Babak Taheri
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 236400 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Babak Taheri |
| PRENOMES | Babak |
| SOBRENOME | Taheri |
| ASSINATURA | TAHERI B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Heriot-Watt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0912-9949 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 149 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Forecasting Airport Passenger Flows Using Mobile Network Data
Airports are strategic and environmental nodes in global transport systems where rapid passenger growth challenges capacity, sustainability, and resilience. This study uses anonymized mobile network data to analyze and forecast passenger dynamics at Lisbon Airport, Portugal, linking data‐driven insights to sustainable mobility and infrastructure strategy. Drawing on over 9 million georeferenced observations, temporal and spatial patterns, seasona…
How does technology use within families shape children’s travel intentions
Although research on family tourism and decision-making has flourished in recent decades, little is known about how shared digital behaviours shape children’s mental imagery and travel behaviour. This paper presents a conceptual framework grounded in Family Systems Theory and the Theory of Planned Behaviour to test hypothesised relationships between digital attributes (i.e. ease of use, informativeness, and entertainment), family engagement, and …
An Investigation of Affect Transfer of Social Responsibility in Ski Events Among Tourists and Employees
This research investigates the integration of social responsibility into Iranian ski tourism events and its positive affect transfer among employees and sport tourists. Study 1 comprised interviews with 30 employees of ski resorts and found that workers' understanding and expectation of social responsibility of the ski resorts extended beyond benefits to local communities. Study 2 comprised a survey with 710 sport tourists of ski events and found…
Anatomy of a CSR discourse system
This study offers an in-depth assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) discourses on social media, focusing on tourism and entrepreneurship. The CSR landscape on the X platform is conceptualized as a complex adaptive system. Using a bipartite undirected network of tweets/posts and associated terms/concepts, the global CSR discourse on entrepreneurship and tourism is mapped over 14 years. The analysis identified eight distinct phases ma…
Virtual cyclotourism
Assessing a Model of Customer Rage
Across travel and tourism services research, studies investigating “customer rage” typically prioritize the direct point-of-consumption, often within airport, airline, or hotel contexts. However, the sector is awash with intermediaries (e.g., travel agencies, insurance brokers, booking platforms), which serve as primary points-of-contact capable of shaping customer expectations. Accordingly, the consequences of service failure therein are nuanced…
How Negative Framing Affects VR Tourism Adoption
This study investigates the impact of information framing (negative vs. positive) on the adoption of virtual reality (VR) tourism applications amidst various crisis events such as pandemics, natural disasters, political unrest, or terrorism. Using three experiments, we found that negatively framed information increases travel anxiety and the adoption of VR tourism more than positive framing, a pattern consistent across different crisis events. Tr…
Como acadêmicos da América Latina podem contribuir para a pesquisa em hospitalidade e turismo em âmbito global
Este estudo discute como acadêmicos de países em desenvolvimento, como os países da América Latina, podem contribuir para a pesquisa em hospitalidade e turismo (H&T) em âmbito global. O estudo fornece recomendações específicas para melhorar as jornadas de publicação e a contribuição para o campo de H&T. Ao fazer isso, ele elucida os conceitos de pesquisa e de jornada de publicação, explica diferentes tipos de contribuição de pesquisa, explora des…
Travel market maven in a traditional marketplace
Market mavenism enhances the economic impacts of tourism. Using a convergent parallel mixed‐methods design, first, a quantitative study tests a conceptual model supported by goal‐setting theory to stimulate market mavenism in the traditional marketplace. Quantitative data are used to apply structural equation modeling and analysis of necessity to assess the sufficiency and necessity of market maven antecedents, respectively. The effect of nationa…
Natural heritage tourism
Using a mixed-methods approach, this study investigates value co-creation within the context of natural heritage tourism. It focuses on those visiting the largest lake-water cave in the world: Alisadr, Iran. Semi-structured interviews (n = 22) were conducted to explore visitor experiences, complemented by a face-to-face questionnaire (n = 850) investigating the relationships among perceptions of value co-creation, leisure involvement, perceived e…
Driving destination brand engagement
