• Perceptions of UK’s country image and destination image in light of Brexit 

  Wang, Suosheng (Ball State University, 2020)

  Brexit uncertainty may become a problem for business like tourism in the UK. This study was conducted during the transition period of Brexit which assessed UK’s country image and destination image perceived. A review of ...
• Building A Resilient Event Industry: Lessons Learned during the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  Liu-Lastres, Bingjie; Cahyanto, Ignatius (TTRA, 2021-06)

  Guided by the theoretical framework of organizational resilience, this study interviewed twenty-six event planners regarding their risk and crisis management related practices and their experiences with the COVID-19 global ...
• A Flash of Culinary Tourism: Understanding The Influences of Online Food Photography on People's Travel Planning Process on Flickr 

  Norman, William C.; Pennington-Gray, Lori; Liu, Bingjie (Tourism Culture and Communication, 2013-01-24)

  This article presents the results of an exploratory study in the online image-sharing community Flickr. The purpose of this study was to profile the users who are fond of online food photography as well as to explore the ...
• Images of safe tourism destinations in the United States held by African Americans 

  Liu, Bingjie; Pennington-Gray, Lori; Schroeder, Ashley (PASOS, 2013)

  Ensuring a safe destination is an essential factor in travelers’ decision-making, as well as a destination’s success. Recent crises have threatened perceptions of safety related to tourism. Under such circumstances, negative ...
• Shoot, taste and post: an exploratory study of food and tourism experiences in an online image-share community 

  Liu, Bingjie; Norman, William C.; Backman, Sheila J.; Cuneo, Karen; Condrasky, Margaret (Texas A & M University Press, 2012)

  This paper presents the results from an exploratory study of food and tourism experiences in the online image-share community Flickr.comTM. The purpose of this research was to provide a description of Flickr food group ...
• New York City Bed Bug Crisis as Framed by Tourists on Tripadvisor 

  Liu, Bingjie; Pennington-Gray, Lori; Donohoe, Holly; Omodior, Oghenekaro (Tourism Analysis, 2015-06-17)

  In New York City (NYC), one of the world's top tourism destinations, bed bugs have reemerged as a challenge to the hospitality industry regardless of a hotel's star rating, location, ranking, or other. Given this growing ...
• Exploring Residents’ Roles as Risk Insiders in Tourism Crisis Management 

  Liu-Lastres, Bingjie; Cahyanto, Igantius P. (Travel and Tourism Research Association, 2019-06-20)

  The purpose of this study is to explore residents’ roles as risk insiders in tourism crisis management. Particularly, this study used the recent event of Red Tides in Florida as the context and surveyed 969 potential ...
• Empirically Testing the Influence of Travel Safety Concerns: Examining Alternative Models 

  Liu, Bingjie; Schroeder, Ashley; Pennington-Gray, Lori (Travel and Tourism Research Association, 2016-06-03)

  Tourists’ risk perceptions and perceptions of safety are important topics within the tourism literature; however, the conceptual approaches to these concepts are inconsistent. Following the risk-as-feeling hypothesis, this ...
• Understanding the Cruise Industry’s Responses to Health-Related Crises: A Case Study Approach 

  Liu, Bingjie; Pennington-Gray, Lori (TTRA, 2015-06-05)

  The cruise industry is one of the fastest growing sectors within the tourism and hospitality industry (WTO, 2010). In spite of the increasing popularity, there has been a continued interest in traveling albeit an increased ...
• Can post-disaster tourism development improve destination livelihoods? A case study of Aceh, Indonesia 

  Liu-Lastres, Bingjie; Mariska, Dini; Tan, Xiaoyuan; Ying, Tianyu (Elsevier, 2020-10-21)

  Destinations are vulnerable to natural disasters, which can result in damage to infrastructure and built facilities, negative destination images, and a difficult time of recovery. Recently, a growing number of destinations ...
• Analysis of Young Tourists' Life Satisfaction Domains and Determinants of Overall Life Satisfaction 

  Wang, Suosheng (2019)

  This study explores tourists’ satisfaction outcomes and life satisfaction domains, and examines the domains’ relative importance in influencing tourists’ overall life satisfaction. Seven life satisfaction domains are ...
• How does sport-related mobile apps usage motivation affect consumer perceptions of the sport organizations? 

  Lee, Soonhwan; Kim, Seungmo; Shin, Hongbum; Wang, Suosheng (2019)

  The current study was to examine the relationship how the usage motivation features (i.e., perceived customization, involvement, and liking) of sport related mobile applications(apps) affect users' perception on sport ...
• Empirical testing of destination attribute preferences of women snow-sport tourists along a trajectory of participation 

  Mirehie, Mona; Gibson, H. (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  This study explored women snow-sport tourists’ destination attribute preferences in relation to their participation level (e.g. skill; sport career stage) through a complementary sequential mixed-methods approach. Initially, ...
• Learning from past crises: Evaluating hotels’ online crisis responses to health crises 

  Liu-Lastres, Bingjie; Kim, Hany; Ying, Tianyu (Sage, 2020-07)

  Organizational learning is an important function of tourism crisis management. By examining and evaluating hotels’ responses to the 2010 bed bug crisis on social media, the purpose of this study was to provide insights ...
• COVID-19: Return to Youth Sports: Preparing Sports Venues and Events for the Return of Youth Sports 

  Pierce, David; Stas, Jessi; Feller, Kevin; Knox, William (Sports Innovation Institute, 2020-06-02)

  COVID-19 has impacted all areas of life, and youth sports is no exception. States and counties are publishing their own unique guidelines for permitting youth sports to return over designated phases, creating a patchwork ...
• Innovate With Design Thinking in the Sport Management Capstone Course 

  Pierce, David; Davies, Melissa; Kryder, Bryan (Human Kinetics, 2019)

  This article outlines an opportunity for sport management instructors to integrate design thinking as a pedagogical tool into their classrooms to align with the demands of today’s innovative and evolving sport industry. ...
• Exploring inbound tourists experience in Beijing, China: an online deductive approach 

  Liu, Yu; Liu-Lastres, Bingjie; Wang, Qiuju; Fu, Yao-Yi (Emerald, 2019)

  Purpose Beijing is becoming one of the top global destinations but the number of international tourists to the city has been declining recently. By analyzing inbound tourists experience in Beijing and identifying the ...
• Parental Insights from Three Elite-level Youth Sports: Implications for Family Life 

  Mirehie, Mona; Gibson, H.; Kang, S.; Bell, H. (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  The purpose of this study was to examine parental values associated with children’s participation in organized sports, how these values are shaped by social class, race and age, and the influence of elite-level involvement ...
• Using Experiential Client-Based Projects in Sport Sales Courses 

  Pierce, David (IGI Global, 2018-01-01)

  Sales has gradually gained traction in the sport management programs over the past 15 years. This article examines the extent to which client-based experiential projects are used in sport sales courses and determines if ...
• Beyond Scope of Practice: Inferring High School Tennis Coaches' Behavior from their Nutrition and Eating Disorder Knowledge 

  Reagan, Brian Patrick; Pierce, David (Juniper Publications, 2018-02-01)

  The primary purpose of this study was to assess high school tennis coaches’ knowledge of macronutrients and disordered eating (e.g., etiology). Other purposes included identifying confidence in knowledge and any differences ...

View more