K Zerva
Biographic Data
| ID | 39811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Zerva |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Zerva |
| SIGNATURE | ZERVA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Girona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4161-8782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Living the Transition: How Chinese Post‐Graduation Migrants Use Discursive Strategies in Spain
This study examines the transition after graduation of Chinese post‐graduation migrants in Spain, conceptualizing it as a process of identity reconstruction across social, interpersonal and personal levels. By focusing on graduates as active drivers of migration, this study innovatively situates post‐graduation migrants within the framework of lifestyle migration. From this perspective, the student‐to‐migrant transition is understood not only as …
Redoing gender in lifestyle migrant women: From Spain to Greece and vice versa
Lifestyle migration, characterized by the pursuit of a better quality of life, opens space to rework identity within new cultural and institutional settings. Using a feminist gender lens, this study examines how lifestyle migrant women moving between Spain and Greece negotiate and transform gender roles. Through semi-structured interviews with 27 migrant women and by focusing on the interplay between personal, interactional and institutional gend…
The Brand Personality of World Heritage Sites: Text Mining the Perceptions of Unesco Experts and Visitors
World Heritage (WH) is acknowledged as a prominent tourism brand. However, research on the intangible relationship between World Heritage sites (WHSs) and outstanding universal values (OUVs) is lacking. This study employed advances in text mining, using digital textual data, and Brand Personality (BP) lexical methods to explore descriptions of WHSs. Although existing BP dictionaries are useful for measuring the personalities of destinations and a…
Educational Travel: The Role of Gender Stereotypes Shaping Students' Transformative Experience
Decoding digital nomad destination decisions through user-generated content
Digital nomads are engaged in a complex quest to select their next destination. In this context, user-generated content (UGC) on social media is a pivotal source to glean insights into digital nomads' destination choices. Accordingly, this study investigates the principal topics that influence digital nomad's destination choice. To this end, data-mining techniques are applied to analyze user-generated content (UGC) from the social platform X (for…
From overtourism to overall-mobility
Drawing from the New Mobility Paradigm, tourist cities embody more complexity than mere dichotomies of ‘hosts’ versus ‘guests.’ They are the result of multiple users of urban space overlapping in a highly mobile and hyper-nomadic society. By combining mobile positioning-based data, various official surveys, and the interpolation of census data, this article measures the relative weight of the different users of the city of Barcelona in 2019 and t…
Brand personality positioning of world heritage sites: A text mining approach
World Heritage Sites (WHSs) are perceived as significant tourism brands. However, there is no in-depth analysis of the intangible meaning of World Heritage (WH) cultural attraction types from the visitor’s lens. This study employed text mining and a Brand Personality (BP) lexical approach using WH personality categories to identify types of cultural attractions with intangible meanings in WHSs located in seven countries in Asia and the Pacific an…
From place disruption to attachment: Another perspective for international student mobility
Places can hold the most significant experiences of peoples’ lives, and place attachment rests in these people-place meaningful connections. Traveling abroad for international students is a mobility where changes and mixed emotions entangle to one another. It represents distancing and loosening ties from a familiar place (home) and creating and connecting new ones with another place (host destination). This voluntary relocation is considered a di…
Me, Myself and I: Exploring the Micro-moments of Local, Immigrant and Tourist Self in Bicultural Identities
Tourism-philia versus tourism-phobia: Residents and destination management organization's publicly expressed tourism perceptions in Barcelona
The current research on hosts' perceptions of tourism has focused on survey-based studies, proving their heterogeneity at the moment of the study, but lacking to present any evolution over time. This paper aims to show if, and how, hosts' public narratives of tourism have changed in the particular case of the city of Barcelona (Spain) from 2004 to 2015, analyzing any common and opposing points of their argumentation as they may change over time. …
Chance Tourism’: Lucky enough to have seen what you will never see
The quest for tourist destinations that few have visited, and the experience of a journey that few can share, is becoming even more difficult for those individuals who seek a reputation as tourists. Although this search for authenticity has already been studied, there is still much to be explored. Tourists can enhance their identity as travellers by place attachment with destinations they have visited, and that no longer exist. The fact that thes…
