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Richard Butler is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a focus spanning sociology and political science, demography, transportation, geography, planning and development, as well as tourism, leisure, and hospitality management.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to tourism, including diverse aspects of tourism research, cruise tourism development and management, tourism, volunteerism and development, religious tourism and spaces, hospitality and tourism education, migration, aging, and tourism studies, and island studies and Pacific affairs.

Among the recent papers authored by Richard Butler are the following:

  • Tourism destination development: the tourism area life cycle model, 2024, Tourism Geographies
  • Overcoming overtourism: a review of failure, 2022, Tourism Review
  • Introduction to special issue on island tourism resilience, 2021, Tourism Geographies
  • Sustainable tourism: a state-of-the-art review, 2020, Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals
  • Tourism - resilient but vulnerable as "the times they are a changing" in the "new normality", 2020, Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes

Richard Butler has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Rachel Dodds (5 collaborations)
  • Margaret Hart-Robertson (2 collaborations)
  • David A. Fennell (2 collaborations)
  • Michelle McLeod (1 collaboration)
  • Fabio Mazzola (1 collaboration)

The scientist has published multiple works in several key academic venues, including:

  • Tourism Review (2 publications)
  • Tourism Geographies (2 publications)
  • PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural (2 publications)
  • Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals (1 publication)
  • Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (1 publication)

Richard Butler has also contributed to book literature, notably with a publication from Multilingual Matters eBooks titled Tourism as a Pathway to Hope and Happiness, published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The concept of a tourist area cycle of evolution: implications for management of resources.

    Richard W. Butler

  • Sustainable tourism: A state‐of‐the‐art review

    Richard W. Butler

  • The core of heritage tourism

    Yaniv Poria;Richard Butler;David Airey

  • Tourism and recreation in rural areas.

    Richard Butler;Colin Michael Hall;John M Jenkins

  • Tourism, Environment, and Sustainable Development

    Richard W. Butler

  • Links between Tourists, Heritage, and Reasons for Visiting Heritage Sites

    Yaniv Poria;Richard Butler;David Airey

  • A segmentation analysis of resident attitudes to the social impact of tourism

    J.E. Brougham;R.W. Butler

  • Alternative Tourism: Pious Hope Or Trojan Horse?

    R.W. Butler

  • Barriers to implementing Sustainable Tourism Policy in Mass Tourism Destinations

    Rachel Dodds;Richard Butler

  • Clarifying heritage tourism

    Yaniv Poria;Richard Butler;David Airey

  • Seasonality in tourism: issues and implications

    Richard Butler

  • The phenomena of overtourism: a review

    Rachel Dodds;Richard Butler

  • Implementing STD on a small island: Development and use of sustainable tourism development indicators in Samoa

    Louise Twining-Ward;Richard Butler

  • Knowledge transfer and innovation among attractions.

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

  • Tourism and Indigenous Peoples

    Richard Butler;Thomas Hinch

  • Tourism, Religion and Religiosity: A Holy Mess

    Yaniv Poria;Richard Butler;David Airey

  • Tourism Research: Critiques and Challenges

    Douglas G. Pearce;Richard W. Butler

  • The perception of small and medium sized tourism accommodation providers on the impacts of the tour operators’ power in Eastern Mediterranean

    Constantinos Bastakis;Dimitrios Buhalis;Richard Butler

  • Tourism and indigenous peoples : issues and implications

    Richard Butler;Thomas Hinch

  • The length of stay of golf tourism: a survival analysis.

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Richard Butler;Antónia Correia

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan M. Williams
Allan M. Williams University of Surrey
Geoffrey Wall
Geoffrey Wall University of Waterloo
Douglas G. Pearce
Douglas G. Pearce Victoria University of Wellington
David Bruce Weaver
David Bruce Weaver Queensland University of Technology
Ralf Buckley
Ralf Buckley Griffith University
Stephen F. McCool
Stephen F. McCool University of Montana
David A. Fennell
David A. Fennell Brock University
Bill Faulkner
Bill Faulkner Griffith University
Sevil Sönmez
Sevil Sönmez University of Central Florida

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