Craig Webster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3922935 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Craig Webster |
| PRENOMES | Craig |
| SOBRENOME | Webster |
| ASSINATURA | WEBSTER C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ball State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0665-0867 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The economics of service robots in hospitality companies
The paper develops a conceptual framework for the economic aspects of service robots in hospitality companies that includes several key components: task automatability by service robots; effects of service robots on back-of-house and front-of-house operations (full vs partial process automation); impacts of service robots on jobs in hospitality companies (substitution, enhancement/augmentation, transformation, new job creation); and the effects o…
A low-tech innovation and its positive impact upon housekeeping in hotel staff
The Duvetlifter is a low-tech bed-making tool that was developed to assist housekeeping staff so that beds in hotels could be changed with less physical stress for the hotels’ employees. In this research, we investigate the effectiveness of the tool and learn about how it can improve operations and increase the quality of life of housekeeping staff. To learn about the tool’s effectiveness and impact upon the employees, eight housekeeping staff me…
Tourism, technology and gender equality futures
Purpose The aim of the paper is to discuss the contribution of tourism technologies to Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5), gender equality. Design/methodology/approach Following a review of the literature on tourism technologies and a consideration of the goals of SDG5, we provide a discussion of the ways in which tourism technologies can support gender equality. Findings While the tourism industry has potential for the promotion of gender equ…
Authenticity of Craft Brewery Visitor Experience
Although craft breweries have grown rapidly over the last decade, previous research has primarily focused on the aspects of marketing and consumer preferences. Little is known about authenticity of visitor experiences or perceptual differences that might exist between local and non-local visitors. Furthermore, a valid scale applicable to craft beer settings and authentic hospitality experiences at large is non-existent. This study addressed these…
Regulation, Automated Technologies, and Competitiveness in the Hospitality Industry
This conceptual paper examines the interplay between Porter’s Diamond, the role of government, and varying political ideologies on automated technology regulation in the global hospitality industry. The way in which these factors influence a global organization’s ability to achieve competitive advantage through the use of technology are examined. Specifically, mercantilist, liberal, social democratic, and communist ideologies are explored in rela…
Religiosity and Attitudes towards Robots
Religion is one lens in which people understand the world around them and interpret the world around them. However, it is unclear whether religion has an impact upon attitudes towards robots around the world. In this article, the authors investigate how an individual’s religiosity impacts upon perceptions of robots. The article investigates how an individual’s religiosity impacts attitudes towards robots, using data from a large-scale global surv…
Biosecurity, crisis management, automation technologies and economic performance of travel, tourism and hospitality companies – A conceptual framework
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 will have a significant influence on travel, tourism and hospitality (TTH) globally. With a massive reduction in tourism globally because of the health crisis, the industry will have to plan recovery and rebuilding of the industry with greater consideration of the biosecurity of customers. A critical element in the reorganisation of the industry will involve the increased incorporation of automation technologies. Thi…
Covid-19 and the emergence of quarantine tourism
During 2020, quarantine tourism, a new form of tourism, was born due to the political reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those repatriated to their country of residence (often they were students studying abroad) were compelled to be quarantined (typically two weeks) in a hotel facility then monitored in order to slow the spread of the virus to the country’s general population. In this article, the authors explore how this form of tourism came int…
Nationalism in Official Tourism Websites of Balkan Countries
This paper investigates the official tourism websites for the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey to learn about its depiction of the nation for an international tourism market. The research combines Pauwels’ (2012) multimodal discourse analysis method designed for cultural websites with Smith’s (1998) six main institutional dimensions t…
Individual Perceptions of the Value of Leisure
In this work, the authors intend to show that a population’s experience with Marxist governance and an individual’s political ideology conditions individual perceptions of the value of leisure. The authors look into the cross-national variations of the perception of the value that individuals place on leisure, using a database with over 84,000 observations from the World Values Survey from 2010-2014. The authors postulate that Marxist leisure val…
Demographic change as a driver for tourism automation
