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  1. Wellness for Tourists? Well…Mess for Locals: Socio-Culturally Sustainable Development of Wellness Tourism in Bali

    Article • The Journal of Development Studies, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  2. Tourism futures and Working Holiday Maker schemes: a systematic review and scenario analysis

    Article • Journal of Tourism Futures, September 2025, Emerald

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  3. Contested civilities: state media, cultural identity, and the transformation of Chinese tourist subjectivity in the pre-pandemic era

    Article • Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  4. Motor Coach Tourism

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  5. Introduction

    Article • Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, September 2023, Berghahn Journals

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  6. The metaphoric rise of overtourism and why we should stop using the phrase

    Article • March 2023, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  7. Backpacking Culture and Mobilities

    Article • January 2023, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  8. Searching for prestige: motivations and managerial implications of Chinese campus tourists

    Article • Leisure Studies, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  9. #overtourism on Twitter: a social movement for change or an echo chamber?

    Article • Current Issues in Tourism, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  10. Unpacking overtourism as a discursive formation through interdiscursivity

    Article • The Tourist Review, December 2021, Emerald

    Professor Noel B. Salazar, Dr Michael James O'Regan

  11. Quality of life perspectives for different social groups in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure

    Article • Tourist Studies, August 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  12. From its drifter past to nomadic futures: future directions in backpacking research and practice

    Article • Tourist Studies, February 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  13. Biometric technologies at music festivals: An extended technology acceptance model

    Article • Journal of Convention & Event Tourism, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  14. Filipino migrant workers’ leisure and subjective quality of life in Macao

    Article • World Leisure Journal, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  15. Faith Manifest: Spiritual and Mindfulness Tourism in Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Article • Religions, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  16. Post-Colonial Macau: hope and despair in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure

    Article • Via Tourism Review, December 2019, OpenEdition

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  17. Conspicuous consumption and hospitality at a wine festival in China

    Article • Hospitality & Society, June 2019, Intellect

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  18. Managing a non-profit hospitality platform conversion: The case of Couchsurfing.com

    Article • Tourism Management Perspectives, April 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  19. Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage

    Article • Tourism Geographies, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  20. Backpacking’s future and its drifter past

    Article • Journal of Tourism Futures, September 2018, Emerald

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  21. Macau wine festivalscape: Attendees’ satisfaction and behavioural intentions

    Article • Hospitality & Society, September 2018, Intellect

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  22. Critical event studies: approaches to research

    Article • Journal of Sport & Tourism, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  23. Attendee Motivations at an International Wine Festival in China

    Article • Event Management, September 2017, Cognizant Communication Corporation

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  24. Airbnb and cultural capitalism: enclosure and control within the sharing economy

    Article • Anatolia, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  25. Airbnb: Turning the Collaborative Economy into a Collaborative Society

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  26. ‘Dirtbags’

    Article • May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  27. A backpacker habitus: the body and dress, embodiment and the self

    Article • Annals of Leisure Research, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  28. Tourism research in China: themes and issues

    Article • Anatolia, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  29. Motor coach tourism

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  30. Methodological Bricolage: A Journey on the Road Less Traveled in Tourism Studies

    Article • Tourism Analysis, November 2015, Cognizant Communication Corporation

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  31. Developing Student Engagement in China Through Collaborative Action Research

    Article • September 2015, Emerald

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  32. Book review: David Picard and Michael Di Giovine (eds), Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference, Clevedon, Channel View Publications

    Article • Tourist Studies, July 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  33. Smartphone Adoption amongst Chinese Youth during Leisure-based Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities

    Article • Journal of China Tourism Research, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  34. A cosmopolitan journey? Difference, distinction and identity work in gap year travel, by Helene Snee

    Article • Tourism Geographies, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  35. Religious tourism experiences in South East Asia.

    Article • January 2015, CABI Publishing

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  36. Meditation as a kind of leisure: the similarities and differences in the United States

    Article • Leisure Studies, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  37. Liminal Landscapes Travel, Experience and Spaces in-between

    Article • Tourism Management, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  38. 10. Alternative Mobility Cultures and the Resurgence of Hitch-hiking

    Article • December 2012, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  39. On the Edge of Chaos: European Aviation and Disrupted Mobilities

    Article • Mobilities, February 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  40. Chapter 6. Backpacker Hostels: Place and Performance

    Article • December 2010, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  41. Hypermobility in backpacker lifestyles: the emergence of the internet café.

    Article • CABI Publishing

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  42. Couchsurfing through the lens of agential realism: intra-active constructions of identity and challenging the subject-object dualism.

    Article • CABI Publishing

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  43. Everyday techno-social devices in everyday travel life: digital audio devices in solo travelling lifestyles.

    Article • CABI Publishing

    Dr Michael James O'Regan

  44. Fragmenting tourism

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael James O'Regan