Nicholas Wise

Books

Wise, N. (ed). (Submitted) Community Geography, Emotion and Urban Regeneration, Springer.

Tian, E., & Wise, N. (eds). (2024). The Mediating Power of Sport: Global Challenges and Sport Culture in China. Emerald.

Wise, N., & Maguire, K. (eds). (2022). A Research Agenda for Event Impacts. Edward Elgar.

Wise, N., & Jimura, T. (eds). (2020). Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Urban Regeneration: Changing Spaces in Historical Places. Springer.

Harris, J., & Wise, N. (eds). (2019). Rugby in Global Perspective: Playing on the Periphery. Routledge.

Kusek, W.A., & Wise, N. (eds). (2019). Human Geography and Professional Mobility. Routledge.

Wise, N., & Harris, J. (eds). (2019). Events, Places and Societies. Routledge.

Clark, J., & Wise, N. (eds). (2018). Urban Renewal, Community and Participation: Theory, Policy and Practice. Springer.

Wise, N., & Clark, J. (eds). (2017). Urban Transformations: Geographies of Renewal and Creative Change. Routledge.

Wise, N., & Harris, J. (eds). (2017). Sport, Events, Tourism and Regeneration. Routledge.

Benson, A.M., & Wise, N. (eds). (2017). International Sports Volunteering. Routledge.

Dun, S., Spracklen, K., & Wise, N. (eds). (2014). Game Changer: The Transformative Potential of Sport. Interdisciplinary Press.

Journal Articles

Wise, N., Perić, M., Đurkin Badurina, J., & Budruk, M. (2026). Exploring relationships between place Management and placemaking: A socially restorative approach for destination and event management. Event Management, accepted
 

Wise, N., Perić, M. & Fyall, A. (2026). ‘Placing’ co-creation at the core in the Periphery: Conceptualizing business models as ‘experience supply systems’. Local Development & Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/26883597.2026.2723158 
 

Tafreshi, F., Moazzami, M., & Wise, N. (2026). From eventification to characterization of memorial museums. Journal of Iranian Architectural Studies, DOI: 10.22052/jias.2026.258671.1518
 

Vico, R. P., Uvinha, R. R., Wise, N., Chiundila Vico, V. C., & Sousa Dantas, A. (2026). Mega-event tourism, urban legacies, and experiential education: socio-territorial impacts of Paris 2024. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2026.2758407 
 

Ludvigsen, J.A.L., & Wise, N. (2026). Re-activating ‘feel-good’ effects as an intangible hosting vision. Managing Sport and Leisure, 31(3), 455-469. https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2314563 
 

Tafreshi, F., Moazzami, M., & Wise, N. (2026). Examining the impact of eventification in the Sa’dabad Cultural Complex. Journal of Iranian Architectural Studies, 14, 113-127. DOI: 10.22052/jias.2026.257654.1439
 

Yang, R., Wise, N., Lee, W., & Choi, H.C. (2025). Exploring customer resistance to travel subscriptions: The case of passive and active innovation resistance. International Journal of Tourism Research, 27(6), e70144. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.70144 
 

Enqing, T., & Wise, N. (2025). Dancing in public squares – Toward a socially synchronous sense of place. Leisure Sciences, 47(2), 283-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2022.2099490 
 

Andereck, K., Wise, N., Budruk, M., & Bricker, K. (2024). Heritage on the high plains: motive-based market segmentation for a US National Historic Site. Sustainability, 16(24), 10854. https://doi.org/10.3390/su162410854 
 

Qeidari, H.S, Hosseini Kahnooj, S.R., Solimani, Z., Shabani, B., & Wise, N. (2024). Iranian children's memorable rural tourism experiences. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 32, 100897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2024.100897 
 

Lin, B., Lee, W., Wise, N., & Choi, H.C. (2024). Consumers’ ethical perceptions of autonomous service robots in hotels. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 48(6), 964-974. https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480231194693 
 

