Overview
Background
Dr. Guix researches how tourism and hospitality organizations approach change to integrate sustainability considerations and report on their progress for external accountability. Her work focuses on corporate social responsibility and grand challenges such as modern slavery and climate change.
She worked on projects funded by the European Union, the United Nations Environmental Program, and the Inter-American Development Bank to run life and online stakeholder consultations for sustainable tourism policy and assess industry disclosure and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
Dr. Guix regularly publishes in top academic journals, including Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and International Journal of Hospitality Management.
Availability
- Dr Mireia Guix is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Diploma of Tourism and Hospitality Mangement, Universitat Ramon Llull
- Bachelor (Honours) of Tourism and Hospitality Mangement, Universitat Ramon Llull
- Masters (Research) of Sustainable Development, Tourism and Nature Conservation, Leeds Metropolitan University
- Doctor of Philosophy of Tourism and Hospitality Mangement, University of Surrey
Research interests
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Evaluate how tourism and hospitality organisations approach change to integrate sustainability considerations.
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Social and Environmental Accounting
Evaluate how tourism and hospitality organisations report their sustainability progress for external accountability.
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Climate change
Investigate tourism destinations' decarbonisation and climate adaptation.
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Human rights
Investigate modern slavery prevention and mitigation efforts in hospitality and tourism and its reporting under different legislative frameworks.
Works
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Featured
2023
Journal Article
Navigating the uncharted: a crisis response mix to creeping ‘unknowns’
Paraskevas, Alexandros and Guix, Mireia (2023). Navigating the uncharted: a crisis response mix to creeping ‘unknowns’. Tourism Management, 98 104777, 104777. doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2023.104777
Featured
2022
Journal Article
Consulting on the European Union's 2050 tourism policies: an appreciative inquiry materiality assessment
Guix, Mireia and Font, Xavier (2022). Consulting on the European Union's 2050 tourism policies: an appreciative inquiry materiality assessment. Annals of Tourism Research, 93 103353, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.annals.2022.103353
Featured
2022
Journal Article
Trustworthy or misleading communication of voluntary carbon offsets in the aviation industry
Guix, Mireia, Ollé, Claudia and Font, Xavier (2022). Trustworthy or misleading communication of voluntary carbon offsets in the aviation industry. Tourism Management, 88 104430, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104430
2025
Journal Article
Doing the right thing? The hotel industry's management of, and reporting on, modern slavery
Guix, Mireia and Lotfy, Maryam (2025). Doing the right thing? The hotel industry's management of, and reporting on, modern slavery. Tourism Management, 107 105084, 105084. doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105084
2025
Journal Article
The changing institutional logics behind sustainability reports from the largest hotel groups in the world in 2014, 2018 and 2021
Guix, Mireia, Nájera Sánchez, Juan José, Bonilla Priego, Ma Jesús and Font, Xavier (2025). The changing institutional logics behind sustainability reports from the largest hotel groups in the world in 2014, 2018 and 2021. Tourism Management, 106 105031, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2024.105031
2025
Journal Article
Decarbonising with a plan: The influence of post-growth configurations of hybridity
Narciso, Gianluigi, Guix, Mireia, Font, Xavier and Hu, Yanfei (2025). Decarbonising with a plan: The influence of post-growth configurations of hybridity. Annals of Tourism Research, 110 103883, 103883. doi: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103883
2024
Journal Article
Doing all we can? Destination management organizations’ net-zero pledges and their decarbonization plans
Guix, Mireia, Babakhani, Nazila and Sun, Ya-Yen (2024). Doing all we can? Destination management organizations’ net-zero pledges and their decarbonization plans. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1-21. doi: 10.1080/09669582.2024.2357377
2024
Journal Article
CSR managers as hybrid professionals: managing at the intersection of coexisting logics
Guix, Mireia and Petry, Tanja (2024). CSR managers as hybrid professionals: managing at the intersection of coexisting logics. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 32 (8), 1511-1533. doi: 10.1080/09669582.2023.2246702
2022
Other Outputs
Tourism Carbon Footprint of Scotland
Sun, Ya-Yen, Guix, Mireia and Babakhani, Nazila (2022). Tourism Carbon Footprint of Scotland. Brisbane, QLD Australia: University of Queensland.
