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Dr Lisa Ruhanen joined the School of Tourism in 2001 and is a Lecturer in the Travel and Tourism Management Stream and the Postgraduate Coursework Program Coordinator. She received her PhD in 2006 from the University of Queensland and has a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (University Teaching).
Dr Ruhanen has close ties with the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) having undertaken a secondment to the organisation's headquarters in Madrid as a Visiting Scholar in 2005. She now acts as a consultant for the UNWTO for their UNWTO.TedQual certification program and is a member of the UNWTO Education and Science Council Steering Committee.
Dr Ruhanen's research interests include sustainable tourism, destination planning and the impacts of climate change on policy and planning for tourism destinations. More recently Dr Ruhanen has co-coordinated several projects in the area of Indigenous tourism with a focus on capacity development and entrepreneurship. She has coordinated a number of research projects for the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre and undertaken projects for the UNWTO on Australian outbound tourism and the Asia Pacific labour market. Dr Ruhanen has published in a number of academic texts and books and was a major contributor to Oceania: A Tourism Handbook edited by Chris Cooper and CM Hall. She has also published in academic journals including Current Issues in Tourism, the Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism, and Tourism and Hospitality Planning and Development.
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