B King
Biographic Data
| ID | 9513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B King |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5300-5564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The University Geography Department as a Hub for Collaborative, Community-Based Storytelling
This article explores the number of ways our academic department communicates about geography, how we as geographers tell stories about our work, and how geographic scholarship has relevance to pressing social and environmental challenges. Increasingly, our world is moderated through technologies that curate content directly into our phones and other devices; however, our department has found that a blend of traditional and contemporary strategie…
Remembering Keith: Meanderings From Leeds to Australia, Texas, and Then Back Again
Trade-offs when traveling to slow city or mega city destinations: Competitive mechanisms and perceptual dynamics
From plate to place: How authentic dining experiences in ethnic restaurants enhance national image and motivate travel
Are we in the same boat? Multi-stakeholder perceptions of the impacts of domestic resort tourism and sustainability in a small island developing state
Developing a tourism region through tourism and culture: Bordering, Branding, Placemaking and Governance Processes
China’s pre-pandemic national-level planning advocated a combination of culture and tourism to advance growth in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) mega-region. Culture is seen as increasing regional cohesion, with multi-destination travel products connecting subregions and cities. This paper examines perceptions of progress towards a coherent GBA cultural identity and its implications for tourism. We examine tourism stakeholder perceptions of the GBA, a…
City neighbourhood branding and new urban tourism
City authorities worldwide have sought to rejuvenate and diversify their tourism product offerings by dispersing visitors into less familiar and frequented locales. Despite calls to understand such ‘new tourism areas’ (NTAs) in urban areas, few researchers have examined visitor responses to the implementation of NTA strategies, particularly outside Europe. This quantitative approach considers the profiles, attitudes and behaviours of NTA visitors…
Reflecting on tourism and Covid-19 research
Reflection is a form of deep thinking that is evident in everyday lives – private and professional – and this article offers insights for key parties about reflecting on research outcomes to ensure enhanced tourism impacts post-pandemic. Using a hermeneutic perspective on reflection, the authors reflect on research outcomes since the pandemic began. Three types of reflection are deployed: anticipatory, active and recollective. While the ultimate …
Covid-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras: A food system disruption analysis
In Honduras, as in many settings between 2020 and 2022, food security was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and conflicts-what some refer to as "The Three Cs." These challenges have had overlapping impacts on food supply chains, food assistance programs, food prices, household purchasing power, physical access to food, and food acceptability. This article applies a food system disruption analysis-adapted from a fault tree analysi…
Betwixt and between: A qualitative review of the (re)acculturation of international students and returnees
Pre-pandemic, the international education marketplace was expanding rapidly along with cross-border educational mobilities. Researchers have explored the adaptions of international students to study destinations, notably within an acculturation framework. However, researchers have given less attention to adapting to life in the country of origin that international students encounter as returnees. It is commonplace for returning graduates to trans…
Tourist perceptions of local food: A mapping of cultural values
This paper proposes a model that conveys the diversity of tourist culinary perceptions—the hierarchical local food consumption value mapping. The researchers deploy hard laddering to analyze 1593 responses to a questionnaire survey and identified 11 salient attributes, nine consequences, and seven values. Eight cultural groupings were identified. The researchers compared the mappings for each of the eight groupings to determine whether the applic…
Developing a slow city tourism evaluation index: A Delphi-AHP review of Cittaslow requirements
This study proposes and verifies the slow city tourism evaluation index (SCTEI). SCTEI offers scholars and practitioners the capacity to assess the attractiveness and/or performance of slow cities in the context of sustainable tourism. The study participants consisted of a panel of slow city and sustainable development experts. These professionals were engaged in a Delphi-analytic hierarchy process for the purposes of scale development and verifi…
A business model innovation process for tourism: Findings from a literature review
This paper reviews existing concepts and frameworks to propose a business model innovation process (BMIP) applicable to tourism businesses. A comprehensive literature review and content analysis is conducted by selecting, studying and coding applicable articles. The authors have reviewed 41 business model innovation (BMI) related papers, of which 14 are BMIP specific and four examine the phases of innovation in detail. Noting the lack of scholarl…
Organic destination imagery and social media: Mapping tourism dynamics across China’s Greater Bay Area cities
Drawing upon Gunn’s formative concept of organic destination image this study proposes an application and extension in a contemporary regional context. Noting that the formation of destination image now emanates from tourists as well as from tourism businesses, the researchers use a prominent Chinese social media platform – the Red – to evaluate tourist/user generated content on the destination image of the ‘9 + 2’ Greater Bay Area cities in sout…