Wise, N., Gökbulut Özdemir, Ö., & Fillis, I. (2023). Creative entrepreneurship, urban transformation and the (Baltic) Triangle Model. Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship 24(2), 385-404. https://doi.org/10.1108/JRME-02-2021-0017 
 

Grofelnik, H., Perić, M., & Wise, N. (2023). Evaluating the travel carbon footprint of outdoor sports tourists. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 43, 100678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jort.2023.100678 
 

Kohe, G., & Wise, N. (2023). Spatialising sport management. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 47(4), 664-676. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2174961 
 

Harris, J., Wise, N., & Lee, S. (2023). How to win the Ryder Cup: An analysis of individual player performance and collective national performance in Team Europe. National Identities, 25(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2021.2010038 
 

Melis, C., Wise, N., & Đurkin Badurina, J. (2022). Geo-political complexities of governmentality and Balkanism: Deconstructing UNESCO World Intangible Cultural Heritage Discourses. Political Geography, 95, 102578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102578 
 

Harris, J., Vincent, J., & Wise, N. (2021). The city and the country: Cardiff, England and the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Journal of Sport & Tourism, 25(4), 337-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/14775085.2021.1992296 
 

Wise, N., Đurkin Badurina, J. & Perić, M. (2021). Pre-event competitiveness: Exploring residents’ perceptions of place management and local impacts. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 33(7), 2428-2446. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-10-2020-1199 
 

Ganga, R.N., Wise, N., & Perić, M. (2021). Exploring implicit and explicit cultural policy dimensions through major-event and neoliberal rhetoric. City, Culture and Society, 27, 100401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2021.100401 
 

Aquilino, L., Harris, J., & Wise, N. (2021). A sense of rurality: Events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town. Journal of Rural Studies, 83, 138-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.02.013 
 

Perić, M., Wise, N., Heydari, R., Keshtidar, M., & Mekinc, J. (2021). Getting back to the event: Covid-19, attendance and perceived importance of protection. Kinesiology, 53(1), 12-19. https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/370182 
 

Wise, N., Đurkin Badurina, J. & Perić, M. (2021). Assessing residents’ perceptions of urban placemaking prior to hosting a major cultural event. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 12(1), 51-69. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEFM-04-2020-0020 
 

Aquilino, L., Wise, N., & Harris J. (2020). Wackiness and event management: The case of the World Alternative Games. Event Management, 24(5), 567-577. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599519X15506259856174 
 

Enqing, T., & Wise, N. (2020). An Atlantic divide? Mapping the knowledge domain of European and North American based sociology of sport, 2008-2018. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 55(8), 1029-1055. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690219878370 
 

Gamidullaeva, L., Vasin, S., & Wise, N. (2020). Increasing small- and medium-enterprise contribution to local and regional economic growth by assessing the institutional environment. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 27(2), 259-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-07-2019-0219 
 

Wise, N. (2020). Eventful futures and triple bottom line impacts: BRICS, image regeneration and competitiveness. Journal of Place Management and Development, 13(1), 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-10-2019-0087 
 

Kersulić, A., Perić, M., & Wise, N. (2020). Assessing and considering the wider impacts of sport-tourism events: A research agenda review of sustainability and strategic planning elements. Sustainability, 12, 4473. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114473 
 

Vasin, S., Gamidullaeva, L., Wise, N., & Korolev, K. (2020). Knowledge exchange and the trust institution: A new look at the problem. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 11(3), 1026-1042. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-019-00588-2 
 

Wise, N. & Kirby, S.I. (2020). A ‘home away from home’: The (London) Jaguars and the NFL’s established international presence—a semi-deterritorialization approach. Sport in Society, 23(1), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1555220 
 

Wise, N., Polidoro, M., Hall, G., & Uvinha, R.R. (2019). User-generated insight of Rio’s Rocinha Favela Tour: Authentic attraction or vulnerable living environment? Local Economy, 34(7), 680-698. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094219889881 
 

