Stephen L Smith

Biographic Data

ID4861287
NAMEStephen L Smith
GIVEN NAMESStephen L
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH S L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Waterloo
ORCID0000-0002-8636-407X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS63
TOTAL CITATIONS353
AUTHOR COUNT63
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX10

  • The diffusion of Airbnb: A comparative look at earlier adopters, later adopters, and non-adopters

    Daniel Guttentag, Stephen L J Smith et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2022

    Over the past decade, Airbnb has attracted millions of new guests to begin using its service. Diffusion theory suggests that over time different types of customers will adopt an innovation, yet no research has examined differences between Airbnb guests based on when they first began using the service. Consequently, this study compared earlier adopters, later adopters, and non-adopters of Airbnb according to a variety of behaviours and characteris…

  • Why Tourists Choose Airbnb: A Motivation-Based Segmentation Study

    Open AccessDaniel Guttentag, Stephen Smith et al.ARTICLETravel Research Bulletin2018

    Airbnb has grown very rapidly over the past several years, with millions of tourists having used the service. The purpose of this study was to investigate tourists’ motivations for using Airbnb and to segment them accordingly. The study involved an online survey completed in 2015 by more than 800 tourists who had stayed in Airbnb accommodation during the previous 12 months. Aggregate results indicated that respondents were most strongly attracted…

  • Assessing Airbnb as a disruptive innovation relative to hotels: Substitution and comparative performance expectations

    Open AccessDaniel Guttentag, Daniel A Guttentag et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2017

  • A Visitor Experience Scale: Historic Sites and Museums

    Hoffer M Lee, Stephen L SmithARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2015Cited by: 3References: 42

    Since Pine and Gilmore (1999) proclaimed the arrival of the experience economy era, research on tourists’ experiences has become an area of growing interest among scholars and practitioners. Gaining knowledge of the experiential features of tourist activities at historic sites and museums is of paramount importance for tourism operators to understand and satisfy tourists’ wide-ranging needs. With this concern in mind, the purpose of this study wa…

  • A sense of place: Place, culture and tourism

    Stephen Smith, Stephen L SmithARTICLETourism Recreation Research2015Cited by: 13References: 17

    The perspective of ‘place’ has emerged as important one in many realms of scholarship and professional practice. Ironically, though, tourism – in which place is a central concept – has paid little attention to the concept. This paper explores the importance of place in the context of tourism product development and marketing, particularly the linkage between place and culture as a tourism experience. The linkage can be understood through an analo…

  • Maine to Greenland: Exploring the Maritime Far Northeast

    Open AccessStephen L J Smith, Stephen L SmithARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2015References: 1

  • The contribution of Roy Wolfe (1917-2014) to tourism geography

    C M Hall, L J Smith et al.ARTICLETourism Geographies2015References: 24

    Roy Wolfe, Professor of Geography Emeritus, and one of the pioneers of tourism and recreation geography, died in Toronto on 15 November 2014. He was a transportation planner with the Ontario Depart

  • Tourism Analysis: A Handbook

    Stephen L J Smith, Stephen L SmithBOOKTourism Analysis2014

    Provides practical advice on the use of quantitative techniques used in tourism. Thoroughly revised and updated, the new edition includes new guidelines for domestic and international statistics produced by the World Tourism Organization. The book provides practical tools for both market planning as well as for product assessment, especially regional and environmental planning

  • Expenditures, Motivations, and Food Involvement Among Food Festival Visitors: The Hefei, China, Crawfish Festival

    Yaduo Hu, Maria Banyai et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2013References: 11

    Given the increasing socio-economic significance of food festivals, this study examines the characteristics of visitors to the Hefei Crawfish Festival in Hefei city, Anhui province, China, along with the determinants of their festival expenditure. Specifically, the study examines correlations among festival spending patterns and the visitors’ event-related motivations, food-related motivations, and food involvement levels. Using a Tobit model, th…

  • Political economy of tourism: Trust in government actors, political support, and their determinants

    Open AccessRobin Nunkoo, Stephen L J Smith et al.ARTICLETourism Management2013Cited by: 22References: 81

  • Residents’ attitudes to tourism: A longitudinal study of 140 articles from 1984 to 2010

    Robin Nunkoo, Stephen L J Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sustainable Tourism2012

    This paper is a longitudinal study of 140 articles on residents’ attitudes to tourism published in Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, and Journal of Travel Research from 1984 to 2010. Content analysis was used to determine the nature of the articles and the research approaches used. Although most articles were atheoretical, over the survey period an increasing proportion of studies made use of a variety of theories drawn from other d…

  • Becoming a Tourism Scholar

    Stephen L J Smith, Stephen L SmithARTICLETourism Geographies2011Cited by: 3References: 2

    An essay summarizing key lessons gleaned from the autobiographies of pioneers of tourism geography, published as The Discovery of Tourism. Five lessons, based on common themes among many of the personal histories, are presented with examples drawn from the autobiographies

  • Professional communication in an applied tourism research community

    Open AccessHonggen Xiao, Stephen L J Smith et al.ARTICLETourism Management2010Cited by: 5References: 36

  • Shakespeare's Late Work

    Stephen Smith, Stephen L SmithARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2009

  • Knowledge impact An Appraisal of Tourism Scholarship

    Open AccessHonggen Xiao, Stephen L J Smith et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2008Cited by: 9References: 88

  • International Handbook on the Economics of Tourism

    Open AccessStephen Smith, Stephen L SmithARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2008

  • Ethnic tourism development

    Open AccessLi Yang, G Wall et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2008Cited by: 29References: 21

  • The use of Tourism knowledge

    Open AccessHonggen Xiao, Stephen L J Smith et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2007Cited by: 26References: 77

  • Segmenting Canadian Culinary Tourists

    Elena Ignatov, Stephen Smith et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2006

    Researchers in culinary tourism often implicitly treat visitors interested in culinary products as a relatively homogeneous market. Using data obtained from the Canadian Travel Activities and Motivations Study, three a priori segments are defined: visitors who participate only in food-related activities, those who participate only in wine- related activities, and those who participate in both. The food segment was the largest of the three, with n…

  • Case studies in tourism research: A state-of-the-art analysis

    Open AccessHonggen Xiao, Stephen L J Smith et al.ARTICLETourism Management2006Cited by: 21References: 20

  • The making of tourism research

    Open AccessHonggen Xiao, Stephen L J Smith et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2006Cited by: 37References: 29

  • Ethnic representations

    Open AccessChristine N Buzinde, Carla Almeida Santos et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2006Cited by: 23References: 25

  • Tourism Statistics: International Perspectives and Current Issues

    Open AccessStephen L J Smith, Stephen L SmithARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2005

  • Source Knowledge for Tourism Research

    Open AccessHonggen Xiao, Stephen L J Smith et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2005Cited by: 5References: 2

  • A vision for the Canadian tourism industry

    Open AccessStephen L J Smith, Stephen L SmithARTICLETourism Management2003Cited by: 1References: 3