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:
Email tourism@otago.ac.nz
Upcoming Seminars
2025
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2025 | Professor Brent Lovelock | Engaging the Other in conservation conversations; what new New Zealanders think about invasive species |
Archive
2024
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2024 | Dr Luc Cousineau | What Colour is Your Bugatti? |
| 9 April 2024 | Dr Vita Petek | Wine Tourism: When is it time to buy a bottle of wine? |
| 15 May 2024 | Yi Bian (Master of Tourism Alumni) | Representational Issues of CO2 in Tourism Climate Equations |
| 19 June 2024 | Professor Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider | Outdoor Recreation and Digitization |
| 28 August 2024 | Associate Professor Susan Houge Mackenzie | |
| 9 October 2024 |
Dr Stu Hayes Associate Professor Julia Albrecht | |
| 23 October 2024 | Dr Pooneh Torabian |
2022
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9 March 2022 | Dr Craig Lee | A toast to good health part 2: Consumer demand for healthy beverages in the hospitality industry |
| 23 March 2022 | Dr Willem Coetzee | The Transformative Power of Small Scale 2SLGBTQIA+ events |
| 27 April 2022 | Dr Pooneh Torabian | The Colour of One's Passport: International Students and Inequalities in New Zealand |
| 11 May 2022 | Professor James Higham | Research Publication: A Means to an End (Not an end in itself) |
| 25 May 2022 | Dr Julia Albrecht | |
| 3 August 2022 | Professor Neil Carr | Disabled Animals and Leisure |
| 17 August 2022 | Associate Professor Susan Houge Mackenzie | |
| 7 September 2022 | Professor Hazel Tucker | |
| 21 September 2022 | Dr Stu Hayes | Marsden Project |
| 28 September 2022 | Associate Professor Anna Carr | “Pretty as a picture? The alien in the postcard” |
| 5 October 2022 | Professor Brent Lovelock |
2018
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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, PhD (Department of Marketing) | The transformative power of tourism experiences |
| 11 April 2018 | Dr Trudie Walters | By Popular Demand... |
| 21 March 2018 |
Professor James Higham 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 |
2017
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
2016
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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) |
2014
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 6 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 |
| 17 September 2014 | Associate Professor Neil Carr | Dealing with Death: working dogs in human leisure |
| 15 October 2014 | Dr Anna Thompson | Adapting to Business Challenges: A case study of the mountain guiding sector in New Zealand |
2013
| Dates | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| October 2013 | 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 |
| September 2013 | 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 |
| August 2013 | 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 |