The Department of Tourism has a busy schedule of seminars during the academic year.
Presenters include staff from the Department of Tourism and other faculties, as well as scholars visiting from other Universities.
If you require further information about a seminar, please contact tourism@otago.ac.nz
Venue: contact tourism@otago.ac.nz for details
Tourism Seminars for 2022
Seminar subjects to be advised.
9 March 2022
Dr Craig Lee
A toast to good health part 2: Consumer demand for healthy beverages in the hospitality industry
Venue: Boardroom
23 March 2022
Dr Willem Coetzee
The Transformative Power of Small Scale 2SLGBTQIA+ events
Venue: Boardroom
27 April 2022
Dr Pooneh Torabian
The Colour of One's Passport: International Students and Inequalities in New Zealand
Venue: Boardroom
11 May 2022
Professor James Higham
Research Publication: A Means to an End (Not an end in itself)
Venue: Boardroom
25 May 2022
Dr Julia Albrecht
TBC
Venue: Boardroom
3 August 2022
Professor Neil Carr
Disabled Animals and Leisure
Venue: Boardroom
17 August 2022
Associate Professor Susan Houge Mackenzie
TBC
Venue: Boardroom
7 September 2022
Professor Hazel Tucker
TBC
Venue: Boardroom
21 September 2022
Dr Stu Hayes
Marsden Project
Venue: Boardroom
28 September 2022
Associate Professor Anna Carr
“Pretty as a picture? The alien in the postcard”
Venue: Boardroom
5 October 2022
Professor Brent Lovelock
TBC
Venue: TBC
Tourism seminar archive
Tourism seminars for 2018
25 July 2018
Dr Émilie Crossley
Affect and atmosphere in a volunteer tourism destination
16 May 2018
Professor Juergen Gnoth
How do Destinations affect Tourists' Experiences? A break-through to make qualitative research not just a journey of discovery but also objective
2 May 2018
Ms Jessica Mei Pung, visiting PhD Candidate in the Department of Marketing
The transformative power of tourism experiences
11 April 2018
Dr Trudie Walters
By Popular Demand...
21 March 2018
Professor James Higham and Dr Hilary Phipps
Climate change and aviation emissions: A problem of collective action?
14 March 2018
Courtney Mason (Thompson Rivers University)
Indigenous tourism in rural Canada: Histories of displacement and contemporary partnership development
7 March 2018
Brad Stelfox (ALCES)
ALCES Online Seminar
Tourism seminars for 2017
20 September 2017
Dr Émilie Crossley, Otago Polytechnic
Deep reflexivity in tourism research
6 September 2017
Aubrey Miller, University of Otago, School of Surveying
Recreation zoning as a management tool for popular winter destinations
23 August 2017
Mingming Cheng, University of Otago, Department of Tourism
Big data in tourism: Questions in, knowledge out - the case of TripAdvisor travel forums
26 July 2017
Professor Peter Heimerl - UMIT - Private University for Health and Life Sciences, Hall/Tyrol
How to kick-off a participative pro-active strategic research development process in a touristic destination
19 July 2017
Dr Popi Sotiriadou - Griffith Business School, Griffith University
Session 2 - The pursuit of gender balance in the governance of sport, tourism and leisure decision making process'
17 July 2017
Dr Popi Sotiriadou - Griffith Business School, Griffith University
Session1 - This was the best course I did at Uni'
Designing assessments and delivering courses that enhance student experiences and employability
31 May 2017
Dr Susan Houge Mackenzie, University of Otago, Department of Tourism
Understanding Adventure Tourism Experiences through Positive Psychology Frameworks: Implications for Guided Tours
17 March 2017
Dr Tess Guiney, University of Otago, Department of Tourism
Layers of Emotion in Orphanage Tourism Encounters
31 March 2017
Steve Riley - Tourism Industry Aotearoa (TIA)
Connecting the industry with Insight
22 March 2017
Professor Sanjay K Nepal - University of Waterloo, Williams Evans Fellow
Irish Pubs and Dream Cafes: Tourism, Tradition and Modernity in Nepal's Khumbu (Everest) Region
8 March 2017
Dr Craig Lee, University of Otago, Department of Tourism
"Assessing experience at sporting events".
Tourism seminars for 2016
21 September 2016
Associate Professor Hazel Tucker
Tourism, mood-making and the world
7 September 2016
Dr Julia Albrecht
A long-term perspective on the New Zealand Tourism Strategy 2015
17 August 2016
Associate Professor Brent Lovelock
How much tourism is there in medical tourism?
3 August 2016
Professor James Higham and Associate Professor Neil Carr
Altmetrics
20 July 2016
Dr Debbie Hopkins
The Hype of Automated Vehicles: Technological Innovation, Behaviour Change and the 'Smart City'
20 April 2016
Dr Stefan Roesch
The Golden Age of Screen-Based Destination Marketing
6 April 2016
Dr Craig Lee
Drivers of success in the Australian restaurant sector
18 March 2016
Dr Kynda Curtis
The Importance of Good Food Experiences in Destination Loyalty
16 March 2016
Dr Willem Coetzee
Research legacy of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
2 March 2016
Dr Ian Griffin
Night Sky Tourism. Opportunities for Dunedin
1 March 2016
Emeritus Professor Donald M. Broom
Empathy, sentience and morality
Bioethics Seminar, co-hosted with Department of Tourism
Tourism seminars for 2014
6th August 2014
Dr Tara Duncan & Professor James Higham
Drivers and barriers to academic travel: a comparative exploration of University policy at three New Zealand institutions.
17th September 2014
Associate Professor Neil Carr
Dealing with Death: working dogs in human leisure.
15th October 2014
Dr Anna Thompson
Adapting to Business Challenges: A case study of the mountain guiding sector in New Zealand.
Tourism seminars for 2013
November 2013
Dr Sebastian Filep
Postive Tourism
October 2013
Dr Leslie-Ann Jordan-Miller
"The Forgotten People?: An analysis of the representation of the First Peoples in the marketing and planning of tourism in Trinidad and Tobago"
Émilie Crossley
"Suspicion, mockery and demand: avoiding the host gaze in volunteer tourism."
September 2013
Dr Tianyu Ying
Networks, Citizenship Behaviours and Destination Effectiveness: A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Rural Tourism Destinations
Associate Professor Brent Lovelock
"Taking the ethical high road: Modelling travel patterns in an ethical (travel) world.”
August 2013
Dr Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Peace through Tourism: Promoting human security through international citizenship
Associate Professor Fumin Xing
"Standardization and quality assurance in tourism and hospitality: two Chinese cases”
July 2013
Dr Caroline Orchiston
Recovery Marketing after the Christchurch Earthquakes