Catheryn Khoo‐lattimore
Biographic Data
| ID | 4795247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catheryn Khoo‐lattimore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catheryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Khoo‐lattimore |
| SIGNATURE | LATTIMORE C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2858-870X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
From Travel Photography to Photography Travel: Exploring the Well‐Being of Female Travelers as Subjects of the Tourist Gaze
This study explores the emerging niche of photography travel, where women deliberately position themselves as subjects of the tourist gaze and professional travel photography. Drawing on an interpretivist paradigm and employing abductive reasoning within a qualitative longitudinal design, this research engaged 11 female travelers to examine how photography travel shapes their well‐being across the pre‐travel, during‐travel, and post‐travel phases…
A pragmatic approach to understanding sustainability strategies of small, private museums: Accidental ethnography through critical realism
Gender equality initiatives in global hospitality organisations: An institutional logics theory perspective
Multinational hotel chains continue to struggle to implement gender equality initiatives across their diverse subsidiaries. Drawing on institutional logics theory and a critical realist perspective, this study examines the underlying organisational mechanisms within hotel chains that may account for these persistent challenges. Based on interviews with 48 hospitality leaders across global hotel organisations, the findings reveal that multiple ins…
Ethnography in/for sustainable tourism: Tensions, challenges and opportunities
This article advances the case for ethnography as a critical methodological and ethical approach in sustainable tourism research and practice. By exploring and critiquing the current use of ethnography in sustainable tourism, the paper follows a thread that traces the key “tensions,” “challenges” and “opportunities” of this approach. Along this thread, this paper introduces the ten studies in this Special Issue and outlines six key realities that…
Women’s advancement into leadership in tourism and hospitality: A feminist interactionist perspective in a collectivist, developing Asian country
Neither saints nor sinners” – The lived experiences of critical tourism scholars
Wellbeing, wellness and health-oriented tourism: Emerging trends, challenges and opportunities
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: A forward-looking agenda for tourism and wellbeing
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…
Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Responsible Tourist Behavior Scale
Responsible tourist behavior is not only crucial for cultural and natural resource preservation but also for mitigating negative consequences for the host destination. This research develops and validates a multidimensional scale that incorporates social, cultural, and ethical factors as well as environmentally responsible behavior. The scale development underwent several stages, including item generation, interviews, scale refinement, and validi…
Body hair and booty calls: Conceptualising ‘empowered-ness’ in travel and tourism for solo female vanlifers
The present study focuses on advancing the current discourse from women empowerment to ‘empowered-ness’ by conceptualising solo female vanlifers' bodies from travel reflections as a medium to redefine boundaries for socio-cultural norms. This study adopted a multi-faceted approach integrating social-networking-platform and ethnographic data to examine empowered-ness for women in prolonged mobility, and the role of empowered women's bodies in trav…
Going solo during the pandemic: A generational segmentation of solo female travellers
This paper is driven both by a growing appetite for solo female travel; as well as a knowledge gap in the market and literature. The aim is to identify generational differences in women's solo travel motivations, characterize the generational differences in their preferred destination attributes, and ascertain any generational differences in their perceived inhibiting factors to travelling solo post the COVID-19 pandemic. By using the push–pull f…
Heritage education towards sustainable development in tourism: An inclusive systematic literature review
Exploring host-children's engagement in tourism: Transcending the dichotomy of universalism and cultural relativism
Globally, considerable numbers of child workers are engaged in the tourism industry. Despite international efforts to eradicate all forms of child labour, the number of child labourers in the service industries has increased due to the ambiguity and challenges in defining child labourers in tourism, the dichotomic views on child labour, and the absence of children's voices in research. This paper explores host-children's perception of their engag…
From empowering women to being empowered by women: A gendered social innovation framework for tourism-led development initiatives
Enablers for empowerment: Saudi women’s employment in the events sector
A recent United Nations World Tourism Organisation publication, Regional report on women in tourism in the Middle East identified that the representation of women working in tourism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is significantly below the global average. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabian (KSA) government is seeking to address this imbalance. The purpose of this research is to support this initiative, by determining how women’s work…