This paper explores the importance of two forms of interactions, namely marketer–traveler interaction and traveler–traveler interaction in driving destination brand engagement (DBE) dimensions, and their effect on travelers' short‐term and long‐term behavioral intentions based on impulse buying and external search behavior. Using multi‐group analysis, the impact of DBE dimensions on external search behavior and impulse buying across Generation‐Z …
Socio-economic aspects of hydrogen energy
Hydrogen can be recognized as the most plausible fuel for promoting a green environment. Worldwide, developed and developing countries have established their hydrogen research, investment, and policy frameworks. This analysis of 610 peer-reviewed journal articles from the last 50 years provides quantitative and impartial insight into the hydrogen economy. By 2030, academics and business professionals believe that hydrogen will complement other re…
Overtourism in a City Destination from the Perspective of Entrepreneurs
This study investigates how overtourism, as perceived by entrepreneurs operating in the local tourism economy, manifests itself in a large city – Wroclaw (Poland). Data were collected via a questionnaire in November 2021. The study reveals overtourism symptoms in Wroclaw, while their influence on selected city features is not recognized by entrepreneurs as a threat. Negative and positive effects of tourism in Wroclaw are identified on the basis o…
Committed to conservation
This study investigates differences in tourists' conservation commitment at developed and developing heritage sites. It examines relationships between conservation commitment and related concepts: cultural motivation, place attachment, and participation. Data was collected from two troglodyte heritage sites: Kandovan, Iran ( developing ) and Cappadocia, Turkey ( developed ). Five hundred eighteen survey responses were collected at Kandovan and 62…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Developing esport tourism through fandom experience at in-person events
Assessing the Mediating Role of Residents’ Perceptions toward Tourism Development
Framed by social exchange theory and Weber’s theory of substantive and formal rationality, this study investigates the mediating role of residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts. It examines whether community attachment, environmental and cultural attitudes, economic gain, and community involvement directly impact upon residents’ support for tourism development, or if their influences are mediated by perceptions of tourism impacts. Data were col…
Contemporary issues and future trends in food tourism
Would you really recommend it? Antecedents of word-of-mouth in medical tourism
Understanding the importance that consumers attach to social media sharing (ISMS)
Capital deployment and exchange in volunteer tourism
Self-expression and play
Using data collected from 538 Iranian tourists undertaking the religious pilgrimage of Umrah (i.e. voluntary travel to the holy city of Mecca at any time throughout the year), this study investigates the concept of play and its relationship with self-expression and hedonism in an Islamic tourism context. By testing a theoretically derived structural model, the findings suggest that self-expression strongly influences tourists’ sense of play. Here…
Festival quality, self-connection, and bragging
On being attractive, social and visually appealing in social media
Working together to increase student satisfaction
This study extends our knowledge on co-creation of value in higher education. The paper examines the relationship between support, co-creation of value and students’ satisfaction, as well as moderating factors including mode of study and fee status, via 979 survey responses from undergraduate students. Analysis using partial least squares found support to be important in determining co-creation of value and, in turn, student satisfaction. Results…
Visitors' engagement and authenticity
Keeping your audience
On being attractive, social and visually appealing in social media
Heritage tourism, CSR and the role of employee environmental behaviour
Festival quality, self-connection, and bragging
The role of generativity and attitudes on employees home and workplace water and energy saving behaviours
Building on prior studies in environmental behaviour and employee micro level CSR, this paper examines the role of generativity, encompassing thoughts towards the well-being of future generations and contribution to future society, and specific environmental attitudes on environmental behaviour in the home and workplace. The paper examines the relationships between these variables, including assessing spillover effects between home and workplace …
Understanding the importance that consumers attach to social media sharing (ISMS)
An exploration of CSR development in heritage tourism
Although research on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in tourism has seen increased attention, few studies have focused on CSR at the micro level. In addition, while stage models of CSR development have been extensively proposed these studies are rarely examined in actual organisations and, hence, lack empirical validity. This article explores the consolidative model of CSR, mainly via employees’ but also via visitors’ viewpoints in a large …