Wise, N., Melis, C., & Jimura, T. (2019). Liverpool’s urban imaginary: The Beatles and tourism fanscapes. The Journal of Popular Culture, 52(6), 1433-1450. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12862 
 

Aquilino, L., Armenski, T., & Wise, N. (2019). Assessing the competitiveness of Matera and the Basilicata Region (Italy) ahead of the 2019 European Capital of Culture. Tourism and Hospitality Research, 19(4), 503-517. https://doi.org/10.1177/1467358418787360 
 

Zhao, Y., & Wise, N. (2019). Evaluating the intersection between “green events” and sense of community at Liverpool’s Lark Lane Farmers Market. Journal of Community Psychology, 47(5), 1118-1130. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22177 
 

Wise, N., Perić, M., & Ðurkin, J. (2019). Benchmarking service delivery for sports tourism and events: Lessons for Gorski kotar, Croatia from Pokljuka, Slovenia. European Journal of Tourism Research, 22, 107-128. https://doi.org/10.54055/ejtr.v22i.378 
 

Wise, N. (2019). Towards a more enabling representation: Framing an emergent conceptual approach to measure social conditions following mega-event transformation in Manaus, Brazil. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 38(3), 300-316. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12775 
 

Gellweiler, S., Fletcher, T., & Wise, N. (2019). Exploring experiences and emotions sport event volunteers associate with ‘role exit’. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 54(4), 495-511. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690217732533 
 

Lin, Y-H., Ryan, C., Wise, N., & Low, L.W. (2018). A content analysis of airline mission statements: Changing trends and contemporary components. Tourism Management Perspectives, 28, 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2018.08.005 
 

Gellweiler, S., Wise, N., & Fletcher, T. (2018). Understanding the ‘lived experience’ of sport event volunteers: Using the hermeneutic circle as a guiding conceptual framework. Event Management, 22(4), 629-642. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599518X15300559276976 
 

Wise, N. (2018). Assessing the use of geospatial technologies in higher education Teaching. European Journal of Geography, 9(3), 1154-1164. http://eurogeojournal.eu/articles/016.Wise-EJoG_Submission_sub4.pdf 
 

Wise, N., Mulec, I., & Armenski, T. (2017). Towards a new local tourism economy: Understanding sense of community, social impacts and potential enterprise opportunities in Podgrađe Bač, Vojvodina, Serbia. Local Economy, 32(7), 656-677. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094217734329 
 

Perić, M., Wise, N., & Dragičević, D. (2017). Suggesting a service research agenda in sport tourism: Working experience(s) into business models. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 7(1), 58-76. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-09-2015-0031 
 

Wise, N. (2017). Rugby World Cup: New directions or more of the same? Sport in Society, 20(3), 341-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2015.1088717 
 

Wise, N. (2017). Interpreting media content post-conflict: Communications of ‘travel’ and ‘Bosnia and Herzegovina’ in U.S. Newspapers, 20 years post-Dayton. Društvena Istraživanja, 26(3), 363-383. https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/276730 
 

Perić, M., Đurkin, J., & Wise, N. (2016). Leveraging small-scale sport events: Challenges of organising, delivering and managing sustainable outcomes in rural communities, the case of Gorski kotar, Croatia. Sustainability, 8, 1337. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8121337 
 

Wise, N. (2016). Staging and performing identity at the Croke Park Classic: A note on sport, geography and neoliberalism. European Journal of Geography, 7(4), 35-40. http://eurogeojournal.eu/articles/Issue%207.4.pdf 
 

Aquilino, L., & Wise, N. (2016). Evaluating the Competitiveness of the Northern and Southern Macro-Regions of Italy. AlmaTourism: Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development, 7(13), 23-47. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-5195/5988 
 

Wise, N., & Harris, J. (2016). Community, identity and contested notions of place: A study of Haitian recreational soccer players in the Dominican Republic. Soccer & Society, 17(4), 610-627. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2014.980728 
 

