University of Canterbury

Faculty Member, Management

Other Affiliations: University of Eastern Finland, Centre for Tourism Studies
Linnaeus University, Linnaeus School of Business and Economics
University of Oulu, Department of Geography

Professor

Thesis Title: 1990, The Geography of Hope: The History, Identification and Preservation of Wilderness in Australia, unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Western Australia, Nedlands.

About

Michael is currently Professor in Marketing in the Department of Management, joining the department at the start of 2007. He is also currently Docent in the Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; and a Visiting Professor in the Business School, Linneaus University, Kalmar, Sweden; in addition to holding positions at the Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam, UK, and the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University, Australia. He is also a frequent visitor to the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Umeå University (from which he received an honorary doctorate in 2008) and the School of Service Management at Lund Helsingborg campus, both in Sweden; as well as the Centre for Tourism Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Savonlinna. Prior positions in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere include Professor in Tourism at the University of Otago (where he was also head of department for six years), Professor of Tourism and Service Management at Victoria University of Wellington, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Marketing, Stirling University, Scotland. His doctorate is in geography from the University of Western Australia, from which he also received an honours degree in politics. His masters is from the faculty of environmental studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in geography/resource management.

Michael has longstanding teaching, publication and research interests in tourism and temporary mobility, regional development, environmental history, and sustainability with current research dealing with such issues as place branding and marketing; governance, institutions, power and policy making in tourism; steady-state and ecological economic perspectives on destinations and places; servicescapes and the design of places of consumption; economic geography and tourism mobility; second homes and multiple-dwelling; conservation and environmental and climate change; national park history as well as the travels and influence of John Muir; the impacts of hallmark events; biodiversity conservation and biosecurity from a tourism and mobility context; and the use of tourism as an economic development and conservation mechanism especially in peripheral areas. The latter representing a return to the wilderness research he undertook for his PhD. More recently he has also been undertaking research on wine and food marketing and gastronomy, which has required strenuous research in the field, this is particularly focused on development of local economies, network relationships and social capital, food miles, biosecurity, farmers markets and alternative marketing channels for small-scale producers.

He is the author or editor of over 60 books as well as author of over 400 journal articles and book chapters. According to McKercher [B., A citation analysis of tourism scholars. Tourism Management (2008), doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2008.03.003] he was the third most frequently cited tourism scholar 1970-2007 and the most frequently cited 1998-2007. This analysis only included books and journal articles. In 2009 he was named the Elsevier ScienceDirect ‘For Great Thinking’, Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences category winner. He is active in a number of international research associations including ATLAS and the IGU Tourism Commission.

Google Scholar citations: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d5GFhXYAAAAJ

Currently involvement in international research projects includes:
• “Mobility, Climate Change, Governance” with associates from the Germany, UK and Sweden based at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) led by Professor Tim Freitag. Work here is focussed on climate change and consumer behaviour; comparative research on the concept of green cities with particularly emphasis on ocial justice and equity issues; and sustainable transport planning.
• "Asumisen monipaikkaisuus ja arkielämä vapaa-ajan ympäristöissä / Homes beyond Homes (HOBO): Multiple dwelling and everyday living in leisure spaces" with associates from Canada, Sweden and Finland based at the University of Eastern Finland Centre for Tourism Studies, Savonlinna. Research here includes assisting in the development of a national survey of second homes in Finland, qualitative research on second home owners, and governance issues. Comparisons will then be made in a New Zealand and international context. Research consortium funded by Academy of Finland, research program Future of Living and Housing (ASU-LIVE, 2011-2015): http://www.uef.fi/mot/secondhomes

For those interested details of all books and journal articles since 2004 are being provided wherever copyright permits. The publication list will also gradually include some of the details of older books and articles that may be of interest as well as some of what I regard as the more relevant book chapters since 2004. This process is however taking longer than expected following the permanent loss of house in the Christchurch earthquake (however the books were saved!) and a temporary loss of access to office at least until 2013.

O, and by the way, in case your still reading this when you were looking for Michael C. Hall. I was not in 'Six Foot Under' although sometimes I do feel like 'Dexter' and putting some people that far underground. Ah yes, and I didn't marry my TV sister!

Please note that as a result of the Christchurch Earthquakes of 2011 I currently occupy shared "temporary" university office space and am therefore primarily operating off-campus from a home office as well as catching up on fieldwork post-earthquakes. I am therefore best contactable via email.

• Co-editor, Current Issues in Tourism: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/1368-3500 / http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cvp-cit
• Book Review Editor, Journal of Sustainable Tourism: www.informaworld.com/JOST
• Co-editor, Aspects of Tourism book series (with Chris Cooper, University of Nottingham & Dallen Timothy, Arizona State University): http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
• Associate Editor for Asia and the Pacific, Tourism Geographies: http://www.geog.nau.edu/tg/ ; http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rtxg
• Editor, Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility book series: http://www.routledge.com/
• Co-editor, Routledge International Series in Tourism, Business and Management (with Tim Coles, University of Exeter): http://www.routledge.com/
• Docent, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland www.oulu.fi/geography/
• Visiting Professor, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, UK www.shu.ac.uk/faculties/om/

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