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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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Collaborations from the last five years
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PRESERVING AND SUSTAINABLY GOVERNING CULTURAL HERITAGE AND LANDSCAPES IN EUROPEAN COASTAL AND MARITIME REGIONS
1/05/18 → 31/10/21
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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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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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Steering Resilience in Coastal and Marine Cultural Heritage
Flannery, W., Ounanian, K., Toonen, H., van Tatenhove, J., Murtagh, B., Ferguson, L., Delaney, A., Kenter, J., Azzopardi, E., Pita, C., Mylona, D., Witteveen, L., Hansen, C. J., Howells, M., Vegas Marcia, J., Lamers, M., Sousa, L., Ferreira da Silva, A. M., Taylor, S., Rolo, M., & 2 others , 12 May 2022, In: Maritime Studies. 21, p. 437-446 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Tourism and coastal & maritime cultural heritage: a dual relation
Ferreira da Silva, M., Vegas Macias, J., Taylor, S., Ferguson, L., P Sousa, L., Lamers, M., Flannery, W., Martins, F., Costa, C. & Pita, C., 19 May 2022, In: Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. p. 1 22 p., 22.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Doubles, drops and ditches: Deconstructing the art of the mountain bike trail-builder
Taylor, S. & Sand, M., 14 Jan 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. 33, 8 p., 100364.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Forest Bathing as a Mindful Tourism Practice
Farkic, J., Isailovic, G. & Taylor, S., 12 Aug 2021, In: Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights. 2, 2, p. 1-9 9 p., 100028.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Living in the moment: mountain bikers’ search for flow
Taylor, S. & Carr, A., 19 Sept 2021, In: Annals of Leisure Research. p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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