Critical realism: A methodological design for destination food image research
This paper provides a critical realist reflection on methodological decisions that frame examination of the effectiveness of destination branding using food and cuisine. The authors use a multi-method strategy to evaluate the degree of congruence amongst (1) destination marketers’ promotional food images, (2) internal stakeholders’ perception of images, and (3) tourists’ views of food destinations. Results reveal that critical realism enhances th…
Ethical but Amoral: Moral considerations for researching Cambodian host-children
Envisioning an inclusive tourism for an equitable future
Based on the collection of 15 studies in the special issue on ‘Empowering Marginalised Groups for Inclusive Tourism’ for this journal, this article highlights the issues experienced by hosts, suppliers, and other beneficiaries of the tourism ecosystem from a critical lens. Drawing on the implications collated from the 15 contributions and the reflections of the five guest editors, this article presents deliberations concerning priorities and the …
Empowering marginalised groups for inclusive tourism: A call for critical studies
The creation, maintenance and definitions of margins – alongside the socio-cultural meanings and experiences of marginalisation and the marginalised – have long been a topic of extensive debate among scholars, policymakers, and politicians. Within academia, researchers have discussed margins and the social position of individuals (or groups) in relation to the margins as a process where inclusion and exclusion constitute two intertwined ends of a…
Opportunities and challenges of digital competencies for women tourism entrepreneurs in Latin America: A Gendered Perspective
While increasingly more economic and social exchanges are taking place in the digital environment globally, women entrepreneurs’ access to, and adoption of, digital platforms cannot be assumed to happen naturally due to gender and social inequalities that are being replicated in the online environment. This study investigates the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurial digital competencies for women tourism entrepreneurs (WTEs) in Latin A…
Gender issues in tourism organisations: Insights from a two-phased pragmatic systematic literature review
Previous research has underlined gendered labour issues and provided recommendations for organisations to advance gender equality within the tourism and hospitality sector. Yet, little is known about how academic research has been translated into actual practice by tourism organisations. The study provides a pragmatic systematic review to compare tourism academic and grey literature from NGOs and large public tourism companies, with an aim of ide…
Recreating history: The evolving negotiation of staged authenticity in tourism experiences
Exploring the challenges for women working in the event and festival sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the participation of women in many activities, including employment, is severely restricted and their continued exclusion from public life is a significant issue as KSA looks to improve its economic prosperity. Women’s underrepresentation in many economic sectors is a focus of the national ‘Saudi Vision 2030’ programme. By cultivating an understanding of the workplace challenges and employment limitations fac…
Virtual reality and tourism marketing: Conceptualizing a framework on presence, emotion, and intention
In a post-COVID landscape, building interest and evoking positive emotions toward tourism products are vital for destination recovery. As a result, interest and opportunity for the use of immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) for tourism marketing has intensified. Despite the ubiquity of presence as a concept in VR research, exploring and adapting presence for tourism marketing remains in infancy. In particular, there is still limit…
Tourist engagement and loyalty: Gender matters
This study aims to compare the effects of several dimensions of tourist engagement, including enthusiasm, attention, absorption, interaction, and identification on loyalty across male and female tourists. A total number of 210 questionnaire were completed from tourists visiting Kinabalu National Park in Sabah, Malaysia. This study uses both partial least squares–structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to elucid…
A systematic literature review of risk and gender research in tourism
Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks
Host-children of tourism destinations: Systematic quantitative literature review
Although it is estimated that 19 million children are engaged in the tourism industry, our knowledge of child labour issues within tourism is highly limited. This paper systematically and quantitatively reviewed interdisciplinary research on host-children, aiming to identify the extent of scholarly attention. The work sought to map the trajectory of existing literature and identify whether, and if so, how host-children were included in research. …
Heritage Tourism in Malaysia: Fostering a Collective National Identity in an Ethnically Diverse Country
