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Nancy Gard McGehee
Researcher at Virginia Tech
Publications - 73
Citations - 5665
Nancy Gard McGehee is an academic researcher from Virginia Tech. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tourism & Tourism geography. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 69 publications receiving 4960 citations. Previous affiliations of Nancy Gard McGehee include Pamplin College of Business & University of Waikato.
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Factors Predicting Rural Residents’ Support of Tourism
TL;DR: This article examined the factors predicting attitudes toward tourism of residents from a dozen communities in Arizona, generally following the model developed by Perdue, Long, and Allen, using social exchange theory as the foundation.
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Motivation for Agri-Tourism Entrepreneurship
Nancy Gard McGehee,Kyungmi Kim +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reveal the motivations for agri-tourism entrepreneurship among Virginia farm families and explore Weber's theory of formal and substantive rationality as a possible theoretical framework for agritourism entrepreneurs.
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Social change, discourse and volunteer tourism
TL;DR: Theories of social movements were used to explore possible changes in networks and consciousness-raising among participants in volunteer tourism as discussed by the authors, which had a positive effect on both intended post-trip social movement activities and support for activism.
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Volunteer tourism: A review
TL;DR: A review of the current state of "volunteer tourism" can be found in this article, with a focus on the volunteer tourism experience itself with emphasis on the role of the tourism organization and the community.
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Empowerment and resident attitudes toward tourism: Strengthening the theoretical foundation through a Weberian lens
TL;DR: In this article, Weber's theory of formal and substantive rationality (WFSR) is used as a way to strengthen social exchange theory to support resident attitudes toward tourism. But it is not used in this study.