Dr. Nick Naumov is a highly experienced academic with a strong multidisciplinary background in critical heritage studies, human geography, and tourism. His expertise spans diverse areas including heritage and urban tourism, cultural and historical geography, intangible heritage, food tourism, and urban development. He is particularly interested in:
Tourism Management
Citizens’ power in tourism decision-making; Political support for tourism development; Residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts; politics of tourism; sustainable tourism development
Hospitality Management
Service Quality; Hospitality operations; Leadership in hospitality;
Service Technologies & Digital Transformation in Tourism & Hospitality
Innovations in Tourism and Hospitality management; Robots, Artificial Intelligence & Service Automation in Hospitality and Tourism; E-tourism; Online Travel Operations; Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Tourism & Hospitality
Research Methodology
Qualitative Methodology; Case study Analysis; Ethnography; Participant Observation
Special interest tourism
Heritage and Cultural Tourism; Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage; Community-Based tourism; Authenticity in heritage attractions; Intangible forms of heritage; Techniques of heritage interpretation; Tourism and World Heritage; Food/gastronomic tourism; Dark Tourism
Historical and cultural geography
Historical geographies of communism; Cultural Landscapes; Geographies of Memory; National Identity;
Active Learning and Blended Learning in Higher Education