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how demographic changes in developed countries will continue to drive the tourism and hospitality industries to adopt automation in business operations. Design/methodology/approach The approach is an analysis of the trends in human reproduction in the developed countries and a discussion of their implications for the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Findings There are three major solution…
Automation fears
Tourism and Development Concepts and Issues
Political turbulence and business as usual
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the political turbulence of the times and discuss how political movements and political events that appear to be shocking to many are linked with major transformations in the global economy in recent decades. The author shows how the political and economic situation will likely have little impact on tourism inflows in major developed countries in coming years. Design/methodology/approach The paper e…
Political ideologies as shapers of future tourism development
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the link between political ideology and the management of tourism in countries. The authors stipulate that the predominant political ideology in the country influences the nature and logic of state interventions in the tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach The paper elaborates several case studies from various countries – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Scandinavia, Russia, USA, China, Japan, Indonesia, …
Ethno-nationalism and impediments to cooperation in tourism in a post-settlement Cyprus
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the position of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot professionals in the hotel and tourism industry on the island of Cyprus with regards to their expectations regarding the benefit of a political solution to the Cyprus problem on the island. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses data from two surveys in both political entities of the island. One survey is a survey of hotel owners, managers of hot…
The twenty-first-century legacy of the Beatles
The twenty-first-century legacy of the Beatles: Liverpool and popular music heritage tourism." Journal of Heritage Tourism, 11(4), pp. 430–431
Impacts of the entry of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation on its tourism industry
Geopolitical drivers of future tourist flows
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the major political and economic changes in the world and the likely impact that these changes will bring to tourism and hospitality industries. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a geopolitical perspective on the dynamics of tourist flows, stipulating that geopolitics has a major impact on the size, structure, and direction of these flows. Findings The paper identifies six geopolitica…
Transforming competitiveness into economic benefits
Attitudes and willingness to donate towards heritage restoration
In this exploratory study, an attempt was made to clarify the role of the visitors' perception of the socialist era in relation to their (1) perception of socialist monuments' maintenance level, (2) willingness to visit socialist monuments, (3) willingness to present socialist monuments for tourism purposes, (4) willingness to pay towards a visit to a socialist-era monument, and (5) willingness to donate towards socialist-era sites' restoration. …
Globalisation as a Driver of Destination Competitiveness
Tourism’s impact on growth
Future Tourism
1. Introduction: What Future for Tourism? Part 1: Global Changes and Their Impact on Future Tourism 2. Peak Oil Confronts Society and Tourism: A Futuristic View 3. The Political Economy of Future Tourism Part 2: Political and Social Trends and Future Tourism 4. Security and the Future of Tourism 5. Wellbeing, Equity, Sustainable Development and Social Tourism in Twenty-first Century Europe 6. Shapers and Shifters for the Future of Travel and Tour…
Religiosity and Social Values of the Cypriots
The authors explore some of the social values and religiosity of the separated Turkish and Greek speaking communities in Cyprus in light of the European Union's objectives of unifying the island, and promoting the social value of tolerance. They find that the two communities are more similar to each other in religiosity than they are to most other European states, but are more similar in formal and personal religiosity to their opposite mainland …
Travelling to the 'Other Side
Since the Turkish offensive on Cyprus in 1974, the United Nations buffer zone has functioned as a major barrier between the island's Greek and Turkish populations. Greek Cypriots were not permitted to cross into the Turkish north and vice versa. However, on 23 April 2003, these restrictions were lifted, resulting in a flood of cross-border travel by members of both communities, which has continued to grow into more than four million visits as of …
Transforming competitiveness into economic benefits
Automation fears
Tourism’s impact on growth
Impacts of the entry of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation on its tourism industry
Attitudes and willingness to donate towards heritage restoration
In this exploratory study, an attempt was made to clarify the role of the visitors' perception of the socialist era in relation to their (1) perception of socialist monuments' maintenance level, (2) willingness to visit socialist monuments, (3) willingness to present socialist monuments for tourism purposes, (4) willingness to pay towards a visit to a socialist-era monument, and (5) willingness to donate towards socialist-era sites' restoration. …
Globalisation as a Driver of Destination Competitiveness
