Hanken School of Economics

Adi Weidenfeld has been working on his 2 year Marie Curie Intra European postdoctoral Fellowship since october 2010 with Prof Peter Björk and Prof Allan Williams (school of management, University of Surrey). His main aim is to study the nature of customer participation in knowledge transfer and innovative processes in the service industries in the context of the geographic features of regional innovation systems in European cross border tourism regions, such as mix of cultures, ethnicities, languages, border mobilities and proximity to borders. The study is a 2 year project, funded by the EU 7th Framework (Grant Agreement PIEF-GA-2009-254516-KTIECBR). More information, please visit

http://www.hanken.fi/public/en/marketing_projects

Adi Weidenfeld's other main interests include tourism development planning and policies, tourism clusters, visitor attractions and economic geography.

Adi has worked as a senior lecturer in tourism management and completed his PhD thesis on cooperation, competetion, knowledge transfer and spatial diffusion of innovation among visitor attractions in tourism clusters in the Geography department, College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Exeter, UK under the supervision of Prof Allan Williams and Prof Richard Butler.

Research Interest

Cross border knowledge transfer and innovation, tourism development and planning, tourism innovation, visitor attractions management, tourism geographies

Selected publications

Articles
Weidenfeld, A. and Leask, A. (Forthcoming) A comparison between visitor attractions and events, Current Issues in Tourism

Weidenfeld, A., Williams, A.M and Butler, R. W.(Forthcoming), Spatial competition and agglomeration in the visitor attraction sector, The Service Industries Journal
Butler R.W and Weidenfeld, A. (2012), Cooperation and competition during the resort lifecycle, Tourism Recreation Research, 37 (11), pp. 15-26
Weidenfeld, A., Butler, R. W and Williams, A.M. (2011) The role of clustering, cooperation and complementarities in the visitor attraction sector, Current Issues in Tourism 14 (7), pp. 595-629.
Weidenfeld, A., Williams, A.M and Butler, R. W.(2010), Knowledge transfer and innovations among tourist attractions, Annals of Tourism Research 37(3), pp. 604-626.
Weidenfeld, A. (2010) Iconicity and ‘Flagshipness’ of tourist attractions, Annals of Tourism Research 37(3) pp. 851–854.
Weidenfeld, A., Butler, R. W and Williams, A.M (2010), Clustering and Compatibility between Tourism Attractions, International Journal of Tourism Research 12(1):1-16.
Weidenfeld, A. (2006) Religious Needs in the Hospitality Industry, Tourism and Hospitality Research. 6(2): 143-159.
Weidenfeld, A. and Ron, A. (2009), Religious Needs in the Tourism Industry, Anatolia: an International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research 19 (2): 357-361.
Book chapters/Reports
Weidenfeld, A. Williams. A.M and Butler, R. W (2011), Why Cluster? Text and sub- text in the engagement of tourism development policies with the cluster concept, In Dredge, D.and Jenkins, J.M. (eds), Stories of Practice: Tourism Policy and Planning, pp. 335-338, Ashgate Publishing.
Weidenfeld, A .(2008). How do I ‘join-up’? The use of collaborative planning methods in the UK, In Smeleva, I.A. and Shmelev. S. (eds) Sustainable Urban Development: Interdisciplinary Approach, pp. 58-72 , St Petersburg University Press, Russia: St Petersburg.
Weidenfeld, A. Williams. A.M and Butler, R. W (2009) Cooperation, competition, knowledge transfer and innovations among visitor attractions and their spatial proximity and product similarity, University of Exeter , Final Report.

Conference papers

Wedeinfeld, A. (2005) Planning and the Ambivalence in planning and collaborative governance, in a conference, "‘One Size fits It All’? Contemporary Challenges of Integration and Fragmentation", 16^th-17^th June 2005, Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Weidenfeld, A. (2006) Presented a paper, Planning and the Ambivalence in Planning and Collaborative Governance in the conference “Global Places, Local Places”, Planning Research Conference, 5-7 April, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.
Weidenfeld, A. (2007), Do we need them clustered? Collaboration, competition and knowledge transfer between tourist attractions, 6th DeHaan Tourism Management Conference, 18^th of December, Christel DeHaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute, Nottingham University Business School.
Weidenfeld, A. (2008), Cooperation competition, and Knowledge Transfer between tourist attractions, 6^th of March, Tourism Geographies: Space, Place and Lifestyle Mobilities, University of West England, Bristol.
Weidenfeld, A. (2008), Do we need them clustered? Collaboration , competition and knowledge transfer between tourist attractions, the 4^th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure, the winner of the best PhD dissertation.
Weidenfeld. A. (2011) The role of tourism in cross border regional innovation systems,the European Commission, the Government Office for local self-government and regional policy in Slovenia and the Regional Study Association, What Future for Cohesion Policy? An Academic and Policy Debate, Bled, Slovenia, 16-18 March.
Weidenfeld. A. (2011) Developing Cross-Border Regional Tourism Innovation Systems: Key factors and challenges, Innovation Processes and Destination Development in Tourist Resorts, The Regional Studies Association Research Network on Tourism and Regional Development, Östersund, European Tourism Research Institute, 30 March - 1 April Östersund, Sweden.