2022
Book Chapter
Restore, reorient, and reinvigorate: A localisation and sensemaking approach to crisis recovery
Qing Ye, Isabella and Guix, Mireia (2022). Restore, reorient, and reinvigorate: A localisation and sensemaking approach to crisis recovery. Crisis Management, Destination Recovery and Sustainability. (pp. 112-124) edited by James Kennell, Priyakrushna Mohanty, Anukrati Sharma and Azizul Hassan. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003295839-14
2022
Other Outputs
Managing, measuring and reporting of waste footprint in the hospitality sector
Guix, Mireia (2022). Managing, measuring and reporting of waste footprint in the hospitality sector. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme.
2021
Journal Article
Innovation for sustainability in the Global South: bibliometric findings from management & business and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields in developing countries
Cortés, Julián D., Guix, Mireia and Carbonell, Katerina Bohle (2021). Innovation for sustainability in the Global South: bibliometric findings from management & business and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields in developing countries. Heliyon, 7 (8) e07809, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07809
2020
Other Outputs
European Tourism Convention of 12 October 2020 - Report from the workshops
Font, Xavier and Guix, Mireia (2020). European Tourism Convention of 12 October 2020 - Report from the workshops. Brussels, Belgium: European Commission.
2020
Journal Article
The Materiality Balanced Scorecard: a framework for stakeholder-led integration of sustainable hospitality management and reporting
Guix, Mireia and Font, Xavier (2020). The Materiality Balanced Scorecard: a framework for stakeholder-led integration of sustainable hospitality management and reporting. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 91 102634. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102634
2020
Journal Article
Millennials' willingness to pay for green restaurants
Nicolau, Juan Luis, Guix, Mireia, Hernandez-Maskivker, Gilda and Molenkamp, Noemi (2020). Millennials' willingness to pay for green restaurants. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 90 102601. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102601
2019
Journal Article
Enhancing the hospitality customer experience of families with children on the autism spectrum disorder
Freund, Daniela, Cerdan Chiscano, Monica, Hernandez-Maskivker, Gilda, Guix, Mireia, Inesta, Ana and Castello, Montserrat (2019). Enhancing the hospitality customer experience of families with children on the autism spectrum disorder. International Journal of Tourism Research, 21 (5), 606-614. doi: 10.1002/jtr.2284
2019
Journal Article
Materiality: stakeholder accountability choices in hotels' sustainability reports
Guix, Mireia, Font, Xavier and Jesus Bonilla-Priego, Maria (2019). Materiality: stakeholder accountability choices in hotels' sustainability reports. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 31 (6), 2321-2338. doi: 10.1108/ijchm-05-2018-0366
2018
Journal Article
The process of sustainability reporting in international hotel groups: an analysis of stakeholder inclusiveness, materiality and responsiveness
Guix, Mireia, Jesus Bonilla-Priego, Maria and Font, Xavier (2018). The process of sustainability reporting in international hotel groups: an analysis of stakeholder inclusiveness, materiality and responsiveness. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 26 (7), 1063-1084. doi: 10.1080/09669582.2017.1410164
2017
Book Chapter
Corporate social responsibility in the cruise sector
Font, Xavier, Guix Navarrete, Mireia and Jesus Bonilla, Maria (2017). Corporate social responsibility in the cruise sector. Cruise ship tourism. (pp. 86-105) edited by Ross Dowling and Clare Weeden. Wallingford, United Kingdom: CABI. doi: 10.1079/9781780646084.0086
2016
Other Outputs
Analysing the quality and credibility of Corporate Social Reporting in the Hospitality Sector, 2016
Guix, Mireia, Font, Xavier and Bonilla, Maria Jesus (2016). Analysing the quality and credibility of Corporate Social Reporting in the Hospitality Sector, 2016. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme.
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Mireia Guix is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Tourism and climate change
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ESG Reporting in hospitality
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Social sustainability, human rights and modern slavery in hospitality and tourism
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Psychological Ownership and Responsible Behaviour of Stakeholders in Heritage Tourism: A Cross-perspective of Nature and Culture
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Karen Hughes, Dr Mucha Mkono
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Doctor Philosophy
Women¿s Empowerment: Exploring the challenges and opportunities for Saudi women working within the Tourism and Entertainment Ministries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Judith Mair
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Doctor Philosophy
Women¿s Empowerment: Exploring the challenges and opportunities for Saudi women working within the Tourism and Entertainment Ministries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Judith Mair
Media
Enquiries
Contact Dr Mireia Guix directly for media enquiries about:
- Corporate social responsibility
- Environmental claims
- ESG reporting
- Hospitality
- Modern slavery reporting
- Sustainability reporting
- Sustainable tourism
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