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I’m currently the Director of the Centre for Recreation and Tourism Research at University of Highlands and Islands North, West and Hebrides. Developing and managing knowledge exchange and EU-funded projects and writing academic papers and articles are core responsibilities. I have been involved in 18 trans-national tourism projects since starting at the centre and have an extensive network of contacts internationally.
I have written many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on nature-based tourism, including the physical and mental benefits that can be derived. Further academic work has focussed on forest bathing and motivations related to accessing the great outdoors on bikes. My scholarly output has most recently been on the slow adventure marketing concept and cultural heritage tourism.
As of September 2023 I am supervising three PhD students, one exploring potential conflict related to electric mountain biking (as Director of Studies), another on visitor engagement and storytelling on the Neolithic, and the third on adventure tourism development in South Africa (through a SA-UK University Staff Doctoral Program).
I obtained my PhD at the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand. My qualitative research explored the issue of participation in autonomously-controlled, non-commodified adventure sports, using mountain biking as a case study. The primary aim of my thesis was to establish the range of factors that influence people’s participation in such an activity, from participants’ motivations to the environmental attributes that attract them to locations at which their motivations can be realised.
I have been involved in the development of the Slow Adventure® marketing concept since 2014. Having developed the ‘Slow Adventure in Northern Territories’ Interreg project and been a co-founder of a spin-of company Slow Adventure Ltd, I remain a staunch advocate of the slow adventure ethos.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, ‘Extending the Dream Machine’: Understanding Dedicated Participation in Mountain Biking, University of Otago
Award Date: 18 Dec 2010
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Community-Determined Change-scapes of Recovery: Case studies across the Highlands and Islands of the impact and strategies for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
Johnson, V. (PI), Bryce, R. (PI) & Taylor, S. (CoI)
1/11/20 → 31/07/21
Project: Research
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PRESERVING AND SUSTAINABLY GOVERNING CULTURAL HERITAGE AND LANDSCAPES IN EUROPEAN COASTAL AND MARITIME REGIONS
Taylor, S. (PI)
1/05/18 → 31/10/21
Project: Research
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Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development: a transdisciplinary learning framework for guiding place-based social-ecological research
Bohnet, I. C., Bryce, R., Måren, I. E., Barraclough, A. D., Malcolm, Z., Külm, S., Kokovkin, T., Taylor, S., Cudlinova, E. & Sepp, K., 1 Apr 2025, In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 73, p. 101506Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sustainable adventure tourism products and destinations
Farkic, J. & Taylor, S., 28 Feb 2025, Routledge International Handbook of Adventure Tourism. Pomfret, G., Doran, A. & Cater, C. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 233-248 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Transition numérique et fréquentation des espaces de montagne
Langenbach, M., Mao, P. & Taylor, S., 1 Feb 2024, In: Journal of Alpine Research/Revue de Geographie Alpine. 111, 3, p. 1-5 5 p.Translated title of the contribution :The Digital Transition and Use of Mountain Spaces Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Challenging hegemonic velocipedic modality in the great outdoors: The seemingly inexorable rise of the electric mountain bike
Taylor, S., Burrow, C. & Button, S., 21 Aug 2023, In: Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. 43, p. 1 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Diagnosing Training Needs in European Tourism SMEs: The TCNAV Project for Managing and Overcoming Virulent Crises
Soriano Flores, E., Prola, T., Halldórsdóttir, I. & Taylor, S., 27 Dec 2023, In: Kurdish Studies. 11, 2, p. 2011 2022 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Slow adventure in remote and rural areas – Creating and narrating the tourism product
Farkic, J., Taylor, S. & Bellshaw, S. M., 5 Apr 2023, Ethical and Responsible Tourism: Managing Sustainability in Local Tourism Destinations, Second Edition . Koščak, M. & O’Rourke, T. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 95 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Towards an ethical tourism recovery in Northern peripheries
Lüthje, M., Vainikka, V., Taylor, S., Macaulay, B., Bryce, R. & Puhakka-Tarvainen, H., 14 Dec 2023, In: Finnish Journal of Tourism Research. 19, 2/2023, p. 45 53 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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