Steven Gardiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 84886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Gardiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Gardiner |
| SIGNATURE | GARDINER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7044-7145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unlocking the gateway to tourist well-being
Engagement in tourist experiences is essential for destination development. However, how tourist engagement generates positive psychological outcomes, such as tourist well-being, remains underexplored. Consequently, drawing on an interpretivist paradigm, this study conducts in-depth focus groups with 23 tourism professionals to explore the mechanism through which engagement in tourism experiences is enhanced and subsequently influences tourist we…
A framework for analysing the individual capital of travel vloggers
Dolphins
This paper delves into the ethical dimensions and public perceptions surrounding dolphin tourism, both seeing them in the wild and in the marine park. Using a comprehensive analysis of social media data over seven years, we focus on dolphins as a central element of marine mammal tourism, investigating how digital narratives shape tourist attitudes and behaviours towards these intelligent creatures. Informed by a multi-method data analysis approac…
Disaster recovery as disorientation and reorientation
As research on disasters in the tourism context matures, a more holistic understanding of how businesses and communities can recover is needed. Using the disorientation and reorientation framework, this study explores recovery as a place-based process. The perceptions and memories of key stakeholders of Binna Burra Lodge, which was affected by the 2019–2020 bushfires in Australia, are investigated and the analysis reveals two themes of disorienta…
Future scholarship on cognitive and metacognitive attitudes in tourism
This study aims to assess the factors that influence consumer attitude towards a destination, and to present a new conceptual framework for further investigation of the role of cognition and metacognition in tourism attitudinal research. Existing research in social psychology has established that three factors influence consumer attitude; amount of thought, valence of thinking and thought confidence. While cognition, amount and valence of thinkin…
Travel vlog ecosystem in tourism digital marketing evolution
This narrative literature review advances understanding of travel vlogs as a critical component of contemporary digital tourism marketing and highlights the transformation of digital marketing over the past three decades. The paper explores the role of vlogs in modern tourism marketing practices and proposes a travel vlog ecosystem comprising three actors: the vlogger, the viewer, and the destination marketer. The paper is the first to examine th…
Analyzing and Leveraging Social Media Disaster Communication of Natural Hazards
This research presents a new model based on Twitter posts and VADER algorithms to analyze social media discourse during and following a bushfire event. The case study is the Gold Coast community that experienced the first bushfire event of Australia’s severe Black Summer in 2019/2020. This study aims to understand which communities and stakeholders generate and exchange information on disasters caused by natural hazards. In doing so, a new method…
Welcome back
Recreating history
Sustainable livelihoods from tourism in the “10 New Balis” in Indonesia
The “10 New Balis” aims to duplicate the economic effects of tourism in Bali to 10 new tourism destinations in Indonesia. Group interviews were conducted with Indonesian tourism stakeholders (N = 22) to investigate aspirations, deficits and tensions in these destinations. Findings show that human capital development in regional areas is needed to avoid tensions from top-down, elite-led development, as well as training to achieve sustainable livel…
Beyond certification
Sustainable tourism quality control tools (ST-QCTs) are voluntary mechanisms essential for translating sustainable tourism concepts into practice. Recent scholarship, synthesizing the extant literature, revealed a complex ‘multiverse’ of 15 ST-QCT types and seven critical variability parameters. Our empirical investigation of this multiverse in the diversified, year-round destination of Park City, USA, involving 27 semi-structured interviews with…
Chinese Learn to Surf
The China youth free-and-independent travel (FIT) market is a new and emerging market for tourism operators. Yet, targeting this market is often challenging for operators because they have limited understanding of the Chinese consumer mind-set and, accordingly, lack the requisite knowledge to modify their existing experience or develop new experiences to accommodate Chinese travel preferences. This study explores experience innovation by an Austr…
Cognitive psychology and tourism research