Tracking destination visual narratives: Photographic compositions from longer stay tourists
The photographs that contemporary travellers disseminate quickly and effortlessly to a global online audience are a valuable resource for scholars and for practitioners seeking to shape destination image. They merit more in-depth understanding. However, viewers are detached from the process of producing photos for online dissemination, thereby limiting insights provided by examinations of what the photos were intended to represent. The current au…
Decoding the educational travel decision: Destinations, institutions and social influence
In a globalized world, the connection between studying abroad and career development has been widely recognized. This study analyses how students contemplating overseas study evaluate prospective destinations and institutions. It fills a knowledge gap by finding that students are pulled by both institutions and destinations and are subject to an internal push – destinations and hence tourism plays a mediating role in study abroad decision-making.…
Travel Industry Leadership in Italy and China — A Biographical Comparison
Entrepreneurial leadership has been important in developing the global travel industry with implications for both organizations and people. This comparative biographical analysis of two travel industry leaders and their respective contexts in Italy and China documents and evaluates these dimensions and applicable leadership constructs. The subjects are an Italian tour operator leader, Ermanno Chizzali (Founder of Ignas Tour SpA), and a Chinese to…
Factors associated with farmers’ use of fee-for-service advisors in a privatized agricultural extension system
The privatization of agricultural advisory and extension services in many countries and the associated pluralism of service providers has renewed interest in farmers’ use of fee-for-service advisors. Understanding farmers’ use of advisory services is important, given the role such services are expected to play in helping farmers address critical environmental and sustainability challenges. This paper aims to identify factors associated with farme…
Stolen history: Community concern towards looting of cultural heritage and its tourism implications
Religious tourism studies: Evolution, progress, and future prospects
This review study examines evolving themes in the scholarly literature on religious tourism and identifies research gaps that provide a basis for future investigations. The researchers evaluate a total of 84 studies of religion-induced tourism using content and thematic analyses. The findings show a plurality of approaches, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, that extend to diverse methods, themes, applications, geographical foci and manifes…
Aging Stereotypes and the Customer Orientations of Older Hospitality Employees
While the older population generally and the older workforce in particular has been growing in most countries, scholars have not explored how the work performance of this group is affected by stereotypical views toward them. This study aims to explore older service employee (OSE) perceptions of aging stereotypes that are attributed to them by their colleagues and customers and to investigate their respective impacts on OSE customer orientations. …
Stakeholder collaboration as a major factor for sustainable ecotourism development in developing countries
Experiencing culture in attractions, events and tour settings
Co-creation of value for cultural festivals: Behind the scenes in Macau
In their capacity as performative cultural assets located in destinations, festivals offer visitors potentially convivial and memorable experiences. Though previous studies have examined the psychologies of festival attendees, few have considered the perspective of festival stakeholders towards the co-creation of cultural value. The present study examines the case of a traditional festival that epitomises intangible cultural heritage – the Feast …
NGOs in ecotourism: Patrons of sustainability or neo-colonial agents? Evidence from Africa
NGOs have become involved in ecotourism because of its potential to balance economic development, environmental conservation, and socio-cultural revitalisation. However, some critics have associated ecotourism with neo-colonialism and with the perpetuation of economic and political hegemonies because the concept has been advanced from the West. The present study adopts a qualitative research approach to explore the merits of two opposing views -t…
Strengthening Community-Based Tourism in a new resource-based island nation: Why and how
Stakeholder collaboration as a major factor for sustainable ecotourism development in developing countries
The sacred and the profane: Identifying pilgrim traveler value orientations using means-end theory
Is the migration-tourism relationship only about VFR
Experiencing culture in attractions, events and tour settings
Accommodating the sharing revolution: A qualitative evaluation of the impact of Airbnb on Singapore’s budget hotels
In 2013, Daniel Guttentag in an article titled Airbnb: Disruptive innovation and the rise of an informal tourism accommodation sector has proposed the view that Airbnb properties compete directly with budget hotels because of their comparably low cost and the present paper assesses the applicability of this hypothesis in the Singapore context. Interviews were conducted with representatives from economy/mid-tier hotels and hostels which account fo…
The perceptions of tourism employees and their families towards tourism
Organic destination imagery and social media: Mapping tourism dynamics across China’s Greater Bay Area cities
Drawing upon Gunn’s formative concept of organic destination image this study proposes an application and extension in a contemporary regional context. Noting that the formation of destination image now emanates from tourists as well as from tourism businesses, the researchers use a prominent Chinese social media platform – the Red – to evaluate tourist/user generated content on the destination image of the ‘9 + 2’ Greater Bay Area cities in sout…
