Richard Butler

10.8k citations
167 papers · 6.6k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 37

Richard Butler

158 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

Sustainable tourism: A state‐of‐the‐art review7931999202620082017250500750

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Richard Butler
Comparison fields: 5 of 164
  • Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management 467
  • Transportation 1.7k
  • Sociology and Political Science 5.1k
  • Demography 1.3k
  • Geography, Planning and Development 523
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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2 20240
3 20241
4 202417
5 20225
6 202118
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The Application of Force Field Analysis to the Tourism Area Life Cycle
20071
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Applications and modifications
200613
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The Tourism Area Life Cycle Volume 1: Applications and Modifications
20067
12 200314
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A new planning tool: the tourism opportunity spectrum
20033
14 20039
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Perceptions of marketing managers of the effectiveness of the Internet in tourism and hospitality.
200011
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Tourism and recreation in rural areas.
1997361
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Images of destination people in travelogues.
199613
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Identifying areas of ecotourism in Northern Ontario: Application of a Geographical Information System Methodology
199435
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The application of remote sensing to recreation research.
19832
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Organic reaction mechanisms, 1973 : an annual survey covering the literature dated December 1972 through November 1973
19752

About Richard Butler

Richard Butler is a scholar working on Transportation, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management and Geography, Planning and Development, having authored 167 papers that have together received 6.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (98 papers), Cruise Tourism Development and Management (45 papers), Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (26 papers), Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (23 papers), Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (20 papers), Religious Tourism and Spaces (18 papers), Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (10 papers) and Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (467 citations), Transportation (1.7k citations) and Sociology and Political Science (5.1k citations). Richard Butler has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Frequent co-authors include Rachel Dodds, C. Michael Hall, John Jenkins, Dallen J. Timothy, Adi Weidenfeld, Louise Twining-Ward, Douglas G. Pearce, Allan M. Williams, Stephen Boyd and Stephen Boyd. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, CHEST Journal and Tourism Management.

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