Purpose This review aims to discuss concepts and theories from cognitive psychology, identifies tourism studies applying them and discusses key areas for future research. The paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness of cognitive psychology for understanding why tourists and particularly pleasure travellers demonstrate the behaviour they exhibit. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews 165 papers from the cognitive psychology and literature …
Chinese Outbound Tourism 2.0
The China outbound tourist market has become increasingly important to the global tourism industry (Zhang, 2006). In 2013, nearly 100 million Chinese traveled abroad, spending US$102 billion, making China the world’s largest source market by both arrivals and expenditure (Xinhuanet, 2014). An increasing disposable income, together with the strong performance of Chinese Renminbi (RMB), more relaxed passport and visa application procedures, and enh…
Successful tourism clusters
In the Shadow of Service
In the period since the abolition of the draft the number of soldiers and veterans in the United States, in both absolute and relative terms, has declined. At the same time the United States has become increasingly militarized at home and dependent on the global projection of force. In this article I explore the impact of these apparently contradictory developments, focusing on the post-service lives of what I call mobilized veteransâ those veter…
Cognitive psychology and tourism research
Purpose This review aims to discuss concepts and theories from cognitive psychology, identifies tourism studies applying them and discusses key areas for future research. The paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness of cognitive psychology for understanding why tourists and particularly pleasure travellers demonstrate the behaviour they exhibit. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews 165 papers from the cognitive psychology and literature …
Welcome back
Recreating history
Future scholarship on cognitive and metacognitive attitudes in tourism
This study aims to assess the factors that influence consumer attitude towards a destination, and to present a new conceptual framework for further investigation of the role of cognition and metacognition in tourism attitudinal research. Existing research in social psychology has established that three factors influence consumer attitude; amount of thought, valence of thinking and thought confidence. While cognition, amount and valence of thinkin…
Sustainable livelihoods from tourism in the “10 New Balis” in Indonesia
The “10 New Balis” aims to duplicate the economic effects of tourism in Bali to 10 new tourism destinations in Indonesia. Group interviews were conducted with Indonesian tourism stakeholders (N = 22) to investigate aspirations, deficits and tensions in these destinations. Findings show that human capital development in regional areas is needed to avoid tensions from top-down, elite-led development, as well as training to achieve sustainable livel…
Successful tourism clusters
Dolphins
This paper delves into the ethical dimensions and public perceptions surrounding dolphin tourism, both seeing them in the wild and in the marine park. Using a comprehensive analysis of social media data over seven years, we focus on dolphins as a central element of marine mammal tourism, investigating how digital narratives shape tourist attitudes and behaviours towards these intelligent creatures. Informed by a multi-method data analysis approac…
Chinese Learn to Surf
The China youth free-and-independent travel (FIT) market is a new and emerging market for tourism operators. Yet, targeting this market is often challenging for operators because they have limited understanding of the Chinese consumer mind-set and, accordingly, lack the requisite knowledge to modify their existing experience or develop new experiences to accommodate Chinese travel preferences. This study explores experience innovation by an Austr…
In the Shadow of Service
In the period since the abolition of the draft the number of soldiers and veterans in the United States, in both absolute and relative terms, has declined. At the same time the United States has become increasingly militarized at home and dependent on the global projection of force. In this article I explore the impact of these apparently contradictory developments, focusing on the post-service lives of what I call mobilized veteransâ those veter…
Successful tourism clusters
Chinese Outbound Tourism 2.0
The China outbound tourist market has become increasingly important to the global tourism industry (Zhang, 2006). In 2013, nearly 100 million Chinese traveled abroad, spending US$102 billion, making China the world’s largest source market by both arrivals and expenditure (Xinhuanet, 2014). An increasing disposable income, together with the strong performance of Chinese Renminbi (RMB), more relaxed passport and visa application procedures, and enh…
Cognitive psychology and tourism research