Going global, acting local: Volunteer tourists as prospective community builders
In the growing field of volunteer tourism research, studies have investigated participant motivations and the benefits accruing to both travellers and the community, as well as undertaking critical assessments of the phenomenon. Comparatively little attention has been paid to changes associated with the post-volunteer period and particularly to the likelihood of volunteer tourists making contributions within their home communities. Using the Expe…
Response to Yeoman et al: Competitive advantage through “authenticity”: An assessment of Scotland's tourism prospects
The Burden of Max Headroom
Journal Article The Burden of Max Headroom Get access Barry King Barry King Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 30, Issue 1-2, Winter-Spring 1989, Pages 122–139 , https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/30.1-2.122 Published: 01 January 1989
Developing a tourism region through tourism and culture: Bordering, Branding, Placemaking and Governance Processes
China’s pre-pandemic national-level planning advocated a combination of culture and tourism to advance growth in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) mega-region. Culture is seen as increasing regional cohesion, with multi-destination travel products connecting subregions and cities. This paper examines perceptions of progress towards a coherent GBA cultural identity and its implications for tourism. We examine tourism stakeholder perceptions of the GBA, a…
Tracking destination visual narratives: Photographic compositions from longer stay tourists
The photographs that contemporary travellers disseminate quickly and effortlessly to a global online audience are a valuable resource for scholars and for practitioners seeking to shape destination image. They merit more in-depth understanding. However, viewers are detached from the process of producing photos for online dissemination, thereby limiting insights provided by examinations of what the photos were intended to represent. The current au…
Co-creation of value for cultural festivals: Behind the scenes in Macau
In their capacity as performative cultural assets located in destinations, festivals offer visitors potentially convivial and memorable experiences. Though previous studies have examined the psychologies of festival attendees, few have considered the perspective of festival stakeholders towards the co-creation of cultural value. The present study examines the case of a traditional festival that epitomises intangible cultural heritage – the Feast …
Reflecting on tourism and Covid-19 research
Reflection is a form of deep thinking that is evident in everyday lives – private and professional – and this article offers insights for key parties about reflecting on research outcomes to ensure enhanced tourism impacts post-pandemic. Using a hermeneutic perspective on reflection, the authors reflect on research outcomes since the pandemic began. Three types of reflection are deployed: anticipatory, active and recollective. While the ultimate …
Stolen history: Community concern towards looting of cultural heritage and its tourism implications
Aging Stereotypes and the Customer Orientations of Older Hospitality Employees
While the older population generally and the older workforce in particular has been growing in most countries, scholars have not explored how the work performance of this group is affected by stereotypical views toward them. This study aims to explore older service employee (OSE) perceptions of aging stereotypes that are attributed to them by their colleagues and customers and to investigate their respective impacts on OSE customer orientations. …
NGOs in ecotourism: Patrons of sustainability or neo-colonial agents? Evidence from Africa
NGOs have become involved in ecotourism because of its potential to balance economic development, environmental conservation, and socio-cultural revitalisation. However, some critics have associated ecotourism with neo-colonialism and with the perpetuation of economic and political hegemonies because the concept has been advanced from the West. The present study adopts a qualitative research approach to explore the merits of two opposing views -t…
Hotel Industry Leadership in Greater China—A Biographical Comparison
The relationship between leaders and followers plays a major role in shaping organizational cultures. There is an established literature within many disciplines showing evidence of how leaders seek to influence their followers. This article extends this legacy by presenting a detailed investigation of two hospitality leaders in order to provide insights into the formation of leaders in Greater China. A biographical comparison is conducted to anal…
Segmenting Chinese Millennial Restaurant Customers: A Lifestyle and Health and Environmental Consciousness Approach
This paper provides insights into the attitudes and behaviors of Chinese Millennials towards dining out, based on a sample of 468 respondents in Hong Kong, China. Millennials are the generation that is most conscious of sustainability and personal health issues, and they are contributing to the growing demand for wellness-related products and services. The Chinese are the largest emerging group within this cohort for global spending and wealth cr…
The global dissemination of scholarly tourism outputs from 1976 to 2016: Evidence from Australia
This paper explores the growing breadth and depth of networks and collaborations in the expansion of tourism scholarship. By using bibliometric techniques and mining data from 25 top tourism (and hospitality) journals, the authors provide a visualization of how the field has developed. Focusing on the example of Australia, it shows a process of intensifying internationalization with leading institutions in the UK and Hong Kong, though with minima…
