SRS Topics

Below are the topics currently available in the School of Tourism: 

Topic 1: Do we have a ‘right’ to travel?

Academic contact

Noreen Breakey <noreen.breakey@uq.edu.au>

Details

This research aims to investigate the origins and basis for the ‘right’ to travel. This review will consider statements on the right to travel, as well as collaborating arguments and implied support for this right, in both the tourism-specific, and wider, literature.

Timing

10 weeks beginning mid November 2012 (with a break over Christmas / New Year).

Topic 2: Food Tourism Literature Review

Academic contact

Richard Robinson <richard.robinson@uq.edu.au>

Details

This research aims to examine the literature of food tourism and develop a draft review paper.

Timing

10 weeks beginning mid November 2012 (with a break over Christmas / New Year).

Topic 3: Transforming Australian tourism towards sustainable pathways

Academic contacts

Char-lee McLennan <c.mclennan@uq.edu.au> or Lisa Ruhanen <l.ruhanen@uq.edu.au>

Details

Project description: The purpose of this project is to explore Australian tourism businesses’ current sustainability performance, including drivers and barriers to adopting triple bottom line sustainable development objectives. Understanding the drivers and barriers of transforming to a sustainability platform may illuminate ways to stimulate and direct the successful shift to such a paradigm within the tourism industry. This project will involve a meta-analysis of sustainability indicators and an institutional assessment of Australian tourism operators to obtain self-reports of current sustainability performance and transformative capacity. The results of this study will inform a 2013 ARC Discovery submission and contribute to the literature by providing a model of drivers and barriers to tourism businesses adopting sustainable development. The student will aid the CIs in undertaking this study.

Timing

Up to 10 weeks beginning mid November 2012 (with a break over Christmas / New Year)

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