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Babak Taheri

Researcher at Heriot-Watt University

Publications -  94
Citations -  2719

Babak Taheri is an academic researcher from Heriot-Watt University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tourism & Hospitality. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 89 publications receiving 1724 citations. Previous affiliations of Babak Taheri include Durham University & Nottingham Trent University.

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Visitors' engagement and authenticity: Japanese heritage consumption

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors established relationships among the concepts of culturally specific motivation, perception of authenticity, engagement and attendant behavioral consequences based on domestic visitors' experiences at Japanese heritage sites and further extended Kolar and Zabkar's model of authenticity by including concepts of serious leisure, heritage related behaviors, self-connection and their effects over engagement using Partial Least Square, whereby both formative and reflective scales are included.
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Keeping your audience: presenting a visitor engagement scale.

TL;DR: The authors developed a scale to measure visitors' level of engagement with tourist attractions and established a relationship between the drivers of engagement and level of activity using Partial Least Square, whereby both formative and reflective scales are included.
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Emerging themes and theories in the sharing economy: a critical note for hospitality and tourism

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review and synthesise recent studies in the sharing economy literature and identify the knowledge gap and future opportunities for hospitality and tourism researchers, and provide new directions to broaden interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches undertaken by scholars within both the field of tourism management and beyond.
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Heritage tourism, CSR and the role of employee environmental behaviour

TL;DR: In this paper, the antecedents of employee environmental behavior and the effects of a social marketing intervention in a tourism organisation using a mixed methods longitudinal approach are discussed, highlighting the need for managers to increase knowledge and self-efficacy and to carefully consider how varying motivations and barriers might explain differences across organisational sites when designing interventions.
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Assessing the Mediating Role of Residents’ Perceptions toward Tourism Development:

TL;DR: In this article, the mediating role of residents' perceptions of tourism impacts is investigated in the context of social exchange theory and Weber's theory of substantive and formal rationality, and the authors examine the effect of tourists' perceptions on tourism impacts.