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Profiles
Dr Steven Jakes
Lecturer in Tourism, Hospitality & Events Management (Education)
Plymouth Business School (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Biography
Biography
Qualifications
Professional membership
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
My main teaching at undergraduate level includes:
Stage 1
- Tourism Environments and Tourist Behaviour (module leader)
- Tourism Geographies (module leader)
- International Event Destinations (module leader)
- Special Interest Tourism (module leader)
Stage 2
- Tourism, Development and Culture (module leader)
- Research Methods
Stage 4
- Crime and Sustainable Tourism
- Contemporary Issues in Events Management
- Dissertation Research Project (Plymouth)
- Dissertation Research Project (Sri Lanka) (module leader)
My main teaching at postgraduate level includes:
- Research Methods
- Dissertation Research Project
Research
Research
Research interests
- Social and economic change in urban, rural or coastal contexts: an analysis of poverty, deprivation or social exclusion in destination areas
- Tourism development in the coastal zone: an analysis of tourism impacts on coastal environments and their inhabitants
- Deviant behavior and tourism: an investigation into dark leisure or some aspect of tourist deviant behaviour (e.g., drug use, gambling, prostitution)
- Community-based tourism: an investigation into some aspect of community-based tourism either a developing or developed country
- Strategic use of events: an analysis of the role of events or tourism in urban regeneration
- Animals and tourism: an investigation into some aspect of wildlife tourism, morals and ethics
- Animals and tourism: an investigation into the challenges and prospects for pets in tourism, especially dogs
- Wilderness tourism: an investigation into tourism development in wilderness areas (e.g., mountainous regions, deserts, rainforests, the arctic)
- Social tourism: an analysis of the production, consumption or distribution of social tourism in Europe
Other research
Grants & contracts
Inward migration to English seaside towns and its influence on deprivation - with Professor Sheela Agarwal (University of Plymouth) and Professor Stephen Page (University of Hertfordshire) Total: £5000 (£3000 from UoP Faculty of Business Research Facilitation Grant, £2000 from UoH Business School)
Publications
Publications
Agarwal, S. Jakes, S. Essex, S. Page, S. & Mowforth, M. (2018) 'Disadvantage in English seaside resorts: A typology of deprived neighbourhoods'. Tourism Management. 69: 440-459 (ABS4*)
Personal
Personal
Conferences organised
2006: I was a member of the Programme Committee who organised the International Conference on Periphery and Policy at New County Hall in Truro, Cornwall on 21-22 April. My contribution to the conference received recognition from the Royal Anthropological Institute and Cornwall County Council.