Nigel Jarvis

An investigation of the key criteria affecting the adoption of yield management in UK hotels

Jauncey, Mitchell and Slamet (1995), identify the ‘considerable variation in the nature, size, location and markets of hotel units within the UK’. However, in most studies of yield management such diversity is ignored. This paper reports on a study of 163 UK hotels with a rating of three or more stars. It seeks to identify the characteristics of hotels that have adopted yield management and those that have not. By exploring adopters and non-adopters it is hoped to identify the key variables that justify the use of this management tool from an industry perspective.

The inclusive masculinities of heterosexual men within UK gay sport clubs

This article focuses on the little known phenomenon of heterosexual men’s participation in gay1 sport clubs. It explores the relationship between straight men joining gay teams in a context of changing masculinities. Through 12 interviews with a diverse range of self-identified straight men living in the UK, the research demonstrates how traditional definitions of masculinity are possibly shifting, as are their attitudes towards sexuality, as a result of their involvement with gay sport organisations. Their experiences and stories reveal how their participation in gay sport settings may contribute to diminished cultural homophobia, in line with other recent studies. Initial stereotypes and perceptions of gay athletes were dismantled, resulting in clear attitudinal shifts toward homosexuality. The men interviewed had no one single conceptualisation of masculinity, and instead showed a more pluralised and inclusive version of masculinity. While their participation in gay clubs can largely be seen as a positive and transgressive act, their involvement still has some limitations.

A review of gay and lesbian parented families’ travel motivations and destination choices: gaps in research and future directions

Academic tourism research is traditionally concerned with individual decisions and fails to address the viewpoint of the family unit. Indeed, while family tourism remains unexplored, lesbian and gay parented family tourism is further overlooked, with little attention in tourism research given to families whose configurations do not fit the heteronormative model, namely the ‘mother-father-children’ trinomial. This paper critically reviews the literature on the topics that offer insight into same-sex parented family tourism and identifies gaps in knowledge in four different areas: travel motivations, destination choice, family decision-making, and strategies used by lesbians and gay men to manage sexuality in public spaces. The paper ends with recommendations designed to progress theoretical and empirical research.

Sponsorship and Gay Sport: A Case Study of the 2000 Gay Softball World Series

The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine the sponsorship of a gay and lesbian sports event, and whether this differs from the sponsorship of more mainstream sports events. This is achieved by focusing on one particular non-mainstream sport and event, the Gay Softball World Series. It concludes that nonmainstream sports, such as gay and lesbian softball, have become a significant and legitimate, if problematic, cultural force and a desirable magnet for sponsors as corporations attempt to reach new target groups.

Lesbians and Gay Men’s Vacation Motivations, Perceptions, and Constraints: A Study of Cruise Vacation Choice

ABSTRACT This study explores the push-pull vacation motivations of gay male and lesbian consumers and examines how these underpin their perceptions and purchase constraints of a mainstream and LGBT1 cruise. Findings highlight a complex vacation market. Although lesbians and gay men share many of the same travel motivations as their heterosexual counterparts, the study reveals sexuality is a significant variable in their perception of cruise vacations, which further influences purchase constraints and destination choice. Gay men have more favorable perceptions than lesbians of both mainstream and LGBT cruises. The article recommends further inquiry into the multifaceted nature of motivations, perception, and constraints within the LGBT market in relation to cruise vacations.

THE TRANSGRESSIVE POTENTIAL OF THE 2014 CLEVELAND/AKRON GAY GAMES LEGACIES

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Masculinity and the Gay Games: a consideration of hegemonic and queer debates

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Commitment, expertise and mutual recognition: oscillating sports tourism experiences of performing and watching at the World Gymnaestrada

Travel to formal organised lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) sport networks and related events is a recent occurrence. This largely conceptual chapter focuses specifically on how alternative and lesser-known sport tourism events, such as the Gay Games, provide an opportunity to investigate masculinity. While much literature and research on sport and the Gay Games also relates to women’s participation, this chapter focuses on the implications of gay men taking part in this athletic event. The Gay Games potentially represent a significant transgressive and alternative space in the world of sport because they involve high levels of tourist and international mobility. The two theoretical frameworks that are used in this chapter to help understand masculinity debates related to the Gay Games are hegemony and queer theory. Hegemony theory is one of the most popular and fruitful strands of the neo-Marxist approach to the sociological study of sport, while the young roots and contested nature of queer theory offers a more contemporary consideration.

The Benefits and Challenges of Sustainable Tourism Certification: A Case Study of the Green Tourism Business Scheme in the West of England

This paper is dedicated to exploring the shifting experiences between being actively involved in and viewing sports tourism and the extent to which the perception of both roles relates to their experience of a participant community. While historically both activities were considered as heterogeneous categories in sports tourism, understood and analysed separately, recent research increasingly acknowledges the separation between both activities is often not as clear-cut as it seems. This paper explores the oscillation of the two roles in the context of the 2011 and 2015 World Gymnaestrada in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Helsinki, Finland. Framed by the conceptual notion of community and drawing largely on an ethnographic research approach, the findings suggest over and above taking part in a gymnastics display oneself, watching and talking about other groups’ performances is central to the event experience. During the event week, the participants adopt two constantly shifting roles of being a performer and being a spectator, with asking for and giving feedback based on ones own expertise being the mediating device between the two. There appears to be an internalised consensus that being involved in a display, which is taken seriously, provides the ability to assess and judge others. The constant interplay between performing and watching, between asking for feedback and showing appreciation, constitutes a significant device of mutual recognition through which the participants’ community is confirmed and validated.