Författare: Anastasia Yeark

Professor Marianna Sigala is a Professor at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and a multi-awarded research authority specialising in tourism technologies, experience management and wine tourism. She has published eleven books and numerous journal papers, while she has also participated in many international tourism related research programs. She has served on the executive board of ICHRIE, Euro CHRIE and IFITT. She is the co-editor of the Journal of Service Theory & Practice, and the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Management. Dr Marcela Fang is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Higher Education at William Angliss Institute, Melbourne, Australia, where she lectures across graduate and undergraduate programs, including leadership, leadership development, strategy, and entrepreneurship. Her experience includes leadership coaching, the design, development, and evaluation of leadership development programs for higher education and industry settings, and the design of higher education curricula. Marcela’s research focuses on leadership, leadership development, and online learning. She has published in high quality journals like the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, the Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, and the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice. Marcela has also coedited the book entitled “Case Based Research in Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Events” (2022), Springer. Anastasia Yeark is a Chartered Manager (Australian Institute of Managers and Leaders) and an Academic Head of the Strategy and Operations Discipline at Kaplan Business School. She holds a Master of Business, a Bachelor in International Hotel and Tourism Management and has a decade worth of leadership experience in the hospitality industry. Her current passion lies within the higher education industry and curriculum design. Since 2017, Anastasia has been representing Kaplan Business School at CAUTHE as a chapter director, and in 2019, she was appointed as CAUTHE executive committee member. Dr Julia N. Albrecht is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests include tourism destination management, visitor management, and nature-based tourism. Julia is a co-editor of the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism as well as on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. Julia is the editor of the books Visitor Management in Tourism Destinations (2017, CABI) and Managing Visitor Experiences in Nature-based Tourism (2021, CABI). Dr Oscar Vorobjovas-Pinta is the Course Coordinator of Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters of Tourism, Environmental and Cultural Heritage and a Lecturer in Tourism and Society at the University of Tasmania. Oscar is a leading expert on LGBTQI+ communities in the context of tourism, events, leisure, and hospitality. His research interests are the sociology of tourism, peer-to-peer hospitality, tourist behaviour, Antarctic tourism, extending ethnographic and qualitative research methods into tourism research, and technology-enhanced tourism experiences. Oscar is the President of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies (ANZALS) and a Board Director of Visit Northern Tasmania.