Konstantinos Kakoudakis

BSc(Hospitality & Tourism Management),MA(Strategic Hospitality Management),MA(Strategic Consumer Marketing)
Funding: Self-funded


Room: B22 SB
Tel: +44 (0) 115 8467750
Email: lixkk19@nottingham.ac.uk

Current Status: Registered
Year of Registration: 2009
Expected Completion Date: /10/2012

Primary Funding Source:
Self-funded

Research Topic:
The role of tourism experiences, through social tourism initiatives, in the personal development (self-efficacy beliefs) of unemployed individuals

Research Details:
Recent research upon tourism for low-income groups has provided findings with regard to the positive impact of tourism participation on the personal development and well-being of individuals. Due to these important benefits for disadvantaged populations, it has also been addressed that social tourism may have the potential to be seen as a part of social policy. However, there are no tourism studies that focus on unemployed individuals specifically, the largest subgroup of people living in low-income, exploring the potential impact of tourism participation on their lives, the way they view their capabilities and the probability of reemployment.
This research investigates the relationship between tourism experiences, through social tourism initiatives, and the self-efficacy beliefs of unemployed individuals. More specifically, it examines, whether tourism experiences can affect the beliefs of unemployed people, with specific reference to the way they view their capabilities, potentials and the prospect and probability of reemployment. If tourism has such a potential to affect positively the social-cognitive states of the unemployed and to boost behavioural changes with regard to reemployment, then social tourism could be taken into serious consideration as a policy-tool to reduce unemployment.

Research Supervisor/s: Scott McCabe and Peter Lyth

Division: Marketing