Visiting authenticity on Los Angeles Gang Tours: Tourists backstage
Crime and tourism: Organizational opportunities and social marketing in LA Gang Tours
Existing investigation on tourism and crime has indicated a negative relation between these two concepts where crime appears as an influential factor in limiting tourist flows. Albeit tourists have repeatedly reported the importance of safety in their travels, this paper presents a paradoxically positive relation between tourism and present crime, where gang culture is the main attraction of the visit. This case study is focused on ‘LA Gang Tours…
Accessing recorded music: Interpreting a contemporary social exchange system
Grounded in how individuals access recorded music, we have developed a comprehensive description that classifies social exchanges aimed at accessing cultural resources and that also clarifies the forces that shape individual choices regarding particular social exchanges. We also highlight the exchange properties that socially integrate and classify individuals in a social context. Our analysis integrates, but also demonstrates as misleading, rece…
A contextual theory of accessing music: Consumer behavior and ethical arguments
Previous research into the ethics of accessing information goods using alternative means (the informal economy or social exchanges) has failed to study the moral arguments used by music consumers to justify their behavior or explain actions they considered to be (un)ethical. To fill this gap, we conducted a study from the perspective of music consumers in which we grounded a theory that would explain and predict individual arguments and behavior.…
Tourism-philia versus tourism-phobia: Residents and destination management organization's publicly expressed tourism perceptions in Barcelona
The current research on hosts' perceptions of tourism has focused on survey-based studies, proving their heterogeneity at the moment of the study, but lacking to present any evolution over time. This paper aims to show if, and how, hosts' public narratives of tourism have changed in the particular case of the city of Barcelona (Spain) from 2004 to 2015, analyzing any common and opposing points of their argumentation as they may change over time. …
Visiting authenticity on Los Angeles Gang Tours: Tourists backstage
From place disruption to attachment: Another perspective for international student mobility
Places can hold the most significant experiences of peoples’ lives, and place attachment rests in these people-place meaningful connections. Traveling abroad for international students is a mobility where changes and mixed emotions entangle to one another. It represents distancing and loosening ties from a familiar place (home) and creating and connecting new ones with another place (host destination). This voluntary relocation is considered a di…
Chance Tourism’: Lucky enough to have seen what you will never see
The quest for tourist destinations that few have visited, and the experience of a journey that few can share, is becoming even more difficult for those individuals who seek a reputation as tourists. Although this search for authenticity has already been studied, there is still much to be explored. Tourists can enhance their identity as travellers by place attachment with destinations they have visited, and that no longer exist. The fact that thes…
Educational Travel: The Role of Gender Stereotypes Shaping Students' Transformative Experience
Accessing recorded music: Interpreting a contemporary social exchange system
Grounded in how individuals access recorded music, we have developed a comprehensive description that classifies social exchanges aimed at accessing cultural resources and that also clarifies the forces that shape individual choices regarding particular social exchanges. We also highlight the exchange properties that socially integrate and classify individuals in a social context. Our analysis integrates, but also demonstrates as misleading, rece…
A contextual theory of accessing music: Consumer behavior and ethical arguments
Previous research into the ethics of accessing information goods using alternative means (the informal economy or social exchanges) has failed to study the moral arguments used by music consumers to justify their behavior or explain actions they considered to be (un)ethical. To fill this gap, we conducted a study from the perspective of music consumers in which we grounded a theory that would explain and predict individual arguments and behavior.…
Accessing recorded music: Interpreting a contemporary social exchange system
Grounded in how individuals access recorded music, we have developed a comprehensive description that classifies social exchanges aimed at accessing cultural resources and that also clarifies the forces that shape individual choices regarding particular social exchanges. We also highlight the exchange properties that socially integrate and classify individuals in a social context. Our analysis integrates, but also demonstrates as misleading, rece…
Crime and tourism: Organizational opportunities and social marketing in LA Gang Tours