Wise, N. (2016). Outlining triple bottom line contexts in urban tourism regeneration. Cities, 53, 30-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2016.01.003 
 

Perić, M., & Wise, N. (2015). Understanding the delivery of experience: Conceptualising business models and sports tourism, Assessing two case studies in Istria, Croatia. Local Economy, 30(8), 1000-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094215604131 
 

Wise, N., & Mulec, I. (2015). Aesthetic awareness and spectacle: Communicated images of Novi Sad, the Exit Festival and the event venue Petrovaradin Fortress. Tourism Review International, 19(4), 193-205. https://doi.org/10.3727/154427215X14456408880993 
 

Wise, N. (2015). Placing sense of community. Journal of Community Psychology, 43(7), 920-929. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21722 
 

Wise, N. (2015). Spatial experiences: Using Google Earth to locate meanings pertinent to sense of place, community and social development. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy and Development Research, 17(1), 141-150. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26326928 
 

Easton, S., & Wise, N. (2015). Online portrayals of volunteer tourism in Nepal: Exploring the communicated disparities between promotional and user-generated content. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 7(2), 141-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/WHATT-12-2014-0051 
 

Wise, N. (2015). Maintaining Dominican identity in the Dominican Republic: Forging a baseball landscape in Villa Ascension. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 50(2), 161-178. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690213478252 
 

Wise, N. (2014). Layers of the landscape: Representation and perceptions of an ordinary (shared) sport landscape in a Haitian and Dominican community. Geographical Research, 52(2), 212-222. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12055 
 

Kusek, W., & Wise, N. (2014). Artistic Perceptions of Poles in London. Scottish Geographical Journal, 130(2), 99-115. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2013.854403 
 

Wise, N., & Mulec, I. (2014). Semblances of ‘war tourism’ in Sarajevo, post-2005. American Journal of Tourism Management, 3(1B), 1-9. http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.s.tourism.201402.01.html 
 

Mulec, I., & Wise, N. (2013). Indicating the competitiveness of Serbia’s Vojvodina region as an emerging tourism destination. Tourism Management Perspectives, 8, 68-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2013.07.001 
 

Mulec, I., & Wise, N. (2012). Strategic guidelines for the potential geotourism destination Titel Loess Plateau (Vojvodina, Serbia). Geoheritage, 4(3), 213-220. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12371-012-0065-1 
 

Mulec, I., & Wise, N. (2012). Foreign tour operators and travel agents knowledge of a potential tourism destination: The Vojvodina Region of Serbia. Managing Global Transitions, International Research Journal, 10(2), 171-187. https://www.fm-kp.si/zalozba/ISSN/1581-6311/10_171-187.pdf 
 

Wise, N.A., & Mulec, I. (2012). Headlining Dubrovnik’s tourism image: Transitioning representations/narratives of war and heritage preservation, 1991-2010. Tourism Recreation Research, 37(1), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2012.11081688 
 

Wise, N. (2011). Transcending imaginations through football participation and narratives of the other: Haitian national identity in the Dominican Republic. Journal of Sport & Tourism, 16(3), 259-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/14775085.2011.635011 
 

Harris, J., & Wise, N. (2011). Geographies of scale in international rugby union—The case of Argentina. Geographical Research, 49(4), 375-383. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2011.00714.x 
 

Wise, N.A. (2011). Post-war tourism and the imaginative geographies of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. European Journal of Tourism Research, 4(1), 5-24. https://ejtr.vumk.eu/index.php/about/article/view/59/60 
 

Wise, N., & Harris, J. (2010). Reading Carlos Tevez: Football, geography, and contested identities in Manchester. International Journal of Sport Communication, 3(3), 322-335. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.3.3.322 
 

Wise, N.A. (2009). Quantitative mapping and population restructuring: Migration, diffusion, and economic change in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Geographer, 47(2), 20-48. https://thepgs.org/page-1780342