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Overview

Scott McCabe is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences, with a significant body of work in sociology and political science, demography, marketing, social psychology, and tourism, leisure, and hospitality management.

The main topics McCabe covers in their research include diverse aspects of tourism, tourism, volunteerism, and development, digital marketing and social media, sport and mega-event impacts, recreation, leisure, and wilderness management, hospitality and tourism education, and cruise tourism development and management.

McCabe has published extensively in several journals, with frequent venues being:

  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Journal of Travel Research
  • Journal of Destination Marketing & Management
  • Current Issues in Tourism
  • Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • A review of research into social tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on Social Tourism., 2020, Annals of Tourism Research
  • A socio-psychological conceptualisation of overtourism, 2020, Annals of Tourism Research
  • Social media activation of pro-environmental personal norms: an exploration of informational, normative and emotional linkages to personal norm activation, 2021, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing
  • Collaboration and Learning Processes in Value Co-Creation: A Destination Perspective, 2022, Journal of Travel Research
  • Emotions in tourist experiences: Advancing our conceptual, methodological and empirical understanding, 2020, Journal of Destination Marketing & Management

McCabe frequently collaborates with other scholars including Anya Diekmann, José David Cisneros-Martínez, Qijie Jiang, Jillian M. Rickly, and Marcello Atzeni. These collaborations have contributed significantly to the breadth and depth of research output.

Best Publications

  • The happiness factor in tourism: subjective well-being and social tourism.

    Scott McCabe;Sarah Johnson

  • 'Who is a tourist?' : A critical review

    Scott McCabe

  • Sustainability and marketing in tourism: its contexts, paradoxes, approaches, challenges and potential

    Xavier Font;Scott McCabe

  • Who needs a holiday? Evaluating social tourism.

    Scott McCabe

  • ''If I was going to die I should at least be having fun": Travel blogs, meaning and tourist experience

    Carmela Bosangit;Sally Hibbert;Scott McCabe

  • Overtourism, optimisation, and destination performance indicators: a case study of activities in Fjord Norway

    Ove Oklevik;Stefan Gössling;C. Michael Hall;Jens Kristian Steen Jacobsen

  • Place and identity in tourists' accounts.

    Scott McCabe;Scott McCabe;Elizabeth H. Stokoe;Elizabeth H. Stokoe

  • Understanding the benefits of social tourism: Linking participation to subjective well‐being and quality of life

    Scott McCabe;Thea Joldersma;Chunxiao Li

  • The role of hedonism in ethical tourism

    Sheila Malone;Scott McCabe;Andrew P. Smith

  • Expanding theory of tourists’ destination loyalty: The role of sensory impressions

    Xingyang Lv;Chunxiao (Spring) Li;Scott McCabe

  • The role and function of narrative in tourist interaction.

    Scott McCabe;Clare Foster

  • Tourists' accounts of responsible tourism

    Robert Caruana;Sarah Glozer;Andrew Crane;Scott McCabe

  • The tourist experience and everyday life.

    S. McCabe;G. M. S. Dann

  • Time for a Radical Reappraisal of Tourist Decision Making? Toward a New Conceptual Model

    Scott McCabe;Chunxiao (Spring) Li;Zengxiang Chen

  • Evaluating user-generated content in social media: an effective approach to encourage greater pro-environmental behavior in tourism?

    Wei Han;Scott McCabe;Yi Wang;Alain Yee Loong Chong

  • Stakeholder engagement in the design of scenarios of technology-enhanced tourism services

    Scott McCabe;Mike Sharples;Clare Foster

  • What is Told in Travel Blogs? Exploring Travel Blogs for Consumer Narrative Analysis

    Carmela Bosangit;Scott McCabe;Sally Hibbert

  • Seasonal concentration of tourism demand: Decomposition analysis and marketing implications

    Antonio Fernández-Morales;José David Cisneros-Martínez;Scott McCabe

  • A socio-psychological conceptualisation of overtourism

    Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling;Scott McCabe;Ning Chris Chen

  • Analyzing key influences of tourists’ acceptance of online reviews in travel decisions

    Alain Yee Loong Chong;Kok Wei Khong;Teng Ma;Scott McCabe

  • Re-enactment Events and Tourism: Meaning, Authenticity and Identity

    Elizabeth Carnegie;Scott Mccabe

  • Marketing Communications in Tourism and Hospitality : Concepts, Strategies and Cases

    Scott McCabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Gössling
Stefan Gössling Linnaeus University
Elizabeth Stokoe
Elizabeth Stokoe Loughborough University

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