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50
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15294
World Ranking
976
National Ranking
147

Overview

Chris Cooper is affiliated with Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Environmental Science, with substantial focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Transportation, Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Education.

The scientist's main research topics include diverse aspects of tourism research, cruise tourism development and management, sport and mega-event impacts, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, digital marketing and social media, heavy metals in the environment, and pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts.

Chris Cooper has published articles in several academic journals, including:

  • The geopolitics and challenges of current issues in tourism (2024), Current Issues in Tourism
  • The intersection between knowledge management and organizational learning in tourism and hospitality: A bibliometric analysis (2023), Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
  • The use of tourism as a social intervention in indigenous communities to support the conservation of natural protected areas in Mexico (2020), Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Deriving a bioavailability-based zinc environmental quality standard for France (2020), Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Frequent coauthors in Cooper's research include:

  • C. Michael Hall
  • David A. Fennell
  • Dallen J. Timothy
  • Graham Merrington
  • Jelle Mertens

Major publication venues where Cooper's work regularly appears include:

  • Current Issues in Tourism
  • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Chris Cooper has also contributed to book publications, with multiple titles under the topic of sustainable tourism. Notable publishers include Channel View Publications eBooks, Multilingual Matters eBooks, and Goodfellow Publishers eBooks. Titles from 2020 include two editions of Sustainable Tourism, while a more recent 2023 publication is Contemporary Tourism Fifth edition.

The breadth of Cooper's work demonstrates a focus on tourism research combined with environmental science and related social sciences, encompassing both theoretical and applied aspects of these fields.

Best Publications

  • Tourism - Principles and Practice

    Christopher P. Cooper

  • Contemporary Tourism: An International Approach

    Christopher P. Cooper;C. Michael Hall

  • Network Analysis and Tourism

    Noel Scott;Rodolfo Baggio;Chris Cooper

  • Network Analysis and Tourism: From Theory to Practice

    Noel R. Scott;Rodolfo Baggio;Christopher Cooper

  • Managing Educational Tourism

    Brent W. Ritchie;Neil Carr;Christopher P. Cooper

  • Destination networks: Four Australian cases

    Noel Scott;Chris Cooper;Rodolfo Baggio

  • Knowledge management and tourism.

    Chris Cooper

  • Network science: A Review Focused on Tourism

    Rodolfo Baggio;Noel Scott;Chris Cooper

  • Knowledge transfer in a tourism destination: the effects of a network structure

    Rodolfo Baggio;Chris Cooper

  • Projected and Perceived Image of Spain as a Tourist Destination for British Travellers

    Luisa Andreu;J. Enrique Bigné;Chris Cooper

  • The positive and negative impacts of tourism

    Brian Archer;Chris Cooper;Lisa Ruhanen

  • Improving tourism destination governance: a complexity science approach

    Rodolfo Baggio;Noel Scott;Chris Cooper

  • Marketing and destination growth: A symbiotic relationship or simple coincidence?

    Bruce Prideaux;Chris Cooper

  • Destination life cycle: The isle of man case study

    Chris Cooper;Stephen Jackson

  • Tourism Education Futures, 2010–2030: Building the Capacity to Lead

    Pauline Sheldon;Dan Fesenmaier;Karl Woeber;Chris Cooper

  • CRISIS KNOWLEDGE IN TOURISM: TYPES, FLOWS AND GOVERNANCE

    Alexandros Paraskevas;Levent Altinay;Jacqueline McLean;Chris Cooper

  • Network Position and Perceptions of Destination Stakeholder Importance

    Chris Cooper;Noel Scott;Rodolfo Baggio

  • Defining knowledge management (KM) activities: towards consensus

    Lisa G.A. Beesley;Chris Cooper

  • The Relationship Between Tourism Education and The Tourism Industry: Implications for Tourism Education

    Chris Cooper;Rebecca Shepherd

  • Tourism in the Age of Globalisation

    Salah Wahab;Christopher P. Cooper

  • Volunteering tourism knowledge: A case from the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

    L. Ruhanen;C. Cooper;E. Fayos-Sola

  • Knowledge management and tourism

    S. Craig-Smith;C. Cooper;L. Ruhanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Noel Scott
Noel Scott University of the Sunshine Coast
Rodolfo Baggio
Rodolfo Baggio Bocconi University
Bruce Prideaux
Bruce Prideaux Central Queensland University
Geoff Coulson
Geoff Coulson Lancaster University
Gordon S. Blair
Gordon S. Blair Lancaster University
David Solnet
David Solnet University of Queensland
Dimitrios Buhalis
Dimitrios Buhalis Bournemouth University
Robert S. Hogg
Robert S. Hogg Simon Fraser University
David A. Fennell
David A. Fennell Brock University
Marina B. Klein
Marina B. Klein McGill University

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