Melanie Kay Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3984817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Kay Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie Kay |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Greenwich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4557-9901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Food experience, place attachment and locavorism in urban destinations
This study investigates the role of locavorism in urban gastronomic tourism and examines its relationships with food experience, place attachment and behavioural outcomes. Addressing a gap in research on locavorism in cities, the study examines whether local food experiences influence locavorist attitudes, how far place attachment contributes to locavorism and if both constructs shape revisit and recommendation intentions. Quantitative data were …
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…
Wellbeing, wellness and health-oriented tourism
Health-oriented tourism has recently gained significant attention, emerging as an increasingly important interdisciplinary field, reflecting the growing global interest in health, wellness, and pre...
Bridging disciplines
This concluding article synthesizes insights from the Special Issue on Health-oriented Tourism to chart a forward-looking, interdisciplinary research agenda. It argues for moving beyond individualistic and consumerist framings of wellness toward holistic, relational, and systemic understandings of wellbeing in tourism. Drawing from public health, psychology, spirituality, and placemaking, the paper positions wellbeing-oriented tourism as a transf…
The impact of digital influencers on attitude and intent to consume and travel in restaurant choice – evidences from Hungary
Purpose Restaurants can become the ambassadors of unknown destinations and the main question is how to attract tourists to such products through social media. The objective of this study is to understand how digital influencers affect attitudes, consumption and travel intent, as well as perceived risk toward trying restaurants serving local food. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative survey with 421 valid responses was implemented and a PLS-…
The role of city parks in creating ‘wellbeing societies’
This article examines the role of urban green spaces (UGSs) and city parks in fostering wellbeing among urban residents. UGSs are increasingly being recognized for their contribution to public health, mental wellbeing and social cohesion, and this research fills a gap in the understanding of these benefits in the context of Central and Eastern European cities. The current study presents research on the motivations, patterns of use, chosen activit…
Cultural Sustainability and Social Inclusion
One of the most important basic functions of museums is to preserve the cultural resources of communites, not only for the present but also for future generations. Museums are primarily responsible
Do clinical guidelines facilitate or impede drivers of treatment in Fabry disease?
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…
Religion, spirituality, and wellness tourism
Spirituality and wellness are arguably inextricably connected. Wellness can be defined as the path to achieving well-being, a path that includes physical, mental, and spiritual health, self-responsibility, social harmony, environmental sensitivity, intellectual development, emotional well-being, and occupational satisfaction, whereas spirituality “includes experiencing oneness with nature and beauty and a sense of connectedness with self, others …
The changing nature of the cultural tourist
This paper reflects on the changing nature of the cultural tourist, including motivations, profiles and experiences. The paper firstly reviews broadening definitions of cultural tourism, which now include more intangible, interactive and creative experiences. The research focuses on urban cultural tourism and the city of Budapest in Hungary. The primary data examines how motivated tourists are by different activities including culture; how far to…
The value of cultural ecosystem services in a rural landscape context
Academic interest in ecosystem services has been growing in the past ten years or more with an increasing number of research studies and papers being dedicated to this complex and diverse field of enquiry. However, Cultural Ecosystem Services have been relatively under-researched, especially in terms of their value to landscapes. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) argued that cultural services and values were not recognised enough in land…
Assessing humour use in accommodation establishments
This paper studies the use of humour in Estonian accommodation establishments. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of how humour is used in the marketing communication and service processes in accommodation establishments. A range of methods were used to answer the research aim, including desktop research on how humour is currently used in accommodation settings, a focus group consisting of international participants, and …
Experience-involvement, memorability and authenticity
Non-planning and tourism consumption in Budapest's inner city
The relationship between urban planning and tourism consumption is presented through one of the most attractive and popular districts of Budapest (District VII). Budapest is the capital city of Hungary and has a population of 1.7 million inhabitants making it one of the largest metropolitan regions in Central Eastern Europe. Budapest is typical of many other post-socialist cities in that its urban development process has followed a somewhat diffe…
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…
Tourism and wellbeing