He just didn’t seem to understand the banter”
Capital deployment and exchange in volunteer tourism
Self-expression and play
Using data collected from 538 Iranian tourists undertaking the religious pilgrimage of Umrah (i.e. voluntary travel to the holy city of Mecca at any time throughout the year), this study investigates the concept of play and its relationship with self-expression and hedonism in an Islamic tourism context. By testing a theoretically derived structural model, the findings suggest that self-expression strongly influences tourists’ sense of play. Here…
Developing esport tourism through fandom experience at in-person events
Would you really recommend it? Antecedents of word-of-mouth in medical tourism
Assessing a Model of Customer Rage
Across travel and tourism services research, studies investigating “customer rage” typically prioritize the direct point-of-consumption, often within airport, airline, or hotel contexts. However, the sector is awash with intermediaries (e.g., travel agencies, insurance brokers, booking platforms), which serve as primary points-of-contact capable of shaping customer expectations. Accordingly, the consequences of service failure therein are nuanced…
Working together to increase student satisfaction
This study extends our knowledge on co-creation of value in higher education. The paper examines the relationship between support, co-creation of value and students’ satisfaction, as well as moderating factors including mode of study and fee status, via 979 survey responses from undergraduate students. Analysis using partial least squares found support to be important in determining co-creation of value and, in turn, student satisfaction. Results…
Anatomy of a CSR discourse system
This study offers an in-depth assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) discourses on social media, focusing on tourism and entrepreneurship. The CSR landscape on the X platform is conceptualized as a complex adaptive system. Using a bipartite undirected network of tweets/posts and associated terms/concepts, the global CSR discourse on entrepreneurship and tourism is mapped over 14 years. The analysis identified eight distinct phases ma…
How Negative Framing Affects VR Tourism Adoption
This study investigates the impact of information framing (negative vs. positive) on the adoption of virtual reality (VR) tourism applications amidst various crisis events such as pandemics, natural disasters, political unrest, or terrorism. Using three experiments, we found that negatively framed information increases travel anxiety and the adoption of VR tourism more than positive framing, a pattern consistent across different crisis events. Tr…
He just didn’t seem to understand the banter”
Keeping your audience
Nostalgia, reflexivity, and the narratives of self
This paper offers some theoretical insights into Devine's account of the Riverside Museum in Glasgow. It elaborates on three interrelated themes the authors have derived from Devine's report: (1) how historical representations arouse nostalgic sensations and sensibilities in museum visitors (2) the role of narratives in visitors' development of their nostalgic experiences (3) the importance of engagement to the creation of such nostalgic experien…
Visitors' engagement and authenticity
Heritage tourism, CSR and the role of employee environmental behaviour
The role of generativity and attitudes on employees home and workplace water and energy saving behaviours
Building on prior studies in environmental behaviour and employee micro level CSR, this paper examines the role of generativity, encompassing thoughts towards the well-being of future generations and contribution to future society, and specific environmental attitudes on environmental behaviour in the home and workplace. The paper examines the relationships between these variables, including assessing spillover effects between home and workplace …
An exploration of CSR development in heritage tourism
Although research on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in tourism has seen increased attention, few studies have focused on CSR at the micro level. In addition, while stage models of CSR development have been extensively proposed these studies are rarely examined in actual organisations and, hence, lack empirical validity. This article explores the consolidative model of CSR, mainly via employees’ but also via visitors’ viewpoints in a large …
On being attractive, social and visually appealing in social media
Working together to increase student satisfaction
This study extends our knowledge on co-creation of value in higher education. The paper examines the relationship between support, co-creation of value and students’ satisfaction, as well as moderating factors including mode of study and fee status, via 979 survey responses from undergraduate students. Analysis using partial least squares found support to be important in determining co-creation of value and, in turn, student satisfaction. Results…
