Department of Tourism Seminar Series 2011
The Department of Tourism seminar series is up and running again this year. Presenters include staff from the Department of Tourism and other faculties as well as scholars visiting from other Universities.
If you have any questions or require further information, please contact Professor James Higham: james.higham@otago.ac.nz
All seminars held in Commerce 4.01 unless stated otherwise.
UPCOMING SEMINARS
to be confirmed
RECENT SEMINARS
2011
Wednesday 30 March - Professor Trevor Sofield, University of Tasmania.
Value Chain Analysis and its Application for Poverty Alleviation in a Tourism Development Context.
Monday 14 March
Dr Caroline Orchiston, Department of Tourism
Examining the Christchurch Earthquake: Tourism, Media and the Australian Market.
Wednesday 16 March
Dr Brent Lovelock, Department of Tourism
Could Immigrants care less about the environment? A comparison of the environmental attitudes of migrant and native-born New Zealanders.
Wednesday March 25
Dr Susanne Becken, Lincoln University
Tourism's dependency on oil and future challenges
Visiting Executive Programme (VEP)
The 2011 VEP series commences on 1 March at 12noon in the School of Business Staffroom with a seminar entitled “Champagne, fast cars and football: the things that give meaning to our life”.
The seminar will be presented by visiting Professor of Champagne Management from Reims Management School, Dr Steve Charters. This seminar should have wide ranging appeal throughout the School of Business, and all staff and students are welcome to attend.
Seminar Abstract: There seems to be a slight but perceptible shift in current business thought. For the last few decades the focus has been (for academics) on the consumer’s experience and (for practitioners) on understanding and fulfilling the consumer’s demands. Now, however, there is a suggestion that – for certain consumers or certain categories of experience – it is the product rather than the consumer’s needs which remains the primary focus of the producer and marketer.
Whilst not denying the importance of a “customer-centric” focus, this seminar will aim to sketch the nature of what is termed a “significant product”. The idea of a significant product is that it is a type of product which tends, by its nature, to stimulate intense responses in consumers; intense both in the sense that any single engagement with the product may be significant, or that the consumer’s long-term relationship with it may be similarly significant. These responses are identified in different disciplines: although not identical high-involvement, flow and serious leisure are all ways of interpreting such a response. The argument is therefore that some products are more likely than others to engender such responses, and the aim of the presentation will be to identify the common characteristics of such products, the characteristics which imbue them with their significance; the exploration attempts to do this by using wine as the medium for the analysis.
Profile – Dr. Steve Charters MW, MA (Oxon), PhD (ECU).
Steve Charters is Professor of Champagne Management at Reims Management School in France. He develops research and courses relevant to the champagne industry and wine business generally. He is also Director of the Reims Research Centre for Wine-Place-Value. His research focuses on the relationship of wine to place, including terroir, the mythology of place and how it becomes authentic and wine tourism – but his also interested in include aesthetic products, drinker perceptions of quality in wine, and the motivation to drink. Steve has worked in the wine industry in Australia and formerly taught at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia.
Steve is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Wine Research and the International Journal of Wine Business Management and is one of only 240 members of the Institute of Masters of Wine in the world.
2010
Weds 21st July
12pm to 1pm in the Commerce Boardroom (4th Floor of the Commerce Building, Room 4.19/4.20)
Nancy Earth (Anthropology)
Title: Contemporary Kagoshima women artist-potters and tourism possibilities
Weds 4th August
12pm to 1pm in the Commerce Boardroom (4th Floor of the Commerce Building, Room 4.19/4.20)
Eric Shelton (Tourism)
Pilgrimage, Commemoration, Self and Identity: Issues in Dark Tourism
Weds 1st September
12pm to 1pm in the Commerce Boardroom (4th Floor of the Commerce Building, Room 4.19/4.20)
Keron Niles (Energy Studies)
Climate change and small island developing states: implications for tourism and strategic trade policy responses
Weds 6th October
12pm to 1pm in the Commerce Boardroom (4th Floor of the Commerce Building, Room 4.19/4.20)
Inga Smith (Physics)
Subject Area: Air Freight Emissions
June
Weds 2nd June (in association with the Centre for Air Transport Research)
12pm to 1pm in the Commerce Boardroom (4th Floor of the Commerce Building, Room 4.19/4.20)
Dr Aaron Schiff, COVEC and Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Tourism
Title: Impact of direct air service availability on New Zealand inbound tourism
April
Weds 7th April
Dr Jerry Singleton, Dalhousie University
Leisure and Older Men
Monday 12th April
John Macilree, Ministry of Transport
Exchanging Air Traffic Rights: A New Zealand PerspectiveMarch
Weds 10th March
Dr Heather Gibson, University of Florida
Contextualizing Active Sport tourism within active lifestyles: The Case of Bike Florida
Weds 17th March
Professor Keith Hollinshead, University of Luton
People-making/place-making … The undervalued declarative role of tourism
February
Tuesday 16th February 2010Is Champagne a Luxury Product?
Dr Steve Charters (Chair of Champagne Management, Reims Management School, France)
2009
December
Wednesday 9 December 2009 - 12.00 - 1.00 pm
Dr Tara Duncan, Tourism Department, University of Otago
The Mobilities of Tourism and Hospitality Work?
November
Wednesday 4 November 2009 - 12.00 - 1.00 pm
Professor Alison Morrison, University of Surrey
Research Striptease - Back to Basic Principles
Monday 9 November 2009 - 12.00 - 1.00 pm (CO5.36)
Associate Professor Ghazali Musa, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Exploring Service Quality and Servicescape of the Best Backpacker Hostel in Asia
Wednesday 18 November 2009 - 12.00 - 1.00 pm
Professor James Higham, Tourism Department, University of Otago
Climate Change and Tourism in New Zealand
October
Wednesday 7th: 12pm - 1pm Commerce Division Boardroom 4.19/4.20
Dr Daniela Haase Liggett, Gateway Antarctica, Christchurch
Now you regulate, and then you don't ... Antarctic tourism and regulatory effectiveness.
Wednesday 14th: 12pm - 1.00pm Commerce Room 5.36
Dr James Beattie, Department of History, University of Waikato
Historical Perspectives on Wilderness, Conservation and Tourism in New Zealand, 1850s-2000s.
September
Wednesday 9th : 12pm – 1pm Commerce Division Boardroom 4.19/4.20
Sophie Barker, Economic Development Unit, DCC
The Dunedin City Council, how they fit in the Visitor Industry mix and the Dunedin Visitor Strategy 2008-2015.
Wednesday 23rd: 12pm - 1 pm Commerce Room 2.07
Annie Vanderwyk, Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies, University of Newcastle, Australia
Indigenous Community Education and Capacity Building for Tourism Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development
August
Wednesday 19th : 12pm – 1pm Commerce Division Boardroom 4.19/4.20
Inga Smith from Department of Physics
Cruise Ships and Carbon Emissions: are "really big ships" less polluting than planes?
July
Wednesday 22nd : 12pm – 1pm Commerce Division Boardroom 4.19/4.20
Sophie Barker from Economic Development Unit, Dunedin City Council
The Dunedin City Council, how they fit in the Visitor Industry mix and the Dunedin Visitor Strategy 2008-2015