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…
Ethnic and Minority Cultures as Tourist Attractions
Negotiating Asian identities in London and other Gateway Cities - Stephen J. Shaw 2. Discovering or Intruding? Guided Tours in the Ethnic District Matonge in Brussels - Isabelle Cloquet and Anya Diekmann 3. The Potential for Roma Tourism in Hungary - Anita Zatori and Melanie Smith Part Two: Community Perceptions 4. Reflections on Ethnic and Minority Communities as a Tool for Improving Intercultural Change in Tourism - Yvette Reisinger and Omar Mo…
Jewish Poland revisited
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…
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…
Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies
The extensively revised second edition of Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies provides a new framework for analyzing the complexity of cultural tourism and its increasing globalization in existing as well as emergent destinations of the world. The book will focus in particular on the need for even more creative tourism strategies to differentiate destinations from each other using a blend of localized cultural products and innovative global attrac…
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 …
Tourism and wellbeing
Experience-involvement, memorability and authenticity
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 …
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…
Non-planning and tourism consumption in Budapest's inner city
The relationship between urban planning and tourism consumption is presented through one of the most attractive and popular districts of Budapest (District VII). Budapest is the capital city of Hungary and has a population of 1.7 million inhabitants making it one of the largest metropolitan regions in Central Eastern Europe. Budapest is typical of many other post-socialist cities in that its urban development process has followed a somewhat diffe…
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…
The changing nature of the cultural tourist
This paper reflects on the changing nature of the cultural tourist, including motivations, profiles and experiences. The paper firstly reviews broadening definitions of cultural tourism, which now include more intangible, interactive and creative experiences. The research focuses on urban cultural tourism and the city of Budapest in Hungary. The primary data examines how motivated tourists are by different activities including culture; how far to…
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…
The value of cultural ecosystem services in a rural landscape context
Academic interest in ecosystem services has been growing in the past ten years or more with an increasing number of research studies and papers being dedicated to this complex and diverse field of enquiry. However, Cultural Ecosystem Services have been relatively under-researched, especially in terms of their value to landscapes. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) argued that cultural services and values were not recognised enough in land…
Jewish Poland revisited
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…
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
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…
Towards a Thirdspace Approach to Tourism and Related Research
This paper explores new ways of conceptualizing and researching the Postmodern city, focusing in particular on Soja's (1996) development of a Thirdspace approach to the theorization of human and cultural geography and planning. Despite its shortcomings, his work arguably has important implications for multi-disciplinary fields of research such as tourism and regeneration. Thirdspace is what might be described as a 'ludic' postmodern construct (Ki…
Politics, Power and Play
Cultural Tourism in a Changing World
At the interface between culture and tourism lies a series of deep and challenging issues relating to how we deal with issues of political engagement, social justice, economic change, belonging, identity and meaning. This book introduces researchers, students and practitioners to a range of interesting and complex debates regarding the political and social implications of cultural tourism in a changing world. Concise and thematic theoretical sect…
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 …
Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies
The extensively revised second edition of Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies provides a new framework for analyzing the complexity of cultural tourism and its increasing globalization in existing as well as emergent destinations of the world. The book will focus in particular on the need for even more creative tourism strategies to differentiate destinations from each other using a blend of localized cultural products and innovative global attrac…
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…
Jewish Poland revisited
Ethnic and Minority Cultures as Tourist Attractions
Negotiating Asian identities in London and other Gateway Cities - Stephen J. Shaw 2. Discovering or Intruding? Guided Tours in the Ethnic District Matonge in Brussels - Isabelle Cloquet and Anya Diekmann 3. The Potential for Roma Tourism in Hungary - Anita Zatori and Melanie Smith Part Two: Community Perceptions 4. Reflections on Ethnic and Minority Communities as a Tool for Improving Intercultural Change in Tourism - Yvette Reisinger and Omar Mo…
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…
Tourism and wellbeing
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…
Experience-involvement, memorability and authenticity
Tourism (30 works) · Geography (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · Business (10 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works)