The University of Newcastle at Australia

Faculty Member, Newcastle Business School

Lecturer

About

I am a committed and multi-lingual scholar with extensive experience as a public speaker, lecturer, researcher of qualitative, in-depth studies, referee of academic papers and elected member of various academic committees, while also having extensive work experience in the industry.

I have been researching the film tourism phenomenon in Aotearoa New Zealand since 2000. During these studies I repeatedly travelled the whole country talking to local tourism operators and other stakeholders about their experience with film tourism. The findings were disseminated to both academic and public audiences in form of my doctoral thesis, several presentations and publications including journal articles, a chapter in the book and newspaper articles and documentaries. I am teaching at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and still travel extensively for conferences and speaking commitments.


My Research Interests include:

Sustainable Tourism, planning and development;
Mythical, literary and film tourism;
Event Management;
Economics, especially medieval economics.