Intra-Asian performing arts tourism – the motivations, intentions, and performance preferences of Japanese visitors
To provide an enhanced understanding of performing arts tourism in the Asian context, the present study investigates the motivations, intentions and performance preferences of a particular source market – Japan. Five primary motivations identified for this group when travelling to Korea to watch a theatre-based performance were: to relieve stress, to learn about Korean culture, to socialise, to enhance their life satisfaction, and curiosity. The …
Incremental Effects of the Shanghai Free-trade Zone—An Internet Informed Assessment of Hong Kong’s Tourism Competitiveness
The pursuit of tourism destination competitiveness (TDC) has become an important consideration for policy makers as a means of growing tourism market share. However, the published research tends to interpret TDC as the combined performance of various destination attributes, thereby overlooking other factors that impact on TDC. This study suggests that assessments should focus on the most influential events and proposes an “incremental” approach t…
Pacific island tourism
Sociology Beyond Societies
Atlas of Railway Traffic Maps . William Arthur Shelton
The great museum
Tourism – a new systematic approach
The Story Continues
Journal Article The Story Continues... Get access Barry King Barry King Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 28, Issue 3, Summer 1987, Pages 56–83 , https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/28.3.56 Published: 01 July 1987
A Reply to Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson
Journal Article A Reply to Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson Get access Barry King Barry King Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 1988, Pages 98–119, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/29.1.98 Published: 01 January 1988
The Burden of Max Headroom
Journal Article The Burden of Max Headroom Get access Barry King Barry King Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 30, Issue 1-2, Winter-Spring 1989, Pages 122–139 , https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/30.1-2.122 Published: 01 January 1989
Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washinghton, May 1990
Journal Article Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washinghton, May 1990 Get access Barry King Barry King Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 31, Issue 4, Winter 1990, Pages 435–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/31.4.435 Published: 01 December 1990
Introduction to tourism in Australia: Impacts, planning and development
Building a Research Base in Tourism
The perceptions of tourism employees and their families towards tourism
Tourism in South East Asia
Us or them? Lonely planet travel summit
Tourism and hospitality education
Principles of tourism
Migrants and their overseas travels: A psychographic segmentation of Australia's Vietnamese community
This study profiled the travel patterns of Australia's Vietnamese community, with particular reference to travel back to Vietnam. Using a variety of analytical techniques including analysis of variance, factor analysis and regression analysis, the study identified four discrete psychographic groups. These were the ‘home‐sick,’ the ‘suspicious,’ the ‘culture seekers’ and the ‘price sensitive.’ Major contrasts were evident between the various segme…
The Sexual Desire Inventory as a Measure of Sexual Motivation in College Students
The human sexual response consists of at least two phases of behavior, the motivational phase and the consummatory phase, which are difficult to isolate. Sexual motivation questionnaires commonly contain items that assume sexual intercourse or partners' experience and are often difficult to use with sexually inexperienced persons. The Sexual Desire Inventory by Spector, Carey, and Steinberg does not appear to be confounded with consummatory behav…
A Profile of India's Hotel Sector: Is a Giant Finally Awakening
With close to a billion inhabitants, India is the world's second most populous country. Its fast growing middle class is estimated at between 200–250 million. Official reports indicate that the economy has been expanding by nearly 6 per cent per annum and the demand for both leisure and business related travel may be expected to increase accordingly. In 1991 the Union Government set aside decades of protectionism and restrictive practices in a bi…
The Emerging Golden Age of Chinese Tourism and its Historical Antecedents: A Thematic Investigation
The emerging Chinese domestic and outbound tourism markets may be viewed as part of broader processes of historical change and development in China. Tourism is not a new stage in China's economic development, but is a renaissance and reinvigoration of established economic activity that has roots dating far back into history. History has influenced tourism growth in China in terms of both traveler motivations and destination choice. Literature has…
Sociology Beyond Societies
Managing urban tourism
Pacific island tourism
Response to Yeoman et al: Competitive advantage through “authenticity”: An assessment of Scotland's tourism prospects
The Experiences of Chinese Tourism and Hospitality Postgraduate Students in Australia
Australia has attracted substantial Chinese enrolments into tourism and hospitality programmes. This qualitative study examines the experiences of Chinese postgraduate students undertaking a master's degree in tourism and hospitality within Australia. Chinese students enrolled in programmes at two major providers of tourism higher education participated in a series of focus groups and interviews. Respondents indicated that their unfamiliarity wit…
Is the migration-tourism relationship only about VFR
Strengthening Community-Based Tourism in a new resource-based island nation: Why and how
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