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Heritage Visitor Attractions: managing revenue in the new millennium

Journal Article
Leask, . A., Fyall, A., & Garrod, B. (2002)
Heritage Visitor Attractions: managing revenue in the new millennium. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 8(3), 247-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/1352725022000018921
Heritage visitor attractions represent an integral component of the tourism product in many countries. This is particularly so in Scotland, where visitor attractions of a heri...

Demonstrating the Value of World Heritage Designation

Journal Article
Leask, A. (2009)
Demonstrating the Value of World Heritage Designation. Edinburgh World Heritage JOurnal, 2, 14-16
No abstract available.

Management Challenges at Film-Induced Tourism Heritage Attractions

Journal Article
Bąkiewicz, J., Leask, A., Barron, P., & Rakić, T. (2017)
Management Challenges at Film-Induced Tourism Heritage Attractions. Tourism Planning and Development, 14(4), 548-566. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2017.1303540
In response to an increasingly competitive environment, a number of heritage visitor attractions (HVAs) have encouraged filming, as well as subsequent film-induced tourism, in...

Juxtaposing the timeless and the ephemeral: Staging festivals and events at World Heritage Sites

Book Chapter
Smith, M., Carnegie, E., & Robertson, M. (2006)
Juxtaposing the timeless and the ephemeral: Staging festivals and events at World Heritage Sites. In A. Leask, & A. Fyall (Eds.), Managing World Heritage Sites. , (110-124). Amsterdam: London: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780080461755
The aim of this chapter is to explore the complex relationship between World Heritage Sites (WHS) and temporary festivals and events, analysing some of the impacts and implica...

Visitor Management at a World Heritage Site – Skara Brae Prehistoric Village

Book Chapter
Leask, A., & Garrod, B. (2011)
Visitor Management at a World Heritage Site – Skara Brae Prehistoric Village. In B. Garrod, & A. Fyall (Eds.), Contemporary Cases in Tourism
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Introduction: visitor attractions

Journal Article
Fyall, A., Leask, A., & Garrod, B. (2002)
Introduction: visitor attractions. International Journal of Tourism Research, 4, 333-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.384
Introduction: visitor attractions

Destination Competitiveness: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore

Journal Article
Todd, L., Leask, A., & Fyall, A. (2015)
Destination Competitiveness: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. Tourism Analysis, 20(6), 593-605. https://doi.org/10.3727/108354215x14464845877832
This paper presents a comparative study of the destination competitiveness of Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau and those strategies developed to enhance their future position in...

Materiality, memories and lived event tourism experiences

Presentation / Conference
Todd, L., Leask, A., & Ensor, J. (2017, June)
Materiality, memories and lived event tourism experiences. Presented at Critical Tourism Studies: Understand Tourism- Change Tourism, Understand Ourselves - Change Ourselves
Our paper furthers understanding of lived experiences in tourism settings as remembered by informants. We propose the value of a phenomenological ‘artefact elicitation’ method...

Engaging the multi-generational workforce in tourism and hospitality

Journal Article
Barron, P., Leask, A., & Fyall, A. (2014)
Engaging the multi-generational workforce in tourism and hospitality. Tourism Review, 69(4), 245-263. https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-04-2014-0017
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to present strategies that hospitality and tourism organisations might adopt as a means of encouraging employee engagement, thus enablin...

Revenue Management at Heritage Attractions

Book Chapter
Leask, A. (2013)
Revenue Management at Heritage Attractions. In P. Legohérel, E. Poutier, & A. Fyall (Eds.), Revenue Management for Hospitality and Tourism,
This chapter focuses on how revenue management might be suitable for use as a tool in developing the effective management of heritage visitor attractions (HVAs). It begins wit...
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Sustainable festivals and events - an enquiry of leadership and futures

2015 - 2017
As a societal phenomenon, festivals and planned events are discussed in a wide policy context. They have entered a broader discus...
Dr Martin Robertson | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Prof Jane Ali-Knight

The role of interactive technology in the co-creation of experience in Scottish visitor attractions

2014 - 2019
" As a sector that is reliant on the creation and management of memorable experiences, visitor attrac...
Dr Ellis Urquhart | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Dr Ivana Rihova

Heritage interpretation challenges and management issues at film-induced tourism heritage attractions: case studies of Rosslyn Chapel and Alnwick Castle

2011 - 2015
Although previous research has widely acknowledg...
Dr Justyna Bakiewicz | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Prof Paul Barron

An ethnographic interpretation of the work environment within a creative culture in the advertising sector

2009 - 2014
Purpose and rationale The purpose of the exploratory research is to provide a deeper understan...
Dr Christine Band | Director of Studies: Prof John Ensor | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Leask

Lean Talent Management & Dynamic Innovative Capability in the Hotel Sector The Case Study of the Scottish Hotel Sector

2022 - date
Homa Rahimi | Director of Studies: Prof Paul Barron | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Leask

Community, organisational, and technological transitions: Mapping the places and spaces of Edinburgh as the festival city and Scotland's leading tourism destination

2023 - date
Jack Hansen | Director of Studies: Dr Louise Todd | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Leask

A critical evaluation of the factors that influence visitor engagement with UK slavery heritage museums: a blended passive symbolic netnographic study

2020 - 2024
There is a substantial body of literature in slave...
Dr Shemroy Roberts | Director of Studies: Dr Craig Wight | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Leask

What is mindfulness – how does it feel and what can it do for interculturality? An ethnographic case study of migrants in Scotland.

2020 - date
Iweta Baran | Director of Studies: Dr Jane Wilkinson | Second Supervisor: Dr Phiona Stanley

Exporting hospitality and tourism education abroad and its influence on the home programme internationalisation

2009 - 2016
Richard Lagiewski | Director of Studies: Prof Paul Barron | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Leask

Influences on interpretation: A critical evaluation of the influences on the design and management of interpretation at lighter dark visitor attractions

2015 - 2019
Brianna Wyatt | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Prof Paul Barron

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