Michael O''Regan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 205184 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael O''Regan |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | O''Regan |
| ASSINATURA | REGAN M O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8177-2739 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Pottourism
Harry Potter has evolved beyond entertainment into a cultural phenomenon driving a unique form of tourism called ‘Pottourism.’ This study examines its impact on six UK tourist attractions where the series was filmed or set. Through analysis of 17,000 TripAdvisor reviews complemented by stakeholder interviews, the research reveals that over 30% of visitors are influenced by Harry Potter associations. Site managers face the critical challenge of ba…
Constrained mobilities
Offloading practices in the Philippines deny boarding to passengers suspected of seeking illegal work or being trafficking victims. These practices exemplify what mobilities scholars term 'constrained mobilities,' the differential regulation of movement that creates hierarchies of legitimate and illegitimate travellers. Departing from existing scholarship that predominantly examines labour migrants and destination country controls, this study uni…
Wellness for Tourists? Well…Mess for Locals
Through the framework of sustainable development, focusing on socio-cultural sustainability, this study explores whether the rapid growth of wellness tourism in Ubud, Bali, has been experienced equitably by the local community. Through ethnographic interviews and participant observation, the findings reveal that most informants did not experience benefits from wellness tourism due to Western domination, economic leakage and isolated enclaves. Wel…
Tourism futures and Working Holiday Maker schemes
Contested civilities
This study examines how Chinese state-controlled English-language media framed ‘problem tourists’ as a significant cultural and political issue during China’s unprecedented tourism expansion from 2005-2018. Through thematic framing analysis of 303 articles from China Daily and Global Times, this study reveals how media discourse positioned problem tourists as cultural threats requiring state intervention. The analysis identifies three dominant fr…
Overtourism on Twitter
When the linguistic innovation and phrase overtourism was used in an online news report to describe excessive tourism in Iceland in 2016, legacy and social media soon following with in-depth articles and visual representations of perceived excessive tourism in other locations around the world. Given the growing calls for action on overtourism, this study takes a social network analysis (SNA) approach, using a network analysis and visualization so…
Searching for prestige
While changes in society continue to inform understandings of what leisure is and how it manifests itself, the emergence of Chinese outbound tourists, with specific motivations, travel styles and leisure choices are having powerful impacts on multiple host destinations. While university campuses have long been marked as visitor attractions in China, this study explores the motivations and implications of outbound Chinese tourists visiting univers…
Quality of life perspectives for different social groups in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure
While the quality of life (QoL) concept in tourism research has gained momentum, scholarly work has focused on host QoL and tourist-host relations, rather than exploring and analysing the perception, interpretation and understanding of QoL among different social groups in a given tourist destination. Macao is a densely populated tourism destination and designated World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, where local residents and migrants work and coh…
From its drifter past to nomadic futures
While the label ‘backpacker’ didn’t originate in 1990 when first presented at an academic conference by the late Philip L. Pearce, its usage rose within an emerging academic discourse community that established shared interests, sources of information, terminology, and methods of communication, along with a certain level of expertise and knowledge on the subject. While the community internationalised and embraced interdisciplinary approaches, a r…
Filipino migrant workers’ leisure and subjective quality of life in Macao
Utilizing 14 semi-structured interviews in a non-western context, this exploratory study examines how Filipino migrant workers’ leisure satisfaction and QoL are intertwined in Macao, China. The study reveals that Filipino migrant workers regard “family and friends”, and a sense of community as central to their QoL. Regarding leisure, the Filipino migrant workers experienced a lack of time-off and long working hours (structural leisure constraints…
Faith Manifest
From books to movies, the media is now flush with spiritual and wellness tourist-related images, films, and fiction (which are primarily produced in the West) about Southeast Asia. Combined with the positive effects of spiritual practices, greater numbers of tourists are travelling to Southeast Asia for mindfulness, yoga, and other spiritual pursuits. Influenced by popular mass media coverage, such as Hollywood movies and literary bestsellers lik…
Post-Colonial Macau
The expansion of casino concessions and subsequent growth of employment and gross domestic product (GDP) per Capita in Macau after the 1999 handover from Portugal created an illusion of prosperity in a post-colonial territory of less than 30 sq. km. A Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), it is the only place in China where adults can legally gamble in casinos. This paper, using interviews with local residen…
Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage
While dominant discourses, media representations and corporate entities in China downplay the presence of Chinese mainland gambling in Macau, Beijing sanctions millions of its citizens to make the journey to Macau to gamble each year. While Macau’s success is often put down to the extent to which visitors are drawn to a secular destination with integrated resorts to engage in individualistic activities, our approach explores Chinese gambling tour…
Backpacking’s future and its drifter past
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the backpacker label by reconstructing it using the historical antecedent of drifting. Following the deconstruction of backpacking’s near past, the author build a clearer conceptual foundation for backpacking’s future. Design/methodology/approach The study is framed by scenario planning, which demands a critical review of the backpacking and an appreciation of its history in order to understand …
A backpacker habitus
As all cultures ‘dress’ the body through clothing, tattooing and other forms of body adornment such as cosmetics, dress offers a useful lens through which to explore the ways in which identities are constituted in modern leisure and tourism cultures. An analysis of the dress and embodied subjectivity of western backpackers in Nepal finds that dress is constitutive of self-identity and the ways backpackers imagine themselves. This study argues tha…
Smartphone Adoption amongst Chinese Youth during Leisure-based Tourism
With the spread of Information communications technology (ICT) in China, the tourism industry has come to recognize the importance of examining the factors that influence adoption of smartphones during leisure-based tourism among Chinese youth, a vital segment in what the world’s greatest domestic, inbound, and outbound tourism market will be by 2020. Using data collected from undergraduate students at a university in China, this study, based on …
Meditation as a kind of leisure
Meditation has been shown to be a cost-effective means to help individuals reduce stress, alleviate anxiety and depression. Similarly, leisure has been found to reduce stress, improve mood and contribute to overall health and well-being. The similarities and differences in outcomes between meditation and leisure suggest that a comparative analysis may determine if and how experiences and outcomes of meditation may be similar to and different from…
Liminal Landscapes Travel, Experience and Spaces in-between
On the Edge of Chaos
This article argues that airlines should be viewed through the lens of complexity theory, a complex systems‐oriented aviation industry defined by interactions among sub‐systems that include airports, passengers, airlines and (mobility) policy – the regulations, guidance, design and planning mechanisms that are increasingly part of aviation internalities. Together with air traffic controllers, cabin/ground crew, airport managers, the formation of …
On the Edge of Chaos
This article argues that airlines should be viewed through the lens of complexity theory, a complex systems‐oriented aviation industry defined by interactions among sub‐systems that include airports, passengers, airlines and (mobility) policy – the regulations, guidance, design and planning mechanisms that are increasingly part of aviation internalities. Together with air traffic controllers, cabin/ground crew, airport managers, the formation of …
A backpacker habitus
As all cultures ‘dress’ the body through clothing, tattooing and other forms of body adornment such as cosmetics, dress offers a useful lens through which to explore the ways in which identities are constituted in modern leisure and tourism cultures. An analysis of the dress and embodied subjectivity of western backpackers in Nepal finds that dress is constitutive of self-identity and the ways backpackers imagine themselves. This study argues tha…
Filipino migrant workers’ leisure and subjective quality of life in Macao
Utilizing 14 semi-structured interviews in a non-western context, this exploratory study examines how Filipino migrant workers’ leisure satisfaction and QoL are intertwined in Macao, China. The study reveals that Filipino migrant workers regard “family and friends”, and a sense of community as central to their QoL. Regarding leisure, the Filipino migrant workers experienced a lack of time-off and long working hours (structural leisure constraints…
Quality of life perspectives for different social groups in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure
While the quality of life (QoL) concept in tourism research has gained momentum, scholarly work has focused on host QoL and tourist-host relations, rather than exploring and analysing the perception, interpretation and understanding of QoL among different social groups in a given tourist destination. Macao is a densely populated tourism destination and designated World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, where local residents and migrants work and coh…
Faith Manifest
From books to movies, the media is now flush with spiritual and wellness tourist-related images, films, and fiction (which are primarily produced in the West) about Southeast Asia. Combined with the positive effects of spiritual practices, greater numbers of tourists are travelling to Southeast Asia for mindfulness, yoga, and other spiritual pursuits. Influenced by popular mass media coverage, such as Hollywood movies and literary bestsellers lik…