Purpose This review aims to discuss concepts and theories from cognitive psychology, identifies tourism studies applying them and discusses key areas for future research. The paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness of cognitive psychology for understanding why tourists and particularly pleasure travellers demonstrate the behaviour they exhibit. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews 165 papers from the cognitive psychology and literature …
Chinese Learn to Surf
The China youth free-and-independent travel (FIT) market is a new and emerging market for tourism operators. Yet, targeting this market is often challenging for operators because they have limited understanding of the Chinese consumer mind-set and, accordingly, lack the requisite knowledge to modify their existing experience or develop new experiences to accommodate Chinese travel preferences. This study explores experience innovation by an Austr…
Beyond certification
Sustainable tourism quality control tools (ST-QCTs) are voluntary mechanisms essential for translating sustainable tourism concepts into practice. Recent scholarship, synthesizing the extant literature, revealed a complex ‘multiverse’ of 15 ST-QCT types and seven critical variability parameters. Our empirical investigation of this multiverse in the diversified, year-round destination of Park City, USA, involving 27 semi-structured interviews with…
Sustainable livelihoods from tourism in the “10 New Balis” in Indonesia
The “10 New Balis” aims to duplicate the economic effects of tourism in Bali to 10 new tourism destinations in Indonesia. Group interviews were conducted with Indonesian tourism stakeholders (N = 22) to investigate aspirations, deficits and tensions in these destinations. Findings show that human capital development in regional areas is needed to avoid tensions from top-down, elite-led development, as well as training to achieve sustainable livel…
Recreating history
Travel vlog ecosystem in tourism digital marketing evolution
This narrative literature review advances understanding of travel vlogs as a critical component of contemporary digital tourism marketing and highlights the transformation of digital marketing over the past three decades. The paper explores the role of vlogs in modern tourism marketing practices and proposes a travel vlog ecosystem comprising three actors: the vlogger, the viewer, and the destination marketer. The paper is the first to examine th…
Analyzing and Leveraging Social Media Disaster Communication of Natural Hazards
This research presents a new model based on Twitter posts and VADER algorithms to analyze social media discourse during and following a bushfire event. The case study is the Gold Coast community that experienced the first bushfire event of Australia’s severe Black Summer in 2019/2020. This study aims to understand which communities and stakeholders generate and exchange information on disasters caused by natural hazards. In doing so, a new method…
Welcome back
Dolphins
This paper delves into the ethical dimensions and public perceptions surrounding dolphin tourism, both seeing them in the wild and in the marine park. Using a comprehensive analysis of social media data over seven years, we focus on dolphins as a central element of marine mammal tourism, investigating how digital narratives shape tourist attitudes and behaviours towards these intelligent creatures. Informed by a multi-method data analysis approac…
Disaster recovery as disorientation and reorientation
As research on disasters in the tourism context matures, a more holistic understanding of how businesses and communities can recover is needed. Using the disorientation and reorientation framework, this study explores recovery as a place-based process. The perceptions and memories of key stakeholders of Binna Burra Lodge, which was affected by the 2019–2020 bushfires in Australia, are investigated and the analysis reveals two themes of disorienta…
Future scholarship on cognitive and metacognitive attitudes in tourism
This study aims to assess the factors that influence consumer attitude towards a destination, and to present a new conceptual framework for further investigation of the role of cognition and metacognition in tourism attitudinal research. Existing research in social psychology has established that three factors influence consumer attitude; amount of thought, valence of thinking and thought confidence. While cognition, amount and valence of thinkin…
Unlocking the gateway to tourist well-being
Engagement in tourist experiences is essential for destination development. However, how tourist engagement generates positive psychological outcomes, such as tourist well-being, remains underexplored. Consequently, drawing on an interpretivist paradigm, this study conducts in-depth focus groups with 23 tourism professionals to explore the mechanism through which engagement in tourism experiences is enhanced and subsequently influences tourist we…
A framework for analysing the individual capital of travel vloggers
Business (12 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (12 works) · Tourism (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Marketing (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (5 works)