Nationalism in Official Tourism Websites of Balkan Countries
This paper investigates the official tourism websites for the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey to learn about its depiction of the nation for an international tourism market. The research combines Pauwels’ (2012) multimodal discourse analysis method designed for cultural websites with Smith’s (1998) six main institutional dimensions t…
Authenticity of Craft Brewery Visitor Experience
Although craft breweries have grown rapidly over the last decade, previous research has primarily focused on the aspects of marketing and consumer preferences. Little is known about authenticity of visitor experiences or perceptual differences that might exist between local and non-local visitors. Furthermore, a valid scale applicable to craft beer settings and authentic hospitality experiences at large is non-existent. This study addressed these…
Regulation, Automated Technologies, and Competitiveness in the Hospitality Industry
This conceptual paper examines the interplay between Porter’s Diamond, the role of government, and varying political ideologies on automated technology regulation in the global hospitality industry. The way in which these factors influence a global organization’s ability to achieve competitive advantage through the use of technology are examined. Specifically, mercantilist, liberal, social democratic, and communist ideologies are explored in rela…
Commonwealth Diplomatic Missions a Comparative Empirical Investigation of the Foreign Policy of Five Commonwealth Members
How do Commonwealth members decide to allocate resources to send diplomatic representation to other countries? For a cross-section of 150 countries, the author performs a logistical regression for five Commonwealth countries (Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Cyprus, Kenya) to determine if Commonwealth membership plays a rôle in the placement of embassies and high commissions abroad. The model takes power, regionalism, and Commonwealth membership in…
Division or unification in Cyprus? The role of demographics, attitudes and party inclination on Greek Cypriot preferences for a solution to the Cyprus problem
In April 2004 the Greek Cypriots rejected the Annan Plan in a referendum while the Turkish Cypriots accepted it. The Annan Plan was the UN's plan to reunite Cyprus into one federal state consisting of two equal constituent states, one Greek Cypriot and one Turkish Cypriot. The results of the referendum show that the Greek Cypriot electorate is a major stumbling block to accepting the UN's best offer for a solution to the Cyprus problem. In this a…
The Cyprus Problem and Greek Cypriot Preferences for a Solution after Their “No” to the Annan Plan
The Greek Cypriots made a clear choice to reject the Annan Plan for their country in a referendum in April 2004. The Annan Plan offered a dichotomous choice to the electorate to accept or reject a federal solution to reunite Cyprus. In this paper, the author investigates the Greek Cypriot population’s preferences for a solution to the Cyprus Problem by performing multivariate analyses of data obtained from one thousand Greek Cypriots following th…
Travelling to the 'Other Side
Since the Turkish offensive on Cyprus in 1974, the United Nations buffer zone has functioned as a major barrier between the island's Greek and Turkish populations. Greek Cypriots were not permitted to cross into the Turkish north and vice versa. However, on 23 April 2003, these restrictions were lifted, resulting in a flood of cross-border travel by members of both communities, which has continued to grow into more than four million visits as of …
Democratization and human rights in Cyprus
In this work, the author analyzes democracy and human rights for the two political entities on Cyprus. Data are used to test whether there is a rift between empirical reality and perceptions of the citizenry. The findings show that Turkish and Greek Cypriots rate the level of human rights of their respective political entities the same, although objective figures suggest that Greek Cypriots live under a better human rights regime. Statistical ana…
Power politics and integration into Western institutions
Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union in January 2007 and they share many characteristics. In this work, we will investigate the placement of embassies for the two countries to determine if the placement of embassies seems to be influences by the desire to integrate into Western European institutions or is largely interested in realist concerns. In this analysis, the authors perform logistical regressions on the placement of embassies fo…
Religiosity and Social Values of the Cypriots
The authors explore some of the social values and religiosity of the separated Turkish and Greek speaking communities in Cyprus in light of the European Union's objectives of unifying the island, and promoting the social value of tolerance. They find that the two communities are more similar to each other in religiosity than they are to most other European states, but are more similar in formal and personal religiosity to their opposite mainland …
Future Tourism
1. Introduction: What Future for Tourism? Part 1: Global Changes and Their Impact on Future Tourism 2. Peak Oil Confronts Society and Tourism: A Futuristic View 3. The Political Economy of Future Tourism Part 2: Political and Social Trends and Future Tourism 4. Security and the Future of Tourism 5. Wellbeing, Equity, Sustainable Development and Social Tourism in Twenty-first Century Europe 6. Shapers and Shifters for the Future of Travel and Tour…
Attitudes and willingness to donate towards heritage restoration