Self-expression and play
Using data collected from 538 Iranian tourists undertaking the religious pilgrimage of Umrah (i.e. voluntary travel to the holy city of Mecca at any time throughout the year), this study investigates the concept of play and its relationship with self-expression and hedonism in an Islamic tourism context. By testing a theoretically derived structural model, the findings suggest that self-expression strongly influences tourists’ sense of play. Here…
Festival quality, self-connection, and bragging
Understanding the importance that consumers attach to social media sharing (ISMS)
Capital deployment and exchange in volunteer tourism
Assessing the Mediating Role of Residents’ Perceptions toward Tourism Development
Framed by social exchange theory and Weber’s theory of substantive and formal rationality, this study investigates the mediating role of residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts. It examines whether community attachment, environmental and cultural attitudes, economic gain, and community involvement directly impact upon residents’ support for tourism development, or if their influences are mediated by perceptions of tourism impacts. Data were col…
Contemporary issues and future trends in food tourism
Would you really recommend it? Antecedents of word-of-mouth in medical tourism
Committed to conservation
This study investigates differences in tourists' conservation commitment at developed and developing heritage sites. It examines relationships between conservation commitment and related concepts: cultural motivation, place attachment, and participation. Data was collected from two troglodyte heritage sites: Kandovan, Iran ( developing ) and Cappadocia, Turkey ( developed ). Five hundred eighteen survey responses were collected at Kandovan and 62…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Developing esport tourism through fandom experience at in-person events
Natural heritage tourism
Using a mixed-methods approach, this study investigates value co-creation within the context of natural heritage tourism. It focuses on those visiting the largest lake-water cave in the world: Alisadr, Iran. Semi-structured interviews (n = 22) were conducted to explore visitor experiences, complemented by a face-to-face questionnaire (n = 850) investigating the relationships among perceptions of value co-creation, leisure involvement, perceived e…
Driving destination brand engagement
This paper explores the importance of two forms of interactions, namely marketer–traveler interaction and traveler–traveler interaction in driving destination brand engagement (DBE) dimensions, and their effect on travelers' short‐term and long‐term behavioral intentions based on impulse buying and external search behavior. Using multi‐group analysis, the impact of DBE dimensions on external search behavior and impulse buying across Generation‐Z …
Socio-economic aspects of hydrogen energy
Hydrogen can be recognized as the most plausible fuel for promoting a green environment. Worldwide, developed and developing countries have established their hydrogen research, investment, and policy frameworks. This analysis of 610 peer-reviewed journal articles from the last 50 years provides quantitative and impartial insight into the hydrogen economy. By 2030, academics and business professionals believe that hydrogen will complement other re…
Overtourism in a City Destination from the Perspective of Entrepreneurs
This study investigates how overtourism, as perceived by entrepreneurs operating in the local tourism economy, manifests itself in a large city – Wroclaw (Poland). Data were collected via a questionnaire in November 2021. The study reveals overtourism symptoms in Wroclaw, while their influence on selected city features is not recognized by entrepreneurs as a threat. Negative and positive effects of tourism in Wroclaw are identified on the basis o…
Como acadêmicos da América Latina podem contribuir para a pesquisa em hospitalidade e turismo em âmbito global
Este estudo discute como acadêmicos de países em desenvolvimento, como os países da América Latina, podem contribuir para a pesquisa em hospitalidade e turismo (H&T) em âmbito global. O estudo fornece recomendações específicas para melhorar as jornadas de publicação e a contribuição para o campo de H&T. Ao fazer isso, ele elucida os conceitos de pesquisa e de jornada de publicação, explica diferentes tipos de contribuição de pesquisa, explora des…
Travel market maven in a traditional marketplace
Market mavenism enhances the economic impacts of tourism. Using a convergent parallel mixed‐methods design, first, a quantitative study tests a conceptual model supported by goal‐setting theory to stimulate market mavenism in the traditional marketplace. Quantitative data are used to apply structural equation modeling and analysis of necessity to assess the sufficiency and necessity of market maven antecedents, respectively. The effect of nationa…
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