Philipp Wassler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4628931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philipp Wassler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philipp |
| FAMILY NAME | Wassler |
| SIGNATURE | WASSLER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergamo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6455-0616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond the gaze
This study, grounded in Martin Buber’s dialogical philosophy, investigates the potential for authentic “I-Thou” relationships in tourism. For this purpose, we take the case of sightseeing bus tours, which are often perceived as inherently disconnected experiences. Utilizing a mixed-method approach, including interviews with local stakeholders and an open-ended questionnaire for residents, the findings reveal that even seemingly inauthentic touris…
Discursively negotiating AI
To date, users have not merely interacted with large language model (LLM)-based chatbots. Notably, they collectively discussed about them, flooding the online information ecosystem with a sheer volume of social media posts about LLM-based chatbots. Despite research on users' reception of this equivocal technology is on the rise, it is mainly rooted in positivist and functionalist paradigms, leaving a finer-grained understanding of how early adopt…
Archaeological-Gastronomy tourism
This study aims to conceptualize Archaeological-gastronomy tourism as a co-creative tourism product which combines the exploration of archaeological heritage with culinary experiences. In particular, we draw upon the "From Prehistory to the Plate" (PreHGastro) project developed in Cantabria (Spain), a region with several UNESCO-recognized Paleolithic caves and a strong culinary tradition. A mixed-methods approach was employed, integrating quantit…
Travel Writing as a Tool for Sustainable Initiatives
This study explores the transformative potential of travel writing, positioning it as a sustainable, dynamic, and adaptable tool crafted through written dialogue. It shows how travel stories, social media, new tech, and digital platforms work together and how they provide valuable data for research and potentially aid sustainability in tourism through a novel method. Introducing a Dialogue Journaling Process Model, we demonstrate the capacity of …
Residents' coping with cruise tourism
Cruise tourism is a contested practice, requiring research that moves beyond oversimplified accounts of progress or despair and applies primary data at the community level. Using in-depth interviews with residents of Eidfjord, Norway, during the pandemic-induced “break” from cruise tourism, this study critically examines their perspectives on and coping with cruising. It reveals that the pandemic has spurred residents to shift from more individua…
Beyond beauty
Sustainability issues on islands
Sustainability influences and is influenced by tourism resources on islands which require suppliers to be proactive in their contribution to sustainable production. However, these tourism suppliers are challenged by a myriad of sustainability issues that paralyze progress toward sustainable development of island tourism. This study employs the core and peripheral sustainable tourism indicator framework proposed by Agyeiwaah et al. (2017) to illus…
Covid-19 vaccine confidence and tourism at the early stage of a voluntary mass vaccination campaign
Restarting the mass tourism industry relies on the success of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign which requires individuals' voluntary participation to reduce health risks to hosts and visitors. This study identifies segments of Italian residents based on vaccine confidence at the early stage of a voluntary mass vaccination program. Using a survey held with 3,893 Italian residents, two COVID-19 vaccine confidence clusters were identified. These cl…
Travel desire over intention in pandemic times
Travel Intention was critically complicated by numerous factors linked to COVID-19. • We empirically validate Travel Intention, Craving and Vaccine Confidence. • Travel Intention, unlike Travel Craving, has no relationship with Vaccine Confidence. • We discuss implications for theory and marketing and communication strategies
Digital free tourism – An exploratory study of tourist motivations
Living travel vulnerability
Heritage revitalisation for tourism in Hong Kong
Heritage revitalisation for tourism in Hong Kong: the role of interpretive planning." Journal of Heritage Tourism, 15(2), pp. 240–241
Hell is other people? An existential-phenomenological analysis of the local gaze in tourism
Social representations and resident attitudes
The lived travel experience to North Korea
Towards the Understanding of Chinese Collaboration in Hospitality – The Opinions of Professionals
The increasingly competitive market in China has resulted in the struggle of hotels for competitive advantage, and even for survival. Among the possible tools to rise above this cut-throat environment is the concept of hotel collaboration. This paper moves towards the understanding of hotel collaboration in China based on the focus group discussions of 22 experienced practitioners in the Chinese hotel and related industries. The data identified s…
Brand-as-Person versus Brand-as-User
Tourism self-congruity studies use two facets to personify destinations, namely, brand-as-person and brand-as-user. These features have been considered synonymous in previous research, and thus the differences between these facets, which may demonstrate biased congruity, must be investigated. This study uses projective techniques to personify brand-as-person and brand-as-user for two tourist destinations. Both facets are distinct and must not be …
Hell is other people? An existential-phenomenological analysis of the local gaze in tourism
Digital free tourism – An exploratory study of tourist motivations
The lived travel experience to North Korea
Social representations and resident attitudes
Living travel vulnerability
Brand-as-Person versus Brand-as-User
Tourism self-congruity studies use two facets to personify destinations, namely, brand-as-person and brand-as-user. These features have been considered synonymous in previous research, and thus the differences between these facets, which may demonstrate biased congruity, must be investigated. This study uses projective techniques to personify brand-as-person and brand-as-user for two tourist destinations. Both facets are distinct and must not be …
