Browse our team of leading tourism experts
The Griffith Institute for Tourism brings together research staff across a broad range of specialty areas.
To find out more about our staff and academic members’ individual research strengths and research supervision, follow the links to our Griffith Experts profiles.
DIRECTOR
Associate Professor Sarah Gardiner
Areas of expertise:
- Destination marketing and development
- Consumer behaviour and market analysis
- Tourism, economic and event development strategies
Program Leaders
Professor Susanne Becken
Sustainable tourism, consumer behavior and carbon footprint.
Associate Professor Karine Dupre
Chinese tourism and cities, urban development and sustainability, and colonial architecture and urban forms.
Associate Professor Kevin Filo
Synergy between sport and charity, sport events, and community sport and fundraising.
Dr Sarah Gardiner
Destination marketing and development, Tourism, economic and event development strategies, Consumer behaviour and market analysis
Associate Professor Tien Duc Pham
Tourism satellite accounts, computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling technique, and economic impact analysis.
Researchers
Ms Margarida Abreu Novais
Destination competitiveness, event management and experiential learning.
Associate Professor Charles Arcodia
Event management practices, tourism management education and cultural heritage management.
Associate Professor Jay Bandaralage
General equilibrium modeling, input-output economics and economic development in South Asia.
Professor Susanne Becken
Sustainable tourism, consumer behavior and carbon footprint.
Associate Professor Andreas Chai
Innovation and demand, evolutionary economics, tourism economics and behavioural barriers to climate change adaption.
Dr Peiyi Ding
Chinese relations, environmental audits and tourism management in China.
Dr Jason Doyle
Sport and event consumer behaviour, strategic marketing and branding, and the impact of consumption on social-psychological well-being.
Associate Professor Karine Dupre
Chinese tourism and cities, urban development and sustainability, and colonial architecture and urban forms.
Associate Professor Kevin Filo
Synergy between sport and charity, sport events, and community sport and fundraising.
Dr Sarah Gardiner
Destination marketing and development, Tourism, economic and event development strategies, Consumer behaviour and market analysis
Dr Rob Hales
Climate change, Sustainable tourism, Outdoor recreation, Indigenous issues, Education for sustainability.
Dr Aaron Hsiao
Cross-cultural management, internal marketing and organisational citizenship behavior, and special interest tourism.
Dr Xin (Cathy) Jin
Event management, convention tourism and destination marketing.
Dr Millicent Kennelly
Stakeholder engagement and collaboration in event management, event leveraging strategies and sport event management.
Dr Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
Consumer behaviour (tourists and guests), services marketing and qualitative research methods.
Dr Anna Kralj
Human resource management in hospitality and tourism. Service management and operations. Employee attitudes and organisational climate perceptions.
Dr Anna Kwek
Tourism/leisure theories, social-psychology in tourism/leisure and tourist gaze.
Dr Samuel Meng
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Athula Naranpanawa
Computable general equilibrium modeling, environmental and resource economics. and development economics.
Dr Helen Perkins
Environmentally and socially sustainable lifestyles and wellbeing, sustainable tourism and consumer behavior.
Associate Professor Catherine Prentice
Services marketing, relationship marketing and casino marketing.
Dr Sacha Reid
Event stakeholder management, community development and planning, and real estate and property development.
Dr Caroline Riot
Elite athlete development and management, Olympic studies, Community sport development, Women and sport studies, Health and physical activity promotion
Dr Jen-Je Su
Econometrics, growth and development economics, and financial economics.
Dr Ying Wang
Destination marketing and management, hospitality management and Chinese outbound tourism.
Dr Ross Westoby
Research Fellow. International development, sustainable livelihoods, climate change adaptation.
A/P Michelle Whitford
Event and tourism policy and planning, Indigenous tourism and events, and sustainable events.
Dr Emma Whittlesea
Climate change policy, community and stakeholder engagement, carbon footprint modelling, sustainable destination management
Dr Elaine Yang
Gender studies; Asian tourism; Tourism geography; Tourist risk perception; Qualitative research methods.
Research Assistants
Adjunct staff
- Adjunct Professor Heidi Dahles
- Adjunct Professor Larry Dwyer
- Adjunct Professor Leo Jago OAM
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Don Morris AO
- Adjunct Professor Jaume Rossello-Nadal
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Steve Noakes
- Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Robin Nunkoo
- Adjunct Professor David Simmons
Professional staff
- Serena Gent
- Tania Layden