Dr Lauren Siegel MSc, PhD, FHEA

Research interests include social media, social networking, social influence, consumer behaviour, overtourism, responsible traveller behaviours, sustainable practices, tourist destination selection, socio-cultural impacts and generational travel habits (Generations Y and Z).

The Conversation: Why are people taking selfies in front of the LA wildfires? https://theconversation.com/why-are-people-taking-selfies-in-front-of-the-la-wildfires-247491

Yahoo News: Why are people taking selfies in front of the LA wildfires?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/why-people-taking-selfies-front-164559967.html

BBC Travel: How a viral ad campaign is teaching us to ‘life-see’, not sightsee

https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20240807-how-a-viral-ad-campaign-is-teaching-us-to-life-see-not-sightsee

Inside Hook: How social media is ruining travel – and why we should all care

https://www.insidehook.com/travel/social-media-ruining-travel

Condé Nast Traveller IN: You’re more likely to midbehave on vacation. Here’s why.

https://www.cntraveller.in/story/youre-more-likely-to-misbehave-on-vacation-heres-why/

The Telegraph: Tourists forgot how to behave themselves in 2023

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/tourists-badly-behaved-travel-etiquette/

iNews: ‘We have to hide in our houses’: Santorini locals fume at tourist chaos

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/we-have-to-hide-in-our-houses-santorini-locals-fume-at-tourist-chaos-3294971

The Express: Santorini locals hide in their houses to avoid tourist chaos

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1955777/santorini-locals-hide-in-houses-overtourism-greece

Much Better Adventures: Is Social Media-Induced Tourism Ruining Travel? https://www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/is-social-media-ruining-travel/

BBC: Is this the summer of bad tourists? https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230821-is-this-the-summer-of-bad-tourists

The Independent: 'Some people are so desperate they live in caves' - the brutal truth about a holiday hotspot https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/santorini-greek-island-overtourism-locals-camp-beach-caves/

CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/social-media-tourism-effect-scn-wellness/index.html

Yahoo News: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/instagram-making-worse-tourist-heres-115459011.html

Sud Ouest: https://www.sudouest.fr/societe/instagram-fait-de-vous-un-tres-mauvais-touriste-comment-voyager-plus-respectueusement-16172676.php

Hotel Online: https://www.hotel-online.com/.../a-globetrotting-generation/

PATA: https://www.pata.org/the-hong-kong-polytechnic.../

Hsyndicate: https://www.hsyndicate.org/network/4097719.html

Hospitality Net: https://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4097719.html

International Hotel & Restaurant Association: http://www.ih-ra.org/news-details.php?url=4097719

Hotel Technology Next Generation: http://htng.hsyndicate.com/news//4097719.html

AMFORHT: https://amforht.groupment.com/.../a-globetrotting.../8185/

4Hoteliers: https://www.4hoteliers.com/news/story/20180

Food Hospitality India: http://foodhospitalityindia.com/for-the-internet-savvy.../

Deutsche Welle Radio
Living Planet: Overtourism – How much is too much?
https://www.dw.com/en/living-planet-overtourism-how-much-is-too-much/av-44927631

Siegel, L.A., Kim, H. & Yung, R. (2024). Tourism and Digital Marketing. In In: Paulo Botelho Pires, Jose Duarte Santos, Ines Veiga Pereira (eds.), Digital Marketing: Analyzing its Transversal Impact. CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton (1st). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003384960-16.

Siegel, L.A. (2024). Selfie parks: Enclaves for social media-induced tourist photography. Proceedings of 2024 Travel and Tourism Research Association International Conference, 11-13 June, 2024 in Burlington, VT. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/54926.

Siegel, L.A., & Yung, R. (2024). Social status in virtual worlds: An experience economy versus luxury consumption debate. Proceedings of the INVTUR Conference 2024, 8-10 May in Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 121-124.

Siegel, L. A., Tussyadiah, I., & Scarles, C. (2023). Exploring behaviors of social media-induced tourists and the use of behavioral interventions as salient destination response strategy. Journal of destination marketing & management, 27, 100765. DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2023.100765.

Siegel, L. (2023). Semiotics of Travel: Assigning Meaning to Travel Posts on Social Media. Proceedings of the Surrey 2023 Conference 5-7 July in Guildford, United Kingdom.

Siegel, L.A., Tussyadiah, I., & Scarles, C. (2022). Cyber-physical traveler performances and Instagram travel photography as ideal impression management. Current Issues in Tourism,DOI:10.1080/13683500.2022.2086451.

Siegel, L.A. (2022). What does it mean to be a “good” traveler in the age of social media? Proceedings of the Critical Tourism Studies 9 Conference, 27 June – 1 July 2022 in Mao, Menorca.

Siegel, L.A., Tussyadiah, I.P. and Scarles, C. (2020) ‘Does Social Media Help or Hurt Destinations? A Qualitative Case Study’, e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR), 17(4), pp. 571-580.

Thomopoulos, N., Cohen, S., Hopkins, D., Siegel, L. and Kimber, S. (2020) ‘All Work and No Play? Autonomous Vehicles and Non-commuting Journeys’, Transport Reviews, 1-22.

Siegel, L.A. and Wang, D. (2019) ‘Keeping Up with the Joneses: Emergence of Travel as a Form of Social Comparison among Millennials’, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, 36(2), pp. 159-175.

Siegel, L. (2019). Social Networking Behaviours among Travelling Millennials: A Visual Hierarchy. Travel and Tourism Research Association Europe 2019, 8-10 April in Bournemouth, United Kingdom.

Siegel, L. (2019). Travel Photography in the Age of Social Networking. Workshop Series: Photography in Tourism Research at University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, 10 Sept 2019.

Siegel, L. (2019). Travel and Consumption in Photogenic Places. PhD Workshop, International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) ENTER Conference 2019, 29 Jan at University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Siegel,L. and Wang, D. (2018). Keeping Up with the Joneses: Emergence of Travel as a New Form of Social Currency. The 23rd Annual Graduate Education & Graduate Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism, Fort Worth, Texas, 3-5 Jan 2018.