Post-Colonial Macau
The expansion of casino concessions and subsequent growth of employment and gross domestic product (GDP) per Capita in Macau after the 1999 handover from Portugal created an illusion of prosperity in a post-colonial territory of less than 30 sq. km. A Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), it is the only place in China where adults can legally gamble in casinos. This paper, using interviews with local residen…
Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage
While dominant discourses, media representations and corporate entities in China downplay the presence of Chinese mainland gambling in Macau, Beijing sanctions millions of its citizens to make the journey to Macau to gamble each year. While Macau’s success is often put down to the extent to which visitors are drawn to a secular destination with integrated resorts to engage in individualistic activities, our approach explores Chinese gambling tour…
Meditation as a kind of leisure
Meditation has been shown to be a cost-effective means to help individuals reduce stress, alleviate anxiety and depression. Similarly, leisure has been found to reduce stress, improve mood and contribute to overall health and well-being. The similarities and differences in outcomes between meditation and leisure suggest that a comparative analysis may determine if and how experiences and outcomes of meditation may be similar to and different from…
Liminal Landscapes Travel, Experience and Spaces in-between
Contested civilities
This study examines how Chinese state-controlled English-language media framed ‘problem tourists’ as a significant cultural and political issue during China’s unprecedented tourism expansion from 2005-2018. Through thematic framing analysis of 303 articles from China Daily and Global Times, this study reveals how media discourse positioned problem tourists as cultural threats requiring state intervention. The analysis identifies three dominant fr…
Smartphone Adoption amongst Chinese Youth during Leisure-based Tourism
With the spread of Information communications technology (ICT) in China, the tourism industry has come to recognize the importance of examining the factors that influence adoption of smartphones during leisure-based tourism among Chinese youth, a vital segment in what the world’s greatest domestic, inbound, and outbound tourism market will be by 2020. Using data collected from undergraduate students at a university in China, this study, based on …
On the Edge of Chaos
This article argues that airlines should be viewed through the lens of complexity theory, a complex systems‐oriented aviation industry defined by interactions among sub‐systems that include airports, passengers, airlines and (mobility) policy – the regulations, guidance, design and planning mechanisms that are increasingly part of aviation internalities. Together with air traffic controllers, cabin/ground crew, airport managers, the formation of …
Liminal Landscapes Travel, Experience and Spaces in-between
Smartphone Adoption amongst Chinese Youth during Leisure-based Tourism
With the spread of Information communications technology (ICT) in China, the tourism industry has come to recognize the importance of examining the factors that influence adoption of smartphones during leisure-based tourism among Chinese youth, a vital segment in what the world’s greatest domestic, inbound, and outbound tourism market will be by 2020. Using data collected from undergraduate students at a university in China, this study, based on …
Meditation as a kind of leisure
Meditation has been shown to be a cost-effective means to help individuals reduce stress, alleviate anxiety and depression. Similarly, leisure has been found to reduce stress, improve mood and contribute to overall health and well-being. The similarities and differences in outcomes between meditation and leisure suggest that a comparative analysis may determine if and how experiences and outcomes of meditation may be similar to and different from…
A backpacker habitus
As all cultures ‘dress’ the body through clothing, tattooing and other forms of body adornment such as cosmetics, dress offers a useful lens through which to explore the ways in which identities are constituted in modern leisure and tourism cultures. An analysis of the dress and embodied subjectivity of western backpackers in Nepal finds that dress is constitutive of self-identity and the ways backpackers imagine themselves. This study argues tha…
Backpacking’s future and its drifter past
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the backpacker label by reconstructing it using the historical antecedent of drifting. Following the deconstruction of backpacking’s near past, the author build a clearer conceptual foundation for backpacking’s future. Design/methodology/approach The study is framed by scenario planning, which demands a critical review of the backpacking and an appreciation of its history in order to understand …
Post-Colonial Macau
The expansion of casino concessions and subsequent growth of employment and gross domestic product (GDP) per Capita in Macau after the 1999 handover from Portugal created an illusion of prosperity in a post-colonial territory of less than 30 sq. km. A Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), it is the only place in China where adults can legally gamble in casinos. This paper, using interviews with local residen…
Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage
While dominant discourses, media representations and corporate entities in China downplay the presence of Chinese mainland gambling in Macau, Beijing sanctions millions of its citizens to make the journey to Macau to gamble each year. While Macau’s success is often put down to the extent to which visitors are drawn to a secular destination with integrated resorts to engage in individualistic activities, our approach explores Chinese gambling tour…
Filipino migrant workers’ leisure and subjective quality of life in Macao
Utilizing 14 semi-structured interviews in a non-western context, this exploratory study examines how Filipino migrant workers’ leisure satisfaction and QoL are intertwined in Macao, China. The study reveals that Filipino migrant workers regard “family and friends”, and a sense of community as central to their QoL. Regarding leisure, the Filipino migrant workers experienced a lack of time-off and long working hours (structural leisure constraints…
Faith Manifest
From books to movies, the media is now flush with spiritual and wellness tourist-related images, films, and fiction (which are primarily produced in the West) about Southeast Asia. Combined with the positive effects of spiritual practices, greater numbers of tourists are travelling to Southeast Asia for mindfulness, yoga, and other spiritual pursuits. Influenced by popular mass media coverage, such as Hollywood movies and literary bestsellers lik…
Quality of life perspectives for different social groups in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure
While the quality of life (QoL) concept in tourism research has gained momentum, scholarly work has focused on host QoL and tourist-host relations, rather than exploring and analysing the perception, interpretation and understanding of QoL among different social groups in a given tourist destination. Macao is a densely populated tourism destination and designated World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, where local residents and migrants work and coh…
From its drifter past to nomadic futures
While the label ‘backpacker’ didn’t originate in 1990 when first presented at an academic conference by the late Philip L. Pearce, its usage rose within an emerging academic discourse community that established shared interests, sources of information, terminology, and methods of communication, along with a certain level of expertise and knowledge on the subject. While the community internationalised and embraced interdisciplinary approaches, a r…
Searching for prestige
While changes in society continue to inform understandings of what leisure is and how it manifests itself, the emergence of Chinese outbound tourists, with specific motivations, travel styles and leisure choices are having powerful impacts on multiple host destinations. While university campuses have long been marked as visitor attractions in China, this study explores the motivations and implications of outbound Chinese tourists visiting univers…
Overtourism on Twitter
When the linguistic innovation and phrase overtourism was used in an online news report to describe excessive tourism in Iceland in 2016, legacy and social media soon following with in-depth articles and visual representations of perceived excessive tourism in other locations around the world. Given the growing calls for action on overtourism, this study takes a social network analysis (SNA) approach, using a network analysis and visualization so…
Wellness for Tourists? Well…Mess for Locals
Through the framework of sustainable development, focusing on socio-cultural sustainability, this study explores whether the rapid growth of wellness tourism in Ubud, Bali, has been experienced equitably by the local community. Through ethnographic interviews and participant observation, the findings reveal that most informants did not experience benefits from wellness tourism due to Western domination, economic leakage and isolated enclaves. Wel…
Tourism futures and Working Holiday Maker schemes
Contested civilities
This study examines how Chinese state-controlled English-language media framed ‘problem tourists’ as a significant cultural and political issue during China’s unprecedented tourism expansion from 2005-2018. Through thematic framing analysis of 303 articles from China Daily and Global Times, this study reveals how media discourse positioned problem tourists as cultural threats requiring state intervention. The analysis identifies three dominant fr…
Pottourism
Harry Potter has evolved beyond entertainment into a cultural phenomenon driving a unique form of tourism called ‘Pottourism.’ This study examines its impact on six UK tourist attractions where the series was filmed or set. Through analysis of 17,000 TripAdvisor reviews complemented by stakeholder interviews, the research reveals that over 30% of visitors are influenced by Harry Potter associations. Site managers face the critical challenge of ba…
Constrained mobilities
Offloading practices in the Philippines deny boarding to passengers suspected of seeking illegal work or being trafficking victims. These practices exemplify what mobilities scholars term 'constrained mobilities,' the differential regulation of movement that creates hierarchies of legitimate and illegitimate travellers. Departing from existing scholarship that predominantly examines labour migrants and destination country controls, this study uni…
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