In this exploratory study, an attempt was made to clarify the role of the visitors' perception of the socialist era in relation to their (1) perception of socialist monuments' maintenance level, (2) willingness to visit socialist monuments, (3) willingness to present socialist monuments for tourism purposes, (4) willingness to pay towards a visit to a socialist-era monument, and (5) willingness to donate towards socialist-era sites' restoration. …
Globalisation as a Driver of Destination Competitiveness
Tourism’s impact on growth
Transforming competitiveness into economic benefits
Geopolitical drivers of future tourist flows
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the major political and economic changes in the world and the likely impact that these changes will bring to tourism and hospitality industries. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a geopolitical perspective on the dynamics of tourist flows, stipulating that geopolitics has a major impact on the size, structure, and direction of these flows. Findings The paper identifies six geopolitica…
Political ideologies as shapers of future tourism development
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the link between political ideology and the management of tourism in countries. The authors stipulate that the predominant political ideology in the country influences the nature and logic of state interventions in the tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach The paper elaborates several case studies from various countries – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Scandinavia, Russia, USA, China, Japan, Indonesia, …
Ethno-nationalism and impediments to cooperation in tourism in a post-settlement Cyprus
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the position of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot professionals in the hotel and tourism industry on the island of Cyprus with regards to their expectations regarding the benefit of a political solution to the Cyprus problem on the island. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses data from two surveys in both political entities of the island. One survey is a survey of hotel owners, managers of hot…
The twenty-first-century legacy of the Beatles
The twenty-first-century legacy of the Beatles: Liverpool and popular music heritage tourism." Journal of Heritage Tourism, 11(4), pp. 430–431
Impacts of the entry of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation on its tourism industry
Tourism and Development Concepts and Issues
Political turbulence and business as usual
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the political turbulence of the times and discuss how political movements and political events that appear to be shocking to many are linked with major transformations in the global economy in recent decades. The author shows how the political and economic situation will likely have little impact on tourism inflows in major developed countries in coming years. Design/methodology/approach The paper e…
Individual Perceptions of the Value of Leisure
In this work, the authors intend to show that a population’s experience with Marxist governance and an individual’s political ideology conditions individual perceptions of the value of leisure. The authors look into the cross-national variations of the perception of the value that individuals place on leisure, using a database with over 84,000 observations from the World Values Survey from 2010-2014. The authors postulate that Marxist leisure val…
Demographic change as a driver for tourism automation
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how demographic changes in developed countries will continue to drive the tourism and hospitality industries to adopt automation in business operations. Design/methodology/approach The approach is an analysis of the trends in human reproduction in the developed countries and a discussion of their implications for the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Findings There are three major solution…
Automation fears
Covid-19 and the emergence of quarantine tourism
During 2020, quarantine tourism, a new form of tourism, was born due to the political reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those repatriated to their country of residence (often they were students studying abroad) were compelled to be quarantined (typically two weeks) in a hotel facility then monitored in order to slow the spread of the virus to the country’s general population. In this article, the authors explore how this form of tourism came int…
Nationalism in Official Tourism Websites of Balkan Countries
This paper investigates the official tourism websites for the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey to learn about its depiction of the nation for an international tourism market. The research combines Pauwels’ (2012) multimodal discourse analysis method designed for cultural websites with Smith’s (1998) six main institutional dimensions t…
Biosecurity, crisis management, automation technologies and economic performance of travel, tourism and hospitality companies – A conceptual framework
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 will have a significant influence on travel, tourism and hospitality (TTH) globally. With a massive reduction in tourism globally because of the health crisis, the industry will have to plan recovery and rebuilding of the industry with greater consideration of the biosecurity of customers. A critical element in the reorganisation of the industry will involve the increased incorporation of automation technologies. Thi…
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