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Business and Management
Australia
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
76
Citations
24800
World Ranking
206
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Bob McKercher is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of tourism research. Their primary research spans social sciences and business, management, and accounting, with numerous publications in these domains.

The subfields in which Bob McKercher has produced work include sociology and political science, transportation, tourism, leisure and hospitality management, social psychology, and demography.

The main topics covered in their research encompass diverse aspects of tourism research, cruise tourism development and management, hospitality and tourism education, recreation, leisure and wilderness management, sport and mega-event impacts, religious tourism and spaces, and tourism, volunteerism, and development.

Frequent coauthors with whom Bob McKercher has collaborated are Bruce Prideaux, Hilary du Cros, Denis Tolkach, Aaron Tkaczynski, and IpKin Anthony Wong.

Bob McKercher has a strong presence in several scholarly venues, including:

  • Tourism Review
  • Tourism Recreation Research
  • Tourism Management
  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • International Journal of Tourism Research

Significant book publications authored by Bob McKercher have been released by Goodfellow Publishers eBooks and Goodfellow Publishers Ltd eBooks. The titles include Tourism Theories, Concepts and Models (2020) and Understanding Tourism (2024).

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Bob McKercher are:

  • Cultural tourism market: a perspective paper, 2020, Tourism Review
  • Travel by Chinese: a generational cohort perspective, 2020, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
  • Choosing the Optimal Segmentation Technique to Understand Tourist Behaviour, 2022, Journal Of Vacation Marketing

Other notable publications by collaborators in related fields include works such as From tourism and disability to accessible tourism: a perspective article (2020) published in Tourism Review, and Reflecting on tourism and COVID-19 research (2022) featured in Tourism Recreation Research.

Best Publications

  • Cultural Tourism: The Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management

    Bob McKercher;Hilary du Cros

  • Incorporating local and international cuisines in the marketing of tourism destinations: The cases of Hong Kong and Turkey

    Bendegul Okumus;Fevzi Okumus;Bob McKercher

  • Towards a classification of cultural tourists

    Bob McKercher

  • Modeling Tourist Movements: A Local Destination Analysis

    Alan Lew;Bob McKercher

  • Testing a cultural tourism typology

    Bob McKercher;Hilary du Cros

  • A chaos approach to tourism

    Bob McKercher

  • Tourism and online photography

    Iris Sheungting Lo;Bob McKercher;Ada Lo;Catherine Cheung

  • TRAVELING WITH A DISABILITY More than an Access Issue

    Matthew Kwai-sang Yau;Bob McKercher;Tanya L. Packer

  • Relationship between tourism and cultural heritage management: evidence from Hong Kong

    Bob McKercher;Pamela S.Y. Ho;Hilary du Cros

  • Food Tourism as a Viable Market Segment: It's All How You Cook the Numbers!

    Bob McKercher;Fevzi Okumus;Bendegul Okumus

  • Some Fundamental Truths About Tourism: Understanding Tourism's Social and Environmental Impacts

    Bob McKercher

  • Exploration Versus Acquisition: A Comparison of First-Time and Repeat Visitors

    Anita L. S. Lau;Bob McKercher

  • Rating tourism and hospitality journals

    Bob McKercher;Rob Law;Terry Lam

  • Travel agents as facilitators or inhibitors of travel: perceptions of people with disabilities.

    Bob McKercher;Tanya Packer;Matthew K. Yau;Patrick Lam

  • Hotel location and tourist activity in cities

    Noam Shoval;Bob McKercher;Erica Ng;Amit Birenboim

  • Understanding Tourist Movement Patterns in a Destination: A GIS Approach:

    Gigi Lau;Bob McKercher

  • Achieving voluntary reductions in the carbon footprint of tourism and climate change

    Bob McKercher;Bruce Prideaux;Catherine Cheung;Rob Law

  • Movement patterns of tourists within a destination.

    Bob Mckercher;Gigi Lau

  • The Over-Reaction to SARS and the Collapse of Asian Tourism.

    Bob McKercher;Kaye Chon

  • First and Repeat Visitor Behaviour: GPS Tracking and GIS Analysis in Hong Kong

    Bob McKercher;Noam Shoval;Erica Ng;Amit Birenboim

  • The unrecognized threat to tourism: Can tourism survive ‘sustainability’?

    Bob McKercher

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Prideaux
Bruce Prideaux Central Queensland University
Noam Shoval
Noam Shoval Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rob Law
Rob Law University of Macau
Alan A. Lew
Alan A. Lew Northern Arizona University
Seongseop Sam Kim
Seongseop Sam Kim Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Simon Darcy
Simon Darcy University of Technology Sydney
Fevzi Okumus
Fevzi Okumus University of South Carolina
Patrick T.I. Lam
Patrick T.I. Lam Hong Kong Polytechnic University
John C. Crotts
John C. Crotts University of Hawaii at Manoa
Erik Cohen
Erik Cohen Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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