Monographs, edited volumes and peer-reviewed research across tourism and hospitality studies, geography, anthropology and Middle Eastern studies.
Books & major works
Monographs & edited volumes
Monograph
Affective Tourism: Dark Routes in Conflict
A highly innovative monograph that theorises tourism encounters by bringing together affective and emotional geographies, psychoanalytic geographies and dark tourism, with direct relevance for tourism in the proximity of ongoing conflicts. Routledge.
Emotions and Affective Decisions in Hospitality Equity Investment
Co-authored with Dr Guy Lincoln. The first interdisciplinary book to examine private equity investment in hospitality businesses through the lens of affect and emotion. Routledge, 2026. Free to read under a Creative Commons licence.
Special issue Attuning to Affect and Emotion in Tourism Studies, edited with Prof. Jennie Germann Molz, consolidating affective approaches in the field. Tourism Geographies.
Qualitative Methodologies in Tourism Studies: Disrupting and Co-creating Critical Research
Edited with Milka Ivanova and Elisa Burrai (Routledge, 2022), on creative and disruptive qualitative methods in tourism research, developed from a special issue of Tourism Geographies.
Germann Molz, J., & Buda, D.M. (2022). Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies. Tourism Geographies, 24(2–3), 187–197. DOI · open access
Ivanova, M., Buda, D.M., & Burrai, E. (2021). Creative and disruptive methodologies in tourism studies. Tourism Geographies, 23(1–2), 1–10. DOI
Postma, A., Buda, D.M., & Gugerell, K. (2017). The future of city tourism. Journal of Tourism Futures, 3(2), 95–101. DOI[open access]
Refereed articles & chapters 26
Buda, D-M. (2024). Haptic tourism: Touch and fear at the Separation Wall and its checkpoints in the Palestinian West Bank. Tourist Studies, 24(3), 266–286. DOI
Burrai, E., Buda, D.M. & Stevenson, E. (2022). Tourism and refugee-crisis intersections: Co-creating tour-guide experiences in Leeds, England. Journal of Sustainable Tourism.DOI
Prayag, G., Buda, D.M., & Jordan, E. J. (2020). Mortality salience and meaning in life for residents visiting dark tourism sites. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1–21. DOI
Ivanova, M., & Buda, D.M. (2020). Thinking Rhizomatically About Communist Heritage Tourism. Annals of Tourism Research.DOI
Meekes, J., Buda, D.M., & de Roo, G. (2020). Socio-spatial Complexity in Leisure Development. Annals of Tourism Research, 80, 102814. DOI
Burrai, E., Buda, D.M., & Stanford, D. (2019). Rethinking the ideology of responsible tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27(7), 992–1007. DOI
Martini, A., & Buda, D.M. (2018). Dark tourism and affect: Framing places of death and disaster. Current Issues in Tourism, 1–14. DOI
Martini, A., & Buda, D.M. (2018). Analysing affects and emotions in tourist e-mail interviews: A case in post-disaster Tohoku, Japan. Current Issues in Tourism, 22(19), 2353–2364. DOI
Meekes, J., Buda, D.M., & de Roo, G. (2017). Adaptation, Interaction and Urgency: A Complex Evolutionary Economic Geography Approach to Leisure. Tourism Geographies, 19(4), 525–547. DOI
Meekes, J., Buda, D.M., & de Roo, G. (2017). Leeuwarden 2018: Complexity of Leisure-led Regional Development in a European Capital of Culture. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 108(1), 129–136. DOI
Buda, D.M. (2016). Emotional Dynamics of Conflict (and) Tourism in Palestine. PLAN Magazine, UN-Habitat & ISOCARP, Issue 3.
Buda, D.M., Martini, A., & Biran, A. (2017). Dark Tourism. In L. Lowry (Ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism, 345–348. DOI
Buda, D.M., Martini, A., & García, L-M. (2017). Qualitative Tourism Research. In L. Lowry (Ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism, 988–992. DOI
Isaac, R. K., & Buda, D.M. (2017). Palestinian Tourism. In L. Lowry (Ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism, 925–926. DOI
Cave, J., & Buda, D.M. (2017). Souvenirs and Tourism. In L. Lowry (Ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism, 1148–1151. DOI
Cave, J., & Buda, D.M. (2018). Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and Symbols. In P. R. Stone, R. Hartmann, T. Seaton, R. Sharpley & L. White (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 707–726. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI · open access
Biran, A., & Buda, D.M. (2018). Unravelling Fear of Death Motives in Dark Tourism. In P. R. Stone, R. Hartmann, T. Seaton, R. Sharpley & L. White (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 515–532. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI · open access
Buda, D.M. (2015). Tourism in Conflict Areas: Complex Entanglements in Jordan. Journal of Travel Research, 1–12. DOI
Buda, D.M., & Shim, D. (2015). 'Real' and 'normal' North Korea: on the politics of shining light on the darkness. Current Issues in Tourism, 1–3. DOI
Buda, D.M., & Shim, D. (2014). Desiring the dark: 'A taste for the unusual' in North Korean tourism? Current Issues in Tourism, 18(1), 1–6. DOI
Buda, D.M. (2015). The Death Drive in Tourism Studies. Annals of Tourism Research, 50, 39–51. DOI
Buda, D.M., d'Hauteserre, A. M., & Johnston, L. (2014). Feeling and Tourism Studies. Annals of Tourism Research, 46, 102–114. DOI
Buda, D.M., & McIntosh, A. J. (2013). Dark Tourism and Voyeurism: Tourist Arrested for 'Spying' in Iran. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 7(3), 214–226. DOI
Cave, J., & Buda, D.M. (2013). Souvenirs of place and identity: Tourism transactions in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. In J. Cave, L. Jolliffe & T. Baum (Eds.), Channel View Publications.
Buda, D.M., & McIntosh, A. J. (2012). Hospitality, Peace and Conflict: “Doing Fieldwork” in Palestine. Journal of Tourism and Peace Research, 2(2), 50–61. PDF · open access
Lema, J., Agrusa, J., & Buda, D.M. (2010). The Process of Experiential Learning: Implications for Dark Tourism. Bulletin of the Romanian National Defense Academy "Carol I", XX, 440–447. open access
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