Residents' coping with cruise tourism
Cruise tourism is a contested practice, requiring research that moves beyond oversimplified accounts of progress or despair and applies primary data at the community level. Using in-depth interviews with residents of Eidfjord, Norway, during the pandemic-induced “break” from cruise tourism, this study critically examines their perspectives on and coping with cruising. It reveals that the pandemic has spurred residents to shift from more individua…
Beyond beauty
Towards the Understanding of Chinese Collaboration in Hospitality – The Opinions of Professionals
The increasingly competitive market in China has resulted in the struggle of hotels for competitive advantage, and even for survival. Among the possible tools to rise above this cut-throat environment is the concept of hotel collaboration. This paper moves towards the understanding of hotel collaboration in China based on the focus group discussions of 22 experienced practitioners in the Chinese hotel and related industries. The data identified s…
Brand-as-Person versus Brand-as-User
Tourism self-congruity studies use two facets to personify destinations, namely, brand-as-person and brand-as-user. These features have been considered synonymous in previous research, and thus the differences between these facets, which may demonstrate biased congruity, must be investigated. This study uses projective techniques to personify brand-as-person and brand-as-user for two tourist destinations. Both facets are distinct and must not be …
Towards the Understanding of Chinese Collaboration in Hospitality – The Opinions of Professionals
The increasingly competitive market in China has resulted in the struggle of hotels for competitive advantage, and even for survival. Among the possible tools to rise above this cut-throat environment is the concept of hotel collaboration. This paper moves towards the understanding of hotel collaboration in China based on the focus group discussions of 22 experienced practitioners in the Chinese hotel and related industries. The data identified s…
The lived travel experience to North Korea
Heritage revitalisation for tourism in Hong Kong
Heritage revitalisation for tourism in Hong Kong: the role of interpretive planning." Journal of Heritage Tourism, 15(2), pp. 240–241
Hell is other people? An existential-phenomenological analysis of the local gaze in tourism
Social representations and resident attitudes
Digital free tourism – An exploratory study of tourist motivations
Living travel vulnerability
Sustainability issues on islands
Sustainability influences and is influenced by tourism resources on islands which require suppliers to be proactive in their contribution to sustainable production. However, these tourism suppliers are challenged by a myriad of sustainability issues that paralyze progress toward sustainable development of island tourism. This study employs the core and peripheral sustainable tourism indicator framework proposed by Agyeiwaah et al. (2017) to illus…
Covid-19 vaccine confidence and tourism at the early stage of a voluntary mass vaccination campaign
Restarting the mass tourism industry relies on the success of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign which requires individuals' voluntary participation to reduce health risks to hosts and visitors. This study identifies segments of Italian residents based on vaccine confidence at the early stage of a voluntary mass vaccination program. Using a survey held with 3,893 Italian residents, two COVID-19 vaccine confidence clusters were identified. These cl…
Travel desire over intention in pandemic times
Travel Intention was critically complicated by numerous factors linked to COVID-19. • We empirically validate Travel Intention, Craving and Vaccine Confidence. • Travel Intention, unlike Travel Craving, has no relationship with Vaccine Confidence. • We discuss implications for theory and marketing and communication strategies
Residents' coping with cruise tourism
Cruise tourism is a contested practice, requiring research that moves beyond oversimplified accounts of progress or despair and applies primary data at the community level. Using in-depth interviews with residents of Eidfjord, Norway, during the pandemic-induced “break” from cruise tourism, this study critically examines their perspectives on and coping with cruising. It reveals that the pandemic has spurred residents to shift from more individua…
Beyond beauty
Discursively negotiating AI
To date, users have not merely interacted with large language model (LLM)-based chatbots. Notably, they collectively discussed about them, flooding the online information ecosystem with a sheer volume of social media posts about LLM-based chatbots. Despite research on users' reception of this equivocal technology is on the rise, it is mainly rooted in positivist and functionalist paradigms, leaving a finer-grained understanding of how early adopt…
Archaeological-Gastronomy tourism
This study aims to conceptualize Archaeological-gastronomy tourism as a co-creative tourism product which combines the exploration of archaeological heritage with culinary experiences. In particular, we draw upon the "From Prehistory to the Plate" (PreHGastro) project developed in Cantabria (Spain), a region with several UNESCO-recognized Paleolithic caves and a strong culinary tradition. A mixed-methods approach was employed, integrating quantit…
Travel Writing as a Tool for Sustainable Initiatives
This study explores the transformative potential of travel writing, positioning it as a sustainable, dynamic, and adaptable tool crafted through written dialogue. It shows how travel stories, social media, new tech, and digital platforms work together and how they provide valuable data for research and potentially aid sustainability in tourism through a novel method. Introducing a Dialogue Journaling Process Model, we demonstrate the capacity of …
Beyond the gaze
This study, grounded in Martin Buber’s dialogical philosophy, investigates the potential for authentic “I-Thou” relationships in tourism. For this purpose, we take the case of sightseeing bus tours, which are often perceived as inherently disconnected experiences. Utilizing a mixed-method approach, including interviews with local stakeholders and an open-ended questionnaire for residents, the findings reveal that even seemingly inauthentic touris…
Tourism (15 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Marketing (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)