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Lori Pennington-Gray is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research primarily resides within the broad field of Social Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Marketing, and Communication.

Their scholarly output extensively covers diverse aspects of tourism research, disaster management and resilience, sport and mega-event impacts, mosquito-borne diseases and control, public relations and crisis communication, digital marketing and social media, as well as the sharing economy and platforms.

Frequent publication venues for Lori Pennington-Gray include:

  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
  • Journal of Destination Marketing & Management
  • International Journal of Hospitality Management
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism

Recent papers by Lori Pennington-Gray include:

  • Does tourism matter in measuring community resilience? (2021, Annals of Tourism Research)
  • Social media information and peer-to-peer accommodation during an infectious disease outbreak (2021, Journal of Destination Marketing & Management)
  • Predicting Chikungunya disease personal protective behaviors: Results of a cross-sectional survey of US-Caribbean travelers (2020, Health Promotion Perspectives)
  • Spatial Effect of Crime on Peer-to-Peer Lodging Performance (2021, Journal of Travel Research)
  • Destination images of the ten most visited countries for potential Brazilian tourists (2020, Tourism & Management Studies)

Collaborations have been established with several scholars, with frequent coauthors including Estefania Basurto-Cedeno, Seonjin Lee, Jinwon Kim, Christa D. Court, and João Pedro Ferreira.

Best Publications

  • The Effect of Risk Perceptions on Intentions to Travel in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001

    Myron F. Floyd;Heather Gibson;Lori Pennington-Gray;Brijesh Thapa

  • The dynamics of travel avoidance: The case of Ebola in the U.S.

    Ignatius Cahyanto;Michael Wiblishauser;Lori Pennington-Gray;Ashley Schroeder

  • Testing a Constraints Model within the Context of Nature-Based Tourism

    Lori A. Pennington-Gray;Deborah L. Kerstetter

  • Profiling risk perceptions of tourists

    Myron F. Floyd;Lori Pennington-Gray

  • The Role of Social Media in International Tourist’s Decision Making

    Ashley Schroeder;Lori Pennington-Gray

  • Risk perception and evacuation decisions of Florida tourists under hurricane threats: a stated preference analysis

    Corene Matyas;Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan;Ignatius Cahyanto;Brijesh Thapa

  • Destination risk perceptions among U.S. residents for London as the host city of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games

    Ashley Schroeder;Lori Pennington-Gray;Kiki Kaplanidou;Fangzi Zhan

  • Using Social Media in Times of Crisis

    Ashley Schroeder;Lori Pennington-Gray;Holly Donohoe;Spiro Kiousis

  • Tourism crisis management: can the Extended Parallel Process Model be used to understand crisis responses in the cruise industry?

    Bingjie Liu;Lori Pennington-Gray;Janice Krieger

  • Cohort segmentation: an application to tourism.

    Lori Pennington-Gray;Joseph D. Fridgen;Daniel Stynes

  • Cruise Line Customers’ Responses to Risk and Crisis Communication Messages: An Application of the Risk Perception Attitude Framework:

    Bingjie Liu-Lastres;Ashley Schroeder;Lori Pennington-Gray

  • What Do University-Educated Women Want from Their Pleasure Travel Experiences?

    Lori A. Pennington-Gray;Deborah L. Kerstetter

  • Predicting information seeking regarding hurricane evacuation in the destination

    Ignatius Cahyanto;Lori Pennington-Gray;Brijesh Thapa;Siva Srinivasan

  • Crisis planning and preparedness in the United States tourism industry.

    Lori Pennington-Gray;Brijesh Thapa;Kyriaki Kaplanidou;Ignatius Cahyanto

  • Does location matter? Exploring the spatial patterns of food safety in a tourism destination

    YongJin Lee;Lori Pennington-Gray;Jinwon Kim

  • Understanding the domestic VFR drive market in Florida

    Lori Pennington-Gray

  • Understanding women's professional basketball game spectators: sociodemographics, game consumption, and entertainment options.

    J. J. Zhang;L. Pennington-Gray;D. P. Connaughton;J. R. Braunstein

  • An empirical evaluation of the determinants of tourist's hurricane evacuation decision making

    Ignatius Cahyanto;Lori Pennington-Gray;Brijesh Thapa;Siva Srinivasan

  • Cognitive and affective responses of Florida tourists after exposure to hurricane warning messages

    Jorge Villegas;Corene Matyas;Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan;Ignatius Cahyanto

  • Bed bugs bite the hospitality industry? A framing analysis of bed bug news coverage.

    Bingjie Liu;Lori Pennington-Gray

Frequent Co-Authors

Brijesh Thapa
Brijesh Thapa University of Florida
Deborah L. Kerstetter
Deborah L. Kerstetter Pennsylvania State University
Spiro Kiousis
Spiro Kiousis University of Florida
Heather J. Gibson
Heather J. Gibson University of Florida
Myron F. Floyd
Myron F. Floyd North Carolina State University
Tazim Jamal
Tazim Jamal Texas A&M University
Yvette Reisinger
Yvette Reisinger Gulf University for Science & Technology
Stephen L. Smith
Stephen L. Smith University of Guelph

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