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| Room Number |
431
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Senior Lecturer
Chair, Discovery Committee
Dr Brent W. Ritchie |
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| Building Number |
39A
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| Campus |
St Lucia
Ipswich
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| Telephone Number |
+61 (7) 3346 7308
+61 (7) 3381 1010 |
| Fax Number |
+61 (7) 3346 8716
+61 (7) 3381 1012 |
| Email |
b.ritchie1@uq.edu.au |
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Dr Brent Ritchie joined the School of Tourism in June 2008, having previously worked as the head of the tourism discipline and the research area at the University of Canberra, which involved coordinating the ACT network of the Sustainable Tourism CRC (STCRC). Dr Ritchie has also previously worked at the School of Service Management at the University of Brighton UK. He has a PhD from the University of Otago, New Zealand graduating in 2000.
Dr Ritchie’s research and teaching interests include tourism destination marketing, visitor behaviour, tourism crisis management, capital and city based tourism as well as niche tourism markets (including sport and event tourism). Dr Ritchie has coordinated several research projects including STCRC and consultancy work for a number of tourism organisations in the public and private sector in Australia, England and New Zealand. He has also published extensively in academic journals including Tourism Management, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, International Journal of Tourism Research and Current Issues in Tourism.
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- Tourist and visitor behaviour (motives, experiences and satisfaction of visitors especially from special interest markets)
- Tourism marketing (specifically niche marketing, crisis recovery marketing and event imaging and place marketing)
- Tourism destination planning and development (including urban tourism planning and urban precinct development)
- Tourism crisis and disaster strategic planning/management
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- First Vice Chair, CAUTHE (Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Inc)
- Associate Member, (Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Inc) Co-coordinator, National Capital and City Tourism special interest group, ATLAS (the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education)
- Co-coordinator, National Capital and City Tourism special interest group, ATLAS (the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education)
- Faculty Fellow, School of Service Management, University of Brighton, UK
- Visiting Research Fellow, University of Canberra, Australia
- Co-editor, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
- Editorial Board, Journal of International Volunteer Tourism and Social Development
- Editorial Board, Tourism Recreation Research
- Editorial board, Tourism and Hospitality Research
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