As the processes associated with globalisation swiftly erode distinct cultures and identities, it has been argued that heritage attractions have emerged as powerful communicators in developing collective national identities. Although many countries reveal histories and collective pasts that are universally representative of homogenous populations, Malaysia represents a distinctly contrasting scenario. Malaysian heritage attractions do not necessa…
From empowering women to being empowered by women: A gendered social innovation framework for tourism-led development initiatives
Opportunities and challenges of digital competencies for women tourism entrepreneurs in Latin America: A Gendered Perspective
While increasingly more economic and social exchanges are taking place in the digital environment globally, women entrepreneurs’ access to, and adoption of, digital platforms cannot be assumed to happen naturally due to gender and social inequalities that are being replicated in the online environment. This study investigates the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurial digital competencies for women tourism entrepreneurs (WTEs) in Latin A…
Three generations on a holiday: Exploring the influence of Neo-Confucian values on Korean Multigenerational Family vacation decision making
A perception gap investigation into food and cuisine image attributes for destination branding from the host perspective: The case of Australia
Around the world in less than a day: Virtual reality, destination image and perceived destination choice risk in family tourism
There is growing recognition for the potential benefits of utilising Virtual Reality (VR) in destination marketing. Conceptual papers suggested the technology’s increased immersion, interactivity, and visualisation would translate well into advancing the avenues of information dissemination to potential consumers. However, empirical research on the effects of VR on consumer behaviour is still limited despite rapidly increasing interest from the t…
Recreating history: The evolving negotiation of staged authenticity in tourism experiences
Exploring the challenges for women working in the event and festival sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the participation of women in many activities, including employment, is severely restricted and their continued exclusion from public life is a significant issue as KSA looks to improve its economic prosperity. Women’s underrepresentation in many economic sectors is a focus of the national ‘Saudi Vision 2030’ programme. By cultivating an understanding of the workplace challenges and employment limitations fac…
The Constructions of Family Holidays in Young Middle-class Malaysian Chinese Children
The absence of children in tourism research has been identified by past scholars but the rising attention on Asians consumers in tourism has also implied that the voices of Chinese children need to be heard. This study triangulates 14 young Malaysian Chinese children’s drawings of their favorite family holidays with open-ended interview questions. The drawings were analyzed using the five thematic levels according to a model of analysis of childr…
Diversity training: Where are we, and where should we be heading? A systematic literature review
Diversity training has gained momentum over the years across industries to reduce turnover, increase revenue, and enhance the hospitable environment of the workplace, among other benefits. However, the initiate has also been criticized for ineffectiveness and backlash from participants. This review synthesizes 228 articles on diversity training across 13 industries to draw a holistic landscape of the initiative to address the existing gap in rese…
The Tourism and Leisure Experience: Consumer and Managerial Perspectives
Body hair and booty calls: Conceptualising ‘empowered-ness’ in travel and tourism for solo female vanlifers
The present study focuses on advancing the current discourse from women empowerment to ‘empowered-ness’ by conceptualising solo female vanlifers' bodies from travel reflections as a medium to redefine boundaries for socio-cultural norms. This study adopted a multi-faceted approach integrating social-networking-platform and ethnographic data to examine empowered-ness for women in prolonged mobility, and the role of empowered women's bodies in trav…
Enablers for empowerment: Saudi women’s employment in the events sector
A recent United Nations World Tourism Organisation publication, Regional report on women in tourism in the Middle East identified that the representation of women working in tourism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is significantly below the global average. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabian (KSA) government is seeking to address this imbalance. The purpose of this research is to support this initiative, by determining how women’s work…
Critical realism: A methodological design for destination food image research
This paper provides a critical realist reflection on methodological decisions that frame examination of the effectiveness of destination branding using food and cuisine. The authors use a multi-method strategy to evaluate the degree of congruence amongst (1) destination marketers’ promotional food images, (2) internal stakeholders’ perception of images, and (3) tourists’ views of food destinations. Results reveal that critical realism enhances th…
Ethical but Amoral: Moral considerations for researching Cambodian host-children
Empowering marginalised groups for inclusive tourism: A call for critical studies
