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Overview

Rachel Dodds is affiliated with Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada and specializes in research within the social sciences. Their work predominantly explores various aspects of tourism, with a focus on sustainability, development, and the socio-political dimensions influencing the field.

Their primary research fields include sociology and political science, transportation, marketing, demography, and management, monitoring, policy, and law. These subfields reflect a multidisciplinary approach to tourism studies and related societal impacts.

Key topics addressed in their research are:

  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Cruise Tourism Development and Management
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility

Recent publications authored by or involving Rachel Dodds include:

  • Because I believe in it: examining intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for sustainability in festivals through self-determination theory, 2020, Tourism Recreation Research
  • Overcoming overtourism: a review of failure, 2022, Tourism Review (authored by Richard Butler but relevant within the research network)
  • Tourism development from disaster capitalism, 2020, Annals of Tourism Research (by Kelly-Ann Wright)
  • The impact of intermediaries and social marketing on promoting sustainable behaviour in leisure travellers, 2022, Journal of Cleaner Production (by Philip R. Walsh)
  • Introduction to special issue on island tourism resilience, 2021, Tourism Geographies (by Michelle McLeod)

Frequent collaborators in Dodds's research network include:

  • Mark Robert Holmes
  • Michelle Novotny
  • Richard Butler
  • Philip R. Walsh
  • Ilan Kelman

Top venues where Dodds has published multiple works are:

  • Tourism Cases
  • Sustainability
  • Event Management
  • The Journal of Liquid Biopsy
  • Tourism Review

Rachel Dodds's scholarly contributions mainly focus on analyzing tourism phenomena through a blend of social science perspectives. Their engagement with sustainability themes, marketing strategies for promoting eco-friendly behavior, and the examination of large event impacts indicates a broad, interdisciplinary approach to understanding tourism's role in contemporary society.

Best Publications

  • Barriers to implementing Sustainable Tourism Policy in Mass Tourism Destinations

    Rachel Dodds;Richard Butler

  • Why Go Green? The Business Case for Environmental Commitment in the Canadian Hotel Industry

    Sonya Graci;Rachel Dodds

  • Mobilizing knowledge: determining key elements for success and pitfalls in developing community-based tourism

    Rachel Dodds;Alisha Ali;Kelly Galaski

  • The phenomena of overtourism: a review

    Rachel Dodds;Richard Butler

  • Does the tourist care? A comparison of tourists in Koh Phi Phi, Thailand and Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

    Rachel Dodds;Sonya Rita Graci;Mark Holmes

  • Sustainable Tourism and Policy Implementation: Lessons from the Case of Calviá, Spain

    Rachel Dodds

  • Sustainable Tourism in Island Destinations

    Rachel Dodds;Sonya Graci

  • Overtourism: Issues, realities and solutions

    Rachel Dodds;Richard Butler

  • CSR in the tourism industry? The status of and potential for certification, codes of conduct and guidelines

    Rachel Dodds;Marion Joppe

  • CSR among Canadian mass tour operators: good awareness but little action

    Rachel Dodds;Jacqueline Kuehnel

  • Measuring the Choice of Environmental Sustainability Strategies in Creating a Competitive Advantage

    Philip R. Walsh;Rachel Dodds

  • Consumer Choice and Farmers' Markets

    Rachel Dodds;Mark Holmes;Vichukan Arunsopha;Nicole Chin

  • At Home or Abroad, Does Our Behavior Change? Examining How Everyday Behavior Influences Sustainable Travel Behavior and Tourist Clusters:

    Mark Robert Holmes;Rachel Dodds;Isabelle Frochot

  • Promoting urban green tourism: The development of the other map of Toronto

    Rachel Dodds;Marion Joppe

  • Increasing sustainable tourism through social entrepreneurship

    Deborah de Lange;Rachel Dodds

  • Ecotourism in the city? Toronto’s Green Tourism Association

    Anna Gibson;Rachel Dodds;Marion Joppe;Brian Jamieson

  • How climate change is considered in sustainable tourism policies: a case of the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Mallorca.

    Rachel Dodds;Ilan Kelman

  • Overcoming overtourism: a review of failure

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  • Anthropogenic climate change coverage in two Canadian newspapers, the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, from 1988 to 2007

    Katrina Ahchong;Rachel Dodds

  • What drives environmental sustainability in the New Zealand wine industry

    Rachel Dodds;Sonya Graci;Soyoung Ko;Lindsay Walker

  • Malta's Tourism Policy: Standing Still or Advancing towards Sustainability?

    Rachel Dodds

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Butler
Richard Butler University of Strathclyde
Ilan Kelman
Ilan Kelman University College London

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