation of the industry. The aim of this paper is to explore how different countries and destinations responded to the initial blow of the COVID-19 pandemic, and what is expected in the recovery and restart phases. A crisis management model was developed using data from 31 interviews with tourism organizations. The findings help identify the actions required to…
‘We did everything we could’: How employees’ made sense of Covid-19 in the tourism and hospitality industry
This study locates the COVID-19 pandemic in the realm of crisis management and by applying a novel paradox and sensemaking perspective, we illustrate how tourism organizations dealt with tensions between maintaining business as usual and preparing for the uncertain in the midst of an imminent winter season. We argue that it is not so much the novelty of the COVID-19 crisis per se but the paradoxes it created that should be considered if we are to…
Diversity in Advance Care Planning and End-Of-Life Conversations: Discourses of Healthcare Professionals and Researchers
To meet the end-of-life needs of all patients, ongoing conversations about values and preferences regarding end-of-life care are essential. Aspects of social identity are associated with disparities in end-of-life care outcomes. Therefore, accounting for patient diversity in advance care planning and end-of-life conversations is important for equitable end-of-life practices. We conducted 16 semi-structured interviews to explore how Dutch healthca…
The role of sports events in developing tourism destinations: A systematized review and future research agenda
The link between sports and tourism has been widely researched. In this context, many studies have focused on sports event (SEs), finding that SEs provide a multitude of opportunities but also face many challenges at a local level. Despite the academic interest in the sports event tourism field, there is still little synthesis and no overview of research directions. Therefore, we proposed answering three research questions (RQs): What do we know …
Leisure constraints towards accessible tourism: Self-characteristics of people with disability along tourism value chains
Despite the intensifying legal focus on enhancing accessible infrastructure, people with disability are still often marginalized in traveling. To facilitate the advancement of accessible tourism, this research employs the self-categorization theory, incorporating the experiences of individuals with disabilities within all stages of the travel process. Following a qualitative approach, leisure constraints of people with hearing, seeing, learning, …
Tit for tat: How hotel guests can be convinced to do their part to reduce energy consumption
Perception of legitimacy and corporate social responsibility of winter sports tourism leisure providers
Tourism (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Business (17 works) · Marketing (15 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (11 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Destinations (8 works) · Sociology (7 works)