The creation, maintenance and definitions of margins – alongside the socio-cultural meanings and experiences of marginalisation and the marginalised – have long been a topic of extensive debate among scholars, policymakers, and politicians. Within academia, researchers have discussed margins and the social position of individuals (or groups) in relation to the margins as a process where inclusion and exclusion constitute two intertwined ends of a…
Food and the Perception of Eating: The Case of Young Taiwanese Consumers
This study explores the food perception of young Taiwanese consumers, a growing market segment in the restaurant industry. An innovative qualitative tool known as the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET) was employed to elicit deeper thoughts and emotions of young consumers. Twelve Taiwanese from Generation Y were invited to participate in a ZMET interview where they expressed their perceptions concerning food and eating through self-col…
The Tourism and Leisure Experience: Consumer and Managerial Perspectives
Heritage Tourism in Malaysia: Fostering a Collective National Identity in an Ethnically Diverse Country
As the processes associated with globalisation swiftly erode distinct cultures and identities, it has been argued that heritage attractions have emerged as powerful communicators in developing collective national identities. Although many countries reveal histories and collective pasts that are universally representative of homogenous populations, Malaysia represents a distinctly contrasting scenario. Malaysian heritage attractions do not necessa…
Food and the Perception of Eating: The Case of Young Taiwanese Consumers
This study explores the food perception of young Taiwanese consumers, a growing market segment in the restaurant industry. An innovative qualitative tool known as the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET) was employed to elicit deeper thoughts and emotions of young consumers. Twelve Taiwanese from Generation Y were invited to participate in a ZMET interview where they expressed their perceptions concerning food and eating through self-col…
The Embodiment of Gender and ‘Asianness’ in Tourism
Despite the above sentiments, Pritchard et al. (2007) have emphasised the crucial need to continue gender-focused work in tourism. This work is even more pressing in Asia, and from an Asian perspective. As one of the largest tourist-receiving regions, with many emerging markets such as India and Southeast Asia (World Tourism Organization, 2015), Asia is increasingly become a promising market for tourism (Winter et al., 2008). Considering the mass…
A systematic literature review of risk and gender research in tourism
Managing Asian Destinations
This book focuses on the planning, marketing, and management of Asian tourism destinations, and evaluates current developments within Southeast-Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. As more Asian destinations enter the global tourism arena and more Asian travellers look to explore destinations in Asia and beyond, an understanding of how Asian destinations practice tourism is crucial to the future sustainable development of global tourism. This …
Asian Qualitative Research in Tourism
The Constructions of Family Holidays in Young Middle-class Malaysian Chinese Children
The absence of children in tourism research has been identified by past scholars but the rising attention on Asians consumers in tourism has also implied that the voices of Chinese children need to be heard. This study triangulates 14 young Malaysian Chinese children’s drawings of their favorite family holidays with open-ended interview questions. The drawings were analyzed using the five thematic levels according to a model of analysis of childr…
A perception gap investigation into food and cuisine image attributes for destination branding from the host perspective: The case of Australia
Power and empowerment: How Asian solo female travellers perceive and negotiate risks
New realities: A systematic literature review on virtual reality and augmented reality in tourism research
Despite the growing interest and discussions on Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in tourism, we do not yet know systematically the knowledge that has been built from academic papers on VR and AR in tourism; if and how VR and AR research intersect, the methodologies used to research VR and AR in tourism, and the emerging contexts in which VR and AR have surfaced in tourism research. By conducting a systematic literature review on VR…
Host-children of tourism destinations: Systematic quantitative literature review
Although it is estimated that 19 million children are engaged in the tourism industry, our knowledge of child labour issues within tourism is highly limited. This paper systematically and quantitatively reviewed interdisciplinary research on host-children, aiming to identify the extent of scholarly attention. The work sought to map the trajectory of existing literature and identify whether, and if so, how host-children were included in research. …
A Social Media Analysis of the Gendered Representations of Female and Male Athletes During the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Contemporary sport culture is characterized as highly masculinized, where female athletes are continually marginalized in traditional media. Despite evidence suggesting that media representation of athletes has a meaningful impact on social outcomes and participation rates of women and girls, little is known about gendered representations of athletes on social media and in the context of mega-sporting events. This paper examines the gendered repr…