Existing investigation on tourism and crime has indicated a negative relation between these two concepts where crime appears as an influential factor in limiting tourist flows. Albeit tourists have repeatedly reported the importance of safety in their travels, this paper presents a paradoxically positive relation between tourism and present crime, where gang culture is the main attraction of the visit. This case study is focused on ‘LA Gang Tours…
Visiting authenticity on Los Angeles Gang Tours: Tourists backstage
Chance Tourism’: Lucky enough to have seen what you will never see
The quest for tourist destinations that few have visited, and the experience of a journey that few can share, is becoming even more difficult for those individuals who seek a reputation as tourists. Although this search for authenticity has already been studied, there is still much to be explored. Tourists can enhance their identity as travellers by place attachment with destinations they have visited, and that no longer exist. The fact that thes…
Tourism-philia versus tourism-phobia: Residents and destination management organization's publicly expressed tourism perceptions in Barcelona
The current research on hosts' perceptions of tourism has focused on survey-based studies, proving their heterogeneity at the moment of the study, but lacking to present any evolution over time. This paper aims to show if, and how, hosts' public narratives of tourism have changed in the particular case of the city of Barcelona (Spain) from 2004 to 2015, analyzing any common and opposing points of their argumentation as they may change over time. …
Me, Myself and I: Exploring the Micro-moments of Local, Immigrant and Tourist Self in Bicultural Identities
From place disruption to attachment: Another perspective for international student mobility
Places can hold the most significant experiences of peoples’ lives, and place attachment rests in these people-place meaningful connections. Traveling abroad for international students is a mobility where changes and mixed emotions entangle to one another. It represents distancing and loosening ties from a familiar place (home) and creating and connecting new ones with another place (host destination). This voluntary relocation is considered a di…
Brand personality positioning of world heritage sites: A text mining approach
World Heritage Sites (WHSs) are perceived as significant tourism brands. However, there is no in-depth analysis of the intangible meaning of World Heritage (WH) cultural attraction types from the visitor’s lens. This study employed text mining and a Brand Personality (BP) lexical approach using WH personality categories to identify types of cultural attractions with intangible meanings in WHSs located in seven countries in Asia and the Pacific an…
Decoding digital nomad destination decisions through user-generated content
Digital nomads are engaged in a complex quest to select their next destination. In this context, user-generated content (UGC) on social media is a pivotal source to glean insights into digital nomads' destination choices. Accordingly, this study investigates the principal topics that influence digital nomad's destination choice. To this end, data-mining techniques are applied to analyze user-generated content (UGC) from the social platform X (for…
From overtourism to overall-mobility
Drawing from the New Mobility Paradigm, tourist cities embody more complexity than mere dichotomies of ‘hosts’ versus ‘guests.’ They are the result of multiple users of urban space overlapping in a highly mobile and hyper-nomadic society. By combining mobile positioning-based data, various official surveys, and the interpolation of census data, this article measures the relative weight of the different users of the city of Barcelona in 2019 and t…
The Brand Personality of World Heritage Sites: Text Mining the Perceptions of Unesco Experts and Visitors
World Heritage (WH) is acknowledged as a prominent tourism brand. However, research on the intangible relationship between World Heritage sites (WHSs) and outstanding universal values (OUVs) is lacking. This study employed advances in text mining, using digital textual data, and Brand Personality (BP) lexical methods to explore descriptions of WHSs. Although existing BP dictionaries are useful for measuring the personalities of destinations and a…
Educational Travel: The Role of Gender Stereotypes Shaping Students' Transformative Experience
Living the Transition: How Chinese Post‐Graduation Migrants Use Discursive Strategies in Spain
This study examines the transition after graduation of Chinese post‐graduation migrants in Spain, conceptualizing it as a process of identity reconstruction across social, interpersonal and personal levels. By focusing on graduates as active drivers of migration, this study innovatively situates post‐graduation migrants within the framework of lifestyle migration. From this perspective, the student‐to‐migrant transition is understood not only as …
Redoing gender in lifestyle migrant women: From Spain to Greece and vice versa
Lifestyle migration, characterized by the pursuit of a better quality of life, opens space to rework identity within new cultural and institutional settings. Using a feminist gender lens, this study examines how lifestyle migrant women moving between Spain and Greece negotiate and transform gender roles. Through semi-structured interviews with 27 migrant women and by focusing on the interplay between personal, interactional and institutional gend…
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