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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Allan M. Williams is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a range of topics within social sciences, particularly focusing on tourism, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Their scholarly work is situated primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with significant contributions in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing, Demography, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Williams' main topics of research include:

  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Cruise Tourism Development and Management
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

They have published frequently in several key venues, reflecting their focus in tourism and related fields. Notable publication venues include:

  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Tourism Management
  • Journal of Travel Research
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

Williams has coauthored extensively with a number of researchers, including:

  • Gang Li
  • Vladimír Baláž
  • Yoo Ri Kim
  • Jason Li Chen
  • Isabel Rodríguez

Selected recent papers authored by Williams are:

  • Innovation, Risk, and Uncertainty: A Study of Tourism Entrepreneurs (2020), Journal of Travel Research
  • Risk, uncertainty and ambiguity amid Covid-19: A multi-national analysis of international travel intentions (2021), Annals of Tourism Research

Other notable recent papers in their field, though not authored by Williams, show closely related research themes:

  • Spatial spillovers of agglomeration economies and productivity in the tourism industry: The case of the UK (2020), Tourism Management
  • Gender, tourism & entrepreneurship: A critical review (2020), Annals of Tourism Research
  • Sustainability through the tourism entrepreneurship journey: a gender perspective (2020), Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Allan M. Williams has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective

    Gareth Shaw;Allan M. Williams

  • Tourism and Innovation

    C. Michael Hall;Allan M. Williams

  • Tourism and migration : new relationships between production and consumption

    Allan M. Williams;C. Michael Hall

  • Tourism and Tourism Spaces

    Gareth Shaw;Allan M. Williams

  • Knowledge transfer and management in tourism organisations: An emerging research agenda

    Gareth Shaw;Allan M. Williams

  • Sunset Lives: British Retirement Migration to the Mediterranean

    Russell King;Tony Warnes;Allan Williams

  • International retirement migration in Europe.

    Russell King;Anthony M. Warnes;Allan M. Williams

  • Tourism, migration, circulation and mobility

    Allan M. Williams;C. Michael Hall

  • Tourism and international retirement migration: New forms of an old relationship in southern Europe

    Allan M Williams;Russell King;Anthony Warnes;Guy Patterson

  • A Companion to Tourism

    Alan A. Lew;C. Michael Hall;C. Michael Hall;Allan M. Williams

  • INTERNATIONALIZATION AND INNOVATION IN TOURISM

    Allan M. Williams;Gareth Shaw

  • Tourist group holiday decision-making and behaviour: the influence of children.

    Paul R Thornton;Gareth Shaw;Allan M Williams

  • A place in the sun: international retirement migration from northern to southern Europe.

    Allan M. Williams;Russell King;Tony Warnes

  • Tourism Risk and Uncertainty: Theoretical Reflections

    Allan M. Williams;Vladimír Baláž

  • Older Migrants in Europe: A New Focus for Migration Studies

    Anthony M. Warnes;Allan Williams

  • Knowledge transfer and innovation among attractions.

    Adi Weidenfeld;Allan M. Williams;Richard W. Butler

  • Migration, Risk, and Uncertainty: Theoretical Perspectives

    Allan M. Williams;Vladimir Baláž

  • Entrepreneurship, Small Business Culture and Tourism Development

    Gareth Shaw;Allan M Williams

  • What Human Capital, Which Migrants? Returned Skilled Migration to Slovakia from the UK

    Allan M. Williams;Vladimir Baláž

  • From lifestyle consumption to lifestyle production: changing patterns of tourism entrepreneurship.

    Gareth Shaw;Allan M. Williams

  • Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective

    Erlet Cater;Gareth Shaw;Allan M. Williams

  • Tourism Research A Perspective

    Allan M. Williams;Gareth Shaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Gareth Shaw
Gareth Shaw University of Exeter
Richard Butler
Richard Butler University of Strathclyde
Russell King
Russell King University of Sussex
Alan A. Lew
Alan A. Lew Northern Arizona University
David Phillips
David Phillips University of Melbourne
Scott A. Cohen
Scott A. Cohen University of Surrey
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson University of Sheffield
Claire Wallace
Claire Wallace University of Aberdeen

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