Browse our team of leading tourism experts
The Griffith Institute for Tourism brings together research staff across a broad range of specialty areas including planning, marketing, property and investment, technology, architecture, economics, climate change and more.
To find out more about our staff and academic members’ individual research strengths and research supervision, follow the links to their Griffith Expert profiles.
Professor Sarah Gardiner
Director
Areas of expertise:
Destination marketing and development, Consumer behaviour and market analysis, tourism, economic and event development strategies.
Professor Leonie Lockstone-Binney
Deputy Director
Area of expertise:
Volunteering, contextualised to event and tourism setting.
Professor Daniel Gschwind
Professor of Practice
Areas of expertise:
Tourism economy, relationship management and stakeholder engagement.
Research leaders
Researchers
Dr Ali Ahani
Supply chain analytics, business informatics, health informatics and tourism & hospitality analytics.
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
Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism
Andrew Buckwell
Research Fellow. Non-market valuation of ecosystem services, social benefit-cost analysis, discourse analysis with Q-method and climate change adaptation.
Professor Francois Carrillat
Event sponsorships, sports marketing and advertising, celebrity endorsement/influencers.
Associate Professor Alexandra Coghlan
Sustainable tourism, consumer behaviour, experience design, gamification, tourism and national parks, reef tourism and community-based tourism.
Professor Basak Denizci Guillet
Revenue management and its implementation in global hospitality and tourism organisations
Dr Maria Dharmesti
Marketing, sustainable tourism and hospitality management and Indonesian tourism.
Dr Jason Doyle
Sport and event consumer behaviour, strategic marketing and branding, and the impact of consumption on social-psychological well-being.
Dr David Fechner
Designs and experimentally tests interventions to encourage consumers to behave in more environmentally sustainable ways, such as eat more plant-based focused meals and engage in koala conservation activities.
Professor Kevin Filo
Synergy between sport and charity, sport events, and community sport and fundraising.
Professor Christopher Fleming
Economic, environmental and social impact assessment, project and/or policy evaluation, non-market valuation, survey design and implementation, empirical analysis of determinants of subjective wellbeing.
Associate Professor Patrick Fong
Environmental discourse and policy learning, university-industry technology transfer, social networks and knowledge sharing, storytelling, strategic knowledge management.
Dr Maria Golubovskaya
Workforce, youth employment, service worker wellbeing and mixed methods.
Professor Louise Gustafsson
Rehabilitation and therapy, aged care, disability, public health and health services.
Dr Song Ee Hahn
E-service quality management, Online hospitality marketing, Simulation learning / Online learning effectiveness, Cross-culture studies, Environment Management in the hotel industry.
Dr Aaron Hsiao
Cross-cultural management, internal marketing and organisational citizenship behavior, and special interest tourism.
Dr Haroon Iqbal Maseeh
Consumer behaviour, consumer privacy, digital marketing, hospitality and tourism
Dr Yawei Jiang
Risk, Crisis and Disaster Reduction and Management, Organisational/Employee Recovery, Adaptation and Resilience, Organisation Dynamic Capabilities and Resources, Emotion Studies Using Psycho-physiological Measures
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 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 Truc Le
Risks, risk perception and resilience, authenticity, food tourism, hospitality and service experiences, user-generated content analytics and machine learning.
Dr Abraham Leung
Emerging technologies in transport, such as MaaS, micromobility, digitisation, tourism, and geography.
Dr Johanna Loehr
Tourism and climate change, sustainable tourism, systems thinking and South Pacific tourism.
Dr Stefen MacAskill
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Griffith Institute for Tourism
Dr Athula Naranpanawa
Computable general equilibrium modeling, environmental and resource economics and development economics.
Dr Mai Nguyen
Artificial intelligence, transformative consumer research, pro-environmental behaviour changes and knowledge management/sharing.
Dr Rawan Nimri
Consumerism and behaviour change, green advertising and queuing and employment relations.
Dr Henry Nguyen
Data integration, data quality, information retrieval, trust management, recommender systems, machine learning and big data visualization.
Dr Gavin Northey
Advertising, consumer psychology, consumer decision making and emotion.
Professor Juliet Pietsch
Migration politics and political behaviour.
Professor Kylie Pitt
Population dynamics of jellyfishes from local to global scales, their responses to changing ocean conditions, and their interactions with people and coastal industries.
Dr Raymond Rastegar
Justice, sustainability transitions, and environmental conservation.
Associate Professor Jamie Ranse
Public health, emergency and in-event health services for mass gatherings.
Professor 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 sports development, women and sport studies, health and physical activity promotion.
Dr Aishath Shakeela
Sustainable tourism, tourism management, and small island tourism destinations.
Dr Lintje Siehoyono Sie
Consumer behaviour, travel decision making, experience design, ageing and positive psychology, special interest tourism, sustainable development and quantitative research method.
Associate Professor Popi Sotiriadou
Expert in managing high performance sport; events and athlete wellbeing/performance’ athlete (dual) career; ‘organisational capacity’ to attract, retain and nurture athletes/sport development.
Dr Bojana Spasojevic Sijacki
Tourism and air transport management, stakeholder engagement, air route development and passenger experiences.
Dr Jen-Je Su
Econometrics, growth and development economics, and financial economics.
Dr Sera Vada
Positive psychology and tourist-behaviour studies, destination marketing and diversification of tourist markets, organizational behaviour, tourism in Small Island Developing States, challenges of tourism development in the Pacific, sustainable tourism and Chinese tourism.
Dr Ross Westoby
Research Fellow. International development, sustainable livelihoods and climate change adaptation.
Dr Sarah Wymer
Marketing, fan engagement, and social media within the context of sport.
Dr Elaine Yang
Gender studies, Asian tourism, tourism geography, tourist risk perception and qualitative research methods.
Discover our higher degree research candidates
We support over 60 HDR students and their research work across the tourism industry.
Adjunct staff
- Adjunct Fellow Emily Chen
- Adjunct Lecturer Sadiq Daravi
- Associate Professor Peiyi Ding
- Adjunct Professor Larry Dwyer
- Adjunct Associate Professor Sebastian Filep
- Adjunct Professor Leo Jago OA
- Adjunct Professor Timothy Lee
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer Laura Lesar
- Adjunct Professor Robin Nunkoo
- Adjunct Professor Glauber Santos
- Adjunct Industry Fellow Justin Wastnage
- Adjunct Professor Jeff Wilks
- Adjunct Lecturer Thomas Zhu
Professional staff
- Chantal James
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board aims to meet four times a year to support the Director, staff and researchers in achieving the goals of the University and the mission of the Griffith Institute for Tourism. The Board provides strategic advice to the Institute regarding research profile, research activities, strategic direction, ways to forge partnerships in the tourism sector and improve its links with industry and government.
Current advisory board members
- Liz Savage (Chair) Non-Executive Director of Intrepid Travel
- Daniel Gschwind, Professor of Practice, Griffith University
- Fiona Hood, Head of Strategy, Brisbane Airport
- Jan Hutton, CEO, Australian Tourism Data Warehouse
- Professor Emeritus Leo Jago OAM, University of Surrey and Griffith University
- Stewart Moore, CEO and Founder, EarthCheck
- Sam Palmer, General Manager Visitor Economy and Client Programs, Australian Trade and Investment Commission
- Christopher Warren, CEO and Founder, My Green Butler