Dallen Timothy Best Paper Award
From 2022, an annual prize will be awarded for the best research paper published in Journal of Heritage Tourism for the previous year, based on its contribution to the heritage tourism research literature, as judged by the Journal editors and representatives of the Editorial Board. The winning paper will be made available free of charge for a year, and the author(s) will receive a year’s online gratis subscription to the journal. The award has been named in honour of the Founding Editor of the journal, Professor Dallen Timothy of Arizona State University. Professor Timothy established the journal in 2006 and remained as its Editor until 2020. He is a leading scholar in heritage tourism and has published extensively in the field.
2023 Winners
Solène Prince, 'Affect and performance in ancestral tourism: stories of everyday life, personal heritage, and the family'
Sojen Pradhan, Laurel E. Dyson & Sanjay Lama, 'The nexus between cultural tourism and social entrepreneurship: a pathway to sustainable community development in Nepal'
Runners-up
Gila Oren, Yaniv Poria & Arie Reichel, 'The positive role of negative emotions in heritage-site visits: the case of Auschwitz Death Camp'
Niels Frederik Lund, Peter Holst-Beck, B. Joseph Pine II & Anna Leask, 'Hamlet Live: the 7 I’s Experiential Strategy Framework for heritage visitor attractions'
2022 Winners
Lior Bear, Nir Avieli & Jackie Feldman, 'UNESCO World Heritage Sites: shared shrines or contested sanctuaries? The case of the Buddhist temples of Luang Prabang, Laos'
Jordan P. Brasher, 'Creating 'Confederate pioneers' a spatial narrative analysis of race, settler colonialism, and heritage tourism at the Museu da Imigração, Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, São Paulo'
Runner-up
Zhu Qian, 'World Heritage Site inscription and waterfront heritage conservation: evidence from the Grand Canal Historic Districts in Hangzhou, China'