Three generations on a holiday: Exploring the influence of Neo-Confucian values on Korean Multigenerational Family vacation decision making
Virtual reality and tourism marketing: Conceptualizing a framework on presence, emotion, and intention
In a post-COVID landscape, building interest and evoking positive emotions toward tourism products are vital for destination recovery. As a result, interest and opportunity for the use of immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) for tourism marketing has intensified. Despite the ubiquity of presence as a concept in VR research, exploring and adapting presence for tourism marketing remains in infancy. In particular, there is still limit…
Tourist engagement and loyalty: Gender matters
This study aims to compare the effects of several dimensions of tourist engagement, including enthusiasm, attention, absorption, interaction, and identification on loyalty across male and female tourists. A total number of 210 questionnaire were completed from tourists visiting Kinabalu National Park in Sabah, Malaysia. This study uses both partial least squares–structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to elucid…
Diversity training: Where are we, and where should we be heading? A systematic literature review
Diversity training has gained momentum over the years across industries to reduce turnover, increase revenue, and enhance the hospitable environment of the workplace, among other benefits. However, the initiate has also been criticized for ineffectiveness and backlash from participants. This review synthesizes 228 articles on diversity training across 13 industries to draw a holistic landscape of the initiative to address the existing gap in rese…
Around the world in less than a day: Virtual reality, destination image and perceived destination choice risk in family tourism
There is growing recognition for the potential benefits of utilising Virtual Reality (VR) in destination marketing. Conceptual papers suggested the technology’s increased immersion, interactivity, and visualisation would translate well into advancing the avenues of information dissemination to potential consumers. However, empirical research on the effects of VR on consumer behaviour is still limited despite rapidly increasing interest from the t…
Gender issues in tourism organisations: Insights from a two-phased pragmatic systematic literature review
Previous research has underlined gendered labour issues and provided recommendations for organisations to advance gender equality within the tourism and hospitality sector. Yet, little is known about how academic research has been translated into actual practice by tourism organisations. The study provides a pragmatic systematic review to compare tourism academic and grey literature from NGOs and large public tourism companies, with an aim of ide…
Recreating history: The evolving negotiation of staged authenticity in tourism experiences
Exploring the challenges for women working in the event and festival sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the participation of women in many activities, including employment, is severely restricted and their continued exclusion from public life is a significant issue as KSA looks to improve its economic prosperity. Women’s underrepresentation in many economic sectors is a focus of the national ‘Saudi Vision 2030’ programme. By cultivating an understanding of the workplace challenges and employment limitations fac…
Ethical but Amoral: Moral considerations for researching Cambodian host-children
Envisioning an inclusive tourism for an equitable future
Based on the collection of 15 studies in the special issue on ‘Empowering Marginalised Groups for Inclusive Tourism’ for this journal, this article highlights the issues experienced by hosts, suppliers, and other beneficiaries of the tourism ecosystem from a critical lens. Drawing on the implications collated from the 15 contributions and the reflections of the five guest editors, this article presents deliberations concerning priorities and the …
Empowering marginalised groups for inclusive tourism: A call for critical studies
The creation, maintenance and definitions of margins – alongside the socio-cultural meanings and experiences of marginalisation and the marginalised – have long been a topic of extensive debate among scholars, policymakers, and politicians. Within academia, researchers have discussed margins and the social position of individuals (or groups) in relation to the margins as a process where inclusion and exclusion constitute two intertwined ends of a…
Opportunities and challenges of digital competencies for women tourism entrepreneurs in Latin America: A Gendered Perspective
While increasingly more economic and social exchanges are taking place in the digital environment globally, women entrepreneurs’ access to, and adoption of, digital platforms cannot be assumed to happen naturally due to gender and social inequalities that are being replicated in the online environment. This study investigates the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurial digital competencies for women tourism entrepreneurs (WTEs) in Latin A…
Tourism (35 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (26 works) · Political science (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Business (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Geography (14 works) · Marketing (14 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (14 works) · Advertising (12 works)