Research Interests
urban planning and regeneration, cultural tourism, creative industries, heritage studies, wellbeing, health tourism
Melanie Kay Smith
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Research Fellow (MTA TK SZI)
- Department: Research Department for Social Integration and Social Policy
- Academic Title: PhD
- Email: smith.melanie.kay@tk.mta.hu
- Phone: +36 1 2246700 / 5421
- Building: B (Floor, room: 1.24.)
- List of Publications (MTMT)
Selected Publications
Smith, M. K. (2018) ‘Wellness in the ’U-bend’ of Life: why the core market is middle-aged and female’, International Journal of Spa and Wellness, DOI:10.1080/24721735.2018.1438480
Zátori, A., Smith, M. K. & Puczkó, L. (2018) ‘Experience-involvement, memorability and authenticity: The service provider's effect on tourist experience’, Tourism Management, 67, pp. 111-126.
Smith, M. K. & Diekmann, A. (2017) ‘Tourism and Wellbeing’, Annals of Tourism Research, 66, pp. 1-13.
Smith, M.K. and Puczkó, L. (2017) (eds) Routledge Handbook of Health Tourism, London: Routledge.
Smith, M. K., Egedy, T., Csizmady, A., Olt, G., Jancsik, A. and Michalkó, G. (2017) Non-Planning and Tourism Consumption in Budapest's Inner City, Tourism Geographies, 20(3), pp. 524-548.
Smith, M. K. (2016) Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies, London: Routledge (3rd ed.)
Egedy, T. and Smith, M. K. (2016) ’Old and New Residential Neighbourhoods as Creative Hubs in Budapest’, Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft [Annals of the Austrian Geographical Society], Vol. 158, pp. 85-108.
Diekmann, A. and Smith, M. K. (2015) (eds) Ethnic and Minority Cultures as Tourist Attractions, Bristol: Channel View.
Smith, M.K. and Puczkó, L. (2015) ‘More than a special interest: Defining and determining the demand for health tourism’, Tourism Recreation Research, 40 (2), pp. 205-219.
Smith, M. K. (2015) ‘Baltic Health Tourism: Uniqueness and Commonalities’, Scandinavian Journal of Tourism and Hospitality, 15(4), pp.357-379.
Smith, M.K. and Zátori, A. (2015) ‘The Political and Social Transformation of Roma and Jewish Communities through Tourism in Budapest’, in Reisinger, Y. (ed.) Transformational Tourism: Host Perspectives. Oxford: CABI, pp. 69-79.
Smith, M.K. and Zátori, A. (2015) ‘Jewish Culture and Heritage in Budapest’, in Diekmann, A. and Smith, M.K. (eds) Ethnic and Minority Cultures as Tourist Attractions, Bristol: Channel View, pp. 188-201.
Smith, M. K. and Puczkó, L. (2013) Health, Tourism and Hospitality: Spas, Wellness and Medical Travel, London: Routledge.
Smith, M. K. and Puczkó, L. (2012) Budapest: from socialist heritage to cultural capital? Current Issues in Tourism, Vol. 15, Nos 1-2, pp. 107-119.
Research Projects
2018-2019: Cultural Heritage and Social Cohesion Incubator Project, MTA, Institute for Sociology, Budapest
2013 – 2016: Tourism, Wellbeing and Ecosystem Services
COST Project Representative for Hungary and Chair of Working Group
2013 – 2015: Balkan Wellbeing